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C. Signy Maraine 🛹🐢
@csignymaraine.bsky.social
Wordlarker. Writing teen horror fiction and rum poetry. Author of DREAD THE BOARDS

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📯 maraineunmoors at gmail
Tis the season...DREAD THE BOARDS is available at B&N - and most online book retailers
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Someone once claimed
that the very hairs of each head are numbered
i don't know the sum of my breaths
or heartbeats -
or anyone else's,
but maybe someday indeed
i'll know as i am known

#vss365 #number #poetry #photography #nature
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
educational irony
that confronts me as i age:
it is often through unlearning
the soul, at last, finds rest

#vss365 #education #poetry #photography #nature #trees
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
in wisdom
the creatures teach
beautiful stillness
p-a-t-i-e-n-c-e
the wind alone breathes
as she waits
waits until she no longer seems real to me
but soon, what she seeks comes to her
and...
swiftly she strikes

#vss365 #creature #photography #poetry #birds
November 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
a sheer act of rebellion against the dying of the light

staving off
death's grim business
another turn
on the fading, dangling
leaves of a shifting
dance floor
She pulsates
beautiful blooded and vibrant
no whispering -
declaring
until the end -
I LIVE

#vss365 #business #poetry #photography
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Time for some monsters! Here's a scary six-word story.

#horror #halloween #nature #photography #art
October 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
moss witch: It is no caprice - I long to withdraw to the forest. To live quietly. To feed animals. Listen to birdsong. Write poems in the old language. Sing of bygone days. Dream through the ending of this age.

#vss365 #caprice #photography #nature
September 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Scarecrow: I fear the eventuality of the fading of the siren's song.

Magpie: The song is rooted within you. Listen - until it sings in your blood and your soul. Listen to the sound of eternity between heartbeats. Listen as the song roars over the storm.

#vss365 #eventuality #photography #nature
September 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Scarecrow *lamenting*: The storms are destroying my garden patch.

Magpie: Then we'll go to the lake of the world. It is stocked with stories. Even still.

#vss365 #stock #photography #nature
September 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
heated rush
currents of air banding
conspiring together
no thermals rising to lift the wing
but vortexing
as they seek to fell the sky

#vss365 #conspire #poetry #photography
September 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
unflinching candor
nature discloses wisdom
symbols as her speech

#vss365 #flinch #haiku #senryu #poetry #photography
September 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
iron sky lowring
unbearable vise pressure
soul's breath snuffed by brass

#vss365 #bearable #haiku #senryu #poetry #photography #art
September 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
these two
unwilling to acknowledge they hear me as I shout, Stop it! when they're seeing who can bark the loudest at someone walking by on the sidewalk
can hear the rustling of a wrapper anywhere in the house

#vss365 #wrapper #dogs #photography
September 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
pollinators hum
coloring with tiny feet
fields of wild blooms

#vss365 #hum #haiku #poetry #photography #nature
July 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Writing outside today - this little cutie keeping me company

#birds #photography #amwriting
July 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
rupture
rapture
liminal portal
fails to capture
eerie spectres
in full elation
coming to make
a visitation

words and art ©️ C. Signy Maraine
#whistpr #eerie
July 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The "Overview" for DREAD THE BOARDS is much better these days. (It used to claim DREAD was about the fear of taking tests. LOL)
July 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
In a great flow with one of my manuscripts (upper middle grade/young adult horror). Going to lock in and step away from social media for a bit. Be back soon. Enjoy your summer/winter (depending on your hemisphere), everyone!
June 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is Susurrus. (I name all my plants.) She is a Calathea - or prayer plant. As you can see, her leaves move - and when they do, you can sometimes hear them rustle.
#vss365 #susurrus
June 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Got my very first #goodreads rating! Many, many thanks! 🙏
June 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
DREAD THE BOARDS pictured at B&N with latest shelf buddy - R. L. Stine!

#horror #booksky #teenhorror
June 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Hey #booksky, looking for a summer read? Check out my teen horror ebook DREAD THE BOARDS - you can buy it at Kobo, Indigo, B&N, Booktopia, or Amazon: a.co/d/ghXKLrv.

Or check it out from your library through Libby (Overdrive). Request it using the smart tags in Libby.

#EduSky #summerreads #teen
June 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
no immunity
protects like the love freely
given by a dog

#vss365 #immunity #haiku #poetry #photography #art
May 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
bloom gone: cardinal-clipped
stem the trace that reminds: make
the most of your springs

#vss365 #trace #haiku #poetry
May 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Nope. Nope. Not even close. I just want to go on the record: DREAD THE BOARDS is not about a fear of taking tests. It is a play on the phrase "tread the boards" - totally different concept.
May 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM