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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃

@wnwagner.bsky.social

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Horror writer (GIRL IN THE CREEK due out 2025, Tor Nightfire); editor-in-chief of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE, senior editor, LIGHTSPEED. Rep'd by Lane Heymont. 🏳️‍🌈 Portland, OR - plant nerd, foot traveler - she/her, they/them https://linktr.ee/wendynwagner

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · Sep 2

I should probably remind people that I had a novel called GIRL IN THE CREEK come out about a month and a half ago. It got a star in the Library Journal! And look at this awesome blurb from @keithrosson.bsky.social:

Against a green background and just to the left of the cover for GIRL IN THE CREEK, a blurb: Dazzling. GIRL IN THE CREEK is unflinching eco-horror, steeped in the pitch-perfect setting of the rainswept Pacific Northwest. I devoured it even though it gutted me, and it solidifies that Wagner is an absolutely electrifying writer.
— Keith Rosson, author of FEVER HOUSE

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Michael G. O'Connell @mocando.bsky.social · 1d

Some will understand. Some will be enraged. Some will push for more censorship.

Handmaid's Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools
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Handmaid's Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools

And everyone and their pet canary wants me to "comment."

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Aug 30

It's never a bad time to bring up that we

a b s o l u t e l y

have the resources and ability to provide housing, food, clothing, healthcare, and education to everyone at no direct cost to the individual; and we just choose not to do it.

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Aug 30

People should just get paid six thousand dollars a month to exist. You may have counterpoints and things to consider about this idea but let me just get ahead of them: shut up

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

Those tanks by the Willamette River -- you know the ones right off of Highway 30? -- are full of explosive, toxic material. Studies by Multnomah County show it sits on unstable soil that WILL liquify in an earthquake.
Corporate interests want to build more tanks there. Tell the city "HELL, NO."

Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 4d

Everything is stupid and dangerous right now, *but* we have an opportunity to make a least one thing less stupid and dangerous.

Please submit a comment to the PDX city planners asking them to prevent any further expansion of liquid fuel storage at the CEI Hub and mandate a fuel drawdown.

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Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

actionnetwork.org

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 1d

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

1. crying imagining any rich person taking a bus, ever 2. MANSION BOY?

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

OH MY GOSH, I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute DREAM!!!

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

A necessity for any time you leave the house! :D

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

This seems not great.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

Very delicious and chewy!

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 2d

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.

A photograph of Eden Robins' novel Remember You Will Die, which rests on a black metal shelf next to a small glass vase full of greenery: red berries, green and white flowers, and a shaggy sprig of foliage.

“Profoundly mistrustful of her own legacy, Dante Pellegrino would have hated this belated obituary. But then again, such remembrances are not for the dead at all. They are for the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.” from Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

Spent the morning hanging out with some writer friends over tea, then grabbed a bagel on the way home.
Such is life of a radical leftist in war-ravaged Portland!

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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 1d

The season when vast underground empires extend fruiting bodies into the upper world.

A shaggy parasol mushroom growing amongst nettles.

A trio of Coprinus species of mushroom growing in leaf litter.

Unidentified mushroom growing in leaf litter.

Mushroom, possibly Agaricus vaporarius, amongst grass and leaf litter.

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Sophia Jetta @werkoderko.bsky.social · 1d

😂

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

If you love a supernatural mystery, don't sleep on this series!

Jen Willis 💫🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 2d

Had a great brainstorm with @rstefoff.bsky.social and @wnwagner.bsky.social. Now I'm extra excited to start first-drafting Haunted Coast book 8 next month!

. . . Book 5, Poison Pen, just released today, in case you like murder, mystery, and cranky ghosts at the coast! :)

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The cover for "Poison Pen," Haunted Coast book 5 by Jennifer Willis. A young woman stands on the shore with the stars and a disgruntled ghost behind her.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for adding me to the delicious mix!

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Leticia Urieta @leticiaasu.bsky.social · 2d

My latest book list for @reactorsff.bsky.social! I was excited to include titles from @cronegirlspress.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, Saskia Nislow, @wnwagner.bsky.social and more!

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 3d

You may have recognized the growth of sporror (spore-horror) media over the past few years 🍄 Today, author Leticia Urieta offers 9 book recommendations that will get their roots- oops, mycelium in you

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Creeping Fungus: Nine Works of Sporror - Reactor

If you love mushrooms or just want some creepy reads to add to your TBR, this list is for you!

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 2d

Always so great to work with you, Marty!!

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 2d

New story day! My 6th story with @lightspeedmagazine.com, "At the Bottom of the Bonfire," is about ambition with no limits, hunger with no satisfaction, and what you lose as you gain power. Thanks as always to @johnjosephadams.com & @wnwagner.bsky.social!

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At the Bottom of the Bonfire - Lightspeed Magazine

By the time he went to reclaim himself, it was too late. As a young man, he’d realized there was a power to being alone. Relationships were tethers that held you back, sapped you of strength, of will....

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 3d

About ninety percent of all global historical emissions have been produced in the lifetime of our current president.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2d

Why did Indianans conspire to kill Charlie Kirk, a nation asks

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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