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Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost (Revised)
EP 2: The Hindenburg – Nazi Rabbits
The villains arrive.
Tags: #TimeTravel #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #HistoricalFantasy #LightNovel #Romance #Queer #Sappfic #Serial
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#TimeTravelingGhost EP 10: Post 100: 1191, Nicosia, Cyprus
#Wss366 Red (maroon) #TimeTravelAuthors 05/17. Sleep habits/schedule
There was no time left to discuss my mask with Emily because a servant had arrived and was gesturing for me to follow.
The inside of the house was cool and dim, carrying the faint scent of cedar and lamp oil. The furniture was sturdy and well-crafted rather than ostentatious. A painted icon of the Virgin Mary hung in a corner with a small oil lamp burning beneath it, all in the Eastern style.
Some of my anxiety eased. I doubted they would have in-depth knowledge of the Western style, especially how a Copt might practice it. My foreign appearance would help hide any mistakes I made.
The scholar standing beside our host reinforced this impression.
Our host was a stout, gray-haired man wearing maroon robes over a pale tunic. Though he no longer carried a weapon, there was still caution in his eyes.
The scholar wore layered dark-blue robes; the edges faded from years of use. A small silver cross rested against his chest when he moved, and his gray-flecked beard forked neatly at the end. He looked nothing like the clean-shaven Latin priests I had seen in paintings.
He studied me with open suspicion before politely translating our host’s greeting.
“Welcome to the house of the Delphinas. You have come at an unfortunate hour, but we will honor you as best we are able, holy one.”
I bowed, offered a silent prayer toward the icon, and crossed myself in what I hoped was a convincing imitation of a wandering pilgrim. Three fingers for the Trinity. Left to right or right to left? Muscle memory took over. Better wrong than hesitant.
“The girl is watching from above,” Emily said. Her words blurred with the scholar’s next statement.
“We have prepared a room for you to rest and refresh yourself before dinner.”
While, as a ghost, I didn’t need to sleep, the break to discuss the situation with Emily would be welcome.
“May God bless you for your charity,” I said as I followed the scholar upstairs.
#TootFic #NMFic #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #Slowburn #Yuri
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Working on different advertising that leans into the urban fantasy side while waiting to hear back from my cover artist. The lack of royalty-free play diagrams means I had to make my own. The skills I'm accumulating!
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“This book is as handsome as the author!” 🥹🤣 It really makes me so happy to get pictures from people when my book arrives. Getting feedback as my readers dive into my stories is also one of the best feelings in the world! Thanks for picking it up, I hope you enjoy it! 😊
~E.L.F.
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City streets, vampires, and werewolves. Ashai hunts down the arsonist to her blood bar, willing to do whatever it takes, until a local gang brings the city into an all-out war.
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Fajna ta okładka, szkoda że trochę niewyraźna... ale spoko, na Targach w Warszawie będę i ja, i okładka, i zawartość. 😁
Zapraszam Was na spotkanie w niedzielę 31.05 i od razu Wam napiszę, że widzimy się też na Targach w Opolu i też w niedzielę.
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Would you feel bad if you pinched a cute guy? What if he was a leprechaun with money? Yeah, cute or not, they're not known for sharing!
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#TimeTravelingGhost EP 10: Post 99: 1191, Nicosia, Cyprus
#Wss366 Cocktail #TimeTravelAuthors 05/13. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: peace)
While I waited for a servant to lead me inside, I consulted with Emily. The thought of an authentic local meal thrilled me, as did the idea that I could get someone to guide us to St. George’s Shrine later. That was if I could carry off this masquerade. The fact that my host and I didn’t speak the same language worked in my favor; while that I knew nothing about the Coptic faith ran against it. I could only hope that the scholar was as unfamiliar with their dogma as I was.
As if sensing my thoughts, Emily asked, “Do you think you can carry this off?”
“Yeah, I’m conversant with medieval Christian mysticism. I can always whip up a #cocktail of French and German metaphysical nonsense. That should work unless they’re familiar with Coptic beliefs. That’s what this robe is, Coptic. I’m more worried about what will happen when they find out I’m a woman. I have no idea how they’ll react to a holy matron instead of a holy man. It’s a rather chauvinistic era.”
“Aren’t they all?” The bitterness in her tone was clear.
I had to agree. Heaven knows there were still people who wanted to repeal a woman’s right to vote in my time. It never stopped. However, there were more pressing issues for me currently.
“I’ve got it, a mask and a holy vow,” I said.
I manifested a porcelain mask similar to the one Countess Bathory had used.
“What do you think?” I asked.
“Frightening. It’s too fancy. You want something more sacred and less sepulcher. Think humble poverty.”
“More of gravy and less of sepulcher,” I muttered. It was a joke that left Emily puzzling.
The Dickens reference may have gone over her head, but the image of the three Christmas ghosts spurred my imagination.
I reformed the mask into a crude wooden representation of Tiny Tim, a #peaceful but haunted smile on his face, combined with a crown of thorns.
Emily sighed and said, “It’ll do.”
#TootFic #NMFic #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #Slowburn #Yuri
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2 teenage daughters, a fledgling business, secret crush & civil war between powerful, supernatural beings acting like spoiled children?
