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Candace Hill

@candacehill.bsky.social
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Writing a little speculative fiction here and there. Moved to Portland in retirement. Grew up in Southern Oregon. If I follow you it's because I'm interested. Member of the Baha'i Faith. I post SciFi on AO3 at tinyurl.com/4vsf2efw

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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 14h
#TimeTravelAuthors D3 Ghost/Spirit Before he leaves home for the Royal Navy Academy, Rory Ransom asks his parents exactly how his birth father died. In the writing of this story I became very fond of Roger Ransom and he shows up as Jeanette’s loving first husband.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D1 Twilight Zone. Consider if you will a future world that is no longer livable. Scientists invent a time machine to send Travellers to the past to beg for mercy. Would you believe? Would you help?
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I had the worst kale salad of my life in the Syracuse Airport. It was mealtime, we were traveling across the country, and I could not abide the idea of one more wretched sandwich. So I took the risk. First, the cold chicken was not bad, it was edible. The slices of bell pepper were okay, but salty
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SHARE: A young friend was caught in the Jury Duty call scam, never questioning that the authoritative voice on the phone was not a cop. It was awful and this friend is so remorseful. Anyone can fall prey to a scammer, read up and be prepared and share! Scam Alerts share.google/Oc9UmdNRWdGf...
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Oregon Judicial Department : Scam Alerts : How Do I? : State of Oregon
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D29 Arthur Gore, Diplomat from the Future will take any chance he gets to fly in a helicopter. In a recent story he is talked into telling a tale.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I listen to it now, I know every note and beat. I was 19 when I purchased the LP.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
##TimeTravelAuthors D27 Proud. Characters do express pride. Captain Gore (Arthur’s alter ego) is very proud of Pari after she goes undercover into Border Patrol offices and convinces them to leave the Diplomat to the Canadians. She charms them into submission.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Someone decided to add my profile to an Antifa list. I am anti‐fascist, but not in a political way. More peace, love, unity in diversity, cooperation consultation, interfaith action and service. Also, I'm a writer and promote my fictional works that depict heroic action to prevent climate change.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans years old, which featured waves of ping pong balls falling at surprising times and was really funny to a little kids.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In the category of, you learn something new every day. www.npr.org/2026/09/26/n...
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The U.S. has more thalidomide survivors than the government admits
In the 1950s and 1960s, doctors gave the drug thalidomide to pregnant patients without telling them — and without FDA approval. Now those patients' children want recognition.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THE COUNCIL OF ELROND Elrond: "Speake nowe, who will carrye the ring to Mordor?" Frodo [lookinge for place on the table to putte hys iced coffee]
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D25 Living in another time. In a new story, Arthur remembers his first wedding anniversary with Jeanette. He does not want to go into the past, but she believed that he had an important purpose in the world, that he should put aside his fears and fulfill his purpose. He does.
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Sam Bernero @sambernero.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Congrats PCA. 👏👏👏👏 So happy to see this moment in person!
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me with my Bluesky Mutuals.
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Dollyparton Laughing
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Beautiful day in Upstate NY to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame. I love the art gallery.
A Negro League baseball player with colorful background Detroit African American player at bat.Four working men up in the utility pole listening to a World Series game on a radio. Painting of a stadium crowd all reaching for a foul ball.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D23 She turned to stand in front of the window, flowers behind her, in pretty bare feet, and waited for him. He stood up straight, and said for the first time in his adult life. “I want to tell you how I feel. I didn’t know it would be this complicated to tell you how I feel.”
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D21 Annoying Arthur is detained by Border Patrol in DC. There's an Agent who is intriqued and she shows up again in other chapters. Neing very annoying. Arthur tries not to have too much fun, which was a lot of fun for me to write.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Autumnal Equinox is days away. Let's do an apartment balcony update in Portland, Ore. Last winter was so mild that many plants overwintered and kept flowering. Portland "free piles" are great for plant pots. The balcony is too narrow for entertaining. I wish more people could see it from below.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D19 "Change." Saturday excerpt. From a new story where Arthur and Jeanette celebrate their first wedding anniversary. Posted for #Shiptember at Fan Fiction Exchange on AO3. Link in the comments.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D15 Regret. Franklin Gore is the next generation time Traveller, still a young man, who looks very much like his Great-Uncle Arthur. Frank and Carmel Khazemipour Cortez grew up together, but they are not really cousins. I've given them a romance and a Cozy House wedding.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D15 Excerpt “I feel the same.” Her husband brought up her hand and placed the cup of broth in it. He kept hold of her hand as she brought it to her face, found her lips and formed a sip. She is recovering from an unexpected year in the past. And losing an eye.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
St Johns Farmer's Market bringing the joy of tomato season. #Portland
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D13 Question & Answer Is there, maybe, just a little, cheating going on? Travellers maybe taking a little personal advantage? For Arthur Gore, yes, he plays the stock market, exceptionally well, to better understand how all that works. No big deal.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One time in my life I tried to make a comprehensive list. It was too late to remember them all.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D11 Fight Oh yes. Arthur Gore was a "gun guy" in the Royal Navy, not a Marine though. He worked with his father at the Ministry of Intelligence Internal Security and would go out spy catching. He was known for his accuracy. As an older man he was called out to play a target.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 TONIGHT @ 8pm ET, join the No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call to learn about the vision, urgency, & strategy behind the No King Coalition’s early vote activation & election protection campaign — & how YOU can get involved. 🗳️ Register: bit.ly/nokingscall #NoKings #KickoffCall #VoteEarly
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D9 Laugh Pari and Arthur are having a picnic in the park. He lays down with his head in her lap. The harbor is below. “Well, this is heaven.” Arthur recited. “My lover's lap and blue skies above. Her sweet face and voice, the screeching of the gulls.” And they laughed.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D7 Expert You don't see him often, he works down deep. Nat Singh has watched the uses of the time machine for decades from the IT deep state. Arthur Gore didn't know. When Arthur goes 100 years into the past, Nat is part of his cohort of Travellers, with his own job to do.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D5 Plant/Grow We don't often see Arthur’s son growing up, a peek here and there. In this recent story they are both at the Naval Academy and decide to visit the mass grave where their Daddy, their birth father, who died in the Great Hurricane is buried. They are glad they did.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Stars We Do Not See, Aboriginal art at the #Portland Art Museum. We were at the member preview day. It was incredible.
Aboriginal Art from Australia.Contemporary Aboriginal art from Australia Contemporary Aboriginal art from Australia. The eagle's eye view of the country.The Landing of the British in Australia, contemporary Aboriginal art in Australia.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hello Dolly! #Portland Art Museum
A work of art that features Dolly Parton along with other strong women figures.Text that explains the artwork above.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
At the Portland Art Museum, member viewing, Australian Indigenous art. Can you imagine hanging this work? #Portland
Poster for exhibit, The Stars We Do Not See, in brilliant colors and shades of purpleGallery for exhibit featuring woven mats hanging from the ceiling A closer view of woven mats hanging from the ceiling in curves.Entrance to the Portland Art Museum with colorful street mural.
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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚 undead & thriving 🦇👻😱 @vampireantihero.com · 04/09/2026
Pssst. It's my birthday today. Please share my work? You can find all my links here: www.conquerthyfear.com/links Upcoming BackerKit here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... And some recent-ish art! (I've been so busy this year I haven't done super much 🥲 reopening comms soon) #WritingCommunity
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here is the Ghost Story where I explain a bit about this part of the plot (my interpretation). The two people in the conversation will never meet each other in real life, they are years apart in time. But, they could meet in a dream, or you know, the ether. archiveofourown.org/works/642176...
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How We Love, Who We Love, How We Die, When We Die - Chapter 1 - ImNonPartisan - The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Light Painter by Tang Yau Hoong
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors If you know, you know.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Twas shopping at the TJ Max and saw this puzzle and thought of @juliebihn.bsky.social and her Titanic time travel novel.
A jigsaw puzzle featuring the Titanic.A jigsaw puzzle cut away of the Titanic.
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The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com · 15/04/2026
Latest from Ola's Kool Kitchen Kyrgyzstan’s World Nomad Games 2026 will bring ancient sports, culture, and global attention back to Issyk-Kul ow.ly/4Y2w50YJNGQ #Kyrgyzstan #CentralAsia #WorldNomadGames #NomadCulture #IssykKul #NomadGames2026
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Horses, Eagles, and Fire: The Steppe Awakens as the 2026 World Nomad Games Return to Kyrgyzstan - The Times Of Central Asia
On the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul, where mountains drop sharply into the water, and horses and cars are found in almost equal measure, Kyrgyzstan will host the
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Put World Nomad Games into Instagram and thank me later. #WorldNomadGames
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Наурыз құтты болсын! Казахстан
ALT: Наурыз құтты болсын! Казахстан
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🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ @snipe.lol · 02/09/2026
So... quick reminder.... executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS. guides.library.umass.edu/govinfo/exec...
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LibGuides: Government Information: Executive orders and proclamations
A Guide to Government Information Sources
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D3 Time. Great gobs of time between the Arctic 1847 and the field trip from the future. However, this is Arthur’s story, so, In a dream visit to the past we see him at ten years old. He dies at 90 years old. The young duplicate of his mother lives to be a loving grandmother.
List of post prompts.Arthur and Pari visit a scene from his childhood.
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D1 Fall My WIP is a story about Mrs. Gore, Arthur’s mother, when she falls out of the time machine, near dead, bloody, and missing an eye. She was trapped in the past for an entire year. Arthur is 12 years old, and afterwards his mother changes into Adela, and not in a good way.
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ICYMI, Uncanny Magazine Issue 72 Part 1 features new stories by Ken Liu, Natalia Theodoridou, and Luna Hou! www.uncannymagazine.com
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 72, "Fluid" by Galen Dara: A femme-coded being stares at us with light and dark blue-green skin and red lips. A read heart-shaped organ is in front of her chest with white tendrils and green sprouts and roots with drops of red and a couple of many-red-petaled flowers. Surrounding her are splashes ofyellow, yellow-green, orange, pink, and green-blue and large similar many-red-petaled flowers. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "September/October 2026," Issue Seventy-Two," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.
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Julie Bihn, author of Titanic Voyage @juliebihn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fancy a trip to an amusement park before summer ends? Titanic Voyage is #FreeOnHoopla or $3.99 elsewhere! book.juliebihn.com/TV Immigrants' Journey is available for preorder! book.juliebihn.com/IJ And if you wrote, write, or will write time travel, I hope to see you next month #TimeTravelAuthors
Handwriting like Clara Jones' over a sparkling ocean and a starry sky with an amusement park silhouette background and Picacho Peak

Visit an angsty amusement park

Titanic Voyage, available everywhere. Immigrants' Journey, preorder now.#TimeTravelAuthors
September 2026

1. 	Introduce your story (optional: use the word "fall")
3.	How much time passes in your story?
5.	Saturday excerpt (optional word: plant/grow)
7.	Who's your story's time travel expert?
9.	Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: laugh)
11.	Has your MC ever been in a fight?
13. 	Ask (and answer) a question you'd like in a future #TimeTravelAuthors (let me know if you DON'T want credit!)
15.	Third sentence from page 10 (or from 2% through)
17. 	Character's regret 
19. 	Saturday excerpt (optional word: change)
21. 	Most annoying character
23. 	Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: rebel/stand)
25.	Does anyone want to live in another time period?
27.	Proudest character
29.	Author's choice/promo

All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome!
To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors
Even days are for posting what you like!
Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#TimeTravelAuthors D31 Since we are all storytellers, I thought you might like this tale I wrote for Project Hail Mary. archiveofourown.org/works/87825121
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Fairy Tales in the Hail Mary - ImNonPartisan - Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have enjoyed these conversations! I am a novice writer who fell down a fan fiction slippery slope, giving me a lot of practice! So much so that I needed to write a guide. If you like, visit this link to see how I organized myself. Original fiction is emerging. archiveofourown.org/works/77591176
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Character List and Resources for the series "The Future Has Yet to be Written" - ImNonPartisan - The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Candace Hill @candacehill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I just recently read this terrific story! It just won a Hugo Award!
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