The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. #1667 on the Second Annual FISH List. That’s right: we’re on a list. Posts by EIC.
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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
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Gréachán @greachan.bsky.social Metaphysical poetry
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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social I work with Winchester Poetry Festival, Open University Poetry Society and Winchester Muse - a spoken word event in Winchester. I write poetry and sometimes it gets published. https://www.spiropoetry.com/
Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social Bold. Brief. Beautiful.
We publish a new story at least once a week at flashfictiononline.com. Ebooks for our monthly issues are available on the 1st of the month.
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Lesley Bungay Author @lesleyjayneb.bsky.social Writer of novels, short stories, flash fiction and the occasional Haiku. Debut novel, A Year Without a Summer, published 7th May 2026 by barnardpublishing.co.uk Rep’d by Intersaga.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/lesleyjayneb
Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social Black Lives Matter. Award-winning author. Board member: Scares That Care . She/her. Latest release: Split Scream Vol. 8: Cursed Places. Visit me at sonorawrites.com
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫
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Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmww (https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/), a weekly journal publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews. Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, and Best of Net.
Petrichor Art and Literary @petrichorpublishing.org Nonprofit indie publisher of exceptional fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Home of The Drop Journal
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. 🐈⬛
Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose
Free to sub. Paying market.
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social A freelance writer exploring the intersection of history and folklore. Bylines: The History Channel, The New York Times, BBC, etc. Also @HistoriumU (Historium Unearthia); Grieving mom of Adam.
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Spooky Sunday @spookysunday.bsky.social Ghost-related posts every Sunday - words, art, folklore, popular culture, haunted places etc. Just use the #SpookySunday tag. All relevant contributions will be welcome and reposted. (Up to FOUR posts/reposts pp please). Run by @theghostmonk.bsky.social
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. 🫏
Est. May 2018.
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Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social PFP by Terijian
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Simon Wroe @simonwroe.bsky.social Writer of chefs, revolutionaries, and ghosts. GHOST MONTH out now in spectral forms (audio/ebook) & coming to the physical realm Aug 27.
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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social Writer, editor of poetry, including Poetry Scotland and Whaleback City Press. Knee-deep in assorted poetry-related malarkey including New Boots & Pantisocracies, the Otwituaries, Double Dactyl of the Week, Project Abeona and more.
Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social dc via apollo, pa | she/her | words @ Best Microfiction, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, Flash Fiction Online, Cold Signal, hex literary & more | http://www.laurenkardos.co/
The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social Enthusiast of British (mainly) ghostlore, folklore and vintage ghost and weird fiction. Collector of old magazines. Also keen on prehistoric monuments, old churches and suchlike. Am decidedly Q. All scans/photos my own (unless stated). Runs #SpookySunday
Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social Michael Smith. Author, printmaker, translator & illustrator of medieval romances. Whimsy, art. Published by Wilton Square Books. PhD research University of York. Follows the Blackburn Rovers. All photos mine unless on shared posts www.mythicalbritain.co.uk
Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social THE EVOLUTION OF BIRDS (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021)
Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50
SmokeLong Mikey, Bath Flash Fiction Award, QuietManDave CNF
2027 NFFD anthology editor
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social Online magazine for flash and short fiction.
Chill Subs 2024 Community Favourites Flash Fiction #7
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Still on X @TrashCatLit
Editor: JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social
Read Stories: https://trashcatlit.com/treasured-words/
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social Writer/ interviewer/ Author of 1 memoir and 3 chapbooks- Fiction @ghostparachute @bendinggenres @soflopojo and others. Member @writersgrotto
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Neither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com Www.neitherfishnorfoul.com an online magazine where craft and quirk meet
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Editor @jackmmorris.bsky.social
Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social Hiking guide providing walking tours along Ireland's Atlantic coast
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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social Writer. Alston Moor 1st September 2026. Dreams Before the Start of Time - Arthur C Clarke Award. A Calculated Life - finalist Philip K Dick Award. She/her. Books, birds, climate. Rep’d Sarah Such.
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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social I’m a library assistant and poet with work published in The Dirigible Balloon, Disabled Tales, Dreambeast Poems, and featured on Brian Moses’s blog. My poems are forthcoming in Scaryness Express.
