Peculiar Julia
@peculiarjulia.bsky.social
#Writer, #Editor, #Poet, #Dog Servant, #Cake Eater. #Poetry #MagicalRealism #BizarroFiction #CNF and most #Words written well. Lean #Buddhist when #meditating Find me #writing, #editing and #boost nominating on Medium https://linktr.ee/peculiarjulia
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Peculiar Julia
@peculiarjulia.bsky.social
· Oct 26
Staircase
a late-night phone call
medium.com
"...I hunched at the bottom of the staircase in the shadows, whispering shaky questions into the phone..."
#micromemoir #memoir #creativenonfiction
Staircase medium.com/flashbacks/s... in Flashbacks #litpub for #TinyTrueTales
#micromemoir #memoir #creativenonfiction
Staircase medium.com/flashbacks/s... in Flashbacks #litpub for #TinyTrueTales
On the future of relationships ...?
You’ve Got Male by A. Gee
medium.com/lit-up/youve...
#flashfiction #fiction #scifi in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
You’ve Got Male by A. Gee
medium.com/lit-up/youve...
#flashfiction #fiction #scifi in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
You’ve Got Male
On the future of relationships…
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
On the future of relationships ...?
You’ve Got Male by A. Gee
medium.com/lit-up/youve...
#flashfiction #fiction #scifi in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
You’ve Got Male by A. Gee
medium.com/lit-up/youve...
#flashfiction #fiction #scifi in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
"My human is a sizable being..."
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part I
by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h...
Brand new Tale in Parts #serialfiction #fiction in the Lit Up press #readingcommunity #litpub
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part I
by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h...
Brand new Tale in Parts #serialfiction #fiction in the Lit Up press #readingcommunity #litpub
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part I.
“Literary fiction, for its part, gives a voice even to those who […] cannot speak at all.” — Jacques Rancière
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November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"My human is a sizable being..."
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part I
by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h...
Brand new Tale in Parts #serialfiction #fiction in the Lit Up press #readingcommunity #litpub
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part I
by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h...
Brand new Tale in Parts #serialfiction #fiction in the Lit Up press #readingcommunity #litpub
The unsolvable puzzle
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman,
Part 3 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
great #serialfiction #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Not started it yet? no worries ...links to all the parts included!
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman,
Part 3 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
great #serialfiction #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Not started it yet? no worries ...links to all the parts included!
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 3
The unsolvable puzzle
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The unsolvable puzzle
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman,
Part 3 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
great #serialfiction #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Not started it yet? no worries ...links to all the parts included!
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman,
Part 3 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
great #serialfiction #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Not started it yet? no worries ...links to all the parts included!
"...gilding the seams of her skirt until those triple vodkas already gaslit her beyond states of comprehension or apprehension or even intention, they waited…"Insurrection by Edward Swafford medium.com/the-mad-rive... powerful #poetry #women #assault
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Insurrection
It was curiosity
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November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"...gilding the seams of her skirt until those triple vodkas already gaslit her beyond states of comprehension or apprehension or even intention, they waited…"Insurrection by Edward Swafford medium.com/the-mad-rive... powerful #poetry #women #assault
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"...
The world was an irredeemable blue.
He hangs his head like an old coat —
track change. Imagines windows
slipping into water..."
The Icarian by Michelle Lauren medium.com/lit-up/the-i...
#poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
The world was an irredeemable blue.
He hangs his head like an old coat —
track change. Imagines windows
slipping into water..."
The Icarian by Michelle Lauren medium.com/lit-up/the-i...
#poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
The Icarian
Free Verse
medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"...
The world was an irredeemable blue.
He hangs his head like an old coat —
track change. Imagines windows
slipping into water..."
The Icarian by Michelle Lauren medium.com/lit-up/the-i...
#poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
The world was an irredeemable blue.
He hangs his head like an old coat —
track change. Imagines windows
slipping into water..."
The Icarian by Michelle Lauren medium.com/lit-up/the-i...
#poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"...Don’t give advice, but question and confer..."
Fourteen Rules for Life by Jean Campbell medium.com/lit-up/fourt...
#sonnet #poetry #LifeLessons in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Fourteen Rules for Life by Jean Campbell medium.com/lit-up/fourt...
#sonnet #poetry #LifeLessons in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Fourteen Rules for Life
Sonnet
medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"...Don’t give advice, but question and confer..."
Fourteen Rules for Life by Jean Campbell medium.com/lit-up/fourt...
#sonnet #poetry #LifeLessons in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Fourteen Rules for Life by Jean Campbell medium.com/lit-up/fourt...
#sonnet #poetry #LifeLessons in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in..."
Turbulence by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/turbu... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Turbulence by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/turbu... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Turbulence
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in..."
Turbulence by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/turbu... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Turbulence by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/turbu... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Today's #dog with a side of Woolf ;)
Stop whatever you're doing! A moment's silence please: It's time for Bee's official #Monday statement. #QueenBee #DogsLife #CutestDogInTheWorld #MondayVibes
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Today's #dog with a side of Woolf ;)
Stop whatever you're doing! A moment's silence please: It's time for Bee's official #Monday statement. #QueenBee #DogsLife #CutestDogInTheWorld #MondayVibes
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Stop whatever you're doing! A moment's silence please: It's time for Bee's official #Monday statement. #QueenBee #DogsLife #CutestDogInTheWorld #MondayVibes
The First Clue ...
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 2 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
#serialfiction in Lit Up #litpub
#Sunday #readingforpleasure
(missed part 1? link for first part in the #story)
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 2 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
#serialfiction in Lit Up #litpub
#Sunday #readingforpleasure
(missed part 1? link for first part in the #story)
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 2
The first clue
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November 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The First Clue ...
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 2 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
#serialfiction in Lit Up #litpub
#Sunday #readingforpleasure
(missed part 1? link for first part in the #story)
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 2 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
#serialfiction in Lit Up #litpub
#Sunday #readingforpleasure
(missed part 1? link for first part in the #story)
When memories are all a couple have left to keep them warm...
The Last Warmth of Our Memories by Takeshi Chin medium.com/lit-up/the-l...
#fiction #flashfiction #memories #relationships in Lit Up #litpub
The Last Warmth of Our Memories by Takeshi Chin medium.com/lit-up/the-l...
#fiction #flashfiction #memories #relationships in Lit Up #litpub
The Last Warmth of Our Memories
When memories are all a couple have left to keep them warm.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
When memories are all a couple have left to keep them warm...
The Last Warmth of Our Memories by Takeshi Chin medium.com/lit-up/the-l...
#fiction #flashfiction #memories #relationships in Lit Up #litpub
The Last Warmth of Our Memories by Takeshi Chin medium.com/lit-up/the-l...
#fiction #flashfiction #memories #relationships in Lit Up #litpub
“You ever feel bad about it?”
amnesty by Jeremy medium.com/lit-up/amnes...
#fiction #SpeculativeFiction #flashfiction in Lit Up #litpub #Sunday #Read
amnesty by Jeremy medium.com/lit-up/amnes...
#fiction #SpeculativeFiction #flashfiction in Lit Up #litpub #Sunday #Read
amnesty
“You ever feel bad about it?”
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November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“You ever feel bad about it?”
amnesty by Jeremy medium.com/lit-up/amnes...
#fiction #SpeculativeFiction #flashfiction in Lit Up #litpub #Sunday #Read
amnesty by Jeremy medium.com/lit-up/amnes...
#fiction #SpeculativeFiction #flashfiction in Lit Up #litpub #Sunday #Read
Reposted by Peculiar Julia
This is aimed at everyone I follow on Bluesky, btw. All of you. Please!
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The point is that you need to be reposting a lot more. Just liking skeets is not enough. When you find something cool or interesting, I want to know about it. I followed you because I think you're cool, and I trust you to share cool things. Reposting makes us a community of "cool thing sharers."
Liked VS reposts on Bluesky:
Like = I want the author of this post to know I read and appreciated it.
Repost = I liked this so much I want everyone who follows me to read it too.
Like is a wink to one person, the author of the skeet.
Repost makes you a content curator for all your followers.
Like = I want the author of this post to know I read and appreciated it.
Repost = I liked this so much I want everyone who follows me to read it too.
Like is a wink to one person, the author of the skeet.
Repost makes you a content curator for all your followers.
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is aimed at everyone I follow on Bluesky, btw. All of you. Please!
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"They could have made a family. Could have stayed together, could have kept a child." They would have been perfect for each other if...by Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/21/t...
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
"They could have made a family. Could have stayed together, could have kept a child." They would have been perfect for each other if...by Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/21/t...
"I used to think love was a direction.
Something you could trace with your hands, something that led you back no matter how far you wandered..."
Redrawing Home by uninspiring alien medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#poetry in The Mad River #litpub
Something you could trace with your hands, something that led you back no matter how far you wandered..."
Redrawing Home by uninspiring alien medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#poetry in The Mad River #litpub
Redrawing Home
the moment you understand that home was never a place
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November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"I used to think love was a direction.
Something you could trace with your hands, something that led you back no matter how far you wandered..."
Redrawing Home by uninspiring alien medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#poetry in The Mad River #litpub
Something you could trace with your hands, something that led you back no matter how far you wandered..."
Redrawing Home by uninspiring alien medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#poetry in The Mad River #litpub
"If life was like a rose,
blooms concentrated passion fruit brûlée,
zest of clementine and petals
high from the sky..."
If life was like a rose #poetry
medium.com/lit-up/if-li...
#poetrycommunity Lit Up #litpub
blooms concentrated passion fruit brûlée,
zest of clementine and petals
high from the sky..."
If life was like a rose #poetry
medium.com/lit-up/if-li...
#poetrycommunity Lit Up #litpub
If life was like a rose
A poem
medium.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"If life was like a rose,
blooms concentrated passion fruit brûlée,
zest of clementine and petals
high from the sky..."
If life was like a rose #poetry
medium.com/lit-up/if-li...
#poetrycommunity Lit Up #litpub
blooms concentrated passion fruit brûlée,
zest of clementine and petals
high from the sky..."
If life was like a rose #poetry
medium.com/lit-up/if-li...
#poetrycommunity Lit Up #litpub
"The ceiling trembles like it wants to confess
and I am listening
the way daughters do
when the apartment goes quiet
for the wrong reasons..."
A Sparrow at the Window by Ani Eldritch medium.com/lit-up/a-spa...
#poetry #poetrycommunity #read the rest in Lit Up #litpub
and I am listening
the way daughters do
when the apartment goes quiet
for the wrong reasons..."
A Sparrow at the Window by Ani Eldritch medium.com/lit-up/a-spa...
#poetry #poetrycommunity #read the rest in Lit Up #litpub
A Sparrow at the Window
notes from a night that refused to end
medium.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"The ceiling trembles like it wants to confess
and I am listening
the way daughters do
when the apartment goes quiet
for the wrong reasons..."
A Sparrow at the Window by Ani Eldritch medium.com/lit-up/a-spa...
#poetry #poetrycommunity #read the rest in Lit Up #litpub
and I am listening
the way daughters do
when the apartment goes quiet
for the wrong reasons..."
A Sparrow at the Window by Ani Eldritch medium.com/lit-up/a-spa...
#poetry #poetrycommunity #read the rest in Lit Up #litpub
Queen Bee would like to make a special emergency #Friday statement ...
#QueenBee #DemonDog #TheWeekendIsComing
#QueenBee #DemonDog #TheWeekendIsComing
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Queen Bee would like to make a special emergency #Friday statement ...
