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Elou Carroll 🍂 is querying 🍂
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I design things. I write things. I photograph things. I panic about things. Mostly that last one.

edits: @crowkeys.bsky.social

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What's this? New fiction? You betcha. :)
Our ✨January 2026 issue✨ is ready at last!

Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!

It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!

Subscribe through Patreon:
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You fall asleep, but not before clicking the link.

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January 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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We've got some words in the oven in the tower. We didn't follow a recipe, so we're not sure how they'll turn out. For a poem that has been baked to perfection, however...

"The Baker" by Elena Zhang

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January 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
What's this? New fiction? You betcha. :)
Our ✨January 2026 issue✨ is ready at last!

Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!

It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!

Subscribe through Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/HavenSpecM...
January 19, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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You click the link. We wait.

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January 17, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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The tower has a husband somewhere. It doesn't mention them often, but we believe they are a mountain or at least, they used to be. We do, however, celebrate the towerwife's anniversary. For other types of wives...

"Housewives" by Eilish Alexander

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January 17, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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What approached on your feed was the link. Click it.

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January 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Trees cannot be trusted. We will not be elaborating on this statement. Instead, we invite you to read today's short story...

"Birch" by E. F. Vollmer

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January 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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you click the link; it's not a memory, it's happening right now.

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January 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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We're surrounded by mirrors, but we're reflected differently in each one. We don't remember what we look like anymore. Instead of fretting about our faces, we're reading excellent poetry.

"lucky in the sky" by Miranda Michalowski

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January 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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One thing you mustn't forget: to click the link.

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January 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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The tower remembers when it was just a small rock. It remembers growing stone by stone. It tries to forget that awkward adolescent stage when it was little more than a hovel by reading stories, just like this one...

"Hands and Feet" by EC Dorgan

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January 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Some stories take longer to find a home. "Our Mother, the Dark Damp Earth" was like that, but it was all worth it in the end because it was picked up by the best possible magazine, @crowkeys.bsky.social 🙏

Here it is: crowcrosskeys.com/2025/11/16/o...
Our Mother, the Dark Damp Earth—Laila Amado
On the first day of the sowing, Nena wakes up before dawn, tense with the half-remembered uneasiness of her dream. In the weak light, her husband’s face is a cragged outline with deep grooves, like…
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December 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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The link exists. Click it.

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January 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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It is a new year and we are alive. We're not 100% certain what manner of 'alive' we are yet, but we'll work it out eventually. For now, we're enjoying our first flash fiction of 2026.

"The Psychopomps are Dead" by Jenna Grieve

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January 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Little 2025 publication thread, with thanks to @crowkeys.bsky.social and @templeinacity.bsky.social and @bendinggenres.bsky.social: (And send me your lists!)
December 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Send 2025 off the icy cliff. Click the link.

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December 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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And just like that, we've reached our last post of 2025. It's a beauty, folks. Join us as we in the tower bid goodbye to 2025 with one final poem.

"A Life That Might Be Yours / Flashes Before Someone's Eyes" by Stephanie Jones

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December 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Thrilled to see this flash online again! Thank you @crowkeys.bsky.social for the opportunity to reprint this long defunct story!
We remember every haunting. Not just our own. The tower has a whole wing dedicated to the recording of haunted happenings. It comes and goes as it pleases. For a different breed of ghost...

"Hauntings" by @chellechampagne.bsky.social

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December 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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1. Opus Hades by Kimberley White in @crowkeys.bsky.social a poem in seven parts about death, Hades, Persephone and love. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/08/27/o...
Opus Hades—Kimberly White
He breathes in the depth before the air is formed primeval dust of inner earth Continue reading…
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December 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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6. The Skill Of The Sculptor by Joyce Bingham in @crowkeys.bsky.social where the sculptor is commissioned to make a very particular bronze crowcrosskeys.com/2025/07/12/t...
The Skill of the Sculptor—Joyce Bingham
Below my window the harbour master of Mathurn was busy preparing for the storm due to arrive in the next few hours. Fishing boats were being lashed together and the hum of activity reached even my …
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December 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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“Only Carrion,” a gothic flash piece originally published in print by The Ghastling, appeared online in @crowkeys.bsky.social

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December 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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We've had our fair share of strange visitations from beings who want to make bargains. We never accept them. We know better. Bargaining is dangerous. On bargains...

"Black Walnut" by @femalehysteria.bsky.social

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December 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Remember to click the link.

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December 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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There is a ghost in the tower. It doesn't do much. Just lingers, and watches. It has seen many things. It has even seen you. It has also seen this poem.

"The Mother of Ghosts" by @ezhang77.bsky.social

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December 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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