The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social The Quotidian Unreal is a playful literary experiment.
Gone Like a Goldfish @gonelikeagoldfish.bsky.social This is an account to promote my anonymously-published book, Gone Like a Goldfish, about suicide, addiction, mental illness, and child loss. I'm told that it's transgressive literature. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
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WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
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Aksel aka Mr. World Pool aka karlove. @mrworldpool.bsky.social I solo-built mrworldpool.com, 🐴 racecards for punters who follow feature racing around the world. Now I'm building a writers feedback tool at karlove.com, to become a better storyteller. Textrovert. M.Psych. Existentialist. INFJ. Reader. Writer. Norwegian.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Substack Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social Retired Paralegal, as such, I keep an open mind until ALL the FACTS are in, proved true; crack researcher; Politics; Books❤️
History Always Repeats;
MSM Corporate Oligarchy LIES;
Liberal/Democratic; Married 54 yrs
#BlueCrew #Resist 🦋 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
jonathanamitchell.bsky.social @jonathanamitchell.bsky.social Loves reading and writing weird horror stories.
ian kappos @nokappos.bsky.social ✍️ in Strange Horizons, ergot., Seize the Press, Cosmic Horror Monthly, etc. Forthcoming in: Chthonic Matter Quarterly
Co-creator: Los Suelos, CA (www.LosSuelos.com).
Instagram: @jung_carl
Death to false powerviolence//
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Melissa Rea Author 📚📚📚 @melrea.bsky.social Four novels written. Fun sexy novels about strong women. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Melissa-Rea/author/B018EE5T5Y?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true / @iquitcigs.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social Team Site StL Mo 🚭
Exoplanet || subs open Sept 1st @exoplanetmag.com New digital magazine for experimental speculative short fiction. Stories that imagine new worlds and new ways to explore them.
First #submissions window: September 1 - 15, 2026
First issue: December 1, 2026
Edited by @patrickdlee.com
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Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social Author of Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror
Out now: THE CRIMSON MOUSE
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HWA/JRW Member
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Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Katt Frish (Retired account)🔚 @kattfrish.bsky.social FOLLOW ME @katt-frish.bsky.social
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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social Resist 💙 Trad pub author, devel editor, avid reader, adjunct, MA in English & creative writing. I live to travel. Advocate for the blind. COLTS fan. Optimistic at heart. 💙 She/Her #author #reader #horrorlit #PNR #disability #blind #writing #Democracy
Whisky & Watches @whiskyandchampagne.bsky.social (21+ only) 🥃 news about scotch malt whisky and Swiss Watches
Goosebart @goosebumpsart.bsky.social 
Narich Violetfathom @frengible.bsky.social I contain multitudes, today I am a stoned yet odd bedeviled hero with a soothing disrespect for authority
Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social Author of time travel stories BLUE SKIES (in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 1) and FROM NOW ON (Vol. 3). Working on PBs, MG Sci-fi, and haiku as @haikuformykids.bsky.social (he/him)
Pete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social Books, art, theatre, and telling people I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic short stories published or forthcoming in Cosmic Horror, Macabre, Frost Zone, Rat Bag and elsewhere. Editorial reader at Gavagai.- O Odyshe @odysheus.bsky.social venit, vidit, digessit. DFW. I am not a bot! Everybody's changing, and I don't feel the same. To understand , you must first not judge! ntr. sDm. Ama Druid
Kris Kosach 🦋 @kosach.bsky.social Tomorrow’s forecast: Bleak with a chance of fascism. ⛈️
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Music Director: klbp.org 🇺🇸
Token American: brumradio.com 🇬🇧 comments are my own.
Kevin T. Davis @kevintdavis.bsky.social ✍️ Sci-fi author & graphic designer
🌀 Building bridges between worlds
📖 The Dream Continuum - Part One (August 26th)
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RSLjnr @rsljnr.bsky.social (he/they)🌹AHRC-funded and researching (New) Weird & Ligotti @ Uni of Liverpool 🌹 work at ergot., CHM, Sans Press, Vastarien 🌹 the way in is the way out 🌹https://linktr.ee/RSLjnr
Kelli Dianne Rule @kdiannerule.bsky.social I'm an art school dropout from the 1990s. I write about Florida. It is a weird and cursed land. www.kellirule.com
David @dflan1.bsky.social Come all without,Come all within
Here to make Michigan BLUE 🔵 again!
