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Gillian Fletcher
@gillywater.substack.com
#1 best seller in pastiche—algorithms don’t love me as much as you will.

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✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: Willows' Weeping —check it out and subscribe for fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
Willows' Weeping
A garden of buried grief forces a reckoning that upends family and fate.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: Smorgasbroodjes —check it out and subscribe for fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
Smorgasbroodjes
Celebrate the joy of a full table, heart, and belly with a dinner party menu perfect for anywhere in the world.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: Job Hunting During the Apocalypse —check it out and subscribe for fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
Job Hunting During the Apocalypse
What do you do when the world ends at noon but your job interview with a human sourdough starter is at 11?
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October 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: Same Refrain, New Perspective —check it out and subscribe for fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
Same Refrain, New Perspective
Originals and covers, side by side. What changes when the tone shifts but the story stays the same?
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October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: CALLED, Chapter 7 —check it out and subscribe for fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
CALLED, Chapter 7
When an explosion shatters the night, Clem is haunted by her father’s impossible return. Survival is only the beginning.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: Belonging Is for the Birds —check it out and subscribe for fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
Belonging Is for the Birds
What can a bookshop, a lottery terminal, and a parrot teach us about finding home in a foreign land?
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October 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
No one teaches you how to cultivate a sense of #belonging as an #immigrant in the #netherlands. Working in a foreign language was a crash course—read about it at gillywater.substack.com!
October 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: Micro-dosing Fiction III —check it out and subscribe for fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
Micro-dosing Fiction III
Tiny tales, big impact. These micro doses of fiction hit hard—and yes, they’re habit-forming.
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September 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: Look Now, Look Again —check it out and subscribe for fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
Look Now, Look Again
Turn everyday moments into catalysts for self-discovery. Pause, reflect, and embrace your true self.
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September 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: Virtually Dead —check it out and subscribe for fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
Virtually Dead
When data mortician finds his own name in the queue, the hunt begins to preserve his soul before it’s wiped for good.
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September 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: An Uneasy Detente (L&F 8) —check it out and subscribe for fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
An Uneasy Detente (L&F 8)
Haunted heirlooms and dark visions threaten; Cassandra must cleanse a cursed magic before it consumes everyone she loves.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I will never again use the phrase “mnemonic device” again now that I know “donkey bridge” is an option.
September 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: The Trip to Hoge Veluwe —check it out and subscribe for free fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
The Trip to Hoge Veluwe
From wobbly white bikes to Van Gogh masterpieces and serene sculptures, this journey helped me see myself differently.
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September 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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❌ Don’t let anyone shame you for using genAI.

❌ AND don’t let anyone shame you for choosing not to use genAI.

Shaming PEOPLE solves nothing. Let’s focus on shaming the COMPANIES who offer unprivate, insecure, un #ethicalAI tools.

GenAI users can and should strive to offset the harms, though.
AI Vanguard Society
Exploring AI's Future in Work, Culture, and Innovation. We are a community of those curious about AI in all of its aspects banding together to try to make sense of this brave new world. Will you join ...
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August 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Read the new #nonfiction piece about exploring Gouda's charm and unmasking history's wounds by @gillywater.substack.com, now published on our webzine 😊

👉 theamazine.com/2025/08/29/s...

#writers #literarymagazine #travel
August 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
August 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: Like Clockwork —check it out and subscribe for free fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
Like Clockwork
Life takes grit, grace, and good tunes. This playlist is for finding your rhythm when everything’s unfamiliar.
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August 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#please tell me Debbie Harry @blondieband.bsky.social is moving to #thehague
August 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Um, is the #netherlands #allgood?
I was looking up the difference between two words for carrot and saw a deeper side of the #dutch
August 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
✍️ New in Wanderlust & Wordplay: The Orphan's Chalk (Lost & Foundry 7) —check it out and subscribe for free fiction, essays, and playlists 👇
The Orphan's Chalk (Lost & Foundry 7)
After confessing to the sheriff, Cassandra learns more about Marlowe’s disappearance just in time for the shadowy Collector’s visit.
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August 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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4 October IN-PERSON, Rotterdam NL. RSVP's open Friday, 15 August. Proost!
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In-person Entrepreneurs' Collab + Create - Rotterdam, Sat, Oct 4, 2025, 2:00 PM | Meetup
Let's intersect in person in Rotterdam! You spoke. I listened. Let's take this meetup to the streets - well, a cozy indoor venue for sure, not Zoom. **Who?** * Entrepreneu
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August 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM