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Fiona Formula

@fionawrites96.bsky.social
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Horror, sci-fi, speculative fiction and alternate history writer traversing the overlap between technology and terror. What a time to be not dead. #SFFH fionaformula.substack.com

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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'm not nearly as afraid of the dark as much as how quickly I embraced it.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"I wank to speak to the manager!" "You are speaking to the manager." It never gets old.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The house isn't haunted, it's just very well-documented.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New story out! fionaformula.substack.com/p/wouter-and...
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WOUTER AND THE WALL
I get the swing first because I am the oldest.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Some new stories out! fionaformula.substack.com
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formulAIc | Substack
Literary horror and speculative fiction, each story crafted from a real photograph someone actually took. Click to read formulAIc, by Fiona Formula, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The reason why artists and writers are tortured is because it's the only way to get decent work out of them.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New story! #horrorfiction #literaryhorror #shortfictiononline #darkfiction #atmospherichorror #maineweird #fictionsubstack #stephenkingstyle
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THE LIGHT ON CUTTER’S POINT
They came up from Boston in two cars. Eight of them — all from the same Unitarian church in Brookline.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
EXTRAORDINARY EVENT 40c IN WINTER WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN Insane mind blowing winter heat in SOUTH AFRICA 40C in Namibia,36.1C in South Africa coast at Alexander Baai (MINIMUMS 22/23C !). Records pulverized Temperatures are 10C ABOVE MID SUMMER AVERAGES More summer heat next days.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Discovered a new junk shop yesterday. Picked out a stack of lost photos of people and places who are likely no longer among the breathing. One of them screams "seance"!
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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The Standing Order
The phone call is made every Sunday at ten.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Rachel Lawlan (@rachellawlan)
Excellent point
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Learned of a strange German proverb today: "Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt" (hope is the last thing to die). Actually, that's wrong. The last thing to go is not hope. It's the pretence that it ever existed.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Concave / Convex
Martin Horáček had worked for the Prague Municipal Water Authority since 1976, and in all that time nobody had found reason to look at him closely.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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formulaic | Substack
Horror, sci-fi, speculative fiction and alternate history writer traversing the overlap between technology and madness. What a time to be not dead. #SFFH. Click to read formulaic, by Fiona Formula, a ...
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The German I've learned so far is mostly swearwords and those for things going wrong. Efficient, if nothing else.
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18 Intriguing German Words With Deep Philosophical Undertones
A list of German words and their deeper philosophical meanings. Find your Daseinsberechtigung by posing the Gretchenfrage.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Some days the compulsion to write is the only appointment I keep with myself. I am, even as I sit here in my underwear, a reliable colleague to my own worst habits.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Everyone says "time heals all wounds" but nobody tells you what it charges for the service.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
People have asked if I believe in life after death. Seriously, is there a life before death?
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 20/06/2026
when you're tempted to post a take
sign posted in a desert landscape reading

HEAT WARNING
you might die
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
30 degrees! Thank you, Berlin, for that warm welcome. You really shouldn't have.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"Asking a writer to give up the em dash is like asking a carpenter to give up the screwdriver." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/b...
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Humans vs. Bots — Who Does the Em Dash Better?
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"Haddock without coarse language is more alarming than Haddock without whisky."
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Surgeons and snipers need steady hands for the exact opposite reason.
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
new William Gibson book opening line dropped
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Received an envelope full of old holiday snaps from my aunt because she knows that's what I do and because she's curious about what I would "see" in them. The photos are from the nineties. What am I, the family clairvoyant?
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Yesterday I was a prime number. Divisible by nothing but one and itself. Today I am thirty, apparently divisible by considerably more. If I fall apart now, at least it won't be in fractions. But I still have questions.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The best horror is not what you see -- it's what your devices refuse to show you. #HiddenTruths #TechThriller
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Started working on a bit of X Files meets MIB fan fiction before realising those are two stories best told separately.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Not sure if she understands the point of a selfie.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every time you use a facial filter, you peel off a little more of yourself. Eventually, something else slips in.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Nothing like cuddling up with a movie and crisps. #salemslot
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.
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✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
hate your job? hate your family? have problems?
need to leave?
step into it and never leave!
go there!
go in the wet.
the wet will love you no problems in the wet just water
it's salty
•the wet doesnt have capitalism just go in the wet.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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According to a study by the University of Edinburgh, the only thing keeping your cat from killing you is the fact that you're much bigger.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My browser knows me better than my room mate does.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My screen time report said “Too late.”
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Coffee doesn’t wake me up anymore. It just helps me tolerate the voices on the other end of the line. And the ones in my head.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The day I start posting cheerful feel-good memes you had better run. Fast.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The only thing scarier than AI taking over is AI learning to dream.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
He spent a lifetime studying intelligence only to be unsettled by an echo chamber with better vocabulary.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
www.tumblr.com/sightlessdar...
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💬 0  🔁 2  ❤️ 12 · Los Desmembrados/The Dismembered · Los desmembrados is Spanish for “the dismembered.” It’s a legend that originated in Lajas, a municipality in the southwest region of the island,…
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There's a second reflection of me in the bathroom mirror who doesn't blink when I do.
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Fiona Formula @fionawrites96.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New platform, new opportunities to lose all faith in humanity.
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Creepy.org @creepy.org · 25/01/2025
Cher must be a vampire🩸
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