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
EPOCH @epochliterary.com Fiction, poetry, essay, comics, etc., “yrs in quality literature” since 1947. www.epochliterary.com
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Jane Thomas @janethomas.bsky.social Writing with a slow pencil in Jericho.
Coracle, a philosophical, political and personal reflection on Alzheimer’s and care will be out with Live Canon in the autumn 🍂
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Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
Artemesia Arts shortlist; Forward prize nominated; Pushcart prizes nominated x2
Stoat Poetry @stoatpoetry.bsky.social Stoat Poetry is a paper magazine, based in the north of Scotland. We publish the best original poetry on any theme, from new and established writers.
Chestnut Review @chestnutreview.bsky.social International litmag ALWAYS open for submissions. Pays $120/piece. Responds in 30 days. Free subs in most genres. Free issues online. Paid feedback options. If you don't submit, we can't pay you.
Home: chestnutreview.com
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social Poetry, prose, art. Submit it.
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The Poetry Bookshop @poetrybookshop.bsky.social The largest bookshop of its kind in the UK. Devoted entirely to poetry since 1979
Find us online or in person in heart of Hay on Wye the worlds first Booktown
Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social online lit mag obsessed with craft-forward whimsy 🪿 posts by EIC @lexirosenwrites.bsky.social🪿 Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon IS HERE 🪿 subs closed 🪿
read here: www.sillygoosepress.com
The Pictish Arts Society @pictishartssociety.bsky.social Founded in 1988 to affirm the importance of Pictish culture in Scotland's past. Monthly lectures through winter and spring. Annual conference in October. Newsletter 3-4 times/year. Join us: www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk. (Posts by fortrenn.bsky.social)
Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social Poetry that re-enchants the ordinary, that knows what the rational world has explained away. EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social. stonecirclereview.com
Mirri Glasson-Darling @mirrigd.bsky.social Notable Best American Essays/Pushcart nom. work @Ploughshares @Colorado_Review @TheFLReview+ ♡Alaskan crab stays in shell on top of mountain, hurls stones at passersby.
https://www.mirriglasson-darling.com/
RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social Independently published journal of poetry, translation, and flash. Crashing and creating for 50 years. 🦏
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Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social Natee Himmapaan (Puttapipat). Illustrator. Londoner.
Art, literature, history, natural history, food, handwriting.
Depression, anxiety, & all that jazz.
Fatigued by and bitter about social media.
Non-binary (they/them). 🏳️🌈
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Stromness Museum @stromnessmuseum.bsky.social Orkney's museum of Natural and Maritime History, founded in 1837. "A treasure trove of objects from across the centuries..."
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling. https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/
Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social Horror/Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a pack of mutts.
Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting.
Work in LCRW, Uncharted, Abyss & Apex
Member of HWA, Codex, SFWA
Eugie Award Finalist
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Patrice Lawrence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social Writer, Feminist, Furious.
The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social
Read: https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf
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Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social A book of Scottish folklore by Ayrshire-born Druid and Bard, Stephen G. Rae. Available in print and ebook. Published by The FolkLore Press.
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
AnnieSAnderson @anniescottarch.bsky.social Recently completed MLitt Archaeological studies at #UHIArchaeology after a long academic career in Public Health Nutrition #UniofDundee. The past is my future.
Queer Orcades @queerorcades.bsky.social [Formerly Orkney Pride] Promoting diversity and equality throughout the Orkney Isles. Home of the Annual Pride Event, and so much more...
Holly Young @archaeoholz.bsky.social A generally ridiculous human, constantly on some kind of side quest!
Archaeologist at ORCA, PhD student at UHI Archaeology Institute based in Orkney studying how Iron Age people used marine molluscs! 🐚 big shell fan 🐚
Jen Harland @jenharland.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist, Associate Professor in Environmental Archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands, based in Orkney. Currently obsessed with whaling history and whaling stories in Scotland. 🇨🇦
Daniel Aubrey @spacemandan13.bsky.social Crime writer 📚 Debut novel DARK ISLAND out now!
🏆 SL - McDermid Debut Award & Bloody Scotland Debut Prize.
