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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hye-rim says, "Read Forged in FIYAH! It's full of fun stories. One story, Talented Tenth, has a big kid whose like me!"

Mixed Black child doll dressed in red, stands while holding a doll sized tablet under one arm. The other hand rests on a human scale book, Forged in FIYAH!

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sulla also says, "While you're at it, please read the book starring me!"

Black child doll with piebaldism sits in a wheelchair. she's facing the camera and pointing at a book beside her, Walk on Grey Ruins.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sulla says, "Check out my author, Emmalia Harrington, and 17 other greats in the Forged in FIYAH! Anthology" @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social

Black child doll with piebaldism sits in a wheelchair. she's facing the camera and pointing at a book beside her, Forged in FIYAH!

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is it because the void looks back?

Black kitten looking out from inside a white paper bag. The camera's flash illuminates the kitten's eyes.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My story, Talented Tenth, is appearing in FORGED in FIYAH! Take advantage of the @barnesandnoble.com preorder sale to get 25% off this anthology of awesome! The sale is on from today through Thursday. #BNPreorder Coupon code: PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forged-in-...

A cover illustration of two Black people in an enchanted forest, crafting a magic chalice at a forge. The title says Forged in FIYAH: Celebrating Ten Years of Black Speculative Fiction.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

SQUEEEE! I've been a fan of Silent Hill since Silent Hill 3. Silent Hill f is an excellent return to form. I hope you have fun

A doll resembling and dressed as Heather from Silent Hill 3 stands in front of a wooden dresser, with one hand on her hip

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved ginger, Chai, was especially sick this moning. Though we brought her to the emergency vet, she died en route. Chai was 24 years old, but it doesn't feel like enough time.

Ginger tabby, facing right, lays on a bed with green blankets. Her arms rest on a tablet, claiming it for herself. A brown tabby lays on the same bed, further back.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Oh shee-yit! The Cookout clock says we have less than a half hour to set everything up! @pcverrone.com do you know who's in charge of the grills? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

A paper plate holds (clockwise from top left) collard greens, macaroni and cheese, black eyed peas, mashed Sweet potatoes, and potatoes in cream sauce. A turkey wing sits atop everything, resembling hands on a clock.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Any advice for your fellow voids?

A black cat in a darkened room sits in an upright paper bag. Her eyees are blurry, and her head blends in with the darkness.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Were our cats seperated at birth?

Long haired black cat lays next to a shoe rack. She's looking at the camera, showcasing yellow eyes and synechia, or an iris connected to her cornea.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

@gibbsmoryss.bsky.social Ever try butterbeer with actual beer, butter, and spices? I made it again recently, and remembered why I enjoy it, and why I should only have it as a sometimes drink.

A clear glass mug on a countertop holds a creamy beige beverage with a foam top.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The year end festivities are over. It may be chilly in your area, you may be worn out from the prep work, or socially drained. Are you the type to cap off your cookout season with a warm, possibly stiff drink? What's your brew of choice? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I hand sew/hand quilt doll sized corsets for fun.

Doll sized demin 1760s stays against a grey background. Orange stitching lines representing boning channels provide structure to the stays.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

@tco-anthology.bsky.social Old and new join forces on the plate! Along with traditional collard greens and Hoppin' John, we have newcomers like lamb and beet salad. Will this union be a harmonious one, or will another intergalactic peace treaty go up in flames?

A white plate contains, clockwise from the center top left, beef short ribs, collard greens, chicken, lamb, beet salad, and Hoppin' John. The center of the plate hold a piece of cornbread.
Cutlery and cups frame the plate.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

@tco-anthology.bsky.social Your kitchen overflows with New Year's prep. Do you: a) Open a pocket dimension to handle the overflow, b) Throw it all out and just bring lunar moonshine to the cookout, or c) Make a deal with Hoppin' John

A kitchen counter is packed with (from left to right) cutting boards, cabbage, squash, spices, tomato paste, onions, cooking oil, Tupperwares, and carrots.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

You overate at the cookout. Do you a) Beg Granny Witch for her indigestion potion? b) Swap your overstuffed stomach for your empty backup stomach? c) Grab a fresh plate for thirds? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

A paper plate boasts from clockwise upper left, macaroni and cheese, greens and nuts, carrot mash, potatoes in cream gravy, and collard greens. A roasted turkey wing sits on this delicious nest. A fork rests on the edge of the plate.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Festive time is almost here! Is your kitchen the avatar of Chaos, or do you have house fairies or nanobots helping you? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

