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in the library or in the trees

my first book is a memoir about my father’s 1987 murder in Baltimore, where I’m from. “What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane” will be out on Hanover Sq Press on 4/7/26

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katecrane.bsky.social
I tried to stop it
prostrate in the boulder’s path
I knew. Not enough
Close-up of clutter. Chains, colorful beads, in soft focus, along with a Pilot-brand ink pen. Behind the front row in sharp focus are dead flower petals, brown and crispy. In the background, a statue, white, which bears the shadow of what looks like a hermit or monk figure. In the very back, shadows and a cut crystal vase.
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
"He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself."
A fluffy tabby cat, shades of brown and gold, reclines next to a hairball the size of her head and upper torso. The images are cut out against a white background.
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
My brain is closer to boomer than yours, and I feel the same way. Have you ever read Stoner? (Not that kind of stoner, unfortunately.) Dudes lovvvvve this book. TLDR he makes bad choices and suffers thru avoidable miseries of his own making for 304 pages.
A segment of the cover of Stoner by John Williams, intro by John McGahern. A dour white man in a black coat, shirt and tie slightly visible, looks down dourly.
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
1. bluesky decision makers
2. the decisions they make
Aaron Rodericks responding to a survivor of CSA and sex trafficking on 11/15/25: "First I’m sorry that you had such tragic experiences. That’s horrific. 1) if a person on the news, such as a female journalist talks about a topic, does she deserve threats in a joking way? 2) would you believe those acceptable to receive on your account?"
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
Elizabeth Holmes is looking wholesome in blue jeans and a white T-shirt, kneeling on the grass in a bucolic scene, while, some distance away, maybe 10 feet, maybe 50, a baby that is presumably the baby of Elizabeth Holmes, though you would not know this from Holmes's body language or distance from the tot, is crawling toward a spaceship that has been photoshopped onto the image. It is beaming down to scoop that baby up up and away.
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
Close-up of a metal city box. It’s royal blue, and reads: department of electricity, in raised capital letters painted white. There is a white tag and torn sticker above, and a faded tag in orange below that vaguely reads: mracacof. The box is on a red pole that bears a couple stickers.
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
whispers of winter
architextures mock fall leaves
what stays, what decays
A gray day in San Francisco. Buildings, different heights and colors and architectural eras, flank a street. There’s a sign for Pine. Half a dozen strings of red lanterns hang down the block.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
I missed this nod to my work from Diane Cluck in her October newsletter. Diane and I have been helping each other along our creative paths since 2004. Long friendships are a garden dianecluck.info/campaigns/10...
Lastly, I've been stretching my attention span through learning to read books again, and just enjoyed the heck out of the great Neko Case's memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You. Highly recommended! (Image of Neko's book is embedded. Child in blue bathing suit hugs orange cat. A black monster illo snarls behind her.) I'm also greatly anticipating the 2026 release of Kate Crane's Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane?, a memoir and investigation into her father's murder. Crane has been working on this book for nearly twenty years, as long as I've known her. I pre-ordered my copy today--as with musicians, the importance of individual support for independent writers cannot be underestimated! I had the great fortune of meeting Kate in my early NYC days when she was a music reviewer for Time Out New York, and I still prize this quote from her: “Bell-clear and hotly austere, her lithe, dynamic voice hasn’t much kin. Categorizing her as folk is simplistic. (Cluck) emanates something humble but mythic. Appalachia or ancient Athens?”
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
sought comment from clouds
empty is as empty does
wring out my queries
Snapshot from the driver’s seat in stopped traffic on a highway heading into San Francisco. City skyline in the background, a bit of freight truck to the right of the frame, a handful of stopped cars. The image is black and white, and the sky is gray.
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
thank you, Alsvid 💜
A pretty sunset sky. On the left is a cluster of pointy fir trees. To the right is a cluster of clouds that looks like cotton balls, glowing pink and orange with the setting sun.
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
family muscle
Self portrait of two tough guys. On the left, a life-size statue of Sasquatch. On the right, me, white woman with big dark frames and a looped linen scarf. We look cousins who have both seen better days. Same expression: Fight me.
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
some of us are tending a grievous wound. I love you. stay alive
Low-light tableau. Wooden surface, two purple earplugs, and old mug with Washington DC in stylized type that has illos of DC landmarks in the letters. Behind, the heavy base of a table lamp and a few books. The only light is from the desk lamp, and the objects are in heavy shadow.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
once I thought this was brown
Faux leather embossed with a tree design. Is it brown? Is it orange? Up for debate.
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
Many of us are tending a grievous wound. I love you. Stay alive.
Thousands of yellow leaves tinged with red and orange and green, gleaming like gems under full sunlight against a sky so blue it vibrates. Landscape view. Straight out of the camera because there is no improving on these colors.
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
thank you, Alsvid
Dense leaves on a tree, all yellow and green and gold, against an impossibly blue sky.
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
A single brown oak leaf hovers at the end of a bare branch. The backdrop is breathtaking blue sky. Other bare branches, some with smaller leaves at the end, hover in space. The effect is of a constellation or a diorama.
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
limited-time cure
next one, this one, she’s enough
quick: outrun yourself
A single yellow leaf on black asphalt. It’s shaped like an upside down heart, and covered in black speckles that almost look like letters or code.
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
thank you, Alsvid 💚
Holly berries, or similar, bright red, on a tree in dense foliage.
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
thank you, Alsvid 🖤
Orange leaves, not maple or oak, a simple oval shape, on sparse branches. I edited the photo in sort of an instant film way, so the colors are slightly retro, a slightly unnatural pink sky. But it’s only a head tilt from reality.
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
Black and white self-portrait of two white women with long dark hair. nori is leaning over kate's shoulder. They look like one woman with two heads. Kate wears big dark-framed glasses. They look happy.
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
thank you, Alsvid! 💐
Clusters of pink blooms on a tree under a bright blue sky.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
voted
Black and white selfie of a white person in a black sweatshirt with the cat on it and an I voted sticker. I have a camo ear loop Kn95 on and headphones.
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
angel in the sky
Panorama view of an impeccable blue sky on a sunny day. The cloud formation looks like an angel with her wings spread wide. Or a dragonfly. The bottom of the frame is trees, yellow retaining wall, a bit of white SUV.
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
Next up in the ARC exchange, which, yes, we are calling the Sisterhood of the Traveling ARCs, I’m reading A Good Animal by Sara Maurer. She is an extraordinary writer, and I’m emotionally invested in the survival of a sheep named Fluffernutter
My hand, white skin with a black cuff, holds “a good animal,” a novel by Sara Maurer. The cover of the book is a late day sunset sky, with clouds over a band of orange and the silhouette of a tree with a broad arc and some farm structures. Behind the book are a big spiky maybe yucca plant and blue sky.
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
Thank you, Alsvid
Ceramic amanita-type mushroom, orange with red dots, in a white planter outside in sunlight. It’s not clear what kind of plant is in the planter, but it has a decent-size stem/trunk and narrow Green leaves.
November 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM