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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories

@drkimiww.bsky.social
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Poet, professor, scholar of Indigenous rhetorics & literatures, actress, producer, consultant, crocheter, seamstress, beader, Mom, Kaku/Nana, Wonder Woman, Rance’s nukwupu. Warning—this is where I almost strictly poet away my time. “I” is not always “me.”

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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you, @jangoeswriting.bsky.social!
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wow! I never expect anyone to buy academic books! I’m flattered. This is certainly the most readable of all of them. The subject matter is still academic, but the genre bending made editing a pleasure.
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is my third book with OU Press! I love how supportive and professional they always are!
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It has Tlahuelpocmimi, among other vampires! I’m just learning about them (real Aztec stuff, not fantasy), and they are associated with Smoking Mirror! You’ll love this book!
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Currently on @silviamg.bsky.social Moreno-Garcia’s Certain Dark Things in Indigenous Vampires and @littlebadger.bsky.social’s Elatsoe in Native Children’s and Young Adult. #teaching #university #vampires #ghosts #native #nativeliterature #indigenousreads
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#vss365 #WIPSnips #sail #rice
Pt567
Dawn nudged Dots in the sides with her heels, taking off so fast her feather cape floated behind her like a #sail. She looked over her shoulder at the 50 or so naked, swarming humans that, Creator help her, looked like grains of #rice, no, like maggots writhing against the green forest, gray, busted pavement, & red dirt. 
#vss365 #WIPSnips
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you, @jangoeswriting.bsky.social!
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you, @stitchingfiend.bsky.social!
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A s p e n🕊️©️(AspenBrave®️™️) @aspenbrave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#BraveWrite #vss365 #WIPㅤ #AmWriting #Script “Normal is a mirage. The only 'normal' is the setting on a washing machine. I'm not going to apologize for surviving my share of life's storms & pouring rain. For the most part, I AM 'sunny with blue skies'-but beware- so is the eye of a #hurricane.”
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As far as a #hurricane goes, this one was rather mild. But then, there was little the game could do to replicate such devastating forces with so few resources. Still, Rory tried to avoid the swirls of little mistrals that surged across the deck of the ship as best he could to reach safety. #vss365
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#hurricane (subbed original Mayan word, Huracán, God of storms) #wall #vss365 #WIPSnips
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My pleasure! I enjoyed it!
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you!
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
From: ‘Soulstice’ Prompt: ‘Contract’ #WiPSnips
“‘Indeterminate Circumstances Studies’?” Ilbnot stepped a little way out of the door, looking both ways along the street and blatantly ignoring the thirty-foot tall flamingo attacking the Tower of Perfidy. Students. That was probably what this was. A student prank. “The Indeterminate Circumstances Studies department was dissolved, ooh, fifteen years ago? They just couldn’t offer any certainties about whether they actually contributed anything of worth. Of course, there was the matter of the Unfortunate Incident. Prank?”

There were recorded, over the centuries, a large number of Unfortunate Incidents that had occurred in the confines of the Guild House. So much so that part of the contract of apprenticeship involved a waver that, once signed, held the Guild at no fault should anything happen to the apprentice if covered by the descriptive ‘Unfortunate Incident’. It had saved a lot on lawyers fees. Not so much on the number of apprentices that suffered Unfortunate Incidents, but they knew what they were getting into. Mostly.

“Oh, no, sir. No prank, sir. That’s scheduled for later, sir.” The freshly bearded mage waved to the side where a group of apprentices looked sheepish, waved, and tried to hide the sheep and the bucket of fizzing magical effluvium behind each other. “This is most certainly not a prank, sir. That I know of.”

