Kelly Robson

@kellyrobson.com

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Science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. Stories everywhere. Books: Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, High Times in the Low Parliament, Alias Space https://kellyrobson.com/books Trans rights are human rights ffs she/her in Toronto, Canada

Green leaves obscure a blue sky. We are looking up at the hard working Robin parent as she sits in her disordered nest. She looks DAMN tired.
Old time Dentistry ads from 1885, with a mysterious image that looks like the front of a slipper with teeth in the sole
Three hunter-green trapezoidal wall coverings intermittently spaced over a grey cinder block wall. Bare metal struts above, and a mint green wall in the distance, where a few people are waiting for a train. On the left we glimpse the yellow safety strip and the subway track.
A huge Victorian faux-Tudor manor house, with a massive tower jutting from its face. Big banks of windows and a brown shake roof, which missing a few pieces, giving it a ramshackle air. Red brick mostly, with the Tudor details confined to a few lacy bits on the second floor, and then the top floor of the tower. The tower's roof is very pointy and looks so much like a hat I can't stand it.
A screen capture of the New York Times website, showing an item: BOOK REVIEW "Sublimation" Reimagines the Dilemmas of Immigration A woman's close is finally coming home. Should they merge back into one?
A higgledy piggledy, half-hearted fence with a low stone barrier topped by intermittent brown hurdles is in front of a plain-featured, half-timbered, two storey structure. It's likely a former barn. The long side faces the street. The roof is low-canted, and plain, with one chimney modestly sticking up from the middle. Originally old half-timbering covers the bottom storey, dark brown and beige, with dark brown wood walls above. The left quarter of the building has new half timbering on both levels, likely a new addition. There are two doors, one in the middle which is double wide, and one in the new addition, latter. Both are recessed. There's a little orangey brown roof over the middle door. The windows seem randomly spaced, and are covered with dark brown shutters. All shutters are closed except for the second window on the top floor, where a man is reaching out to close it.
Under tall trees and a blue sky, a bright yellow house with a multiple-peaked roof. It's extremely inviting. The windows are trimmed in white, with narrow brown decorative shutters on the three leftmost windows. There's also an eyebrow-shaped porch over the brown door. The live roof peaks are all different heights, and roof is brown. On the right, there's a six-sided roof over a single-storey ground floor room which would be a turret if it were higher. Everything here is utterly adorable and I desire this house with all my acquisitive heart.
Book cover of The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu, Nebula Award Winning Author -- bright blue and orange/yellow design showing dim sum buns in steamers receding down into a quantum space. Two hands with chopsticks reach into the steamers. "A work of crystalline vision and meticulous humanity" says Max Gladstone
Bring Us Your Turkeys, Chickens, Vegetable and Wood We will take any quantity on subscriptions to The St. Paul Journal Send the paper to your friends, pay your own subscription well in advance, and tell your neighbors that they can get the paper too by this means (A full length photo of an older man in an old fashioned suit) Bill Morris says it's a "Nachral" Grump The St. Paul Journal
$700 Arrears on our Subscription List Among the large number in arrears with their subscription to The Journal are many who have no money and as an inducement to have them square their accounts we are asking them to bring wood, vegetables, turkeys or poultry (A full length photo of an older man in an old fashioned suite) He Looks Sore (an old fashioned graphic of a hand pointing to the next paragraph) So far the following were good enough to comply with our request: (list in small type) Many admit they cannot sell these things but surely they can pay their small accounts this way There are a few who promised to bring wood even last year but have not yet done so. These will be cut off our lists as well as others who are stalling The St. Paul Journal
A newspaper ad, all text, bounded by a fancy chain-like border: Good Food Well Prepared is the only kind we serve You Will Find THIS RESTAURANT not "Another place to eat" but "A place to eat another." REO CAFE St. Paul Alberta
In a cosy alcove, a round painting of three cartridges, eating berries
In front of an evergreen dusted with snow, two people wearing glasses (a woman and an non binary person) are dressed in bright red parkas and smile at the camera from under their hoods
A green treed landscape, with a green lawn and shrubs. Blue sky above a large workshop-like barn structure made of caramel colored wood, with a wood shake roof. The long side is turned toward us, and has three butterscotch half doors or shutters, all closed. Above are two open dormers protruding from the roof like eyes, and between them is a small, narrow bell tower made of red brick. The third of the building on the right side is right open, with the roof held up by wooden pillars. The three pillars on the outside have red brick bases and have a low fence built between them. It's quite a lovely structure.
Cover of SPENT, A COMIC NOVEL by the author of Fun Home Alison Bechdel is done is bright, high contrast comic book colours: On a bright blue background is a comic style illustration spoofing the classic American Gothic painting, with two short haired, older women gazing wearily at the viewer from behind a pitchfork.
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Against a painterly red-orange background, a middle-aged white woman looks imperiously down at the camera. We only see her from the shoulders up, and she seems to be naked. She is wearing a black plastic bag on her head. We see a glimpse of an octopus tattoo on her left shoulder.
At a restaurant, a red headed, long haired white woman dressed in pink holds a big pink cocktail and smiles widely
A redheaded white woman in glasses is peering over the head of a brown tabby cat who is snuggled on her chest. The only reason this is happening is the cat wants her body heat. She is just a space heater to him. A space heater who must not type.
Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three. Book Launch, meet the authors, buy books, eat snacks! Hear readings from Kelly Robson, YM Pang, Timothy Quinn, Chris Clemens, Lisa Cai, Agata Antonow, Kaya Skovdatter, Gillian Secord, Pauline Barmby. November 8, 2025, Bakka Phoenix Books, 84 Harbord Street, Toronto
An old scratchy color photo of a white toddler in a big blue onesie, with a red bow in her brown hair, sleeping in a crib with a Dr. Seuss book lying tented on her chest.
Kelly is a white woman with long red hair and red cat eyeglasses. She is standing in a park with dirt paths criss crossing behind her and trees in fall
A screenshot of an emoji picklist, with a red arrow pointing at a black shoebill-like bird image, serious and maybe menacing. The arrow says WTF.
Under a dark blue sky, a mountain in the distance rises to the right. A range of mountains receipt into the horizon on the left. In the mid ground is a lit up street with a few glowing buildings along it, and in the foreground are the upper parts of conifer trees framing the view.
WE WILL RISE AGAIN, edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older, featuring Kelly Robson’s story BLOCKBUSTER, a short story, exploring burlesque, public art, police violence, and prison abolition. Available for pre-order now. Published December 2, 2025.
In Moonlight, a house with lit up windows behind a screen of conifer trees. A staircase leads down towards the door.
An orange metal machine, seen only partially, with a sticker of a cartoon raccoon, very mean looking, holding a bunch of twigs, next to the words BANDIT INTIMIDATOR 15 XP
A dirty white sheep with a face like a teddy bear.
Gravestone of Mervyn Peake. Burpham, West Sussex.
An expensive view from a hillside, looking down at green forests and checkered fields, with bonus town of Tavistock in the middle
Road sign: Higher Kelly
A black and white shorthair cat sitting on a red cushion on a wooden church pew, looking out of the corner of his eye dubiously. Seat is labeled Archdeacon of Lewisham & Greenwich
On a sidewalk, a red forklift holds a huge sculpture of a young black woman over the sidewalk. There is a step ladder on the right, houses in the background, and many people gathered around, watching the statue being moved.
A bottle of Santa Fe Seasonings all natural green chilli lime seasoning.
Against a clear blue sky, an olive coloured hummingbird approaches a royal blue hummingbird feeder
A screenshot of two Google Drive folders, labled Fiction Complete and Fiction not complete
A peachy pink stucco house with a terracotta tile roof made of rounded clay half-tubes. A huge palm tree sits in the yard to the left, behind a grey concrete fence with large open arches topped by crenelations. The roof has many angles, and the large shuttered windows seem big as doors, with no balconies below so it looks like the residents step out onto thin air.
Bookended between two neighbours, a sky blue, two level row house with two large, arched windows on the upper level. The windows are bounced by small, solid Juliet balconies, and white drapes are visible inside. On each balcony is three white triangle designs pointing skyward, and this design is repeated on the edge of the roof. The concrete yard is bounded by blue concrete fences on either side, and a metal fence facing the road. A few bushes partially obscure the large, rectangular window on the main floor, which has white blinds. The doorway is recessed, with grey rock within which is set a black door with two tall, columnar windows.
On a green sloping hillside, with many lovingly tended bushes, a modest one-and-a half level house painted forest green, with red trim around the windows and doors. The roof is black, and there's a flagpole in front with the Norwegian flag.
A tall, pink and cream brick confection behind a dirty white fence. Bushes block out the main floor, but above it are tall, narrow windows, shuttered of course. On the right is a pair of stacked Juliet balconies with very delicate railings, and on the left is a tower with very tall narrow windows placed irregularly. The roofs are peaked, and tiled in deep orange.
A white t-shirt with a hand drawn design. A bearded white man in a pink hooded sweatshirt with a huge heart on it, and with bear ears on the pulled-up pink hood. He is juggling a rainbow of file folders, with magic sparkles and movement lines in the shape of a heart.