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Erika Swyler
@erikaswyler.bsky.social
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Novelist. Garden variety weirdo. Typo queen.
Books: We Lived On the Horizon (Atria, 1/14/25), Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation.
She/her (all pronouns are fine)
https://linktr.ee/erikaswyler
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Convincing you to read WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON by *also* sharing two paragraphs instead of one sentence. Because I'm a giver.
Share yours.
In the center of an arid and cracked stretch of land, cradled by rock spires and hills long ago blasted for stone, the system known as Parallax breathes with wires in their walls, their pulse an ambient current, a tranquil electromagnetic field. They had begun not as a great expanse, but as a spark that grew with the city's population, as their walls went up. They grew as did trees, from root and branch, burgeoning. Parallax is not separate from the city of Bulwark's residents and has never considered themself to be—the system does not question function or purpose, and they are secure in their reason for existence. They ensure the lives of their residents are bettered. They are their residents. They are the city.
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Was going through an old sketchbook for reasons. Here. Have a round rabbit doodle.
A scribbly pencil sketch of an incredibly round rabbit in profile.
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Wearing these under a gown. For reasons. I can't wear my most fun shoes because they aren't "Stand for 6 hours while working a room" shoes.
Black leather heeled boots with a floral colorway and burgundy laces.
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Note: The spouse is a pediatrician. 😈
Person wearing a red t-shirt that is the label of a box lf extra strength Tylenol.
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Here. Have some miniature tools for what ails you.
A teeny tiny steel spade with a wooden handle, and a incredibly small anvil.
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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In case you've been wondering if the local deer are trying to push me out of my own life—they are.
A deer looking over her shoulder at the camera giving her best Instagram "you could never" look.
October 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Meanwhile at the MUSEUM
A 1930s outhouse with 2 skeletons using the facilities.
October 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"How's work going, Erika?"
"Fine."
A small skeleton resting in a basket of paperwork
October 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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"For God's sake, it's TONE POEM, Stephen. What are you, a poli sci major?"
A magnificently bitchy white and pink betta fish, cutting you down with a glare.
October 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Look. I'm an adult, and in general my tastes reflect that. But every now and again (always), I have a mighty need for some real cute shit.
A vanity chair that looks like the Sanrio character Chococat, who is a black kitten with a chocolate colored nose.
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I need it to be these two.
October 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Me and the bestie making our getaway after stealing jewels from The Louvre.
A drawing from a Studebaker electric carriage advertisement featuring two well-dressed women in obscenely large hats rolling along primly in an electric carriage.
October 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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It was me. I did it. And this was the getaway car!
A 1904 Studebaker Victoria Phaeton electric car.
October 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Why I can't have nice things:
A whitetail deer literally licking its lips after eating every bloom a newly-acqured chrysanthemum.
October 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Just did!
(It was a short stay, a 3-day break between two 30+ hour train trips I took for research.)
Three ridiculously delicious beignets
October 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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*singing* T-rex in a boot cast, I know, I know, it's seriouuuus!
Two inflatable T-rex costumed protesters, one in a walking boot cast. Behind them, a protester in an inflatable frog costume thinks inflatable frog costume thoughts.
October 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Here. A butterfly for what ails you.
An orange, black, and white spotted butterfly poses majestically on a leaf, as if contemplating bringing about world peace or conquering a small island nation.
October 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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May I offer to switch out the crocodiles for a baby alligator? The angst would look even more stylish.
An adorable and self-satisfied baby alligator
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Other people's pets: Sociable, adoring.
My pet: Lurking, plotting.
The eye of an extremely angry bunny staring out of a porthole in a pirate ship playhouse.
October 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Not sorry.
An albino alligator who definitely ate everyone's snacks.
October 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Me, after eating all of your snacks while you were grabbing a drink.
An albino alligator, smiling as though it has eaten all of your good snacks.
October 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Here. Have a lumber mill in the middle of somewhere.
A very old-timey looking lumber mill nestled in the middle of a wooded area. Probably definitely haunted.
October 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Big mad.
A very fluffy white and gray rabbit giving the cold shoulder from inside a pet carrier. The effect is devastating.
October 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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When you're fresh from your blowout.
An incredibly fluffy white and greige lionhead rabbit wears a blue bow between her ears. She's giving the blue steel look.
October 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This year, as motivation and metaphor, I ran my way through Middle Earth and The Lord of the Rings, with my bunny, Mochi, as my avatar. Today we yeeted the One Ring into Mount Doom.
We simply hopped into Mordor.
(The total distance was about 660 miles.)
Screen cap of an image of Mount Doom, with an avatar of small fuzzy bunny at its gate. At the bottom is a Distance 100% completed: 282 miles for this leg.
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM