Maressa Voss
@maressakate.bsky.social
WHEN SHADOWS GROW TALL, out now w/ Roundfire Books
Writer | Seasonal fruit enthusiast | Seed saver | Liminal Zone Lover
Short fiction in Trollbreath Magazine & Moonday Magazine
https://linktr.ee/maressavoss
Writer | Seasonal fruit enthusiast | Seed saver | Liminal Zone Lover
Short fiction in Trollbreath Magazine & Moonday Magazine
https://linktr.ee/maressavoss
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Maressa Voss
@maressakate.bsky.social
· Sep 19
Free Fiction Friday is here! Here's an apt tale for humanities poor life choices: magazine.trollbreath.com/the-machines...
@maressakate.bsky.social
@maressakate.bsky.social
Part allegory, part slipstream rage of consciousness little piece I wrote last year about why you really have brain fog and what happens when AI takes an interest in gardening. You honor me by reading!
Convincing you to read my flash fiction with the first sentence.
“You are fungus, a kingdom unto yourself.”
The Life and Times of Coprinus Comatus.
moondaymag.com/coprinus-com...
“You are fungus, a kingdom unto yourself.”
The Life and Times of Coprinus Comatus.
moondaymag.com/coprinus-com...
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Convincing you to read my flash fiction with the first sentence.
“You are fungus, a kingdom unto yourself.”
The Life and Times of Coprinus Comatus.
moondaymag.com/coprinus-com...
“You are fungus, a kingdom unto yourself.”
The Life and Times of Coprinus Comatus.
moondaymag.com/coprinus-com...
Trollbreath is one to watch (never mind they’ve published me twice!). Each issue is splendidly diverse, compulsively readable.
Just for funnsies, here's an interview with one of the co-editors of Trollbreath Magazine, posted by @duotrope.com today.
Said editor being me (Jennifer helped me write the answers once she got up)
duotrope.com/interview/ed...
Said editor being me (Jennifer helped me write the answers once she got up)
duotrope.com/interview/ed...
Duotrope's Interview with Trollbreath Magazine
Read Duotrope's editor interview with Trollbreath Magazine to learn what they're looking for and gain more insight into this publication.
duotrope.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Trollbreath is one to watch (never mind they’ve published me twice!). Each issue is splendidly diverse, compulsively readable.
Absolutely delighted to be making the trek. Who else??!
October 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Absolutely delighted to be making the trek. Who else??!
“We could’ve eaten it if it was younger and not quite so drippy,” the largest says, pulling a face of regret.
Isn’t that just life, you think, a soporific sigh escaping what might once have been your lips.
moondaymag.com/coprinus-com...
Isn’t that just life, you think, a soporific sigh escaping what might once have been your lips.
moondaymag.com/coprinus-com...
October 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“We could’ve eaten it if it was younger and not quite so drippy,” the largest says, pulling a face of regret.
Isn’t that just life, you think, a soporific sigh escaping what might once have been your lips.
moondaymag.com/coprinus-com...
Isn’t that just life, you think, a soporific sigh escaping what might once have been your lips.
moondaymag.com/coprinus-com...
I swear not all of my short story titles are Article + Noun + Verb + Adjective (or dismantlingly dark), but this one, at least, has a lil ray of light at the end (in the form of a waste chute but still...!)
September 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I swear not all of my short story titles are Article + Noun + Verb + Adjective (or dismantlingly dark), but this one, at least, has a lil ray of light at the end (in the form of a waste chute but still...!)
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If you want to see a really great use of repetition of word/phrase, you should check out this story.
@maressakate.bsky.social nails a vibe and voice, and her theme is on point for the world we are being reluctantly driven towards by our tech lords.
@maressakate.bsky.social nails a vibe and voice, and her theme is on point for the world we are being reluctantly driven towards by our tech lords.
Free Fiction Friday is here! Here's an apt tale for humanities poor life choices: magazine.trollbreath.com/the-machines...
@maressakate.bsky.social
@maressakate.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you want to see a really great use of repetition of word/phrase, you should check out this story.
@maressakate.bsky.social nails a vibe and voice, and her theme is on point for the world we are being reluctantly driven towards by our tech lords.
@maressakate.bsky.social nails a vibe and voice, and her theme is on point for the world we are being reluctantly driven towards by our tech lords.
