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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 11h

Two pinpricks of golden green in the dark. A ghoul in the closet? Watching, waiting, for the child to sleep so it can scurry to its mischief? It blinks. The child runs -- Out from the covers, to the switch! Light blooms. A charcoal tabby stretches, unbothered, from its closet perch. #ShortStory #Cat

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here's a little setting for my cozy witch short story You Make Your Own Luck. I published it last year in a queer, witch themed chapbook. #WIPSnips #Witches #AmPublished #IndieAuthor

The inside of the cottage was done up as elaborately as Myra was done up herself. There was no bare inch to be found with the patterned rugs and wall hangings, plump couches and cushioned stools, as well as all the things one expected to find in a witch’s house: dried bundles of herbs hanging from the rafters and shelves of bottles holding mysterious and worrisome contents.

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those writers who give updates like "wrote 6k words today"... good for you, but could never be me. Who else is in the slow writers' club? #WriteSky

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love this perspective. First drafts are for making the big swings.

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With one WIP set in outer space and one set in autumn, petal was tricky one, so I went with a more generic Flower. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

“I know potted isn’t normal,” Sincere said as he stood again. “But Perry hates killing flowers just for a bouquet.”
“When he was four or five,” Dignity said. “He made me one from the flowers in the greenhouse. He was so distraught a few days later to find out that picking the flowers killed them that he cried himself to sleep.”
“I’m definitely rubbing that into his face next time I see him.”

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Leigh buckled the urn into the backseat beside her. “The hell?” Rory said when he caught sight of it in the rearview mirror. “Well, I wasn’t going to put him in the trunk,” Leigh retorted. #FirstLine #FirstLineFridays #ShortStory medium.com/intangibleth...

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Mile Markers, or All You Leave Behind is Ashes

A short story about grief, friendship, and road trips

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Update: I did not stop procrastinating. But last night I made myself just read through the problematic chapter.

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a season of lovely contradictions The beauty of the trees losing their leaves to be ugly and bare Of the fruits picked for the fields to be empty For the celebrations sparkly and bright as the days turn shadowed Full Poem: medium.com/intangibleth... #Poem #Autumn #Poetry #SweaterWeather #Fall

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The Beginning of Fall Makes Me Feel Nostalgic

A poem for the season of autumn

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I keep avoiding editing a difficult part of my manuscript by working on different writing projects. Will I stop procrastinating today? ...maybe #AmEditing #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is an abundance of "wells" in my fiction. But I think this one is in the midst of an interesting exchange. #WIPSnips #AmWriting #AmEditing #Banter

“Do you look like your mother?”
“Some bits. The hair, mostly.” She brushed an errant strand off her forehead. “I don’t remember her face well enough to claim anything else.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Don’t --”
“I forgot. You don’t like pity.”
The corner of her mouth curled up just a hint. A high, clear note in the midst of a catastrophe.

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It starts with a spark. The beautiful strike and sizzle of a match. Fire is like an art form -- how it dances, grows, consumes. No one blames a painter for using paint. But an arsonist for using flame?... My lawyer doesn’t like it when I talk like this. #ShortStory #MicroFiction #Arson #Flash

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Sam Tommy @samtommy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes you can read your manuscript 20 times and still miss the thing that's obvious to everyone else. Not because you're a bad writer. Because you're simply too close to the story. What’s one part of your manuscript you suspect you might be too close to see clearly? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh, Perry, my little idealistic, heart-on-his-sleeve, plant-loving workaholic. #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #WritingPrompt #OCs

Even in his workaholic ways, one thing Perry always attempted to observe was the weekend. Sure, maybe he had to go into the greenhouse to check on a delicate plant that needed special care and that he trusted with no one else. But he wouldn’t spend the entire day there, at least. Usually.

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My #scifi novel doesn't really use the word nation, but here's something civic-themed I think fits the prompt. Yay, scifi worldbuilding. #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #WritingPrompt #Worldbuilding

The development of Elios from scientific outpost to civilian settlement to sprawling city-state had been slow until it had been fast. Science was painfully sluggish when you were desperate for a cure, and humanity was desperate for the biggest one of all: finding new homes. Galaxies of nomads searched and were searching for a rock to plant their feet on, and when an outpost proved viable — the temperatures survivable, the atmosphere changeable, the ground growable — the settlers came flooding. After the settlers came the boom.