On a kitchen counter, clockwise from the top left: Two knife blocks, a whine bottle, a hot water kettle, four brown eggs, a cutting board with sliced and cubed bread, plus bread knife, a bag of nuts atop a cookbook, a transparent bowl of cut parsnips, and an upright cutting board.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Your cookout is on a crossroads. The devil shows up, offering a deal for anyone who defeats him in a jam session. What happens? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

The lower two thirds of the photo show a pot of buddha hand marmalade cooking on a stovetop. Someone is holding a toy piano above the pot. A large container of sugar is on the counter on the right of the image.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

One person's byproduct can be your delicious ingredient. It can be as humble as bacon grease, celestial as Milky Way buttermilk, filling as lembas croutons, or.... Whatever it is Yog Shoggoth makes. What will be in your cookout? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

On a kitchen counter is a lid next to an open jar. The jar has a layer of cooled bacon grease below a layer of liquid bacon grease.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Feeling a chill in the air? Warm up with a mystery brew. Will you sneak a cup from Auntie Witch's cauldron, gather ingredients from the Mad Scientist Garden, or drink essence from the eldritch thing at the back of you fridge? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

A pot on a stovetop contains white wine, with vanilla beans, bay leaves, cloves, and vanilla beans floating on the surface.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

An experimental recipe for the cookout. Can you guess what it is? A fairy ring cake? An edible cosmos? The one thing capable of containing Cthulhu citrus? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

An enamel bowl on a kitchen counter contains a whitish yellowish brown pudding dotted with raisins. Concentric rings ridge the surface.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Will your cookout focus on the fantasy fare of one fine heritage? Or will it contain all the cuisine of your multiethnic cosmos? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

Photo taken from above of a diorama featuring two Black dolls, faces off screen or obscured. They're sitting at a table with vegetables, cake, fruit, congri, maduros, Indian tacos, and beverages. The doll sitting at the top of the images sits in a wheelchair while the doll on the left has a white cane, just visible in the image.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Big cooking holidays are upon us. While some people can whip up a feast for dozens the day of the cookout, some need to start well in advance. What's your @tco-anthology.bsky.social prep like? A Fridge of Holding to keep all your ingredients fresh? A time accelerator to roast meat in minutes?

On a kitchen counter is a tupperware full of cooling mincemeat compote.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

You have stiff competition with Jetson

A grey male tabby lays on his tummy while wrapped in black and red blankets. He's looking off camera in a 3/4 gaze, and his one foreleg appears in the foreground.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Sometimes you want to try something new from Avant-Garde Android's Cookbook. Other times you curl into Cozy Fantasy Corner for your favorite safe food. What do you like bringing to the cookout? Something you never made before, or That One Dish everyone knows you for? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

Top view of a high sided pan on a stovetop. Sweet potatoes are just visible at the bottom of the pan. On top are sliced apples, cooking liquid, and raisins.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

A study in orange, brought to you by #caturday

A ginger tabby in an orange diaper lays on an orange and pink blanket and covers her eyes as she naps. A green blanket takes up the bottom left corner, adding color contrast.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

What fantastical ingredients will be in your cookout story? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

Two yellow buddha's hand fruits lay sideways on a kitchen counter. Their open "fingers" intertwine.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Is she cousins with my Samus? Samus is another black cat with silky soft fur.

A long haired black cat with greenish yellow eyes lays on the floor and looks at the camera. Her left eye contains a small cloud.

Behind her is a shoe rack with black shoes.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I tried making beef stew, but the meat to vegetable ratio is 1:3 and counting. What do you think is the cause, @tco-anthology.bsky.social ? A replicator that prefers printing veg? A meat stealing sprite?

A stock pot boasts dark red broth with some mysterious dark bits and many many mushrooms floating on top. A rubber spatula lays across the upper rim of the pot.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The callaloo and chicken were yummy, but I really should have gotten a larger plate, or better yet, a bowl. What's the plate situation at your cookout? Do they magically expand to hold all the food? Are they equipped with anti-gravity to support all 10,000 sides? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

On a kitchen counter is a plate barely visible under the food. Pureed greens surround 3/4 of the plate in a thick border. The remaining space holds poached chicken and broth.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Feeling a chill in your area? These Jamaican rice and peas, seasoned with African bird pepper, will warm you right up. Will you put fiery flavoring in your @tco-anthology.bsky.social contribution? Perhaps habaneros with actual hellfire? Or ghost peppers from a haunted mansion?

