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Kori Klinzing

@nvulnerabletide.bsky.social
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(She/They/Fae) Bi/Demi, Polyam. Fat Nonbinary Femme. Future Librarian. Writer. Editor. Game Designer. Comics & SF&F Nerd. Tiefling Main.

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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 10h
#WIPSnips, 9/23: Tumble (not tumblr)
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"We tumbled through the air together, ass over teakettle, boots over barrettes. The air was a physical force, buffeting and slamming into us. 
	
Celeste was already glowing, and Elias had himself under control, of course, but the rest of us? We were fucked. 
	
Quinn threw their hand out, trying to call the earth to them. It might come, it might be coming, but from a quick glimpse at how fucking high up we were, it wasn’t going to be any kind of help. We’d still hit it way too fast and way too hard. And they couldn’t control gravity, at least as far as I knew."
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That marks my first short story submission since, like 2021. Wish me luck.
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Elliot Davis | Pre-Save To Feel Your Warmth @moreblueberries.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To Feel Your Warmth is coming to BackerKit on October 20th. A duet vampire TTRPG about love, trust, and the decision to move forward together or say goodbye forever. It is an evolution of the mechanics behind The Time We Have, but what specifically is changing? ⬇️
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To Feel Your Warmth - A Tragic Vampire Duet TTRPG
Get notified when To Feel Your Warmth - A Tragic Vampire Duet TTRPG launches on BackerKit!
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/22: Meltdown Not the word, more of a feeling
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"If she had access to makeup like this and she’d been holding out on me? 
	
I wanted to laugh. I could barely feel my emotions right now. They were a maelstrom swirling inside of me, and I, at the eye, couldn’t feel them. At the epicenter of the nuclear explosion, I was wiped away before I could feel any pain.
	
Betrayal came at the point of a glittery eyeliner stick."
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am going to finish this short story today if it kills me
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminism has been a net positive. Period. Let's move along.
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WHAT HAPPEN?
What Happen
When someone wonders "What happen?"
Roll 2D6
On 10+: GOOD HAPPEN!
ON 7-9: SO SO HAPPEN
ON 6-: BAD HAPPEN

POWERED BY APOCALYPSE

Various bad doodles attached.
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At The Word on the Street in Toronto today, listening to so many great authors talk about writing. My TBR is growing ever longer.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
people talk about "media literacy" usually in the context of "needing the villain to look into the camera and tell you they're bad," but it goes the other way too--people will fly into a rage and start insisting "fiction has no effect on reality" if you DO acknowledge context, subtext, framing, etc.
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/21: Stream
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"I could feel her. I was immersed in her. It was less like a bridge between us and more like I was suddenly drowning in her, in the steady stream of her consciousness. Endlessly deep and constantly moving. I was surrounded by every flittering thought flashing through her head. It was just like being submerged, watching the flickering of silver fish swim through sunlit waters. I just had to find the right fish, or current. 
	
The metaphor was starting to stretch, but here I was, feeling it viscerally. 
	
I breathed through the drowning feeling, and sent out a vine of power. No, a wire. A fishing wire with a question as the bobbin. A question that I knew she couldn’t resist answering."
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/20: Signal
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"As we slipped through the darkness, something in the sky caught my eye. Higher than a skyscraper, lower than a weather balloon or an airplane coming to land. Projected on the cloud cover wreathing the city. A signal.
	
I squinted. 'Is that a hawk or an X, you think?'
	
Quinn slowed their pace and craned their neck to look at the light projected into the sky. 'Xenith has superhearing, right? He wouldn’t need a signal. It’s gotta be for the Flock.' They sighed. 'Imagine being so important, you get your own call signal.'"
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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Revolution in the Heart is one day old! The people at Titan did a fabulous job on this book. The authors knocked it out of the park. The Guardian called it 'probably the best original anthology of the year'. You gotta try it!
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Revolution in the Heart by Charlie Jane Anders, Ai Jiang, Karen Joy Fowler, Ann Leckie, Kelly Link, Chana Porter, Aliya Whiteley, Premee Mohamed, Darcie Little Badger: 9781835412749 | PenguinRandomHou...
15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others. Ursula...
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/19: tube
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"Elias walked out of the room without looking back, leaving me alone with Michael. Whose leg was already jiggling so fast it was gonna break mach two any second now. I placed my head in my hands and tried not to groan. Interrogation was better than this. 
	
