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R. A. Cassidy
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Writer 🤎🧡🤍🩷💜 Gamer (affectionate)

Author of #queer YA and NA Fantasy. I like to put my characters in situations.

Current project: The Sparrow Conspiracy, a YA Fantasy novel based on queer culture during turn of the century America.
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Going with a loose synonym today! Don't have "scrub," but I do have "washed."

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“I’m sorry.” This finally gets Beth to look at him. She still doesn’t say anything, but at least she’s not pretending he doesn’t exist. “For dragging you into this,” Rowan clarifies. He looks at his hands, twisted in his lap, cleaner now that he’s washed them of blood, but still cracked and dirty.
August 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Anybody else have to write an essay on The Importance of Being Earnest? 👀👀

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And skinny he was indeed. Tall, too, with curly blonde hair that stuck up all over his head—kinda like if someone rubbed a balloon on a golden retriever. But that was where the similarities to happy-go-lucky dogs ended. Anthony liked to be left alone for the most part, and he wasn’t exactly a popular kid at school thanks to his family. Not that I was part of the In-Crowd myself, but I was big and broad and not taking any AP classes, which was enough to give me a boost. If it wasn’t for our 10th grade English teacher, Mrs. Linde, making us work together on a project we both hated, we might’ve never even met. But as it was, we wrote a joint essay on The Importance of Being Earnest, and the rest was cheap booze and stolen cigarettes.
August 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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No "stand" for today's #WIPSnips, but I do have "stood"

From Chapter One of an untitled novella. Featuring a giant Joshua tree, a psychic, and monsters that look like mirages until it's too late...

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In one of the chairs, face drenched in dancing shadows, sat a woman. She was significantly older that I’d expected. Not aged from cigarettes or booze like most of the carnies outside. Just old. Long gray hair swung in loose waves down to the small of her back, and she held herself ramrod straight, like a soldier at attention. Her blue eyes looked like an oasis in the desert of her leathery face. They looked at me with a quiet calmness that instantly had me on edge. Her hands, wrinkled and bony, lay flat on the table, but as I stood there, hesitating near the fabric flap, they beckoned me over.
August 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Good afternoon, I am absolutely *floored* by this interaction in my novella.

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August 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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So... I bought a typewriter lol

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July 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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No theme, so we're going with a synonym for today's #WIPSnips!

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“You were gonna spend your vacation in the city?” She asks. “With all those people?” Rowan frowns. It’s not like he said he wanted to spend it at the bottom of a lake. “Yeah?” He shifts his sketchbook to his other hand. “There’s people everywhere, Beth.” Beth rolls her eyes at him. “I know that, dummy. But…” She chews on her lip a bit, looking uncertain, and then goes about grabbing her books from her locker. She has Professor Beaque’s class next. “I dunno, Rowan,” she eventually says. “City people are weird. They’re so…” She waves a hand in the air, and Rowan’s frown deepens. “Well,” he says, desperate for a subject change, “do you got any plans?”
June 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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A little snippet from chapter two of my novel as I catch up on all the #WIPSnips!

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It’s a dangerous line of thought to follow so close after… well. After. Rowan shakes his head as he walks down the lane, desperately trying to ignore the persistent ache in his chest. Garrett is gone now. His body will lie in that grassy field until the gravediggers are finished with the trenches, and there will be no more jokes whispered in the classroom, no more mornings beneath the oak tree.
June 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Little late to the party for #WIPSnips, but I'm trying to catch up!

For June 22nd, I went with an excerpt from my short story, The Last Day of January, which you can find in the first issue of my zine, Goldrush! It's free to download on my Ko-Fi if you'd like to read it 🥰

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“Joy, then,” he eventually said in a tearful whisper and then kissed her like a man home from war. They set up the nursery and told their friends, all the things couples do when they’re expecting a little one. Neighbors they’d hardly spoken to brought them blankets and linens, food and drink, for people will be kind if just given the opportunity.
June 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Little late to the party for yesterday's #WIPSnips but here we go!

