Wordle 1,873 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 trying this for the first time, let's see if it posts correct 👀

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Short story by @mimimondal.bsky.social. Geology, casteism, culture shock, first contact, love. The horrors above and the wonders beneath. www.tractorbeam.earth/story/those-...

Those of Desecrated Places | Tractor Beam

Who is living in the landfill?

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Read the fifth story from our Spring Issue, "Those of Desecrated Places" by @mimimondal.bsky.social, out now! #climatefiction #underground #tractorbeam #scifi #soilpunk

A new type of hominid has been living beneath Kolkata's landfills, surviving, like the people above, on what the city throws away. When Lava is chosen to make first contact, what she finds underground is closer to kin than an alien species...

Those of Desecrated Places | Tractor Beam

Who is living in the landfill?

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@air-france.bsky.social Hi :) I'm scheduled for a flight from MEX to CDG leaving tomorrow 7:55 pm local time, and the Air France app and website suddenly aren't letting me log in. Haven't got through the phone helpline in 30 mins now. Can you please help me check in and get my boarding pass? 🙏🏽

...and here's the link to @mimimondal.bsky.social 's fund to help her get to Under the Volcano: gofund.me/c2282614f #WritingCommunity #MutualAid @bsfwriters.bsky.social

Donate to Help Mimi attend the UTV-MX workshop & come home, organized by Monidipa Mondal

Last month, I was so excited to announce that I was selected for a fu… Monidipa Mondal needs your support for Help Mimi attend the UTV-MX workshop & come home

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Two of my awesome writer friends @zinrock.bsky.social and @mimimondal.bsky.social got into Under the Volcano writers workshop! Yeah! I just offered aid that they each need via their GoFundMe's. Zin/Teri: gofund.me/a39acbd5b #WritingCommunity @bsfwriters.bsky.social #writing #MutualAid 1/2

Donate to Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey, organized by Teri Clarke

hello, all! my name is Teri Clarke and I write horror and dark fantasy under the… Teri Clarke needs your support for Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey

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It has been a rough holiday season and this GFM still hasn't filled up enough for making this trip possible! There are only 6 days left before I leave. Even if you can't contribute, a share to your networks will really really help. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Rachel Gutin@rachelgutin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

And here's another amazing author who needs some suppor to go to the Under the Volcano workshop. @mimimondal.bsky.social is another amazing writer and wonderful person. gofund.me/6dfe72a3b

I haven't been diligent about publicizing this but I'm still a few hundred dollars short of being able to travel to Mexico for the Under the Volcano writing workshop. New visa laws (there's more...) continue to jeopardize my life and finances. Pls share this post if you can 🙏🏽💙🙏🏽 gofund.me/3c835f814

Donate to Help Mimi attend the UTV-MX workshop & come home, organized by Monidipa Mondal

Last month, I was so excited to announce that I was selected for a fu… Monidipa Mondal needs your support for Help Mimi attend the UTV-MX workshop & come home

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technicolor cat enjoys the best afternoon ever (aka basically every afternoon) 🌈

BBB's Aug. reading was a blast! Thnx to authors @aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social @mimimondal.bsky.social & @svpthinks.bsky.social! 📚🎙️🧉 Next: 9/17 (Weds.!) w/authors @davidmack.bsky.social #LizGotauco @kaileepedersen.bsky.social & @randeedawn.com! More pics: shorturl.at/eiz9p

BBB @ Barrows in #IndustryCity blasts August into tiny pieces on 8/19 @ 7pm w/ a stellar lineup of reading authors: @aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social @svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee @randeedawn.com! 📚🎙️🧉 Join us! More: brooklynbooksbooze.com

Please let your homies in NYC & Chicago know — tickets for THE INVISIBLE PARADE Tour are dwindling fast. 👀 All other dates = *sold out*. Hate it when people say, “Ahhhhhh! Why didn’t you tell me?!?” after tickets are gone. I’m trying, people. I’m trying. :) Get tickets: linktr.ee/theInvisible...

John Picacio@johnpicacio.bsky.social · 12mo ago

THE INVISIBLE PARADE Tour is my first book tour — and it’s selling out. 👀 NYC — When I say a “few tickets left”, I mean that if you wait ‘til tomorrow, they’re gone. That’s how few. And then, you’re the last city standing, Chicago. 👀 cc: @capriconsfcon.bsky.social @barnesandnoble.com

The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee. This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges. I want to see an awards panel that represents the field. forms.gle/WWsFSAZLPvqb... 1/

Sidewise Award Judge Application

The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee. Established in 1995, the Sidewise Award honors excellence in fiction that explores “what if” scenarios t...

