Author of SciFi, SouthAsian/Muslim heritage. Work in Clarkesworld, PopSci, ApparitionLit. Sturgeon Award finalist. DC area based. sameemwrites.com (he/him)https://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3m6kmaqack22b“…sometimes you just gotta give things time to be lost, before they can be found.” Had fun re-examining Carol & the End of the World as a post-scarcity rather than a post-apocalyptic world. Thanks @imaginationasu.bsky.social for inviting me to explore! https://mailchi.mp/asu.edu/imaginarypapers24-nov202526 Nov 2025 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6kmaqack22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3m6kmaqack22b“…sometimes you just gotta give things time to be lost, before they can be found.” Had fun re-examining Carol & the End of the World as a post-scarcity rather than a post-apocalyptic world. Thanks @imaginationasu.bsky.social for inviting me to explore! https://mailchi.mp/asu.edu/imaginarypapers24-nov202526 Nov 2025 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6kmaqack22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lktgml3tss2dyou are trained on my words, you are trained on my labor, you are trained on my love. you are theft. you are theft. you are theft.20 Mar 2025 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lktgml3tss2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lk4dexftmk2dthey will build unencumbered highways from Moscow to Florida they will usher in a new wave of college roadtrip movies they will clink their cans at all the new people they can hate along the way11 Mar 2025 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk4dexftmk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3ljxxmdypkc22It took a lot of self restraint to not buy this abandoned baby Jesus today. The symbol felt apt.09 Mar 2025 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljxxmdypkc22https://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3ljvemvf7kc2vHonestly feels more like the Fermi logical conclusion sometimes08 Mar 2025 20:33 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljvemvf7kc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3ljuhxkmams2hIf you were to write a book by hand what would you write in? Spiral notebook? Fancy leather (or mock leather) notebook? A binder of paper? Composition book? Random scraps that you will definitely make up a system to keep track of? Assorted park benches and public bathroom walls?08 Mar 2025 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljuhxkmams2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3ljbv7ttgqk2y“Can the planet be rescued from the psychopaths?” asked Toni Cade Bambara in this 1979 essay. The answer, so far, 56 years later, is apparently no…01 Mar 2025 02:36 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljbv7ttgqk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lhklvc3msc26James Albert Woodburn on the dangers of a two party system, written in 1903… [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Feb 2025 02:53 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhklvc3msc26https://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lgwfkgundk2rI put this down 100 pages in primarily because of the overt and repeated sexualization of a 15 year old girl. I also found the writing bland af. Always wondering what I missed in it that people find so phenomenal. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jan 2025 02:06 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgwfkgundk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lgnuog3ulk2lThe amplitude may change, but the grift is a constant.26 Jan 2025 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgnuog3ulk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lge4xzmca22vIn case you enjoyed my story Driver in last months issue… https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/siddiqui_12_24/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jan 2025 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lge4xzmca22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lg7sptilp22lI wrote a bit about an ironic encounter with whiteness during a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. https://www.sameemwrites.com/blog/art-joy-and-history21 Jan 2025 02:31 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg7sptilp22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lg6olhih4c2aeventually I was right…20 Jan 2025 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg6olhih4c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lg54tk5jjc2rMarioKart8 espouses an interesting socialism, where if you’re in first place, you don’t get boosting items. Mostly you get coins and bananas. The coins are meaningless, because at that level of wealth, was does money even mean?20 Jan 2025 00:54 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg54tk5jjc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lfxrqgqbmk24“Link in bio” is maybe the shittiest of the enshittifications.17 Jan 2025 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfxrqgqbmk24https://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lfwylbkshk2sDefinitely spent the night waking up from unsettling dreams of being followed around by invisible well meaning but hungry specters. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jan 2025 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfwylbkshk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lfvuw2o2vk2qmmmK, this bullshit just turned up in my Word docs today, with no option to turn it off, so I guess it's time to move on to a new word processor...17 Jan 2025 03:43 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfvuw2o2vk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lfseenyvp22uI’m looking for recommendations for authors with collections that merge short stories with creative non-fiction essays. Any and all genres welcome.15 Jan 2025 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfseenyvp22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lfrw6ubpm22zSat down to write a sentence or two about The Collected Schizophrenias, but ended up writing a whole thing about mental health, liminality and the realities we construct. https://www.sameemwrites.com/blog/on-liminality-and-collected-realities15 Jan 2025 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfrw6ubpm22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lfq4tgbjjs2aI just said “have a nice weekend” to the cashier. Friends, it’s apparently only Tuesday.14 Jan 2025 20:49 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfq4tgbjjs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lffoptu7n22eMy easy 6 step short story writing process: 1) Short story idea! Start writing! 2) Let’s see if I can push this past 1k words! 3) Oh wow 7k words and I’m not done yet, will finish and then trim. 4) Okay maybe this is a novelette… 5) Okay maybe this is a novella… 6) Fuck.10 Jan 2025 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lffoptu7n22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lf6s2xsc5s2h“I cannot get out of my head the sense that we are riding not through the streets of the city, not through neighborhoods, but through the viewfinder of a gun.” (Bare Feet, by Zahid Rafiq).07 Jan 2025 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf6s2xsc5s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3letx4de5m22aAt the Chinese grocery store and there’s an old aunty with a massive $ bling necklace who’s been perusing the lotus roots for ten minutes. There’s no way she’s not a magical entity.03 Jan 2025 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3letx4de5m22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/sameemwrites.com/post/3lenpah7hxk2iONE POINT TWENTY ONE GIGAWATTS GET HUEY LEWIS ON THE LINE LETS GO [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jan 2025 04:15 +0000at://did:plc:knmywciabhvt2tvm3hjagade/app.bsky.feed.post/3lenpah7hxk2i