M.R. Robinson
@mruthrobinson.bsky.social
MR, she/her. scholar, author, editor · poster of too many dog photos · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · stories at BCS, Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐🗡️🌈
https://m-r-robinson.com
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Somehow @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social is next week! Time is fake! Here's my schedule!
It's POSSIBLE that 9 on a Sunday morning is an inauspicious time for my first-ever reading... but I am really looking forward to it! (And the whole con!) Please consider coming, I would love to see you there 🙏
It's POSSIBLE that 9 on a Sunday morning is an inauspicious time for my first-ever reading... but I am really looking forward to it! (And the whole con!) Please consider coming, I would love to see you there 🙏
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Vampires! Eldritch whales! Pathetic lesbians! Weird science! Vengeful trees! Sadness! As always, this issue has everything you crave
Issue 3 is OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🧡
If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today!
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If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today!
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September 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Vampires! Eldritch whales! Pathetic lesbians! Weird science! Vengeful trees! Sadness! As always, this issue has everything you crave
Today is a great day. Really, really excited for everyone to read this issue. It has VAMPIRES (well, one vampire) and HEARTBREAK and MIRACLES and WOLVES and SPACECRAFT TEST DUMMIES (well, one spacecraft test dummy) and EXTINCT LOBE-FINNED FISH. What more could you possibly want from a magazine??
Issue 3 is OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🧡
If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today!
Patreon: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpe...
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe...
If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today!
Patreon: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpe...
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe...
September 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Today is a great day. Really, really excited for everyone to read this issue. It has VAMPIRES (well, one vampire) and HEARTBREAK and MIRACLES and WOLVES and SPACECRAFT TEST DUMMIES (well, one spacecraft test dummy) and EXTINCT LOBE-FINNED FISH. What more could you possibly want from a magazine??
Somehow @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social is next week! Time is fake! Here's my schedule!
It's POSSIBLE that 9 on a Sunday morning is an inauspicious time for my first-ever reading... but I am really looking forward to it! (And the whole con!) Please consider coming, I would love to see you there 🙏
It's POSSIBLE that 9 on a Sunday morning is an inauspicious time for my first-ever reading... but I am really looking forward to it! (And the whole con!) Please consider coming, I would love to see you there 🙏
September 14, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Somehow @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social is next week! Time is fake! Here's my schedule!
It's POSSIBLE that 9 on a Sunday morning is an inauspicious time for my first-ever reading... but I am really looking forward to it! (And the whole con!) Please consider coming, I would love to see you there 🙏
It's POSSIBLE that 9 on a Sunday morning is an inauspicious time for my first-ever reading... but I am really looking forward to it! (And the whole con!) Please consider coming, I would love to see you there 🙏
Approximately 36 hours until Issue 3 of @othersidespec.bsky.social!
September 13, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Approximately 36 hours until Issue 3 of @othersidespec.bsky.social!
It’s Wilf’s gotcha day! These two photos were taken six years apart: our first day together and today. He has gone from the most terrified boy in the world to… well, still pretty terrified of most things. But now he knows he’s loved, at least, and that is the best feeling in the entire world 💜
September 12, 2026 at 10:21 PM
It’s Wilf’s gotcha day! These two photos were taken six years apart: our first day together and today. He has gone from the most terrified boy in the world to… well, still pretty terrified of most things. But now he knows he’s loved, at least, and that is the best feeling in the entire world 💜
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Ok y'all -- I have a GIFT MEMBERSHIP for one year of poetry review awesomeness up for grabs! Want a chance to win it? Comment below. I'll choose a winner on Monday at noon Eastern.
✒️✨ Calling all SFF poetry enthusiasts! 🌈💫
Stardust & Verse is a new review site where I read and recommend fantastic free-to-read SFF poems.
Here's a sneak peak of what to look forward to in September...
#StardustAndVerse
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Stardust & Verse is a new review site where I read and recommend fantastic free-to-read SFF poems.
Here's a sneak peak of what to look forward to in September...
#StardustAndVerse
www.patreon.com/cw/StardustA...
Stardust & Verse | SFF Poetry Reviews — Positive reviews of new science fiction and fantasy poetry
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September 12, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Ok y'all -- I have a GIFT MEMBERSHIP for one year of poetry review awesomeness up for grabs! Want a chance to win it? Comment below. I'll choose a winner on Monday at noon Eastern.
I jumped out of my seat and had to take a lap around the house when I first saw FOUR recommendations for @othersidespec.bsky.social stories in this issue of Locus. If you haven’t yet, give these stories a read! They’re “devastating,” “luminescent,” “heartbreaking.”
othersidespec.com/issues/issue...
othersidespec.com/issues/issue...
