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Ellis Bray

@flytingnwriting.bsky.social
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SFFH author/poet/artist. Find my words in SoulJar (Forest Ave Press), The Cozy Cosmic 1&2 (Underland Press), F&SF, ETTT, NewMyths, &c. Find my art on IG: @idreamofvikings. Rep: Lisa Rodgers.

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 27/07/2025
If you are thinking of starting a fiction publication, do everyone including yourself a favor and do at least the minimum due diligence of doing your best to avoid copyright infringement by making sure the writers have granted you unambiguous permission to publish their work.
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Tag urself, I’m the (4,3) CuNT
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
FAFSA has an opinion on noses in higher education.
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
CVS, who treats their employees like shit, took the photo of their CEO down but it’s very googleable
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
For tonight’s autistic rabbit hole, I discovered a letter in a medical journal, responding cattily to an article on emergency management of cauda equina syndrome. He medicsplains the paper to its authors, complete with “helpful hints”. 1/ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My autistic self-soothing technique is reading about medical pathologies. Since I just had a pulmonary function test, I fell down the pulmonary rabbit hole tonight. Where I found THIS JEWEL
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is what 30.5 hours of effort looks like 😅. “Tea for 3.” Procreate
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
“After several minutes, the ringing in your ears returns to its background status and your eyes no longer hurt, though you still catch flashes of afterimages burned in your retinas whenever your focus shifts too suddenly.”
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This week’s topic in Law & Ethics was reproductive rights. *Nobody* wanted to jump into the online discussion; tiptoes all around. Me: (1/)
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an elderly woman in a blue jacket is holding a megaphone to her mouth .
ALT: an elderly woman in a blue jacket is holding a megaphone to her mouth .
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Brian U. Garrison @bugthewriter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Micropoetry for Microplanets is the perfect gift for anyone interested in space. Or a good gift to put in a little free library. Or just send me money and I will put a copy in a little free library near me. Info about my book on my website. Stop on by!
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is a cool (and depressing) infographic of just how big the Big 5 actually are: almossawi.com/big-five-pub...
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The Big Five US Trade Book Publishers
With all the imprints out there, it's sometimes difficult to know which imprint belongs to which of the big five publishers.
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
doctor: make sure you drink plenty of fluids me: that’s literally all i drink
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
On December 6 I’m taking part in Seattle’s Punk Rock Flea Market, which just has the coolest vibes. It started as a fundraiser for Low Income Housing Programs & now just takes over abandoned buildings & sells local art (& donates to LIHP after each show) Anyway. I helped make a promo for them.
Round illustration of red and yellow flea with the letters PRFM in magazine style ransom note text around it
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Ok, I’m back. I’m going to try to make this work for human interaction and occasional self-promotion. We’ll see how long I last 😅
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The Future Fire @thefuturefire.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
We also have some really nice art from these fab people: Joel Bisaillon @fluffgar.bsky.social Katharine A. Viola Melkorka L.E. Badillo @flytingnwriting.bsky.social
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! I am so thrilled to announce that I will be teaching poetry this August at the Willamette Writers Conference. Registration is now open! You can find out more at Bit.ly/Wilwrite24. #wilwrite24
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Contract is signed and I’m thrilled to say that my quiet slipstream ghost story “Day 3” will be a part of the MIDNIGHT LABYRINTH anthology! This story has all the trauma your therapist wishes you’d examine. It hurt like hell to write; I hope it hurts you all to read 😅 @grendelpress.bsky.social
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
First digital painting of the year is in the bag 😁
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
🎶Learning a new art medium 🎵
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
First piece of 2024 in the bag.
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Today is the first day in 8 weeks that I climbed the stairs in my house without getting short of breath. I caught a small virus that became a horrible respiratory exacerbation. I have cracked ribs from coughing so hard. Please mask up if you are inside.
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Art vs artist, 2023. 🥰
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
My eyes are leaking. They liked their piece that they paid me to make. They gave me real money in exchange for art and then said nice things about it.
