Strawberry Thief
@strawberry-thief.bsky.social
she/her | more intersectional than you’d guess | Stories at Globe Soup; Molotov Cocktail; LISP; Elegant Literature; Night Parrot Press
Close captioning of The Mayfair Witches.
The word they are looking for is Taltos
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The word they are looking for is Taltos
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July 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Close captioning of The Mayfair Witches.
The word they are looking for is Taltos
🐢
The word they are looking for is Taltos
🐢
Winter evening looking over the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River)
July 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Winter evening looking over the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River)
Glass house on a winter night (luckily the heaters were on!) 🥶
June 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Glass house on a winter night (luckily the heaters were on!) 🥶
Was working at a local university this morning - or trying to - when I got lost on campus and came across this peaceful little spot
June 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Was working at a local university this morning - or trying to - when I got lost on campus and came across this peaceful little spot
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Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight
June 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight
One of my stories placed in the top 10 for @elegantliterature.bsky.social ‘s April competition
You can download the issue here:
www.elegantliterature.com/contest/past...
You can download the issue here:
www.elegantliterature.com/contest/past...
April 2025 Ghostly Gardens
April 2025 Ghostly Gardens Awards For New Writers
www.elegantliterature.com
June 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
One of my stories placed in the top 10 for @elegantliterature.bsky.social ‘s April competition
You can download the issue here:
www.elegantliterature.com/contest/past...
You can download the issue here:
www.elegantliterature.com/contest/past...
I’d pretty much got used to ppl not getting the reference behind my username & then this happens 🥹
All the Morris fans! So much Strawberry Thief 💗🍓💗🍓💗🍓
All the Morris fans! So much Strawberry Thief 💗🍓💗🍓💗🍓
Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 William Morris lovers together in a single online location!
May 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’d pretty much got used to ppl not getting the reference behind my username & then this happens 🥹
All the Morris fans! So much Strawberry Thief 💗🍓💗🍓💗🍓
All the Morris fans! So much Strawberry Thief 💗🍓💗🍓💗🍓
One of these stories is by me 😊 and, as I am discovering reading through the others, it is in such good company
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May 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
One of these stories is by me 😊 and, as I am discovering reading through the others, it is in such good company
🍦🍦🍦
🍦🍦🍦
I had no idea that semi-colon use was divisive (and not in a clausal sense) 😟 I love semi-colons and can’t remember not using them; both in my writing and for prompting old-school winky faces ;)
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I had no idea that semi-colon use was divisive (and not in a clausal sense) 😟 I love semi-colons and can’t remember not using them; both in my writing and for prompting old-school winky faces ;)
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
When asked, as I sometimes am, which is my favourite short fiction, I reply with this one. 5 years on and still in the top spot for me…
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Alfred Untold by Neil Clark
Alfred Untold – Am I a woman? – It’s Guess Who? Of course not. – Are we twins, separated at birth? Do we sometimes feel a pang, like the tug of an invisible chord? We’re not sure what it …
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May 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
When asked, as I sometimes am, which is my favourite short fiction, I reply with this one. 5 years on and still in the top spot for me…
jellyfishreview.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/a...
jellyfishreview.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/a...
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A recent amazing photo courtesy of the Perseverence rover, Mars’ tiny moon Deimos shining in the pre-dawn sky. NASA combined 16 long exposure photos to produce the final image 🧪🔭 www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
Deimos Before Dawn - NASA
NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the
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May 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A recent amazing photo courtesy of the Perseverence rover, Mars’ tiny moon Deimos shining in the pre-dawn sky. NASA combined 16 long exposure photos to produce the final image 🧪🔭 www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
Weekend drive to Wagin & first time to see The Giant Ram (his name is Baart 😄) Studied his stats and took a cheeky pic of his ‘undercarriage’
Better than the Big Orange at Harvey but not quite as good as The Big Pineapple at Nambour
Better than the Big Orange at Harvey but not quite as good as The Big Pineapple at Nambour
May 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Weekend drive to Wagin & first time to see The Giant Ram (his name is Baart 😄) Studied his stats and took a cheeky pic of his ‘undercarriage’
Better than the Big Orange at Harvey but not quite as good as The Big Pineapple at Nambour
Better than the Big Orange at Harvey but not quite as good as The Big Pineapple at Nambour
A story that didn’t know what it wanted to be when it grew up finally came of age - and got 2nd place. I am thrilled! 😍
Time for the big reveal! #FlashVillain 2025 results are now posted. Huge thanks to all who entered, and to our lovely associate editor/co-judge @mlenoirbond.bsky.social. #flashfiction
themolotovcocktail.com/2025/05/19/f...
