Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன்
@rukman.bsky.social
temporary obsessions, writer, stories in Apex, Lightspeed, khōréō, The Baltimore Review etc, editor at Otherside Spec, Clarion West '25, agent: Keir Alekseii @ ALA rukmanragas.com
'It is, in 2026, quite clear that only certain people are allowed to treat the internet as their own playground.' Marie Le Conte writes on the handful of high-profile legal battles challenging an industry that has operated with unfathomable impunity https://bit.ly/4w38TuK
For women, the internet was freedom. Then the tech bros b...
From nude deepfakes to gagging orders, a handful of high-profile legal battles are challenging an industry that has operated with unfathomable impunity
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Day 214! I read Moonwife by @rukman.bsky.social published in @tasavvurnama.bsky.social. Revenge is a dish best served filled to the brim with venom. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/s...
S/D/Y Aug 02 – Moonwife by Rukman Ragas – Tasavvur
Oh yes, this is totally my jam. Witches, love ’em, revenge plots, omnomnom, mythology, super cool. Plus it’s queer! All the right ingredients for a tasty fictional sandwich. And it was …
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🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JUNE 2026🏳️🌈 I round up over 40 works by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mdmcd.com @redscribe.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @ernerker.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...
Some Queer Short SFF - June 2026 | Charles Payseur
Hi all! I’m still a mess in general but the show continues, this month with works from June—and there are quite a few, thanks in large part
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Moonwife is about longing and desire and wanting the moon so much that you'd kill for her -- or kill her. If you've looked up and wished for the moon, I wrote this for you.
Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன்@rukman.bsky.social · last mo."Moonwife", my story where the moon is a lesbian and you should try to kill her, is out today with @tasavvurnama.bsky.social ! tasavvurnama.com/moonwife/
Still looking for my secondary world fantasy to sweep me off my feet, so if you have one, please send it to Otherside? I like stories that feel brutal and sharp, beautiful prose, and audacious worldbuilding. Above all, I'm looking for ambition rather than stories that play within an existing canon
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 3w agoICYMI, we are OPEN to original fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors through July 21st! We're having the best time reading your wonderful work. Still deciding what to send us? We asked our reading team what they'd like to see more of, and they answered! Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines
Have you read? To Kill a Language by Rukman Ragas at Apex Magazine? Language, death, what else? www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
To Kill a Language
Content warnings 1. To kill a language, you must first rip it from living throats. Don't look so askance; you knew it already...
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the problem with yearning after the moon is sometimes the yearning turns to poison even after you've caught her.
Moonwife - Tasavvur
Moonwife is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Rukman Ragas for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.
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POETRY continued There are lonely things in the forest, by @rukman.bsky.social Stoneman Willie Looks Upon his Mummy, by Samuel A. Betiku /
Please if you have this, I need to see it! send me epic fantasy
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 3w ago(If you appreciate EXTRA specificity... it wouldn't fit in the graphic, but for this issue, @rukman.bsky.social would especially love to see "sweeping worlds, intimate conflict, and deep deep hurt," "POV fuckery," and "stories that make me feel like how Six Deaths of the Saint made me feel." 👀)
Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன்@rukman.bsky.social · 4w agoDid you read "Moonwife" and wonder how I came up with it? How much is myth and how much is me? If i am being offensive or writing something heretic? I wrote all about what it takes to love the moon and the myth and generally about retellings in here rukman.substack.com/p/to-love-th...
Did you read "Moonwife" and wonder how I came up with it? How much is myth and how much is me? If i am being offensive or writing something heretic? I wrote all about what it takes to love the moon and the myth and generally about retellings in here rukman.substack.com/p/to-love-th...
To love the moon is kill her and see her rise anew
Retellings, responsibility, and my logic
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Have you read? Open Your Eyes Again by Toby MacNutt at Otherside A poem of love and seeing what others do not. othersidespec.com/pieces/open-...
Open Your Eyes Again - OTHERSIDE
I place the string in your hand, beaded with moments of sensorium and place, caught, time held witness. Your fingers rub them, your face like a prayer, wondering. A series of tiny worlds in whole and…
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"Mortal poison will not bring down her wife. But venom calls to venom and she needs to bear the mortal poison to find its immortal counterpart." I was hooked from beginning to end with this one!
Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன்@rukman.bsky.social · last mo."Moonwife", my story where the moon is a lesbian and you should try to kill her, is out today with @tasavvurnama.bsky.social ! tasavvurnama.com/moonwife/
In which @rukman.bsky.social writes a great deal of lovely thoughts about retellings! rukman.substack.com/p/to-love-th...
To love the moon is kill her and see her rise anew
Retellings, responsibility, and my logic
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"Moonwife", my story where the moon is a lesbian and you should try to kill her, is out today with @tasavvurnama.bsky.social ! tasavvurnama.com/moonwife/
Moonwife - Tasavvur
Moonwife is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Rukman Ragas for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.
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I had the opportunity to read an early draft of this and I'm so thrilled it found a home. Go check it out!
Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன்@rukman.bsky.social · last mo."Moonwife", my story where the moon is a lesbian and you should try to kill her, is out today with @tasavvurnama.bsky.social ! tasavvurnama.com/moonwife/
"Moonwife", my story where the moon is a lesbian and you should try to kill her, is out today with @tasavvurnama.bsky.social ! tasavvurnama.com/moonwife/
Moonwife - Tasavvur
Moonwife is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Rukman Ragas for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.
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Sometimes when I’m writing about a completely unhinged character, a character who is up to absolutely appalling nonsense… I hesitate. And then I hear the voice of @rukman.bsky.social in my ear saying “MAKE THEM WORSEEEEEE ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃˡˢᵒ ᵍᵃʸᵉʳ” It’s very important to know a Rukman 🙂↕️
and here's mine! I still love this story two years on, and it wouldn't be what it is without the work of @witchywonderer.bsky.social and the khōréō team--please consider donating if you can! www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...
The Last Flesh Figure Skaters
The first time I saw you, you laced up your skates, adjusted your knee mods, and I was just another unremarkable face as you fluttered to the ice. My mother snapped at me to watch you, but it was like...
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"This Is What You Came For" by @pqwrites.bsky.social plays with time and space in such an interesting way--the integration of music and narrative is impressively satisfying. the setting/detail work is really well done too www.khoreomag.com/fiction/this...
This Is What You Came For
It starts with a beat. A steady electronic thump in my chest. Electric waves pulsing through my body with a feeling like forever before breaking into the tips of my fingers and the doors of perception...
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"Take Up Thy Mother’s Song" by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social --I've reread this story so much, and it makes me emotional every time. it's such a compact, effective story about how communities persist www.khoreomag.com/fiction/take...
Take Up Thy Mother's Song
Before she died, my mother pinned a new verse to the family song, which caused some consternation among the elders who were left. No one had added anything new for several generations; we’d been able ...
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khōréō was my first ever sale, and I'm forever grateful to the team! it's so important to have a magazine that focuses on uplifting diaspora stories--on publishing them, but also on editing them with a sensitivity & thoughtfulness that honors those perspectives some of my fav khōréō stories below:
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
"Trees Can Have My Soul; in Return, Let Me Have My Grief" by @rukman.bsky.social -- a really thorny flash about assimilation and homeland, and builds up very well to the last punch www.khoreomag.com/fiction/tree...
Trees Can Have My Soul; in Return, Let Me Have My Grief
The Sen had a curious saying in their musical language they fluted out using their tongue pipes. Ahsa an nira. The land knows you. As Mhyrsa stepped outside Kannari’s only landing pad, she smelled th...
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