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Mallory Wilde

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writer, fangirl, witch Mallory’s a pen name, but you can still call me Mal

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Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 6d

Hi BlueSky 👋

I'm here to procrastinate from writing my first novel.

I love stories, monsters, making friends with trees, and a good cup of tea.

Whether I'm happy or sad, there will be crying.

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Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 14h

#SFFChat

October 14: Snippet - Night

"Past the bridge, a faint path made its way to the house, but it all but disappeared once the car headlights went off. The moon, barely a sliver as it was, had passed behind clouds, and the dark wrapped around them like a welcoming embrace."

SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 11d

Apologies that the October prompt list for #SFFChat is so late! When I wasn't able to get it done for the first I wasn't sure if I should do it, but in the end I made one.

Hope the continuation of the spooky theme isn't a bother--interpret the prompts as broadly as you need to (including snippets)

1. Introduce yourself!
2. First Costume you ever wore
3. Share something positive
4. Snippet: Haunting
5. Character fear
6. Favourite spooky or horror book!
7. Snippet: Orange
8. What are you reading?
9. Have you ever scared yourself reading or writing?
10. What are your characters dressing up as for Hallowe’en?
11. What would your mc do if their doppelganger showed up at the door?
12. Snippet: Blood
13. Share something visual (character art, moodboard, cover, etc)
14. Snippet: Night
15. Does your world have any spooky holidays or traditions?
16. Do ghosts exist in your world?
17. Character most likely to survive a horror movie
18. TBR Check-in!
19. What’s your opinion on Bigfoot?
20. Is space inherently spooky?
21. Snippet: Hunt
22. Favourite monster
23. Reimagine your book as a horror story (or, as another genre if alreadu horror)
24. Ask a question of your own to #sff participants!
25. Share some writing advice
26. A story you hope to write but haven’t
27. What’s the value of horror?
28. Snippet: monster/creature
29. Friendship(s) in your story
30. Reading plans for November
31. Snippet: Share a scary scene!

Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 1d

Val is lonely and having a very bad day.

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He slumped against the wall and slid down to sit on the floor, giving himself up to his morose mood. Tomorrow he would figure this out; tonight, he wasn’t prepared to do more than regret his entire existence.
Somewhere not far away, thunder clapped. The sky had been threatening a storm on his way home earlier, and now in the depths of night it made good on the threat. Rain followed soon after the thunder, sheets of it breaking against the house, pummeling the window in waves. The force of it felt like a relief, like his life and all his stupid choices and their consequences could be swallowed up by the storm.
He pushed himself up and went to the window, watching for a long time as the sky repeatedly cracked open and then returned to itself, and the rain threatened to flood the garden. It finally began to abate, and he shook himself from his trance, wondering how long he’d stood there. He often lost time in moments like that. He preferred it, honestly - to come untethered from the world. To let time slip past with no consequences, because he had no ties to anything that time could take.
Except now you do, a voice in his head whispered, and all the calm he’d found in the storm deserted him once again.
He sighed, and felt a spike of hunger. He wasn’t in the mood, but it would be bad to ignore it. This was part of how he kept things under control – careful, measured care of his needs. No chance for anything inside him to get desperate.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

“Help!” cried Toad. “My list is blowing away. What will I do without my list?”

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Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 2d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

✧ current read(s): Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

✧ newest adds to the tbr: books two & three of Katherine Ardens' Winternight Trilogy (adored book one)

✧ eagerly waiting for: Behind Five Willows by June Hur

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 6d

You know the voice in the back of your head that says no one wants to read your book?

Drown it.
Burn it with fire.
Get a bat and start swinging.

Don't let it exist and lie to you. Destroy it and keep writing.

Keep. Writing.

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Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 5d

Perhaps No Man's Land by Simon Gaul? (disclaimer: haven't read it, but the description mentions the heist)

No Man's Land

Check out No Man's Land - <p><b>Boston, March 1990</b> During the St Patrick's Day revelries, thirteen priceless works of art - a Vermeer, Rembrandts, a Manet - are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Ga...

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Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 5d

Today's fight against the darkness is sponsored by Frog and ORC

(my skyline did this all on its own)

A screenshot of two BlueSky posts; the first one is by Orcspiration, which says "HANG UP YOUR GREATSWORD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN."; the second one is by Frog and Toad Bot, which says "I saw the sun coming out, said Frog. I saw birds sitting and singing in a tree. I saw my mother and father working in their garden. I saw flowers in the garden."

Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for the encouragement!

Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 6d

(and thank you for the welcome! 😊)

Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 6d

It's about a forlorn vampire who accidentally enthralls the human he's been pining over.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 6d

“Frog,” asked Toad, “was that a true story?”

“Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t,” said Frog.

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Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 6d

Hi BlueSky 👋

I'm here to procrastinate from writing my first novel.

I love stories, monsters, making friends with trees, and a good cup of tea.

Whether I'm happy or sad, there will be crying.

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