M. L. Krishnan
@emelkrishnan.bsky.social
Magician. Marketing Director of khōréō. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com
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I hope everyone's ready for a strange fish story, because I sure am
FICTION
The Matriarchs, by Malena Salazar Maciá
A Cup of Forgetting, by @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social
When You Hit The Poison Ivy Thicket, You've Gone Too Far, by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Ichthyosis, by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
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The Matriarchs, by Malena Salazar Maciá
A Cup of Forgetting, by @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social
When You Hit The Poison Ivy Thicket, You've Gone Too Far, by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Ichthyosis, by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I hope everyone's ready for a strange fish story, because I sure am
I hope everyone's ready for a strange fish story, because I sure am
FICTION
The Matriarchs, by Malena Salazar Maciá
A Cup of Forgetting, by @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social
When You Hit The Poison Ivy Thicket, You've Gone Too Far, by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Ichthyosis, by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
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The Matriarchs, by Malena Salazar Maciá
A Cup of Forgetting, by @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social
When You Hit The Poison Ivy Thicket, You've Gone Too Far, by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Ichthyosis, by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I hope everyone's ready for a strange fish story, because I sure am
Look at this stunning cover! 😱
and the issue 99 COVER ✨
Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb
Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Look at this stunning cover! 😱
Went on a little gothic mental health walk after dark, when suddenly, this orange furball darts in front of me, demanding pets. Who am I to refuse? After he got the requisite amount of affection from me, he went on his way. 🐱🧡
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Went on a little gothic mental health walk after dark, when suddenly, this orange furball darts in front of me, demanding pets. Who am I to refuse? After he got the requisite amount of affection from me, he went on his way. 🐱🧡
I have a story coming out this December in Issue 99 of @fantasymagazine.bsky.social, and it’s all the more bittersweet knowing that this beautiful magazine is going on hiatus after that. Please support the independent magazines and presses that you love, however you can. This is the only way.
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I have a story coming out this December in Issue 99 of @fantasymagazine.bsky.social, and it’s all the more bittersweet knowing that this beautiful magazine is going on hiatus after that. Please support the independent magazines and presses that you love, however you can. This is the only way.
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Seeing all these eligibility posts while I have a story coming out in December has me feeling like...
bart simpson is in a boat with a paddle in the water
Alt: bart simpson is in a boat with a paddle in the water
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Seeing all these eligibility posts while I have a story coming out in December has me feeling like...
Seeing all these eligibility posts while I have a story coming out in December has me feeling like...
bart simpson is in a boat with a paddle in the water
Alt: bart simpson is in a boat with a paddle in the water
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Seeing all these eligibility posts while I have a story coming out in December has me feeling like...
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New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction.
Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
Head of the Household - F(r)iction
Kristina Ten presents the story of a woman preparing for her high-stakes marriage to an evil immortal lord.
frictionlit.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction.
Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
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Oh hey! My story "My Mother is the Water" is available to read online in F(r)iction latest issue. This is a story inspired by the lakes of my hometown, about a girl called to the water yet doesn't want to leave the aunt who raised her.
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
My Mother is the Water - F(r)iction
My Mother is the Water by Lyndsie Manusos explores a young woman's relationship (and magical connection to) the lake.
frictionlit.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Oh hey! My story "My Mother is the Water" is available to read online in F(r)iction latest issue. This is a story inspired by the lakes of my hometown, about a girl called to the water yet doesn't want to leave the aunt who raised her.
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
frictionlit.org/my-mother-is...
Oh well. My work is already unsummarizable, surreal, and strange for humans, so I was basically born to be an all-around LLM nightmare
Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Oh well. My work is already unsummarizable, surreal, and strange for humans, so I was basically born to be an all-around LLM nightmare
Like @lpkindred.bsky.social, I went back to to school while working full time and it is NOT for the faint of heart, it is so hard. So donate if you can! Let's get this gofundme over the finish line 🙌
to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
gofund.me
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Like @lpkindred.bsky.social, I went back to to school while working full time and it is NOT for the faint of heart, it is so hard. So donate if you can! Let's get this gofundme over the finish line 🙌
I'm in love with this scuttling rage pancake
November 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm in love with this scuttling rage pancake
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Take a walk on some silty sand www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Take a walk on some silty sand www.blaft.com/collections/...
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A Megha story is always full of gorgeous language and surprises that will make your head spin and the story impossible to forget ❤️
"Salt Slough" is a story folded into an academic paper trapped into another story by the paper’s footnotes. It is a sentient lagoon. It is a researcher who sees beneath what their eyes show them. Not entirely by choice. Things bloom. Sometimes everywhere.
Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
Out now! edited by Rakesh Khanna 144 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 300 g.Paperback ISBN: 9789380636788 Seven Indian authors. Seven stories of the eerie, the gruesome, the demonic, and the melty. Ever watched ...
www.blaft.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
A Megha story is always full of gorgeous language and surprises that will make your head spin and the story impossible to forget ❤️
I’m so out of it, my self-promo has plunged into a ravine of nothingness, even while I had a brand new story come out exactly two weeks ago in @blaft.bsky.social's deliciously bizarre new anthology, Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales! So let me tell you a little bit about it. 👁️🌿
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I’m so out of it, my self-promo has plunged into a ravine of nothingness, even while I had a brand new story come out exactly two weeks ago in @blaft.bsky.social's deliciously bizarre new anthology, Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales! So let me tell you a little bit about it. 👁️🌿
A blue tsunami last night AND a new Death Grips album? Y'all, I think we switched timelines or something
The first new Death Grips album since 2018 is coming.