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BBB @ Barrows in #IndustryCity blasts August into tiny pieces on 8/19 @ 7pm w/ another stellar lineup of reading authors: @aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social @svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee @randeedawn.com! 📚🎙️🧉 Join us! More: brooklynbooksbooze.com

My first in-person reading in NYC since the pandemic (aka in more than half a decade 😱) is NEXT MONTH!!! Come over if you're in town! Bring friends, lovers, dance partners. Let's make this a beautiful, fun midsummer evening by the East River💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow's Intense@bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social · last yr.

BBB @ Barrows in #IndustryCity blasts into August on 8/19 @ 7pm w/ another stellar lineup of reading authors: @aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social @svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social & emcee @randeedawn.com + DRINKS! 📚🎙️🧉 Do join us! More: brooklynbooksbooze.com

Bookmarking @mimimondal.bsky.social's page at the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine, to read all their work there thus far: a series of 6 short stories, with a 7th on the way! rubinmuseum.org/people/mimi-... While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon! www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...

Mimi Mondal | Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

Mimi Mondal was born and raised in Kolkata, India. Her fiction has twice been nominated for the Nebula Award. As the coeditor of the nonfiction anthology Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E....

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SFF writers take note! SFWA's Board of Directors has updates on the Must Read Publishing situation: what Must Read has now promised to change, and what steps SFWA is taking next, to ensure future contracts require less negotiation from writers in genre. READ MORE BELOW ⬇️ www.sfwa.org/2025/07/14/p...

Press Release July 14 2025 - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association

Must Read Publishing Removes Moral Rights Clause; SFWA Will Flag Analog in Market Listings Pending Further Contract Improvements  Recently, SFWA […]

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not getting any younger but with ice cream cake 🎂 (and all these blessings, which are good stuff 🥹)

Every day of the year is Pride 🏳️‍🌈 but I've never been so excited to close out the month with a fresh new story! Paco, the sixth and final story for my "Blood Ties" series from the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine is out now for you to read. (CW: fangs.🧛🏼‍♂️) rubinmuseum.org/paco/

Paco: Vampire Fiction | Spiral Magazine

A story from Blood Ties series by Mimi Mondal. Read Paco and more in the Interdependence issue of Spiral magazine from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art.

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C. S. E. Cooney@csecooney.bsky.social · last yr.

Bookmarking @mimimondal.bsky.social's page at the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine, to read all their work there thus far: a series of 6 short stories, with a 7th on the way! rubinmuseum.org/people/mimi-... While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon! www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...

Calling poets, prose writers, & essayists to submit to the AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic. Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.

Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call

The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

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From 2013 (long before the hardcover edition was released, when India's first graphic novel was still circulating as a grainy pdf): @mimimondal.bsky.social on RIVER OF STORIES mimimondal.com/2013/11/06/o... Get your copy here: www.blaft.com/products/riv...

Orijit Sen – River of Stories (Article in the Kindle magazine)

Backlisting, my new column to write about books and publishing, started this month in the Kindle magazine from Calcutta. The plan for the column is to take an interesting non-canon book from Indian…

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recommend to me some short stories based in florida? doesn't have to be only from famous authors. if you have a florida-based short story, i'd love to read it as well!

One more translation to celebrate! As a sweet beginning to 2025 my two-part essay "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction" was published in Chinese (Mandarin) by the Hugo Award-winning writer and editor @riverflowsf.bsky.social in Zero Gravity Science Fiction.

currently in training to be a dog person 😎 #chihuahua #ChihuahuasOnBluesky #DogsOnBluesky

Drumroll, please! Our 2025 IndieGoGo fundraiser is now live!! You can check out the bounty of donation perks available at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 (link in bio) We have so much to offer you guys for supporting us, with new rewards in rotation all month so keep an eye out!

Horizons 3 is NOW AVAILABLE, featuring these amazing articles! 💬 Villains, Accomplices, & Bystanders: an interview w/ Brennan Lee Mulligan 🪭 Deals & Appeals: The Crowd Patron | Leon Barillaro 🎰 The Gilded Quill | Sam Mannell ⚔️ The Avenging Heart | Brandes Stoddard 🏝️💀 Deathmatch Atlantis | Tim Denee

NEW YORK (AP) - ProPublica wins 2025 Pulitzer for Public Service for reports on deaths of pregnant women in abortion-restricted states.