Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and the dark. Home to all things dark and lovely. [email protected] EIC: @keychild (she/her)
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my micro piece is up! 🥰
All of the taps in the tower are running with tea today. We're not complaining though. The kettle is having a well-earned day off. While we drink tea-on-tap, we're reading flash fiction:
"Empty Nest Syndrome" by Mugdhaa Ranade
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"Steppe Oracles" — three poems forthcoming from @CrowKeys in November.
Bees, wasp stings, reptiles, locusts, dirt.
Thank you to the editors for the home.
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Portents are pointing towards a storm. It wouldn't be strange. The tower has been drowning in thunder for days now. We do like a bit of atmosphere. And poetry. We really like poetry too. Like this:
"Forecast" by @AmandaAdrienne
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I am thrilled to have a poem forthcoming in the stunning @CrowKeys. So grateful to the editors for loving this one and will be so honoured to see it alongside such gorgeous work! 🖤✨ #writingcommunity #litmag
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woke up to a micro fiction acceptance from @CrowKeys!! 🥳
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I have a little piece in @CrowKeys today. Quite proud of this one 😊
Come take a tour of space and time 👇
We had an unexpected visitor here at the tower this evening. They didn't say who they were. They didn't say a word. They just sat and read this flash fiction.
"She Comes to Me as a Telescope" by @ShonaRayWrites
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Over the moon to have my poem "Quintessence" published in the fabulous @CrowKeys 🖤
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Read my poem here:
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Read my poem🥹
It is too warm in the tower. The kitchen keeps making hot drinks regardless. No one is drinking them, but still more appear. We're going to keep ignoring them, and keep reading poetry. Like this:
"Porcelain Weather" by @thejolaade
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IT ME! My weird story!
The plants in the tower have started growing strange appendages of late. We don't like to look at them. They unnerve us. For a story that is also slightly unnerving...
"Bright Sharp Smiles" by @sophiakb_writes
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This one really kept me up at night ~ thank you @keychild for letting this stray into your tower 🤍
There is a feral animal scampering through the tower this evening. We don't quite know what it is, but we do know that it bites. Visitor, beware. It's safer to read today's micro fiction.
"Insomnia" by @lmks1993
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Delighted that my poem "Quintessence" will be published in the splendid @CrowKeys 🖤 My thanks to Elou Carroll. @keychild
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Very pleased at an acceptance from @CrowKeys !!
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It's not often I can say I have a three poem sale...this is actually the very first time! ✨ Happy to say these have all found a home at the tower with @CrowKeys!! 🐦⬛🗝️
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In "It pays to read your email" - I was ego surfing and found that I was shortlisted for Brave New Weird, which I then found was of course in the last email I'd gotten from them. So that's Friday fun! You can find the story in @CrowKeys here: bit.ly/4qygeAx
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I read A Swarm Unto Herself by Barlow Adams in @CrowKeys a bee-related story nightofthehats.blogspot.com/…
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I feel like this about most birds...
"And if a raven ever lands near your window and stays longer than it should, it might be someone who once loved you."
It's chilly in the tower tonight, but the fires refuse to burn. The logs tell us it is out of respect for today's flash fiction; firewood is always a considerate creature.
"The Pyre" by Mathieu Parsy
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Wondering what kind of poems will live inside my upcoming collection, On the Edge of Knowing? Here’s a small window. “Walking Past the End,” first published in @CrowKeys and recently featured on my Substack, will be nestled between "Cedar in the Storm" and "Forsythia."
I’m so excited to finally share official news of my upcoming poetry collection, On the Edge of Knowing (Kelsay Books), arriving early 2026!
It drifts through the spaces between self and nature, where memory meets change, where grief and resilience coexist, and where quiet moments outdoors open into something deeper.
More soon, but for now, here’s the first look at the cover.
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Do you ever find yourself just walking, or doing something ordinary, and you get the sense that the air around you is tightening, whether anything’s actually wrong or not? “Walking Past the End” is less about real danger and more about the stories we invent when we feel an ending coming but don’t know what it is. How fast the mind fills in the blanks. A special thanks to @CrowKeys for publishing my poem in their wonderful journal.
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