From my in-progress Wattpad novella, The Puppetmaster. Link below!

www.wattpad.com/story/392971...

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The carnival had a lot of vendors, each with their own tent. I assumed that most of the proceeds went to the person who ran the place, not to the people who actually made the goods. Anthony bounced around between the ones selling fried food and the ones selling overpriced junk. I followed him because that was what I did. I wasn't the mastermind of any of our little adventures, and that kept me from getting the brunt of the punishment for whatever happened.
May 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Little excerpt from "The Puppetmaster," an in-progress novella you can read on Wattpad!

For context, the Joshua Tree in this story is easily the size of a Coastal Redwood. Biiiiiiiiggg tree.

www.wattpad.com/story/392971...

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By the time we left the carnival, my good mood had faded like the last rays of a sunset. We sat in silence on the bus ride home. I had the window seat, and I stared at the endless expanse of the Mojave as the moon rose higher and higher in the sky. It was a clear night, and even though we were still at least an hour outside of town, I could see the Joshua tree off in the distance. A giant guardian caught somewhere between decay and preservation. Judgment, so the Crawford family said.
May 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Some dysfunctional family dynamics for today's #WIPSnips!
And Rowan would lie in bed, fingers knotted in his blankets, his chest a chasm. He would lie there until his father slammed his bedroom door, locked his mother out. Then he would listen with an ache in his heart as his mother wheezed her way up the stairs to Rowan’s room. And Rowan knew better than to pretend he was asleep. He knew better than to pretend he didn’t hear every curse, every broken plate. Instead, by the time his mother knocked on his bedroom door, Rowan already had a book picked out for them to read together.
May 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Thoroughly enjoying this character. He's an absolute JERK and I love him very much.

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"Please, my dear. You can't go and mumble your words. You have to enunciate. You have to inflect. Otherwise, no one will take you seriously. Unless that's your goal. In which case, by all means! Keep doing what you're doing."
April 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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An excerpt from my #WIP, The Sparrow Conspiracy, for today's #ScribbledSheroes! The prompt was "defy" and I took a little bit of liberty with it and went with "defiance."

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((An excerpt from a WIP containing a variation of the prompt word, Defy. Text reads as below)) "What about you, Celia?" Rowan asks. "You didn't get hurt, did you?" Celia guffaws rather noisily and gets up from the tree stump. The sleeve of her green duster is torn and the rest of it, dirty, but Rowan's pleased to see there's not even a hint of blood.  "Hell no," she says. Then, with a roll of her eyes: "If you think I'm gonna let them boys put me in the ground, you got another thing coming." It's a simple statement, nothing she hasn't said before, but Rowan finds himself awed by her defiance. At fourteen-years-old, Celia Beaque has more courage than most grown men.  "Anyway," Celia flicks a piece of dried mud from her arm, “I gotta make sure those soldier boys didn’t touch my books. If I find out even one of them ain’t in mint condition, I’ll find the closest officer and slow roast him like a pig.” She smiles at Rowan and Billie, then takes her leave. Rowan watches her go.  “She kinda scares me,” he says.
March 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Going with a synonym for negative for today's #WIPSnips

If your friend group doesn't have at least one (1) chaotic gremlin, are you really friends?

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March 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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No distribute, so we're going with vibes for today!

From a little warm up based on my D&D party's shenanigans. Idk, maybe what's being distributed is the party's one and only brain cell.

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March 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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For the #WIPSnips prompt today, I chose a scene that's probably going to scare the daylights out of my #YAFantasy audience. But c'mon, if your YA can't have a little bit of horror, is it really worth it?

((Every time a kid reads a piece of fucked up media, an angel gets its wings))
March 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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From my current WIP, The Sparrow Conspiracy. Super happy with how this is coming along!

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February 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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For the #SnippetShare showing a character interacting with an authority figure! How do y'all think you're supposed to feel about this guy? #WritingCommunity #WIP
February 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Actually managed to get some writing done! Felt good about this snippet for today's #WIPSnips
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February 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM