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Sarah
@selford.bsky.social
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Collector of yarn (occasionally knitting or crocheting), Writer of fantasy, sci-fi and paranormal stories, Seller of esoteric giftware. Adopter of cats (see 'lil Barry as my profile pic).
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The new hotel reception job is Emily's chance to leave her troubles behind.
First day:
🧙‍♀️Discovers her manager is a witch
🪦Fails to stop a necromancer
🧟Befriends the undead
🪄 Enchanted
👮Questioned by Police (magical version)
😯Abducted
😱To be sold as a slave

#GhostPit #A #Q #PN #F 👻
A graveyard with lopsided tombstones between overgrown foliage. A cloaked figure holding a flaming torch walking a forest path at twighlight. A graveyard at night, backlit by the moon, with a hand raised from between the tombstones. Brass pots and incense burning with coiling smoke. A table top alter with lit candles and a red leather bound book
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Shy and awkward; 16yo Prince Charming despises his name. When his wish is unexpectedly granted he is transported to The Lands and finds he's eligible bachelor No1. It’s no ordinary fairy tale quest and something is scarily amiss with those Godmothers. #JoyPit #YA #FTA #HA
Top row: A frog on a lily pad wearing a crown. A portrait of a young man, with golden hands wrapped around his neck/shoulders; the oval of his face is missing and shows a path to a tall window. A white horse walking out of mist. Bottom row. A Woman in a long blue dress and black cloak. A shiny red apple. An open book with sparkles rising from the pages. A tree groing on a bank, the roots visible.
June 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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To Do:
1.Change name
2.Avoid Godmothers & Princesses
3.Find portal home
4.DO NOT GET MARRIED
Making an unwise wish 16yo Prince Charming wakes in a magical realm. His guide is a frog, his horse might be a spy & there is a global shortage of princes. #JoyPit #YA #FTA #HA
Top row: Blue Green Dragon on mossy rocks. Gold and burgundy velvet crown. Young witch wearing spooky black crown. Middle: The words - Once upon a time Bottom row: A pumpkin carriage with young woman, castle in the background. A frog wearing a crown. A turreted castle
June 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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16 is too old for fairy tales, but when Prince Charming makes an unwise wish he's transported to a magical realm. He discovers there's a peculiar shortage of princes. No one seems to care that it’s only his name; Godmothers and Princesses need their happily-ever-afters. #JoyPit #YA #FTA #HA
Top row: Fantasy picture of flowers ana tree emerging from the open pages of a book. A castle with turrets. A crown with clear gems. Middle: The words Be careful what you wish for Bottom row: A forest path winding between mossy rocks. A female figure in a purple dress walking towards a tower, holding a glowing wand. A frog head with gold crown atop, emerging from a pond.
June 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The new job is Emily's chance to escape trouble.
1st day:
🧙‍♀️Discovers her manager is a witch
🪦Fails to stop a necromancer
🧟Befriends the undead
👮Grilled by Police
🪄 Enchanted
😯Kidnapped
😱To be sold as a slave
She must escape & if possible save her undead friend. But who to trust?
#questpit #A #Q #F
A pencil sketch of road spanning sign next to an old British Inn (location in Suffolk, UK) from Historic England Archive Query blurb: In Betwixt When Emily starts work as a night receptionist at an old British coaching inn she anticipated new-job challenges. The staff and guests of the hotel seem friendly, but also a little…different. She discovers a world of witches, werewolves, vampires and dryads; and that’s just her colleagues. One of the guests, a necromancer, starts a fight to distract the staff and Emily is the only one free to chase after him to a local churchyard. Destroying the spell and battling the angry necromancer she realises she was too late as the decaying body rises from the grave. She is initially horrified, before realising that the dead man, Kenneth, is only dreadful on the outside. He was an old-fashioned gentleman and remains so, and he’s desperate for a pint before the pub shuts. When Kenneth is captured, the vengeful necromancer abducts Emily to sell on the occult black market, where naïve young women are merchandise. She wakes in a Spanish town, a transport hub for this other world, and must escape before she’s trafficked. She doesn’t know where to go or who she can trust, so it would be foolish to try and rescue Kenneth, but she can’t bear to leave him to a fate literally worse than death.
May 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA x NIGHT MANAGER

Emily expected challenges in her new job, but chasing necromancers to a churchyard hadn’t been in the advert. Abducted with the newly-raised corpse, she discovers a dangerous black market for the occult, where naïve young women are merch.

#questpit #Q #A #PR #T
Pictures top row: Graveyard with wonky markers. Figure holding a flaming torch walking along a woodland path. Pictures bottom row: Graveyard at night with moon silhouetting gravestones and a hand rising from the ground. Brass pots and incense. Spellbook and candles
May 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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~{[Magic Protected Advert]}~

Night Receptionist at Quaint Olde Inn

Essential skills:
Teamwork
Open minded
Sense of adventure
Creative problem solving
Able to tolerate magical attacks
Unbothered by the undead
Willing to -be abducted- travel

If you can see this - apply now!

#ChaosPit #Q #A #UF
A black and white sketch of an old inn with a gibbet-style road sign spanning the road. From the Historic England Archive.
April 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Emily expected challenges in her new job, but chasing rogue necromancers to a moonlit churchyard hadn’t been in the description. Abducted along with the newly-raised corpse, she discovers a dangerous black market for the occult, where naïve young women are merch.

