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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

novelday.net/novels/14873 "Coffee, cults, cats, and blood magic come together to serve up The Perfect Cup." This is a first-draft work; I just wanted to release it as I work on it for fun, while I juggle other projects I don't necessarily plan to post on web serial sites.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Actually that is a small fib. I am going to finish the first draft of "The Perfect Cup" and then I will likely start editing my Campana stories so I can get them going into their serialized release on Novelday and Substack, with a full Ko-Fi release.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A snippet from "The Perfect Cup" (Working Title), which will also make its way onto my Substack and Ko-Fi upon completion.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I did finish the first draft. Working on "The Perfect Cup" (Working Title) before I settle in to begin revisions.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My first paid subscriber piece, “An Offering of Wild Strawberries”, is live. You can read the first section / scene for free! Plan to get the Ko-Fi going soon so folks only need to do one time purchases for these pieces. substack.com/@nikoiscreat...

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“An Offering of Wild Strawberries”

Sapphic / Folk Horror. In a village, in a wood, five girls partake in a ritual to chose who will become the Bride of the Wood. || cw: Implied (but not actually) SA.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Almost there. Now for the hardest part: The origin chapter.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Finally, on the final Act III chapter: “Miracle.” >> Longer post on my substack: nikoiscreative.substack.com

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#WIPWednesdays anyone? I am chilling at my favorite coffee spot here in San Antonio, sipping coffee and conjuring apocalyptic entities into being. Bonus points for a sneak peek at some of A Plague.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I have returned again. How long will I stay? Who knows. But hey bsky 🦋! Wasup?

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"Bird watching is more important than your writing, mom." Freyja, probably.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

“God-Killing” got picked up by the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts journal Impacto! Just finished polishing it line-by-line and sent it in. It’s so cleaned up compared to its second draft which is on my Substack; Might remove it there by end of this week.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

When you really want the vet tech to come back and pet you more. #bassethound

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Once upon a time, I talked about writing a reverse #isekai where a female warrior is sent to the real world to kill the story's author to free her world from the grimdark path its set the world on. This is that story: "God-Killing" open.substack.com/pub/nikoiscr... #writing #writesky #writer

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Welcome to Niko's periodic break down over being a talentless hack.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Submitting to constant denials is starting to get exhausting and depressing. 🫠

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

What have I been listening to while writing "An Offering of Wild Strawberries"? A Tergo Lupi's [Hide]

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I'll say: Working on a Supernatural Horror Short Story involving cringe grifting ghost hunters from YouTube has sent me down a road of cringe inducing content trying to collect dialogue sampels from REAL people running the Ghost Hunting Grift Route for fame.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Managed to update my handle! My substack is a great place to find my short works, and maybe at some point I'll do a subscriber's only serialized novel or something. I don't know!

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Another line from A Guide for Summoning Eldritch Cats first drafting.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

And nyao my Substack is live featuring my "God-Killing" a reverse isekai short story, where a "enemy" side character goes into the real world to kill the author to change the future of her world. #substack #shortfiction #shortstories nikoiscreative.substack.com?utm_campaign...

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Niko Schreck | Substack

Just a chronically tired millenial who writes genre fiction and the occassional rant about the world. Click to read Niko Schreck, a Substack publication. Launched 9 minutes ago.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Cover design for [The Wakeup Routine of Ottolie Quail] in its first stage. Might remove the watercolor paws and leave just the clip art of the basset doodle. Made in Canva, with Canva assets.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

#wipsnips from [Guide to Summong Eldritch Cats](www.royalroad.com/fiction/1392...)

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Hello bsky! I'm back. I think. This semester kept me busy, and so did working on November's novel writing crunch. A crunch I am proud to say I beat, even if the project is still being worked on. First year beating Nov² and it met the benchmark for the #RoyalRoad 2025 #Writathon too.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

And the thought broke off when a cup of tea was placed on the table in front of Adelaide. The tart scent of lemon tea and Ginerva’s words, “don’t listen to them,” pulled her the rest of the way back. "Them?" #wipsnips

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

A while back, I got a weird book title idea in my head: "Single Ladies Guide to Summoning Eldritch Cats." So I put it in as an easter egg in C(3)'s second short: "The Help Calling Charm" because I still haven't worked out a plot for it. #wip #queerwriters #queercreators #horror #cozy

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Now that I am on summer break, I'm working steadily through the Campana stories I hope to finish by end of the break. First one is finished, and undergoing revisions. Second one is in progress. I'm still conceptualizing the flash piece and outlining the novelette. #wip #writersky #writer #writing

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I've put the "Perfidy" second draft on my brand spanking new tumblr. nikoiscreative.tumblr.com I intend to evolve to a full blog site where I can incorporate store front alongside the writing, reviewing, and photo work. #queerwriters #tumblr #writesky #writers #fiction #flash #flashfiction

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Writer. Reader. Photographer. Hobbyist. Enthusiast.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The problem is trying to find a writing group that I can ask if they'd read my stuff, and then get a response, even if its a no. So far this student org one is crickets.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It doesn't really irk me. I expected it. Just like I expect anything U.S. American run to reject my work until this administration is out. I'll just independently publish it. /shrug

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Well, Perfidy was rejected so... With that out of the way, guess I can put it on my portfolio site. 👍

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

One of those mornings where I should be a functional human, but I don't want to shower just yet.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This #Caturday I want to share Simba. He's gone - old age - and missed (It's been over a year now). He was such a great cat, even into his old age you wouldn't have expected he was fifteen years old until it started catching up with him.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

"Perfidy" has been submitted to Craft so I can't share it, and I'll share "When the Bough..." after I finish my Short Fiction class. "Of Pastoral Wards" is just in need of some polish and that will get posted up. Thinking they'll all end up on my Ko-Fi and/or carrd page.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

On the flip side, in "Perfidy" and "Of Pastoral Wards", I am exploring a Christo Fascist government that has long been in power. Making it more of a series of speculative dystopic pieces giving glimpses into a world dominated by the monsters of modern Christiandom and tech. #writesky #booksky

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I like eco-horror a lot. The rot of nature, the existential horror of facing down things in the wild we never encountered before, or the grotesque things human negligence creates. That or treating nature as the divine it was once revered as.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The opening section of the first draft of "When the Bough Breaks the Cradle will Rot". #queerwriters #writersky #writer I know the word usage needs some clean up, but that's what first drafts are for, right? Right.

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Niko is XYZ 📙 @nikoiscreative.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Finished my short fiction for the workshop class. Submitted my other with one of my poems for the Advanced Workshop entry. Hope I make it in. I can't really publish Perfidy anywhere until it clears where I submitting it. If it fails, I'll throw it up on my Ko-Fi or my portfolio site.

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