September 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I jumped out of my seat and had to take a lap around the house when I first saw FOUR recommendations for @othersidespec.bsky.social stories in this issue of Locus. If you haven’t yet, give these stories a read! They’re “devastating,” “luminescent,” “heartbreaking.”
othersidespec.com/issues/issue...
othersidespec.com/issues/issue...
As Sappho once wrote, "Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot / and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing / on the black earth. But I say it is / No errors or warnings detected. / Messages: 0 fatals / 0 errors / 0 warnings / 0 infos / EPUBCheck completed."
September 12, 2026 at 1:47 AM
As Sappho once wrote, "Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot / and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing / on the black earth. But I say it is / No errors or warnings detected. / Messages: 0 fatals / 0 errors / 0 warnings / 0 infos / EPUBCheck completed."
Reading rec: I taught from this collection in class this week and had the best time. I cannot say enough good things about the entire volume. Gorgeous, lovely, razor-sharp; my favorite translations of Li Qingzhao, a poet very much worth knowing if you don’t already. I’ll thread links to a few poems!
September 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Reading rec: I taught from this collection in class this week and had the best time. I cannot say enough good things about the entire volume. Gorgeous, lovely, razor-sharp; my favorite translations of Li Qingzhao, a poet very much worth knowing if you don’t already. I’ll thread links to a few poems!
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Speaking of distant galaxies, extraordinary creatures, and magical worlds... @heartlines-spec.com is open all through September for submissions!! Send us your SFF stories and poems with a long-term relationship at the core! ✨
Guidelines here ➡️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
Guidelines here ➡️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines
Learn all about our submissions guidelines, what we're looking for, and our payment details
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September 9, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Speaking of distant galaxies, extraordinary creatures, and magical worlds... @heartlines-spec.com is open all through September for submissions!! Send us your SFF stories and poems with a long-term relationship at the core! ✨
Guidelines here ➡️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
Guidelines here ➡️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
I write because writing is a kind of magic, because there's nothing I love more than wrestling with language, because sometimes it feels easy and sometimes it feels hard in the best way. I publish because I've always thought "I like my job, but I wish I had a second job that paid 2 cents an hour."
Why do you write?
Why do you publish?
I’ve been working through my answers to these two questions this summer—
& I’m curious to hear others’ ✨
Why do you publish?
I’ve been working through my answers to these two questions this summer—
& I’m curious to hear others’ ✨
September 7, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I write because writing is a kind of magic, because there's nothing I love more than wrestling with language, because sometimes it feels easy and sometimes it feels hard in the best way. I publish because I've always thought "I like my job, but I wish I had a second job that paid 2 cents an hour."
Everything I have done as a writer has finally paid off. Every rejection, every late night, every hour at the computer, it’s all been worth it. I have achieved more than I ever dreamt of achieving: this Bluesky account has officially gotten me “influencer” tickets to my town’s Renaissance Faire.
September 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Everything I have done as a writer has finally paid off. Every rejection, every late night, every hour at the computer, it’s all been worth it. I have achieved more than I ever dreamt of achieving: this Bluesky account has officially gotten me “influencer” tickets to my town’s Renaissance Faire.
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Issue 3 will be here NEXT WEEK! We are so excited and we hope you are too 🧡
So... let's play a game! Reply to this post with a number between 5-106 and we'll give you a spoiler-free line from that page! 👀
P.S. It's a great time to subscibe if you want to be the first to read this issue!
So... let's play a game! Reply to this post with a number between 5-106 and we'll give you a spoiler-free line from that page! 👀
P.S. It's a great time to subscibe if you want to be the first to read this issue!
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September 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Issue 3 will be here NEXT WEEK! We are so excited and we hope you are too 🧡
So... let's play a game! Reply to this post with a number between 5-106 and we'll give you a spoiler-free line from that page! 👀
P.S. It's a great time to subscibe if you want to be the first to read this issue!
So... let's play a game! Reply to this post with a number between 5-106 and we'll give you a spoiler-free line from that page! 👀
P.S. It's a great time to subscibe if you want to be the first to read this issue!
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We're accepting applications to join our first readers team! This is a great way to see what makes a magazine like ours work, read LOTS of different styles of flash fiction and poetry, refine your own tastes, and work with some nifty people:
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September 6, 2026 at 9:15 PM
We're accepting applications to join our first readers team! This is a great way to see what makes a magazine like ours work, read LOTS of different styles of flash fiction and poetry, refine your own tastes, and work with some nifty people:
airtable.com/applzdlHLTpe...