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They call me a soul-stealer. A corrupter of children. A sorceress. A monster. They exaggerate it like bedtime stories, a fable to twist me into a malevolent force, a demon shadow in the forest... #FirstLineFridays #ShortStory #Witches #SpookySeason

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm always mad that the command to open zip files is "extract all" and not "unzip"

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want to live in the courtyard of the #BostonPublicLibrary. Why did we stop building courtyards into building? I saw so many in #Boston. Best architectural feature. #LibraryLife #PublicLibrary

A courtyard fountain with a bronze statue spraying arcs of water centered before a classical brick-and-stone building with arched windows, while a spiral chandelier glows inside a central upper window.

Woman wearing clear-framed glasses and gold hoop earrings smiles in a selfie inside a courtyard with a central fountain, bronze statue, arched colonnades, and trimmed hedges.

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sad to report that last night this lovely line was deleted from the manuscript draft 3 because it was an intro to a scene that was no longer needed. #AmEditing

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why eat the seeds when you’re so close to freedom? How could six little blood-red seeds be your undoing after months of refusal? What a little fool does everyone believe you to be? Let them believe. You know why you eat. #ShortStory #Persephone #MicroFiction #NanaFiction

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Diving into draft 3 of The Softness of Teeth. A lot will remain the same. A few plot points throughout need to he fixed and the ending revamped. #AmWriting

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a series of unrelated microfiction short stories that I wrote to each fit the length of a bluesky post that I've been posting for the last several weeks, now in one place. #ShortStories #MicroFiction #FlashFicion #WriteSky #BookSky #SFF medium.com/intangibleth...

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“Once Upon A Time” Is A Magic Spell

A microfiction compilation

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Much of this book is set in the woods, so stream is a perfect word. #WIPSnips #Autumn #AmWriting

A single, brown-crisped leaf floated down and landed in her hair. And if there was any tension left in that moment, it vanished when he plucked it away, chuckling. Evelyn took the leaf from his fingers and cast it into the stream where it was carried away like a little boat.

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todd writes poetry @toddwritespoetry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the days are ravenous in their needs, endless voids begging to be filled - so I have chosen Love & Beauty first & last, for the world but also for me. #micropoetry #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #writing #writingcommunity #poem #poet #author #writer

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Did you know I have an email newsletter? Sign up now to get monthly updates and behind-the-scenes looks at my writing projects and process. bit.ly/4j5ZdNa #WriteSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Why is every book a bestseller?" I'm going to tell you as a librarian... you would be shocked how many books don't even get checked out once. And that's free. #BookSky #LibraryLife

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The witch’s cottage was picturesque with its colorful garden and the lace curtains hanging in the windows, but Adelaide was sure it wasn’t going to stay that way for long. #FirstLineFridays #ShortStory #Witches #SpookySeason

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was in Boston last week. Along with the other tourist spots, I made sure to hit up the cool libraries and bookstores. Does anyone else travel like that? #Boston #Travel #BookSky #LibraryLife

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I would like to register a complaint with the “Weavers of Fate” department. It’s a quality control issue, really, the amount of snags in my destiny. Only three weavers for all humanity? That’s an understaffing issue. Let me talk to the manager. Olympus will be hearing from me. #ShortStory #FlashFic

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some of the coolest library stairs I've seen. We need to get them at my library. #LibraryLife #BostonPublicLibrary #BookSky

Orange staircase with the The Plot Thickens... written on them with an up arrow.

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just accomplished something that sat on my to do list for months and it just took an email. 😅

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You can’t be saved by a kiss That’s the great fairy tale lie It’s not lips that save you But hearts, ears, eyes Being seen Being heard Being loved #Poem #Poetry #WriteSky #Booksky

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Somehow people always came to entreat the Witch for help at the most inconvenient times. Today it was after supper. She had just sat in her favorite rocking chair to give her weary bones a rest when a frantic pounding at the door forced her to get up. #FirstLineFridays #Witches #SpookySeason

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Death doesn’t mean death, any good psychic would say, when that tarot card turns over in all its vicious ugliness. It means change. One thing ending, and another beginning. Like life… and that thing that comes after life. Death doesn’t mean death; any good psychic knows to lie. #ShortStory #Spooky

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Strange Worlds of Jason Kilgore - Author @worldskilgore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Daily Writing Quote: "Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth." - Albert Camus #dailywritingquote #booksky #authors #writing

black and white photo of author Albert Camus in a trench coat outside, smoking a cigarette, and looking sidelong at the camera.

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Margery Bayne is querying @margerybayne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just because you write from the seat of your pants rather than with an outline, it doesn't mean you don't need some structure and guidance. Here are the best #writing books for the #pantsers out there. #WriteSky #WritingAdvice #BookRecs medium.com/@margerybayn...

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Best Writing Books For Pantsers

From a discovery writer who has read a lot of writing books

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