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Steven Cudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 13 April 2025 is:

#underground

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

#Writing#SmallPoem#Poetry
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#PennedPossibilities #PennedPossibilities side prompt: Elevator quick pitch of your WIP, only the worst pitch ever.

A daemon and a day angel fly to the moon. The lunatics there believe they're really a demon and an angel. They're as right as they are wrong.

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#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.12 — Shameless self-promotion day. Show us what you're proud of. Let's boost away.

Mars Need Women is a hopeful yet deeply dystopian feminist SF web-novel that leans heavily into Women's right's issues thanks to a set of writing prompts on the subject. It is a woman-centric adventure story of overcoming adversity while being female, with all the warts and frustrations, not as a man in disguise.

Our wannabe engineer heroine May Ri escapes a disheartening life, faced with becoming little more than a housewife because she lacks "blessings," to help colonize Mars—if you can call being shanghaied escaping and being contracted to have children a benefit. (She does get to choose the gorgeous supportive guy, though, so that's a positive.) As she learns to make martian machines, she keeps putting herself at the center of a global martian dust storm with her children as power shifts from being male-dominated. As the daughters of the Martian immigrants increasingly control Mars' future (how is spoilers), May Ri together with her five daughters shape a world (Mars) the way unfettered women might imagine it.

When the men of Earth take affront—of course they do—they learn that women don't fight like men, especially when their children's lives are threatened, and their wellbeing is at stake. #RSMarsNeededWomen

It remains free-to-read on Mastodon for a few more days:

eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894.

If you start reading it now, a comment or a private mention will tell me not to delete the posts until the end of next week. I consider it a beta read. I'm already revising an augmenting the original story, tying up loose ends, and might add more chapters along the path to publishing it as a book. Meanwhile, I'm going to start boosting chapters for a last hurrah.

See #alttext for book cover description.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

#gender #fiction #writer #author #photographer #chef #cooking
#sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory

The cover art for Mars Needed Women. The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, sand, and a greenish sky. There is a triskelion image of Mars, which is a tattoo in the story. Credit NASA and ESA for the photos.
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Niamh Bernadette (They/Them)
Don't Look Now / Non Guardare Ora for #spookysaturday episode 4

It is completely normal. It happens to everyone, all over the world. It's a well documented phenomenon. You know this, but it's happening more often now and it's getting a lot closer. The shadows out of the corner of your eye. They're usually just a haze, maybe a rough outline but they've become more defined, more obvious. They have, well it has, become more real. You've tried using mirrors, keeping the lights on, turning your head quickly - nothing has worked. You can't prove it. Friends and family tell you it's normal, because it is, 99.9% of the time.
This, this is different though. You even feel it now, don't you? You know it's there. It's always there. It's right behind you, just off to the side. The hairs on the back of your neck are standing up because it's watching you. No, it's staring at you. The monster, this shadow from the corner of your eye. Don't turn around. You're safe if you don't show it you know it's there. At least safe for now...

(This is just a story and seeing shadows is pretty normal but if you do think that you are seeing them quite frequently or it is beginning to bother you, please see a doctor/medical professional! ♥️)
This is also not a generated picture! It's my left eye! I just went heavy with the editing! 😂

#photography #amateurphotography
#spookysaturday #creepypasta #spooky #creepy #eerie #dark #moody #horror #eye #shadow #friends #family #story #light #shortstory #spookyvibes #scary #night #alone #nightmare #europe #scarystories #fiction #graphic
#graphic
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#WordWeavers 2504.11 — Could your SC do your job?

I'm retired. Pretty much any of them could do that. To the extent that the main series antagonist is also a secondary character, getting to be retired is the WHOLE POINT of her existence from her point of view!

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#BoostingIsSharing

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#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

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Pierre-Yves Comtois

Défi #CinemaQueb : 5 films québécois marquants en 5 jours. Je vous mets au défi de faire de même ! 🧵 4/5

Kuessipan (2019) réalisé par Myriam Verreault d'après le roman de Naomi Fontaine (qui a aussi collaboré au scénario). Les deux actrices principales, Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao et Yamie Grégoire, y sont extraordinaires. Et à ma connaissance, c'est l'un des premiers films grand public où l'on entend l'innu-aimun, la langue innue.

Affiche de Kuessipan de Myriam Verreault librement inspiré du roman de Naomi Fontaine.
#Cinéma#Québec#InnuAimun
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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.10 2/2 — Show us a book cover you like. What makes it special?

Well, I like the cover I mocked up for my web-novel. What makes it special other than I did all the work? It sets the tone for what isn't seen in the story since most of the scenes either occur inside domes on Mars or inside an arcology on Earth. There's a lack of contrast between living on Mars and Earth.

The image is from Jezero crater. When the protagonist's eldest daughter finishes training 2,000 young people her age to wear Mars suits, in celebration, she asks to visit in a scene late in the book because it's so "famous."

The Mars globe in a Triskelion is the tattoo all the Mars contract colonists imported from Earth wear on their right forearm.

I like the overall effect of the image and the metallic wire lettering, with the tiny bit of asymmetry, as it evokes a sense of quiet desolation. With a very thin atmosphere, Mars is often very quiet and I see the cover as contemplative.

Not sure whether a publisher's marketing department would think it would sell the book, however.

More in #AltText

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#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSMarsNeededWomen

The cover art for Mars Needed Women. It reads: "Mars Needed Women, An SF novel by R.S." The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, rusty sand, and a greenish sky. There is a black triskelion over an image of Mars that shows the north polar cap, which is a tattoo described in the story.
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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.10 1/2 — Show us a book cover you like. What makes it special?

What makes the covers of Patricia Briggs Coyote Shapeshifter novels special is the depiction of the main character, Mercy Thompson, specifically her ethnicity and her profession. Take note of the paw print under her navel. I think the covers are a good compromise between her depiction in the stories and what the publisher's marketing department expects will sell. I consider the stories feminist, and I highly recommend them.

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Five of Patricia Briggs are shown, each depicting the Native American main character with tattoos, an ethic face, hair that seems to reflect her heritage, and a look of "don't mess with me." Since she is an auto mechanic, some background elements like a tire iron and tires evoke that aspect.
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Fictionable

… to start things off, here's our #LatestIssue with stories from Joanna Kavenna, Helga Schubert translated by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks, Rachida Lamrabet translated by Johanna McCalmont, Ben Sorgiovanni and Julian George.

Plus Annie Proulx calls for #writers to defend democracy and Andrzej Klimowski opens his #sketchbook

Catch it all at fictionable.world

#books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #comics #blog #bookstodon @bookstodon

The contributors for Fictionable's Winter 2024 issue. From top left: Joanna Kavenna, Annie Proulx, Ben Sorgiovanni, Helga Schubert, Anrzej Klimowski, Rachida Lamrabet, Aaron Sayne, Lillian M Banks, Julian George and Johanna McCalmont
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