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Maia Rocklin
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I write words good sometimes.

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Maia Rocklin @maiarocklin.bsky.social · Apr 21
Hey #Writesky! I'm Maia (she/her). I'm the author of several short stories and a yet-published literary ecofiction novel, though I read and write many genres. I'm Finnish-Canadian, a book hoarder, a space nerd, and a possible cryptid? Happy to be here!

#amwriting #intropost
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This statement put out by the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and Mikisew Cree Nation is one of the best things I've ever read.

The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation also recently put out a statement opposing the building of an AI data centre in their territory. Everyone in #Canada should know about this.
An official letter bearing the seals of the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and Mikisew Cree First Nation, which reads: "April 30, 2025 Dear Premier Smith: Re: Cease & Desist - Separatist Threats You are attempting to manufacture a national unity crisis - by enabling a referendum on separatism and a fanatical cell of individuals at the exact moment when Canadians need to unite against Donald Trump's America. The province of Alberta is on Treaty lands. Please be advised that your irresponsible statements and actions are in breach of Treaties No. 6, 7 and 8. We demand that you immediately stand down from this conduct. Our Treaties are sacred covenants and are to last forever. Alberta did not exist when our ancestors agreed to share the land with the Crown. The province has no authority to supersede or interfere with our Treaties, even indirectly by passing the buck to a "citizen" referendum. If you or any Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere. Sincerely, Chief Sheldon Sunshine Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Chief Billy-Joe Tuccaro Mikisew Cree First Nation"
May 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Get out there and vote, mes amis! If this is your first time and you're anxious about not knowing what to do, rest assured our lovely Elections Canada workers are here to make things as streamlined for you as possible—even if you haven't registered yet!

#CanadaElection #ivoted #elbowsup 🇨🇦
My hand holding a sticker provided by Elections Canada which says "It's Our Vote / C'est notre vote"
April 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Probably close to a hundred times actually 🦖
April 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Throwback to this lil piece that got nominated for Best of the Net 😊

(TW: Mild gore, mentions of dead animals)

#amwriting #excerpt #shortstory
The cover of Wrongdoing Magazine, depicting a smiling woman in a grey dress against a painted blue/black/yellow backdrop. An excerpt from Wrongdoing Magazine, titled "Shorebones" by Maia Rocklin. Body text: "Salt-white and barnacled. breaching through silty sludge and a hard crust of sand. you could mistake them for oyster shells or sand dollars. A gentle excavation with the toe of your boot reveals the rest: the flat squarish teeth still attached to half a jawbone, or the smooth sickle of a rib. or a spinal column threaded with sinewy black seaweed. This one's from a whitetail deer. That one's a sea otter. And the one after that-it could be a grey wolf. but those are gone now, so maybe it's only a large dog. Like a graveyard puppeteer you poke and prod and manipulate the joints still linked together by cartilage, and you wonder where these bones have come from. what coincidence of currents and tides has brought them to your shore. Those that have been underwater long enough exposed to the elements and the bottom feeders scraping clean the dead flesh. yet not so far gone as to be unrecognizable-these you take home, cradled in your hands. Your husband communicates his displeasure with a downward curve of the mouth, a tightness about the eyes, before returning his attention to the job listings on his monitor. This habit of yours unsettles him, but you can't stop. They pull at you. The exquisite smoothness of them against your skin. The way they grin up at you in the brackish dusk."
April 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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April 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Hey #Writesky! I'm Maia (she/her). I'm the author of several short stories and a yet-published literary ecofiction novel, though I read and write many genres. I'm Finnish-Canadian, a book hoarder, a space nerd, and a possible cryptid? Happy to be here!

#amwriting #intropost
April 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM