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Joyce Reynolds-Ward

@joycereynoldsward.bsky.social
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Writer of speculative fiction from the wide open spaces. Dispenser of horse cookies to the fancy-stepping Marker-boi. Former special ed teacher. #SFWA www.joycereynolds-ward.com

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 8h
Megyn Kelly, like Fuentes, is audience-captured. She needs rage-bait to keep the spotlight. She loses money if she takes the position "gang-rape is awful." That she'd sell herself out for money is a worse indictment of her character than what she's said about Jane Doe's looks.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h
REALLY REALLY hoping some journalists who are not from The Oregonian get all the way into it on this "clarklewis restaurant hosts Nazi meet & greet" story because it is very, very fucked
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Same for me.
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Langley Hyde @langleyhyde.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Writing isn’t my hobby. It’s my profession. But yes! I fell in love with writing at age 8. I read a novel and felt this twang of connection. Someone, somewhere, understood me. I felt hope for the first time that my life would get better And I wanted to give a stranger that gift, too.
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Author J. Scott Coatsworth @jscottcoatsworth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Check out Michael Czerwiec-Feliciano MM Contemporary, Mystery, Sci Fi, Suspense, YA Michael Czerwiec-Feliciano grew up in the small town of Monroe, IA and after stints on both the West coast (San Francisco & LA) and the East coast ... www.queeromanceink.com/mbm-book-aut... #GayRomance
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the only thing worse is everyone who thinks they’re slightly better because they want this man’s misery…. Like the wages of racism and abuse for the past couple of years aren’t in EVERY SPACE Meanwhile Haitian Times reporters get death threats when they talk about Haitians
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A small brown and white bunny sits on a light wooden surface with a white wall in the background.
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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
happening now! books across genres and for all ages. FREE EVENT full of local authors! #KitchenerWaterloo #dtk #ExploreWR kwwritersalliance.com/booktoberfest/
Book Festival. Booktoberfest. Come down to Gaukel Block to check out local authors! October 3, 1-6pm. Gaukel Block, Downtown Kitchener.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fraternities are the ur-old boy network in the US. Joining one won't guarantee you end up running a fortune 500 company, or sitting on the Supreme Court... but if you don't join one the odds of those things happening are practically zilch. And that's a problem.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Weeelll....I don't hate this cover. Book drops in mid-November.
Background: blurred grassland with treeline with swirling blue overlay along with two gravestone markers and a line drawing of a woman in a long dress with long sleeves, and a kerchief on her head, between the two gravestones.
Text: past, present, and future....ENTWINED
a vortex worlds neo-western time travel novella book one
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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I spent a year and a half on a roofing crew and very much fuck that shit long-term
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me a year ago: more national writers need to be gassed and shot at with less lethal by federal police Me after Minneapolis: writers are giant babies who should stay the fuck inside
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Someone should do a piece on this. There is *SO* much more money easily available on the right.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Chills, Thrills and Kills October Itchio book sale is live! We've got ghosts, goblins and gothic tales! Witches, warlocks and werewolves! Demons, dreams and Hallowe'en themes! itch.io/b/3904/chill...
Graphic for the Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My story about a witch trying to save the Magic Fair that renews magic in her area is part of this bundle--Becoming Solo. And my horrific short story Red Running about the extremes a cult member will go to in order to climb higher in the cult is also in this bundle.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's creepy thrills time! Check it out! My Becoming Solo plus the truly spooky Red Running short story is part of this sale. Want to read about a witch trying to save her Magic Fair? That's Becoming Solo. Or about how far a cult will go to achieve their goals...Red Running. itch.io/b/3904/chill...
Purple background with spooky leafless tree, spiders, spiky fence, scary pumpkins, haunted house, and witches.
Text: Chills, Thrills, and Kills
A very big and spooky bundle of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year's Hallowe'en season!
An October Itchio sale. 93 books for $69. Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Joyce Carol Oates: you know Oates: i have a take Barker: oh shit Barker: oh shit this is gonna be good Poe: how do you figure? Barker: edgar Barker: it's a joyce carol oates take Barker: they're always good Poe: i don't know about that Barker: they're good to me, edgar
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 02/10/2026
folks, if you don’t have a cart or a chair or a dog or a mobility issue, you have to exit through the back entrance of the bus, there’s a whole system here, it works when used properly, you enter at front, exit at back, leave space for the people getting on or who need the ramp to exit
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Exactly this.
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The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ask not for whom the Smudge lurks, he lurks for thee
Smudge at the top of the stairs, lurking, face only half visible
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yep. And I've already decided that should I survive my spouse, I will NOT remarry. Period. I got a good one, but my dating experience back in the Dark Ages taught me that I got lucky.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026
You know what happens when you walk away from men who think they're entitled to your attention? They follow you.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026
This is part of a series of terrible arguments that people make that they think are real gotchas. Yesterday, someone said "I get why women would choose the bear, but then why haven't they? Why haven't all women walked into the woods?"
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B.C. Johnson @bc-johnson.com · 30/09/2026
Is there a term for when a story or setting is so over-the-top edgy and grimdark that it becomes ridiculous? If not, I humbly submit "grimdork."
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I still blog and write long reviews. AI generated content can suck a cactus. 💅
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Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Midterms! Focus, people!!! We don’t have to decide on the Pres nom right now Focus focus focus It’s all hands on deck for November 3rd
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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 29/09/2026
Any cognition you perceive in "AI" is your own. That's it. You built your concept of its intelligence, the same way you understand fictional characters as people. The same way you can see an octopus in a towel hook. They are using your mind to sell their product. The human is you.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
no one is more butt hurt about those who don’t want to see slop than those who very much care that you don’t like their slop huh
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know, with all the drama around LLMs/AI, I'm surprised no one's talking about John Sladek's The Muller-Fokker Effect.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Life is just worse now than in 2020, when I felt safe and like our leaders were trying to help me" - no, nostalgia is lying to you. Something weird is happening, you have a bunch of false memories. Please wake up, snap out of it.
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t put yourself in a bad situation. (Too late. That’s just existing as a woman.) Don’t go somewhere alone. Don’t dress this way or that way. Be careful who you trust. Be friendly but not too friendly. And more. All that and yet, it doesn’t keep us safe. Because we are not the problem.
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every woman you know does so much mental math on the regular regarding her safety. When to smile politely. When to confront someone. When to walk away. When to cause a scene. Who’s safe? Who’s not? Who sees her as a person? Who doesn’t? Women are taught to never leave their drink unattended.+
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
(3) Many rescues are not a dog that someone else has trained and so you get the dog on easy mode. Don’t get me wrong. Some are. But many are dogs that people have failed to train and given up on.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
(2) People do not talk enough about the fact that we have a pretty good idea of how to train dogs and there are a lot of prominent dog trainers giving advice who are just wrong. Scientifically wrong. Extremely wrong.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
As an affirmed dog lover, I have a few things to say. (1) Dogs are harder than people admit. They take a lot of work. They need constant exercise and mental stimulation, especially those with working dog heritage of any kind. Dogs are hard.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Same for me.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026
this can probably be blamed in part upon the Pissfingers Normalization Process that our society has undergone around pet ownership over the 25 years or so
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely this. I am a low-drama person.
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A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope Democrats in places like Iowa and Kansas and Nebraska plaster these images all over
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nods. I'm in my late sixties, but still have men thinking they can make advances to me...usually older than me.
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Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel said, "if you're evil you're at least competent." And I'm like "you haven't read the bits of The Lord of the Rings that involve Orcs, have you?"
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Author J. Scott Coatsworth @jscottcoatsworth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
QSFer Harry Rey has a new MM historical fantasy out: Dalraida. TV writer Alex is having a bad day. Dumped by his soap star ex and on the verge of being fired for being too American to write for a British period drama, London ... www.queerscifi.com/new-release-... #Fantasy #Historical #GayRomance
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/09/2026
My current predictions on the senate ranges from we fail to take it back to we get a filabuater proof majority because I really have no way of guessing how much more demoralized all the Jennifers can get before November. Trump is a demoralizing chaos agent right now. 😂
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/09/2026
Everyone has really been burying the lede on ol' Jennifer here because this is the entire midterm game and WE REALLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY OF THEM ARE JENNIFER
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rules 1, 2, and 4 are the only relevant ones. Rule 3 is bullshit and no longer reflective of current publishing reality. Rule 5...well, if you're indie, that's no longer relevant, either.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Absolutely agree.
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octopuswaffle.bsky.social @octopuswaffle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We are not an ME/CFS family, but I have been in community with folks affected by it, because we continue COVID precautions. If you don’t know someone with this condition, read this and seek out other voices that speak out about it.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Your regular reminder that, if folks on the right were actually serious about "running the government like a business," then the model, along every dimension including 👇, would be...Costco. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Clarkesworld has been my favourite SFF magazine for years, and I am a proud & grateful subscriber. Each story, story podcast & nonfiction article is a gift that I welcome with glee & delight. ✨📚🥰 If you are not reading & supporting it yet, give it a try. You will love it, I promise. Pass it on. 🙏
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Soooo...Netwalk is in a Punk Spec Fic bundle and I decided to write a wee bit about skipunk. Pick your favorite link to read more. jreynoldsward.dreamwidth.org/514039.html ko-fi.com/post/A-littl... joycereynolds-ward.com/blog/a-littl...
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