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Harry Dresden is back, and wiser than ever. Outlaw by Jim Butcher delivers heart, humor, and chaos in equal measure. Fans of urban fantasy, #TheDresdenFiles #UrbanFantasy #BookReview #JimButcher #ViewsSheWrites
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ONSET: To Serve and Protect "When vampires attack David White’s small town" Sale: $2.99 to FREE by Glynn Stewart Rating: 4.5/5 (2,158 Reviews) #urbanfantasy #paranormal #military #thriller #booksky #books #action #magic #mustread #free
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I find it so difficult to figure out what to say in these posts, which is why I’ve had inconsistency issues in the past. Yes, being exhausted and stressed with the everyday struggle of survival doesn’t help, but that’s not everything. One thing my head keeps going back to is a simple idea that should help with these posts: “Just put out there what you’d like to see from other writers.” I guess one of my problems is I don’t tend to find myself hunting for tidbits from my favorites, so it makes me feel like I lack a basic framework for what I should be doing with social media when it comes to my writing.
It’s alright, I’ll keep at it and get better.
I am going to shoot for one to two posts a week (I know, that’s nothing when it comes to the wild world of social media), whether I just drop a couple of sentences to show that I’m still within the confines of this dimension, or I dive into something longer, like character lore, how my book ideas spawned, my big series plans, or how Vampire Hunter D is one of my favorite characters in fiction. For now, my plan is also to not have much behind my Substack subscription paywall, as I’m working hard to plot out a whole series while also wondering if I need to find a part-time job to give my strapped finances some sort of breathing room.
All that said, I’ve had some coffee, I’ve got some music going (Yama’s Versus the Night album at the moment), I think it’s time to shoot this blog post out into the void hoping it reaches my dear readers (present and future), and work on plotting Chapter 4 of Shadowed Memories: Dark Shadow Volume 3. Maybe I’ll have to talk more about that in the next post…
May your days be wonderful, and creative spirit nourished by Meraki’s unending flames,
~E.L.F.
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I don't think anyone will argue if I say that Max is one of the best background characters in Shadows of Eireland. He appears in book 1 and 3 of the series, and in both instances, his personality shines.
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Okiku (Airisu POV): Post 36
#Wss366 purple #TimeTravelAuthors WhateverI never did figure out a way to tell her this was a bad idea. The allure of a romantic adventure was too strong to overcome with mere words.
Besides, there were some good reasons to cast the spell. It would be interesting. Mistress would be happy. Watching a real-life yuri romance bloom would be entertaining. Disaster lesbian romances were such a fun trope, and Sumika was the epitome of a disaster lesbian. More practically, I supposed all witches had their allies, and Dōken-shin wasn’t the worst. He certainly wasn’t Mephistopheles or a soul-eating shinigami. At least I hoped not.
Preparation took time. She purchased an Edo-style #purple silk kimono, antibiotics (my suggestion), and a map of Himeji Castle. Money was harder to come by. We bought strings of worn Ming cash coins, but a dealer sorting through them dismissed many as modern copies or inappropriate for the era. We made up the difference with small pieces of cut silver. My estimation of Sumika increased. She was still a bubblehead, but she thought through the process, listened to my advice, and spared no effort in preparing.
Then, after she obtained a week off work, we were ready to go.
Edo Japan, here we come!
#TootFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #Serial #SlowBurn #Yuri #Folklore #NMFic #TimeTravel
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#Sale! Happy #MothersDay! Celebrating #Moms everywhere!
2 teenage daughters, a fledgling business, secret crush & civil war between powerful, supernatural beings acting like spoiled children?
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#Book #urbanfantasy #romantasy
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Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost (Revised)
EP 2: The Hindenburg – May 3rd, 1937
Bijou arrives on the Hindenburg and meets Emily Pang, a deceased reporter and spy
Tags: #TimeTravel #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #HistoricalFantasy #LightNovel #Romance #Queer #Sappfic #Serial
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Shout-out 2 Canada! Feeling Lucky on #sale w/ #Kobo May #Canada Super Sale 2026!
Would you feel bad if you pinched a cute guy? What if he was a leprechaun with money? Yeah, cute or not, they're not known for sharing!
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The Nightmare in Him "Wynter is a witch who sought safe haven for herself and her coven in Devil's Cradle" Sale: $17.99 to $0.99 by Suzanne Wright Rating: 4.6/5 (2,279 Reviews) #fantasy #romance #romantasy #books #booksky #witches #spicy #bestseller #urbanfantasy
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Okiku (Airisu POV): Post 35
#Wss366 Film #TimeTravelAuthors 05/11. Do your characters ever undo anything?“I'm not in love with her,” Mistress finally said. “I don’t know her. She has been dead for how many years?”
“My pardon, you are not in love, and you are not blushing.”
I hurried to answer her question from memory rather than give her time to continue protesting. "Banchō Sarayashiki is an Edo-era story, so it's been about two or three hundred years."
“And how is that supposed to work? I’m not getting involved in necromancy. I’ve watched enough horror #films to know these things never work out in the mortals’ favor.”
