🍄 C.G. Aubrey🍂
@cgaubrey.bsky.social
Granola-crunching, bird-watching, mushroom-marveling swamp-stomper. Southern, sometimes mad about it. Autistic ADHDer. Writer. Editor. 🏳️🌈Find her elsewhere at www.cgaubrey.com.
Managing Editor @reckoningmag.bsky.social.
Managing Editor @reckoningmag.bsky.social.
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Just in time for the holiday weekend, my 10 favorite short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from October. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: October 2025 - Reactor
This month's short fiction recommendations include ghosts and grief, recipes and multiverses...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Just in time for the holiday weekend, my 10 favorite short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from October. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
We are! A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is currently available for digital order, print preorder (Jan 1), and of course content is dropping for free on our website every Monday and Friday!
Oh hey, TIL that @reckoningmag.bsky.social is having a special neurodivergent issue: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...
A Chorus, Divergent | Reckoning
“Neurodivergent folks live with differences and difficulties that shouldn’t be dismissed, but likewise, with determination and daring that cannot be disregarded.... We have been doing, all along, the ...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We are! A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is currently available for digital order, print preorder (Jan 1), and of course content is dropping for free on our website every Monday and Friday!
New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Kat Murray's "Fixing the System in Tilt Town." This determined story, with an equally determined ND main character, explores just what it means to build it back better.
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Fixing the System in Tilt Town | Reckoning
When I was little, my parents died trying to reach Lady Luck. My brother Maynard says the journey was hard back then. These days, it’s easier for people to worship at her feet. What she demands as sac...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Kat Murray's "Fixing the System in Tilt Town." This determined story, with an equally determined ND main character, explores just what it means to build it back better.
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reckoning.press/fixing-the-s...
"The men were so sick and had serious illnesses from three or four years locked up. Even in that toxic place, the refugees’ culture of hospitality prevailed. We ate biscuits that somebody had baked in the middle of a siege. They brought tea for us and added sugar. They’d saved it for guests."
From A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social: "The X That Means Both Death and Hope" by Ariadne Starling provides a richly immersive, almost Boscheian personal tour of a climate protest in Melbourne in 2019: reckoning.press/the-x-that-m...
The X That Means Both Death and Hope | Reckoning
This story begins and ends with the X that means both death and hope. Three Xs, two strikes, one message: Solidarity. 26 November, 2017. The Australian government would prefer that we forget this crim...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"The men were so sick and had serious illnesses from three or four years locked up. Even in that toxic place, the refugees’ culture of hospitality prevailed. We ate biscuits that somebody had baked in the middle of a siege. They brought tea for us and added sugar. They’d saved it for guests."
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S.L. has been published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, and @smallwondersmag.com, among many others, and thinks you should check out work by Ahmed Saadawi and Olga Tokarczuk.
Find links to his work and more about his recs by getting a copy at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
Find links to his work and more about his recs by getting a copy at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
S.L. has been published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, and @smallwondersmag.com, among many others, and thinks you should check out work by Ahmed Saadawi and Olga Tokarczuk.
Find links to his work and more about his recs by getting a copy at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
Find links to his work and more about his recs by getting a copy at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
Easiest: Atmosphere, limited POV
Hardest: Omniscient pov, killing my darlings. Why yes, that paragraph about an antique cut glass bowl in chapter three, book one WILL BE important in book five. 😂
Hardest: Omniscient pov, killing my darlings. Why yes, that paragraph about an antique cut glass bowl in chapter three, book one WILL BE important in book five. 😂
Easiest: Dialogue, hands down. I can hear my characters in my head.
Hardest: limited POV, as @cgaubrey.bsky.social can attest. 😂😂 And remembering to describe shit, as she can also attest. 😂
Hardest: limited POV, as @cgaubrey.bsky.social can attest. 😂😂 And remembering to describe shit, as she can also attest. 😂
What scenes are the hardest and easiest for you to write?
Hardest for me: Drawn out battle scenes. Takes me forever to write because I'm trying to keep the action going.
Easiest: Dialogue. I trained on Gilmore Girls, Tolkien and Buffy lmao. Dialogue is my jam.
Hardest for me: Drawn out battle scenes. Takes me forever to write because I'm trying to keep the action going.
Easiest: Dialogue. I trained on Gilmore Girls, Tolkien and Buffy lmao. Dialogue is my jam.
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Easiest: Atmosphere, limited POV
Hardest: Omniscient pov, killing my darlings. Why yes, that paragraph about an antique cut glass bowl in chapter three, book one WILL BE important in book five. 😂
Hardest: Omniscient pov, killing my darlings. Why yes, that paragraph about an antique cut glass bowl in chapter three, book one WILL BE important in book five. 😂
Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection "The Government Will Pay For Your Funeral" by
@chideraoffor.bsky.social. This quiet, heart-lingering poem about loss & grief, both personal & climate, will stay with you. reckoning.press/the-governme...
@chideraoffor.bsky.social. This quiet, heart-lingering poem about loss & grief, both personal & climate, will stay with you. reckoning.press/the-governme...
The Government Will Pay For Your Funeral | Reckoning
death cheapens over layered petroleum / so dense, fishes come upon land to un-breathe; so dense: we the humans, pococurante—yet we light torches for the final act of purification.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection "The Government Will Pay For Your Funeral" by
@chideraoffor.bsky.social. This quiet, heart-lingering poem about loss & grief, both personal & climate, will stay with you. reckoning.press/the-governme...
@chideraoffor.bsky.social. This quiet, heart-lingering poem about loss & grief, both personal & climate, will stay with you. reckoning.press/the-governme...
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When it originally appeared in Reckoning 3, "The Blackthorn Door" expanded our concept of what environmental justice means and what a story about it can do. It's a fascinating reframing of the long-term psychological impacts of the horrors of war through the medium of paranormal mystery
New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #Neurodivergent Reprint Collection, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, @fordwalker.bsky.social's "The Blackthorn Door," a powerful story about trees, trauma, and how memory defines us.
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The Blackthorn Door | Reckoning
Akari saw the restricted tree first. Wrestling the Agency’s sleek sedan around the treacherous holes in Zimmerman’s pitted rural driveway held my full attention. We’d passed the mailbox fifteen minute...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
When it originally appeared in Reckoning 3, "The Blackthorn Door" expanded our concept of what environmental justice means and what a story about it can do. It's a fascinating reframing of the long-term psychological impacts of the horrors of war through the medium of paranormal mystery
New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #Neurodivergent Reprint Collection, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, @fordwalker.bsky.social's "The Blackthorn Door," a powerful story about trees, trauma, and how memory defines us.
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The Blackthorn Door | Reckoning
Akari saw the restricted tree first. Wrestling the Agency’s sleek sedan around the treacherous holes in Zimmerman’s pitted rural driveway held my full attention. We’d passed the mailbox fifteen minute...
reckoning.press
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #Neurodivergent Reprint Collection, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, @fordwalker.bsky.social's "The Blackthorn Door," a powerful story about trees, trauma, and how memory defines us.
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I do fear we’re starting to see the end of physical, subscription-based SFF magazines.
Which means there’ll be nothing left behind but a digital footprint.
I don’t think we can let that happen. Not after what we’ve seen this year.
Which means there’ll be nothing left behind but a digital footprint.
I don’t think we can let that happen. Not after what we’ve seen this year.
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I do fear we’re starting to see the end of physical, subscription-based SFF magazines.
Which means there’ll be nothing left behind but a digital footprint.
I don’t think we can let that happen. Not after what we’ve seen this year.
Which means there’ll be nothing left behind but a digital footprint.
I don’t think we can let that happen. Not after what we’ve seen this year.
she became/ a foaming of wave/ a froth of tide/ an erased border—
"Ocean Vengeance", a stunningly cathartic poem by @mspicone.bsky.social immerses readers in acts, large and small, of ocean reclamation.
"Ocean Vengeance", a stunningly cathartic poem by @mspicone.bsky.social immerses readers in acts, large and small, of ocean reclamation.
From A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, "Ocean Vengeance" by @mspicone.bsky.social, a poem in which a woman, transfigured, becomes the ocean itself: reckoning.press/ocean-vengea...
Ocean Vengeance | Reckoning
She drowned & kept drowning, surrounded by water like her country submerged until neither ghost nor body rose; she became a foaming of wave, a froth of tide, an erased border— coming in for those who ...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
she became/ a foaming of wave/ a froth of tide/ an erased border—
"Ocean Vengeance", a stunningly cathartic poem by @mspicone.bsky.social immerses readers in acts, large and small, of ocean reclamation.
"Ocean Vengeance", a stunningly cathartic poem by @mspicone.bsky.social immerses readers in acts, large and small, of ocean reclamation.
I love this story so much. It was one of the first things I read from Reckoning. It is so often the neurodivergent among us building communication bridges and I particularly love seeing it here.
Today from our neurodiversity reprints issue, A CHORUS DIVERGENT: "Possession" by Taylor Jones, a story in which a neurodiverse person and her elite trained rat save the world by making friends with a globe-spanning fungal entity: reckoning.press/possession/
Possession | Reckoning
Khopesh tugs against her harness, ready to go. She’s a good sniffer, food-motivated and eager to work for treats. Like most sniffers, she’s an African giant pouched rat, about as long as my forearm if...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I love this story so much. It was one of the first things I read from Reckoning. It is so often the neurodivergent among us building communication bridges and I particularly love seeing it here.
Originally published in OUR BEAUTIFUL REWARD, @reckoningmag.bsky.social's bodily autonomy issue, @mariness.bsky.social's "Green Leaves Against the Wind" considers the deep, personal cost of nurturing and the power of choice. I'm so pleased to include this piece in our #neurodivergent collection.
New from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, "Green Leaves Against the Wind", a poem by @mariness.bsky.social expressing the deep, physical interconnection between people and plants: reckoning.press/green-leaves...
Green Leaves Against the Wind | Reckoning
They die in the heat, sometimes. They die in the afternoon sun, they die beneath the moon. They need more water, more shade. They need— I could feed this garden with my blood. It is hard to breathe, s...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Originally published in OUR BEAUTIFUL REWARD, @reckoningmag.bsky.social's bodily autonomy issue, @mariness.bsky.social's "Green Leaves Against the Wind" considers the deep, personal cost of nurturing and the power of choice. I'm so pleased to include this piece in our #neurodivergent collection.
“Day captures a violent contradiction at the heart of how humans decide what to domesticate and what to eradicate.” —Charles Payseur, Locus, April 2024
So happy to include this poem! You can pre-order your print copy of A CHORUS, DIVERGENT here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div... (ships January 1st!)
So happy to include this poem! You can pre-order your print copy of A CHORUS, DIVERGENT here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div... (ships January 1st!)
Today in A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social: "50% Off Venus Fly Traps" by @kelseyday.bsky.social, a delightfully creepy poem about flesh-eating plants, the complexities of our love and expectations for weird nature reckoning.press/50-off-venus...
50% off Venus Fly Traps | Reckoning
pretty thing come closer your jaw so tense in the gardening aisle I brush my knuckles against the trigger hairs on your mouth, ask about your waterwheel & sundew cousins, when you last digested an ara...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“Day captures a violent contradiction at the heart of how humans decide what to domesticate and what to eradicate.” —Charles Payseur, Locus, April 2024
So happy to include this poem! You can pre-order your print copy of A CHORUS, DIVERGENT here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div... (ships January 1st!)
So happy to include this poem! You can pre-order your print copy of A CHORUS, DIVERGENT here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div... (ships January 1st!)
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Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...
That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’ | Reckoning
Have you ever seen a behemoth? The ones brought in by the foreigners after the silent war? I was a boy, eight, nine years old, when I saw it. Have you ever seen a forest catch fire? Your entire villag...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...
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This is a super interesting video about the ICE raid that happened in Lakeview yesterday.
The point of the home “being one of the most constitutionally protected zones that we have” & ICE blatantly trying to abduct people on private property. The owner also says the workers have permission to work
The point of the home “being one of the most constitutionally protected zones that we have” & ICE blatantly trying to abduct people on private property. The owner also says the workers have permission to work
In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...
'Jarring, frightening attack': Chicago homeowner describes immigration raid at his home
MSNBC exclusively obtained security footage of federal agents targeting construction workers at a home in the wealthy Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. Leo Feler, who owns the property, joined The Wee...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This is a super interesting video about the ICE raid that happened in Lakeview yesterday.
The point of the home “being one of the most constitutionally protected zones that we have” & ICE blatantly trying to abduct people on private property. The owner also says the workers have permission to work
The point of the home “being one of the most constitutionally protected zones that we have” & ICE blatantly trying to abduct people on private property. The owner also says the workers have permission to work
I am officially that house plant witch. When I brought the philodendrons (5) and monstera (2; very large) in for the fall/winter season, I bought growlights for the first time. Previous growlight experience was my bio-dad growing cannabis in a bedroom closet. I really should've won that Show & Tell.