Sports..Arts..Music! LOVEWINS
Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
He/Him
Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer & narrator. Words in Flash Fiction Online, Haven Spec, and Small Wonders. Odyssey grad 2013. Codexian. She/her. Never used AI and never will. Monthly Newsletter: https://shorturl.at/BPJxo
DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social your platform for thought-provoking cinema
Z.F. Lang @zf-lang.bsky.social Writer of genre fiction. Possibly an eldritch being who's existence is anathema to this world, more likely just neurodivergent.
Too academic for normal life, too punk rock for academia.
Folk 'n' Hell @folknhell.bsky.social Three chums, one microphone, and a whole world of folk horror. The Folk n Hell podcast unearths delights from around the world and tries to agree if they're worth our (and your) time.
www.folknhell.com or wherever you get your podcasts
Stephen Mark Rainey @markrainey.bsky.social Author/editor of scary fiction, graphic artist, geocacher, occasional musician & actor, perpetual old fart
Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) @alanranta.bsky.social Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
Mixes & Musings: https://linktr.ee/alanranta
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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
Project Moonbase @projectmoonbase.com Project Moonbase - The Historic Sound of the Future | Unusual music show I
Podcast | Space cult. DJ Bongoboy & MC Zirconium
The Multiverse, Edinburgh
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Bruce H. McCosar @bmccosar.bsky.social Everything Specialist🧐Sole Survivor☹️Indigenous👍🏽Fedora 44 KDE💻Mint 22☘️Fan of acid jazz🎷epic metal🤘and latin folk🎸Former chemist⚛️teacher🎓and musician🎼Writes using LAMY🖋️Kate📕Markdown✅and pandoc🪄Todavía aprendo español🇪🇸Over 9000💥WNBA fan🏀
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
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Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social Professor in Popular Literature with a focus on American horror and Gothic narratives & the work of Shirley Jackson. Views own.
Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social an anthology of speculative poetics
https://duotrope.com/anthology/katabatic-circus-36036
[open to submissions for volume 3]
EIC @nsborwein.bsky.social
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Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
PAUL FINCH @paulfinchauthor.bsky.social Best selling novelist, Sunday Times Top 10, specialising in thrillers, crime, horror and full-on historical action/adventure.
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Tom Servo @angelus04.bsky.social #RetroGames #RetroGaming #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #PointandClick #SierraOnline #Lucasarts #HorrorGame #HorrorGames #HorrorGaming #MegaMan #Shantae #FinalFantasy #ResidentEvil #SilentHill #Metroidvania #Doom #Castlevania #MutantFam #HorrorMovie
Limnetic Villains @limneticvillains.bsky.social Music and art from Ireland: https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com
Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social I write short stories that explore the space between memory and myth: quiet, eerie and unsettling fiction that lingers in the mind like fog after nightfall.
The Archive of the Unread:
https://www.archiveofunread.com
Alex Grecian @alexgrecian.bsky.social NYT & USA Today bestseller. I don't have a lot of hot takes. Feel free to preorder my next book anyway. https://alexgrecian.substack.com
Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social Author | THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS (Erewhon/Kensington) & Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner, UNSHOD, CACKLING, and NAKED. she/her/hers
http:/mybook.to/hestergardens
L. A. Wibberley @lawibberley.bsky.social Canadian. She/her/physiotherapist/storyteller, lover of dogs, snow, coffee & magic in no particular order. Magical realism, WF, Horror & spec fiction. Work in Bram Stoker & Aurora nominated anthologies
Rep: @NaomisLitPix @Bookendslit
mbondhuswriter.bsky.social @mbondhuswriter.bsky.social
Neurospicy He/They. Purveyor of Poetry and Horror Fiction.
Newest book OCCULT HIGH SCHOOL REVOLUTION due out from Unsolicited Press January 2027!
https://MichaelBondhus.com IG @bondhuspoetry
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
A. H. Davison 🇨🇦 @ahdavison.bsky.social 🛸 Science Fiction Author & Cat Lady (she/her) 🐈⬛🐈⬛
Fuelled by tea and spite 🫖☕
Bi / Neurodivergent 🏳️🌈
Quill Hollow 🦔
I love chatting writing process 📝
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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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Xochilt Avila @xavilawrites.bsky.social They/Them | Indie Author | Slush @cateyepress.bsky.social
My debut novella MARIPOSA releases Feb 2027 with https://www.lmhpub.com/
Icon by (my husband) @harboretum.bsky.social
https://xochiltavilaauthor.com/
S.M. Carter (Sheldon) @sheldoncarter.bsky.social New here!
-Author: To Steal the Sun (23) & Aardehn Awakening (mid 26).
-Developer/Prez: DE (Warframe & Soulframe)
-Podcaster: The War with Art.
