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✨ Hylia ✨

@priestesshylia.bsky.social

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Occasional writer ✍🏻 Sometimes artist 🎨 Always human adjacent husk 🌽 💗💜💙 🏳️‍🌈 You can find me dissociating in a world of fiction. Read my free nightmare delivery service @ https://open.substack.com/pub/hylia 28 ~ She/Her ~ NoAI🚫

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Aug 10

I thought it would be obnoxious to post here every time I wrote something, so consider this a bulk message

Wrote this today open.substack.com/pub/hylia/p/...

And I now have at least half a dozen other short standalone horror stories hosted here. (All free) anddd 4 full chapters of the “book”

Fidelity

Tainted Faith

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 8d

Welcome to spooky season, the perfect time to read some horror stories

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A sepia toned corn field background with the word ‘HARVEST’ overlaid in the middle

✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 12d

Tbf I have very low motivation to post on this app, like two people here will click over to read my stuff despite dozens less than a year ago seeming very hyped at my book idea

Now you could read the current draft for entirely free

But this app stays pretty dead for me outside of promos

✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 12d

What Happened in Nysa :

Short story split into two parts, slasher themed horror featuring an odd little cult. What starts as a road trip to hang out with friends takes a quick turn for the worse.

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What Happened in Nysa (1)

How It Began

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 12d

Labor of Love:

A silly, strange, light hearted, short fantasy story about a human working in the shop of a folklore creature.

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Labor of Love

Light-hearted Fantasy

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 12d

Vestigial:

A horror story which gives new purpose to the appendix. Mildly irreverent.

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Vestigial

Not-so useless organ

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 12d

Bad Girl:

A teenager experiences an odd disconnection, another voice, after a strange birthday. Or does she?

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Bad Girl

Are you me?

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 12d

Alone; Together:

Warning: Graphic Body Horror. My most read story on substack to date. Our lonely narrator comes to terms with not being quite so alone.

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Alone; Together

aka Bug Mommy

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 12d

Observer Effect:
A Transcript of a mysterious radio broadcast, featuring call-ins from people who would have been better off shielding their eyes and ears.

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Observer Effect

Welcome to the Eternal Perception Broadcast

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 12d

Where The Lost Go:

A short, calm, almost ghostly sort of tale set in a snowy forest. Bit of dread, nothing too crazy - open.substack.com/pub/hylia/p/...

Where The Lost Go

A snowy journey

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · 12d

Like fiction? Like horror or maybe a touch of fantasy? Wanna read some shit for free?

Here’s some free to read stuff I have written, there’s also 10 Chapters of my WIP “novel” The Good Shade Hotel now

Stories below (substack may prompt you to sub, but that’s entirely optional.)

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Aug 10

I made a cover for the series/book in progress!

Text reads “The Good Shade Hotel” in a full white font, with yellow pine trees in the background and black pine trees in the foreground

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神威なつき🐰🌸個展開催▶︎9/13〜9/22 ＠原宿 ACG_Labo @n-kamui.bsky.social · Aug 10

🖤🩷レトロモダンな和装×地雷系牛鬼ちゃん🩷🖤

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Brooke Lanier @authorbelanier.bsky.social · Aug 10

Just a reminder that libraries are incredible 📚📚 if you haven't been to your local one lately, put it in your calendar to go this upcoming week!

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · Aug 9

MAGICA RIOT SAYS

Artwork of the queer magical girls of “Magica Riot” - Riot Red, Riot Purple, Riot Blue, Riot Yellow, and Riot Green - surrounded by a multicolored brush stroke border. At the top, text reads “Magica Riot Says…” and at the bottom, text reads “Billionaires are making your life harder…not trans people!"

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · Aug 8

It is time. August 8-10.

Support 9 indie authors. Get 16 books for $25. All our Itch rev share is at 0%. And, for every 5 bundles bought, Nova the baby gets a present. I'll even spot you her first one.

🧡🧡 Baby's first chainsaw 🧡🧡

#writingcommunity 🌈🚀💫 #booksky #authors 🌈📚

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Featuring covers of the books:
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- She Slipped Through the Cracks by W. Payne Sillivan

An MS Paint drawing of a baby with a sad face and a curly-q of ginger hair on her head. She has a clip art chainsaw

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Aug 10

Slay is a short piece about two women who exorcise vampires:

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Slay

aka machete girls

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Aug 10

Someone Else’s Problem is a short absurd tale about an encounter with a non-human creature:

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Someone Else's Problem

An absurd mini-"adventure"

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Aug 10

Finding Tommy is a short horrific “mystery” :

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Finding Tommy

A mystery-solving misadventure

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Aug 10

Fidelity is about a woman who is transformed by betrayal

✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Aug 10

Fidelity

Tainted Faith

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Aug 9

I really suck at using more than one form of social media at a time

I simply *forget* that others exist when I find a different one

✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Aug 9

I read this the other day, a poem absolutely worth reading (As well as the other work he’s written!)

Sarlos Cantana @sarlos.substack.com · Aug 9

Alligator Alcatraz: as told by a former guard

Poem

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✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m so tired of the heatwave. Too sleepy. Cabin fever type bs. Ugh.

✨ Hylia ✨ @priestesshylia.bsky.social · Jul 21

I was super into House of Night by P.C and Kristin Cast as teen, I really liked the way vampires fit into that world. I don’t think I ever finished the series

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · Jul 21

Briar Ripley Page's grief horror is aching, awkward, ugly, horrific, and genuine (all meant in a complimentary way)!

If you want to see what I mean, pick up Lupus in Fabula, which is a truly excellent collection of horror and Weird fiction: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lupu...

Lupus in Fabula paperback | Cursed Morsels Press

Lupus In Fabula collects thirteen stories about the interplay of lust, violence, yearning, and grief; about becoming a monster and loving monsters; about transformation; about strange occurrences in s...

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