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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'm trying out Gander (un: RhondaParrish) & it seems to be a good fit for me, but it's early days so we'll see. Anyway, it lets me follow Bsky accounts there but when I reply there it doesn't seem to carry over. So you know what that means right? Yup. I'm just gonna creepily lurk from the shadows.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Check out Cultivate Your Mind Space on BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l... I have a Kickstarter running right now, so I should probably be pimping it. BUT this crowdfunding campaign ends before mine does and it could use a little boost too. Check out these pins!

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Cultivate Your Mind Space

Enamel pins celebrating resistance and practical solutions for mental health and joy. We're tired, but we're strong. We're frustrated, but we renew our determination. We care for each other and for ou...

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

New Kids on the Block Die Antwoord USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker) Killers Lose in the Parking Lots Lights

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Once upon a time I watched someone with a huge social media following sic their followers on a friend of mine because they hadn't bothered to understand the complexities of a situation and just bleated about it anyway.

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Margaret should be writing @mldcurelas.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A fantastic deal! A great time to get issue 132 (volume 35 #2), which has my story "Mabel's Creek", co-written with @rhondaparrish.bsky.social

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My latest (and best) novel, Silversong, officially released today. I'm VERY pleased with this one. Not just for what it is but also for what it feels like the start of. www.rhondaparrish.com/home/publica... If you like (melancholy) fantasy with heart you might just like it too.

Cover for book entitled Silversong by Rhonda Parrish. Includes a dark purple background, a lot of silver filigree, a lute, a bee and a tall clocktower.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I have a some print books left at the house, so I can personalize and mail someone a box of books for you. I can probably even drive over to @rhondaparrish.bsky.social house and get a few things from her, too. Oh! I also have like six @skyladawn.ca books leftover from events. WE ARE READY.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I'm organizing a fundraiser to benefit the Edmonton Food Bank and looking for anyone who would like to participate (as a fundraiser, not as a donor--that comes later LOL). Details here: www.rhondaparrish.com/home/giftmas... Signal boosts of this post greatly appreciated :) #Giftmas2025

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

When I left Twitter because, as a friend of mine frequently says, “I don’t drink at Nazi bars.” I wasn’t sure if I had the spoons to start over at a new platform. Still, I did want to save my name here, just in case.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

But I didn’t want to just be a blank account sitting here so I decided to start posting a story, one paragraph(ish) a day, beginning at the end and working my way forward. That way it could be read in the correct order by anyone who stumbled across my page.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

So, without further ado, allow me to introduce The Tangle. It’s an icy Faerie nighttime homage to Labyrinth, which includes one of my favourite recurring characters, Aleria.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Aleria was soft and warm in my arms, and the clouds of our breath intermingled as we kissed, then parted, only to kiss again. Twilight painted the sky the same shade of lilac as her eyes and the snow which bedecked the surrounding trees caught that light and held it. Glowing like faerie fire.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

As she pulled from my embrace, her colourful hair streamed out behind her, a rainbow that wrapped around the trunk of a tree as she disappeared behind it. Her challenging laughter rang in the cold air and I ducked as a snowball flew over me–right where my face had

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

been moments before–and splatted on the trunk of a spruce. I gathered a handful of snow, formed it into a tight snowball and danced around to the far side of the tree Aleria had gone behind. With a victorious battle cry I loosed the snowball, only to have it smash ineffectively into a nearby shrub.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

“Where are–?” I began, and then she was there–a flash of colour, a cheeky grin. She winked at me, pelted me with a snowball that exploded into flakes against my shoulder, and then vanished once more.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

“Using magic is cheating!” I said, dusting my shoulder off.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

“You’re only saying that because you haven’t figured yours out yet,” she said, from somewhere above me. I darted out of the way just as the snow she’d shaken off the branches began to cascade down–a beautiful

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

flaky waterfall. I rolled to a stop and packed another snowball. The next time she appeared beside me I was ready, and my snowball exploded across her spring green jacket. Even as her giggly gasp of surprise clouded the air, I circled around the tree and readied myself for her counter attack.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

“I have a gift for you,” she said, her voice originating from the same place she’d been when I’d pelted her.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

“Is it a snowball?” I asked.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

She laughed, a sound like cracking ice, “No. It’s not a snowball,” she said. “Let’s declare a truce.”

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Cautiously I peered around the tree trunk. She was standing where I’d left her, grinning like a cat who’d just caught a sprite, with her hands behind her back.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

“Show me your hands,” I said.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

“I can’t,” she laughed again. “It would ruin the surprise.”

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I was curious but suspicious. For the thousandth time I wished I could magic myself from one place to another like she could. If I could Step like that I’d be able to appear behind her, to see what was in her hands, but

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I still hadn’t figured out how to do it. “It’ll come in time,” mother said, which was absolutely no consolation at all. Usually I could take some solace in the fact I could wield a sword better than anyone our age, but that wouldn’t help me right now. Alas.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

“But... truce, right?” I clarified.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

She just laughed. I came around the tree, half expecting to receive a ball of snow to the face, but she bent in a half-bow with her arm extended toward me. She was holding a flower.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

It was beautiful–shimmery as fresh fallen snow, but silver as the stars which were beginning to dot the sky above us. It had petals like a rose, rounded and curled up into a cup shape which contained a silvery liquid. I’d never seen anything like it before. “For you,” she said.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I closed the distance between us in two great non-magical steps but, just as I reached for the flower, a scream like a calving glacier tore through the forest. “Wha–?” Aleria and I said at the same time.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

And then a creature stood between us.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It was half as tall as we were and formed of ice. It had a little round pot-belly, a nose as sharp as an eagle’s, and a spiky crown, like icicles, which stood up from

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

its bald head. A long, draping robe covered its torso and blended in with the snow at its feet so I couldn’t tell where it ended and the landscape began. Though I’d never seen one before, I immediately knew it to be a snoblin. Possibly even their king.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

“Thief!” he shrieked, and again snow fell from the trees to dust us. Though some flakes slipped between my collar and my neck the shiver that went down my spine was not entirely physical.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“Who are–” Aleria began, but the creature spoke a word of command and snapped his fingers.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

As quick as that, he was holding the flower and Aleria was gone. In her place was a barn owl. Most of its body was white as the snow, but there were lilac-coloured flecks on the tips of its feathers, and it had big purple eyes. Familiar eyes.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

“How dare you?” I demanded, and reached for my sword. But of course it wasn’t there. Why would I bring my sword to dally in the woods?

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“How dare I?” the snoblin screamed, and I saw a thin trickle of water run from the top of his crown, down his body, and freeze into ice once it reached the ground. “How dare I?”

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

He stepped toward me, trembling with rage, and leaving icy footprints in his wake. Behind him, the owl that had been Aleria fluffed out her feathers and turned her head nearly all the way around, purple eyes taking in the forest all around us.

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Rhonda Parrish @rhondaparrish.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

“Yes! How dare you!” I said, hoping the anger in my voice would disguise my fear. “You turned my friend into an owl!”

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