Part allegory, part slipstream rage of consciousness little piece I wrote last year about why you really have brain fog and what happens when AI takes an interest in gardening. You honor me by reading!
Free Fiction Friday is here! Here's an apt tale for humanities poor life choices: magazine.trollbreath.com/the-machines...
@maressakate.bsky.social
@maressakate.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Part allegory, part slipstream rage of consciousness little piece I wrote last year about why you really have brain fog and what happens when AI takes an interest in gardening. You honor me by reading!
The mind of Gio is singular!
A little story of mine (I have 15 out in 2025)
Just started working my way through stories from fellow authors in "What Lurks: A Cryptid Anthology" geni.us/whatlurks
Gio Clairval's @gioclair.bsky.social is a banger. Story of runaway teenagers who get trapped in an eerie tunnel, told in the style of found footage and police records. Amazing.
Gio Clairval's @gioclair.bsky.social is a banger. Story of runaway teenagers who get trapped in an eerie tunnel, told in the style of found footage and police records. Amazing.
September 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The mind of Gio is singular!
Thrilled to be a repeat offender in Trollbreath Magazine, alongside some really special stories. This was one that extruded out in one long exhale (read: silent scream).
The Machines Are Hungry (please don't feed them!)
The Machines Are Hungry (please don't feed them!)
September 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Thrilled to be a repeat offender in Trollbreath Magazine, alongside some really special stories. This was one that extruded out in one long exhale (read: silent scream).
The Machines Are Hungry (please don't feed them!)
The Machines Are Hungry (please don't feed them!)
I have a short (short) piece in this issue, a work of slipstream, inspired by *gestures vaguely all around*…
The Machines Are Hungry. Please don’t feed them.
The Machines Are Hungry. Please don’t feed them.
September 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I have a short (short) piece in this issue, a work of slipstream, inspired by *gestures vaguely all around*…
The Machines Are Hungry. Please don’t feed them.
The Machines Are Hungry. Please don’t feed them.
Spoiler alert, my next book.
Shout out to Sarah, who is correct. Fuck all other planets, Earth number #1
August 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Spoiler alert, my next book.
World Con! Who’s going?? let’s meet up!
August 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
World Con! Who’s going?? let’s meet up!
Get in losers, we’re going digital!
Fall Cover Reveal! magazine.trollbreath.com/membership-a...
Support our work bringing short fiction, essays, and poetry! Join now at $5 an issue, $20 a year
Support our work bringing short fiction, essays, and poetry! Join now at $5 an issue, $20 a year
August 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Get in losers, we’re going digital!
Over the moon to share that I am now represented by the wondrous Susan Armstrong at C&W. It’s been a wild ride these last few weeks, approaching this terminus at high speed after five years of striving/toiling/hoping (and clearly I don’t know what to do with my hands just yet)…
May 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Over the moon to share that I am now represented by the wondrous Susan Armstrong at C&W. It’s been a wild ride these last few weeks, approaching this terminus at high speed after five years of striving/toiling/hoping (and clearly I don’t know what to do with my hands just yet)…
...unbelievably, irrepressibly vague !! 👀
April 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
...unbelievably, irrepressibly vague !! 👀
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I have committed an act of newsletter: I finally wrote up what I got from @catrambo.bsky.social's Wayward Wormhole workshop back in November (spoiler alert: it was a lot, and was not what I expected).
buttondown.com/sarahday/arc...
buttondown.com/sarahday/arc...
What the desert says: Wayward Wormhole 2024
I meant to do a writeup of my time at Wayward Wormhole, Cat Rambo's residential writing workshop, as soon as I got home, but life had other plans. I'd like...
buttondown.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I have committed an act of newsletter: I finally wrote up what I got from @catrambo.bsky.social's Wayward Wormhole workshop back in November (spoiler alert: it was a lot, and was not what I expected).
buttondown.com/sarahday/arc...
buttondown.com/sarahday/arc...
3 AM typing marathon. Heart racing. Not inspiration -- just forgot to eat again. The muse: not bad to look at but a terrible roommate.
March 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
3 AM typing marathon. Heart racing. Not inspiration -- just forgot to eat again. The muse: not bad to look at but a terrible roommate.
Many have said that When Shadows Grow Tall has A Wizard of Earthsea sensibility.
Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:
Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
www.ursulakleguin.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Many have said that When Shadows Grow Tall has A Wizard of Earthsea sensibility.
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New story day! "The Matador and the Labyrinth" is up at Diabolical Plots. Borges meets Hemingway. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
The image is from a kylix drinking cup, c. 515 BC. The inscription around the edge reads "The boy is beautiful."
The image is from a kylix drinking cup, c. 515 BC. The inscription around the edge reads "The boy is beautiful."
March 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New story day! "The Matador and the Labyrinth" is up at Diabolical Plots. Borges meets Hemingway. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
The image is from a kylix drinking cup, c. 515 BC. The inscription around the edge reads "The boy is beautiful."
The image is from a kylix drinking cup, c. 515 BC. The inscription around the edge reads "The boy is beautiful."
A reviewer here and there has expressed discontent about how my villains are unrealistic, a touch too mwa-ha-ha.
To them, I ask, “Did you watch the press conference yesterday?”
*me, watching, taking notes for book two*
JD: “Say thank you.”
*me, scribbling, “Bow to your overlord”*
To them, I ask, “Did you watch the press conference yesterday?”
*me, watching, taking notes for book two*
JD: “Say thank you.”
*me, scribbling, “Bow to your overlord”*
March 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A reviewer here and there has expressed discontent about how my villains are unrealistic, a touch too mwa-ha-ha.
To them, I ask, “Did you watch the press conference yesterday?”
*me, watching, taking notes for book two*
JD: “Say thank you.”
*me, scribbling, “Bow to your overlord”*
To them, I ask, “Did you watch the press conference yesterday?”
*me, watching, taking notes for book two*
JD: “Say thank you.”
*me, scribbling, “Bow to your overlord”*
@beardofdarkness.bsky.social was gracious to have me on his channel and we had a very chill chat about avenues to publishing, how to grease the creative gears, why I’m not a plotter, the function of beards in the generative phase, etc.
February 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@beardofdarkness.bsky.social was gracious to have me on his channel and we had a very chill chat about avenues to publishing, how to grease the creative gears, why I’m not a plotter, the function of beards in the generative phase, etc.
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Tonight at 8:30pm EST, I will FINALLY have the opportuingty to chat with the author of "When Shadows Grow Tall", the wonderful @maressakate.bsky.social! Topics will include her writing journey, inspirations, writing fantasy in particular, women in fantasy, and more! Join us & bring your questions!
January 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Tonight at 8:30pm EST, I will FINALLY have the opportuingty to chat with the author of "When Shadows Grow Tall", the wonderful @maressakate.bsky.social! Topics will include her writing journey, inspirations, writing fantasy in particular, women in fantasy, and more! Join us & bring your questions!
Join me at 5:30 PST tonight (!) with @beardofdarkness.bsky.social for a live interview. Bring your cat and questions of the burning/unhinged variety. www.youtube.com/live/E3fEG_1...
A Peak into Prose: Maressa Voss
YouTube video by Beard of Darkness Book Reviews
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Join me at 5:30 PST tonight (!) with @beardofdarkness.bsky.social for a live interview. Bring your cat and questions of the burning/unhinged variety. www.youtube.com/live/E3fEG_1...
Reposted by Maressa Voss
roma fatum est.
roma est in aeternum.
@maressakate.bsky.social took sargassa on a field trip to the very source. ☀️
roma est in aeternum.
@maressakate.bsky.social took sargassa on a field trip to the very source. ☀️
January 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
roma fatum est.
roma est in aeternum.
@maressakate.bsky.social took sargassa on a field trip to the very source. ☀️
roma est in aeternum.
@maressakate.bsky.social took sargassa on a field trip to the very source. ☀️
Reposted by Maressa Voss
"Just once, 347 would like to know what it feels like not to hit the drip. An impossibility—Tutrix is always there, ready to hook her up—but a curiosity nevertheless. What would it be like, to carry a feeling to its natural end; not have its rumpled edges smoothed over, its color faded to grey?"
December 20, 2024 at 12:53 PM
"Just once, 347 would like to know what it feels like not to hit the drip. An impossibility—Tutrix is always there, ready to hook her up—but a curiosity nevertheless. What would it be like, to carry a feeling to its natural end; not have its rumpled edges smoothed over, its color faded to grey?"