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Sumitra Singam, your friendly local Dragon-Scorpion
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
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MOTHER KARMA NOVELLA! https://forms.gle/SN3EFQrGSg7CvUxs6
BSF 2025
Trauma writing workshops
Will probably rearrange your dishwasher.
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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Handsome fella Chester. God bless Strayan Standard Spelling
Picture of a FB marketplace ad for a chest of drawers spelled the Australian Standard way: “Chester draws”
January 27, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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Please may I present this specimen for your delectation?
Picture of my extremely silly dog Paco receiving a pat from me
January 22, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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How absolutely cowardly. And what an insult to Randa. Slanderous really. Almost equating her with a terrorist. Richard Flanagan said this in The age today, and I have to agree:
Picture of Richard Flanagan’s op Ed in The Age newspaper today in response to the ousting of Palestinian-Australian writer Randa Abdel Fattah from Adelaide Writers Week (in response to Bondi)
January 10, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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Would anyone like to order my NiF Mother Karma directly from me? Please fill out this form: forms.gle/SN3EFQrGSg7C...
I can sign it if you like, and you get swag! 15 copies left!
Picture of my NiF Mother Karma - yellow book with a black graphic of a mother with a bindi in a sari holding a baby. Words "Mother Karma a Novella-in-flash Sumitra Singam", postcard and sticker with same graphic lying on top of book
January 2, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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Does anyone have a fainting couch I could borrow for the year?
January 1, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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For eg
Picture of a sequence of yoga poses making up moon salutation
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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Collab for @the-engine-idling.bsky.social’s amazing collage call in progress! With @kathrynreese.bsky.social
Picture of Kathryn Reese and me at our laptops trying to write a collaborative response piece for The Engine Idling’s Issue 8 collage call
December 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Umm so because I only know how to do things the wrong way round, here is my (chaotic) unboxing video which happened a week after the launch of Mother Karma 😁
Link to buy (Phx US only, ebook worldwide) jakethemag.com/books/
If you are outside the US and you want a copy, please DM me!
December 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Oh hello hi! I wrote a NiF. My totally unbiased cousin said this! I’m having a launch on zoom and you should come because I will reveal the truly awful line drawing I did that led to @nmals.bsky.social amazing cover!
Zoom rego link for launch sat Dec 13 3pm EST us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Screenshot of texts from my cousin: Text 1: 3 crying face emojis then text: “it’s such a lovely story” Text 2: “love you lots and so proud of you” Picture of the cover of my novella-in-flash. Golden yellow colour. Text: mother karma a novella-in-flash. Sumitra Singam” line drawing of a mother in a sari with a Hindi, her hair in a bun with flowers, holding a bay
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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FIRST PICTURE OF MY BOOK IN THE WILD!!!! So apt that it’s from my writing mum @amymarques.bsky.social!
Link to buy: jakethemag.com/books/

Zoom launch Sat Dec 13 3pm EST, all welcome! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Picture of my chapbook “Mother Karma a novella-in-flash”. Book is on a blue surface with a cream crochet throw next to it. Book is yellow with a line drawing of an Indian mother cuddling a baby.
December 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Quote with your model of masculinity
Picture of Iris Murdoch looking super hot and androgynous, her cheekbones about to cut you open
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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RELEASE DAY FOR MOTHER KARMA @publishedbyjake.bsky.social!
I'm so excited to bring this story to you. I've seen some photos in the wild, and I would love it if you could share yours as your copies come in!
jakethemag.com/books/

Zoom launch Sat Dec 13 8pm BST/3pm EST: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Image of an email confirming Mother Karma download. Text: JAKE: The Anti-Literary. Thank you for your order! Mother karma Download Inside! Dear Reader, Thank you so much for your purchase of Sumitra SIngam's excellent Novella-in-Flash. JAKE is proud to have helped with getting Sumitra's work out into the world and we all hope you love this book as much as we do. Picture of the front cover of my book. Ochre yellow background, line drawing of an Indian mother with bindi on, hair in a bun with flowers holding a baby. Text Mother Karma a novella-in-flash Sumitra Singam
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Introduce yourself with five (5) animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Photo of my notes app with the following text: Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild: 1) The Adelaide bikie (his name was “Tiny”) 2) The guy completely strung out on bath salts (synthetic amphetamines) who was sure his eyeballs were being eaten 3) Your garden variety narcissist in a suit 4) The Indian Aunty Who Wants To Know Why You Aren’t Married 5)The Indian Aunty Who Wants To Know Why, Now That You Are Married, You Don’t Have Any Kids (Last two by far the most fearsome)
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Hey hi what might you be doing on Saturday Dec 13 3pm EST/8pm BST? Want to launch a NiF with me? Hosted by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and featuring @kathrynreese.bsky.social (and yes also me). It’ll be fun!

