End your summer right with a book full of hot summer tales—hot weather on the outside ☀️, and heat within 🔥. A bunch of us have a new collection of stories headed your way! You'll soon be able to save your slice of summer...link coming soon! 🌶️📚 For now, you'll be getting some teasers here.

We are starting a thing! Come submit your awesomeness #opencalls #submissions #shortstories #darkfantasy #amwritingfantasy #grimdark #darksubmissions #fantasysubmissions #onlinemagazine #new #litjournal

"I have awakened the guardian. I am not equipped to fight." -The Tooth Fairy in 'Make Me Real' www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/make... #fightme #notmyfight #showdown #MakeMeReal #protectiveinstinct #shortread #newrelease #tbr #WIPsnips #quotes #flashfiction

If a Cheshire cat person said that, for a one-night stand, they would give you any one thing you want, would you believe them? #makeawish #KingMeKitty #CheshireCat #feydeal #wouldyouwouldn'tyou #askhim #romancelandia #rawdeal #romantasy #hisforthenight

The door to your closet slowly creaks open...are you sure the heater did that? Somebody's watching you. You have something they want. What do you do? A) Give it to them. Go away! B) Start fighting...Did my fist just pass through?! C) Bargain: You look like you could do something for me. #bogey #tbr

"Offering common ground? Perhaps I am closer to human now than I thought. Most humans just scream." - your bogey host in 'Make Me Real' www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/make... #majorityrule #bogey #thescreamer #burglar #badreaction #surpriseguest #unexpected #nightvisitor #reflection #flash #WIPsnips

Flash Fiction "Make Me Real" by Seriah Black “She looks at me, the first time any adult has really looked at me. It runs through my plasma like poltergeist currents.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/make...

It's RELEASE DAY!!! "Make Me Real" is now available for you to read on Blood+Honey, in all its tooth fairy-bogey glory. www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/make... #shortread #flashfiction #releaseday #newrelease #litjournal #countdown #itshere #toothfairy #bogey #spooky #bendreality #tbr #thewaitisover

Exciting announcement for you all! My flash fiction bogey story debuts tomorrow! Can't wait to share it with you. #comingsoon #cantwait #fairytalereimagining #toothfairy #short

"Her gaze finally makes it to my face, but then she’s back all over my tattoo-like broken stripes, tracing the straight and jagged purple." -Wishe, in 'King Me Kitty' #fantasytattoos #likewhatyousee #fantasymen #romancelandia #storyquote #WIPSnips #quote #WriteSky #CheshireCat #caitsith #stripedcat

If you could play a game with any legendary creature, which creature would you pick? What would you bet them? #AMA #mythology #fantasycreatures #askmeanything #thisorthat #letsplayagame #betyouwould #fairytalecharacters #amwritingfantasy

Town crier moment: Books! 🔔🤠 Come and get your books! 🪐📚 Because, books.

My husband and I made Jolabokaflod one of our Christmas eve traditions.

If you had to eat next to a being from another species at Thanksgiving, what species would you choose? #QandA #AMA #askmeanything #poll #amwritingfantasy #amwriting #writersinspiration #feast #dinnerguests #guesswhoscomingtodinner #scifi #writerprompts

I am cracking up. I can’t even. As a musician, when you wonder what the swan lake is happening in that sheet music and in the band. And as a ghostwriter, when you try to write to a music score. I TOTALLY GET IT! #madlib #musicjokes #bandjokes #SwanLake #whatjusthappened 🎶💀🦆 youtu.be/_E9AOweTwG0

Women, would you date someone who was shorter than you? Men or dominant partners, would you date someone who was taller than you? Asking for a story. Because I can. And because people's reasons intrigue me. #datingquestions #datingpreferences #attractiveness #KingMe #IntheNameofCheshire #QA #Q&A

I need this tea art. Everywhere. All the time. www.instagram.com/reel/DOypPBZ...

My copy has arrived! To those who have read The Secret Life of Bees, or seen the movie, this poem is about the beautiful character May. ❤ #thesecretlifeofbees #poetry #poetrylovers #writerslife #poems #empaths #empathsoul #empathymatters

Flying catfish AND black swan and phoenix? Now you KNOW you need to check this out. #fictionanthology #shortreads #tbr #wegotyou #Roulette #transformations #beginnings #endings #newrelease

I got in a plant-watering fight with my curtains and I lost. Water hit the floor. A pillar got moved. And now everyone from the outside gets to see me as I type. But yes, the curtains still exist. In a knot. #reallifestory

IT'S LAUNCH DAY! The portal to the dystopian ruins has opened! Step through and see what a mysterious black octagon unlocked, and who it trapped in the ruins of a fallen world. Spin the wheel, live or die. 📢📚 #Roulette a.co/d/fth1eVy #newrelease #riddles #risk #adventure #short #fiction #20minread

Less than a day left until you stumble upon the guardian! 🗿🚧📚 How long has he been in that tiny room? 🧱📦 Is it still a room if the floor falls out? 🕳️⛳️ #oneday #day1 #countdown #almostthere #tbr #anthologylaunch #dungeonguardian #stonelife #getlost #findme #breakout #amwritingfantasy #fantasystory

