Iona
@singlecrow.bsky.social
Writer, lawyer, part-time sapphic, among other things. not Scottish, but it's complicated. (repped by Kurestin Armada; fiction and other work at www.generalist.org.uk/iona) (they/she)
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Iona
@singlecrow.bsky.social
· Jan 2
Happy new year! The book is out- You Are Here: Nine More Stories, a new short story collection including a brand-new novella. Dragons, smugglers, witches, Indian mothers, meddling lesbians, telepaths who love to troll you, space! 🌈🚀🏴☠️🪔 🐉
available most places, paperbacks at Amazon, links below.
available most places, paperbacks at Amazon, links below.
Some pins and things: here is my most recent short story collection: bsky.app/profile/sing...
On my way out to Ely on a train that stops at Cambridge North, aka the station that if it had opened 6 months earlier would have changed the course of my life.
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
On my way out to Ely on a train that stops at Cambridge North, aka the station that if it had opened 6 months earlier would have changed the course of my life.
Despite being disproportionately into Quatermass and the Pit (1958) for someone born not in that year, I've only just now watching the Hammer horror remake, and my god 1967 seems to have been a time.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Despite being disproportionately into Quatermass and the Pit (1958) for someone born not in that year, I've only just now watching the Hammer horror remake, and my god 1967 seems to have been a time.
It ended up taking 1 hour 15. In the rain. Urgh.
I know that some people have cars and on the whole that is sub-optimal but sometimes it’s pouring with rain and your 2.7 mile journey is going to take 50 minutes
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It ended up taking 1 hour 15. In the rain. Urgh.
I know that some people have cars and on the whole that is sub-optimal but sometimes it’s pouring with rain and your 2.7 mile journey is going to take 50 minutes
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I know that some people have cars and on the whole that is sub-optimal but sometimes it’s pouring with rain and your 2.7 mile journey is going to take 50 minutes
10 random things I like:
-the Gaslight Anthem
-Quatermass and the Pit
-dark red roses
-strawberry Haribo
-the wedding scene in Three Idiots
-drabbles of exactly 100 words
-railways
-the 11-minute version of Something Corporate's Konstantine
-AirPods
-fruit.
-the Gaslight Anthem
-Quatermass and the Pit
-dark red roses
-strawberry Haribo
-the wedding scene in Three Idiots
-drabbles of exactly 100 words
-railways
-the 11-minute version of Something Corporate's Konstantine
-AirPods
-fruit.
Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things you like.
Angry girl music of the indie rock persuasion
Cross stitch
Every cat ever born
Star Wars tie-in books of dubious quality
Seshin (the brutal jjimjilbang body scrubs)
Gulab jamun
Miranda Otto
Baby primates
Yuzu
Julian Teach For America Bashir
Angry girl music of the indie rock persuasion
Cross stitch
Every cat ever born
Star Wars tie-in books of dubious quality
Seshin (the brutal jjimjilbang body scrubs)
Gulab jamun
Miranda Otto
Baby primates
Yuzu
Julian Teach For America Bashir
Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things you like.
Late 19th century literature/art
Being entirely alone in nature (preferably by the sea)
Vanilla scents
Hiding under a blanket
Gulls
Collecting silly little trinkets
Decorating
My garden
Visiting old cemeteries
Rik Mayall
Late 19th century literature/art
Being entirely alone in nature (preferably by the sea)
Vanilla scents
Hiding under a blanket
Gulls
Collecting silly little trinkets
Decorating
My garden
Visiting old cemeteries
Rik Mayall
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
10 random things I like:
-the Gaslight Anthem
-Quatermass and the Pit
-dark red roses
-strawberry Haribo
-the wedding scene in Three Idiots
-drabbles of exactly 100 words
-railways
-the 11-minute version of Something Corporate's Konstantine
-AirPods
-fruit.
-the Gaslight Anthem
-Quatermass and the Pit
-dark red roses
-strawberry Haribo
-the wedding scene in Three Idiots
-drabbles of exactly 100 words
-railways
-the 11-minute version of Something Corporate's Konstantine
-AirPods
-fruit.
Reposted by Iona
Iona is a fantastically good writer.
So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Iona is a fantastically good writer.
So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:
I am so delighted by this image
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I am so delighted by this image
From Quatermass and the Pit (1958):
"If we found out that our Earth was doomed, a thousand years from now, or a hundred, what would we do about it?"
"Nothing. Just go on fighting each other as usual."
they just put that on tv in 1958. I love this, I love Quartermass, I love his insane prescience.
"If we found out that our Earth was doomed, a thousand years from now, or a hundred, what would we do about it?"
"Nothing. Just go on fighting each other as usual."
they just put that on tv in 1958. I love this, I love Quartermass, I love his insane prescience.
did you not know that one of my favourite things in the entire world is a terrifying black-and-white BBC SF horror serial from 1958? well.
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
From Quatermass and the Pit (1958):
"If we found out that our Earth was doomed, a thousand years from now, or a hundred, what would we do about it?"
"Nothing. Just go on fighting each other as usual."
they just put that on tv in 1958. I love this, I love Quartermass, I love his insane prescience.
"If we found out that our Earth was doomed, a thousand years from now, or a hundred, what would we do about it?"
