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Mira Williams
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Aspiring author, born and raised in the longsuffering woods of the Appalachian foothills (well, born in a hospital, but you get the idea).
Check me out at mirawilliamsauthor.com.
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Bringing some candy to the protest tomorrow...
#nokingsday #uspol #indivisible #june14th
A collection of about ten friendship bracelets on an arm. There is a wooden floor and grey rug in the background. The bracelets are made of an assortment of small plastic beads in every color. They have letter beads that spell out either "resist," "no kings," or "fight evil." Some of the bracelets have beads shaped like flowers, stars, and cats, but mostly the letter beads are all that's visible.
June 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Found this guy on a walk in southern Ohio 💚

#mushrooms #fungifriends #fungifriday
A close up photo of a log covered in moss and surrounded by dead leaves. In the center is a super dense cluster of beige fungi. Each individual stalk has a fringe like head that is reminiscent of coral.
May 31, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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I made this little fortune teller to go with one of my aesthetic bingo cards! Took me several horror game playthrough videos to get it done.

#Craftsky #AmWriting #SexySwampAssSummer #Appalachia
The outside of an origami fortune teller (sometimes referred to as a cootie catcher), which is made with lime green paper. Each section is bordered with ink drawings of thorny vines. The sections read as follows: Paw Paw, Green Briar, Cypress Knees, and Spruce Tips. The underside of an origami fortune teller (sometimes referred to as a cootie catcher), which is made with lime green paper. Each section is decorated with a mandala design with a stylistic lotus flower at the edges. It is done in green and black ink. The inside of an origami fortune teller (sometimes referred to as a cootie catcher), which is made with lime green paper. Each section is bordered in dark green, with illustrations of tiny trees in black ink. The sections are numbered 1 through 8. The inside of an origami fortune teller (sometimes referred to as a cootie catcher), which is made with lime green paper. Each section is outlined in dark green and has a border of thorny vines. The two sections that are visible read "Nope," and "Honestly, I feel like this situation could have easily been avoided."
May 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This one's my favorite. It's a consumer-neutral seasonal aesthetic bingo card. Think sexy vampires motorcycling through small town America to find cryptids and fight evil. Also it's the 70's. #CherryPopsicleSummer

#craftsky #amwriting #horrorsky
A homemade bingo card where the squares are actually red hearts, where every other one is upside down to make them fit together. The hearts are outlined in black and glued to a red faux newspaper background, which is glued to a black background. It has a glittery red header that reads "Cherry popsicle summer" in black cut out letters. The hearts read: watch some creepy cartoons, go to an event at night, wear black, spend some time in the woods, ward against evil, late night diner, read an old mystery novel, fight evil, have a femme fatale moment, road trip to a middle of nowhere town, do some witchcraft, drink some red wine, the free square is a glittery red cherry, go to a protest, research your local paranormal phenomenon, watch some Unsolved Mysteries, tell a deserving party to fuck right off, watch a vintage horror movie, hike somewhere new, eat a cherry popsicle (duh), look way to cool while smoking, drive the backroads at night, look for cryptids/try Randonautica, drink at a dive bar, and see what's up at a haunted house. Attached to the card is a short pencil that has been carved to look like a stake with red wax and symbols on it.
May 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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This week, I procrastinated my writing projects by making these aesthetic bingo cards for my friends for summer. They choose between: CherryPopsicle, OrangeBicycle, SolarPunk, SexySwampAss, SeaHag, and VulpineAuraSummer.

#craftsky #amwriting #horrorsky
A homemade bingo card that has "Sea Hag Summer" written at the top in teal. The bingo squares are actually black triangles with white writing. They are glued to a greyish blue background. This has a marbleized teal border, and a black border around that. There is a short teal pencil attached at the top, which is encrusted with gold and turquoise. The squares are all follows: Take a cold shower, read/watch a WLW story, exfoliate shave and moisturize in one sitting, learn to decenter men, go swimming, tell a man to fuck right off, learn some phrases of an island language, wear jewelry at a now jewelry time, learn grown up story of Medusa, be on a boat, wear something unsexy, read some Sappho, a middle triangle with an abstract pattern of lines and punched holes, get rained on, hydrate, google the horrors of the VOC, sharpen your knives, enjoy a cathartic female rage spiral, learn about artist Artemisia, collect some water treasures, read a book that takes place by the ocean, touch foam from turbulent waters, feed an aquatic animal, deep sea documentary, and take action for women's rights.
May 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I read Alix Harrow's @alixeharrow.bsky.social "Starling House" because I found it researching for comp titles for my manuscript. Now I'm REALLY intimidated to use it as a comp title. Absolutely spectacular Appalachian fantasy. OMG her sense of place.
#Booksky #WhatToRead #AmReading #WritersLife
A photo of the cover of Alix Harrow's "Starling House." It has the title in white in the middle, the author's name in orange at the top, and a close up flock of blueish black starlings in the background. There is an orange wrought iron gate edited in front of the book, and a cluster of honey suckle edited all over the top of the book.
May 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Here's some micro-fiction for hiking season!

#HorrorWriters #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Horror
A picture of text, surrounded by a forest green border comprising motifs of triangles, dots, eyes, and seven pointed starts. The text is as follows: La Tulpa Anyone who say me would’ve thought that I was just another curious netizen coming around to see if that Subreddit had any merit, if the altar was actually there in the middle of some neglected Ohio gameland. What started out as a few pictures and a poor quality audio file had grown into a flourishing message board that attracted cybersleuths and real life urbexers alike. No one had any idea that I took the photos, that I was the grad student who found the link between the creepy symbols and Florence County’s dark mining history. And one freezing night when only a crazy person would be out, I built the altar. I even edited together the Witch’s trademark animal moan. It was all I ever dreamed of and more, inspiring the next great urban legend, and I was proud to walk those woods, to see other people’s gift at the not-to-well hidden site. But what was that sound rising behind me, that sound like a cat, a human scream, and a blender, familiar except that now, I feel it rattle in my bones?
May 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Bo Burnham's "That Funny Feeling" just started playing in my head.

#USPol #Dystopia
A screenshot in which Google's AI overview describes common scams in 2025, which are largely orchestrated using AI. It follows: AI Overview In 2025, scams continue to evolve, with AI-powered scams, imposter scams, and investment scams posing significant threats. Specifically, AI-powered scams are becoming more sophisticated, using AI to create convincing phishing emails, deepfake videos, and fake voices. Imposter scams, where scammers pose as trusted individuals or entities, are also prevalent, targeting individuals for personal information or money. Investment scams, promising high returns, often target those with limited investment knowledge.
May 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Happy Beltane, heathens

#Witchcraft #Horrorsky #Horror #Baking
A photo of a purple baking spoon (like a wooden spoon but made out of silicone) with a witchy sun motif in the spoon's bowl. The sun has a face with a star on the forehead, and lines are coming out on the top and bottom to represent rays. The spoon is covered in blackberry sauce, so is covered in a dark red liquid, with black chunks stuck to the sides. The spoon is resting on an orange spoon rest in the shape of an owl.
May 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Speaking of mushrooms, here's some more bite-sized horror.
#HorrorWriters #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
A picture of text, surrounded by a teal border comprising motifs of triangles, dots, eyes, and seven pointed starts. The text is as follows: Les Champignons “You don’t understand.” That’s what I said to the cops. “When you’re out there, looking for morels, it’s way easier to loose each other than you’d think. You’re staring at the ground most of the time, and when you do look up, it’s just at the base of the next few trees, not the forest if you know what I mean.” The cop, newly transferred from Charleston or Raleigh or some city that was just country enough that he probably though he knew the first thing about the backwoods, looked skeptical. “You loose track of time,” I tried again. “You don’t realize how long it’s been since you saw each other.” But he still didn’t get it. “What was the last thing she said to you?” I had to think. “She asked me if I ever felt like running into the woods and not coming back.”
April 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Got my Appalachian card renewed on a camping trip! My first morel, and it only took about eight hours of searching and some poison ivy.
#Morels #Foraging #MushroomHunting
A closeup photo of the forest floor, littered with pine needles and moss, featuring a morel mushroom. Morels have white stalks, with darker oblong heads that are have a folded texture, like coral.
April 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Just having a little tea party at the desk...

