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S.L Jarrell

@saffywrites.bsky.social

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Writer, Teacher and art lover. Talk to me about: Hot takes on old tropes, Feminism and other representation in cinema and writing, clothes, why Nate is the villain in The Devil Wears Prada or dogs. Always talk to me about dogs.

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S.L Jarrell @saffywrites.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#WriteSky #WIPSnips Now that Katya was safe, Ruslan ached to see his own father before the end. He wanted to hold his mother in his arms and weep for Baruk, he wanted Siska to see Salabey before the summer heat set in and it was invaded by mosquitoes. He wanted to go home.

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S.L Jarrell @saffywrites.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Writing Resolutions for the New Year 1) Finish Draft 5 of the WIP Novel and start submitting it. 2) Submit more short stories. 3) Get a proper website going. Fellow writers, what are you working on in 2026?

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S.L Jarrell @saffywrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

"Wake me up, when September ends" continues to be my anthem for this month every year, both as a teacher and as a grieving sister. Still, ploughing on with editing draft 4 and trying to find a home for my science fiction short.

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S.L Jarrell @saffywrites.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

My first published short is available through the trembling with fear newsletter today horrortree.com/trembling-wi...

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Trembling With Fear 3-16-25 - The Horror Tree

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S.L Jarrell @saffywrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

@bluepit.bsky.social #W#A#F#R A Gloveless Pact: 14% magic 10% feminine rage 17% evil cults 16% self-fulfilling prophecies 20% politics 20% friends/idiots to lovers 3% "Who did this to you?" 100% memorable characters and richly drawn world with distinct cultures.📖 Visuals by Jemma Flynn

Two white horses, a skull with a crown, fingers dipped in a goblet of blood, two figures embracing, a castle, a redhead with a dagger behind her back and the title: A Gloveless Pact.

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S.L Jarrell @saffywrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

@wippit.bsky.social A Gloveless Pact If my WIP were an AO3 Fic it's tags would be: #Fantasy #Friendstolovers #Women'swrongs #FeminineRage #Magic #ReligiousConflict. #CinnamonRollHero For 3 royal mages, graduation is about to get deadly. Can they survive the journey home? Can their friendship?

A moodboard by Jenna Flyn, horses, a skull with a crown, hands dipped into a cup of some dark liquid, possibly blood. Two people hugging in period clothes. A redhead with a dagger behind their back, an ornate castle

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Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood @thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Through the open door of the lead truck they could still catch snatches of the increasing controlled panic on the radio. The fire was almost to the camp. They could see it galloping down the ridge, heading straight for them. #WIPSnips

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S.L Jarrell @saffywrites.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

#WIPsnips He was almost at the door when it was flung open. Adrenaline and instinct saved him. With a cry of panic and a blow that would have had his fencing master howling with disapproval, Ruslan hit not his assailant, but their musket. The weapon fired uselessly into the ceiling.

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S.L Jarrell @saffywrites.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

#WIPSnips A snippet from my current WIP for the "Different" tag

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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 26/10/2024

#WIPSnips | different In keeping with the prompt, we're somewhere different for this one - back in Sabbat's past, and in a stand-alone short story set well before the main serial. Also content warnings for suicidal ideation and dysphoria in this snippet ( saranadosfiction.com/2024/01/29/a... )

*And a few more years of bleeding every month and cramps that feel like being stabbed in the gut and waking up every fucking morning feeling like my body ain’t fucking* mine *any more.*

He’d been able to deal with being a girl, when he’d absolutely had to. He was fairly fucking certain he wasn’t ever going to be able to deal with being a woman.

*Ain’t going to have to, though. The priests said they’d take me when I’m old enough, and it ain’t even as though they charge you for it.*

And if, by some twist of fate, that didn’t happen? If the Navy came in, and the temple burned, and there was nowhere he could go before it all turned into too much to bear?

*Then I’ll take my blade and go down to the harbour and let Ocean Brother take my soul to Twilight Sister’s arms rather than live one more day as something I ain’t ever going to be.*

It’d always been the plan, ever since he’d realised he’d need to go to the temple to ever have a body he was comfortable living in. Just this time, it’d be a different harbour.

*Same sea, though. Always the same sea.*

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S.L Jarrell @saffywrites.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Had a great time at Fantasycon. Came home, made it through one day of work, pulled my back by coughing in the wrong position (?), failed to sleep it off. Had to call in sick because I could not physically bend in a way that allowed me to put socks on. From the sublime to the ridiculous.

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