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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · 8d

Throwing my hat into the ring for #AugurMicros2025

Here's my short piece titled "Garden"

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you for being ever so supportive!!

Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 6: Nostalgia now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 20d

“That is what haunts us, keeping a thing that hurts alive. Without even asking who decided this is the way it must be done.”

Read the backstory and don’t me as the piece itself!

#EpistemicLitFamily

Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · 20d

Here's the (promised!) blog about my recent story.

I go into the thought-process behind the themes of my story "Lungs"

My notes on how a "ghost" story should be in conversation with the world it is written in/to/for.

And more!

busayomoji0.wixsite.com/a-busayo/pos...

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · 20d

Here's the (promised!) blog about my recent story.

I go into the thought-process behind the themes of my story "Lungs"

My notes on how a "ghost" story should be in conversation with the world it is written in/to/for.

And more!

busayomoji0.wixsite.com/a-busayo/pos...

Lungs: Notes On A Story

#ShortStory I do not like ghost stories, but I found myself writing one.

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you!!

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 20d

Read 'Lungs' then read @busayo.bsky.social's excellent blog post exploring the opportunities and responsibilities facing writers when we summon phantoms in our work.

busayomoji0.wixsite.com/a-busayo/pos...

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · 22d

Wrote blog posts about my most recent pieces.

Because I love writing about the inspiration behind my works.

One of them drops tomorrow!

I'll be sharing the story behind the story of "Lungs" recently published in @innerworlds.bsky.social

Excited to share it!

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oof

Those lines came straight from the heart.

If you haven't read my piece titled "Lungs"
Catch up here.

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · Sep 6

"If a family was like an animal to be drawn and quartered, which side gets the heart? Does the blood ever ache for what could have been? The paths it used to know."

Read 'Lungs' by @busayo.bsky.social in our latest issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-bus...

#SpeculativeFiction #SpecFic

Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju

Fingers twisted from arthritis. A wet bandage over his right hand seeping a wound the local healer had inflicted. Trying, failing, to fix a hand only decade shy of a century.

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Sep 3

Some days you're so productive.

Other days you avoid the blank page and scroll through socials on your laptop.

The duality of the writer's life ☺️

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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 6: Nostalgia now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Lungs” by @busayo.bsky.social in @innerworlds.bsky.social

Ghostly tale exploring what it means to be family

inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-bus...

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you for reading and sharing!

You're ever so supportive.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just read "Lungs" by @busayo.bsky.social in Issue 8 of @innerworlds.bsky.social! Very rich & vivid prose in this familial ghost-story

inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-bus...

Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju

Fingers twisted from arthritis. A wet bandage over his right hand seeping a wound the local healer had inflicted. Trying, failing, to fix a hand only decade shy of a century.

inner-worlds.ghost.io

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

😊😊😊!

Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thank you 😊

Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thank you, Toria!
Working with you was a delight.

Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

One of the best parts of these pubs is getting to read work by my issue mates.

Excited to get into it.

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

@katharinetyndall.bsky.social
It's a lovely work you have here!

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hello.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I appreciate it!

Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thank you so much for reading and sharing, Katharine!

And for your kind words.

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

"I was born with a tree branch on one side instead of an arm"

The opening line is so simple, and odd and brilliant, just like the rest of this piece.

And the part of the story with the little boy is painful in the most special way.

Read "Strangler fig" here

inner-worlds.ghost.io/strangler-fi...

Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall

I was born with a tree branch on one side instead of an arm. The doctor diagnosed it as a kind of parasitic infection previously known only in plants; I was the first ever human carrier of a plant-par...

inner-worlds.ghost.io

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

Okayyy

My story in Inner Worlds is out now!

You can read "lungs" here (and some other great work too).

It's a story about spectres that trail in families. And daring to confront them, just as they confront you.

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · Aug 31

💚💫 Issue Eight has landed! 💫💚

This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.

If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...

#SFF #Horror

Inner Worlds cover with acid green masthead and artwork showing a part of a Black person's face in dark blue with a glitchy texture, surrounded by flame like shapes like heatvision hotspots, with green and yellow edges and bright scarlet centres. The person's gaze is very intense, and seems hurt, wary, angry.

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

It is raining publications this week!

And I'm excited to share another one.

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thank you so much for sharing!

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 30

You're welcome!

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thank you!

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Busayo @busayo.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thank you for the care and consideration you gave to my work, Azure!

Happy to see the issue published now.

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