#QueenBee #DemonDog #TheWeekendIsComing
#QueenBee #DemonDog #TheWeekendIsComing
“ the energy of the place is always changing. Sometimes I think you can feel it. Like the day the Queen died. Something shifted in the air. ”
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman by Will Pearce
A brand new tale in parts in Lit Up #litpub
#fiction #serialfiction #shortreads
medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman by Will Pearce
A brand new tale in parts in Lit Up #litpub
#fiction #serialfiction #shortreads
medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman: Part 1
The pros of living in a service station
medium.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“ the energy of the place is always changing. Sometimes I think you can feel it. Like the day the Queen died. Something shifted in the air. ”
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman by Will Pearce
A brand new tale in parts in Lit Up #litpub
#fiction #serialfiction #shortreads
medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman by Will Pearce
A brand new tale in parts in Lit Up #litpub
#fiction #serialfiction #shortreads
medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
Reposted by Peculiar Julia
"Great charcoal eyes glistened by the innocent Molino sun
How lovely would it be to have like the sparrow’s eyes..."
The Sparrow Imitator by mikhellus medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#Freeverse #poetry
How lovely would it be to have like the sparrow’s eyes..."
The Sparrow Imitator by mikhellus medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#Freeverse #poetry
The Sparrow Imitator
I want to be pretty like this little brown feather
medium.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Great charcoal eyes glistened by the innocent Molino sun
How lovely would it be to have like the sparrow’s eyes..."
The Sparrow Imitator by mikhellus medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#Freeverse #poetry
How lovely would it be to have like the sparrow’s eyes..."
The Sparrow Imitator by mikhellus medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#Freeverse #poetry
Reposted by Peculiar Julia
"Unwithering each night, a city blooms
silk and petal rooms, unfurling itself..."
Seven Portraits by Ellis A Conklin
medium.com/lit-up/seven...
#portraits #humanity #poetry
#poetrycommunity
silk and petal rooms, unfurling itself..."
Seven Portraits by Ellis A Conklin
medium.com/lit-up/seven...
#portraits #humanity #poetry
#poetrycommunity
Seven Portraits
a poem
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November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Unwithering each night, a city blooms
silk and petal rooms, unfurling itself..."
Seven Portraits by Ellis A Conklin
medium.com/lit-up/seven...
#portraits #humanity #poetry
#poetrycommunity
silk and petal rooms, unfurling itself..."
Seven Portraits by Ellis A Conklin
medium.com/lit-up/seven...
#portraits #humanity #poetry
#poetrycommunity
"Unwithering each night, a city blooms
silk and petal rooms, unfurling itself..."
Seven Portraits by Ellis A Conklin
medium.com/lit-up/seven...
#portraits #humanity #poetry
#poetrycommunity
silk and petal rooms, unfurling itself..."
Seven Portraits by Ellis A Conklin
medium.com/lit-up/seven...
#portraits #humanity #poetry
#poetrycommunity
Seven Portraits
a poem
medium.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Unwithering each night, a city blooms
silk and petal rooms, unfurling itself..."
Seven Portraits by Ellis A Conklin
medium.com/lit-up/seven...
#portraits #humanity #poetry
#poetrycommunity
silk and petal rooms, unfurling itself..."
Seven Portraits by Ellis A Conklin
medium.com/lit-up/seven...
#portraits #humanity #poetry
#poetrycommunity
"Great charcoal eyes glistened by the innocent Molino sun
How lovely would it be to have like the sparrow’s eyes..."
The Sparrow Imitator by mikhellus medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#Freeverse #poetry
How lovely would it be to have like the sparrow’s eyes..."
The Sparrow Imitator by mikhellus medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#Freeverse #poetry
The Sparrow Imitator
I want to be pretty like this little brown feather
medium.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Great charcoal eyes glistened by the innocent Molino sun
How lovely would it be to have like the sparrow’s eyes..."
The Sparrow Imitator by mikhellus medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#Freeverse #poetry
How lovely would it be to have like the sparrow’s eyes..."
The Sparrow Imitator by mikhellus medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#Freeverse #poetry
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I think I have a pretty good handle of the human condition through a man’s (many men, many of them superb writers) eyes.
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I think I have a pretty good handle of the human condition through a man’s (many men, many of them superb writers) eyes.