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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 1d

Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

O Mechfighter, O Starsinger - Lightspeed Magazine

The Starsinger, the Starsinger, the Starsinger, he sings. His histories have long been recorded—in every pit stop he has visited. In every station he has stayed. It may be just a minute of the traffic...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 15h

Merci!

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI - read all about it

Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 1d

Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

O Mechfighter, O Starsinger - Lightspeed Magazine

The Starsinger, the Starsinger, the Starsinger, he sings. His histories have long been recorded—in every pit stop he has visited. In every station he has stayed. It may be just a minute of the traffic...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI - read all about it

Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 1d

Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

O Mechfighter, O Starsinger - Lightspeed Magazine

The Starsinger, the Starsinger, the Starsinger, he sings. His histories have long been recorded—in every pit stop he has visited. In every station he has stayed. It may be just a minute of the traffic...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 1d

Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

O Mechfighter, O Starsinger - Lightspeed Magazine

The Starsinger, the Starsinger, the Starsinger, he sings. His histories have long been recorded—in every pit stop he has visited. In every station he has stayed. It may be just a minute of the traffic...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! One is out now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

O Mechfighter, O Starsinger - Lightspeed Magazine

The Starsinger, the Starsinger, the Starsinger, he sings. His histories have long been recorded—in every pit stop he has visited. In every station he has stayed. It may be just a minute of the traffic...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 9d

Very loaded month, as I have two short stories coming out from @lightspeedmagazine.com @nightmare-magazine.com that could not be more different. Space opera about lost cultural history vs horror about existing

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 9d

Very loaded month, as I have two short stories coming out from @lightspeedmagazine.com @nightmare-magazine.com that could not be more different. Space opera about lost cultural history vs horror about existing

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Aug 16

New story out! “Dad went out to Get the Milk” in @LightspeedMag is a fantasy piece about the costs of being an absent yet ‘providing’ parent, while also dealing with monsters from other worlds. Tune in if that’s your thing:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dad-...

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Aug 16

New story out! “Dad went out to Get the Milk” in @LightspeedMag is a fantasy piece about the costs of being an absent yet ‘providing’ parent, while also dealing with monsters from other worlds. Tune in if that’s your thing:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dad-...

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Aug 9

Two of my favourite stories come out in October, and coincidentally both in Lightspeed and Nightmare

Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Aug 8

I have a story out in Lightspeed this month that’s about…wanting your parent to leave you alone after they finish fighting monsters, so you can play on your Nintendo?

Don’t ask me too many questions

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Jan 15

New story day! “They Bought a House” in @nightmare-magazine.com is an unhinged haunted house set in Benin city. There are ghosts making ccoconut rice, there are people living in walls, and most importantly, there is Nothing 🤗. Read here: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/they...

They Bought a House - Nightmare Magazine

The idea for this story began in my final week at the Clarion Writers Workshop. I wanted to write a haunted house horror story using stripped language, but unsurprisingly, it became strange and detail...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Jun 20

I’d love to know your thoughts !

Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · May 25

Ughhhh

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veredes, arquitectura y divulgación @veredes.es · May 14

All the World’s a Prison @failedarchitect.bsky.social Osahon Ize-Iyamu In not-so-distant-future Lagos, a young man finds himself locked out of his own apartment after being away due to a public mental breakdown, losing exclusive ownership of the apartment

All the World’s a Prison - Failed Architecture

In not-so-distant-future Lagos, a young man finds himself locked out of his own apartment after being away due to a public mental breakdown, losing ex...

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Apr 28

Story day! What if Jack from Jack and Jill was used for rice + chicken? Or Mary’s little lamb was used for efo riro? “The Revised Version” is all about cooking nursery rhymes, but also the weight of family responsibility. Read here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-revise...

The Revised Version

Issue five: short fiction by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

theorangebee.substack.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · May 12

Story day! For Failed Architecture, “All the World’s a Prison” is science fiction about the horrors of Lagos housing, but worse. What makes you eligible to possess a space? What if it’s taken from you? Read here: failedarchitecture.com/all-the-worl...

All the World’s a Prison - Failed Architecture

In not-so-distant-future Lagos, a young man finds himself locked out of his own apartment after being away due to a public mental breakdown, losing ex...

failedarchitecture.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · May 12

Story day! For Failed Architecture, “All the World’s a Prison” is science fiction about the horrors of Lagos housing, but worse. What makes you eligible to possess a space? What if it’s taken from you? Read here: failedarchitecture.com/all-the-worl...

All the World’s a Prison - Failed Architecture

In not-so-distant-future Lagos, a young man finds himself locked out of his own apartment after being away due to a public mental breakdown, losing ex...

failedarchitecture.com

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Anneke @ernerker.bsky.social · May 3

fun and creepy, with a real gut-punch at the end

Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Apr 28

Story day! What if Jack from Jack and Jill was used for rice + chicken? Or Mary’s little lamb was used for efo riro? “The Revised Version” is all about cooking nursery rhymes, but also the weight of family responsibility. Read here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-revise...

The Revised Version

Issue five: short fiction by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

theorangebee.substack.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Apr 28

Story day! What if Jack from Jack and Jill was used for rice + chicken? Or Mary’s little lamb was used for efo riro? “The Revised Version” is all about cooking nursery rhymes, but also the weight of family responsibility. Read here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-revise...

The Revised Version

Issue five: short fiction by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

theorangebee.substack.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Apr 28

SPOILERS but I think there’s such an interesting parallel re: Remmick in Sinners and the Peoples Temple aka ‘Jonestown’ irl. Charismatic leader promising Black people that freedom can only exist in the confines of death.
Where are the essays on this or do I need to open laptop?

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Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾 @africansffhype.bsky.social · Apr 26

The protagonist is on the run from a Fox that tricked him into sacrificing himself to save his underground mining community from the end of the world. But he grows tired. He must outwit the fox.

By @osahon4545.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-t...

We the People Excluding I - Lightspeed Magazine

We were in the mines when the world was falling apart. I remember, the earth was cracking, and the plants were going limp, and the world looked dark blue, less full of life. Everyone tried to group to...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾 @africansffhype.bsky.social · Apr 21

Ever since Ogbe's mother became the soil in his garden, he's been pretty reclusive. He only focuses on tending to her. Weeding, watering, killing pests. An eternal penance.

Heartwrenching metaphorical fantasy by @osahon4545.bsky.social

www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...

There's Never Time to Be — Sans. PRESS

In this speculative story by Osahon Ize-Iyamu, a son toils at the garden of his mother in an endless attempt to expunge his guilt and grief.

www.sanspress.com

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · Apr 15

Thank you for your kind words!

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