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Nancy
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🌍 Post-apocalyptic fiction writer
🌱 Gluten-free, plant-based pescatarian "foodie"
👩‍❤️‍👨 Wife, Mom, Grandmother | Family first, always
💪 Aging strong and gracefully—finding balance, inside and out
✈️ Wannabe world traveler
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What off-beat Christmas songs are you loving this season? For me it's "Birthday Cake for Jesus" by band Shinyribs (led by Kevin Russell) which I discovered on Amazon music, & "I Don't Know What Christmas Is" by Old 97s from the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special on Disney. 🎄#christmasmusic
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Some secrets aren’t hidden,
They’re waiting. 🌌🧭🗺️
Read chapter Nine part 5 now ⬇️
#post-apocalyptic #scifantasy #chicago #fiction
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A Kaeloque Tale - Chapter Nine Part 5
Sanctum of Unspoken Things
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December 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Ever wander somewhere you shouldn’t… and feel something waiting for you? Ani can’t sleep. The Crooked Halo is quiet, the aether lamps low, she feels a presence she hasn’t sensed since childhood. #post-apocalyptical #scifantasy #chicago
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A Kaeloque Tale - Chapter Nine Part 4
Sleepless Hearts
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December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I missed yesterday’s A Kaeloque Tale update, so today I shared a tiny lore-dusted moment from the Crooked Halo instead. Dark stairwells. Whispering gears. A presence Ani hasn’t felt in years…
Come peek beneath The Crooked Halo ⚙️🔥🌊 #post-apocalyptic #sci-fantasy
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✨ Whisperings Beneath the Crooked Halo
A Kaeloque Tale micro-excerpt - A tiny lore-dusted moment to tide you over…
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December 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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What happens when the hidden door in your tavern actually opens… and the people you thought you lost forever step through it?
#chapterstory #steampunk #post-apocalyptic #calmbeforethestorm
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A Kaeloque Take - Chapter Nine part 3
What Survives the Breaking
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November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The hidden door of the Crooked Halo swings open… and everything changes. In today’s chapter excerpt, a long-awaited reunion arrives with tears and a few clattering chains. 🔥⛓️
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A Kaeloque Tale - Chapter Nine part 2
Chains, Dust, and the Return of the Lost
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November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Within the safety of the Crooked Halo, Annika unravels her family’s rebellion, her grandfather’s secrets (some of them anyway), and how the prophecy could save, or destroy, their world. #post-apocalyptic #SciFantasy #WritersOfThreads
⚙️ Read Chapter 9 of A Kaeloque Tale: Link below ⬇️
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Chapter Eight part 6 of the Kaeloque Tale is live! As the Ammonians reach out to the band of rebels trying to defeat the evil Regellan tribe, and ancient power calls to Annika and Oza, the rebellion is about to begin in earnest.🌌
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#PostApocalypticFantasy
A Kaeloque Tale - Chapter Eight Part 6
The Bridge Awakens
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November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Some swear the ghosts of the Old World rise tonight in Chicago Beach, wandering through the town square and gardens, searching for what was lost in the Great Devastation.
Happy Halloween from A Kaeloque Tale. ⚙️👻 #halloween #sci-fantasy #chicago #fiction
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Happy Halloween From A Kaeloque Tale
The Old World Stirs
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October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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In the quiet hum of an alien ship, Oza hears a voice older than stars: “Every world has a frequency. Yours is broken.”. Now, he must restore the song. 🎶 Read this week's except below 👇 #fiction #sci-fantasy #chicago
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A Kaeloque Tale - Chapter Eight Part 5
The Song Beneath the Silence
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October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Friday Spotlight: Meet Phi’nal - brutally handsome, tattooed, sharp-eyed, steampunk biker with a gift that cuts both ways. His Odd protects, but at what cost? Rumor has it… he’s not entirely of this world. 🖤 #FridaySpotlight #SciFantasy #post-apocalyptic
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Friday Spotlight on Phi`nal
If you think he’s just a handsome biker, think again
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October 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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In a watery world aboard a fallen starship, Oza connects with alien light that feels and connects. His mother calls it evolution. His friend calls it danger. Oza calls it… hope.
The Aeon Threads are awakening.