“The chair of Indeterminate Circumstances wants to see me. The last chair of Indeterminate Circumstances died, in an Unfortunate Incident. Fifteen years ago.” It certainly sounded like a prank. “Tall chap? Slightly worried looking? Beard about yay long?”
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Somewhere, in this sprawling, overcrowded #harbour, with ships at dock, and at anchor, masts stippling the skies and rigging acting like spider webs, Rory had to find one man that looked out of place. It was the embarcation and disembarcation point for, theoretically, thousands of people! #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New orders, yet again, chosen to keep Dylan on his toes, no doubt. This time to return to safe #harbour and, there, to meet with another of the brass. But, this time, it was different. Forgiveness had come and a task given. The Charon was going on a hunt. For an Enemy ship gone rogue. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ilyna didn’t #harbour any illusions about hitting that big score that could fund her enough to leave the life, to leave Tarkar’s Bridge. Why should she? She had only ever known the Bridge, and the Underside. It was her home. To be able to live less frugally? That she looked forward to. #vss365
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you, @jangoeswriting.bsky.social!
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pt565 The temāzcall was, in many ways, a still #harbour before a maelstrom of battle. It was also, as Neña had explained, a #contract of sorts with the spirits for success in that storm. Esmeralda was transforming into an intellectual & a spiritual warrior in her golden years. #vss365 #WIPSnips
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Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#vss365 #AcrosticOctober Select, my dear, How to #lure Innocents to our lair Nice plump juicy ones Yes, my dear @daveashleypoet.bsky.social #shiny
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#vss365 #satsplat #vsshorror In the forest of beautiful bloom Sits an animal hard to see Maker of gloom Aura black as a starless night Its scent a putrid Deathly blight Beware of its #lure Amnesia its game For one whiff of its stench And you'll forget your name
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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"So dis beastie were huntin is a bit like dose angla fish thingys. Da ones wit da #lure on dere heds," Riz explained. "So is it just a bright light or.. Riz are you paying attention?" "Wat waz dat? I waz distracted by dat floatin gold rat statue ova dere." #vss365 #riztherogue
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From: ‘Soulstice’ Prompt: ‘Petal’ Alt: ‘Leaves’ #WiPSnips
“Get a shift on, girl. I’m not going to live forever, you know.” The scowl Flirty gave him was hardly in keeping with the occasion, but he could get so annoying sometimes.

Flirty gripped the teacup, turning it in a flash to sit atop the saucer and, this time, didn’t smash a treasured family heirloom. So far, so good. Turn it three times Sinisterwise. Done. Nice and smooth. Lift and … the last fingers of daylight fell below the horizon. Flirty didn’t so much see it happen, but more like felt it. A chill wind barrelled across the landscape, billowing and ruffling leaves and skirts wherever it passed. Flirty didn’t see this, either, but she knew it happened, especially when the wind battered against the walls of Gimble’s house, rattling shutters, crashing open the front door, sending leaves, and one surprised stoat, through the open portal.

The cup in Flirty’s hand shivered and she barely held on to it, staring into the bottom of it as candles all around the room guttered and threatened to go out. Flirty didn’t handle threats very well and turned her head to stare at the nearest candle until it put aside its threat and settled back down to just listlessly flickering. She turned her attention back to the cup to see something that she wasn’t expecting at all.

“Well, I don’t have my thoroughly detailed and tirelessly researched witchly tome to consult, but I’m fairly certain this isn’t supposed to happen.” She tried to show Gimble.
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just to add even more complication to an utterly boring, but seemingly inexplicably popular pastime in the game, there were now two forms of fishing. Rory could now go fly fishing. He could use a #lure and flick the line several times to entice fish. He could stand in a river. Marvellous. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dylan often sat up in his downtime, not sleeping, unable to stop thinking. Considering strategies he could use against The Enemy. Ways to give them advantages they were in sore need of. Methods to #lure The Enemy into traps and ambushes. Wasted if they couldn’t also gain better weaponry. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ilyna liked to make her jobs as easy as possible. Sneaking into homes empty as the families gathered at the numerous privileged balls and dances. Choosing to #lure away guards rather than trying to flit past them unseen. She wasn’t the best thief, but she did well enough. Not caught. Yet. #vss365
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you, @fizzytwizler.bsky.social, @jangoeswriting.bsky.social, and @authorpjm.bsky.social!
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am so sorry, @aspenbrave.bsky.social. Our pets are family. Sending a big hug.
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you, @acturek.bsky.social!
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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #petal Rushak is daydreaming. Lara interrupts him. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
random smattering of pink blossoms on a lacy vine. A pattern of branches took on the shape of antlers to his fancy. Behind them, deep shadows seemed to gather a
mantle of form, almost that of ...

"Do they always argue about you as if you're
not standing right there?"

He blinked and looked at her. Her auburn hair
cascaded in waves past her shoulders, framing her face like PETALS around the center of a rare lily, her white throat the stem. *A moonish thought,* he thought. “What?"

"Cerel and your brother."

"I do not know what you mean."

"That's what is so pitiful."

"Thank you for helping him."

She nodded. "Why couldn't he breathe?"