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Went on an art date today. I don’t hate this but it definitely taught me some things 😂
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
First commission piece is done! I’m so proud of it! Just waiting for the hanging bit to cure & I’ll send it off to its new home. (The client found me at a small SFF con & said his ex would love one if the colors were different & commissioned it on the spot) #art #commissions #pyrography #mixedmedia
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
I organized my procreate folders. Look at how pretty they are now!
12 folders with different titles on them, describing the contents of digital artwork inside
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
“And…and Blitzen?” “…don’t mention The War.”
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Guys. I’m just. Really proud of this poem so I want to share a couple lines thank you for indulging me
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
My immune system thinks my body juice glands are a threat.
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
I am utterly utterly verklempt. 😭 (I sold this print at the show this weekend but it was in the sale bin because I could not budge it)
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
I *really* want to post a poem I wrote up here but if I did that and then later decided I wanted to submit it for publication, it would have to be as a reprint. Thank you for coming to my TEDBitch
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Called it 😑
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
The view from my front door this morning. A moon with a ring around it. Gonna guess Seattle traffic is gonna be stupid AF as a result.
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Another glass quill dip pen and walnut ink drawing, courtesy of Walnut Ink & Quills. My gnome collection grows 😁 #gnomeart #cottagecore #art #inkandpaper
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Ahhhhh my wooburned skull AND my watchpiece clock found forever homes today!! 😁
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A. Faë @anaisfae.art · 22/10/2023
I never know how to promote myself but hey I have a shop and it helps pay the bills anaisfae.art/shop Boosts super appreciated, thanks! #art #supportartists
watercolor painting of a a purplish blue and yellow owl, with stars on its feathers and in its eyes. It's sitting and looking back towards the viewer. Its tails feathers seem to dissolve in the ethereal night.watercolor painting, a crow flying in a faceted purple gemstone.three bookmarks featuring purple art: a crow sitting under purple starry skies; purple crystals; and a crescent moon in a purple sky under tree branches.
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Guys, I think I accidentally adopted this sweet autistic teenager at the art show. This is our 3rd show together & he keeps coming up to show me things from his booth because he’s so proud of them & he wants me to be proud of them too. And gosh darn it, I AM proud of them. He’s a good kid.
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
And I finished this sucker!
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Little ink drawing at #tacomanightmarket. Gonna make a good base for a woodburning project I think 😁
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Another rejection in the bag 💀
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Guys, at Orycon I got my very first commission: a woodburning of a tree with birds and a green gold ombré background. I just finished the burning. I need to show it to you all. #art #pyrography #commissions
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Mother of God! This first paragraph of John Updike's article for the New Yorker in 1963 on the Kennedy assassination is one of the most incandescently brilliant ledes I've ever read. www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...
It was as if we slept from Friday to Monday and dreamed an oppressive, unsearchably significant dream, which, we discovered on awaking, millions of others had dreamed also. Furniture, family, the streets, and the sky dissolved; only the dream on television was real. The faces of the world's great mingled with the faces of landladies who had happened to house an unhappy ex-Marine; cathedrals alternated with warehouses, temples of government with suburban garages; anonymous men tugged at a casket in a glaring airport; a murder was committed before our eyes; a Dallas strip-tease artist drawled amiably of her employer's quick temper; the heads of state of the Western world strode down a sunlit street like a grim village rabble; and Jacqueline Kennedy became Persephone, the Queen of Hades and the beautiful bride of grief. All human possibilities, of magnificence and courage, of meanness and confusion, seemed to find an image in this long montage, and a stack of cardboard boxes in Dallas...
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
one of the biggest things about finding a partner is they absolutely must be the same level of hater as you. you cannot have a mixed vibes relationship
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Ellis Bray @flytingnwriting.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Gradually returning to the textual landscape of social media after having spent most of the last year exclusively on instagram, posting and talking about art. (If that’s something you’re into, find me over there! @idreamofvikings)
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