She fingered the wound where I had stabbed her, probably remembering how the kami had almost trapped her before. “Besides, I doubt it’s smart to accept favors from Dōken-shin.”
“Getting cold feet, little lady?” It was my contrariness coming through. She was actually wise not to involve herself with Arakawa Dōken.
While I tried to figure out how to steady my perch, i.e., take back the comment, she studied the spell.
“Oh, I get it now!” she said. “This will allow us to go back in time, and we can save her.”
“Time travel,” I thought. “That would be exciting. Still, what about time paradoxes?”
“Like a romance novel!” she said, clapping her hands.
That last statement worried me.
#TootFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #Serial #SlowBurn #Yuri #Folklore #NMFic #TimeTravel
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Rift in the Soul (A Soulwood Novel) "Nell knows she and her team have to be ready for anything " Sale: $9.99 to $9.99 by Faith Hunter Rating: 4.8/5 (2,963 Reviews) #urbanfantasy #paranormal #fantasy #soulwood #books #booksky #vampire #mystery #bookstagram
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The Underground isn't my best work, but it's a fun ride that follows vampires and werewolves through the city and the Underground to find an arsonist. 🦇🐺🤪 Very anime vibes.
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Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost
Episode 1: 1926: The Folies Bergère—Josephine Baker
A mysterious woman welcomes the nameless ghost to the Roaring 20s
Tags: #TimeTravel #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #HistoricalFantasy #LightNovel #Romance #Queer #Sappfic #Serial
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#TimeTravelingGhost EP 10: Post 98: 1191, Nicosia, Cyprus
#Wss366 gloss #TimeTravelAuthors 05/9. Saturday excerpt (optional word: hide/hidden)
Emily soon joined me in the courtyard. After the turbulent street filled with crowds, vendors, and beggars, the citrus-scented space was peaceful or should have been, if it hadn’t been for the cry of a young female voice, saying, “Oh… makaristos Agios Ilarionas… éna tháuma…”
I followed the sound and saw a girl of about ten wearing a white dress that matched the flowers dangling near her face. Her bright eyes and #glossy black hair were barely visible through the second-floor’s vines, where she #hid.
She continued, “Pappoú. “Pappoú. éna tháuma.”
“We’re in the soup now,” Emily said.
As we watched, a gray-haired man armed with a stout cudgel joined her. The girl spoke rapidly to him, gesticulating wildly.
After shooing her out of sight, he called down to us, “Pois eisai?”
I held my hands in the air and said in French, “We’re friends. We mean you no harm.”
The man’s face screwed up, puzzled, and then he shouted into the house. Another man appeared. I guessed he was a scholar from his somber black robes and lean countenance.
The two men spoke while Emily and I conferred. “What should we do?” I asked. “Time-trip to our meeting with the monk?” By “monk,” I meant our former guide.
“Wait,” she replied. “There’s a pattern of things going sideways when we do that.”
It was true. Twice now, tripping had put us in life-threatening positions. First, there’d been the meteor impact, and then there was the less-than-friendly reception we’d just experienced. It didn’t always happen, but it occurred enough to make one wary.
“Who are you?” the scholar called down in accented French.
“I am Bijou, a traveling pilgrim,” I said, bowing. “I mean you no harm. My only wish is to bless your house.”
Out of sight, I heard the girl say, “Pappoú. éna tháuma.”
“She says you performed a miracle, passing through a solid wall.” The man said, making a sign against the evil eye.
“It was God’s blessing upon a humble mendicant. I was seeking St. George’s shrine when outlaws tried to stop me. God is great, and many are his miracles.”
The two men conferred again, and while they did so, Emily addressed me. “Lying it on rather thick there aren’t you?”
“Better than being mistaken for a sorcerer,” I said, crossing myself as if uttering a prayer. “Besides, this is an age of wonders.”
Their conference over, the scholar called to me, “Holy one, would you bless our house by partaking a humble meal with us?”
“It would be my honor,” I said. Luck had finally smiled on me.
#TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #Slowburn #Yuri
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New Indie on the Wiki: City of Amber by Chrome Dog Games
Urban fantasy noir in a 1948 NYC frozen in time for a thousand years. Orcs run the factories. Fey control city hall. Something is keeping everyone asleep.
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Jessica’s friend, Hope, has been avoiding her for the last month. Now, Jessica wants to know why. She had no idea what she’d be asking of Hope when she decided to find out. #UrbanFantasy #ShapeShifter #ShortStory
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#Sale! Happy #MothersDay! Celebrating #Moms everywhere!
2 teenage daughters, a fledgling business, secret crush & civil war between powerful, supernatural beings acting like spoiled children?
As if!
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Meet these great indie urban fantasy authors at the Urban Fantasy Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #urbanfantasy #writingcommunity #authorsky bsky.app/starter-pack/inventi...
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City streets, vampires, and werewolves. Ashai hunts down the arsonist to her blood bar, willing to do whatever it takes, until a local gang brings the city into an all-out war.
https://books2read.com/ug
https://azaleaforrest.itch.io/the-underground
💙📚 #books #supernatural #urbanfantasy #writing