X Avila (they/them)
@xavilawrites.bsky.social
Author of Horror & Spec Fiction 👻 Querying my Queer Mexican Bug Horror Novella MARIPOSA. Slusher at Cat Eye Press 🐈⬛️👁
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https://xochiltavila.carrd.co/
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https://xochilt-avila.ghost.io
https://xochiltavila.carrd.co/
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It's Award Season, and this is Baby's First Award Eligibility Post 🖤👻
If my publications have made an impression on you, please consider my work for your nominations this year! Below I'll spotlight each piece with more detail.
Publication Links: xochiltavila.carrd.co
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#booksky #indiebooks
If my publications have made an impression on you, please consider my work for your nominations this year! Below I'll spotlight each piece with more detail.
Publication Links: xochiltavila.carrd.co
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#booksky #indiebooks
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Hi, just a friendly reminder that Freydis Moon just released an audiobook last week and that you should not buy purchase that book at all because Freydis a brownfishing white person who likes to bully their fellow trans and queer authors.
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hi, just a friendly reminder that Freydis Moon just released an audiobook last week and that you should not buy purchase that book at all because Freydis a brownfishing white person who likes to bully their fellow trans and queer authors.
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@sbworkersunited.org have launched the biggest open-ended strike in Starbucks history, fighting for fair wages and against unfair labor practices. We all need to stand in solidarity with striking workers. DON'T BUY STARBUCKS FOR THE DURATION OF THE STRIKE. #NoContractNoCoffee
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@sbworkersunited.org have launched the biggest open-ended strike in Starbucks history, fighting for fair wages and against unfair labor practices. We all need to stand in solidarity with striking workers. DON'T BUY STARBUCKS FOR THE DURATION OF THE STRIKE. #NoContractNoCoffee
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🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
I want the good people of BluSky to know I'm being very brave at the dentist (I almost cried but now I'm numb)
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I want the good people of BluSky to know I'm being very brave at the dentist (I almost cried but now I'm numb)
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Since as this year draws to a close I find myself caring more about survival than awards, here's a link to my updated Ko-Fi page. There are still my effusive praise letters up for sale, but I am going to add some more letter options (as well as some books) very soon.
ko-fi.com/probablyharm...
ko-fi.com/probablyharm...
Support Theodore Hill
Support Theodore Hill
ko-fi.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Since as this year draws to a close I find myself caring more about survival than awards, here's a link to my updated Ko-Fi page. There are still my effusive praise letters up for sale, but I am going to add some more letter options (as well as some books) very soon.
ko-fi.com/probablyharm...
ko-fi.com/probablyharm...
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I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
Following the recent election, leadership will be changing in many districts where conservative values previously dominated school board meetings and community actions.
epgn.com/2025/11/18/v...
epgn.com/2025/11/18/v...
Voters shift school boards toward LGBTQ+ inclusion across PA and N.J. - Philadelphia Gay News
School boards in PA and NJ are shifting fast—LGBTQ+ leaders are winning, conservatives are losing, and policy battles are heating up.
epgn.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
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Putting this together was heartening. I'd honestly forgotten that some of these were 2025.
In a tough year, I really needed to reflect on my #writing wins.
What's not pictured? All the other amazing stories I wrote! (Stay tuned for 2026+?)
If you want to nominate anything, I won't stop you. 😘🖤
In a tough year, I really needed to reflect on my #writing wins.
What's not pictured? All the other amazing stories I wrote! (Stay tuned for 2026+?)
If you want to nominate anything, I won't stop you. 😘🖤
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Putting this together was heartening. I'd honestly forgotten that some of these were 2025.
In a tough year, I really needed to reflect on my #writing wins.
What's not pictured? All the other amazing stories I wrote! (Stay tuned for 2026+?)
If you want to nominate anything, I won't stop you. 😘🖤
In a tough year, I really needed to reflect on my #writing wins.
What's not pictured? All the other amazing stories I wrote! (Stay tuned for 2026+?)
If you want to nominate anything, I won't stop you. 😘🖤
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learning to blast them with my aging ray
March 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
learning to blast them with my aging ray
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To allow time and breathing room for all things (and to preserve my sanity), I've pushed the zine call back to February. Same prompts, same pay, same rad zines--just gotta wait a little longer to submit! See submission guidelines here:
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...
Submission Calls
OPEN Zine call (February 1st through 7th) Zine PromptsFor this zine bundle, I’m looking for written pieces about these five prompts: -Cunty Horrors (cunty horror microfiction and mini-essays …
cursedmorsels.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
To allow time and breathing room for all things (and to preserve my sanity), I've pushed the zine call back to February. Same prompts, same pay, same rad zines--just gotta wait a little longer to submit! See submission guidelines here:
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...
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Fancypants Eligibility Graphic for 2025 Works
You’re under no obligation, but Wednesday IS my birthday. Just sayin’. 😉
You’re under no obligation, but Wednesday IS my birthday. Just sayin’. 😉
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Fancypants Eligibility Graphic for 2025 Works
You’re under no obligation, but Wednesday IS my birthday. Just sayin’. 😉
You’re under no obligation, but Wednesday IS my birthday. Just sayin’. 😉
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since it's that time of year, here's a list of my free-to-read award eligible works. links will be below. read and/or nominate something to please the eternal worm (or not, he's not your boss & neither am i)
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
since it's that time of year, here's a list of my free-to-read award eligible works. links will be below. read and/or nominate something to please the eternal worm (or not, he's not your boss & neither am i)
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In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
18.168.63.88
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
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[Black & white illustration based on the book Charlotte's Web with a pig looking at a spider's web that says "fuck ICE" with the spider hanging off the bottom]
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
[Black & white illustration based on the book Charlotte's Web with a pig looking at a spider's web that says "fuck ICE" with the spider hanging off the bottom]
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Both slots are still open and will remain open until filled by hungry trans folks. 🏳️⚧️
It's a fresh week, and I have two new slots open in the Trans Emergency Meal Fund. Can I buy your lunch today?
Here's the request form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Here's the request form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Both slots are still open and will remain open until filled by hungry trans folks. 🏳️⚧️
I'm SO excited for yall to read, "A Witch in Robstown," my short story inspired by the legend of La Lechuza🦉🖤
Here's some news @slimyswampghost.bsky.social and I have been dying to share! ENCOUNTERS WITH CRYPTIDS will be out 02/14/26! Featuring stories by @xavilawrites.bsky.social, @calebbethea.bsky.social, @cavaterra.bsky.social, @authorlevai.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social and many more!
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I'm SO excited for yall to read, "A Witch in Robstown," my short story inspired by the legend of La Lechuza🦉🖤
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Here's some news @slimyswampghost.bsky.social and I have been dying to share! ENCOUNTERS WITH CRYPTIDS will be out 02/14/26! Featuring stories by @xavilawrites.bsky.social, @calebbethea.bsky.social, @cavaterra.bsky.social, @authorlevai.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social and many more!
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Here's some news @slimyswampghost.bsky.social and I have been dying to share! ENCOUNTERS WITH CRYPTIDS will be out 02/14/26! Featuring stories by @xavilawrites.bsky.social, @calebbethea.bsky.social, @cavaterra.bsky.social, @authorlevai.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social and many more!
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🛸🛸imagine poisoning the hundred acre wood though :(
🛸🛸 new story from Randal Eldon Greene
🛸🛸 new story from Randal Eldon Greene
“I am telling you this, but are you interested? Don't believe me. Take a sip! I dare you. Ah, that got your attention.”
💧 from Randal Eldon Greene
www.nightshadesmag.com/the-well/
💧 from Randal Eldon Greene
www.nightshadesmag.com/the-well/
The Well
by Randal Eldon Greene
The well runs deep. This one, placed here in the center of your hundred acre wood. This well is your inheritance I hear, but it's also a structure of failed stewardship for you...
www.nightshadesmag.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
🛸🛸imagine poisoning the hundred acre wood though :(
🛸🛸 new story from Randal Eldon Greene
🛸🛸 new story from Randal Eldon Greene
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Humbly offering up the six short stories I had published this year. If any of them have made an impression on you, please consider them for your 2025 awards nominations! 🥰
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Humbly offering up the six short stories I had published this year. If any of them have made an impression on you, please consider them for your 2025 awards nominations! 🥰
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3 Transmasc books for Transgender Awareness Week:
A Hex for Hunger by @kataraqui.bsky.social
Silver Blood by @tallimorgan.bsky.social
The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman
📚💙 📚🏳️🌈 📚🏳️⚧️ 📚❤️
A Hex for Hunger by @kataraqui.bsky.social
Silver Blood by @tallimorgan.bsky.social
The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman
📚💙 📚🏳️🌈 📚🏳️⚧️ 📚❤️
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
3 Transmasc books for Transgender Awareness Week:
A Hex for Hunger by @kataraqui.bsky.social
Silver Blood by @tallimorgan.bsky.social
The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman
📚💙 📚🏳️🌈 📚🏳️⚧️ 📚❤️
A Hex for Hunger by @kataraqui.bsky.social
Silver Blood by @tallimorgan.bsky.social
The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman
📚💙 📚🏳️🌈 📚🏳️⚧️ 📚❤️
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga