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queer & mixed filipino author // in Strange Horizons, Foglifter 9.2, and trampset
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NEW PODCAST ALERT!

"I Wish You Died Laughing" by Lio Abendan @lioabendan.bsky.social from our 1 December 2025 issue is now available in podcast form read by Jenna Hanchey @jennahanchey.bsky.social!

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Podcast: I Wish You Died Laughing
In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presentsLio Abendan's 'I Wish You Died Laughing' read by Jenna Hanchey. Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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March 12, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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"My gaze stays on the body of Kris’s grandmother throughout dinner. My back is to the wall, and I can see her through the gap between Kris’s mother’s and father’s chairs."

#ghostadvent Night 11: I Wish You Died Laughing by @lioabendan.bsky.social

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December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I Wish You Died Laughing 
by Lio Abendan @lioabendan.bsky.social

"A handful of months after he died, we held a funeral for him. His body bucked inside the coffin; I remember the deadened thump of his shins striking hard against the wood."

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FICTION Quote "A handful of months after he died, we held a funeral for him. His body bucked inside the coffin; I remember the deadened thump of his shins striking hard against the wood. There was blissful silence in the car ride home, save for my mother’s weeping." I Wish You Died Laughing  by Lio Abendan Strange Horizons 1 December 2025
December 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I Wish You Died Laughing is out in @strangehorizons.bsky.social! very happy to have a story I love in a magazine I love

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I Wish You Died Laughing
I watch the salmon and the dog dance together, alive and dead and still kicking, kicking, kicking.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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“She cannot turn towards the sun. That is where he is, after all, in his golden chariot, drawing the burning star behind him.“

Enjoyed this haunting retelling of Daphne by @lioabendan.bsky.social in @coffinbell.bsky.social! 🌳🌴💀 🍃 🍽️ 🥘 💍

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Detritivore - COFFIN BELL
Lio Abendan   Apollo’s hand closes on her wrist, making her bones strike together like a chord, and Daphne’s body splits open. Growth awakens in her ribcage. The tree begins as a nub lodged un…
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November 23, 2024 at 6:28 PM