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M. L. Krishnan

@emelkrishnan.bsky.social

Magician. Marketing Director of khōréō. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com

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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...

05.12.2025 21:48 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

It's gorgeous! Congrats, my love! 😍❤️

05.12.2025 22:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

-11 F, with wind chill. I can't do this. 🥲

05.12.2025 15:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hedda is so good. It's so good that it's quickly become one of my favorite films of the year.

04.12.2025 21:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's my weirdest piece yet 🫣

03.12.2025 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation - The Dark Magazine 7 centimeters of my ring finger on my right hand. Sliced with a hot knife through gristle and tendon and bone, as though it were as soft as an ingot of butter. 2490 kiloliters of water had once ripped...

ICYMI, my gothic, dark academia story about a crumbling educational institution, forbidden queer romance, and a snake, went live on The Dark today: www.thedarkmagazine.com/measurements...

03.12.2025 03:38 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

I mean 🫣

03.12.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ahhh, thank you 💓💓💓

03.12.2025 18:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation - The Dark Magazine 7 centimeters of my ring finger on my right hand. Sliced with a hot knife through gristle and tendon and bone, as though it were as soft as an ingot of butter. 2490 kiloliters of water had once ripped...

ICYMI, my gothic, dark academia story about a crumbling educational institution, forbidden queer romance, and a snake, went live on The Dark today: www.thedarkmagazine.com/measurements...

03.12.2025 03:38 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

I love that Blech brought us all together, and that we still get to interact across social media. 🥹💙

And ohhh, a sea krait! Such a nice sync 😮

03.12.2025 02:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This story slides off your skin like a snake looking for the right opening to conquer your mind forever. As always Megha writes stunning, sensual prose and a biting critique of the system.

03.12.2025 00:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation - The Dark Magazine 7 centimeters of my ring finger on my right hand. Sliced with a hot knife through gristle and tendon and bone, as though it were as soft as an ingot of butter. 2490 kiloliters of water had once ripped...

"Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation," an absolutely amazing story about having an affair with your professor who might be a Naga, is finally available for free online.

fucking love this story. everyone should read it. www.thedarkmagazine.com/measurements...

02.12.2025 21:13 — 👍 14    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Please write all my story descriptions from now on, because it's perfect 💗💗💗💗💗💗

02.12.2025 23:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Amyyy, this one is WILD wild, even for me 🫣

02.12.2025 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Basically, this is a non-Anglocentric Dark Academia story that moved to South India, took hallucinogens, and had lots of strange sex. You’re welcome.

02.12.2025 19:07 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation - The Dark Magazine 7 centimeters of my ring finger on my right hand. Sliced with a hot knife through gristle and tendon and bone, as though it were as soft as an ingot of butter. 2490 kiloliters of water had once ripped...

It’s new (old) story day! "Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation” is now free to read on The Dark! Originally published in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Crawling Moon anthology, this is an obsessive story about parallel loves, a snake, crumbling colleges, and large bodies of water.

02.12.2025 19:07 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Fantasy Magazine - issue 99 | Psychopomp Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 features work by: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan

Want to know when the issue 99 stories and poems and interviews are dropping?

Here they are!! Starting this Fantasy Friday ✨✨✨

psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

01.12.2025 20:23 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thalaivar thaan enna kaapatuvaar 😭😂

02.12.2025 02:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a man with a mustache is making a funny face while standing in the rain . Alt: Rajini in the rain.
02.12.2025 02:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🫠

01.12.2025 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Got asked this very question last week 🫠

Maybe I'm just touchy, but it feels like a veiled gotcha 🙃

01.12.2025 20:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

wat 😭

01.12.2025 20:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Aiyo, maattinaen. 🫣

01.12.2025 20:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My favorite corollary to that: "I'm also a (secret) writer, can you read my manuscript"

01.12.2025 20:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The "sitting and posting on socials all day" bit cracks me up, because I'm the stark opposite—I'm quite elusive on socials. I disappear for long periods of time, only to resurface and post semi-regularly for two-ish weeks, only to disappear again.

01.12.2025 20:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As a writer: "oh, that's a neat hobby! What other hobbies do you have?"

As a communications professional: "oh, so you just sit and post on socials all day?"

01.12.2025 20:49 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

30.11.2025 21:17 — 👍 4275    🔁 2062    💬 42    📌 36

Whoa! 😲

30.11.2025 02:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah this crap, plus the nonsense with Del Monte Green Beans cans filled with corn or beets instead (!) and Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce cans filled with water, yes water (!!!), we’re back in Upton Sinclair territory folks.

29.11.2025 21:52 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I hope everyone's ready for a strange fish story, because I sure am

25.11.2025 21:38 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

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