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Elijah J. Mears
@elijah.mea.rs
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eastern-style guy in lexington-style country • writing sci-fi & fantasy • former classicist • transit nerd • gay married to @beryl.rubacky.dev • 🏳️‍🌈✡️ • he/him

📍  Greensboro, NC (👖🔜🌳)
🌐 www.elijahjmears.com
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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · Oct 5
This is apropos of nothing except that I need to get better about occasionally mentioning I send a twice-monthly newsletter about my writing if I want people to actually sign up to receive it!

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Can I send you an email? | Elijah J. Mears
Hey! So this is the dedicated page where I try my hardest to get you to give me your email. Usually, people will promise to give you some kind of cookie in exchange for it—usually a free eBook, or a s...
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Our reprint today is an unexpected connection between a sun and a hungry space creature. Check out "Eating the Sun" by @bethgoder.bsky.social here:
Eating the Sun - Small Wonders
The rest of her broodmates had already left for ascension. She needed fuel for the journey. She needed to eat the sun.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
elijah.mea.rs
spotify wrapped once again calling me a slur
Spotify Wrapped Top Artists: Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, Chappell Roan Spotify Wrapped Top Albums: Mayhem, Cowboy Carter, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Rumours, Goodybe Yellow Brick Road Spotify Wrapped Top Songs: Abracadabra, Disease, Vanish Into You, Chameleon, Pink Pony Club Spotify Wrapped Top Genres: Dance Pop, Big Band, Classic Rock, Classical, Musicals
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Gorgeous story
"The men of the world had made it pretty clear as to which one of you was the movie monster." by @elijah.mea.rs
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Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing in the World - Small Wonders
You had no idea if the alien was your kind of guy (or even if it was a guy at all), but sometimes Cupid has a funny way with those arrows.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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It's a new story day today! This is one of my most personal stories—a meditation on queer bodies and unconditional love that I really hope you enjoy. 🛸
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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mruthrobinson.bsky.social
New month, new story! I am so excited to have a piece in the latest issue of FFO, one of my very favorite magazines. Do you like queer stories inspired by myth? Petty goddesses? Ovidian transformations? Being sad? Birdwatching? “Ornithogonia, or Five Featherings” was written just for you! 🐦‍⬛
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
elijah.mea.rs
It's a new story day today! This is one of my most personal stories—a meditation on queer bodies and unconditional love that I really hope you enjoy. 🛸
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
elijah.mea.rs
The finest minds at the Hollywood Reporter trying to Surf Dracula the gay hockey show
Tweet from @topherflorence that reads "back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale"
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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This is why non-romance people need to read more romance, honestly: will-they-won’t-they is fine but it is not the same narrative as “they did and then they did again and then they keep going but eventually someone’s gonna find out and then they’re REALLY fucked.”
jenreadsromance.bsky.social Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 9d
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
There’s a way of spacing out the storytelling here that could have pushed Heated Rivalry forward as a will-they-or-won’t-they relationship drama stretching at least through the first season, building up to perhaps a chaste kiss in the first season finale.
November 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
elijah.mea.rs
okay episode one finished and that all went from 0 to 100 very quickly 🙂‍↕️
elijah.mea.rs Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 10d
starting the first episode of heated rivalry and my verdict ten minutes in is that some of this camera work is, uh, Powerful
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
elijah.mea.rs
starting the first episode of heated rivalry and my verdict ten minutes in is that some of this camera work is, uh, Powerful
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
elijah.mea.rs
Happy Thanksgiving! Who wants apple pie?
A somewhat rustic apple pie in a glass dish cooling on a wire rack on a counter, with a cook book and toaster visible in the background. The pie crust is a golden brown with a fork crimped edge.
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
elijah.mea.rs
ok late to this for sure but ngl florence popped off with the chamber music versions
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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bobbylewis.bsky.social
some good news: kim davis publicly ate shit, again
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 28d
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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this is just to say
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
elijah.mea.rs
Need to be revising my novel and also revising an old trunked short story this month, which of course means today I wrote almost 2,000 words of something brand new which doesn't remotely adhere to my normal process and I have no idea where I'm going with it 🙃
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
MAMDANI: “While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
elijah.mea.rs
for no particular reason at all, may i suggest reading "the memory of you is contained in the crab rave" in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social this morning?

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November 29th: Elijah Mears | Crepuscular Magazine
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November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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thesuiway.bsky.social
a reminder to everyone to turn on your seasonal depression at midnight! cellphones should adjust automatically.
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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parkeriswriting.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! I can’t recommend you read this one while eating, but I can recommend you read it over and over for every other waking minute of your day today
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
elijah.mea.rs
it is such "go get a little latte" weather today 🙂‍↕️
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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spacevalkyries.bsky.social
which is to say hi yes despite what my rude brain says (the imposter syndrome has been awful lately), it's still extremely cool and humbling to that I have a queer cyberpunk story in Lightspeed 💜

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To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter - Lightspeed Magazine
Zan’s supervisor tossed the glass square onto their rusting desk. A glass-rendered construct of a silver ticket hovered in the air, text shimmering. Zan held their breath as they re-read it until they...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
elijah.mea.rs
This weekend was a cute time :)
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Dinner tonight! Maybe I'm kind of decent at this whole cooking thing.
A plate with creamy orzo, a medium steak, and asparagus with parmesan flakes.
October 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
elijah.mea.rs
Outside of school, I never really tried my hand at short stories until about 2022, when I took an unfinished idea for a novel and turned it into an 11k-word novelette that I very ambitiously started submitting to any market that would take novelettes (and racked up some *very* swift rejections).
cypayseur.bsky.social Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · Oct 20
I was thinking about early writing recently and I'm curious—short fiction writers: what is the earliest short story you remember finishing that wasn't for a school project or anything?
October 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM