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Julie Le Blanc
@julieleblancwrites.bsky.social
Speculative fiction writer 🚀 word nerd 🏰 crochet cultist 🧶 mama ✨
Expect Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Space, language learning, fiber crafts, and probably pictures of cats.
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#ThrowbackThursday

🐊 Part 8

"Gently Smiling Jaws", printed in @emberjournal.org
(Sept 2024)

"Albert. What was she to do with Albert?"

An old woman's love for her unconventional pet is tested when his quality of life is at stake.

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November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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🔊 Part 7

"Craft Your Own Adventure", re-printed and recorded in audio in @castofwonders.org (May 2024)

It's an absolute delight to see this brought to life by narrator Louise Ratcliffe for a Young Adult audience!

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November 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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🧶Part 6

"Devil's Lace", published in @diabolicalplots.com (Feb 2023)

This story draws a lot from my own experience as a kid, learning to crochet from my Memere. This Sept would have made her 101st bday.

Miss you Mem x

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October 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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⛈️ Part 5

"Cloud Cover", published in Paper Lanterns Literary Journal (Nov 2022)

When something goes wrong in the whimsical Cloud Store, Jamilla and an unlikely friend must save themselves from certain destruction.

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September 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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🤖 Part 4

"The Mechanic", published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 2022)

An elderly android must trek into dangerous territory to retrieve the parts she needs... or die trying.

My first SFWA pub! 🥳

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September 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Should I just rename this ThrowbackFriday? Maybe 😅 #ThrowbackThursday

🌲 Part 3

"They Took the Trees", a penny fiction of just 21 words

😢 Where do you put your sorrow when the trees all die?

Published in Haunted Waters Press, Dec 2021

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July 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It's #ThrowbackThursday! a day late because #parenting

🧶Part 2

"Craft Your Own Adventure"

"While Marya was usually excellent at imagining the worst, opening a portal to another world while crocheting had never really crossed her mind."

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July 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It's #ThrowbackThursday! Speculative fiction style

🚀Part 1

"Tended" was my first published flash fic 🥲
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"[She paddled] down the great, bloated river towards the sea, following the remaining birds. They would know where the last seeds grew."

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June 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM