Elise Fernbank
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Elise Fernbank
@eliseianfields.bsky.social
Editor & Writer

Memoirs & Fiction

Writing a spicy mystery novel set on a remote private island in the PNW in 1972

Vancouver Island is home

They/them
And writing from the place of pain, fear, raw emotion has brought me to a new genre: horror.

The archetypes and tropes of horror allow me to test myself in the essence of my protagonists again and again until I know beyond a doubt that it is true:

We can all grow in the dark.
October 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
In the summer of 2020 I was chronically on Twitter and a local librarian posted looking for reqs for a visit to my hometown. That connection eventually became a very close friendship-They are a brother to me. This week, he paid his own way to Mexico to help me get my beloved dog home to Canada.
June 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My kids when I refer to our female dog as a b1tc6
May 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Finally got my art up for those teams calls
April 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
So I saw one of these on a patio over the weekend and am now obsessed. In English this is a ring tail or ring tailed cat but they call them Cacomixtles in Spanish (in English Cacomixtle refers to these little guys' slightly bigger southern cousins) Image courtesy of the @sierraclub.org
April 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I've forgiven her for digging up my dahlias
April 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
April 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Did I mention she has a new bed?
March 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I got served an ad for spring clothes that was like put down the puffer and I'm like oh right they don't know I moved
March 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Ok fine I miss home but it is pretty good here
March 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
When 25 family members show up to watch your rec league soccer game and shoot the shit after that's on...worth the crime rates
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Extreme cute
March 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Here is my promised jacaranda pic @californiaquail.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tfw the humans finally take you for a walk
March 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Watching someone she loves come down the stairs in two parts
March 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
And where would the accordion industry be without Mexico?
March 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Me, when Musk threatens my bs country I think is fake by calling it fake:
February 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I've been withholding this delightful pup from you all for several days. My apologies.
February 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My dahlias are sprouting
February 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Found a ripe lime on my walk
February 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Credit to @californiaquail.bsky.social for finding this
February 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Why is she so cute
February 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Steve Perry singing live while sporting the most glorious curtain bangs is everything to me
February 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
My dog and her dog friend/ husband exchanged valentines
February 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Chew baby chew
February 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM