Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

¡¡ESO!! ¡¡¡*THIS* is America!!! (And if you're watching this with the sound off, PUT THE SOUND ON!!!)

Where the stories come from and why we need translations, more than ever. lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...

While watching Bocelli sing for the Olympics opening ceremony, we spotted a bassoon. And my husband? MY HUSBAND? MY HUSBAND?! HE SAYS... "AN OBOE!!!" .... Fam, this man has been married to a bassoon player FOR OVER A DECADE. ಠ_ಠ ME: "THE FUCK?!?! ¿¡¿THE FUCK YOU JUST SAY?!?" ME:

little heavy, cookie

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

ART sounded serious, and resigned.

Happy Publication Day! My translation of "Damnatio Memoriae" by Chilean author I. A. Galdames is out today in Neon Dystopia! This dark science fiction story explores memory and loss on Día de los Muertos in future under constant surveillance. www.neondystopia.com?p=100043460 #SFinTranslation

Tell me five classes you took in college: * Soviet and American Science Fiction during the Cold War * Multicultural Characteristics of Early Modern Spanish Literature * History of Family * Maryland in the Age of Sail * Music of the Silk Road

TFW you're writing a new To-Do List, can't find your old To-Do List, come here to complain about this, and then spot your old To-Do List while you're typing this. Thank you for your moral support, dear reader! I wouldn't have found my old To-Do List without you!

New collaboration between The Submission Grinder and @dreamfoundry.bsky.social : The Dream Foundry Market Report, a monthly report of speculative fiction/poetry publication updates dreamfoundry.org/2026/01/26/j...

Reminder to add your speculative poetry from 2025 to this list so I can read it! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Don't know what else to do today, so I inked this angry duck

CORVID UPDATE: The crows were, as always, very excited for their peanuts this morning! As was the horde of blue jays (which are corvids, too, and they have enchanting excited-to-eat songs)! After everyone came by for their first peanuts, a Hello Crow hung around and said "H'llo! H'llo!"

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem

Happy Publication Day!!! My short story "Shorthand" is out in 'After the Storm Magazine'!!!! If you like librarian drama and books that make pearls (like oysters!), then this story is for you!!! afterthestormmagazine.com/2026/01/18/s... #librarians #libraries #books #scifi #fantasy #reading

There is not enough time in the day for all the languages I want to learn.

Finished 'Death of the Author' by Nnedi Okorafor today! Loved the varied narrative structure (interviews, narrative, book-within-a-book), the posthumanist robots, and the struggling to thrive despite physical limitations and family-imposed guilt. This novel fiercely defies & challenges expectations.

Finally got around to writing my annual retrospective for 2025: molo-writes.com/2026/01/02/w...

My dog loves being the coziest dog of all the dogs.

Also from the archives, a burst of color for your feed: yellow crocuses #bloomscrolling

Here's a cat picture for a break in your timeline. I'll probably add a couple more during the day.

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

The contract is signed for #4 of my 4 recent translation sales!!! My translation of "Above the Sand, Under the Skin" by @ramirosanchiz.bsky.social will be appearing in @translunartl.bsky.social in 2026!!! #SFinTranslation

In 2025, I had 3 translations of sci-fi stories by @susanacalvo.bsky.social, @d4m4n4r.bsky.social, and @antonioahuelgas.bsky.social + 1 short story of my own + 1 nonfiction essay published! Links here --> linktr.ee/molowrites_t... #SFinTranslation

Spent some time today rearranging my bookshelves while listening to music. Extremely soothing hobby, 10/10 recommend.

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work. (2/?)

CORVID UPDATE: I walked the dog past my murder of crows' tree yesterday. I said "HELLO! HELLO! HELLO!" as we went under them. They started cawing at me, then took off, flying... TO MY HOUSE! They waited for my return. One crow said, "HULLO!" So, of course, I gave them their tasty peanuts.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Poetrye ys the technologye of hope

Announcing #3 of my 4 recent translation sales! Isis Aquino's sci-fi story "The Abyss in the Depths of Her Eyes" will be published in @foofarawpress.bsky.social in 2026!!! #SFinTranslation

Publishing friends, any advice on a path to reissuing this collection of short stories (plus about another book’s worth of new stories) that I self published three years ago? www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

Announcing 2 of my 4 recent speculative translation sales, both coming out in 2026: @santiagoeximeno.bsky.social's microfiction "Letters From a Dead Girl" in 'Dreams and Nightmares' magazine! & Armando Boix's novelette "The Sea's Decree" in Adventures BookZine! #SFinTranslation

The stars have somehow aligned, and we're up to FOUR (4) total translation acceptances within the past month! These stories are all slated to come out next year: two of them are science fiction, and two are horror/dark fiction. #SFinTranslation

Contracts are still pending, but I've had *TWO* new translation acceptances in the past week or so!!!! I'm so excited, I love these stories and I can't wait for you to read them, too! #SFinTranslation

At long last, I've finally set up a ko-fi (AKA, an online store)!!! You can use it to: * help me continue providing pro bono translations! * colaborar conmigo en una traducción! * hire me as a developmental editor! * buy my digital zines and handouts! ko-fi.com/molowrites

really not loving the latest installment of Monica's Medical Mysteries

To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.

may we all be these dogs

Friends in the art, poetry, and author community, come support others in your field by buying the Best of Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, vol viii www.amazon.com/Best-Penumbr... A lot of hard work has been put into print by Jeff at Penumbric and all the amazing creatives who have contributed

Been a bit overwhelmed lately, but in good news, I have a new story out! "Shining Star" follows Belén, an aristocrat's daughter on a worldship, as she learns about the horrors from the Deep Belowdecks that saved her life. Read "Shining Star" here: www.neondystopia.com?p=100043367 #scifi #horror

Alas, somebodye took the German holidaye fruit breade. It was stollen!