themolotovcocktail.com/2025/05/19/f...
Flash Villain 2025 results
Time for the big reveal… We had a blast with this second-ever Flash Villain contest (first was in 2021, and you can read it here). With no shortage of real-world villains in our modern…
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May 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
A story that didn’t know what it wanted to be when it grew up finally came of age - and got 2nd place. I am thrilled! 😍
36 years in Perth - finally made it to #WaveRock (bonus #HipposYawn)
March 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
36 years in Perth - finally made it to #WaveRock (bonus #HipposYawn)
Watched the blood moon rise across the Ravensthorpe plains. The photo doesn’t do justice to the deep bronze colour which I saw
#bloodmoon #ravensthorpe
#bloodmoon #ravensthorpe
March 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Watched the blood moon rise across the Ravensthorpe plains. The photo doesn’t do justice to the deep bronze colour which I saw
#bloodmoon #ravensthorpe
#bloodmoon #ravensthorpe
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Western Australia election: Liberals fail to attract swing required as Labor secures third-term victory
Western Australia election: Liberals fail to attract swing required as Labor secures third-term victory
WA Labor will hold a third term in office, with the early vote count showing the Liberals failing to gain traction with any significant swing
• Western Australia has one story about the gas industry. It won’t accept dissent from ‘over east’
Labor will…
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Western Australia election: Liberals fail to attract swing required as Labor secures third-term victory
Settling in to watch #wavotes on the ABC. Sad to know that it is psephologist Antony Green’s last time to call a state election 🥺 #loveantonygreen
March 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Settling in to watch #wavotes on the ABC. Sad to know that it is psephologist Antony Green’s last time to call a state election 🥺 #loveantonygreen
Garden update: I have tiny capsicums, a new geranium, and some sprouting passfruit vines (not pictured)
March 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Garden update: I have tiny capsicums, a new geranium, and some sprouting passfruit vines (not pictured)
One of these 10 stories is by me 😊
Issue #039: Fearsome Folklore.
Free download. 10 new stories by emerging talent. Read it now!
Free download. 10 new stories by emerging talent. Read it now!
February 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
One of these 10 stories is by me 😊
Voted (pretty much 2nd person through the door this morning). Hot tip - I’d wait until later in the day if you like a faster process. The Perth CBD early voting centre was all over the place today… #vote #earlyvoting #australianelection #australiavotes
February 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Voted (pretty much 2nd person through the door this morning). Hot tip - I’d wait until later in the day if you like a faster process. The Perth CBD early voting centre was all over the place today… #vote #earlyvoting #australianelection #australiavotes
Musée des Beaux Arts is my favourite poem about grief
“the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.” —excerpt from “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden
Commemorating Auden’s birthday today: www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-...
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.” —excerpt from “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden
Commemorating Auden’s birthday today: www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-...
February 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Musée des Beaux Arts is my favourite poem about grief
Basil progress update: the thinning out needs to happen soon 😬 Also I’ve repotted the big capsicum plant and it now has some buds 🙌🏻 🫑
January 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Basil progress update: the thinning out needs to happen soon 😬 Also I’ve repotted the big capsicum plant and it now has some buds 🙌🏻 🫑
Tested positive for COVID - yep, it finally got me and got me good 🦠🥺
December 28, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Tested positive for COVID - yep, it finally got me and got me good 🦠🥺