A thief, a swan shifter, and a grumpy girl walk into a bar...well, darn, it's a labyrinth and there are no drinks. 😇 2 days until "Roulette" opens the door to a tomb on a distant world! Watch your step. Traps abound. #dungeonwalk #dungeontraps #trapdoor #treasurehunt #escaperoom #tbr #comingsoon

Starting up the countdown until anthology launch day! 3 days left until Poppin stumbles into a locked labyrinth chamber, Indiana Jones style. #Roulette #shortstory #dystopian #booklaunch #newrelease #fantasy #labyrinth #ruins #teleportation #riddlemethis #day3 #countdown #dontgetlost 🪐📚📢

⚔️Did you know today is the 4th annual DAY OF MIGHT, a holiday dedicated to Sword & Sorcery?⚔️ Inaugurated by The Skull, though rumor has it Howard Andrew Jones may be its true author, this is a day to think about and enjoy Sword & Sorcery! Learn more here: goodman-games.com/tftms/2021/1...

In case you wanted to be a hippo for your costume party this month, here are your Zaina-style ears, courtesy of another creator: www.etsy.com/listing/1786... #QuenchtotheHilt #animalears #costumecreation #fantasycostumes #shifters #costumeparty #masquerade

"I’ve spent half my time sculpting glaciers into arches with my claws. I watch Wishe out of the corner of my eye. It’s shameful, but I want him to care." -Hoth, 'Abominably Yours' ❄️💙📚 #WIPSnips #abominablesnowman #pleasecare #shifters #sleighride #amwritingfantasy #newstory #comingsoon

Picky, articulate, picturesque semantics make fantasy weirder. It doesn’t break the genre…it loads it with new meaning.

"It does me no good if these louts figure it out and she gets thrown into a hole beneath a lord’s mansion, or worse, becomes a magic battery for a two-bit charlatan." -Wishe #WIPSnips #winterstory #Cheshirecat #shifters #magicpowers #makeawish #henchmen #SwiperNoSwiping #letsmakeadeal #quote

"His fingers were swift and featherlight, like they’d never stayed in place more than a moment in his life. I had the sudden certainty that things tended to go missing in his presence." -'Roulette' short story 🗿🪐📚 #WIPSnips #comingsoon #FireAndLyra #portalfantasy #dystopian #Octoberrelease #tbr

"Right now, a deal is possible. I keep my pink-striped paws moving. I’m not about to miss out." -Wishe, Cheshire cat shifter #WIPSnips #CheshireCat #catchmeifyoucan #quotes #bookquotes #amwritingfantasy #romantasy #romancelandia #feydeal #antihero #amwriting #writingprompts

This is totally something my Cheshire cat would say. Both parts of it. #cheshiresmile #whyyouupinthemonstersgrill #letsmakeadeal

It's not possible for my empire to have problems. My courtiers are always nervously smiling and telling me everything is great

Why do I know exactly what this means? #reallifefantasy #DIY #IKEAexperience #homelibrary #gamerlife

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

In case you weren’t a happy cucumber yet today.

I was lost But somehow found myself On the long way back to nowhere. It was quiet but that’s what made it so loud. Lighting hit the lamps On streets painted black, Where each home was a tombstone With each address marking the date of death. #poetry

Looking for portals everywhere. #portalfantasy #arches #ruins #ruin #pathlesstraveled #lostcivilization

Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Ashurbanipal describing restorations of the city wall and gates at Borsippa https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/321670

You never know what you're going to uncover. #ruins #cuneiform #discovery

Next month, my story "Roulette," is going to dip into a dystopian labyrinth of ruins. You don't mind if I start dipping you now, do you? 😉👻🙃🗿 Turning up the dial now. ⏲️🎚️ Don't let the sun catch you on your way in. ⛅️🔦 #comingsoon #Roulette #shortstory #tombraider #guardians #portal #riddlemethis #tbr

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If you were trapped in a dusty, stone Escape Room for 100 or even 1,000 years, and then a thief opened up a portal…but if the portal didn’t work, there was a steep dropoff on the other side...would you jump? #poll #whatif #Roulette #escaperoom

Cloak vs. Arrow 🏹 #archery #amwritingfantasy #whatif #fantasycloak #cloakanddagger #fantasyfights #swordandsorcery

i fell into a radioactive crater and now i've been imbued with all the powers and abilities of a crater

Heard another musician talking about playing ud, and it took me down this lovely rabbit hole of what appears to be a type of lute. In fact, this is the type I thought of when writing "Between a Rock and a Bard Place." #musicdiscovery #lutes #BetweenaRock #bards #musicians youtu.be/ZLbQcs3W0Bs?...

How do you aim while moving around?

Sitting down to write... - Makes 2-page bulleted list. - Deletes 100 words. - Sends a newsletter. Yep, that sounds about right. #writerlife #writerproblems #writingwoes #amwriting

Fantasy writer problem: Me: *types a fantasy word* Autocorrect: I'm sure you meant to type the name of a state or another completely different word, so I'll just change that for you instead of asking. Me (later): Why does my manuscript have Maine in it?! What did I even mean there?! #writerproblems