🏆 LL - Saltire Society First Book Prize.
✍️ Agent: Ella Kahn at DKW
#Orkney obsessed. #AuDHD. #BookSky 💙📚
Mostly here for the #dog pics 🦮🐕🦺
Kath Page @orkat3.bsky.social #Archaeologist #Zooarchaeologist #SGSAH funded #PhD student at #UHI #Orkney researching human- #RedDeer relationships in prehistory and NE #Scotland research officer at #Socantscot
K.R.Rose @k-r-rose.bsky.social Blind poet, artist, storyteller. Always involved in a project.
Currently obsessed with clown fish and freshwater salmon
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Fairlight Books @fairlightbooks.bsky.social We’re an independent publishing house dedicated to standout storytelling, from inventive literary novels to page-turning book club favourites.
Looking for a tea-break read? Browse our short story platform: www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/our-short-stories
Lynsey May @lynseymay.com Writer. Reader. Lover of tall tales. Weak Teeth out now, Prodigy scheduled for 2027: http://tinyurl.com/Buy-weak-teeth
Links and stuff: linktr.ee/lynseymay
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
Jenny @me-cfsgirl.bsky.social ME-CFS since 1995. Love crafting when I can find the energy. One of the WIMEL writers.
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
Coyote vs. Epistemic Assholes / J. Stryker 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | Psychology nerd. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Coyote pedagogy. Good trouble, nature, neuroscience, terrestrial ecology, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @uoncsva.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social Dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, unsettling horror, and Weird genre grime.
Currently closed to submissions.
Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social Author of Witchland (coming 2026) and Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials. History, folklore, books, archives.
Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social Winner of the Gregory O'Donohue Prize, the Poetry Book Awards etc. 3 poetry collections - 'Map of a Plantation' on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Widely published. Poetry co-editor for the Morning Star.
ME Association @meassociation.org.uk A UK registered charity for people with #MECFS and Long Covid (and Post Covid ME/CFS). We inform, educate, raise awareness, fund medical research and campaign for positive change.
RPs do not necessarily mean endorsement.
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The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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J Richards @jrichardsme.bsky.social Writers & writing, wild places, slow food, stories, art, poetry, nature. UK based international. Constantly curious.
Rebecca Powell @rebeccapowellbooks.bsky.social Author | Editor | Book coach.
Bristol girl now living in France. Caledonia Novel Award SL. Goldfinch Novel Award LL.
Rep’d by Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton
𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iamb.uk / @afterpoetry.com
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Sreelekha Chatterjee @sreelekha2024.bsky.social Poet. Writer. More than 100 of my short stories and 100+ poems have been published in various national, international journals, magazines, & in several print anthologies.
Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
I write cozy poetry books for deep feelers.
Indie Bestseller Author. Highly Sensitive Poet ✝️🌷🇪🇸
Autora, poeta Altamente Sensible.
Un abrazo de Luz ✨
Okay with DMs about writing.
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Dreena’s Writing (Dreena C) @dreenawriting.co.uk Author. Insomniac. Tofu-eating wokerati. Pub’d here & there. 🇯🇪🌟 Winner: Flash500. Placed/ listed: Bridport, Marlowe & Christie, BFFA, SPR, etc. 🌟 Part-time scallywag. 🌟 I also write as Jane Harvey. 🌟
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
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Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
WayWORD Aberdeen @waywordabdn.bsky.social Aberdeen's youth-led cross-arts literary festival based at the University of Aberdeen. Find out more at www.waywordfestival.com
Alec Rowan @alec-rowan.bsky.social ✍️ Writing in public.
Fiction, work, and the stuff in between.
https://alec-rowan.blogspot.com
Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales
Bridport shortlist. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floe….
https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Rube Goldberg Machine out with Shadow and Sax.
Jay Leeming @jayleeming.bsky.social Storyteller, poet, and musician bringing traditional stories alive through music and the spoken word. Lately I have been focused on the Odyssey, the Iliad and the Mahabharata.
Elise Carmichael / she/her @elisecillustration.com Kidlit and middle grade art 🇩🇪🏳️🌈 Illustrator / Open to work!
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