"Nothing. Just go on fighting each other as usual."
they just put that on tv in 1958. I love this, I love Quartermass, I love his insane prescience.
anyone ever go through their socials pruning, muting, unfollowing, blocking, etc, and think oh I just don't wanna be here, do I
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
anyone ever go through their socials pruning, muting, unfollowing, blocking, etc, and think oh I just don't wanna be here, do I
I only lived in New York for a year and was Changed by it. I keep thinking about its good news and what wonderful news it is.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I only lived in New York for a year and was Changed by it. I keep thinking about its good news and what wonderful news it is.
if fucking ChatGPT could do any of the goddamn things the stupid fucking internet and also apparently every stupid person I know thinks it could, it wouldn't have to ADVERTISE AT ALL, let alone coy fuckboy minimalist copy CAREFULLY DRAFTED NOT TO BE ACTIONABLE
god, I'm mad about this bullshit.
god, I'm mad about this bullshit.
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
if fucking ChatGPT could do any of the goddamn things the stupid fucking internet and also apparently every stupid person I know thinks it could, it wouldn't have to ADVERTISE AT ALL, let alone coy fuckboy minimalist copy CAREFULLY DRAFTED NOT TO BE ACTIONABLE
god, I'm mad about this bullshit.
god, I'm mad about this bullshit.
I've had a sufficiently bad day that I'm rewatching Quatermass and the Pit.
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I've had a sufficiently bad day that I'm rewatching Quatermass and the Pit.
so the thing about grief is that you never get over it. there's no metaphor. there's no kindness. Ingrid de Kok calls it the "undoused burning pyre of war". my dad would've been 70 this year! and Phoebe, half that: half of nothing, half of nothing that will ever come to pass. but we live, still.
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
so the thing about grief is that you never get over it. there's no metaphor. there's no kindness. Ingrid de Kok calls it the "undoused burning pyre of war". my dad would've been 70 this year! and Phoebe, half that: half of nothing, half of nothing that will ever come to pass. but we live, still.
someone else said it and it made me laugh: welcome, New York, to the global sorority of cities run by charismatic leftie Muslim mayors that we love and secretly would if you know what I mean and you do
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
someone else said it and it made me laugh: welcome, New York, to the global sorority of cities run by charismatic leftie Muslim mayors that we love and secretly would if you know what I mean and you do
the walk up from Muswell Hill to Ally Pally is lovely in autumn
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
the walk up from Muswell Hill to Ally Pally is lovely in autumn
Someone near Wood Green Oxfam certainly broke up with Star Trek in a hurry
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Someone near Wood Green Oxfam certainly broke up with Star Trek in a hurry
Friends of New York (of which I am one, formerly!) I am so very happy for you!
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Friends of New York (of which I am one, formerly!) I am so very happy for you!
Trying to cheer myself up from my abysmal day job with looking at things on Snag, at this rate I’ll be made of fishnets by Christmas
November 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Trying to cheer myself up from my abysmal day job with looking at things on Snag, at this rate I’ll be made of fishnets by Christmas
It has been so nice to have ppl talk to me about Goodness Gracious Me all day! You cannot understand, unless you were there, the things white people in the UK did to us in the 90s: all that small and large and complicated violence. GGM was special.
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It has been so nice to have ppl talk to me about Goodness Gracious Me all day! You cannot understand, unless you were there, the things white people in the UK did to us in the 90s: all that small and large and complicated violence. GGM was special.
There is a little bluesky meme going around asking what your “curry order” is, which is not aimed at a community I am part of, but I am going through a Goodness Gracious Me renaissance right now so here’s the classic for everyone’s delight youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM?...
Going for an English | Goodness Gracious Me | BBC Comedy Greats
YouTube video by BBC Comedy Greats
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There is a little bluesky meme going around asking what your “curry order” is, which is not aimed at a community I am part of, but I am going through a Goodness Gracious Me renaissance right now so here’s the classic for everyone’s delight youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM?...
this train must have been on the arrival boards at KX as I passed through last night, it's such an appalling story when the railway is supposed to be a safe place www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Two British nationals arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after train stabbing - latest
Officers say two of those injured remain in a life-threatening condition - four others have been discharged from hospital.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
this train must have been on the arrival boards at KX as I passed through last night, it's such an appalling story when the railway is supposed to be a safe place www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
why I am still a huge fan of Dishoom: they're higher-end, beloved of white Londoners and tourists, gimmicky in their way; but, they can host real Indian families, we can go in and make a racket and grill the water about his antecedents and be met who we are. anyway my mum had a lovely 70th!
November 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
why I am still a huge fan of Dishoom: they're higher-end, beloved of white Londoners and tourists, gimmicky in their way; but, they can host real Indian families, we can go in and make a racket and grill the water about his antecedents and be met who we are. anyway my mum had a lovely 70th!
A few weeks into my first job as a qualified lawyer, I had to pull my line manager away from a teetering case load to explain I had stapled my own thumb
What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean “cheating on your partner” stupid, I mean stupid stupid. Like, once, I had this bubble bath which smelled absolutely delicious, so I took a big glug of it. That kind of stupid. (It did not taste delicious.)
November 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A few weeks into my first job as a qualified lawyer, I had to pull my line manager away from a teetering case load to explain I had stapled my own thumb
A dangerous thought: the Christmas ice rink at Battersea Power Station is half an hour from my work and has bookable evening slots.
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A dangerous thought: the Christmas ice rink at Battersea Power Station is half an hour from my work and has bookable evening slots.