Death Grips have a new album in the works · News ⟋ RA
The experimental rap group haven't released a full-length record since 2018's Year Of The Snitch.
ra.co
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A blue tsunami last night AND a new Death Grips album? Y'all, I think we switched timelines or something
A 2025 miracle arriving just in time to erase the travesty that is Tom Cruise's "Mummy" from all our timelines. We won, fellow bisexuals! We did it 🙌
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A 2025 miracle arriving just in time to erase the travesty that is Tom Cruise's "Mummy" from all our timelines. We won, fellow bisexuals! We did it 🙌
This was Celeste's Week 5 story at Clarion West, and I remember the experience of reading it for the first time, like it was yesterday. A specific sense of wonder and awe at what Celeste was doing on the page, the sharpness and brilliance and joy of it.
We are heartbroken to hear about the passing of Celeste Rita Baker, a wonderful writer and human. It was our joy and privilege to publish her story “Me and Seed Sheself” in our magazine in 2022. Our deepest condolences to her loved ones, may she rest in peace. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/me-a...
Me and Seed Sheself
I been wid dis woman since she was small, and now is like we shell casing break in two, in three. First ting I remember from being wid she is hearing she little girl voice. So close it make me vibrat...
www.khoreomag.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This was Celeste's Week 5 story at Clarion West, and I remember the experience of reading it for the first time, like it was yesterday. A specific sense of wonder and awe at what Celeste was doing on the page, the sharpness and brilliance and joy of it.
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We are heartbroken to hear about the passing of Celeste Rita Baker, a wonderful writer and human. It was our joy and privilege to publish her story “Me and Seed Sheself” in our magazine in 2022. Our deepest condolences to her loved ones, may she rest in peace. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/me-a...
Me and Seed Sheself
I been wid dis woman since she was small, and now is like we shell casing break in two, in three. First ting I remember from being wid she is hearing she little girl voice. So close it make me vibrat...
www.khoreomag.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
We are heartbroken to hear about the passing of Celeste Rita Baker, a wonderful writer and human. It was our joy and privilege to publish her story “Me and Seed Sheself” in our magazine in 2022. Our deepest condolences to her loved ones, may she rest in peace. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/me-a...
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“Glass Bottle Dancer” was the very first story I read at Clarion West. I was the youngest student there; Celeste was the oldest, and she’d just written the most goddamn incredible story in like two days, and for a little while I was like, what the fuck am I doing here?
Heartbroken to say the least. My dear friend and CW classmate Celeste Rita Baker has passed away. Words aren't enough to describe what an amazing, talented, warm, and loving human being she was. The world is so much emptier now. 💔
November 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“Glass Bottle Dancer” was the very first story I read at Clarion West. I was the youngest student there; Celeste was the oldest, and she’d just written the most goddamn incredible story in like two days, and for a little while I was like, what the fuck am I doing here?
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She was a lovely human being and a fine, fine writer.
Heartbroken to say the least. My dear friend and CW classmate Celeste Rita Baker has passed away. Words aren't enough to describe what an amazing, talented, warm, and loving human being she was. The world is so much emptier now. 💔
November 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
She was a lovely human being and a fine, fine writer.
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@ Clarion West, during critique of this story, Celeste called me out, "Monte drew a roach with his feedback!" w/ gust
I think I said, "But... you wrote about them!"
But Celeste had her usual wide smile and (I remember) her laughter; she'd mess w/ you yet you knew where you stood w/ her
I think I said, "But... you wrote about them!"
But Celeste had her usual wide smile and (I remember) her laughter; she'd mess w/ you yet you knew where you stood w/ her
If you also want to feel the power of her soul and her words, I am linking one of her most beloved stories here. Her characters signed in their humanity, even when these characters were cockroaches. ❤️
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/glas...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/glas...
Glass Bottle Dancer - Lightspeed Magazine
When de words “glass bottle dancer” come to me as I was day-dreaming, listening to music on de radio, I thought it sounded like someting I’d like to see, didn’t tink it would change me whole life. I i...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
@ Clarion West, during critique of this story, Celeste called me out, "Monte drew a roach with his feedback!" w/ gust
I think I said, "But... you wrote about them!"
But Celeste had her usual wide smile and (I remember) her laughter; she'd mess w/ you yet you knew where you stood w/ her
I think I said, "But... you wrote about them!"
But Celeste had her usual wide smile and (I remember) her laughter; she'd mess w/ you yet you knew where you stood w/ her
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Heartbroken to say the least. My dear friend and CW classmate Celeste Rita Baker has passed away. Words aren't enough to describe what an amazing, talented, warm, and loving human being she was. The world is so much emptier now. 💔
November 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Heartbroken to say the least. My dear friend and CW classmate Celeste Rita Baker has passed away. Words aren't enough to describe what an amazing, talented, warm, and loving human being she was. The world is so much emptier now. 💔
Absolutely devastated at the passing of my beloved, gorgeous friend and Clarion West 2019 classmate, Celeste Rita Baker. She was the absolute best of us. I'm broken.
November 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Absolutely devastated at the passing of my beloved, gorgeous friend and Clarion West 2019 classmate, Celeste Rita Baker. She was the absolute best of us. I'm broken.