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🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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Author/Poet -Best Small Fiction 2025/Multi-Award Winner/Pushcart/BOTN Nom/Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist '25 / Words in literary, university, genre journals/anthos🍄🌸
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    May 18
    #MondayMood - New thrills, friends! My #shortstory THE QUEST pub'd in Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal Spring 2026 Issue just out, Pg 25, a lovely publication curated by writing program grad students of Western New Mexico University: twistedvine.wnmu.edu📚 #silicasun 🏝️📗💙
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    Jul 23, 2018
    I'm so excited! I just got published - for #poetry !! Again! Read it here : locustmagazine.com/vol3/locust-ni…
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    May 24, 2017
    Check out my short story here bostonaccentlit.com/rekha #shortstories #fiction #fantasy #writing #amwriting @BostonAccentLit
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    May 12, 2023
    #FictionFriday - My #shortstory Anklets of Jasmine published today on @HyacinthReview 📚 A creeping dark #story crossing continents it's accompanied by ghostly illustration of pale jasmines. Thank you to #editor #readers all at THR for publishing it🌼📓💚 hyacinthreview.org/rekha-valliapp…
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    Aug 9, 2020
    #SundayShoutout So stoked my #invasivespecies #horror #shortstory RENARTIS RISING is available to read in one of the popular #sciencefiction & #fantasy magazines. Thank you Editor Jack L. Bryson. Do you really know your plants?🌿📗 Renartis Rising teleportmagazine.com/2020/08/04/ren…
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    Apr 5, 2018
    #Dark #MYSTERY and Spooky #Noir #horrortale #amwriting out now in just released 'MONSTERS' Issue - Thank you @TamaraGrisanti Thank you @coffin_bell - Check out my #shortstory 'The Beast of Montmoor' here : coffinbell.com/the-beast-of-m…
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    Oct 28, 2023
    #SaturdaySpecial - So excited to share this lovely anthology pf #POEMS and #shortstories dogearedbard.com/long-island-ha… and super thrilled it includes me! Check it out #friends #writers! I got to read my #horror #shortstory 'Ghost in the Pines' at the #book launch 👻🌲📓🖤
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    May 9, 2020
    #SaturdaySpotlight - My new #shortstory is LIVE now at @SatEvePost ! I'd love for you to read it! "A Pilgrim's Push"! Happy to be included in this grande olde great publication for #MothersDay saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/05/a-pilg…
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    May 8, 2020
    Thanks so very much Nicholas and Editors, The Saturday Evening Post, for publishing my #shortstory 'A Pilgrim's Push' 🌺📔💜
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    Apr 8, 2019
    I'm on a roll for #fantasy #fiction! Unbelievable! Delighted that my #shortstory 'Night of the Jaguar' is back-to-back out and available in Aphelion Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy Issue 238, Vol. 23, April 2019, here : aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2019/04…
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    Nov 15, 2017
    Honored to have my #gothic dark #fiction #horrortale 'The Phantom Journey' published in this fine journal Eastern Iowa Review Do read here : portyonderpress.com/the-phantom-jo…
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    Jan 15, 2021
    #FridayFeelings - After a claustrophobic past week with TV screaming breaking news, Twitter time out, a flurry of submissions, it feels just a wee bit normal to be back, to you, to wintry sunshine views. #StaySafe, Stay Well, Stay Inspired, #writers #poets #writerscommunity 📘💜
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    Jul 7, 2020
    #TuesdayThrill - My #story BATTLE OF FLOWERS shares a platform with many wonderful #writers in one of America's leading #literary mags - Wilderness House Literary Review 58th Issue (Vol 15, No 2), thanks to #Fiction Editor Tim Gager & the Editorial Team whlreview.com/no-15.2/fictio…
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    Mar 2, 2021
    #TuesdayThrill - My #story THE COMPASS TURNS THRICE is published! Super stoked to see it LIVE on #StorySunday ! Thanks so much @LitroUSA @LitroMagazine USA! You can read this strange haunting tale here ⛵️🧭📘🤎 litromagazine.com/usa/2021/02/th…
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    🐦 Rekha Valliappan 🍃
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    Nov 22, 2020
    #SundaySpecial - Exciting news - My #shortstory THE HOME-COMING is just released in #literary #magazine Muse India's Issue 94 Special Feature 'Love in the Pandemic'! Thanks to Editor Annapurna Sharma. To #readers here's the link : museindia.com/Home/ViewConte…
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