#AKaeloqueTale #ScienceFantasy #AlienTech
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A Kaeloque Tale Chapter Eight Part 4
Threads of Hope
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October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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🌊Friday Spotlight: Chicago Beach 🌊
At the edge of the Gulf of Chicago, home of the Kaeloque Tribe, beauty meets unease. Magic hums beneath the waves, and rebellion stirs. ✨ #AKaeloqueTale #FridaySpotlight #post-apocalyptic #fiction akaeloquetale.substack.com/p/friday-spo...
Friday Spotlight: Chicago Beach
The Heart of A Kaeloque Tale
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October 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Falcon calls it dangerous. Oza calls it connection. The Aeon Threads call it… truth. ⚡ Dive in: #AKaeloqueTale #chapterstory #fantasy #fiction #post-apocalyptic #chicago
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A Kaeloque Tale Chapter Eight Part 3
Falcon Returns
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October 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Friday Spotlight: meet Annika “Ani” Windstone, 19, fierce, funny, and barefoot by choice. She charms animals, topples egos, and might spark a rebellion. 🌊
#AKaeloqueTale #CharacterSpotlight #AnnikaWindstone #FantasyFiction #FridayFeature
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🌊 Character Spotlight: Annika Windstone 🌊
Small but fierce, kind but cunning - the girl who can charm a fox, outsmart a She-Yon, and still make it home in time for tea.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Dragged from the Black Desert into an alien starship beneath the surface of the violent Inland Sea, Oza meets the living ship that remembers, and heals him.. 🌌🛸 #creativewtiting #chicago #chapterstory #fiction
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A Kaeloque Tale - Chapter Eight Part 2
Rescued by a Living Starship
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October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The hubs is on a security gig guarding ghouls at a haunted house, so I’m diving into my Halloween movie lineup. Starting strong with Bram Stoker’s Dracula because it’s one of my favorites - moody, romantic & unintentionally hilarious every time Keanu opens his mouth. 🦇🩸🕶️ #halloweenmovies #halloween
October 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Friday Character Spotlight: Meet Oza: violet-eyed dreamer, artist & Oddling with a dangerous gift. Style, wit, & a story bigger than he knows.✨👇 #creativewriting #chicago #steampunk #post-apocalyptic
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🌌 Character Spotlight: Meet Oza Windstone 🌌
The artist, the dreamer, the Oddling who can’t drink coffee without endangering half the block…
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October 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Just dropped a new chapter excerpt of A Kaeloque Tale 🌊✨ Inside the submerged starship, Oza finds himself in a lab that feels more alive than mechanical - where science & spirit merge, & humanity’s last hope flickers in liquid light.
Full excerpt below ⬇️
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A Kaeloque Tale - Chapter Eight Part 1
The Lab
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September 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Sundays feel different now without my mom’s calls, a new kind of quiet I’m still learning to live with. Life is nudging me forward though, back into my creative space. A Kaeloque Tale returns Tuesday… buckle up, it’s about to get weird again. ✨💫 #creativewriting #movingforward #life
September 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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#loveandloss #parent #grief
September 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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A Kaeloque Tale has returned from hiatus, and the rebellion is heating up. Also, this is my 13th time tagging @stephenking.bsky.social At this point, he’s either annoyed… or quietly reading along and pretending not to know me. 👀📖
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#chapterstory
#post-apoc
A Kaeloque Tale - Chapter Seven Part 6
Ale, Old Friends, and the Truth at Last
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August 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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🚨Rookie mistake alert! Finally found The Impossible Hot Dog at Kenosha Meijer after a year of searching 😃 Grabbed 2 packs, froze one, ate 1 dog for lunch… & had a HORRIBLE reaction 😩. Read the label after eating. Unlike most Impossible products, this one’s NOT gluten-free. Lesson learned (again) 🌭🙃
August 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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A Kaeloque Tale will be on hiatus a little longer than I’d hoped
I’ll post a new chapter excerpt as soon as I can, but right now life has other plans—plans that are proving harsher and more exhausting than I ever imagined.
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July 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The weekly A Kaeloque Tale drops are on hold for June. A real-life legend—my 94-year-old mom—is facing a medical emergency & I need to step away as she battles like the warrior queen she is. The gears will grind again in July, Until then, thank you for walking this wild, dusty road with me.
June 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM