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Jordan Kurella
@jordankurella.com
Trans Queerdo. Nebula and Sturgeon Award Finalist. Wrote I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY (Lethe Press), WHEN I WAS LOST (Trepidatio), and THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS (Lethe Press). Got more stories, essays, and poems at JordanKurella.com. He/Him. GenAI is right out.
Pinned
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:

novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social

short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social

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[harvard man with ponytail in shower end of night after being asked how he likes them apples]: what does that mean
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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lawyers posting about trump news every day
October 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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It's admittedly a bit of a guilty pleasure, but gotta say I'm a big fan of the stuff I like.
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:

novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social

short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social

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November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Haywain - Open
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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forest foot
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
best drunk text is the drunk text from
a friend that's near illegible where they're telling you how great you are. just got one. do endorse.
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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I REPEAT!

FUCKED FUCKED!
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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What Maria said.

I realize I'm biased here, but I think a number of people in the speculative short fiction and poetry fields are doing AMAZING, BEAUTIFUL work just now.

Let's celebrate that - financially, if we can!
This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue.

Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
a post about Psychopomp in 2026

please read and share

thank you very much
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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“The Death of Mountains” is a book that sticks with you.

Worth considering for the coming awards season.
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:

novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social

short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social

🧵
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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....I mean, speaking of amazing authors that we could support:
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:

novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social

short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social

🧵
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted
“This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...
www.unchartedmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:

novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social

short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social

🧵
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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a post about Psychopomp in 2026

please read and share

thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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As somebody situated in that exact cultural space at that time, this is *mind blowingly accurate.* The landscape is SO different, it feels like remembering a parallel universe.
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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so, so good. run it as a political ad.
Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Abolish ICE. Deny all those who worked for them any honors or employment in government ever again.
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Honestly after ten years(!!) of Republican “I haven’t seen that tweet” to have AOC say “you’re just informing me of that right now, [but here’s what I have to say in light of that information]” is so fucking refreshing
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
i am forever of the opinion that some
folks are mad they can never be as hot as trans folks, so they will try to end us. sorry, we're still way hotter than you.
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM