If you've thought about the insidious violence of the coloniser's tongue, of how something you can love so much could gut your heart from the inside out, if you've ever loved a borrowed tongue enough that your mother slipped away, I wrote this for you www.khoreomag.com/fiction/tree...

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Erin is SO fantastic at query letters!! never met anyoen else who can nail them like she does

If someone held a gun to head and asked me to pick a fantasy subgenre to read for the rest of my life, I'll probably go with hist fantasy. I'd like to write historical fantasy, unfortunately, I have no formal training in history or research, so I've settled for writing historically inspired fiction

I have so much to do but here i am, angstposting on social media lmao

I have always loved retellings, especially when I'm writing against the archive. Sigyn and Angrboda are very minor characters in Norse mythology compared to their counterparts, especially the husband they share. Loki has been told and retold a thousand times, but his partners are barely a footnote

Its an artefact of being both Sri Lankan and Tamil yet never feeling quite like the former, but I often think about how racialisation is often imposed upon or denied to the Other. The first thing I tell you in any bio is that I'm Tamil and I wonder if that's because I'm never allowed to forget it

Read @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social's "Item Girls" today and its so good. The sheer amount of texture, depth, and complexity in such a short story is astounding. Please read it granta.com/item-girls/

I've been writing these short essays about reading and writing a lot as I try to work out how I actually think about these two basic and yet incredibly complex acts; here I go again vajra.me/2026/05/15/t...

This hurts in a very familiar, very lovely way.

Have you read? To Kill A Language by Rukman Ragas at Apex Magazine (May be behind paywall, I can't tell with these.) A beautifully written list lament about the way we lose languages. https://www.patreon.com/posts/december-flash-117923445 #ShortStoryRec

Trees is perhaps the closest thing to "To Kill A Language" in terms of the theme. Is it as incisive? No, but its infinitely more heartbreaking imo.

If you've thought about the insidious violence of the coloniser's tongue, of how something you can love so much could gut your heart from the inside out, if you've ever loved a borrowed tongue enough that your mother slipped away, I wrote this for you www.khoreomag.com/fiction/tree...

I also recommend Rukman Ragas's "To Kill a Language," which is a beautiful, lyrical, horrifying short story; it plays with the format of the step-by-step guide to chilling effect. (Mind the content notes.)

December 24th's story was To Kill a Language by Rukman Ragas, published in @apexmag.bsky.social. "Try to catch all the resonant sounds your body makes, just because you are alive. This, too, is language." I loved the formatting of this one. More list stories, please!

If you think too much about the tender and unrelenting violence of faith, what it means to believe and what it means to burn it all down, you should read my story

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

Very excited to say my poem "What Wears The Flesh" will be in the @nightmare-magazine.com ! I'm thrilled that this is my Nightmare debut--writing this one made me cry

As well as the review of The Garden Of Living Flowers by Tunvey Mou from TTL's issue 14, we were excited to see two writers who have been in previous TTL issues. Kehkashan Khalid with Choose Your Own Dimension and @rukman.bsky.social with The Salt And The Cure both in @lightspeedmagazine.com

True to form, I make my TFT post on Thursday. One day I'll have better timing than I do. Anyway, this week we have stories from @rukman.bsky.social and @marisca.bsky.social They both gave me Feelings, but that made them even better.

Wolfmothers by @rukman.bsky.social in @translunartl.bsky.social translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...

And now we've got the first issue of a brand-new magazine, OTHERSIDE, @othersidespec.bsky.social, a quarterly literary magazine that publishes speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Looks amazing: weightlessbooks.com/category/for...

One of my favorite things I wrote is a poem called "my sister, a chimaera". lowkey want to write a story on that

"The Homeowner's Bride" is now free to read in Otherside's first issue! The protagonist is a haunted house (that's down to fuck). 🏚 Both horror and a love story, it's one of the strangest, riskiest, most heartfelt things I've ever written. othersidespec.com/pieces/the-h...

HI YES IT’S HEEERE PLEASE GO READ OTHERSIDE’S DEBUT ISSUE 🪐🗡️ From messy fairytales to reality fuckery to the sapphic urge to romance a haunted house, every story and poem in here is amazing. AND the art is unparalleled and delightful. I’m SO honored to be a part of this teammmm aaaaa 😭

My poem “Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be” is now free to read in the first issue of @othersidespec.bsky.social! It’s an amazing issue full of fantastic stories and poetry, well worth a full read! othersidespec.com/pieces/vultu...

Otherside Issue 1 is free to read online! I'm so excited for everyone to read the stories, they are incredible

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

I understand not wanting to read/engage with the prior research/analysis you're building on in your PhD about as much as I understand people using LLM extruders to "write" novels Nobody is in academia, or publishing, for the money or glory If you hate reading: DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH YOUR LIFE

maybe I will abandon this attempt to write historical fiction and go back to fantasy...

woohoo, this looks INCREDIBLE!

I'm happy to say today is the day for the book cover reveal of DEVOURING FORTUNE! @jeleynai.bsky.social did an incredible job on the illustration, I'm in awe. For fans of Tanith Lee and A.K. Larkwood, about bargains gone wrong. Follow the prelaunch page! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

I've gotten into a lot of different media recently, and it has only reinforced my adoration for words? I'm more interested in reading stories that take full advantage of the medium, from people who look at our only tool (prose) and see it as a strength, not a limitation

I think polarizing art (some people loving it and others really disliking it) is great. To me it means it has a strong flavour. I'm interested in writing that gives me something to chew on. Make me think about why I loved or hated it. Brought to you by a reel I saw on "The Bride" being polarizing.

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

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

No thoughts, just royai

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

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.

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

We are running on day two of everything hurts

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

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

Friends, "To Kill A Language" was voted as the Best Flash Fiction in Apex Choice Awards 2025. I'm officially an award winning writer!

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...

Master class in worldbuilding without worldbuilding

rukman wrote this lovely insightful thread so pls read but i’ve been writing a lot post viable paradise and i think the main reason isn’t because of some sigma hustle grindset (tm) but bc i remembered writing is really fun?? writing only freak fiction is 10/10 would recommend

READ THIS IT'S SO GOOD!

Yes to all of this. Rewild that garden!