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Jennifer Hudak
@jenniferhudak.bsky.social
Nebula-nominated writer of SFF, drinker of tea. Aging mermaid far from her natural habitat. SFWA/Codex/VP2022. She/her
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Wanna read some stories?

Here's a 🧵 of my 2025 publications so far...

1) "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social : resistance in the face of systemic oppression, from the pov of the old Erie Canal bed in Rochester NY

www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
Written on the Subway Walls
For February, The Sunday Morning Transport brings you stories by Jennifer Hudak, John Chu, Carrie Vaughn, and Marie Brennan.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
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Not to mention that school and library sales are a HUGE portion of all authors' sales. So they get the sale that you personally didn't pay for, your neighbor gets better access to books, and your unhoused pal has a place to sit WE ALL WIN
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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If you want literature to exist you have to support it and that doesn't always mean you, personally, will pay. The more we USE our libraries the better they can justify their funding, and the more people they can serve.

By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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More story recommendations! Short stories about monster women hitting all my favorite themes, by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @muteddragon.bsky.social @christinehanolsy.com @catchingwords.bsky.social, plus the novel Greenteeth by @mollyoneillwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/@katefrancia...
Story recs: Monsters, Mothers, Aging, and Queer Joy
I’ve read several stories this year that are doing really interesting things with the folklore of monsters and women, bringing out themes…
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This poem by Andrea Gibson perfectly encapsulates the feeling I get when people say "hey, why don't you have more confidence?"
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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If it's truly to fuck over the corporations, go drop the cost of that novel in an author's tip jar anonymously.

But we all know you won't do that.

So.

Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Also if you want to see all the stories (and poetry!) I published this year with links, here's a thread: bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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"When I met the young Mr. Turing, I had not yet ascended as Autumn’s King."

Lyrical, heartbreaking story. Hard not to love this one!

@aimeeogdenwrites.com in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
Because I Held His Name Like a Key
When I met the young Mr Turing, I had not yet ascended as Autumn’s King. Nowadays it has become fashionable for the sons and daughters of the lesser fey gentry to improve their position in the shif…
strangehorizons.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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This is one of the most profound statements & pieces of wisdom I've ever seen in a meme 🖤

Go enjoy the forest, for the Wolf is always near. 🪾🐿️🍁🐺
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My friend @herlizardness.bsky.social , who's both an incredible writer and a truly wonderful human, created this website devoted to seal rescue and conservation. Check it out! Adorable photos and drawings abound, plus lots of great seal facts and ways to help!
sealsignal.org
The Seal Signal
sealsignal.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.

Love all, help all.

Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Time Travel Is Easy is officially out in the world! Dinosaurs and Deep Time are thematic links to queer embodiment, childhood trauma, and life in the late Anthropocene. Cover art by the amazing Helen Whistberry. (Non-Amazon options coming very soon!) www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Not saying I would be caught by sirensong but I would definitely crash my ship straight into a rock if I heard this
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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I want to take this time to highlight the best #sff and #horror short stories I've read so far this year:

"Echo Syndrome" and "Written on the Subway Walls" by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social
"Through the Machine" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social

(1/2)
#writingcommunity #scifi #fantasy #specfic #amreading
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Why is everyone behind them a college student named Aiden
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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A fascinating and heartbreaking story of love, science, fey and desire, both named and unnamed for a person, or the idea of a person. And how that desire can cage us forever or set us free.

by @aimeeogdenwrites.com in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
Because I Held His Name Like a Key
When I met the young Mr Turing, I had not yet ascended as Autumn’s King. Nowadays it has become fashionable for the sons and daughters of the lesser fey gentry to improve their position in the shif…
strangehorizons.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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My Online Shop will be Reopening next week 🦇Friday 28th Nov-14th Dec🦇 with US Shipping available again + a 10% OFF Black Friday Weekend Sale 🖤

(Sorry I’ve been so quiet on here! 🙏 Life, work & running my family’s shop has been keeping me busy!)

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November 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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You made it. Happy Friday!!
Wield your whimsy like a weapon, and the fuckery will not seem so frightful. They cannot steal our Joy unless we let them. So live deliciously. 🤘🏼😈
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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I really think this kind of thing is a bad idea, because who wants to start a relationship *with a doctor’s office* by realizing the first thing that happened in that relationship is that they tried to trick you?
I went to make a doctor’s appointment today and got transferred to an AI “person” and I can’t overstate my revulsion when it fooled me for the first ten seconds, so that I was trying to be friendly and pleasant, and I realized it I was trying to be polite to a machine.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Honestly, this makes every org and institution that folded at the merest threat of an attack on trans rights just look as pathetic as they are.

It does the same for everyone that excused them.
NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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HIGHER MAGIC is out in the UK today!

If you see it in the wild, please share pics.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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