Angela Liu

Yesss, or just going up to a librarian, telling them your research topic and getting a perfect stack of books you never even knew existed.

Man, I love how you can request almost any book from the library and they will scour the entire city to bring it to you for free. The closest thing to Santa Claus for adults.

Congratulations to Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social!

Angela Liu's poem "The Mourning Robot" is on the Rhysling longlist!

You can read it here!

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Thanks so much for reading! 🎎💕

Yay~ congrats Cindy!! 🎊

Thank you so much for reading!

The Office Siren by Katharine Tyndall The office siren: fills a plastic cup from the water cooler, sprinkles in salt from a shaker on her desk. With one webbed pinky she stirs in the granules. It still doesn't taste like the sea. ...

"The office siren: fills a plastic cup from the water cooler, sprinkles in salt from a shaker on her desk."

Absolutely STOKED to share a new experimental @katharinetyndall.bsky.social story! This one culminates so perfectly, absolutely fitting for the week of International Women's Day. Go go go 🧜‍♀️😈

This one was so good. Had my mouth open for those last two sections 😱

Amazing! Congrats Eugenia!! 🎉

The Barbie was my height and wearing a wedding dress 😂

I asked my kiddo what kinds of toys his classmates like and he mentioned the skibidi toilet and man, I dunno if that looks any less cursed 💀

This gave me Ursula K Le Guin vibes. Such a gorgeous glimpse into another world 🖤

My friend donated a box of dolls from her childhood and freaked out when she thought she saw one in the passenger seat of an Amazon delivery truck the next day (godspeed friend 🤡)

Had to Google Pamela and was gonna put it here for the jumpscare (but didn’t want to put a curse on us all 💀)

Someone gave me a my-size Barbie as a kid, and I really liked it until my brother said he saw it standing over my bed at night with a knife 💀

Always my pleasure 😂 (I was terrified by that doll story from Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark…I think it was called Harold?)

Y'all want to read about creepy dolls right before bed? I know you do.

Thanks so much John! 🎎

Thanks Cindy! Hope no dolls paid you any visits in the night 😂

I don’t think I could write a longer doll story without scaring myself 😂

Wheee~ hope you like it! 🎎

The Doll Problem - Nightmare Magazine No one knows where the doll came from. With its blue glass eyes and ribboned hair, it looks like the ones you see at department stores and wonder who the hell buys them. “It’s gonna kill us in our sle...

Excited to have a new flash story out today in @nightmare-magazine.com!

“The Doll Problem” is inspired by a strange doll that appeared on a friend’s couch one summer and the burden of always overthinking things.

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

Wow, this made my day. Thanks so much for reading! 🙏🏻

Bittersweet Endings (for All Who Live to See Such Times) - Uncanny Magazine This is a story about the theatrical release of The Fellowship of the Ring, about finding hope in your despair and despair in your hope, and about the year 2001. I first read The Lord of the Rings at ...

Read this essay by @samtasticbooks.com in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social.

I felt so hopeful by the end, which isn’t an easy feat these days.

Reading for the Hugo Awards? Try the short story "Barbershops of the Floating City" by Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social!

It placed 1st on the Uncanny Poll!

You can read it here!

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Thanks so much! 🥹🖤

Vanessa is awesome and LOVE this poem (honestly, everything by Zaynab is fantastic!)

This week’s magazine review features some cli-fi, a couple ghost stories, a living ship, a wolf(e)ish novella, a high-concept work in translation, and two first contacts. Check it out! www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/10/t...

Happy Mario day!

The Church at the Edge of Time the pastor is a woman / with small birds living in the hollows of her eyes.

Since this one’s got a lot of unexpected love the past month, here’s the poem I had the most fun writing last year:

“The Church At The Edge of Time” in @strangehorizons.bsky.social

March 20th! Get your weirdest flash stories ready!

It is March already. 😱 It is unseasonably warm out. 😱 My first short story collection comes out April 21. 😱😱

Rabbit Test and Other Stories contains all my favorite experiments in scifi and fantasy. I'm very proud of it. :)

Preorder links at samtasticbooks.com/collections