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@prettyminotaur

Animals/videogames/TV/film/history/fiction, and any odd nook where they collide. Debut fiction HORSE SHOW 🐴 out NOW from Santa Fe Writers Project! she/her, phd

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honestly prez camacho would be an improvement at this point

12.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No one: ...

Absolutely no one: ...

My brain: LONDON NEW YORK PARIS MUNICH EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'BOUT MMMMM POP MUSIC!!!! TALK ABOUT! POP MUSIC!

12.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I ran out of unbuilt legos so I built another IKEA KALLAX and it's kind of the same thing?

12.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you know you wanna find out how the brady bunch is related to edgar poe. you do. you just don't know that about yourself yet.

11.03.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just learned that the fiction writer Marly Swick has passed away. She was a dear friend and generous mentor, and the world is a far darker place without her.

11.03.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from Kay F. Atkinson's author page on amazon, featuring the cover for Unlimited Combat Dolls, then, separately, the covers of the Fleet and Fabricant trilogy.

Screenshot from Kay F. Atkinson's author page on amazon, featuring the cover for Unlimited Combat Dolls, then, separately, the covers of the Fleet and Fabricant trilogy.

happy women's day!

why not celebrate with Girl Violence?
I write a lot of Girl Violence :3
it could be said, as a matter of fact, that Girl Violence is the primary focus of my work

tinylesbianrobot.itch.io
www.amazon.com/stores/Kay-F...

08.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 154 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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AWP Photo Dump, in Achronological Order III:

Amidst a vicious battle for the next books of @danhoyt.bsky.social & @prettyminotaur.bsky.social, Andrew Gifford & Miette Gillette catch me sneaking a photo of the @mazebooks.bsky.social buttons on Miette’s jacket and my own doomed fate is sealed…

08.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What an interesting writer @prettyminotaur.bsky.social is - I never know quite where her facts end and her fiction begins - but I don't care - this playful provocative piece that ranges from Aristotle to the Brady Bunch is a delight

lastsyllablelit.com/canis-ex-mac...

04.03.2026 11:47 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

aw, thank you so much! <3

04.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.

The Italian word for β€œlittle ball” is β€˜ballotta.’

Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a β€˜ballot.’

03.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 1003 πŸ” 154 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 13
Issue VI | Last Syllable Literary Journal

Read my newest story, CANIS EX MACHINA, over at @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social !

lastsyllablelit.com/issue-vi

03.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

lego

28.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

With all apologies to Woolf and all the casualties of both world wars, β€œI feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times”

28.02.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am writing about eels and discovering it is rather easy to reach linguistic satiation with the word "eel."

eel. eel. eel.

28.02.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I do not have a taco, but what if I did.

27.02.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 852 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 133 πŸ“Œ 15

Sure, but it's episodic, and excerpts well.

28.02.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don Quixote

27.02.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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26.02.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

right? elordi? hunk. chalamet? twink.

21.02.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

also @tacobellquarterly.org just followed me back and it finally feels like blue sky matters now

21.02.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yesterday i got steroid injections in my spine which was scary and also halfway through prep I realized my (south asian) doctor had to peep the ill-advised tramp stamp i got in my 20s and it's in SANSKRIT and holy cultural appropriation batman but he naturally said nothing as the professional he is

21.02.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

...you might like mine

20.02.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

now i can gauge my husband's interest in Micky Dolenz without obsessing over his tone!!!!!

19.02.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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this is the dumbest thing i've seen in a long time and i live in America

19.02.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

18.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 14759 πŸ” 2448 πŸ’¬ 211 πŸ“Œ 192

I'll also be at @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social's booth, #547, signing copies of HORSE SHOW from 2-3 PM on Thursday, and celebrating the release of my new short story, "Canis Ex Machina," which appears in Last Syllable's March issue! Come say hi!

18.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Make sure to stop by booths #527 & #529 during #AWP26 to meet @prettyminotaur.bsky.social and get a signed copy of her #shortstory collection, HORSE SHOW!

@awpwriter.org

17.02.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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We'll have not one, but TWO BOOTHS at #AWP26 this year! Find us at Booths #527 and #529 from March 4-7th!

In the meantime, here's some of our past AWP shenanigans!
@awpwriter.org

14.02.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Who just landed an off-site reading at AWP?
This guy!
More details to come...!

17.02.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

fidelity in adaptation is an impossibility due to the change in medium. go watch the hot people torture each other on the moors

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