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C🐢r🐊y🦎s🌾t🐸a🐍l
@sidellwrites.bsky.social
Author & Librarian 📖 Novice Poet 🎶 Lover of all things Horror 😱 Animal Friend & Pet Mom 🐈🐢🐦🐕 INFJ ♠
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I'm so honored to have another poem featured in this lovely journal!!

I hope you'll enjoy this fairytale retelling 😸
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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It’s alive! SFPA’s 2025 Halloween Reading series is looking for poems that go bump in the night. Find submission details here, and submit by Oct. 26!

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October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Our Kickstarter for Writing Memoir in Flashes by Lita Kurth is now live! Get an early bird ebook discount if you back now. Check it out and like/share to help us spread the word. 📖❤️ @kickstarter.com #booksky
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October 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
When AI incorrectly summarizes your email to tell you that your story has been accepted when it has, in reality, been rejected... 😒

#notamused
October 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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We'd like to offer a hearty congratulations to Eye to the Telescope's six nominees for Best of the Net!

A Packet of Seeds, by Ori Diskett
from issue 56, Plants

Transgarden, by Alex K. Masse
from issue 56, Plants

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October 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Announcing the 2026/27 themes and editors for Eye To The Telescope:

#59 Feb 2026, Immortality (C. C. Rayne)
#60 May 2026, Paying Tribute (Angela Acosta)
#61 Aug 2026, Aliens (D. A. Xiaolin Spires)
#62 Nov 2026, Faeries (Silvatiicus Riddle)

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October 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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If you're a writer of fantasy, SF, or horror looking for an online community dedicated to cooperation, kindness, encouragement, and craft, please check out my Patreon.

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September 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
No... the 1,182 day form rejection I received today on a batch of poems has not at all contributed to keeping my dwindling spirits in the dumps. Thank you very much. 😑
September 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I've spent most of this year struggling to survive. But I did have a happy moment when I discovered this fabulous mural 🎶🎶🎶
September 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Poem acceptance while traveling from Brussels to Luxembourg.

What a fabulous day! 😍
August 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Contract signed!! ✨✨✨

Very happy to share that my story, "What to do When a Demon is Talking Shit at You" will appear in this upcoming issue of @innerworlds.bsky.social

YES...HA, HA, HA...YES!

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And other things, harder to describe:
- being accepted just as you are, finding your place and your purpose
- experiencing a freedom that transforms you, and telling noone
- using all that pain, all that rage to fight back
- watching your self fracture a little more every day that you do this job
August 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Anthony Francis from Thinking Ink Press is presenting at WorldCon 2025! 🎉
The Cognitive Science of Scenes and Sequels Sat, Aug 16 11–11:30 am
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Get the award-winning book The Neurodiversiverse at the Liminal Fiction table in the dealers’ room

#Worldcon2025 #SciFi
August 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Feeling only slightly possessive of my new work chair 👀
August 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This has been a rough year, so I'm especially grateful for the little things that have come my way!

I'm honored to have 2 poems in this year's Dwarf Stars Anthology 🥰

"Hive" first appeared in Petrichor

"recycling" first appeared in ETTT
July 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This lil story won Silver 😻

How far would you go for love?

I’m excited to share that “Father Galaxy’s Choose Your Own Adventure!” is now available to read at Stupefying Stories! Many thanks to Bruce & Pete for giving this heartfelt story a home 😺

stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2025/06/fart...
July 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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If you live in the region and are looking for a new family member, please consider adopting!

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Adopt a Dog or Cat
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July 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Cover reveal 😻😻😻
July 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Questioning how this is a comfortable sleeping position... 🐈💁‍♀️
June 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Today: the Pete Wood Challenge medal round continues, with the silver going to...
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“Farther Galaxy’s Choose Your Own Adventure” • by C. L. Sidell
Cam and Becca begin the interactive activity. Signs flicker above the first three-pronged fork they encounter.  red //  blue  //  WHITE U...
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June 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
How far would you go for love?

I’m excited to share that “Father Galaxy’s Choose Your Own Adventure!” is now available to read at Stupefying Stories! Many thanks to Bruce & Pete for giving this heartfelt story a home 😺

stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2025/06/fart...
“Farther Galaxy’s Choose Your Own Adventure” • by C. L. Sidell
Cam and Becca begin the interactive activity. Signs flicker above the first three-pronged fork they encounter.  red //  blue  //  WHITE U...
stupefyingstories.blogspot.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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June 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Oh, happy day!

I'm thrilled to share that my fairytale retelling poem, "the wrong frog," will be appearing in an upcoming issue of Trollbreath Magazine!!! 😍😍😍

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June 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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