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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My next spooky season read is ‘Salem’s Lot. I remember trying to read this one when I was 12ish, but it didn’t hold my attention. Liking it better now. Such a time capsule of the 70s. 💙📚

‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King sits on a white textured blanket. The cover is shadowy shades of soft green and black silhouettes.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Early morning visitor. Welcome back, friend.

A deer stands beneath maple trees on a blanket of leaves.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

October is for country walks to watch the colors change.

The curve of a country road under a deep blue sky of whispy clouds. Tall trees tower over the left side of the road. A field of golden tall grass sits off to the right. Evergreens disappear back into the horizon line.

A green field with bushes just starting to show their autumn colors with tall evergreens behind them, all under a blue sky with gauzy ribbon clouds.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spent the day curled up on the couch with this intriguing tale. 💙📚

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You could have this in your kitchen right now!

Beautiful pumpkin pie on a cooling rack. The countertop is gray with white, brown, black specks.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bertram Wigglesworth, box inspector.

Tuxedo cat sitting in a white Zappos box.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

IYDK, Bob Mackie designed the famous curtain dress for the Carol Burnett Show. A master of fashion and visual comedy. RIP

Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman in the Went With the Wind sketch from the Carol Burnett show.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

September book haul. Spooky season has begun! 💙📚

4 books on a white textured blanket.
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Burial Tide by Neil Sharpson
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Blood Child by Octavia E. Butler

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whenever the boy wizard thing trends this year, I'm just going to repost this:

Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
A much better boy wizard book series than that other one.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today's Submission Guideline nightmare: "We will run your submission through the AI machine to tell us whether its AI or not."

Kermit from Muppet Christmas Carol with caption "screams internally".

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Diavola by Jennifer Throne was a fun summer read about a horrible family on vacation together in Italy with ghosts. Not sure it would stand up to repeat readings, but kept me engaged for a couple of days. 💙📚

Diavola by Jennifer Thorne sits on a white comforter. The cover shows a renaissance woman with an open book. Her blurred face is turned over her shoulder to stare out at the reader.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Me with a story on hold from the last submission cycle watching folks get acceptances in the current cycle.

Kermit looking out a window covered in raindrops.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

View from yesterday of the big Spokane fire that started about a mile north of my house and then headed right for town. I’m safe and lucky to only lose power for the night.

Across a freshly plowed field, there are small houses and a tree line with a huge wildfire smoke cloud dominating the sky.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This shy guy took forever to bloom. Worth the wait. #Bloomscrollng #Dahlias

Dahlia with yellow petals that have reddish-orange stripes that look painted on.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Here's the intro the editors wrote for my horror story RED THREAD. Such names to be mentioned alongside! It's ✨free✨ to read over at Horrible Scribblings. #SFFH #HorrorWriter horrificscribblings.com/red-thread/

“Red Thread”–J. Nathan

The setting as antagonist is one of literature’s oldest motifs, dating back to the Cedar Forest in the Epic of Gilgamesh. In most instances, these villainous and/or oppositional settings represent an indirect or thematic antagonism. The horror genre, however, transforms the purely symbolic setting into a sentient, malicious, and hungry entity. The most iconic modern example is Stephen King’s Overlook Hotel (The Shining, 1977), a sprawling predator that craves the souls of the Torrance family. Close behind are Shirley Jackson’s Hill House in 1959 and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves in 2000. J. Nathan’s story exists in the same literary tradition. Three curious women sneak inside their neighborhood’s notorious derelict mansion to do some exploring, only to realize far too late that the house was waiting for such an opportunity for a long, long time. The liminal space’s spatial and temporal flux puts the narrator in a position where she believes she must retrace her path through the house backward in order to escape, and thus the story itself is mostly narrated with events in reverse chronology, an experiment hard to pull off from a writing standpoint that works beautifully with the liminal themes.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Recently finished this and can’t stop thinking about it. I don’t know why we don’t talk about The Sundial as much as Jackson’s other work. It’s such a strange and interesting take on the end of the world. Very funny and dark. Very Shirley Jackson. 💙📚

The book, The Sundial by Shirley Jackson sits on a white down comforter. The cover show an east coast American mansion in the distance with a sundial dominating the foreground. In the upper right corner are four people dress in mid century fashion. We only see them from the waist down because of how high they sit on the cover.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

First 10K trail run of the year and only five minutes off my PB. Pretty scenery.

Looking out over a cliff at little houses with mountains in the background. A pine tree frames the left side of the picture.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Bertsie is always happy to pose. 😂

A tuxedo cat sits tall in a See’s candy box while looking off into the middle distance.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The boys decided it was cool enough for morning snuggles. Spoilers: it was not.

Two tuxedo cats cuddling on my feet on top of a white blanket.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So many wonderful speculative stories, I tried to read it slow to make it last. It’s perfect for getting into a story-a-day habit. Can’t wait to see what @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social writes next. 💙📚

The book Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I’ve got about 150 pages left to read and I have no idea where it’s going, but I’m definitely along for the ride. 💙📚 Can’t wait for @chuckwendig.bsky.social new book to come out! I think I’m a fan.

A hardcover edition of The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig sits on a white textured blanket. The cover reminds me of a photo negative in pale green tones. It is a photo of a house in the woods with a reverse image above it. Creepy.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Found where the squirrels relocated my Irises. #BloomScrolling

Red and yellow striped Irises in a clearing in the woods.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Put some miles on my running shoes. So many polite doggies walking their humans today on the trail.

Pine trees in the foreground reveal a railway trestle and a cityscape backed by blue mountains in the distance. The sky is blue with little puffs of clouds on this sunny pnw day.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

In the 35 years we’ve been on this property, we have never planted purple tulips. Thanks to the squirrels and their new relocation program. Sorry to whichever neighbor they stole them from. #BloomScrolling

Purple tulips in mulch between a rocky retaining wall and a stack of I split firewood.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It’s finally warm enough to open the windows. Ernie and Bert approve. #Caturday

Two tuxedo cats, Bert and Ernie, happily watch birds while sitting in the window.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day. Time for me to get planting. #BloomScrolling

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I've just switched out my desktop wallpaper to Earthset and it is the tiny bit of joy I'm clinging to today.

Earthset taken from Artemis II. The moon is in the foreground with the earth behind it with only the top crescent lit.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Buttercups and a butterfly for your Saturday #bloomscrolling

A tiny butterfly in pretty orange and brown tones is sitting on a buttercup. The next buttercup over has an unidentified little bug on it.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Seeing the bulbs I planted last autumn bloom.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Garden Day! Already roto-tilled over the wi-fi wire 😬 so it’s going well.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Some friends of mine wanted to say hi. Happy Spring and such.

Yellow daffodils backed by pine trees under a gloomy gray sky.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Finished reading The Only Good Indians by @sgj.bsky.social and that ending was amazing! A really great horror story with some dark turns. Reminded me of my favorite Ursula K Le Guin book (complimentary). 💙📚 Can’t wait for the next one!

The book “The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham Jones sits on a gray and cream patterned blanket. The cover is a photo of an elk with big antlers that take up most of the space.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Ernie and Bert enjoying the surprise snowfall this morning. #Caturday

Two tuxedo cats sitting on a blue and black plaid cat bed, looking out the slider at birds playing in the snow.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

First time seeing my words in print, in a book, that I can hold in my hands. 🤩 You can find this cozy tale over at @lunastation.bsky.social

An open book on a white textured blanket. The left page reads:

Brighton
J. Nathan

A faded crescent moon sits in the middle of the page. Under it is written:

J. Nathan is a speculative fiction writer living in the Pacific Northwest. She is greatly influenced by Ursula K Le Guin and Shirley Jackson. You can usually find her on a run through the woods or rambling about reading and writing on Bluesky @jamielnathan.bsky.social.

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

First time seeing my words in print, in a book, that I can hold in my hands. 🤩 You can find this cozy tale over at @lunastation.bsky.social

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Phantasmagoria @jamielnathan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Check out BRIGHTON my cozy fantasy about memory in the latest issue of Luna Station Quarterly. www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/065/

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