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Lacy
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Reader, writer, resister. Interested in writing community, urban food forests, community care, low-impact living and more.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Cassie just wanted to take pictures. Instead: a fae mall full of glamor, glitter, and gaslighting. Her BFF’s brainwashed, her crush is cursed, and her only weapon is her ability to cut the crap. Labyrinth meets Twin Peaks in the food court.
The Crystal Court: Mallrats of Destiny #QuestPit #WIP #F
A collage of Polaroids including a girl with a camera taking a selfie in a mirror, a pink-tinged empty mall, an Asian girl eating noodles with chopsticks, a guitar and a hand, a blonde 80s ice queen, and several other images distorted by mirrors. Captions on two of the photos read "The Crystal Court" "1987."
August 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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She just wanted a story. Now she's the headline.

Cursed, crashing (and crushing?) with a half-fae detective, being hunted by vampires & magical union thugs, and possibly unraveling reality.

At least the coffee’s good.

Noir mystery + urban fantasy. October Daye + The Dresden Files. #QuestPit #Q
August 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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* quietly hyperventilates *
July 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Her BFF's been brainwashed. Her maybe-crush is definitely cursed. And her only weapon is her ability to cut through the crap. It's like "Labyrinth" hit the food court with "Twin Peaks" in this creepy fae portal fantasy set in 1987. #unhingedpit #ya #WIP
July 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Which one are you?
April 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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A day late and a dollar short, but this was a good snippet.

#WIPSnips #AmWriting #WriteSky #SkyWriters #WritingCommunity
MacInish raised an eyebrow. “Make a habit of walking into strangers homes uninvited, do you? Bit rude. And, I suppose, if I got the witches from forensics down here, they wouldn’t find any residual spell energy on the lock, would they?” He reached down, as though to examine the door handle, then pulled open the door in mock surprise. “What’s this? Odd choice in décor. I doubt Miss Cartwright commissioned a tracking sigil for herself in her first 12 hours of being aware of the supernatural world.” He scratched his head. “But it would constitute illegal tracking if anyone else put it there, so…” “I think we should be going,” Byrn said tersely. “Oh, well don’t let me chase you off,” MacInish said, even as he opened the door wider for them. As the women filed out, Byrn produced a business card and placed it on the kitchen counter. “In case you find you need some powerful friends in the supernatural community…” he said to Julia. “Don’t hesitate to call.” MacInish pulled an offended face. “What am I, dragon dung?” He slammed the door, nearly catching Byrn’s heels on the way out. “Twat,” he swore.
January 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Our emotionally constipated detective shares coffee instead of feelings. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #skywriters
“Good morning,” he said as she opened the door and he thrust a mug of steaming black coffee at her. “I knew you didn’t have any in, so—” “Thank you!” She took it without further comment, as though they did this all the time, and stood back from the door to let him in. “I’ve just started reviewing my notes.” He followed her into the flat, shutting the door behind him, and joined her at the little two-seat breakfast table he’d moved over here at some point a few decades ago. “That’s tidy-minded of you.” “Helps me figure out where I need to point myself for the day,” she said. “And sometimes helps me find connections I missed.” He nodded. “So what have you found?” “Not a lot,” Julia admitted. “Just trying to make sense of all the players.” She took a drink of her coffee. “This is excellent,” she commented, and he felt a swell of… what, exactly? He tamped that down as well.
January 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips word of the day is "buck" — as in a hundred and twenty bucks for a useless spelliquary is highway robbery.
“Yeah. The witches down in forensics are working on a tracer spell now, to see if we can find out where he was when he sent it.” “Speaking of forensics, that spelliquary Norns found at my apartment—” “What spelliquary?” Gould cut him off. “That thing’s isn’t a spelliquary any more. It’s junk. All the enchantments are worn off. Worst you could do with it is chuck it at somebody.” David sighed. “That explains a lot. I took it off a drunk who said they’d bought it from some guy in a club for a hundred and twenty bucks.” “They were robbed,” Gould said blandly. She sat forward, steepling her fingers. “Are you working this case, Mac?” “Norns took me off the case.” “I know. But are you working it for Drago?” “I’m not a private detective any more, Ari, you know that.” “For the girl, then? The victim?” Julia found herself wondering the same thing.
January 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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#WIPSnips word of the day is "wild."

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So it didn’t make sense for anyone to curse a random stranger on the street. Which meant that Julia Cartwright was probably not just a random stranger to her attacker.  The supernatural set sometimes interacted with humans — especially those who didn’t have any trouble appearing human — so you did get human relationships with supernaturals.  He could imagine someone wanting to create a spell that would bring a human into their world, especially if they had a strong relationship to that human…  He didn’t have to imagine it, actually.  But how many people were actually capable of creating such a spell? The answer should have been zero, he thought with a frown. This was messing with centuries old magic, and it wasn’t as though no one had tried this before.  In fact, now that he thought about it, a spell like this was wildly illegal — not just the random cursing, but the curse itself.  And it looked as though Julia was just an innocent human woman caught in the crossfire.
January 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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How I'm feeling about the next 4 years.
Magnetic poetry with a purple filter reads: "I will not go gentle into that good night. I'm gonna be a huge bitch about it."
January 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Went to our favorite French cafe for the last day of winter break and my daughter got this adorable chocolat chaud.
January 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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We didn’t get more than a dusting of snow, but woke up to beautiful hoarfrost on everything this morning.
White hoarfrost crystals on a sunflower seed head. White hoarfrost crystals on a sunflower seed head.
January 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I came down for lunch and this fox was drinking from the wadi in our back yard! These moments make me so happy that I get to make my yard a welcoming place for wildlife.
December 6, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Michael (Ted Dansen) from the show "The Good Place" says, "Okay, it shouldn't take long. Between an hour and, um, 11 months."
December 4, 2024 at 8:39 PM