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Willow Nichols-Capra 🤎
@novellamenagerie.com
Author | BIPOC & 🏳️‍🌈| Salem, MA | NEHW | 1816 Award Winner | OutWrite Scary Nominee

Assist. Editor: Drabblecast |Reader: Moonday Mag | Lit Agent Intern

Blood+Honey, Gavagai, Cosmic Horror Monthly (pub date TBD), etc 🔽

https://linktr.ee/WillowNicholsCapra
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Such EXCITING NEWS AH! My story “It’s Okay” (pub by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social ) has been nominated for an Outwrite Scary Award in 4 categories!
It would mean the WORLD if you could vote for my work! And if you haven’t the link to vote and to read it are in my linktree
linktr.ee/WillowNichol...
Me v. The evil part of my brain that keeps telling me to learn how to write screenplays
February 16, 2026 at 5:20 AM
It’s been three weeks and I still won’t shut up about Train Dreams
February 16, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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Such EXCITING NEWS AH! My story “It’s Okay” (pub by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social ) has been nominated for an Outwrite Scary Award in 4 categories!
It would mean the WORLD if you could vote for my work! And if you haven’t the link to vote and to read it are in my linktree
linktr.ee/WillowNichol...
February 2, 2026 at 12:16 AM
I need to keep up with posting AHH. But my Grubstreet class is still going great, and I have a meeting that I’m scared but excited about tomorrow at the lit agency 🧎🏽‍♀️‍➡️
February 11, 2026 at 3:35 PM
We got in a fender bender today 🥲 as someone who has some issues with OCD+Cars, this was me as we approached the other car and the breaks stopped working in the snow:
February 7, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Responsibilities: no

Spending 30 min looking for the goblin mask in Dead Rising so Frank will wear it during cut scenes: yes
February 3, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Playing Jeopardy! with my wife, and the answer was “Oscar the Grouch”
All I could get out was “GROUCH”
February 3, 2026 at 4:42 AM
I’m really enjoying reading through these! Check them out y’all!
Spooky Tip:

All of my scary little stories are now gathered on my Ko-fi. Want some bite sized tales of terror to keep you up at night? My little nightmares are waiting for you. Come visit, and let's get spooky.
Completely for free!

#HorrorWriting #ScaryStories
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February 2, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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Old Man Whistling While Slapping Knee Once Again Sweeps Grammys https://theonion.com/old-man-whistling-while-slapping-knee-once-again-sweeps-1851226320/
February 2, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days
February 2, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Such EXCITING NEWS AH! My story “It’s Okay” (pub by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social ) has been nominated for an Outwrite Scary Award in 4 categories!
It would mean the WORLD if you could vote for my work! And if you haven’t the link to vote and to read it are in my linktree
linktr.ee/WillowNichol...
February 2, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Hi friends! My short story “It’s Okay” is out and it would mean so much if you read it. It is all about the ambiguity of death and what that means to each of us.

www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/its-...
June 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I have news that I can’t share until tomorrow or the next day and I may pass out. I’m so excited and honored and I can’t wait to tell y’all
January 31, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Worked for six hours straight today on publishing stuff and realized I only did two things. Help
michael scott is sitting in front of a window with his eyes closed and his hand on his chin .
Alt: michael scott sitting in front of a window with his eyes closed, squeezing the bridge of his nose
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January 31, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I decided to read the Novella considering I enjoyed the movie so much. They are both such beautiful pieces of media, a little different but really not by much. So so good
Train Dreams was so good. Literally crying my eyes out
January 28, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Train Dreams was so good. Literally crying my eyes out
January 28, 2026 at 12:53 AM
I dreamt that I found a really cool set of colored gel pens in my desk and waking up without them was incredibly disappointing
January 26, 2026 at 4:51 PM
If we lose power we are lucky enough to own a disc drive and an unopened blue ray of The Wizard of Oz, The 10th Anniversary edition of Edward Scissorhands, The Devil Wears Prada, and High School Musical 2. Best marathon ever
January 26, 2026 at 1:56 AM
I told him he wasn’t going to like the snow. I was right
January 26, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.

If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I finally watched All the Empty Rooms after its Oscar nomination, and wow. It was incredibly well done but it hurt so much. It was alarmingly eye opening
January 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Lately I’ve been taking side quests and finding out after the fact that it was actually a really big deal. Today I found out a program that I’m in is up there was the university of Iowa’s writing program and I was like:
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 PM
How are we feeling about the Oscar nominations?
January 22, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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I am so honored to announce that my short story “A Very Fine Engagement”
has won first place in the 1816 Awards! I’m so excited to share this with you, and for those who have not read it yet, hope that you will check it out!

www.scribbled.online/prose/0dvqfv...
— scribbled.
1816 Award- First Prize by Willow Nichols-Capra
www.scribbled.online
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I got myself a whiteboard so I can pressure myself to not procrastinate with such notes as

1.) oh my GOD you need to do this NOW

And

2.) Lock in bitch, this is due in a week
January 20, 2026 at 4:14 PM