Preorder phx (US only) and ebook: jakethemag.com/books/

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Picture of the cover of my novella-in-flash Mother Karma. Ochre yellow background with a line drawing of a woman with a bindi and her hair in a bun holding a baby. The lettering is “Mother Karma a Novella-in-flash” above the picture and below the picture Sumitra Singam (which is me, that is my name. On the cover of an actual BOOK)
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Preorder link for physical and ebook for Mother Karma by Sumitra Singam (who is she?) @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Apparently a few of you are, so without further ado, here is the cover of my forthcoming NiF Mother Karma. It’s a wee piece of my heart, and I hope you’ll all love this family as much as I do 🧡🧡🧡. Cover art @nmals.bsky.social Publisher @publishedbyjake.bsky.social Forthcoming in December
Cover of my Novella-in-Flash “Mother Karma” rich, dark yellow background with a line drawing of an Indian mother with black bindi and hair in a bun with flowers in it, holding a baby. Text “Mother Karma A Novella-in-Flash Sumitra Singam”
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Thank you all so much for your lovely wishes yesterday. This is 49, and quietly happy on a Sunday making a banging playlist for a cool kid 🧡
Picture of a 49-year-old woman a day after her birthday feeling pretty happy about life
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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See you later X
Picture of my x.com account page saying “your account is deactivated”
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Picture of me and Kathryn Reese
October 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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So, about a year ago, @miniskirtmag.bsky.social kindly nominated my CNF for BOTN, along with some other amazing writers. Read it here:
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Miniskirt magazine best of the Net 2024 nominations prose: Renee Bibby "Mood Booster", Taylor de la Pena "Right Reasons", Sumitra Singam "How the Netflix Show 'Heartstopper' Made Me Cry in the Shower aged 46" (why my title got to be so damned complicated?) and Shane Wilson "Wanted: Fourth Wall Repairman" Sepia background. Miniskirt Magazine Best of the Net 2024 Nominations poetry. Rivka Clifton "Abduction narrative", Kathryn Reese "FWB", Emily Sperber "Sluts Like Flowers", Tommy Wyatt "It's 11:11, make a wish", Lily Nobel "the wild blue night ends but then there is the next morning" and Georgia Hertz "In dreams my ex-lovers show up unannounced"
October 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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I have a poem (😳) in this issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social, about an act of wanton thievery! Thanks Danielle McMahon, EIC!

Read on for the story behind the poem involving Heartstopper, a BOTN nom, twitter, something ending and something beginning 🧡🏳️‍🌈

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Screenshot of my poem "Toothbrush" Golden shovel after Maggie Rogers' Alaska. Poem is right aligned. "I wanted to be with your breath and so I took your toothbrush home with me - I told you it was unknowingly, but the curve of it in my palm walked so new and precious into me, that I made off with every bristle of it - an unashamed memento of you"
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Thank you so much @haydensferryreview.bsky.social for this BOTN nom! This story went through many iterations, much like my own coming out story, and though it is fiction, it holds a special place in my heart 🌈. Congrats fellow nominees! read it here: haydensferryreview.com/sumitra-singam
Blue background, text "Hayden's Ferry Review. Fiction. "The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Hand" by Sumitra Singam, "Reputations" by Lauren Barbato" referring to their Best of the Net noms
October 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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This is peak desk (I mean, not if you want to get any writing done, but still)
Picture of a desk strewn with paints and painting paraphernalia. Very messy
October 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Listen how’s your Sunday going? This encapsulates mine:
Screenshot of me repeatedly misspelling “ginger”
September 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Can’t sleep. Made art.
Rejection letter erasure: “thank you unfortunately definitely closer to warped illusion overall. Hope you little”
September 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM