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Anita Harris Satkunananthan

@mythopoetica.bsky.social

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Author. Poet. Gothic Academic. PhD. she/her Codex Writers Group, MLA Published in: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, BCS, Uncanny, Lightspeed (POCDSF) etc Website: www.mythopoetica.com Bibliography: https://mythopoetica.com/bibliography/

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · Nov 29

An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜‍♀️

#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia

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The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

I'm supposed to be sleeping but I wanted to tell this story.

Off I go.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

I guess some subconscious part of me believed it at 34 but mostly it was a super shit year so I decided to grumble about fortune-teller bro with his little ledgers.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

Also I don't believe in that stuff to be clear. But I was brought there as a "surprise" huh.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

*laughs in 2025*

Quite happy with not meeting Mr. Me. Not so happy about "don't have big dreams" although to a certain extent I'm quite content within the confines of my life.

But at 34 I named that year the Year of Cosmic Betrayal and wanted to put some of those feels in a story.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

This guy was doing things with mathematics and algebra and whatnot. He had ledgers on shelves. And he told me that if I didn't meet or get married with whoever Mr. Me was supposed to be by the time I was 34, that was that for me.

Also not to have big dreams and just be satisfied with what I get.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

Ever since I wrote Reversion I kept wondering "but what about the crane-people?" so I wanted to visit Rig-VII in a story and then I spliced it with an experience I had when I was brought to see a fortune-teller in my 20s.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

Every now and then I also think wistfully about the two short stories adjacent to Reversion that I have yet to finish even though I poke at them once in awhile. One is actually set on Aakriti's home planet (Rig-VII). The other one is Vashti's story.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

I think some of their processes are automated so there's no telling what filters are being applied but my knowledge in this area is not so good. Hang in there!

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

Well, it's late so this author should go to bed. I worked on my novel (wild kermit-flailing of glee) and actually managed to submit a short story (even if it was a reprint sub and I used the wrong email to submit hahaha fml).

`night night, lovelies.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

I notice on my end a "silencing" between 8pm to around 11pm my time. Unsure why.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

Agreed, we can't help wondering if we've run afoul of the *points discreetly*...

But if it makes you feel better, I see you! 😀

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

I have other newer short stories I badly want to finish but even if I complete the narrative arcs I would need more time to polish and refine before I consider them submission-ready. Submit in haste, repent at leisure and all that.

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NPR @npr.org · 7h

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

Opinion: 'The Shipping Forecast' reminds us of the power of the human voice

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7h

Unsure but I'm also getting way less engagement on my posts which makes me wonder the same.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7h

#3GoodThings

1. I ignored academic work this Saturday and was in full author mode (apart from housework). It felt good.
2. Alias really has such great music (still on my rewatch).
3. Split Enz's True Colours (1980). Such a great album!

#writingcommunity #amwriting

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7h

So if you're thinking those two unpublished stories for the collection are in there because they have not been accepted anywhere -- they've actually only been submitted 1-2 times each. They're strong works if I say so myself. They would probably place eventually. But, they're for the collection.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7h

So I'm three short stories (although Liar, Liar, Your Station's On Fire is more accurately a novelette) umm, short.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7h

Also, I took two of my best and most recent stories out of the game because I'm putting them in Tower of the Rosewater Goblet. And the sequel to the Prosthetic Daughter short story is going to be part of the Prosthetic Daughter novel.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing available. Oh well.

I still have 8 stories out on sub right now which is good enough.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, Apex is open. Do I have anything I have not sent them yet.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7h

Honestly, I don't know where else to submit stuff. My currently not-yet-thrown-back-into-slush stories are all over 4k. Some over 5k!

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 1d

yall my dad wrote this!! a middle grade book about human evolution ⚡️⚡️⚡️ pre-order a copy for your kiddos!

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Reading the Bones by Marc Aronson | Book Moon Books

High-stakes adventure meets cutting-edge anthropology in this true account of the groundbreaking discovery of Homo naledi, which shocked the world of evolutionary science and redefined what it means t...

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7h

But at least I submitted /something/ this month, even if it's a reprint sub.

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SCIFI.radio @scifi.radio · 1d

Groundbreaking Image Shows Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs (with the caveat that we might just be looking at one big blazar instead of two…

Groundbreaking Image Shows Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs (with the caveat that we might just be looking at one big blazar instead of two of them).

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7h

Oh bother this duotrope submission manager -- I logged in with my other email not my submissions email and now rejection will arrive on my main private email. 😬

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