IlanaMiraL
@ilanamiral.bsky.social
Writer, art, film & book obsessive, feminist, bi, ND 🏳🌈 🐅 Writing repped by @lanewriteswords of @ultraliterary. Reader for @smallwondersmag.com and @okaydonkey.bsky.social
THE BLACK PARADE (Ninestar 2026)
THE BLACK PARADE (Ninestar 2026)
"Years later I watched a music video & saw a girl flop into the back seat of a car, legs dangling out the door & the whole thing came back, repeating in my head for hours like the return of a chronic infection, like a burning, corrosive rash." @ilanamiral.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I loved this when I first read it. Spooky and gorgeously written.
"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through."
"Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
Door in the Woods by Chris Scott
Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…
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October 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I loved this when I first read it. Spooky and gorgeously written.
This is devastating with not a single wasted word.
"20. My family is small and not very nice to me but I still don’t want to see them die.
21. I saw my twin brother die
22. When we were kids
23. I was not a fan.
24. I doubt he was, either."
"98." by Jordyn Damato, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
21. I saw my twin brother die
22. When we were kids
23. I was not a fan.
24. I doubt he was, either."
"98." by Jordyn Damato, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
98. by Jordyn Damato
There’s something wrong with my head It’s not a bump I wish it was a bump Even if it was a gross, protruding bump that made people afraid to look at me I could handle that I would dress…
okaydonkeymag.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is devastating with not a single wasted word.
My fishies have arrived!! Love to @librelit.bsky.social
for publishing this weird, creepy, exposing little story. 🐟
for publishing this weird, creepy, exposing little story. 🐟
Fiction today by @ilanamiral.bsky.social
“And the shorter your hair, the closer they are to your skull.”
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“And the shorter your hair, the closer they are to your skull.”
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August 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My fishies have arrived!! Love to @librelit.bsky.social
for publishing this weird, creepy, exposing little story. 🐟
for publishing this weird, creepy, exposing little story. 🐟
Ahhh! I love this one so much, so thrilled it's been published. Weird and creepy and wonderful 😍
Parenting is hard. It's even harder when "Echo Syndrome" strikes, and identity starts to splinter... read Jennifer Hudak's story full of existential dread in our issue 20:
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Echo Syndrome - Small Wonders
When my daughter climbs in the car, there’s three of her. They shouldn’t all fit in the passenger seat, but they overlap each other to save space.
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August 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Ahhh! I love this one so much, so thrilled it's been published. Weird and creepy and wonderful 😍
Question: Have you heard of Terry Gilliam?
I ask because this weekend I met a man, maybe in his early 30s, very culturally literate, British, who'd never heard of him or any of his films. He knew Monty Python, but that's it.
It kind of freaked me out.
I ask because this weekend I met a man, maybe in his early 30s, very culturally literate, British, who'd never heard of him or any of his films. He knew Monty Python, but that's it.
It kind of freaked me out.
August 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Question: Have you heard of Terry Gilliam?
I ask because this weekend I met a man, maybe in his early 30s, very culturally literate, British, who'd never heard of him or any of his films. He knew Monty Python, but that's it.
It kind of freaked me out.
I ask because this weekend I met a man, maybe in his early 30s, very culturally literate, British, who'd never heard of him or any of his films. He knew Monty Python, but that's it.
It kind of freaked me out.
Just FYI: If you follow me, and I check your profile out and you've posted a ton of AI product images, I will never follow you back.
August 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just FYI: If you follow me, and I check your profile out and you've posted a ton of AI product images, I will never follow you back.
Oh, this one is exquisite!
Hotels are strange liminal places, and even more so in Davian Aw's "Dead Season":
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Dead Season - Small Wonders
you sleep and wake and doors are missing / and buttons don't go to every floor / and every face you see has a smile
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August 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Oh, this one is exquisite!
I absolutely love vivid and detailed descriptions of food in fiction.
August 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I absolutely love vivid and detailed descriptions of food in fiction.
Which is more depressing? Going to Letterboxd and seeing an objectively awful film with majority positive reviews or seeing a brilliant film with mostly negative reviews?