Also: Collecting books, Metal music, Hiking/Camping.
Say no to birds
https://linktr.ee/smcarter
Ivor @tearsofthetinman.bsky.social 
Flipturns 🏊♀️ 📷 🦋 @flipturns.bsky.social 🏊♀️ swim teacher , 🐕 animal care tech, 🎸 musician/music therapist, 🧠 mental health tech, science &k elementary Ed. I care about people, animals, and the environment. Dealing with genetic diseases. I refuse to let them still me. 💙 JUST KEEP SWIMMING 🏊♂️
Stephen Hayes @stephenaytch.bsky.social #Pro-choice #liberal, but NOT neoliberal. #Anticapitalist #ModernMonetaryTheory #VenusProject #VacuumEnergy #Limitarianism
No DMs please, I never look at them.
Prog, Classic Rock, Classical, Jazz, Avant Garde, 80s New Wave, Synth Pop, Ambient, Darkwave
Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
me/cfs
Jenny @jennyhart2001.bsky.social Writes a bit, reads a bit. Wanders around a lot.
Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social cinema | Los Angeles | democracy, solidarity, climate & environmental justice | quick-read horror newsletter drops every Tuesday | subscribe here: www.deadofnightletter.com
Mike A. Rhodes @mikearhodes.bsky.social Mostly writing, ice hockey and bad jokes. Former player for the Sheffield Steelkings. Horror, SF&F fiction and hockey non-fiction in a few outlets
Diana Dima @dianadima.com writes things | stories in Strange Horizons, khōréō, The Deadlands and others | she/her
www.dianadima.com
Malcolm Timperley @malcolmtimperley.bsky.social Scotland-based writer and teller of unsettling tales (horror & comedy, the two closest genres), heritage railway signaller, photographer, recovering psychiatrist, international man of mystery. Bio available on request (Terms & Conditions apply).
Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social author of weird horror and strange speculative fiction (and poetry). odinmeadows.com
Marc Ruvolo @marcruvolo.bsky.social Writer of weird horror living in Portland, OR. Maximum Queercore. Founded Chicago's Bucket O' Blood Books. NOVELLAS: SLOE (Unnerving Books), PIETIES (Slashic Horror Press). WASTE GROUND (Slashic Horror Press). He/him. AI=BLOCK.
Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social I write short SFF stories & drabbles (https://kickin-the-darkness.com) and am a member of Codex and SFWA. Follow me for SF, Alabama (esp Huntsville), and democracy.
BTW, AI slop is gross and "an insult to humanity."
https://nobodywantsyouraislop.com
Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 now in the wild! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
Whisper House Press (Steve Capone, Jr.) @whisperhousepress.bsky.social Editor in Chief & Publisher, Whisper House Press.
Award-Winning Writer & Screenwriter.
Educator since ‘08.
Trained ethicist.
#booksky #HWA #Horrorsky #WritingCommunity #IBPA #WhisperHousePress
https://linktr.ee/stevecaponejr
Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social Writer. Terrestrial from Malarkey Books, Being Seen from Ethel. Managing ed long fiction Variant https://malarkeybooks.com/terrestrial
http://suzyeynon.com/
Lundy-creative @lundy-creative.bsky.social Link to my debut e-novel: A Brunch Tale payhip.com/NLundyM
Other Links (& FREE POEMS):
www.etsy.com/shop/NLundyM
www.instagram.com/lundy_nyc/
(Pictures that are not my own were sourced from: Pexels)
Mathematician Records @mathematicianrecords.com Experimental & Psychedelic music since 2012.
The Modern Counterculture.
Proudly Anti-Fascist | Proudly Anti-Ai.
https://www.mathematicianrecords.com https://mathematicianrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@mathematicianRecords
A Scanner Blackhatly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social writer: Nightscript, @DimShores.bsky.social @ThinkingHorror, @weirdfictionrev, film crit. @ patreon.com/ascannerburkely | mulchsack left. most likely to be mad online, class of 2000. he/him.
Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Award and Bridport Prize finalist. Creator of 'a Quiet APOCALYPSE'. Anthologist at Flame Tree Press.
I do not use generative AI in my work; nor do I support its use in the arts.
https://www.davejefferyauthor.com/
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
J.R. Andrews @jrobertandrews.bsky.social Wordsmith whose final boss is social media.
Find me in @shortwavebooks.bsky.social | @ergot.bsky.social | @bruisermag.com
Wherever good times are had :3
Folded Space, an Audio Science Fiction Anthology @foldedspace.bsky.social An audio science fiction anthology curated by the editor of Tales to Terrify, showcasing short-form science fiction from voices across the spectrum of human existence. Each season invites listeners to explore the universe, one story at a time.
