Peculiar Julia
@peculiarjulia.bsky.social
#Writer, #Editor, #Poet, #Dog Servant, #Cake Eater. #Poetry #MagicalRealism #BizarroFiction #CNF and most #Words written well. Lean #Buddhist when #meditating Find me #writing, #editing and #boost nominating on Medium https://linktr.ee/peculiarjulia
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Peculiar Julia
@peculiarjulia.bsky.social
· Oct 26
Staircase
a late-night phone call
medium.com
"...I hunched at the bottom of the staircase in the shadows, whispering shaky questions into the phone..."
#micromemoir #memoir #creativenonfiction
Staircase medium.com/flashbacks/s... in Flashbacks #litpub for #TinyTrueTales
#micromemoir #memoir #creativenonfiction
Staircase medium.com/flashbacks/s... in Flashbacks #litpub for #TinyTrueTales
"He knows each branch, every step, every handhold; his climb, a well-forged path followed one limb at a time..."
Ascent by Richard Grahn medium.com/the-mad-rive... #haibun #poetry in The Mad River #litpub & #readingcommunity #poetrytwitter
Ascent by Richard Grahn medium.com/the-mad-rive... #haibun #poetry in The Mad River #litpub & #readingcommunity #poetrytwitter
Ascent
Journey on the wings of a child
medium.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"He knows each branch, every step, every handhold; his climb, a well-forged path followed one limb at a time..."
Ascent by Richard Grahn medium.com/the-mad-rive... #haibun #poetry in The Mad River #litpub & #readingcommunity #poetrytwitter
Ascent by Richard Grahn medium.com/the-mad-rive... #haibun #poetry in The Mad River #litpub & #readingcommunity #poetrytwitter
"Anger wraps itself around people. It disguises what’s truly there. And the longer it’s allowed to linger, the tighter it clings..."
Never Trust a Janitor
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 4
by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v... #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Never Trust a Janitor
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 4
by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v... #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 4
Never trust a janitor
medium.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Anger wraps itself around people. It disguises what’s truly there. And the longer it’s allowed to linger, the tighter it clings..."
Never Trust a Janitor
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 4
by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v... #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Never Trust a Janitor
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 4
by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v... #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
"Hope you’re doing well. I think you are because the sun is shining and you love that, don’t you?"
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part II. by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h... #fiction #series
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part II. by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h... #fiction #series
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part II.
Hello human.
medium.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"Hope you’re doing well. I think you are because the sun is shining and you love that, don’t you?"
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part II. by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h... #fiction #series
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part II. by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h... #fiction #series
"It is no time
since we said goodbye
my son and I
his silent goodbye
‘neath the darkening sky..."
IT IS NO TIME by John E Marks
medium.com/lit-up/it-is...
#poetry #grief #loss
in Lit Up #litmag and #poetrycommunity
since we said goodbye
my son and I
his silent goodbye
‘neath the darkening sky..."
IT IS NO TIME by John E Marks
medium.com/lit-up/it-is...
#poetry #grief #loss
in Lit Up #litmag and #poetrycommunity
IT IS NO TIME
“Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;
My sin was too much hope of thee, lov’d boy.”
‘On my first Sonne,’ Ben Jonson, 1603
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"It is no time
since we said goodbye
my son and I
his silent goodbye
‘neath the darkening sky..."
IT IS NO TIME by John E Marks
medium.com/lit-up/it-is...
#poetry #grief #loss
in Lit Up #litmag and #poetrycommunity
since we said goodbye
my son and I
his silent goodbye
‘neath the darkening sky..."
IT IS NO TIME by John E Marks
medium.com/lit-up/it-is...
#poetry #grief #loss
in Lit Up #litmag and #poetrycommunity
"I don’t want to pretend a smile
While my anxiety stacks up like a pile
Of presents that are somehow too much
But never enough to earn love without conditions..."
Not Today, Santa by C Jackson medium.com/lit-up/not-t...
#poetry #Christmas 'tis also the season of #anxiety
While my anxiety stacks up like a pile
Of presents that are somehow too much
But never enough to earn love without conditions..."
Not Today, Santa by C Jackson medium.com/lit-up/not-t...
