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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Only 10 days left in the Kickstarter, and we still need $498! If you can chip to help an indie publisher, we'd appreciate it.
I'd love to see these two anthologies published.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...
#books #booksky #horror #sff #specfic #speculativefiction #reading #scifi #fantasy

Horror Anthologies: Waterborne & Once Upon a Moonless Night

Featuring stories by Z Brewer, Heather Graham, Nancy Holder, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, and many more

www.kickstarter.com

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! It's always nice to get good feedback. 😊

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 3d

A woman’s childhood mistakes come back to haunt her when a vengeful letter-writer calls her back to the strange town she fled 20 years before.
"We Told You of the One Who Lives in the Mound" is my #sff #horror story.
Read or listen here: pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/p...

#podcast #specfic #shortstories

PseudoPod 984: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIV: Thy Shields Between Them and the Light

“The spears of the day shall not touch them, the chains of the sun shall not hale them forth.” Beneath a forest canopy of flowering trees and fruiting vines, there lived a talented beetle.

pseudopod.org

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 4d

I'd say all of us in the Deep South have this problem as well.

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 5d

I once lived in Prague while trying to be an EFL teacher. I moved to the district of Braník after the first month. These are some photos I took in the area. It was gorgeous there. More photos are on my website: www.almunson.com/photos/

#photography #NoAI #Praha #travel #photos #landscapes #scenic

A road with green trees around it and green, tree-covered hills in the distance.

A view across treetops and rooftops along the slope of a hill. A tall building towers overs the trees in the distance.

A calm part of the Vltava River where trees grow all around, and ducks are gathered.

A view overlooking the Vltava River from Branické skály.

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 7d

Two anthologies: One adult #horror and one for all ages.
Waterborne is filled with monsters from the deep.
Once Upon a Moonless Night has tales of revenge.

Help fund these awesome books!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...
#sff #specfic #speculativefiction #sciencefiction #fantasy #booksky #books

Horror Anthologies: Waterborne & Once Upon a Moonless Night

Featuring stories by Z Brewer, Heather Graham, Nancy Holder, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, and many more

www.kickstarter.com

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 9d

A big thanks to Grace Kielstra with @metastellar.bsky.social for interviewing me today! It was nice to talk about my work with a fellow sff-lover. I look forward to the final cut being released next year.

#sff #horror #writing #writingcommunity #writesky #speculativefiction #specfic #scifi

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 11d

I would be thrilled if one of my horror stories siphoned all the gas out someone's car. Thrilled and... highly impressed.

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 11d

Looking for a Halloween scare? Last year, a modified version of my #sci-fi #horror story, "What Mel Knows," was narrated by Alicia Atkins on Creepy Podcast's Patreon.

Subscribers can access the episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/10-16-...

#sff #speculativefiction #specfic #sciencefiction

10-16-2024: What Mel Knows | Creepy

Get more from Creepy on Patreon

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 13d

Kickstarter for 2 anthologies:
Waterborne is adult #horror focused on sea monsters.
Once Upon a Moonless Night is for all ages and focused on revenge plots.
Help out an indie publisher!

#sff #booksky #books #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #specfic #shortstories
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...

Horror Anthologies: Waterborne & Once Upon a Moonless Night

Featuring stories by Z Brewer, Heather Graham, Nancy Holder, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, and many more

www.kickstarter.com

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 15d

Ace Awareness Week was last week, and what it showed me was a lot of you don't know what asexual means. Non-ace writers, why are you putting ace characters in sexual situations? And then you have the nerve to call it ace fiction? We don't exist for your weird sexual fantasies.

#aceawareness #acesky

A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 17d

"Bang." 💔

A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 17d

I said publishers take 3-18 months to respond, but that's if they respond at all. Some demand no simultaneous submissions yet never bother to send a rejection letter, leaving the author hanging. You expect me to wait for a rejection that will never come before subbing to another venue? Get real.