Nate @nateduty.bsky.social Old white guy. Retired Calif Deputy Sheriff, vet, Fort Bliss, TX, 1962-1965, Spec 5. HQ Combat Support Group. Don't care for liars, thieves, or bigots like Trump. Car nut, old drag racer. 🚫 No hot ladies (too old). Christians OK 🚫 Phony Christians 🚫 Chats
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
@cutelilbottom.bsky.social @cutelilbottom.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇳🇱🇺🇸 Alberta Rancher #49ers #FTTB #SFGiants #WashingtonHuskies Nature, Gardening, Photography, All Animal lover - Love my Horses, Dogs, & Cats #BLUE 🌊🌊
Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social Canadian writer of short, speculative fiction. Also a Legal Assistant, Martial Artist, Classicist, Pet owner, and Time-traveller. She/They.
https://linktr.ee/melodyemcintyre
Rebecca Karas @rebeccakaras.bsky.social poet & weird fiction writer. probably thinking about Tetris. she/they
https://linktr.ee/rebecca.karas
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social 📖 Story dealer on duty serving fresh plots daily
https://tinytalesdaily.com
also on https://www.instagram.com/tinytalesdaily365/
biomespec.bsky.social @biomespec.bsky.social TOP TEN Fiction Podcast
Scifi/Fantasy/Weird Fic -- bringing incredible fiction to life
Listen on: https://rss.com/podcasts/biomespec/?listen-on=true
Submit your work at: https://biomespec.wordpress.com/submissions/
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, allegorical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers ARE NOT AI.
Emily @emilymarie82.bsky.social Reader. Wife. Mum. She/ Her. Interested in music, films, horror and books (so many books) 🖤
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️+ Ally
Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social Baltimore | weird fiction writer 🏆 | scientist by day | find me at the bottom of the Chesapeake | find my stories at link below:
https://kayvaindal.com/
Henry Herz @henryherz.bsky.social #Author of 14 picture books (I Am Smoke) & many #MG, #YA & adult short stories - #fantasy, #scifi, #horror. #Editor of 10 #anthologies (Combat Monsters). henryherz.com
Agent: Laurie McLean (Fuse Literary)
Thomas Tessier @thomastessier.bsky.social Author of horror novels, novellas and stories including The Nightwalker, Phantom, Rapture, Fog Heart, and World of Hurt: Selected Stories.
Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social (she/her) THE FEAST OF THE INNOCENTS (2022) / THORNS: A BOOK OF POEMS (May 2026) / Gothic cosmic horror author / William Godwin and Charles Maturin are my patron saints / https://ko-fi.com/colinharker
Earth is the aim @destinationterre.bsky.social Destination Terre
@auntievigil.bsky.social @auntievigil.bsky.social 
DEMOCRACY REQUIRES COURAGE RESIST - PROTEST - MOBILIZE - FIGHT @thebfloyd99.bsky.social EpsteinPEDO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo Protest https://www.fiftyfifty.one Krasnov PEDO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCMh7V7Y700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvjkJXaIJE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCX9hMw55pE Congr: 202-225-2777
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social Poet, Memoirist, Translator, Expat, Lover of Life
Andy Humphrey @andyhumphrey11.bsky.social Mildly left-wing Norwich based author of Trick of the Light, Debris, A Punch to the Heart and others
Frost Zone Press @frostzonepress.bsky.social micro press based in ON, Canada.
Founder: @lenemacleod.bsky.social
Home of: @frostzonestories.bsky.social
Ghost to Ghost to Ghost, Frost Bites, Frost Zone Zine (archive),Handmade Horror Stories
https://bio.link/frostzonepress
Crumpled Linen Press @crumpledlinenpress.com Beautiful facsimile manuscript editions of great literary works, annotated by world-leading scholars. www.crumpledlinenpress.com
Todd S. Jordan @toddsjordan.bsky.social A horror writer and a sorry sack of guts.
THE FLESH I WANT coming 2027, Titan Books.
Agent: Julie Gourinchas, Bell Lomax Moreton.
Pre-order: www.linktr.ee/toddsjordan
Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social Thea O'Ryan is a Canadian writer with a love for all things horror. She went on a road trip to the Bruce Peninsula in 2014 and has not been seen since.
She is, however, still frequently heard.
https://www.theaoryanfiles.co.uk/
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Cymru/Canada
Nicholas Jay @nickjaywrites.bsky.social stories // maps // city planning potpourri and niche trivia, etc.
www.nickjaywrites.com