#poetry #Christmas 'tis also the season of #anxiety
Not Today, Santa
I don’t want to pretend through the holiday
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"I don’t want to pretend a smile
While my anxiety stacks up like a pile
Of presents that are somehow too much
But never enough to earn love without conditions..."
Not Today, Santa by C Jackson medium.com/lit-up/not-t...
#poetry #Christmas 'tis also the season of #anxiety
While my anxiety stacks up like a pile
Of presents that are somehow too much
But never enough to earn love without conditions..."
Not Today, Santa by C Jackson medium.com/lit-up/not-t...
#poetry #Christmas 'tis also the season of #anxiety
"But, oh! He loved his daughter so
from that first dusty breath, you know,
he was hers and she was his —
his little speckled doe..."
Stacy Jones Was Made of Stone by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #ballad in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
with #audio
from that first dusty breath, you know,
he was hers and she was his —
his little speckled doe..."
Stacy Jones Was Made of Stone by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #ballad in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
with #audio
Stacy Jones Was Made of Stone
A Story in Rhyme
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"But, oh! He loved his daughter so
from that first dusty breath, you know,
he was hers and she was his —
his little speckled doe..."
Stacy Jones Was Made of Stone by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #ballad in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
with #audio
from that first dusty breath, you know,
he was hers and she was his —
his little speckled doe..."
Stacy Jones Was Made of Stone by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #ballad in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
with #audio
Reposted by Peculiar Julia
"...Did she really suck the marrow from the bones? When the laughing white-skinned pikemen threw her down among the pyre’s cinders and forced open her jaw..."
Gingerbread House by Nadeesha
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
twisted #fairytale #fiction #Immigration
in The Mad River #litpub
Gingerbread House by Nadeesha
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
twisted #fairytale #fiction #Immigration
in The Mad River #litpub
Gingerbread House
Immigrant trauma, baked goods, gore
medium.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"...Did she really suck the marrow from the bones? When the laughing white-skinned pikemen threw her down among the pyre’s cinders and forced open her jaw..."
Gingerbread House by Nadeesha
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
twisted #fairytale #fiction #Immigration
in The Mad River #litpub
Gingerbread House by Nadeesha
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
twisted #fairytale #fiction #Immigration
in The Mad River #litpub
Promptastic :)
(Grateful for Kathy Fish)
(Grateful for Kathy Fish)
I will do another 15 prompts leading up to the end of 2025, (another tired old year), but you can try these ones if you haven’t already! With love & gratitude, ~Kathy 💙 open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...
With Gratitude: 15 Prompts to get us through the rest of this tired old year
A mostly happy, well-fed child, 1962.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Promptastic :)
(Grateful for Kathy Fish)
(Grateful for Kathy Fish)
"...Did she really suck the marrow from the bones? When the laughing white-skinned pikemen threw her down among the pyre’s cinders and forced open her jaw..."
Gingerbread House by Nadeesha
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
twisted #fairytale #fiction #Immigration
in The Mad River #litpub
Gingerbread House by Nadeesha
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
twisted #fairytale #fiction #Immigration
in The Mad River #litpub
Gingerbread House
Immigrant trauma, baked goods, gore
medium.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"...Did she really suck the marrow from the bones? When the laughing white-skinned pikemen threw her down among the pyre’s cinders and forced open her jaw..."
Gingerbread House by Nadeesha
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
twisted #fairytale #fiction #Immigration
in The Mad River #litpub
Gingerbread House by Nadeesha
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
twisted #fairytale #fiction #Immigration
in The Mad River #litpub
“I walked around school with the accident on my face…”Displacement Theory by Lay Low Magazine medium.com/lit-up/displ... #fiction #flashfiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Displacement Theory
“I walked around school with the accident on my face…”
medium.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“I walked around school with the accident on my face…”Displacement Theory by Lay Low Magazine medium.com/lit-up/displ... #fiction #flashfiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Reposted by Peculiar Julia
this morning
i watched a fox pause
mid-step
as if listening
to a thought
i will never have
and for a second
I envied that kind of knowing
#poetry
i watched a fox pause
mid-step
as if listening
to a thought
i will never have
and for a second
I envied that kind of knowing
#poetry
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
this morning
i watched a fox pause
mid-step
as if listening
to a thought
i will never have
and for a second
I envied that kind of knowing
#poetry
i watched a fox pause
mid-step
as if listening
to a thought
i will never have
and for a second
I envied that kind of knowing
#poetry
Reposted by Peculiar Julia
Thrilled to be featuring Six Stitches and a Scar, Jane. Thank you for sending it our way @sightlined.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity
New fiction in Fictive Dream 👭
"My big sister. Always stronger. Always right." Six Stitches and a Scar by Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/28/s...
November 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Thrilled to be featuring Six Stitches and a Scar, Jane. Thank you for sending it our way @sightlined.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity
Reposted by Peculiar Julia
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
—Theodore Roosevelt
#quote
—Theodore Roosevelt
#quote
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
—Theodore Roosevelt
#quote
—Theodore Roosevelt
#quote
"In the middle of the greenwood,
in the very centre of what is,
the wise women whisper..."
The season of the witch by John E Marks
medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#poetry #witchcraft #wicca
in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
in the very centre of what is,
the wise women whisper..."
The season of the witch by John E Marks
medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#poetry #witchcraft #wicca
in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
The season of the witch
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
medium.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"In the middle of the greenwood,
in the very centre of what is,
the wise women whisper..."
The season of the witch by John E Marks
medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#poetry #witchcraft #wicca
in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
in the very centre of what is,
the wise women whisper..."
The season of the witch by John E Marks
medium.com/lit-up/the-s...
#poetry #witchcraft #wicca
in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"what was it we said to each other
before parting ways
in that Madison hotel room?
me, chained motionless to my shadow
the walls caving in out of the darkness..."
Baptism by Fire
Richard Grahn
medium.com/lit-up/bapti...
#mentalhealth #poetrythatspeaks #poetry in
Lit Up #litpub #poetrycommunity
before parting ways
in that Madison hotel room?
me, chained motionless to my shadow
the walls caving in out of the darkness..."
Baptism by Fire
Richard Grahn
medium.com/lit-up/bapti...
#mentalhealth #poetrythatspeaks #poetry in
Lit Up #litpub #poetrycommunity
Baptism by Fire
Free Verse: Southern Wisconsin to Chicago, Illinois
medium.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"what was it we said to each other
before parting ways
in that Madison hotel room?
me, chained motionless to my shadow
the walls caving in out of the darkness..."
Baptism by Fire
Richard Grahn
medium.com/lit-up/bapti...
#mentalhealth #poetrythatspeaks #poetry in
Lit Up #litpub #poetrycommunity
before parting ways
in that Madison hotel room?
me, chained motionless to my shadow
the walls caving in out of the darkness..."
Baptism by Fire
Richard Grahn
medium.com/lit-up/bapti...
#mentalhealth #poetrythatspeaks #poetry in
Lit Up #litpub #poetrycommunity
"How do you explain the pain of setting down your life
Ripping from its pages, from salvation
Its escape a haven, twice misery and elation
I learned to live through another’s eyes..."
anguish in the ink by Allie medium.com/lit-up/angui...
#poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Ripping from its pages, from salvation
Its escape a haven, twice misery and elation
I learned to live through another’s eyes..."
anguish in the ink by Allie medium.com/lit-up/angui...
#poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
anguish in the ink
a poem
medium.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"How do you explain the pain of setting down your life
Ripping from its pages, from salvation
Its escape a haven, twice misery and elation
I learned to live through another’s eyes..."
anguish in the ink by Allie medium.com/lit-up/angui...
#poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Ripping from its pages, from salvation
Its escape a haven, twice misery and elation
I learned to live through another’s eyes..."
anguish in the ink by Allie medium.com/lit-up/angui...
#poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"OK. Let’s get it done..."
MITChell by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social
medium.com/lit-up/mitch...
#horror
meets #scifi
meets #poetry
meets #prose #fiction #drama
a #serialfiction with everything
in the Lit Up press #litpub
MITChell by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social
medium.com/lit-up/mitch...
#horror
meets #scifi
meets #poetry
meets #prose #fiction #drama
a #serialfiction with everything
in the Lit Up press #litpub
MITChell
PART 63: EXT. MITCHELL HIGH SCHOOL FRONT PARKING LOT — MORNING, OCT 23
medium.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"OK. Let’s get it done..."
MITChell by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social
medium.com/lit-up/mitch...
#horror
meets #scifi
meets #poetry
meets #prose #fiction #drama
a #serialfiction with everything
in the Lit Up press #litpub
MITChell by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social
medium.com/lit-up/mitch...
#horror
meets #scifi
meets #poetry
meets #prose #fiction #drama
a #serialfiction with everything
in the Lit Up press #litpub
"...Rope is just plant: dried grass twisted into strength enough to hold a body..."
Until the Self is Unmade by Sylvara
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#fiction #philosophy #death in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity
Until the Self is Unmade by Sylvara
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#fiction #philosophy #death in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity
Until the Self is Unmade
How awareness persists even as the body fails and the self is gradually erased
medium.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"...Rope is just plant: dried grass twisted into strength enough to hold a body..."
Until the Self is Unmade by Sylvara
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#fiction #philosophy #death in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity
Until the Self is Unmade by Sylvara
medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#fiction #philosophy #death in The Mad River #litpub and #readingcommunity
Mincetastic :)
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Mincetastic :)
If anyone wanted to nominate The Mad River or vote or share this post or anything -- we wouldn't be mad about it honest 😬
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
www.chillsubs.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
If anyone wanted to nominate The Mad River or vote or share this post or anything -- we wouldn't be mad about it honest 😬
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
On the future of relationships ...?
You’ve Got Male by A. Gee
medium.com/lit-up/youve...
#flashfiction #fiction #scifi in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
You’ve Got Male by A. Gee
medium.com/lit-up/youve...
#flashfiction #fiction #scifi in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
You’ve Got Male
On the future of relationships…
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
On the future of relationships ...?
You’ve Got Male by A. Gee
medium.com/lit-up/youve...
#flashfiction #fiction #scifi in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
You’ve Got Male by A. Gee
medium.com/lit-up/youve...
#flashfiction #fiction #scifi in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
"My human is a sizable being..."
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part I
by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h...
Brand new Tale in Parts #serialfiction #fiction in the Lit Up press #readingcommunity #litpub
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part I
by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h...
Brand new Tale in Parts #serialfiction #fiction in the Lit Up press #readingcommunity #litpub
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part I.
“Literary fiction, for its part, gives a voice even to those who […] cannot speak at all.” — Jacques Rancière
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"My human is a sizable being..."
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part I
by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h...
Brand new Tale in Parts #serialfiction #fiction in the Lit Up press #readingcommunity #litpub
Non-Humanized: Humans through Non-Human Eyes, Part I
by Lucia’s Imaginarium medium.com/lit-up/non-h...
Brand new Tale in Parts #serialfiction #fiction in the Lit Up press #readingcommunity #litpub
The unsolvable puzzle
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman,
Part 3 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
great #serialfiction #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Not started it yet? no worries ...links to all the parts included!
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman,
Part 3 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
great #serialfiction #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Not started it yet? no worries ...links to all the parts included!
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman, Part 3
The unsolvable puzzle
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The unsolvable puzzle
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman,
Part 3 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
great #serialfiction #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Not started it yet? no worries ...links to all the parts included!
The Vanishing of Slippy Parksman,
Part 3 by Will Pearce medium.com/lit-up/the-v...
great #serialfiction #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
Not started it yet? no worries ...links to all the parts included!
"...gilding the seams of her skirt until those triple vodkas already gaslit her beyond states of comprehension or apprehension or even intention, they waited…"Insurrection by Edward Swafford medium.com/the-mad-rive... powerful #poetry #women #assault
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Insurrection
It was curiosity
medium.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"...gilding the seams of her skirt until those triple vodkas already gaslit her beyond states of comprehension or apprehension or even intention, they waited…"Insurrection by Edward Swafford medium.com/the-mad-rive... powerful #poetry #women #assault
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