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Rick Hollon

@mimulus.bsky.social

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Genderqueer SFF writer & poet. They/them. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Words in F&SF, Strange Horizons, Analog, Kaleidotrope, Crow & Cross Keys, ALOCASIA, Trollbreath, Prismatica. Loves dinosaurs, wildflowers, photography, human rights. ACAB. mimulus.weebly.com

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 6d

My poem “Shapeshifters Local” has been published in the Autumn 2025 issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, alongside what looks to be an amazing TOC. Read my poem here: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon

kaleidotrope.net

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 16h

I’m excited to read it!

Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 16h

Archosaur affirmations.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

RFK’s kids have their shots. The orange one got his COVID shot. Vance’s in-laws are immigrants.

The rules they dictate are not going to apply equally, and that, alongside every horror they inflict, should piss you off royally.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 3d

I’m in my 40s and have yet to publish a single book. I began my current WIP in January; the first draft is only about two-thirds complete.

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 3d

Authors, in the interest of helping readers spot gen ai 'authored' books, how many novels do you publish a year?

I publish one 80-100k+ word (epic fantasy) novel, and I can only do that because I drafted 8 novels before I started publishing any. 📚💙

Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 3d

Midwestern Gothic.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 3d

We inadvertently inherited them (temporary cat-sitting turned permanent thanks to the housing market), so it’s still strange to think of them as “our” cats, but that’s what they’ve become.

Photograph of a tabby cat napping on top of a tuxedo cat in a blue cat bed on a wooden floor.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 3d

Reconfigured our living room by turning a big cube shelf 90 degrees, changing it from a room divider to a wall shelf. So much more light and flow to the room, and the various collections get shown off better.

Photograph of a cube storage shelf against a green wall. The shelves are loaded with colorful books and magazine collections. Lego sets and other tchotchkes are displayed on top.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 4d

My father died suddenly in our home this past Sunday. I am fighting against the overwhelming revulsion I have to asking for financial support to ask for help covering my access to healthcare for the remainder of the year so that I can focus on supporting my mom.
gofund.me/7be865eb6

Donate to JA focus on supporting mom after dad Jonathan Fay's death, organized by Jamie Andersen Fields

On Sunday, October 5th, my mom found my dad Jonathan Fay unco… Jamie Andersen Fields needs your support for JA focus on supporting mom after dad Jonathan Fay's death

www.gofundme.com

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 4d

Hi #LGBTQWriteAThon! My WIP is a mix of kids-on-bikes and dystopian adult sci-fi.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 4d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:

What genre is your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 8: Genres.
BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 5d

Hi #LGBTQWriteAThon!

My WIP is set in and around Colorado Springs, across three time periods: an apocalyptic 1993, a dystopian present, and the Late Cretaceous (75 million years ago). 🦖

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 5d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 7:

What is the setting and/or time period of your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 5d

Me too! 🌳🌳🌳

Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 5d

Hell yeah!

Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 5d

Unseasonably hot amble on the Appalachian Trail today.
1. Big oak tree.
2. Ghost pipe gone to seed.
3. Fields.
4. Autumn color.

Photograph looking up the trunk of a massive oak tree toward a colorful autumn canopy. Partway up the trunk, a white trail marker blaze has been painted on the bark.

Up-close photograph of ghost pipe, a parasitic, non-photosynthesizing plant growing low to the forest floor. The pale pink stalks terminate in pink knobs, where the summertime flowers have closed.

Photograph looking across a mown grass field toward a line of trees, with rolling hills beyond under blue sky.

Photograph looking up at a colorful forest canopy, popping with yellow and red autumn leaves.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · Aug 9

MAGICA RIOT SAYS

Artwork of the queer magical girls of “Magica Riot” - Riot Red, Riot Purple, Riot Blue, Riot Yellow, and Riot Green - surrounded by a multicolored brush stroke border. At the top, text reads “Magica Riot Says…” and at the bottom, text reads “Billionaires are making your life harder…not trans people!"

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much!!

Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 6d

This is gorgeous and utterly entrancing. 🍄

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 6d

It’s New Story Day! “The Little Deaths of Autumn,” my very seasonally appropriate short story about fungi, is out now in the new issue of Kaleidotrope.

kaleidotrope.net

“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places”

kaleidotrope.net

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much!!

Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much!!

Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 6d

“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon

kaleidotrope.net

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 6d

Send me your work!

Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 6d

We're pleased to accounce that submissions are now open to be read by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social until November 3.

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

necessaryfiction.submittable.com

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 7d

One of my favorites!

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 7d

Watching the Bakshi / Frazetta animation, Fire & Ice (1983). In a time of monsters and magic, a princess, a warrior, and a barbarian run around in string bikinis and build a polycule.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 7d

No forward progress on my novel, but today I went back and replaced existing chapter numbers with new chapter titles. It already feels a lot more cohesive and booklike to me.