October 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I am officially that house plant witch. When I brought the philodendrons (5) and monstera (2; very large) in for the fall/winter season, I bought growlights for the first time. Previous growlight experience was my bio-dad growing cannabis in a bedroom closet. I really should've won that Show & Tell.
Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social #neurodivergentanthology A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" by @andtatcat.bsky.social, a haunting meditation on personal loss and climate grief, and how we carry on.
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A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century | Reckoning
(Selected from the field guide left on your nightstand) Common Raven: Your favorite bird. There was a big one that lived in the hospital courtyard and, on your good days, I’d take you out to see it.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social #neurodivergentanthology A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" by @andtatcat.bsky.social, a haunting meditation on personal loss and climate grief, and how we carry on.
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I love this story so much. Morris Hinkle creates a terrible, vivid, and amazing world, painting an entire society in such a short space, and the horrors that society enacts for the "good" of all.
New podcast episode for spooky season! Read by @andrewkozma.net and produced by audio editor Aaron Kling, “What It Means to Love a City” by Morris Hinkle is among the most horrific pieces of fiction we’ve published. It’s about not looking away. You’ve been warned reckoning.press/podcast-epis...
Podcast Episode 46: What It Means to Love a City | Reckoning
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning. And today we have ...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I love this story so much. Morris Hinkle creates a terrible, vivid, and amazing world, painting an entire society in such a short space, and the horrors that society enacts for the "good" of all.
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The title "P-T" refers to the Permian-Triassic extinction event, which you should read about if you've never heard of, and its use here amounts to a frigging brilliant literary device en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian...
October 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The title "P-T" refers to the Permian-Triassic extinction event, which you should read about if you've never heard of, and its use here amounts to a frigging brilliant literary device en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian...
Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Micah Nemerever's powerfully evocative poem "P-T."
"they will bring the villagers/past the barbed wire to see what/was done in their name, and some will cry/some will even mean it."
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"they will bring the villagers/past the barbed wire to see what/was done in their name, and some will cry/some will even mean it."
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P-T | Reckoning
there will never be so many sea lilies. they will never roll like meadows and lace their brittle eyelash hands, nod their heads and kiss. their endless fields will smother on ash. they will bow their ...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Micah Nemerever's powerfully evocative poem "P-T."
"they will bring the villagers/past the barbed wire to see what/was done in their name, and some will cry/some will even mean it."
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"they will bring the villagers/past the barbed wire to see what/was done in their name, and some will cry/some will even mean it."
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They’re ABSOLUTELY looking for people posting about No Kings. Block them.
I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
October 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
They’re ABSOLUTELY looking for people posting about No Kings. Block them.
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Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.
October 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.
@ellisnyeland.bsky.social's "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" is a lovely remembrance of a life well lived, but it also a fortune told. "Repair Tech" warns us against the generational loss of practical knowledge, especially in uncertain times.
Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue, "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a fictional obituary celebrating a life well spent enacting restorative justice through the right to repair: reckoning.press/the-last-gre...
The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest | Reckoning
It is with sorrow that this paper announces the passing of one of our town’s greatest treasures, Wendy “Darling” Marszałek. She died on August 18th, 2081, in her early eighties. Contrary to her freque...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@ellisnyeland.bsky.social's "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" is a lovely remembrance of a life well lived, but it also a fortune told. "Repair Tech" warns us against the generational loss of practical knowledge, especially in uncertain times.
I am woefully behind on Halloween cards & October blog posts. BUT if you want something cozy & gently spooky to read, one of my favorite stories I've ever written is available for free on my website. AuDHD, ASD characters, supportive families, acespec romance. CREATURES.
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Free estory: All The Creatures Were Stirring
When the Halloween Knight goes missing, misfit hearth witch, Merry Claus (yes, that Claus) must team up with their mercurial steed to find Hallow and save Halloween. Creatures is a cozy, whimsical …
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October 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I am woefully behind on Halloween cards & October blog posts. BUT if you want something cozy & gently spooky to read, one of my favorite stories I've ever written is available for free on my website. AuDHD, ASD characters, supportive families, acespec romance. CREATURES.
cgaubrey.com/all-the-crea...
cgaubrey.com/all-the-crea...