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Another side-effect of a lengthy to-do list, apparently: outlining a new short story for the first time in almost a year. 👀
Nothing makes me want to work on my novel quite like writing out a multi-page to-do list of important, time-sensitive chores and work obligations.
September 6, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Another side-effect of a lengthy to-do list, apparently: outlining a new short story for the first time in almost a year. 👀
Nothing makes me want to work on my novel quite like writing out a multi-page to-do list of important, time-sensitive chores and work obligations.
September 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Nothing makes me want to work on my novel quite like writing out a multi-page to-do list of important, time-sensitive chores and work obligations.
It is 84 degrees outside (at 8 a.m.) and I’M STILL MAKING PUMPKIN SAUCE THIS MORNING AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME. We are so close to being free of the tyranny of summer.
September 4, 2026 at 12:25 PM
It is 84 degrees outside (at 8 a.m.) and I’M STILL MAKING PUMPKIN SAUCE THIS MORNING AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME. We are so close to being free of the tyranny of summer.
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ICYMI: Our 2027 reading schedule is here! Instead of brief quarterly openings, we'll have two longer windows... and you can submit twice in each!
🗡️ December 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027
🪐 June 1, 2027 - July 31, 2027
Same number of subs for authors + a smoother process for our team. We can't wait!
🗡️ December 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027
🪐 June 1, 2027 - July 31, 2027
Same number of subs for authors + a smoother process for our team. We can't wait!
September 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
ICYMI: Our 2027 reading schedule is here! Instead of brief quarterly openings, we'll have two longer windows... and you can submit twice in each!
🗡️ December 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027
🪐 June 1, 2027 - July 31, 2027
Same number of subs for authors + a smoother process for our team. We can't wait!
🗡️ December 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027
🪐 June 1, 2027 - July 31, 2027
Same number of subs for authors + a smoother process for our team. We can't wait!
For the first time in my adult life—most impressively/concerningly, for the first time in seven years of working from home most days—I now own… A DESK. This is the closest thing I have had to “good writing news” in months.
September 2, 2026 at 11:53 PM
For the first time in my adult life—most impressively/concerningly, for the first time in seven years of working from home most days—I now own… A DESK. This is the closest thing I have had to “good writing news” in months.
Very grateful to see such a kind review and a recommendation for this bleak/weird/ugly story: “Lightspeed’s June issue kicks off in grand style with ‘Ghost in the Tank’ … It’s a vividly told story about a world, and a relationship where every good moment feels stolen, broken, and, eventually, lost.”
September 2, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Very grateful to see such a kind review and a recommendation for this bleak/weird/ugly story: “Lightspeed’s June issue kicks off in grand style with ‘Ghost in the Tank’ … It’s a vividly told story about a world, and a relationship where every good moment feels stolen, broken, and, eventually, lost.”
Super excited to be part of this excellent lineup. Make sure you're registered for RSM! It's going to be a blast: www.rainbowspacemagic.org
Hey! We have a starter pack of this year's panelists (who are here): go.bsky.app/PCJJd2t
September 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Super excited to be part of this excellent lineup. Make sure you're registered for RSM! It's going to be a blast: www.rainbowspacemagic.org
We do also have hats available (dog hair not included).
September 1, 2026 at 8:38 PM
We do also have hats available (dog hair not included).
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The new Kickstarter is live! We’ve published original horror, fantasy, and science fiction in since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...
Many haunted rewards available!
Many haunted rewards available!
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2027
Publishing original horror, fantasy, and science fiction since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!
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September 1, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The new Kickstarter is live! We’ve published original horror, fantasy, and science fiction in since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...
Many haunted rewards available!
Many haunted rewards available!
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Don't miss your chance to get in on limited attendance sessions at FoF! Lots of FFers there, as usual: Chill-n-chats with @ewenmaer.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @priyachand.bsky.social and @mruthrobinson.bsky.social (of Otherside) and a workshop on xenofiction with @aardwyrm.bsky.social!
🚨 REMINDER!
The Flights of Foundry lottery for limited attendance for workshops, gaming sessions, and chill-n-chats closes today, August 31!
To access the lottery all you have to do is register to FoF!
flights-of-foundry.o...
The Flights of Foundry lottery for limited attendance for workshops, gaming sessions, and chill-n-chats closes today, August 31!
To access the lottery all you have to do is register to FoF!
flights-of-foundry.o...
August 31, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Don't miss your chance to get in on limited attendance sessions at FoF! Lots of FFers there, as usual: Chill-n-chats with @ewenmaer.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @priyachand.bsky.social and @mruthrobinson.bsky.social (of Otherside) and a workshop on xenofiction with @aardwyrm.bsky.social!