August 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Which is more depressing? Going to Letterboxd and seeing an objectively awful film with majority positive reviews or seeing a brilliant film with mostly negative reviews?
Just received my final book cover art from Jana Heidersdorf (@checanty.bsky.social) and omg omg omg. I can't share it yet, but I'm giving up my entire morning to just staring at it. 🤩🤩🤩
August 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Just received my final book cover art from Jana Heidersdorf (@checanty.bsky.social) and omg omg omg. I can't share it yet, but I'm giving up my entire morning to just staring at it. 🤩🤩🤩
I’m filling out a giant government form by hand like it’s 1980 and learning that when I write in all caps my handwriting looks like a serial killer’s.
July 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I’m filling out a giant government form by hand like it’s 1980 and learning that when I write in all caps my handwriting looks like a serial killer’s.
Yoshitomo Nara at The Hayward Gallery
July 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Yoshitomo Nara at The Hayward Gallery
Coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social is spring of 2026
July 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social is spring of 2026
The idea of read a novel or short story or poem or any creative writing generated by AI makes me feel physically sick. I don't care if it's "good". It would be dead. A dead thing with no energy or ideas behind it. Fiction is communication between humans. AI product is nothing.
July 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The idea of read a novel or short story or poem or any creative writing generated by AI makes me feel physically sick. I don't care if it's "good". It would be dead. A dead thing with no energy or ideas behind it. Fiction is communication between humans. AI product is nothing.
The Black Parade by Ilana Lindsey
coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring of 2026
#books #SpeculativeFiction
coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring of 2026
#books #SpeculativeFiction
July 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Black Parade by Ilana Lindsey
coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring of 2026
#books #SpeculativeFiction
coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring of 2026
#books #SpeculativeFiction
I absolutely adore this one 😍
You know what makes Mondays (or any days) better? Little Roundfaced Dogs. Let @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social's story sweep you away in a tide of furry tiny feet:
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Little Roundfaced Dogs - Small Wonders
Little roundfaced dogs, running up main street, rushing past stoplights and shopfronts and parked cars.
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July 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I absolutely adore this one 😍
Today’s writing task: searching for an aggressive image of a dandelion
July 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Today’s writing task: searching for an aggressive image of a dandelion
The Black Parade by Ilana Lindsey
Coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring 2026
Coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring 2026
July 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Black Parade by Ilana Lindsey
Coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring 2026
Coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring 2026
June 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Gloriously dark and delicious
It's time to learn the names, spore prints, habitat and ranges of many fungi, with "A Widow's Field Guide to Fungi" by @marissavu.bsky.social. Bring a canteen and something to wipe your hands: this may get messy.
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A Widow’s Field Guide to Fungi - Small Wonders
Some tooth fungi grow on the ground, some on trees, but others grow from his gums, where they gleam (yellow) when he smiles in the moonlight, in that way that makes your hand tremble.
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June 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Gloriously dark and delicious
The Black Parade coming from @ninestarpress in 2026.
They can burn down the world, but they’ll never take your heart.
#speculativefiction #lgbtqbooks #postapocalypticfiction #romancebooks
They can burn down the world, but they’ll never take your heart.
#speculativefiction #lgbtqbooks #postapocalypticfiction #romancebooks
June 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The Black Parade coming from @ninestarpress in 2026.
They can burn down the world, but they’ll never take your heart.
#speculativefiction #lgbtqbooks #postapocalypticfiction #romancebooks
They can burn down the world, but they’ll never take your heart.
#speculativefiction #lgbtqbooks #postapocalypticfiction #romancebooks
June 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Black Parade by Ilana Lindsey coming from Ninestar Press in 2026.
They can burn down the world, but they’ll never take your heart.
They can burn down the world, but they’ll never take your heart.
June 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Black Parade by Ilana Lindsey coming from Ninestar Press in 2026.
They can burn down the world, but they’ll never take your heart.
They can burn down the world, but they’ll never take your heart.