On a stovetop is a pot full of rice an peas. A rice scoop is just visible on the right side of the pot. In the background is an empty pot and metal bowl.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

What Halloween drink is Thistle brewing for the cookout? ...Those are gummy worms and sugar eyes, right? What beverage would you make for a spoopy cookout? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

Black child doll sits behind a cauldron, ladle in hand. Green brew is just visible in the cauldron.

A view inside the cauldron. There are many small white balls suspended in neon green liquid. Colorful worms, googly eyes, and a bone are floating on top.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Help, someone stole my wallet! The suspect is a green eyed ginger in her early 20s. She is considered pawed and adorable. #caturday

Gingler tabby lays on a striped bedspread. One of her forearms rests atop a leather wallet. She glowers at the camera, ignoring the two stuffies in the background.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Today's feast is roast lamb with garlic and rosemary. The original recipe comes from A Taste of Heritage. Not only was this yummy, it provided leftovers for days. What cookbook will you consult for The Cookout? Delicious in Dungeon? To Serve Man? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

On a stovetop is a roasting pan with a bed of turnips and potatoes. Atop the vegetables is a rosemary covered lamb leg, and another cut of red meat draped in bacon.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Behold, the corniest cornbread gets without dad jokes. This recipe forgoes wheat flour in favor of letting the cornmeal soak in the batter. What twist will your cookout cornbread hold? Is it baked inside a star? Or is it the physical embodiment of dad jokes? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

A round cornbread loaf with golden brown edges sits on a white cutting board.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This is by far my most often used recipe from the Black Girl Baking cookbook. It's infinitely customizable, from decadent chocolate on chocolate mix ins, to oat and nut heavy versions for the health conscious. Would you bring this to @tco-anthology.bsky.social, or hoard it all for yourself?

On a kitchen counter is the Black Girl Baking cookbook, spread open to the macadamia nut brown butter cashew cookie dough recipe. Atop the pages someone holds a plate of chocolate brown cookie dough balls.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My titles come much later. It was years before my novel "Walk on Grey Ruins" got its name.

Black child doll in a wheelchair points to a novel titled "Walk on Grey Ruins." She is one of two characters on the cover.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

This is why I have very few photos of my Samus as a baby. I deleted most of the blurry ones.

Atop a carpet covered cat tree is an adult grey tabby and his cuddle partner, a black kitten. Kitten's leg dangles over the side of the tree, showing an IV bald spot with fur starting to grow back.

There's a green dresser on one side of the cat tree, and a doorway to a messy room on the other.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Silent Hill 3. I even customized a doll to be Heather.

Standing in front of a chest of drawers is a doll portraying Heather, protagonist of the video game Silent Hill 3.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A girl, a dragon, and a platter of raw meat in The Cookout Kitchen. What can possibly go wrong? #storyprompt @tco-anthology.bsky.social

In a kitchen diorama, a Black child doll stands to the left. A dragon sits to the right. Between them is a platter holding a heart and brain.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Sometimes your cookout contribution is made of the rarest, bougiest ingredients like diamond stardust. Other times you do your best with gnome garden clippings. @tco-anthology.bsky.social Where do you stand?

On a stovetop is a pot full of water and vegetable scraps boiling into broth.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

This is what happens when you don't clean up! Now we have a dinosaur infestation in the middle of the cookout, and they take forever to clear out! Should we get the dino spray, or the pest control wand? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

On a kitchen counter is an open jar of honey, with plastic dinosaurs exploring the sweetness.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking The One Ring to Mordor.

Fanart of Ellie from the Last of Us praising Clementine from The Walking Dead for stitching her own wound.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Sometimes you want something stronger than lemonade at the cookout. May I suggest Free Range Flower Winery? It's a Black woman owned winery specializing in flower based wine. Rose hip on the left pairs well with blueberries, and marigold tastes of sunshine. #notsponsored @tco-anthology.bsky.social

On a kitchen counter sits a bottle of rose hip wine on the left, and marigold wine on the right

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

@tco-anthology.bsky.social Who spilled the tea? Auntie Robot? Cousin Witch? More importantly, is the tea related to That Secret Recipe?

A clear glass mug lays on its side on a kitchen counter. tea leaves spill from the mug onto the counter.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My ancient ginger is in the same stage.

A ginger tabby lays on a bed, with a teddy bear as her pillow.

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I tried copying this recipe from Black Girl Baking, but I didn't get the violetish blue like in the photo. What should I have used, mermaid scales, bantha milk, or something else? @tco-anthology.bsky.social

To the left is a stovetop, supporting a baking sheet covered in blueberry drop biscuits. To the right is a counter with a cookbook open to a blueberry drop biscuit recipe, complete with blue dough.

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