Maria Haskins
@mariahaskins.com
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Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Editor at Ruadán Books. Part of Many Worlds. She/her. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, Deadlands & more. 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
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I write speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror & points in-between), and I also write reviews & essays.

My short fiction is available in two short story collections:

🛤️ SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN: mariahaskins.com/six-dreams-a...

🐺 WOLVES & GIRLS: mariahaskins.com/wolves-and-g...
Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories
Available now! Buy Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories: Paperback & ebook from JournalStone Paperback & ebook from Amazon  Paperback & ebook from Indiebound / B&N…
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😅 a delicious excretion!
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So many big ladies!
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My latest at @strangehorizons.bsky.social is a deep-dive in the wonderful archives.
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We're gearing up for the 1-year anniversary of Remember You Will Die and the audiobook is 70% off until 11/1! Fill your ears with death, art, and weirdness for a temporarily reduced price here: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
The cover for the book Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins with the text "one year anniversary audiobook sale, 70% off until 11/1"
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This book is just a gosh-darn weird and dark delight. (Also, you will never look at bees and honey the same way ever again.)
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free shipping on bookshop! the perfect time to get a book! and do I have one for you! weird medieval guys, gender™️, cannibalism, living beehives, illustrations, and big monster ladies
The West Passage
Check out The West Passage - <p><b>THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES.</b><br><br>Five starred reviews from <i>Kirkus</i>, <i>Booklist</i>, <i>BookPage</i>, <i>Library Journal</i>, and...
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As non-fiction editor I am obviously biased, but we've published some outstanding essays at Ruadán this year. You can read them all here: ruadanbooks.com/category/tho...
Thoughts from the Writer’s Desk - Ruadán Books
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The latest guest essay at Ruadán's Thoughts From the Writer's Desk is by Tricia Patras, and it's all about finding inspiration and (re)igniting your creative spark.

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A view of Florence in beautiful early/late sunlight, the sky shifting to blue, the light to gold. Tricia Patras.
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This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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starting to think bog bodies had the right idea all along. why am I checking emails in a tiny cubicle when I could just walk outside and let the earth envelop me in her peaty embrace
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“We asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response.”

Perfect! The 🧑🏽‍🍳’s 💋
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Cruz apparently took particular issue with Wikipedia's reliable sources/perennial sources list, which lists Fox News as a "generally unreliable" source for politics and science.
Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias
Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.
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"Yaghi was born in Jordan to a family of Palestinian refugees. He moved to the U.S. at the age of 15 and has since become an American citizen.

“I was in love with chemistry from the very beginning,” Yaghi said, according to Berkeley. “I really loved the lab. I disliked class, but I loved the lab.”
Three scientists win chemistry Nobel for 'Hermione's handbag' discovery
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi's work was likened to Hermione's handbag in "Harry Potter."
www.nbcnews.com
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Lokakuun luonnokset No: 7
Äitienpäiväruusu tiputti viimeiset kukat
Tussipiirros, ruusu ruukussa ilman kukkia
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In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀
Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom.
Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books. Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.
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Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, July 2025
Color photograph looking across a residential street at night at the front of a house with bright porch lights bracketing a dark brown door, the rest of the face of the house darkened into silhouette around the door, roofline blending with darkened silhouettes of trees around the house under a dimly glowing night sky
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🔥 Moths to the Flame 🔥
#myart #Halloween #halloweenart #art
A portrait of a woman with flame hair and orange eyes. She is surrounded by moths lured to the flame of her hair and eyes
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The artist for the illustrations is Johan Jarnestad. I love the inspired whimsy!
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Nobel Prize Week! Today, it's Chemistry. The prize has been awarded to "Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks".
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
Omar M. Yaghi, drawing. Richard Robson, drawing. Susumu Kitagawa, drawing.
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"Her house arrest sentence shows that in Canada blocking roads is only a crime if you have the wrong politics"

THE CONVOY TOOK OVER DOWNTOWN FOR THREE WEEKS.

THEY TOOK THE WHEELS OFF THEIR TRUCKS TO MAKE THEM HARDER TO MOVE.

PRO-PALESTINE PEOPLE GO HOME AT THE END OF THE DAY.

IT'S DIFFERENT.
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Top story on the National Post.
FFS

Just chasing grievance clicks (and $$$) with absolutely no conscience at all.
Amy Hamm: Canada needs Tamara Lich
Her house arrest sentence shows that in Canada blocking roads is only a crime if you have the wrong politics
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Important to see with Mo's own eyes what is going on.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov
@maddow.msnbc.com
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#abolishice #iceprotests
moryan.bsky.social
🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard
Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.
www.vanityfair.com
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