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Abra Staffin-Wiebe
@abracanabra.bsky.social
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Writer of horror-inflected SF/fantasy. Mostly post daily freewriting and writing-related things, gruesome writing tidbits, and science facts because SIENSE! Likely to reshare cat pictures, weird science facts, books and short stories, art.
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · Jan 8
Welcome new folks! Brief advice for Bskying.
1. Make a few posts before you start following folks!
2. Always use alt text on your images.
3. Don't expect or give automatic followbacks (esp. for "clout").
4. Don't engage. Blockity-block.
5. Settings -> Content and Media
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#BskyTips #Welcome
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 8h
Goodnight from Sadie Stowen, making condensation sigils on the windows of the Red House Transport Cafe. Goodnight from Sarah Hartley, certain something from the silver nitrate glass negatives she handled at the Pentlow Archive has followed her home. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 13h
Here at Apex, we're drawn to good horror like a moth(man) to a flame 🔴🔴🕯️

You have FOUR WEEKS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for October is FOLKLORE. You have until the 31st to submit!

www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
a black bird with red eyes stands in the dark
Alt: mothman reaches out to you with one wizened little moth finger
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 9h
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier #3), T. Kingfisher (2025). Pokes at the abandoned mine and "ancient inhuman intelligence buried in the ice" tropes, but it goes some pleasantly unexpected way. A more peaceful and life-affirming ending than one might expect. #AmReading #BooksRead #BookSky #Books
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 9h
Ooo! I didn't know they had a new book out! ::scurries away to put hold on at the library::
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 9h
She disconcerted her relatives, she knew. Where they moved through the world with pomp and circumstance, she preferred to move with #verve and, if she was lucky, delight. They were mostly resigned to it because they thought it was just her nature. But sometimes? It took a plan. #vss365 #MicroFiction
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 1d
Wow! ...I would be terrified of a sudden wind blowing all the post-its off!
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d
In 2019 when I was interviewing for the job of anti-surveillance activist at EFF I was asked what is biggest civil liberties threat that no is talking about yet---and my answer at the time was Ring. Given the general climate and its capabilities, it's even worse now.

Get. Rid. Of. Your. Ring.
Ring's Facial Recognition Sparks Privacy Backlash Among Customers - Phandroid
Amazon's new Ring feature uses facial recognition to identify visitors, prompting customers to cancel subscriptions over privacy concerns.
phandroid.com
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 1d
Including legs... But usually I'd specify.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d
adding this to the short list of videos I need to re-watch on the regular
youtu.be/CDs2d3dJtYk?...
The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED
YouTube video by TED
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 1d
🧵4/4 For more science fiction, fantasy, and horror short story market updates, go to aswiebe.com/marketlist/

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #SFF #SubmissionCall
Aswiebe's Market List
A resource for science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers. Latest: Fun Horror💀 Submission Call, Get It On Someone Else's Desk, and More!
aswiebe.com
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 1d
Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social wants fun SF and fantasy up to 5,000 words, pays $.03/wd, no reprints, open to submissions until 10/15/25. 🧵3/4

#WritingCommunity #SubmissionCall #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSF #SFF

translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
Submissions
Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
translunartravelerslounge.com
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 1d
Into the Deep, Dark Woods anthology wants fantasy, SF, horror, suspense, mystery, humor, and romance, themed to deep, dark woods, up to 5,000 wds, pays $.06/wd, due 10/15/25. 🧵2/4

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #SubmissionCall

wordfirepress.com/pages/submis...
Call for Submissions: Into the Deep, Dark Woods Anthology
Submissions open September 1, 2025 About Into the Deep, Dark Woods The seventh anthology compiled by the Publishing MA students at Western Colorado University, executive editors Kevin J. Anderson and ...
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 1d
Ghoulish Tales @ghoulish.bsky.social wants fun horror stories, pays $.10/word, no reprints, due 10/17/25. 🧵1/4

#AmWriting #Horror #AmWritingHorror #WritingCommunity #SubmissionCall

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Ghoulish Tales Reopens for Submissions (9/17-10/17 2025) – GHOULISH
ghoulish.rip
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 1d
It's tough being a #libertine in a 2-person orbiting spacecraft that smells like feet and burnt steak, but somehow he manages it. I know *that* craft isn't rated for orgies, but he's buying extra O₂ for a reason. I don't ask how he got the creds. I really don't want to know. #vss365 #MicroFiction
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Laurel the Wrymouth, L'Etoile Du Nord @laurelvolk.bsky.social · 1d
From AP: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation

abject horror, clown-level, seeped into my bones upon learning there is a) a hair museum, b) the hair is now everywhere. HAIR.
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 1d
Gotcha, thanks!
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 1d
What age range is this suitable for?
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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 1d
🔥 Do you love The Anvil, our regular unconference for creatives of color? We do too! We'll be meeting next on November 29. There's plenty of time to register, and to sponsor!
dreamfoundry.org/the...
promo image of The Anvil on November 29
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 2d
It’s a shame that @naomikritzer.bsky.social won’t give us her real opinions

naomikritzer.com/2025/09/18/e...
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 2d
Writer Priority #1: Get It On Someone Else’s Desk: aswiebe.com/marketlist/o...

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmWritingSFF #SFF
Fun Horror💀 Submission Call, Get It On Someone Else's Desk, and More - Aswiebe's Market List
Featured: A Fun Horror💀 Submission Call, Get It On Someone Else's Desk, and more science fiction, fantasy, and horror short story market listings!
aswiebe.com
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 3d
A #clash of swords rang in the boarding passage in the leviathan's gills. She shuddered, old bullet scars puckering as she shivered beneath armored flesh.

He patted her side. "It's okay, girl. No guns."

He hoped it was true. A maddened leviathan would kill them all.

#vss365 (clash) #AmWriting
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 3d
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 3d
Morning arrived like an invasion of piranha moths—one second you’re gazing wistfully out to sea from the widow’s walk atop your home, swathed in casual but elegant layers of dark wool. The next, you hear the sounds of thousands of tiny wings…then hey, presto, a chill wind on your nethers. #BadNoir
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 4d
I missed out on my chance to get a coin for the ferryman last year, but NOT THIS TIME!
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 4d
it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

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Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 4d
Dear editors, If you announce an "open until full" submission call in a blog post, pretty please--for all our sakes!--go back and edit it to say "Closed" when you're done. #WritingCommunity
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 5d
Write yourself a Recovery Plan. Shit will go wrong. Relationship crash, illness, surgery, chronic illness, childbirth, job loss, parent death. Plan for yourself in your worst hour, when you can only focus for 15 min at a time. Document the shit you do that you "just know how". Document!!! #LifeHack
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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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