Angela Liu

Not enough has been said about how bad season 3 of Alice in Borderland is 💀

Jennifer Jeanne McArdle Award Eligibility 2025 Half-Orc Songs Fantasy/9000w in Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 6 When to Choose the Snake God Fantasy/5000w in Luna Station Quarterly Issue 61 Sea Junk Shaped like the English Alphabet Weird horror/4500w in Fraidy Cat Quarterly Issue 5 Of Bats and Apes historical horror/5600w in In the Eyes of the Hungry Most Humans Listen when a Duck Talks to Them contemporary fantasy, humor/5000w in Madam Don’t Forget Your Sword How a Satyr becomes Real weird fantasy/920w in This Exquisite Topology Westward I Reach historical weird/6000w in Baubles from Bones Issue 6 The Money Left in My Account weird/1000w in Slugger Issue 1

I've never bothered doing one of these because it felt kinda silly, but I'm trying new things.

2025 Awards Eligibility Post Cindy Phan “All Her Darling Little Ones” - Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology. “Ron, Howard” - Baffling Magazine, Issue 19.4. “What to do When a Demon is Talking Shit at You” - Inner Worlds, Issue 8. more stories and links at cindyphanauthor.com

Graphic design skills I do not possess, as evidenced by this free template I selected because the other free templates kept crashing...

Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨

We Didn't Used to Be Like This — Weird Horror Magazine

All the stories in Weird Horror #11 are great, but I've been thinking about “We Didn’t Used to Be Like This” by @jackklausner.bsky.social for days. Deeply unsettling look into one person's descent into madness that had me questioning what was true by the end. A phenomenal story.

I really did take the weekend off on this, didn't I? Lol catching up. . .

For what remains of Puerto Rican Heritage Month, I wanted to share work by other Puerto Rican authors

Check out @benfrancisco.bsky.social's playful take on that most Puerto Rican of customs, "jumping the puddle" 1/2

I made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Take a look at what's new and keep sending your own links my way!

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That's awesome! Congrats!! 🎊

Angela Liu writer, strategist, villain tiger mom

Thanks for putting this together every year, A.C.! Always a great way to catch up with what everyone's been up to over the past year.

Here's mine 🙏
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It's that time of the year 😜

Find links to all short fiction on my site: akislinardos.com/short-fiction/

Got to hear Fonda read a snippet of this at Worldcon, and it was so, so good.

Ohh, I didn’t even notice that! Gotta tell the kiddo 👀

Rice with cheese slices in the shape of Ultraman. Curry with cheese stars with fried pork cutlet and deep fried prawn

Ultraman curry.

This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue.

Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.

*at the zoo*

7-year-old: look mama, it's an Ant Terminator

me: ...you mean an anteater?

Thank you so much to @mynachang.bsky.social for giving me the chance to yap about Vile Lady Villains — and also to share the love about some of my favorite SFF publications

@hexliterary.bsky.social
@fusionfragment.bsky.social
@havenspec.bsky.social
@khoreo.bsky.social

I was lucky enough to read an early copy of this lush collection of poems that mixes ancient creatures + sprawling landscapes with everyday modern life, queer love, and generational trauma.

I never thought I’d be so moved by a poem about a toad looking up its own evolution history on wikipedia.

This cover is SO GOOD. Gorgeous art for a gorgeous collection 🖤

lol, i love that 🦨

*at the zoo*

7-year-old: look mama, it's an Ant Terminator

me: ...you mean an anteater?

FOUR FRIENDS CATCH UP OVER PASTA I'm doing better / they need to run more tests / we're moving in together / I'm never dating again / how is your dad? / how is your heart? / how are you dealing with the state of the world? / I love your new hair color / I'm on new meds / remember how young we used to be? / let's build a commune / we can have sheep | and goats? / yes, and dancing / I missed you / it's been too long / this is delicious - the sauce, the salad / this night / all of it. - Amy Kay

this poem. this feeling.

Crawling out of the Laptop: On Reader-to-Character Interactions and Mixed Reality Storytelling - Uncanny Magazine Content Note: Child suicide   On a hot summer night, Natsumi asks you to rob a 7-11 with her. You’re just a few blocks from Ebaramachi Station, the sound of the approaching local train not as loud as ...

This is also the first year I had a nonfiction essay published!

“Crawling Out Of The Laptop” (in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social) is about mixed reality storytelling, the history of character fandom, and the implications of AI-powered services that utilize popular characters to “interact“ with users

Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: 9798217047574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. It is 1968 Oakland, and Nat...

Again for the morning crowd: Cover and pre-order link for Muñeca, out next June!

A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...

.@brandoncase101.bsky.social returns to our magazine with "Love, Falling From the Stars," a poem about Cannonball_Jellyfish_9c87.int,
a sea-cleaning robot who affectionately refers to himself as Ball, and his friend Cassiopeia the satellite.
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Head of the Household - F(r)iction Kristina Ten presents the story of a woman preparing for her high-stakes marriage to an evil immortal lord.

New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction.

Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸

Congrats on all the acceptances and publications! Glad to hear your mom's stable now too. Sending positive thoughts 💛

Thanks Audrey!! 🖤

Diagnosis I suffer from unrequited self love. I love myself, but I don't love myself back. -Andrea Gibson

This poem by Andrea Gibson perfectly encapsulates the feeling I get when people say "hey, why don't you have more confidence?"

I feel like book titles (esp. for manga) have gotten so long in Japan over the past few years though 💀

Thank you! I always write the title first before starting the actual story 😅

there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions