Frey Lylark
@freybytheway.bsky.social
Genderqueer disabled butch (they/xe). Writes cool disabled sapphic stories that are funny sometimes. Probably needs to lie down. Life is too loud. Lesbian&bi/pan solidarity is everything. Published in APEX.
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Frey Lylark
@freybytheway.bsky.social
· Aug 11
Stuffing a comedy into a horror into a fantasy like a literary turducken.
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Love when I read an early draft from a friend and it's gorgeous and haunting and so very her. Rough drafts have this spark and potential that's so much fun and so different from the depth and polish of published writing.
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Love when I read an early draft from a friend and it's gorgeous and haunting and so very her. Rough drafts have this spark and potential that's so much fun and so different from the depth and polish of published writing.
If I had a nickel for every excellent horror I've read about fungus in unsettling isolated manors owned by European nobility who've lost their wealth, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's cool that it happened twice.
Is there a third one I'm missing? I need a fungal horror trilogy.
Which isn't a lot, but it's cool that it happened twice.
Is there a third one I'm missing? I need a fungal horror trilogy.
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If I had a nickel for every excellent horror I've read about fungus in unsettling isolated manors owned by European nobility who've lost their wealth, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's cool that it happened twice.
Is there a third one I'm missing? I need a fungal horror trilogy.
Which isn't a lot, but it's cool that it happened twice.
Is there a third one I'm missing? I need a fungal horror trilogy.
Just got nominated for my first writing prize! I'm thrilled and incredibly grateful.
This is my second ever published piece and to have so many opportunities as an early career is the stuff of dreams. I feel so lucky today.
This is my second ever published piece and to have so many opportunities as an early career is the stuff of dreams. I feel so lucky today.
Announcing our (first!) Pushcart Prize nominees! 🐈⬛🏆🐈⬛
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @tiffmzlee.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social @dianelp.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @tiffmzlee.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social @dianelp.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Just got nominated for my first writing prize! I'm thrilled and incredibly grateful.
This is my second ever published piece and to have so many opportunities as an early career is the stuff of dreams. I feel so lucky today.
This is my second ever published piece and to have so many opportunities as an early career is the stuff of dreams. I feel so lucky today.
I kind of hate the way people post about attacks on diversity as "a distraction".
Yes, technically when the joker rigs a boat full of innocent civilians to explode, it's a distraction, but why do I get the sense some political commenters just want Batman to let the boat explode already?
Yes, technically when the joker rigs a boat full of innocent civilians to explode, it's a distraction, but why do I get the sense some political commenters just want Batman to let the boat explode already?
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I kind of hate the way people post about attacks on diversity as "a distraction".
Yes, technically when the joker rigs a boat full of innocent civilians to explode, it's a distraction, but why do I get the sense some political commenters just want Batman to let the boat explode already?
Yes, technically when the joker rigs a boat full of innocent civilians to explode, it's a distraction, but why do I get the sense some political commenters just want Batman to let the boat explode already?
Writing instructions for my cat sitter and my wife and I have officially become those lesbians.
"She prefers a tasting menu, so just a bit of the cod, salmon, chicken, liver, and tuna and her medicine on top. Pet her back and sing Chappel, but not Good Luck Babe unless you can hit the high notes."
"She prefers a tasting menu, so just a bit of the cod, salmon, chicken, liver, and tuna and her medicine on top. Pet her back and sing Chappel, but not Good Luck Babe unless you can hit the high notes."
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Writing instructions for my cat sitter and my wife and I have officially become those lesbians.
"She prefers a tasting menu, so just a bit of the cod, salmon, chicken, liver, and tuna and her medicine on top. Pet her back and sing Chappel, but not Good Luck Babe unless you can hit the high notes."
"She prefers a tasting menu, so just a bit of the cod, salmon, chicken, liver, and tuna and her medicine on top. Pet her back and sing Chappel, but not Good Luck Babe unless you can hit the high notes."
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New micros by:
Mileva Anastasiadou @happilander.bsky.social
Zach Murphy
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
Majella Pinto
Frey Lylark @freybytheway.bsky.social
Enjoy, humans! 💚🐈⬛💚
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Mileva Anastasiadou @happilander.bsky.social
Zach Murphy
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
Majella Pinto
Frey Lylark @freybytheway.bsky.social
Enjoy, humans! 💚🐈⬛💚
Claudineliterary.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 AM
New micros by:
Mileva Anastasiadou @happilander.bsky.social
Zach Murphy
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
Majella Pinto
Frey Lylark @freybytheway.bsky.social
Enjoy, humans! 💚🐈⬛💚
Claudineliterary.com
Mileva Anastasiadou @happilander.bsky.social
Zach Murphy
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
Majella Pinto
Frey Lylark @freybytheway.bsky.social
Enjoy, humans! 💚🐈⬛💚
Claudineliterary.com
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One week from today, humans! 💚🐈⬛💚
@happilander.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social
@happilander.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
One week from today, humans! 💚🐈⬛💚
@happilander.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social
@happilander.bsky.social @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social @freybytheway.bsky.social
Introducing: The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (Razz for short) in her patented bun form (now with real bleps!)
October 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Introducing: The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (Razz for short) in her patented bun form (now with real bleps!)
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My wife and I just got approved to adopt a cat and I can't know how to wait now.
We're potentially meeting our matched kitty the week after next, and if all goes well we will have her home in two weeks.
We're potentially meeting our matched kitty the week after next, and if all goes well we will have her home in two weeks.
September 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My wife and I just got approved to adopt a cat and I can't know how to wait now.
We're potentially meeting our matched kitty the week after next, and if all goes well we will have her home in two weeks.
We're potentially meeting our matched kitty the week after next, and if all goes well we will have her home in two weeks.
Reading The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry and how healing it is to see a character change from more feminine attire into men's clothes and become more attractive to her love interest after years of seeing only the opposite.
Also, it's deeply funny. Long live funny bisexuals.
Also, it's deeply funny. Long live funny bisexuals.
September 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Reading The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry and how healing it is to see a character change from more feminine attire into men's clothes and become more attractive to her love interest after years of seeing only the opposite.
Also, it's deeply funny. Long live funny bisexuals.
Also, it's deeply funny. Long live funny bisexuals.
Rereading the Blood Trials by NE Davenport was such a good move. I remember not caring for the ending the first time, but I loved it this time around. Maybe it's just the right book right time.
September 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Rereading the Blood Trials by NE Davenport was such a good move. I remember not caring for the ending the first time, but I loved it this time around. Maybe it's just the right book right time.
Somebody help, I did the "Don't look at the first draft, just write a second" and now I am reading both drafts and I love them both, but they're two completely different stories and I don't know which one to lock in.
I did not expect to have this problem.
I did not expect to have this problem.
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Somebody help, I did the "Don't look at the first draft, just write a second" and now I am reading both drafts and I love them both, but they're two completely different stories and I don't know which one to lock in.
I did not expect to have this problem.
I did not expect to have this problem.
With all due respect: comfort books? No. Clever books? No. Sexy books? No. I read books for one reason and one reason only and it's sad butches. Make the butches sad and then you can have all that other stuff, idk.
September 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
With all due respect: comfort books? No. Clever books? No. Sexy books? No. I read books for one reason and one reason only and it's sad butches. Make the butches sad and then you can have all that other stuff, idk.
It's so interesting watching readers who talk about tropes when they clearly read very different sets of books.
Like, I understand intellectually not liking the unexpected pregnancy trope but the last time I saw that was in Twilight.
Like, I understand intellectually not liking the unexpected pregnancy trope but the last time I saw that was in Twilight.
September 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It's so interesting watching readers who talk about tropes when they clearly read very different sets of books.
Like, I understand intellectually not liking the unexpected pregnancy trope but the last time I saw that was in Twilight.
Like, I understand intellectually not liking the unexpected pregnancy trope but the last time I saw that was in Twilight.
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I'm posting late today. I had a ton of errands to run this morning. I left the ranch in good paws 🐾 though while I was gone! 🐈⬛️ #CatsOfBlueSky
September 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm posting late today. I had a ton of errands to run this morning. I left the ranch in good paws 🐾 though while I was gone! 🐈⬛️ #CatsOfBlueSky
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Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
September 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
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I wrote my upcoming verse novel Hekate inspired by ancient Greek poet and playwright Euripides’ structure. I loved writing this book and was bereft when I finished it. It’s one of those stories that lingers - an intimating goddess of necromancy telling us her origins.
June 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I wrote my upcoming verse novel Hekate inspired by ancient Greek poet and playwright Euripides’ structure. I loved writing this book and was bereft when I finished it. It’s one of those stories that lingers - an intimating goddess of necromancy telling us her origins.
Writing horror is so weird because sometimes "there are six apples in the basket and I thought there were five" is in fact scarier than murder.
September 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Writing horror is so weird because sometimes "there are six apples in the basket and I thought there were five" is in fact scarier than murder.
Not sure which lesbian or ace woman needs to hear this, but if dating real life men doesn't bring you joy, you can say, "I'm not attracted to men".
You don't have to be disgusted by men. You don't have to prove eternal lack of attraction to some hypothetical perfect man. Not feeling it is enough.
You don't have to be disgusted by men. You don't have to prove eternal lack of attraction to some hypothetical perfect man. Not feeling it is enough.
September 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Not sure which lesbian or ace woman needs to hear this, but if dating real life men doesn't bring you joy, you can say, "I'm not attracted to men".
You don't have to be disgusted by men. You don't have to prove eternal lack of attraction to some hypothetical perfect man. Not feeling it is enough.
You don't have to be disgusted by men. You don't have to prove eternal lack of attraction to some hypothetical perfect man. Not feeling it is enough.
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Sophie 🐈 was late this morning. 😺 #CatsOfBlueSky
September 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Sophie 🐈 was late this morning. 😺 #CatsOfBlueSky
Just so I have this straight:
Keir Starmer when Palestine Action paints a plane: Label them a terror group, arrest anyone who puts those words on a sign.
Keir Starmer when Reform racists spray paint the country for weeks, harass immigrants and attack cops: "Hey, guys, stop it. Stop it, guys."
Keir Starmer when Palestine Action paints a plane: Label them a terror group, arrest anyone who puts those words on a sign.
Keir Starmer when Reform racists spray paint the country for weeks, harass immigrants and attack cops: "Hey, guys, stop it. Stop it, guys."
September 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Just so I have this straight:
Keir Starmer when Palestine Action paints a plane: Label them a terror group, arrest anyone who puts those words on a sign.
Keir Starmer when Reform racists spray paint the country for weeks, harass immigrants and attack cops: "Hey, guys, stop it. Stop it, guys."
Keir Starmer when Palestine Action paints a plane: Label them a terror group, arrest anyone who puts those words on a sign.
Keir Starmer when Reform racists spray paint the country for weeks, harass immigrants and attack cops: "Hey, guys, stop it. Stop it, guys."
Duology pet peeve: When you read the first book in a duology and it is genuinely half a story.
Like, obviously loose ends and sequel hooks are fine, but when it ends on a cliff hanger with nothing resolved? Especially when the pace is slow? That's half a book. Just edit and give me one book.
Like, obviously loose ends and sequel hooks are fine, but when it ends on a cliff hanger with nothing resolved? Especially when the pace is slow? That's half a book. Just edit and give me one book.
September 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Duology pet peeve: When you read the first book in a duology and it is genuinely half a story.
Like, obviously loose ends and sequel hooks are fine, but when it ends on a cliff hanger with nothing resolved? Especially when the pace is slow? That's half a book. Just edit and give me one book.
Like, obviously loose ends and sequel hooks are fine, but when it ends on a cliff hanger with nothing resolved? Especially when the pace is slow? That's half a book. Just edit and give me one book.