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #A #UF
Top road: Graveyard with wonky stones and overgrown grass. Hooded woman walking through woods at twilight carrying a flaming torch. Bottom row: Graveyard at night with a full moon with a hand emerging from the ground. Brass pots and incense burning. Candles and occult books
March 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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BITTEN x NIGHT MANAGER

Emily expected challenges in her new job, but chasing necromancers to a churchyard hadn’t been in the advert. Abducted along with the newly-raised corpse, she discovers a dangerous black market for the occult, where naïve young women are merch.
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#WSPitQ #A #P #F #WSPit
Top road: Graveyard with wonky stones and overgrown grass. Hooded woman walking through woods at twilight carrying a flaming torch. Bottom row: Graveyard at night with a full moon with a hand emerging from the ground. Brass pots and incense burning. Candles and occult books
February 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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BITTEN x NIGHT MANAGER

Emily expected challenges in her new job, but chasing necromancers to a churchyard hadn’t been in the advert. Abducted along with the newly-raised corpse, she discovers a dangerous black market for the occult, where naïve young women are merch.
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#questpit #Q #A #PR #T
Pictures clockwise from top left. A barn owl in daylight. Incense burning and brass pots. The silhouette of a cat in front of an orange moon. A picture of an old inn with a gibbet-style over-road sign. A pathway between dark trees. A graveyard with a cross style marker lit by sunlight coming through tall trees.
February 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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BITTEN x NIGHT MANAGER

Emily expected challenges in her new job, but chasing necromancers to a churchyard hadn’t been in the advert. Abducted along with the newly-raised corpse, she discovers a dangerous black market for the occult, where naïve young women are merchandise.

#MiseryPit #Q #A #FT
Pictures top row: Barn owl hunting in daylight. Incense burning and brass pots. A hooded figure holding a flaming torch walking at twilight along a path towards trees. AI image of hands holding a floating moonphase diagram. A cat on a branch silhouetted against an orange moon. A sketch of an old inn with gibbet-style sign. Bottom row: A graveyard with tombstones. A path between dark trees.
February 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I'm not saying🥱 I'm tired 🥱, or that it's been a long week 😫. But I'm usually quicker than this. I only just got why there's a capital I in PIt #YouDeservePIt #needsleep

(please send ☕)
January 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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BITTEN x NIGHT MANAGER

Emily expected challenges in her new job, but chasing necromancers to a churchyard hadn’t been in the advert. Abducted along with the newly-raised corpse, she discovers a dangerous black market for the occult, where naïve young women are merch.
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#YouDeservePIt #Q #A #F #P
Pictures clockwise from top left. A barn owl in daylight. Incense burning and brass pots. The silhouette of a cat in front of an orange moon. A picture of an old inn with a gibbet-style over-road sign. A pathway between dark trees. A graveyard with a cross style marker lit by sunlight coming through tall trees.
January 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The new job is Emily's chance to escape trouble.
First day:
🧙‍♀️Discovers her manager is a witch (& a whole other world)
🪦Fails to stop a necromancer
🧟Befriends the undead
👮Grilled by Police
🪄 Enchanted
😯Kidnapped
😱To be sold as a slave
Can she escape, & take her undead friend too?
#P2Ppit #A #Q #F #P
Pictures Clockwise from top left: Figures walking on a dark path through tall trees towards a building. A Historic England sketch of a road-spanning inn sign. A black cat perched on a post. A barn owl. A grand hotel lobby in marble and gold. A candle-lit pentagram. A photo of Antalya's old city and sea. A moonlit graveyard with a hand raising from the ground between gravestones.
January 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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My cat, Barry, is training to be a game NPC with a quest. I think he’s getting better at it.

Personally I’m too scared to ask him for that quest!

#cat #NPC #gamequests

Credit to my daughter for the second pic. I think she’d make a great pet photographer!
Grey and white cat perched on a wooden surface facing the camera. Grey and white cat perched on a wooden log staring into the middle distance.
January 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Emily expected challenges in her new job, but chasing a necromancer to a churchyard wasn’t in the advert. Abducted along with the newly-raised corpse, she discovers a dangerous black market for magical items, and where naïve young women are a commodity.

#BluePit 📖 #A #P #Q
Pictures clockwise from top left. A barn owl in light. Incense burning and brass pots. The silhouette of a cat in from of an orange moon. A picture of an old inn with am gibbet-style over-road sign. A pathway between dark trees. A graveyard with a cross style mrker lit by sunlight coming through tall trees.
January 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Medusa: Raped, Disfigured, Cursed.

She’s mourned her sons for an eon but discovering her equine child, Pegasus, might still be alive she’ll risk anything. Even her ancient enemies - one wants her dead, the other desires her at any cost.

Luckily she has friends in low places.

#BluePit 📖 #A #F #Q
Pictures clockwise from top left? A painting of a beautiful young woman with snakes for hair. A rooftop garden with city beyond. A picture of the skyline of London with the gherkin and walkie-talkie buildings. A tidy therapist office. A bust of Athena wearing a helm (currently in the British Museum, London). A Pegasus rearing. A painting of how the acropolis above Athens might have looked in its prime. A monstrous face appearing from the dark, with reptilian eyes and red maw.
January 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Millennia of lies are the least of Medusa's problems; C’mon kill you with a look? Try spiteful gods who only stopped hunting because you faked your death. When a Pegasus feather is found there is nothing on Earth or Olympus that will stop her seeking her equine son. #BluePit 📖 #A #Q #F
Background a black and white sketch of a greek temple with columns. Photos left to right - a carved frieze of Athena, A pricture of Perseus about to cut off the head of Medusa, A handsome winged figure, A statue of a flying horse, A photo of Central London with skyscrapers behind older columned buildings, the inside of a modern coffee shop. A painting of Medusa.
January 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM