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Maria Haskins

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Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Editor at Ruadán Books. Part of Many Worlds. She/her. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, Deadlands & more. 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · Oct 11

I write speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror & points in-between), and I also write reviews & essays.

My short fiction is available in two short story collections:

🛤️ SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN: mariahaskins.com/six-dreams-a...

🐺 WOLVES & GIRLS: mariahaskins.com/wolves-and-g...

Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories

Available now! Buy Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories: Paperback & ebook from JournalStone Paperback & ebook from Amazon Paperback & ebook from Indiebound / B&N…

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 17h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 20h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 21h

Frogby is a fan of the Portland frogs

my little frog Frogby in the style/colors of the Portland protest inflatable frog costume, his eyes are red, he has a lighter belly and darker spots on his arms and legs and is smiling

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 21h

Fascism demands to be taken seriously and to be feared. That makes mockery a powerful tool. Is it how you "beat" fascism? I wouldn't go that far. But inflatable Reptar has surely poked a clearer hole in the story the White House is telling that the Democratic Party's multimillion dollar comms shops.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Strandschaf @strandschaf.bsky.social · 19h

🥰 Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation.

A baby Aldabra giant tortoise. It could eventually reach a weight of about 250kg. Photograph: Chris Tagg/Nature Seychelles
The tortois is snacking at a slice of a banana. It is about three times as long as the diameter of that banana. It has a very dark skin and shell.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 19h

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World Mental Health Day 2025

Find out about this year's World Mental Health Day campaign (10 October) and how you can get involved.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 19h

This is no sunshine story. They still struggle at times, but they are still here and they are doing a lot better. Things can get better. Not perfect, but better.

If you're somewhere dark, I hope you find some light, even if it's dim and flickering.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 19h

All I knew how to do was be with them. When they were at home or when they were in the hospital. When they told me to get out, I got out but came back.

Things changed slowly. Medication, a diagnosis, therapy, pets to care for, books to read, tv-shows to watch together, games to play together.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 19h

It's world mental health day.

I think about the person in my life that I almost lost a few years back. The person who didn't smile or laugh for years. The person who was in such a dark place and how I didn't know how to help them.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 21h

"Delete Your First Memory For Free" by Kel Coleman, from FIYAH (2021) [reprinted in ESCAPE POD escapepod.org/2021/09/30/e... ]

Escape Pod 804: Delete Your First Memory for Free

The bus jerks to a stop and I tighten my grip on the smooth, metal bar. Doors open. More passengers. Bodies hem me in, which makes me anxious, which makes me bite my nails. I maneuver the shredded…

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 20h

We also just published "Last Meal Aboard the Awassa" by Kel in September, in LIGHTSPEED www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

Last Meal Aboard the Awassa - Lightspeed Magazine

Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and t...

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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 1d

"Vanessa Fogg is one such bard, using her words to illuminate the emotions, the ambitions, the hopes and desires, and sometimes fears, of humanity."

A lovely review for my upcoming book, The House of Illusionists! @interstellarflight.bsky.social

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Templeton Gate 3.0 - Literature - The House of Illusionists, and Other Stories by Vanessa Fogg

Reviews of science fiction, fantasy and horror books, films, comics and television shows

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I love this poem. It was the last poem from Carver's last book written while he was dying of cancer. It is the inscription on his tombstone apparently too.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

by Raymond Carver

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 22h

Sherman's commitment to the bit is *chef's kiss*

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 23h

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 23h

Thor-voice: "all names are made up!"

a man says " all words are made up " while looking at a monitor

ALT: a man says " all words are made up " while looking at a monitor

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 23h

Every day, I stray further from the light. I crave a return to the old ways*.

*fighting on message-boards and shit-posting on Tumblr

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Two beetles on a stick.
One beetle says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out to reveal that they are in a glass case with two scientists studying them.
One scientist says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out into space. Abouard a spaceship, two aliens watch the scientists on a screen.
One alien says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
The aliens turn to look out at the reader.

Text below the cartoon reads:
From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. Preorder it at www.tomgauld.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 23h

Are the legionnaires of the Antichrist with us here in the room right now, Peter?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.