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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன்

@rukman.bsky.social

temporary obsessions, writer, stories in Apex, Lightspeed, khōréō, The Baltimore Review etc, editor at Otherside Spec, Clarion West '25, agent: Keir Alekseii @ ALA rukmanragas.com

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Amazing recs and the best thing to wake up to. What wonderful company to be in, especially with my long time friend and CP @thelialao.bsky.social

03.03.2026 03:18 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Omg thank you Chey! So glad it resonated

03.03.2026 03:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No thoughts, just royai

25.02.2026 07:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! I hope to someday write it, I have the characters, the vague bits of story, but one must go write 🥲

24.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Autocorrect turned Hikaru into hilarious 😭. Hikaru my love you are indeed hilarious

24.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have this speculative thriller that's like Summer That Hilarious Died meets The Fifth Season and I really don't feel ready to write it lmao

24.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Thank you!!

23.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!!

23.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Katherine!

23.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I read this last year and I immediately sent it every one of my gayng and demanded they read it immediately. Its gay people and cannibalism.

I demand you read this one immediately.

23.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you GM!

23.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Nishka!

23.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, dearest friend

23.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much!!

23.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Abigail, thank you so much!

23.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Maria!

23.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Danai!!

23.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yess, I was screaming when I got the email haha

23.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much Lia!

23.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is my fave rukman piece to date - visceral, brutal and boundary pushing, everyone pls give it a read

22.02.2026 04:05 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

We are running on day two of everything hurts

23.02.2026 08:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As they say
"To kill a language, you must rip it from living throats"

21.02.2026 14:41 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I adored writing this one!! Read and see what it takes to kill a language

23.04.2025 09:52 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 1

Thank you again to @apexmag.bsky.social and @retreasure.bsky.social for giving To Kill A Language a home. And thank you, my dear readers, for your enthusiasm for my weird linguicide story. It's heartening.

21.02.2026 12:15 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Friends, "To Kill A Language" was voted as the Best Flash Fiction in Apex Choice Awards 2025. I'm officially an award winning writer!

21.02.2026 12:11 — 👍 47    🔁 12    💬 14    📌 1
Preview
Five Writers on Putting the “A” in A-Spec Literature In anticipation of the Being Aro anthology (May 26, 2026), we sat down to chat with 5 of the contributing writers to talk all things AroAce Rep in literature.

Love seeing this awesome roundtable with Being Aro contributors for #aromanticawarenessweek! @rukman.bsky.social @kalynjosephson.bsky.social @annzhao.bsky.social @kashinggiwa.bsky.social

bookstr.com/article/five...

20.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 22    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

Master class in worldbuilding without worldbuilding

20.02.2026 12:33 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for such high praise, Joe! I'm so glad the story resonated

20.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for reading!

20.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Freak fiction foreverr

20.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0