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 17d

Unsolicited opinion: No sim subs is a BS rule. Many venues stay closed to subs for 2yrs and take 3-18 months to respond w/ an R. A story takes many subs to get accepted. If authors subbed to 1 venue at a time, it'd take 7+ yrs to get 1 story published.

#writingcommunity #writing #writers #authors

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 17d

As a librarian, I arrange my nonfiction books by topic, and my fiction books by author. I will never understand people who arrange by size or color. Throwing books on the shelf haphazardly makes more sense to me.

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 19d

I haven't posted much yet, but I am now on the *ahem* Book of Faces. I'm looking for other #writers, #artists, and creative types in general to follow there (and here), especially those involved with #sff & #horror in any art form. (No AI.)

#writesky #writingcommunity #authors #artistcommunity

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 21d

The Kickstarter has launched for the anthology Once Upon a Moonless Night. It includes my story, "My Grandfather's Bow." Help out a small press by chipping in.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...

#shortstories #horror #darkfiction #crimefiction #fantasy #darkfantasy #YAfiction #books #sff #specfic

Horror Anthologies: Waterborne & Once Upon a Moonless Night

Featuring stories by Z Brewer, Heather Graham, Nancy Holder, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, and many more

www.kickstarter.com

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 22d

I've explained it to people like this:
"Think of the least attractive person you have ever met. That is what everyone is like to me."

That or saying to a straight guy (because they're always the ones who need an explanation), "You're not attracted to men. Imagine if the world was nothing but men."

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 22d

Tear gassing and arresting people for nothing? You know things have gotten bad when the feds are treating Chicagoans like they treat Natives.

#AbolishICE #FuckFascism #NoICE #NoKings #FuckTrump #NoDeportations #NoOneIsIllegal

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/20/f...

Federal Judge Presses ICE, Border Patrol Officials On Tactics And Use Of Tear Gas

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis also allowed plaintiffs to take limited deposition from Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino as part of the ongoing excessive force lawsuit filed on behalf of Block Club Chic...

blockclubchicago.org

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metastellar.bsky.social @metastellar.bsky.social · 24d

New video on our YouTube channel!
MetaStellar Storytime: The Songstress by A. L. Munson, Read by Andrea Goyan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2q...

MetaStellar Storytime: The Songstress by A. L. Munson, Read by Andrea Goyan

YouTube video by MetaStellar

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 24d

A strange woman arrives in town, singing a song of death and destruction that brings eternal night.

"The Songstress" is a whimsical narrative #horror #poem.

Read it here: www.metastellar.com/.../flash......
Buy it here: www.metastellar.com/books/the-be...

#poetry #sff #flashfiction #fantasy

The Best of MetaStellar Year Four anthology

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 25d

I almost lost my manuscript for my first novel. My laptop was dying and clung to life just long enough for me to save the file to a flash drive. It died immediately after that, though. If the novel ever gets published, I'm putting that laptop in the "Special Thanks" section.

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 25d

Looks like some type of orb weaver spider. There are many different species, but they tend to have a certain look.

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 26d

#Photos I took in Berlin. I liked the juxtaposition of Atlas holding up the world and the Berlin Bear holding up a bratwurst. The other two photos are of the remaining sections of the Berlin Wall. More of my (very amateur) photography here: www.almunson.com/photos/

#photography #travel #photographs

On a rooftop, a statue of Atlas holding up the world.

On the roof of a curry restaurant, a statue of the Berlin bear holding up a bratwurst.

Section of the Berlin Wall with graffiti reading, "Save our planet."

Section of the Berlin Wall with graffiti reading, "To Astrid, maybe someday we will be together."

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 28d

Fun exercise: Every time you see the term "AI-generated," replace it with "plagiarized." It means the same thing but is more upfront about it.

#NoAI #writers #writingcommunity #writesky #artists #creators #authors #artcommunity #artistcommunity #writing #art #createsky #creativecommunity #artsky

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