A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her)

Does she have a nightlight and a ceiling fan in her room? Sometimes, the light reflects off the moving fan blades in the dark and can look like fireflies flying around to children.
That's my best guess.

My interview with MetaStellar's Grace Kielstra is now up on their YouTube channel. 🙂
#sff #scifi #horror #authors #writers #writesky #writingcommunity #specfic

Russia is currently banned from the Olympics by the IOC. This video must be from years ago.

Bluesky doesn't let you pin a non-quote repost, so I'm reposting this again.

#AbolishICE

I really hate that the media focuses on one athlete and plays them up like all of the U.S.'s medal hopes are on them. They did the same thing to Simone Biles, and we saw what that pressure did to her mentally. Yet the media learned nothing from it.

#olympics #winterolympics #2026olympics #TeamUSA

We all feel that way at some point.

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

In case you didn't already know, AI is nothing more than IP theft. And the douchey tech bros who created it are nothing more than thieves. Stop pirating authors' work!

www.msn.com/en-us/techno...

#NoAI #writesky #writingcommunity #writers #authors #writing #AIisPlagiarism #AIisTheft

Entering the U.S. w/o documentation wasn't a crime until George W. Bush's administration made it one. Before that, it was a civil court matter. It's only been a "crime" for about 20 years out of our country's 250-year history. Some of the targeted immigrants were here before that.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

I swear, one day a billionaire is going to declare ownership of the sun and start charging everyone for sunlight.

Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4 — tenebrous press

I'm pleased to announce my short story, "We Told You of the One Who Lives in the Mound," is a nominee for the 2025 Brave New Weird Award from Tenebrous Press!
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/1/...

#horror #weirdfiction #SFF #speculativefiction #specfic #writesky #writingcommunity #reading #writing

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Ad for beta version of live status on Bluesky reading, "Show when you're live."

I misread this popup as "Show when you're alive" and thought to myself, "Damn, it's only been 5 days since my last post, and you already think I'm dead?"

Resources for Individuals and Nonprofits Approached by ICE - Native American Rights Fund Download flyers here or scroll down to read full text below: Know Your Rights if You are Approached by ICE IF YOU ARE APPROACHED BY ICE AT YOUR HOME: IF YOU ARE APPROACHED BY ICE AT WORK: IF YOU ARE…

Native Americans are citizens of the United States. Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has no jurisdiction over citizens on immigration matters, ICE has targeted Tribal citizens and descendants. We've made two flyers to help individuals protect themselves: buff.ly/wyH57GY

Thanks to a recent sale, I just got bumped up from Affiliate to Active Pro member of the Horror Writers Association!
😱💀👻

#horror #writingcommunity #writers #writesky #writing

I actually found it cathartic when she sprayed the crowd with blood. All those people who said she wasn't young enough or pretty enough, and even when she was young and pretty again, they still scrutinized her appearance and demanded she smile. Her blood was on their hands and everywhere else.

Can we all agree that the U.S. government is a scrap-and-redo at this point? How many times can it make the same fucking mistake?

Another war. Another oil grab. Another invasion. Another regime change. Another puppet government installed.

American imperialism must end.

#Venezuela #Maduro #FDT

I got "inspiring." Hopefully, it's the good kind of inspiring and not "inspiring rage," which is what 2025 did for me.

Thank you!

Cover of Issue #40, October 2023 of Cosmic Horror Monthly, edited by Charles Tyra

Previous years: Also in 2023, "What Mel Knows" appeared in Cosmic Horror Monthly.
Buy: cosmichorrormonthly.com/store/issue-...
Read: cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/what...
A reading of the story now appears on Creepy Podcast's Patreon for subscribers: www.patreon.com/posts/10-16-...

Cover of Seers and Sibyls anthology, edited by MJ Pankey, published by Brigids Gate Press

Previous years: In 2023, "The Wager" appeared in the anthology Seers and Sibyls published by Brigids Gate Press.
brigidsgatepress.com/product/seer...
It is now free to read online on MetaStellar: www.metastellar.com/fiction/the-...

Cover of The Best of MetaStellar Year Four anthology, edited by Geordie Morse and Marie Ginga

Previous years: In 2024, "The Songstress" was published on MetaStellar.
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
It is now available to purchase in an anthology: www.metastellar.com/books/the-be...
You can also watch a reading of it by Andrea Goyan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2q...

PseudoPod 984: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIV: Thy Shields Between Them and the Light “The spears of the day shall not touch them, the chains of the sun shall not hale them forth.” Beneath a forest canopy of flowering trees and fruiting vines, there lived a talented beetle.

My 2025 roundup isn't as impressive as others'. I only had one story published (a hazard of working full time while also going to school). "We Told You of the One Who Lives in the Mound" appeared on PseudoPod in July.
pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/p...

#sff #horror #fantasy #writing #writingcommunity

Thank you so much for your interest!

I only have 4 stories published so far. The darkest is "What Mel Knows" (1,300 words) about time travel gone wrong. "The Wager" (4,800 words) is more fun and New Orleans oriented. "We Told of the One Who Lives in the Mound" (1,400 words) is the deepest and based on semi-real events.

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Links to all of my stories are on my website here: www.almunson.com/publications/

I did write a whimsical horror poem (which you can read here: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...). I thought it was cute, but the feedback I got was "disturbing," "eerie," or the flip side "too goofy."

Thankfully, I've never gotten that response from my family. But since most of my stories are horror, I would have to do something *very* wrong to make someone say, "It's cute."

The donkey scene was way worse for me.