Tess Collins🦋
@tesscollins.bsky.social
Storyteller. TessCollins(dot)com/
Loves cats.
Loves cats.
High school reunion and my book gets in the swag bag. Yea!
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
High school reunion and my book gets in the swag bag. Yea!
Vampire Tour of San Francisco
October 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Vampire Tour of San Francisco
The earth feels a little empty today, knowing Gurney Norman no longer walks its mountain paths. A good teacher to me and friend. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
Gurney Norman, chronicler of Appalachia, member of ‘KY’s Fab Five’ dies at 88
Gurney Norman was a short story writer and novelist, as well as a UK writing teacher who led UK’s creative writing department for many years.
www.kentucky.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The earth feels a little empty today, knowing Gurney Norman no longer walks its mountain paths. A good teacher to me and friend. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
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Storytelling is itself a cabaret of oddities. Medieval jesters wove riddles with prophecy; troubadours sang tales of saints beside bawdy ballads. The stage was always half sacred, half strange. #WyrdWednesday
Art: John Dawson Watson
Art: John Dawson Watson
September 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Storytelling is itself a cabaret of oddities. Medieval jesters wove riddles with prophecy; troubadours sang tales of saints beside bawdy ballads. The stage was always half sacred, half strange. #WyrdWednesday
Art: John Dawson Watson
Art: John Dawson Watson
Reposted by Tess Collins🦋
Reposted by Tess Collins🦋
When you've overwritten the "action" part of your new thriller...
#5amwritersclub #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #WIP #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
#5amwritersclub #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #WIP #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
a green parakeet is standing on a glass table next to a pile of books .
ALT: a green parakeet is standing on a glass table next to a pile of books .
media.tenor.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
When you've overwritten the "action" part of your new thriller...
#5amwritersclub #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #WIP #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
#5amwritersclub #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #WIP #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
Got shot. Go get yours!
September 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Got shot. Go get yours!
The Secretary of Death.
September 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The Secretary of Death.
I’m a writer. It’s research. Really!
September 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’m a writer. It’s research. Really!
I swear, if I have to miss the final seasons of Call The Midwife… I’ll be in brick throwing mode.
August 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I swear, if I have to miss the final seasons of Call The Midwife… I’ll be in brick throwing mode.
The first time I ever saw the word “feminist”, I knew that was me. That was my path do or die. Still, if a Scottish man calls me his “wee lass”, I go weak in the knees.
August 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The first time I ever saw the word “feminist”, I knew that was me. That was my path do or die. Still, if a Scottish man calls me his “wee lass”, I go weak in the knees.
1SentenceStory: As the mayor unveiled his initiative to install glittering unicorn statues in every park, Jenna smirked at how far the political conversation had fallen since the days of passionate debate over real issues—before her heart broke for the charming, yet utterly misguided, councilman.
July 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
1SentenceStory: As the mayor unveiled his initiative to install glittering unicorn statues in every park, Jenna smirked at how far the political conversation had fallen since the days of passionate debate over real issues—before her heart broke for the charming, yet utterly misguided, councilman.
Granny’s house where I grew up on Noetown Road in deepest, darkest Appalachia.
July 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Granny’s house where I grew up on Noetown Road in deepest, darkest Appalachia.
Take a guess which county I grew up in.
July 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Take a guess which county I grew up in.
Dang! I just lost two eggs by cracking them on the edge of the sink. I guess the garbage disposal was hungry for #TraderJoe’s Pasture Raised. Eggs!!
June 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Dang! I just lost two eggs by cracking them on the edge of the sink. I guess the garbage disposal was hungry for #TraderJoe’s Pasture Raised. Eggs!!
I never met a cat that I didn’t like.
June 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I never met a cat that I didn’t like.
1SentenceStory: 1. With a steady voice and unwavering gaze, the teenage girl confronted the bully, declaring that kindness was stronger than fear, and in that moment, she discovered her own power.
June 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
1SentenceStory: 1. With a steady voice and unwavering gaze, the teenage girl confronted the bully, declaring that kindness was stronger than fear, and in that moment, she discovered her own power.
My 3 favorite shelves out of 18.
June 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
My 3 favorite shelves out of 18.
The way my people cook. Drunken cook is my nephew.
May 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The way my people cook. Drunken cook is my nephew.
Reposted by Tess Collins🦋
May 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by Tess Collins🦋
Dr. Philip Low - Musk's former close friend/colleague - who severed all ties after his Nazi salutes then publicly exposed him on FB, etc, & who built a legal case against FB/Zuckerberg for censoring negative info about Musk & Trump, is now holding SOTH accountable.
www.facebook.com/brainmesser/...
www.facebook.com/brainmesser/...
Philip Low
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SPEAKER OF THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE
To the Honorable Speaker Mike Johnson,
The word on main street across America is that despite being a constitutional lawyer -- with a...
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May 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Dr. Philip Low - Musk's former close friend/colleague - who severed all ties after his Nazi salutes then publicly exposed him on FB, etc, & who built a legal case against FB/Zuckerberg for censoring negative info about Musk & Trump, is now holding SOTH accountable.
www.facebook.com/brainmesser/...
www.facebook.com/brainmesser/...