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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Me holding in gas after knowing I had NO dmned business gulping down two big ass cups of iced coffee. #coffeeaddict #bluesky #writingcommunity #writesky Would call it temporary insanity as I wait to hear back from editors. But imma do it again tomorrow.

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Chile... My agent had me do some rush revisions because I am officially 'on submission' in the next day or so (fingers crossed). My anxiety said 'hey bitch, remember me?' #WritingCommnity #Booksky #BlackWriters #LiteraryHorror #SpeculativeHorror #BlackSky

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Stress

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My first piece with Hushmarrow Press just went live! I get to nerd out on Southern Gothic messiness, and talk about the reasons as to why Southern Gothic has been my first love since I was a little girl (which was probably kinda weird for a 7 year old.) #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #SouthernGothic

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The House Isn’t Haunted. The History Is.

The History Beneath the Southern Gothic Aesthetic

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I found my old writing blog from 2009. I was so effing cringe😬😩. If yall ask nicely, I might post the link so yall can point laugh and cringe with me. Apparently, I’m moonlighting as a sadist now #writingcommunity #Booksky #writersky

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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Public lands and waters must be protected - they belong to you and all future generations 🌊🌊

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

High on Edibles presents: My sister vs. Me (we ain't drive!) Black cookout edition #Blacksky #WritingCommunity #Booksky

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

One thing about Black folks,we gonna play out music loud af. Waiting on my sis with the drinks! #Blacksky #WritingCommunity #BlackFolklore

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Closing down Google Docs and Word for the b'day weekend. There is a pool, BBQ and wine calling my name.

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Elbow deep in Vietnam War research for my new Southern Gothic folk-horror WIP, set in 1969 Alabama. Military stories never interested me, but add rootwork, Black Panther-adjacent protagonists and a pathological liar who's also the neighborhood witch? Whew BAY-BEE. #AmWriting #FolkHorror #ProjectWar

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PTSD Cat

ALT: PTSD Cat

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In other news, I grabbed a can of tuna fish from the cabinet to make a tuna sandwich. Two bites in, I realized it tasted funny. Because it was cat food. I put mayonnaise in cat food. And ate it. #catsofbluesky #fml #wtf

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This Is Fine Meme

ALT: This Is Fine Meme

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This week has been.. amazing. Publication offer. An agent with CAA pushing up her timeline to read BOTH my novels and Mychal Threets saying he was proud of me. Gas toots incoming #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying #BlackWriters #Booksky

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Received an offer from a publisher. Not quite sure what to do with myself. Stunned. Utterly. (Mind you, still unagented.) Suprisingly, no gas toots yet. Meeting with acquisitions next week. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #BlackWriters #LiteraryHorror

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Jennifer Lawrence: What Do You Mean?

ALT: Jennifer Lawrence: What Do You Mean?

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Funny" how all these AI claims are against Black authors. You mean to tell me that this author passed numerous rounds of scrutiny between agents, editors and the like...and NOW "suspected AI" Nah. Suspected Racial bias. Now, ANOTHER hurtle to deal with #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use

Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Welp. I've reached that part in my doom scrolling where I watched someone wash soap. Let me take my ass to bed.

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Man, the anxiety toots that ensued when I got a full request from a pretty fancy lit agency I wasn’t sure I had a chance at… epic. I could have taken off to outer space. Or…it was the coffee. Either way 😩💨💨💨💨 #AmWriting #BlackWriters #Blacksky #WritingCommunity #LiteraryHorror

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Cute Character Toot Queen

ALT: Cute Character Toot Queen

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Being Black in America and being able to trace my family back this far has humbled me beyond words. My father's side, a matriarch, likely. I'll have to call my dad to ask her name.

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Did a deep dive into my family on my father's side, found my great grandfather, Raymond (whose spirit is all up and through my house, I leave whiskey out for him) and his brothers, my uncles. All of them just HANDSOME.

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Sbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I will remain an overthinker because too many are underthinking.

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Spent the last 2 hours gaming with my eldest and her friends. My baby is leaving next month for college and these moments mean EVERYTHING to me. I cannot see her past this age

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

waiting for Doordash to deliver my wine like:

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My 18 year old added me to her friends' discord server. I'm the cool mom!

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I'm a Cool Mom

ALT: I'm a Cool Mom

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Listening to Mary, drinking herbal tea and blowing some 🍃 while outlining my new novel 'Adorn' about a Black girl in 1990 South Philly, where conjure lives and something feeds on the neighborhood’s misery. She a whole vibe. #AmWriting #BlackSky #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #BlackWriters #BookSky

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Mary J. Blige - I'm Goin' Down

YouTube video by MaryJBligeVEVO

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Enshittening" had me laughing for about 5 minutes straight. #laughingsoIdon'tcry

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is insane. And of course the administration couldn't care less. That poor woman though. I could not imagine enduring it 17 days later. I made a mistake with warm egg salad once, and that only lasted a few hours. But days?! Lawd hammery.

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I have one good nerve left, and these two teenage girls, and 3 teenage cats are all fighting for domination of it. #AddToBlackSky

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Lawd Oh Lawd

ALT: Lawd Oh Lawd

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

July 14 – phase For #WIPSnips, from #SEDIMENT. A river learns the difference between keeping and having a name. Neori is the first to understand how dangerous that phase might be. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #ElementalHorror #Literary #SpeculativeFiction

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

For some reason, coffee at 3:56 pm in the middle of my work day feels like a good idea. My stomach will disagree LOUDLY, later.

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Leonardo DiCaprio: Thank You Sir Cheers

ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio: Thank You Sir Cheers

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Neori asks a Central African river for truth. The spirit inside it answers with hunger, a child, and a haunting her bloodline will carry for generations 🌊 elemental horror 🩸 bloodline haunting 🌍 Central African folklore 🖤 Black historical horror 🕯️ ancestral memory #BluePit #Q #A #POC #H #HS #D

Moodboard for SEDIMENT, a mythic historical horror novel. A collage of Black and African figures near water: men with instruments and river poles, women standing, bowing, or submerged in water, hands touching a stream, white garments, shells, ritual-like river scenes, a golden river at sunset, and a foggy blue forest. The images evoke elemental water, Central African folklore, spiritual inheritance, ancestral memory, and a bloodline haunting that travels from one river toward the Mississippi.

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

What does it mean to engage with a writer whose sense of the abyss was inseparable from his racism? I’m interested in the tension between recognizing Lovecraft’s impact on the genre and refusing to let his fears define its future. #BlackHorror #CosmicHorror #WritingCommunity#BlackWriters #WriteSky

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On Lovecraft, Loathing, and the Shape of Cosmic Horror

Influence, disgust, and the right to reimagine the abyss

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Alicia Marie @bonexflower.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

July 13th – almost For #WIPSnips, an excerpt from SEDIMENT, my mythic literary horror novel. A river spirit has made himself almost human for Neori. He still does not understand restraint. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #BlackHorror #LiteraryHorror

An aged parchment-style page featuring an excerpt from SEDIMENT. The highlighted word is “almost.” The excerpt shows Neori setting terms with a river spirit who has made himself nearly human for her, insisting that if she chooses him, the choice must remain hers.

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