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Lotte van der Krol
@lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
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woodland creature. misses the mountains. reads books. writes stories.

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Lotte van der Krol @lottevanderkrol.bsky.social · Apr 6
New story out in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social "There's Music in the Land", read here! kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
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Friday Links is UP! Featuring @yuriherrera.bsky.social @lottevanderkrol.bsky.social @thebetsy.bsky.social @barryp.bsky.social @abelfglez.bsky.social and MORE!

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Friday Links: Exile In The Swamp Edition – Lazy & Entitled
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September 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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kaleidotrope.bsky.social
There's a new issue of Kaleidotrope today!

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Kaleidotrope header image (artwork by Katherine Souza)
July 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
*doesnt post anything for months then posts everything all at once* im just... so good at the social media
June 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
Another quote from my latest story "There's Music in the Land" in the spring issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
June 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
👌👌 way to make a fairytale just too damn real @marofthebooks.bsky.social in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
“The Princess Seed” by Mar Vincent
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June 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
Such a beautiful & heartbreaking story and I especially admire the subtle world building in between the bittersweet pain kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/... by @karenosborne.bsky.social in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
“Osteogenesis” by Karen Osborne
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June 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
This is such a good & strange story @mckatie.bsky.social not an easy story concept to pull off but Katie did it and did it really well!!

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“Mabinogion” by Katie McIvor
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June 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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kaleidotrope.bsky.social
Would you like a preview of the Summer issue of Kaleidotrope, going live Tuesday, July 1?
FICTION “How to Create a God” by Rachel Meresman “Steel Holds the Heat’s Memory” by Rick Hollon “Transmission Systems” by Julia August “Into a Distant Ocean” by Matthew Cheney “The Ink God Questions the Nature of Faith” by Matt Thompson “The Ghost Lyrics” by Jim Marino “Dybbuk-Draw” by Devan Barlow “A Preparation of Tombstones” by Maggie Slater “Save the Date” by Elle Boyd “The Moon’s Only Daughter and the Teeth of Time” by Marla Marlys “Plastic Alternatives for Humble Seamstresses” by Wren Douglas “The Demographer” by Richard Ford Burley POETRY “When All I Could See Were Flowers” by Mari Ness “Night Reveries” by Alexander Etheridge “reading the plants left over” by Mike Sluchinski "The Hungry Years" by Jennifer Crow "permutations" by Eva Papasoulioti “I opted for the praying mantis arms” by Katy Bond “Bergelmir” by James Joseph Brown
June 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
This story is just so heartbreakingly beautiful 💔💔💔 you gotta read it!!
kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · Jun 16
"The best time to find your bones is four hours after sundown on a festival night, when the sorcerers drink to escape the truth of what they have done."

"Osteogenesis" by @karenosborne.bsky.social
“Osteogenesis” by Karen Osborne
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June 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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kaleidotrope.bsky.social
What would you trade to heal the hurt inside? Open the door to “Full, Empty Houses” by @plangdineple.bsky.social and find out.

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There are places in Abuja that one should not visit in November, places where the dust devils from the Sahara transform into actual devils who will gladly trade and barter your skin for whatever they want.
June 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
Read my story "There's Music in the Land" in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
June 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
💔 it's so good!!
kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · Jun 6
What would you walk away from to become what you really are? How much of your humanity would you give up to find the animal inside?

Read “Rosette Spots” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social and find out.

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He’d had a name once, this man. A name he could barely remember now, a name that came to him in dreams, spoken through the cracked lips of a woman he knew he had once known but had no memory of.
June 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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kaleidotrope.bsky.social
What would you walk away from to become what you really are? How much of your humanity would you give up to find the animal inside?

Read “Rosette Spots” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social and find out.

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
He’d had a name once, this man. A name he could barely remember now, a name that came to him in dreams, spoken through the cracked lips of a woman he knew he had once known but had no memory of.
June 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Reposted by Lotte van der Krol
kaleidotrope.bsky.social
There’s a lot going on in the world right now, so if you need a short break, there are a bunch of great stories and poems right here.
“How strange it is to be anything at all” – Neutral Milk Hotel, “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”
www.kaleidotrope.net
April 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
This! Was! So! Good!
kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · Apr 30
They say to name a thing is to have power over it. Or is it? Find out in @hugeshark.bsky.social’s new post-apocalyptic story “Naming the Dead.”

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When the dead thing came to her in the night, and touched her with hands that were not human hands and twined its hair that was not human hair around his fingers, she pried it off with a curse and stilled it as she had been taught.
May 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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faithallington.bsky.social
The average Kaleidotrope reader has eldritch friends.
kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · May 2
The average American has three friends.
Kaleidotrope Spring 2025 cover image (art by Cita A F): three women asleep, dreaming, among tentacle-like vines and flowers
May 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
Listen carefully and you'll hear the dark woods whisper that you should read the latest issue of Kaleidotrope
kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · May 6
Listen close! Can you hear it? “There’s Music in the Land” in @lottevanderkrol.bsky.social’s new story.

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You can feel it trembling beneath your feet as you walk through the hills on your own. For a long while it’s barely anything, just a little itch at the edge of your senses, but your feet pull you along, following the tremor towards its source.
May 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reposted by Lotte van der Krol
kaleidotrope.bsky.social
Listen close! Can you hear it? “There’s Music in the Land” in @lottevanderkrol.bsky.social’s new story.

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
You can feel it trembling beneath your feet as you walk through the hills on your own. For a long while it’s barely anything, just a little itch at the edge of your senses, but your feet pull you along, following the tremor towards its source.
May 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Reposted by Lotte van der Krol
kaleidotrope.bsky.social
There goes the neighborhood—in @trailofleaves.bsky.social’s new story “We Like Yellow Houses Here.”

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When Nadine arrived at her new home, toting three suitcases and a cat basket with no cat in it, its yellow paint gleamed like butter in the summer sun. But after three days of rain, a survey revealed streaks of lime green, scuffs of brown, and a skirting board of ankle-revealing bareness to which moss and dandelions had attached themselves in merry spite.
April 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
Wanna read a good story? Read this one!!
kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · Apr 15
Travel with Peredur (and @mckatie.bsky.social) into the land of Dyfed in a strange and haunted retelling of “Mabinogion.”

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One day, Peredur received news from the borders of his land. An evil power had been gathering strength in the north.
April 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Lotte van der Krol
kaleidotrope.bsky.social
Travel with Peredur (and @mckatie.bsky.social) into the land of Dyfed in a strange and haunted retelling of “Mabinogion.”

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
One day, Peredur received news from the borders of his land. An evil power had been gathering strength in the north.
April 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Reposted by Lotte van der Krol
kaleidotrope.bsky.social
Every story starts somewhere. The dozen in the new issue of Kaleidotrope start with The (3), There (3), He (2), When (2), In (1), or Our (1).
April 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
lottevanderkrol.bsky.social
New story out in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social "There's Music in the Land", read here! kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
April 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Reposted by Lotte van der Krol
kaleidotrope.bsky.social
In case you missed it…
kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · Apr 1
The Spring 2025 issue of Kaleidotrope has gone live! Read a dozen new tales and more than a half dozen new poems at www.kaleidotrope.net today!
table of contents available at www.kaleidotrope.net
April 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Reposted by Lotte van der Krol
kaleidotrope.bsky.social
The Spring 2025 issue of Kaleidotrope has gone live! Read a dozen new tales and more than a half dozen new poems at www.kaleidotrope.net today!
table of contents available at www.kaleidotrope.net
April 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM