Wen Wen
@muteddragon.bsky.social
Chinese American short fiction writer in Fantasy, Cast of Wonders, Apex, Small Wonders & more
WenWenWrites.com
She/her. Codex, SFWA Flight Crew, Viable Paradise 2025. Fast talker from the Bronx.
Picture of Snow White from Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
WenWenWrites.com
She/her. Codex, SFWA Flight Crew, Viable Paradise 2025. Fast talker from the Bronx.
Picture of Snow White from Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
Pinned
The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent by Wen Wen Yang
I don’t know why I expected the afterlife to be different from my beforelife.In fact, I hadn’t expected an afterlife at all. As the youngest person in dìfǔ, with no descendants, I certainly didn’t ant...
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My @talesfeathers.bsky.social story is now free to read! Mind the content warnings augursociety.org/the-purpose-...
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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
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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…
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November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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...
medium.com/@katefrancia...
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Me after every social interaction
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Me after every social interaction
My cheapness is destroying the economy? Good.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
My cheapness is destroying the economy? Good.
jesus, gmail going to make me go back to yahoo mail.
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
jesus, gmail going to make me go back to yahoo mail.
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In addition to her writing, Piper does do some limited narration as Lalana Dara. Don’t miss out on her narration of From Here by Wen Wen Yang for the Cast of Wonders.
www.castofwonders.org/2023/08/cast...
www.castofwonders.org/2023/08/cast...
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
In addition to her writing, Piper does do some limited narration as Lalana Dara. Don’t miss out on her narration of From Here by Wen Wen Yang for the Cast of Wonders.
www.castofwonders.org/2023/08/cast...
www.castofwonders.org/2023/08/cast...
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If your family member is detained by ICE, here’s how to locate them, find legal help, prepare essential documents and offer support in their time of need (via our partner @documentedny.bsky.social). documentedny.com/2025/11/04/i...
5 Steps to Take if a Family Member is Detained by ICE - Documented
If your family member is detained by ICE, here’s how to locate them, find legal help, prepare essential documents and offer support in their time of need.
documentedny.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If your family member is detained by ICE, here’s how to locate them, find legal help, prepare essential documents and offer support in their time of need (via our partner @documentedny.bsky.social). documentedny.com/2025/11/04/i...
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
This weekend I learned horror ppl are so punctual and polite. Kudos.
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This weekend I learned horror ppl are so punctual and polite. Kudos.
Lovely time attending SFWA Quasar event this weekend! Scott Edelman said something about writing justifying his existence, and I felt that deeply.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Lovely time attending SFWA Quasar event this weekend! Scott Edelman said something about writing justifying his existence, and I felt that deeply.
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
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Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!
For your consideration this year, I have eight originals! Most are free to read!
In order of publication: "Martian Wallpaper" at The Daily Tomorrow dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa... It's Yellow Wallpaper on Mars!
In order of publication: "Martian Wallpaper" at The Daily Tomorrow dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa... It's Yellow Wallpaper on Mars!
Martian Wallpaper — Full Story
By Wen Wen Yang
dailytomorrow.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For your consideration this year, I have eight originals! Most are free to read!
In order of publication: "Martian Wallpaper" at The Daily Tomorrow dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa... It's Yellow Wallpaper on Mars!
In order of publication: "Martian Wallpaper" at The Daily Tomorrow dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa... It's Yellow Wallpaper on Mars!
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I have said this before in various contexts, and often include it when I teach classes & workshops:
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
The Submission Grinder
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I have said this before in various contexts, and often include it when I teach classes & workshops:
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.
If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
I love a folkloric protector of children.
If you're a good little child, maybe Grandpa Argle will rise from the swamp on Arglemas and bring you what you truly need. If so, you'd best read "Grandpa and the Ghosts", by @ray-is-writing.bsky.social, in this month's issue.
Grandpa and the Ghosts - Small Wonders
There was no Grandpa Argle waiting at the end of the pier to listen to eager children’s dreams. No one tunneled through the planet's crust with magic Drill Moles on Arglemas Night. It didn’t matter how well she behaved; no one was going to grant her wish.
smallwondersmag.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I love a folkloric protector of children.
My Submission Grinder Dashboard numbers are very aesthetically pleasing right now:
- Submissions: 500
- Rejections: 365
- Acceptances: 45
- Pending Submissions: 30
- Submissions: 500
- Rejections: 365
- Acceptances: 45
- Pending Submissions: 30
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My Submission Grinder Dashboard numbers are very aesthetically pleasing right now:
- Submissions: 500
- Rejections: 365
- Acceptances: 45
- Pending Submissions: 30
- Submissions: 500
- Rejections: 365
- Acceptances: 45
- Pending Submissions: 30
It’s freezing out! ❄️ Bundle up with a new story NOW LIVE on our site!
“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨
Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨
Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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It’s freezing out! ❄️ Bundle up with a new story NOW LIVE on our site!
“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨
Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨
Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s freezing out! ❄️ Bundle up with a new story NOW LIVE on our site!
“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨
Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨
Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
My @talesfeathers.bsky.social story is now free to read! Mind the content warnings augursociety.org/the-purpose-...
The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent by Wen Wen Yang
I don’t know why I expected the afterlife to be different from my beforelife.In fact, I hadn’t expected an afterlife at all. As the youngest person in dìfǔ, with no descendants, I certainly didn’t ant...
augursociety.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My @talesfeathers.bsky.social story is now free to read! Mind the content warnings augursociety.org/the-purpose-...
Reposted by Wen Wen
A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.
As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers.
www.health.com/adhd-medicat...
www.health.com/adhd-medicat...
FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of ADHD Medication—Check Your Cabinets Now
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has recalled several lots lisdexamfetamine dimesylate capsules, a generic form of Vyvanse, after testing found they failed to dissolve properly.
www.health.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.
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I'm looking to speak to people who rely on SNAP about what this past week has been like. If that's you, please reach out, or pass along to others. Can be anonymous.
Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: [email protected]
Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: [email protected]
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I'm looking to speak to people who rely on SNAP about what this past week has been like. If that's you, please reach out, or pass along to others. Can be anonymous.
Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: [email protected]
Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: [email protected]
I wish ppl at the airport would get in their relative's car like they just stole something from the Louvre.
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I wish ppl at the airport would get in their relative's car like they just stole something from the Louvre.