Angela Liu

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.

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 64, “Barbershops of the Floating City" by Grace P. Fong: A woman stands facing the viewer, her qipao is a light blue color with flower designs in a darker shade of blue. Her long, black hair trails elegantly behind her while she holds a pair of scissors close to her chest. Behind there is a shadow that looks in the opposite direction, as if she is looking down at the city depicted below. At the top is a sun that crowns the two figures and bathes the entire picture in light. The quote reads: "You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. The Institute hired you because you’re the daughter of the Floating City’s Founder’s fourth mistress, the one who always cooks up trouble when she gets too hungry. You don’t like the work, but you like all the different scissors."

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...

“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto

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!

ARC of Rabbit Test and Other Stories held up outdoors against a sunny sky and bright green leaves

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

I always put on the Magus theme when I have to write an dramatic scene 🦇

Do itttttt, no better excuse to take a trip 😂

I have replayed it so many times. Always so much fun. Really hoping for an HD-2D remake!

YESSSSS

What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom - Uncanny Magazine After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop your garbage into every Thursday night and never...

“What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom“ is the first I’ve read by @angelaliu.bsky.social and it’s great.

An emotional tale of a couple growing apart, and the lingering effects of our parents into adulthood. And a strange hole.

Read here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...

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Thanks so much for reading!

my 7-year-old’s teacher: so, i hear you write?

me: *jump into a bush*

Went to my 7-year-old’s class today for their poetry publishing party (the kids had just finished learning about rhyming + onomatopoeia) and my favorite line was from a poem called The Sun: “the sand is hot and my feet go ahhh!”

for real, nothing makes me happier than translation requests 😭

there are no taxis for the dead - Uncanny Magazine The horse brings you home wading through summer rain, reminds you             not to stare too long at the halo of light the flicker of streetlamps, metal heads bowed over fogged streets your bad knee...

You can read the original here:

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/ther...

Revista Galaxia 42 #68-69 / ianuarie-februarie 2026 - Galaxia 42 Revista Galaxia 42 #68-69 / ianuarie-februarie 2026

It’s my first time having a poem translated!

My Hugo-nominated poem, “there are no taxis for the dead” (from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social) is now available in Romanian in the new issue of Galaxia 42! Many thanks to Eliza Claudia Filimon for translating!

galaxia42.ro/revista-gala...

"Don't be so careful in time of death" is the motto I live by right now.

Whoa whoa, hope it’s not getting bigger and there’re no voices coming from it 💀🕯️

“Distance, like love, is a feeling you cannot measure until the end.”

This was an especially immersive read today as I read in a room that currently has a hole in the ceiling. Not sure I can look at it the same. 👀

Beautiful work Angela!!

Thanks for reading and the kind comments! (And nothing brings me more joy than knowing my story has made someone more concerned about the holes in their house 😂)

Thanks Charles! You too! 💙