#booksky #amwriting #writingcommunity
A photo of a section of a wooden desk where two Monster High Dolls (Clawdeen and Draculara) are sitting down, both with tiny cups. One has long brown hair, pink shoes, and a purple fuzzy coat. The other has pink hair and pink shoes. Beside them is a green bottle of Jarritos soda, and a small cup and Chinese gaiwan with a pomegranate motif. There is also a print in the background of a woman in a green dress surrounded by sunflowers.
April 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Here's another short work.
#horrorwriters #writingcommunity #amwriting
A picture of text, surrounded by a teal border comprising motifs of triangles, dots, eyes, and seven pointed starts. The text is as follows: Le Déluge We lingered too long at the grocery store. By the time we got to checkout, lines wrapped around the aisles. It took hours longer than we expected. The percussive din of rain on a metal roof meant that news spread through shouts instead of quiet conversations, and that’s how we learned that the main way home was flooded. We didn’t know the backroads very well. At first we bickered about lefts and rights, anxious to get dry and sleep in our own bed. Then the creeks spread out long fingers and pulled themselves up over the banks. A calmness came over us. Our only aspiration became any uncovered road. When water touched the tires, we abandoned the groceries and waded toward the hills.
April 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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It was almost too windy to photograph my best project so far...
#craftsky #stainedglass
A series of three small stained glass objects chained together. The first is a green tent with orange and blue trim. The second is a red and orange campfire with blue and cyan accents. The third is a cyan flower with one green petal and an orange center. The whole thing is held up against a background of woods.
April 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Let's try some micro-fiction and a little bit of border design.
#horrorwriters #writingcommunity #amwriting
An orange, stylized border made up of triangles, dots, eyes, and seven-pointed stars surrounds several paragraphs of text which follows: La Crainte. It used to follow me around when I was little. It liked the dark especially, not only what gathered behind the closet door, but that darkness in the carwash and the crawlspace as well. I thought that I would learn to scare it away when I was grown, but sometime during adolescence, maybe while I slept, maybe when those girls almost drown me at the public pool, it crawled up inside of my body. It made a nest inside the deeper folds of my brain. I can’t cry it out. I can’t bleed it out. Rarely is it still, happy to rustle its spines when my attention goes elsewhere for too long. It likes the daylight now, too. -Mira Williams
April 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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It took literal months, but I finally finished what has become one of my most valued books. I wish I had read it when he was still alive, so I could've sent him a fan letter.
#BookSky
A collage of items sitting on a blue crocheted blanket, at the center of which is a copy of Steven Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time,' which featured a photo of a man (Steven Hawking) in a wheelchair against a starry background. Surrounding the book are a maroon bookmark, a bookmark featuring a cloudy sky, and a bookmark that says "We must realize we're all part of a web around the world." Also around the book are a small blue stargazing notebook, a star finder chart, and three paint swatches (lilac, teal, and maroon).
April 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Three short works are now available on my website: mirawilliamsauthor.com, where you can see my attempt to establish a respectable online presence. If you like it when the monster is hiding just out of sight, these are the stories for you.

#horrorwriters #writingcommunity
Against a background of a pine forest, there are three separate illustrations. The first is an abstract picture with the caption "You Don't Even Feel it Happen (2024). The second is an open door with the outline of a shadowy figure peeking out and the caption "Litmus Test (2024)." The third is a hallway that ends in total darkness with the caption "Never Tell a Soul (2024)."
February 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I would like every single person on the face of the earth to know that I just managed to change the font on my website by first finding, and then editing the HTML code. I don't know who's in charge of this, but I would also like a sticker.
mirawilliamsauthor.com
#WritingCommunity #HTML
A screenshot of a website that pictures an abstract illustration and the title: You Don't Even Feel it Happen (2024) in yellow, Baskerville Oldface font. The website has a pine forest in the background.
February 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (6/20) 📚💙
#bookchallege
#booksky
#20daybookchallenge
The book cover for 'Dissolution,' by C.J. Sansom, where a man in a white and brown robe kneels with his hands clasped in front of him. His face is obscured by a green hood.
February 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days.

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge

6/20 Emily Brontë: If you love reality television and empire waistlines, you'll love Wuthering Heights.
February 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days.

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge

5/20 Isabelle Allende: for a masterclass in magical realism that spans time and culture.
February 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20) 📚💙
#bookchallege
#booksky
#20daybookchallenge
February 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The Peoples Union, who describe themselves as "a movement of people, unionizing to take back control of our economy, government and future of our country," is calling for a nationwide boycott of major retailers in response to their rolling back of DEI initiatives on Feb 28th.

#USPOL #Peoplesunion
A screenshot of text from jointhepeoplesunion.com that details their plans for the February 28th boycott of major retailers. The text is as follows: The 24 hour Economic Blackout As our first initial act, we turn it off. For one day we show them who really holds the power WHEN: Thursday February 27th from Midnight till Friday The 28th Midnight (A full 24 hours of the 28th) 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM WHAT NOT TO DO: Do not make any purchases Do not shop online, or in-store No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy Nowhere! Do not spend money on: Fast Food Gas Major Retailers Do not use Credit or Debit Cards for non essential spending A second screenshot of text from jointhepeoplesunion.com that details their plans for the February 28th boycott of major retailers. The text is as follows: WHAT YOU CAN DO: Only buy essentials of absolutely necessary (Food, Medicine, Emergency Supplies) If you must spend, ONLY support small, local businesses. SPREAD THE MESSAGE Talk about it, post about it, and document your actions that day! WHY THIS MATTERS! ~ Corporations and banks only care about their bottom line. ~ If we disrupt the economy for just ONE day, it sends a powerful message. ~ If they don't listen (they wont) we make the next blackout longer (We will) This is our first action. This is how we make history. February 28th The 24 Hour Economic Black Out Begins.
February 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20) 📚💙
#bookchallege
#booksky
#20daybookchallenge
February 16, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days.

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge

4/20 Holly Black: The day I opened Tithe, my childhood ended and life as an angsty, angry YA began.
A headshot of YA author Holly Black, who is sporting curly blue hair.
February 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM