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Nathaniel Swift

@writernatswift.bsky.social

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Author of time travel stories BLUE SKIES (in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 1) and FROM NOW ON (Vol. 3). Working on PBs, MG Sci-fi, and haiku as @haikuformykids.bsky.social (he/him)

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · Dec 8

Happy Release Day to my short story FROM NOW ON and 11 more awesome time travel stories from 11 more awesome #TimeTravelAuthors! Get your copy today, and let me know what you think!

Unless you hate it. Then maybe don't let me know.

But you won't hate it!

a.co/d/0SNPieF

Front cover of The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 3, with a mysterious figure standing in an open doorway.

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 21h

Day 9:

It's Annie. She's just the greatest thing in the world. I love that kid so much.

I did what I did for her.

I suppose you could say I did it for everybody, but I don't care about that.

I did it for Annie. And I'll do it again.

And again and again and again...

#TimeTravelAuthors

#TimeTravelAuthors
October 2025 prompts
Day 9: Favorite person

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 3h

Got buried I guess

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 3h

Got buried I guess

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 3h

Me in 2025:

a man in a white shirt says heavy sigh in front of a group of people

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

That frog might just save us all.

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 21h

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

That frog might just save us all.

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

No, Who's on first.

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

Right? Just yakkin' it up all the time, that one.

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Plot Bison!

Still waiting to hear from the Dialogue Yak and Show Don't Tell Capybara, but I'm sure they're just busy...

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

Now I really really wish I had been there tonight.

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

I really wish I was at Wrigley Field right now.

I mean, I guess that's always true, but especially right now.

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

I did not get the timing right to sing along on the way home, but I did get to hear the crowd sing Go Cubs Go from our deck when I got home.

a teddy bear wearing a clark 1 jersey stands on a balcony

ALT: a teddy bear wearing a clark 1 jersey stands on a balcony

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

Let's go!

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

My kids read this and the misbehavior it encouraged was that they laughed a lot and read a lot more books.

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

The

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

The

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

Glad I'm one of your people, Governor. Thank you for standing up for me. For us.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

I'll bike right by there on my way home in a couple of hours - if I get lucky I might be able to sing along to the 7th inning stretch...

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 1d

I really wish I was at Wrigley Field right now.

I mean, I guess that's always true, but especially right now.

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 2d

Come play in the mud with me!

Tori- 5 star Author and Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine @tcwestminster.bsky.social · 2d

@writernatswift.bsky.social Nathaniel Swift drags us into the mud as we dig a grave in:
Phytocide in the First Degree
tinyurl.com/Phytocide

We want your take on:
#Prompt: Overheard in the Operating Room
-awkward conversation in serious places
www.bunkersquirrel.com/submissions....

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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 2d

I love getting an alert that a new story from one of my favorite writers just dropped...

An alert on my phone:

Bunker Squirrel Magazine 8:15AM

New post

PHYTOCIDE IN THE FIRST DEGREE by
Nathaniel Swift

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 2d

That sounds fantastic to me.

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 2d

Funnel cake is eating better I don't see the problem.

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 2d

I don't understand it either, but I can tell you people in this city get very prickly.

Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social · 2d

I put ketchup on my hot dog.

Nothing else. Love it.

Also, I live in Chicago.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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