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ZomBev 🧟‍♀️ @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 33m

I need to have meds delivered before tomorrow. It’s about $35 to make it happen!! ko-fi.com/beverlyannem... #helpsky 💕💸

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 4h

They deserve more than I have to leave them, and I write in the hope that, someday, somehow, I will be blessed with enough success to leave them with something when I’m gone. I feel I owe it to them for all the hours I spent doing marking and lesson prep, instead of being there for them.

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 4h

His approach to fantasy is a huge influence. Tolkien of course is an immense inspiration and a challenge if you hope to emulate him. (I dream, dear reader. I dream!) The most important influence and inspiration for my writing is my two sons. Both of them struggle with life….

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 4h

The Tolkien and Alan Garner. I read Garner first, tearing through about 2/3 of The Weirdstone of Brisinghamen in an afternoon when I was stuck in the school nurses office with an asthma attack. I didn’t find it again until I was 14 or 15, when I read everything up to The Owl Service….

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 4h

…tributes to the sort of story she loved. Next, I’ll put Poe, Bram Stoker, and Conan Doyle. The three were early influences on me; I read Poe and Doyle voraciously. My first attempt at a novel was directly inspired by The Hound of the Baskervilles and Dracula. And I reread Dracula ever year.

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 4h

…the most self-centred person I ever met, but for someone born in 1895 she was amazingly un-racist and un-bigoted. And she was the first and best story-teller I ever knew. She could keep dozens of kids entranced with her tales, and the adults she met, too. A couple of my short stories are…

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 4h

Pull up a chair, #PretendPanel, and allow a boring old guy to chew your ear off a bit. The inspirations get more significant as I go, if anyone makes it to the end. My first inspiration is my Grandmother. She had a secret addiction to betting on the ponies, undiagnosed BPD, and was …

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 18h

America is toxic and broken and should never be trusted again. We were foolish to do so in the years since the Second World War. Friendship with the USA exposed us to unnecessary risk, made us enemies of people with whom we had no tangible disputes, and did us little good. Go home Yankee!!

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A short story about a guy trying to make an honest buck mining an asteroid, in the not-too-distant future, perhaps. #ReaderSky eolaspellor.substack.com/p/the-monume...

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The Monument

Varis was not much of a planet.

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mostly for myself. Partially for my late Grandmother, who was a story teller, too. A couple of my favourite stories are exactly the sort of thing she would have loved. For readers who love historical setting, tales of the weird and strange, folklore, outsiders, vulnerable people #pretendpanel

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I write to tell the sort of stories I like. Sometimes it is to make a point. Sometimes it is to preserve some bit of local lore or history that might be lost. Mostly, I write for me. #PretendPanel

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s the worst!! I tend to avoid “no simultaneous submissions” publications. It would be different if they responded in 3-4 weeks, but the long wait is too excruciating if you only submitted to them

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just got word my flash story "'Swonderful. 'Smarvellous" will be published in 2027. It was submitted to at least 10 or 12 magazines and journals before this. Sometimes you have to have faith that the story is good, even in the face of rejections. #Writers #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spooktober 1: Around 3:00 a.m. someone’s hand was knocking at my door. Where the rest of them was I am not sure, but the hand was there. And it seemed rather agitated.

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My story "The Newsie and the Orange Girl" is available to read for free on Substack eolaspellor.substack.com/p/the-newsie...

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The Newsie and the Orange Girl

The story of unwanted children

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#ReaderSky My short story "Stanley" has been published in the anthology Mixed Bag: A Dark Short Story Anthology, from red Raven. When a small time thief is asked to obtain an item for a wealthy collector it seems like easy money. Stanley should have asked a few more questions before taking the job

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's not something to be shared... Like a true name, it's something you must keep secret

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you want to write, "The AI wants to hurt people," remember that you mean to write, "The AI company profits off of hurting people."

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two of my flash stories have been selected for inclusion in forthcoming Anthologies. “The Trojan” will appear in Act of God: A disaster horror anthology, and “Iris” will appear in the second volume, Force Majeure: A disaster horror anthology. Both volumes issued by Wicked Shadow Press #AuthorSky

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My take is that a novel or short story is an attempt to recreate story-telling in a print form, and that if a story doesn’t work aurally, it doesn’t work. Stories are *meant* to be spoken aloud. Poems are *meant* to be recited.

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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 19/09/2026

Yes I have #pretendpanel , though fewer times than I would have thought given how often I've been on stage. I've read short extracts of prose a couple of times, and taken part in poetry readings. It's not often that I've been in my own stage play, but I have done some voice work for my video games.

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Always. Usually after the second draft is done, and before I send it to my alpha readers. #PretendPanel

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s already sent. I gave it one more read through before I sent it…

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#Querying I'm not sure how it happened, but I got a request for a full manuscript.

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just a wild guess, but probably people are struggling to make ends meet and doing without.

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Let us not lose sight of the facts...

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So the #PitchDis requests are coming out, an event I like to call “Passover” since I apparently suck at pitching (and querying). Best of luck to those who got requests. 🤞 for you all

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thank you for the many years, in not exactly the best of times, COVID etc. Thank you for your leadership, and supporting Canadians when they needed the lift up. Thank you for the enhancements to our social programs. Enjoy your well earned future. Thanks too for the pot. 🤣 🇨🇦

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Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚 undead & thriving 🦇👻😱 @vampireantihero.com · 12/09/2026

#PretendPanel Yep! My husband and I narrate them. I'm also looking to hire more VAs for certain characters.

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

No immediate plans, but I'm not opposed to the idea. One of my first published short stories was adapted for a podcast, and I think it worked pretty well. I'll put the pink in the comments, if anyone wants to listen and tell me. #pretendpanel

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There are some authors whose works I cannot manage to read, but I've enjoyed audio versions of their books. I loved listening to Alias Grace, for example. I confess that, as I've gotten older, I find it hard to concentrate on other people's writing now -- I want to work on my own #pretendpanel

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You know who was at 9/11? Within an hour of the tower strike, Canadian firefighters were loading up gear to get to New York to help. In this photo: Ottawa crew - Brian Foley, Steve Carmichael, Gordie Thorpe and John Hamilton. You know who didn't show up? Donald Trump.

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Eolas Pellor @eolaspellor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another one of my stories, if anyone wants a free read. This one takes you back to the summer of 1963. #ReaderSky #ShortStories eolaspellor.substack.com/p/the…

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