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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · 8d

I loved this when I first read it. Spooky and gorgeously written.

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 8d

"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through."

"Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

Door in the Woods by Chris Scott

Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · 14d

❤️❤️❤️

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is devastating with not a single wasted word.

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · Aug 22

"20. My family is small and not very nice to me but I still don’t want to see them die.
21. I saw my twin brother die
22. When we were kids
23. I was not a fan.
24. I doubt he was, either."

"98." by Jordyn Damato, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

98. by Jordyn Damato

There’s something wrong with my head It’s not a bump I wish it was a bump Even if it was a gross, protruding bump that made people afraid to look at me I could handle that I would dress…

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 13

My fishies have arrived!! Love to @librelit.bsky.social
for publishing this weird, creepy, exposing little story. 🐟

Libre @librelit.bsky.social · Aug 13

Fiction today by @ilanamiral.bsky.social

“And the shorter your hair, the closer they are to your skull.”

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 12

Ahhh! I love this one so much, so thrilled it's been published. Weird and creepy and wonderful 😍

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Aug 12

Parenting is hard. It's even harder when "Echo Syndrome" strikes, and identity starts to splinter... read Jennifer Hudak's story full of existential dread in our issue 20:

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Echo Syndrome - Small Wonders

When my daughter climbs in the car, there’s three of her. They shouldn’t all fit in the passenger seat, but they overlap each other to save space.

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 11

I got the feeling that he’d mostly heard of Monty Python. He didn’t seem to know what I meant when I said TG had created the animations

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 11

I know, right? Are we losing Brazil to the detritus of time? It’s still available to stream in some places, I just checked. Maybe he’s just not into film.

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 11

Question: Have you heard of Terry Gilliam?

I ask because this weekend I met a man, maybe in his early 30s, very culturally literate, British, who'd never heard of him or any of his films. He knew Monty Python, but that's it.

It kind of freaked me out.

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 11

Just FYI: If you follow me, and I check your profile out and you've posted a ton of AI product images, I will never follow you back.

IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 6

How fascinating, I had no idea that was a thing in the UK.

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hah, thank you! I just did. :D

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 6

Oh, this one is exquisite!

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Aug 6

Hotels are strange liminal places, and even more so in Davian Aw's "Dead Season":

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Dead Season - Small Wonders

you sleep and wake and doors are missing / and buttons don't go to every floor / and every face you see has a smile

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 6

I absolutely love vivid and detailed descriptions of food in fiction.

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 3

Heya, my queer post-apocalyptic adventure will be published in spring 2026 by @ninestarpress.bsky.social ilanamiral.com/books/the-bl...

The Black Parade | Ilana M. Lindsey

As billions die from an apocalyptic cloud of polluted dust, David—a climate activist in a previous life—is holed up in an abandoned hospital in London offering a cure to anyone who needs it. Months ea...

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 2

I’m with you

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 2

Which is more depressing? Going to Letterboxd and seeing an objectively awful film with majority positive reviews or seeing a brilliant film with mostly negative reviews?

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 1

❤️❤️❤️

IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Aug 1

Just received my final book cover art from Jana Heidersdorf (@checanty.bsky.social) and omg omg omg. I can't share it yet, but I'm giving up my entire morning to just staring at it. 🤩🤩🤩

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Jul 28

I’m filling out a giant government form by hand like it’s 1980 and learning that when I write in all caps my handwriting looks like a serial killer’s.

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Jul 13

Yoshitomo Nara at The Hayward Gallery

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Jul 11

Coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social is spring of 2026

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Jul 11

Ahhh! Hello. ❤️

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Jul 11

The idea of read a novel or short story or poem or any creative writing generated by AI makes me feel physically sick. I don't care if it's "good". It would be dead. A dead thing with no energy or ideas behind it. Fiction is communication between humans. AI product is nothing.

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Jul 8

The Black Parade by Ilana Lindsey
coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring of 2026
#books #SpeculativeFiction

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IlanaMiraL @ilanamiral.bsky.social · Jul 8

I absolutely adore this one 😍

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Jul 7

You know what makes Mondays (or any days) better? Little Roundfaced Dogs. Let @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social's story sweep you away in a tide of furry tiny feet:

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Little Roundfaced Dogs - Small Wonders

Little roundfaced dogs, running up main street, rushing past stoplights and shopfronts and parked cars.

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