R. J. Sterling
Hi, I'm Sterling 👋 |she/her
Writer
🗡️Speculative Fiction🪐
Short stories, poetry, zines, collages
"Cassandra and the Changeling" out now in Apex Magazine issue 151.
- Reposted by R. J. SterlingHighlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
- Oh my GOD this story!!! So surprising, heartbreaking, breathtaking! "The sweater we buried you in is hanging in my closet. " What a first sentence!!! #writersofbluesky #sciencefiction #writesky
- There's only two more days to vote for your favorite Apex stories of 2025! And while you're at it, you might read my story "Cassandra and the Changeling," published in issue 151. It's only 1000 words long and full of queer teen angst (as well as a pinch of resistance). #writersofbluesky #writesky
- I appreciate being included in this!
- 🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - DECEMBER 2025🏳️🌈 I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @rj-sterling.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @jamesbennett.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/149417...
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- Reposted by R. J. SterlingMINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS
- I also realized that this is my *2nd* project this year that heavily features Dead Mom Angst. The implications of this pattern are nobody's business except for me and the tiny imaginary therapist that lives in my head. #writesky
- You know that it's a good writing day when you're crying for two pages. My spouse is starting to realize that I don't want comfort when I'm crying and writing. I want celebration! I successfully tapped into a deep well of emotion and put it on the page!
- Reposted by R. J. Sterling"In the next ten to twenty years, automation will grind jobs to dust as it grinds out unbelievable volumes of production . . . labor will have to intervene in the political life of the nation to chart a course which distributes the abundance to all instead of concentrating it among a few." #MLKDay
- Reposted by R. J. SterlingI find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.
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- Reposted by R. J. SterlingLove this from Guillermo del Toro
- Clipping.'s song "Dodger" is a #scifi story about an analyst who tracks down people who choose to unplug from the internet. "Human unedited, ended the technical betterment For all the rest of 'em, though Upend excessive unethical detriments" youtu.be/h0-k7vW9Xek?...
- I love this! It is a story of hope in a magically created eco disaster.
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- Nested by the fire with fiction and nonfiction journals, tea, and two novellas by @premeemohamed.com. I love stories about resilience after climate disaster, especially with some speculative fungi weirdness thrown in. 💙📚 #theannualmigrationofclouds
- "Is a River Alive?" by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social is the most significant book that I read this year. The lyrical writing braids activism, indigenous and western science, and personal narrative, like streams throughout a flood plane joining into one roaring river of a book, full of hope. 💙📚
- An incomplete list of my favorite new words from this book: Quaquaversal (my absolute favorite!!) Brocken spectre Eusocial Terpischorean 💙📚
- "They carol, feast, give thanks, And dearly love their friends, And hope for peace." On this shortest day, I hope for the end of genocide and of the bottomless greed of pollutocrats. And on this longest night I hope to be like a bulb under frost: resting and transforming in the darkness.
- My first professionally published story is available to read now at Apex Magazine! It's less than 1000 words--what do you have to lose? Thank you to everyone who reads and comments. Your support means so much to me.
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- My FIRST professionally published short story is available now in Apex Magazine's 151st issue! Join two adolescents on a collision course with the Strange. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-... #writersofbluesky #amwriting #newwriters #speculativefiction #QueerWriters #shortstory
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- This is a pretty useful resource for folks trying to make it in the magazine circuit (it’s me, I am Folks). I’m setting the goal of 25 rejections before July (and maybe some publications, too). #amwriting
- A few hours reading fantasy, a few hours writing fantasy, repeat as the snow falls. The Last Hour Between Worlds (@melissacaruso.bsky.social) is a hilarious page-turner about a reality-hopping sleuth’s first night off since having a baby. Add a ~tense professional rivalry~, and it’s perfect. 💙📚
- Me in January: I should overcome February doldrums with a self-imposed writing challenge. Me now: What EVIL, CONNIVING, SADISTIC monster made me start this challenge?! Back, fiend! Leave me to my blankie and ghibli movies! For truly I shall never write again.
- I am so grateful for indie speculative fiction magazines! I truly enjoyed the strange biology of this story.
- I need all of the gays in my phone to scream with me about Lucy Dacus. youtube.com/watch?v=a90_...
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