Brother's Keeper
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#vss365 #WIPSnips #lure #petal
Pt564
It wasn’t the #lure of fame that made her want to do this, Essie thought, watching Neña crush sage . . .  #petals? leaves? into a tiny ball, placing it carefully in one of their father’s old handkerchiefs, tying it off with a piece of ribbon.  She held it to Essie’s face. “Breathe through this when you feel weak,” she said, “para fuerza.”
#vss365 #WIPSnips
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you, @jangoeswriting.bsky.social, @mariaaperezauthor.bsky.social, & @acturek.bsky.social!
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pt563 Essie had a #mountain of work to do before she could make a #dent in the problem of the ongoing occupation of Aztlan. She was prepared to do it, though, whatever it took. This sweat was the first step. Everyone else would come out tonight. She would remain for four days. #vss365 #WIPSnips
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#vss365 #vsshorror #vss part 1/2 Beneath a skull shaped #cloud Crow screams a ghastly wail As the witching hour strikes and the veil is thin Ship flooded by thick fog
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Thank you, @fizzytwizler.bsky.social!
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From: ‘Soulstice’ Prompt: ‘Injury’ #WiPSnips
“Yes, alright! I know!” Looking irritated, Logarr wheeled on the spot and moved toward the footprints as though that was what he intended all along. “You can’t rush these things, you know.”

“Yes, we can.” Albort leaned forward in anticipation, and a little glee at Logarr’s imminent embarrassment. “Get a shift on. The world’s about to end.”

With a scowl at Albort, Logarr circled the footprints. He tilted his head and made another ‘hmm’ sound. He placed his fists on his hips and clicked his tongue. After a little longer, he hitched up his now right-way-round robes and crouched beside the footprints before reaching down, touching the dirt and lifting his finger back up to dab it against his tongue, whereupon he started hacking, retching and spitting to the side. He held his hand above one of the footprints, spreading his fingers.

“Well, of course this would be far easier if I had my copy of ‘Tantamount’s Treatise on Tracking Techniques’. Wonderful book, and you really should see the illustrations. They’re really quite magnificent and …” He made another scowl as Albort made a very loud, elaborate, yawn, which, after a while, Cautious copied, causing Albort to stop and scowl at Cautious. “Alright! Well, obviously, they went this way. No droppings, so I can’t tell what they’ve been eating. There’s a decided limp on one of the footfalls, and, on another, a definite shuffling of the right foot. Which leads me to deduce that we are, in fact, following a dwarf with an old wartime injury, accompanied by a put-upon waiter of Pastan descent, and a giraffe. And they clearly hopped, tied together… that way.”
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every time, well, maybe not every time, a #cloud would pass overhead and a corresponding shadow snaked across the ground, Rory would find himself captivated by the attempt at accuracy in what was a very old game. It looked incredible, giving much-appreciated realism in clear sight. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every communication, every supply ship and every unexpected, but very much expected surprise inspection visit by the brass only served to grow a #cloud of resentment within Dylan. The punishment had gone on long enough weeks before. It was time to stop punishing the crew, too. Enough! #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the makeshift home that she had fashioned between a number of other shanties dangling from the Underside, her little sanctuary away from the tumult of Tarkar’s Bridge, Ilyna surveyed her loot. Through the gaps in the floorboards, she saw a #cloud drift underneath and pass beyond. #vss365
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you, @jangoeswriting.bsky.social!
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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #injury -> injured Drisal’s having an awesome time being an army medic. Cerel finds Drisal in his tent after a long shift. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
and scavenged linens than a pallet. Cerel swallowed back his pain, and shook off the feeling that he was intruding. "Why?" he demanded.

Drisal did not look up.

"Why?" Cerel demanded again. As his eyes adjusted, details came into focus. Rush was so still. Like a dead thing, the only sign of life his faint but labored breathing. His head rested on one upflung arm; his half-lidded, colorless eyes stared at nothing.
Absolute fatigue had carved Drisal's face into a mask of sharp shadows and deep caverns. He smelled of festering wounds and the blood of the INJURED, which
had stiffened in his hair and ripened upon him as if he had not washed in days, a dying thing himself.

Cerel's anger welled up, staving off his emotions and saving him again. "Because it's your duty? Because you owe them?"

Brother's Keeper
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks, Amanda @acturek.bsky.social!
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pt562 The weather had been really dry, not a #cloud in the sky for days. Neña was guiding Amanda & Anita in carefully attending the fire the sweat. It wasn’t just for her. Neña had an #injured woman to doctor as well. #vss365 #WIPSnips
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you, @blsamaddar.bsky.social, @wdowar.bsky.social, @acturek.bsky.social, @stitchingfiend.bsky.social, & @jangoeswriting.bsky.social!
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pt561 Essie was scared, more than anything, of letting her #guard down. For years, she had been on her own in her casita in Little Tlatelolco. She’d had to look out for herself. She did NOT want the same for Anita. Her #bequest to her great granddaughter would be coraje. #vss365 #WIPSnips
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just finished my 3rd read of it and still get more out of it each time.
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you! We are definitely on the mentorship trope after already falling into the underworld of adventure and overcoming a couple of challenges. They’re going to help her with the biggest one.
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Dr. Kimi W.W. is teaching Indigenous Vampire and Ghost Stories @drkimiww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ooh! Share!
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