And if I tried to punch him, he’d just zoom out of the way. 

'What do you think that tube’s for?' Michael asked. His gaze was pointed up at the ceiling, where they hadn’t bothered to put tiles in, I guess. All the electrical work and ventilation was exposed to the air.
	
'I don’t know. Air circulation, probably? I’m not an engineer.'
	
'It’s probably not reinforced enough for us to crawl through without breaking, huh.'"
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Kelsey Lynn Clarey 📚🎲🧶 @islanderscaper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If i had a nickel for every time I was playing a ranger who ended up having a sister that was part of a heretical cult that was causing trouble for our party, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it is weird it happen twice. #DND #PrincesoftheApocalypse
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/18: Payment
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"'Look, kid, I like you, I really do. And your mom has helped me out of a few scrapes here and there, but if word got out around that I was digging into places I didn’t belong for free, some peon might think they can take advantage. I didn’t get where I am by doing favors for nothing. So, I’m gonna need payment.'"
	
'I have money—'
	
Crystal held up a hand. 'I got plenty of money. No, you’re gonna do me a favor, which I will then return.'"
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026
I have an AI booster in family circle who has explained to me that AI could lift the “drudgery” of writing… and then proceeds to list the fun parts of writing. Which leaves me to like format the book and do intense copy editing on some shit I didn’t even write?
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/17
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"'Come on kid, I need you to get it together. One more time.'
	
My entire body was screaming. There was a throbbing building up behind my right eye, and I was starting to feel nauseated. 'That sounds like effort,' I muttered.
	
There was an exasperated sigh from somewhere above me. 'Yes, girl, it will be. Now pull yourself together. Your enemies won’t be as generous as I will. You need to learn how to cast even when you’re a little tired.'"
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saintguard @saintguard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tonight in Urban Shadows, Lorelei showed up at a hunter bar with Paige in tow and threatened the hunters into leaving her club alone. Paige was compelled by her queen to ask around about a changeling. Lina met with her wizard friend to discuss a mutual arrangement involving...
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
TONIGHT on #UrbanShadows, Paige accompanied Lorelei to the Hunter Bar to smooth her way in negotiating (and keeping them the fuck away from her bar). Whilst there, the Winter Queen summoned her home, demanding she track down someone named Zelda for unknown reasons...
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/16: Call
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"'Wait, you want me to what?"
	
'Call your Madame Lake. Tell her to meet us.'
	
My Madame Lake? 'Call. Like on the phone?'
	
She cast me a scathing glance. I felt a grim amusement, instead of quailing under it. How far we’ve come. 'You know that’s what those devices were created for, don’t you? The texting came way later.'"
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/15: Exterior
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"'Downtown, exterior, night,'" Michael muttered under his breath. Unfortunately, not softly enough for me to not hear him. 'Our heroes crouch in the darkness before their target: the sinister spire of the Onyx Industries looms above them. Will they manage to, ow!'
	
I looked over my shoulder to shush him, only to see him rubbing his ribs and glaring at Dom, who was glaring back. 
	
"'This is serious, kid. We get caught, and we’re fucked. They’re not going to give us the benefit of the doubt. It’s not going to be volunteer work, or juvie. It’s real prison we’re facing. Onyx doesn’t play nice.'"
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
dreamt I wrote a 5 scene time loop play and it was being performed by dropout cast members at the premiere... and I woke up after scene 3 😭
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/14: Month
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'"Jeez, new girl, you know Halloween isn’t until the end of the month right?'
	
It took like three seconds for the words to sink in—a second for me to realize I was the one being talked at, a second for me to understand the words being said, and a third for me to decide what I was going to do about it.
	
I decided against being the bigger person and continuing down the hallway."
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/13: Distract
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"As if to prove the truth of my words, another blast went off, this one closer than the last. The shriek of laser fire peppered the air above our heads. If they hit the chunk of concrete we were hiding behind, it’d explode on us, and while Quinn’s powers might protect them, I might just get crushed to death by falling debris. 
	
'We have to create a distraction.' They looked at me askance. 'Do you think you can conjure something? An illusion, some light? Something that’ll give us enough time to book it?'
	
I glared at them. 'I can’t conjure shit right now,' I muttered. I hawked up another bit of spit—which felt like the last of my moisture. 'I can barely get enough air to breathe.'"
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the cheesemonger just sent me an email about all the new cheese they have in, and now I am Yearning
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/12: Wedge
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"I blinked at it. Someone had put just a hunk of lettuce on my plate and poured toppings and dressing on it and called it a salad. 'What is this?'
	
'It’s a wedge salad,' Fe said with a smile. 'With croutons and pepitas and bacon and hearts of palm and blue dressing, and there’s some Parmesan if you want to add it. They’re surprisingly filling, believe it or not. The steak will be out in a second.'
	
Quinn was poking at it with the offered knife a little dubiously, but then followed Celeste’s lead in cutting it into chunk sized pieces. Dom was shoving in the chunks that came away as she speared at it with a fork, and sending croutons and pepitas everywhere."
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Kelsey Lynn Clarey 📚🎲🧶 @islanderscaper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My contribution to this year's @desertbus.org craftalong is officially done and in the mail!
A double sided handknit scarf depicting the pla teary symbols from sailor moon A double sided handknit scarf depicting the pla teary symbols from sailor moon A double sided handknit scarf depicting the pla teary symbols from sailor moon A double sided handknit scarf depicting the pla teary symbols from sailor moon
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
UofT is a gottdamn rabbit warren and I was so spoiled last year when all of my classes were on the same block 😭
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saintguard @saintguard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tonight in Urban Shadows, Lina completed her scheme with the werewolves, Paige found an object of Summer, and Lorelei got threatened by an enforcer of the Blood Bank. Paige then met a sad angel, Lina concocted a new scheme, and Lorelei "had dinner" with her complicated relationship.
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tonight in #UrbanShadows, Paige learned of a Summer artifact coming in from Faerie from her human lover, and made promises to its current holder-- a werewolf artifact broker-- to obtain it. #SundayCrew (1/?)
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/11: Exhaust
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"Dom peeled away from the house, her motorcycle exhaust kicking into the air as she roared into the street. I coughed, and glared at the glare of her lights as she vanished into the night. Her bike was at least as silent as a motorbike could be, so it wouldn’t wake the neighbors.
	
I just had to hope that it didn’t wake my dad.
	
I slipped inside the brownstone, my keys held fast in my hands so they wouldn’t make any noise. The first floor was dark. I kicked off my boots, righting them when they fell over, and hung up my jacket. On stocking feet, I crept up the stairs."
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/10: Teeth
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"Seriously? Seriously? A fucking shark tank? The only way this could have been more cliché is if they had lasers attached to them somehow. Or if they’d been genetically mixed with tigers so they were actual “tiger sharks.”
	
I looked nervously at one of the giant gray creatures behind the glass. It was mottled and scarred, and as it swam past us, I swear it flashed its teeth at me in a monstrous grin. 
	 
Shattered stars, if these things were intelligent, we might not have to fall into the aquarium to get fucking fangoriously devoured."
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Finally sold the mattress topper I dragged up here from the US that we didn't need bc we bought a new mattress! I am so happy to have it out of the house.
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#SongsOfSeptember Day 12 Celeste and Elias have the highest amount of sad or saddish songs since they're the Stoic Ones. I think All I've Ever Known from Hadestown is my favorite. There's just so much longing there. youtu.be/L5A__1-QK4w?...
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All I've Ever Known
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#SongsofSeptember Day 11! Supervillain by Between You and Me. The lyrics don't exactly fit the story, but the title and the vibes Work. Plus it's a banger. youtu.be/HY2fcL2VTn4?...
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Catherynne M. Valente's worlds often have whimsical elements, and they're very often strange and wonderful. I return to Palimpsest in particular on occasion. If I am very lucky, while I'm reading, the wonder in her books will spark some in me. #WhimsicalWriters
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/9: Rig
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"As if to punctuate it, Elias slid back out, with the biggest smile I’d ever seen on his face. He was actually showing teeth.  'I’ve got it.'
	
Celeste stood. 'Got what?'
	
'I think I’ve jury-rigged it enough that it’ll fly. I don’t think it’ll break orbit yet—the heat shielding seems pretty shot—but it’s gonna fly.'
	
I bit my tongue so I wouldn’t mention that both of them could fly. The rest of us couldn’t. Like, theoretically, I could, but I hadn’t figured it out yet. How was flying harder than teleportation?"
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The characters end up in the Prismatic Forest, in the Queendom of Glass, while on the run. It is a beautiful but dangerous shallowing between worlds, and all the plants are made of colored glass. #WhimsicalWriters, 9/9 #WriteSky
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#SongsOfSeptember Day 10 This is the theme for a whole team of heroes antagonistic to Mel and the Support Group, but Orision in particular: Ultra-Luminary from Over the Moon. youtu.be/IbUfOhEv1sc?...
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Ultraluminary (Official Video) | Over The Moon
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today is my first day of school! And I forgot that there is a school near where I'm coming from so all my lunch options were full of children! If I choose to keep this class I'm gonna need to leave the house earlier >>
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#SongsofSeptember, Day 9 Getting someone like Ramin Djawadi to do the score would be a dream, BUT I think getting either Beach Bunny or Honey Revenge would be more appropriate. They tap into a Teenagerness and growing awareness of how unfair the world is that would be essential.
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/8: Mental
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"Quinn flushed, and I realized I’d said that last part out loud. 'I needed to make sure you were alive before I took a shower,' they grumbled.
	
I sat up and the room started to spin. I was—still?— exhausted, physically and mentally. My brain and muscles had been removed and replaced with wet sand. I brought one heavy hand to rub the dust from my eyes. 'What happened?'
	
'You threw something at the gangsters. Like a light or something? I don’t know, I don’t know what you can do.'"
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.
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Taplaos @taplaos.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/7: Elevator
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"The elevator stopped, it’s doors opening to a floor of darkness. Without a hint of hesitation, Dom stepped into it. I winced, wishing I were better at conjuring light, and followed them onto the floor.
	
She seemed to know exactly where she was going, even with the lights off. While I grabbed my phone and turned on the flashlight so as not to trip over my own feet. She turned down a hallway, past a plant that needed to be watered, and unlocked a door that needed coaxing to open. 
	
'Sit down. I’m only going to be a minute.'"
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#SongsofSeptember, Day 8: Not always, but since these characters evolved from ttrpg characters, I have a novel playlist, like seven character playlists, and two couple playlists. This is more than I have done for my other books. Usually I just have a novel playlist and that's it.
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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#WIPSnips, 9/6: Sigh
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"'You okay?'

I looked up, taking my head out of my hands to look at them. 'Yeah, sure, fine.'
	
Quinn’s eyebrow rose, skeptical. 'That was a pretty big sigh for someone who’s fine.'
	
'What I’m not allowed to sigh now? I’m a teenager. We run on sighs. We’re sigh factories.'
	
Quinn sat down next to me, resting their elbows on their knees. And they waited. 
	
I sighed again. Ugh. Talking about the things that bother you. 'Fine. Dad is making me go to one-on-one sessions with the Doc.'
	
Quinn’s head cocked to the side, considering me. 'Isn’t that normal? I have one on one sessions with her too.'"
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Kori Klinzing @nvulnerabletide.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#SongsofSeptember, Day 7 Mel definitely breaks out in a number called "So My Whole Life is A Lie" at the end of Act One.
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