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[theunboundwriter]

AHH!! I'm so excited to share with you that I've published a short story collection called The Lament of the Haunted and the Divine!

In The Lament of the Haunted and the Divine, Merle Summers weaves a collection of short fiction that drifts between the spectral and the sacred. From restless spirits yearning for closure to forsaken deities weighed down by sorrow, each tale explores the fragile line between the mortal and the otherworldly. Through whispered regrets, unfulfilled desires, and eerie encounters, these stories unravel the quiet tragedies of those caught between worlds: beings who haunt and are haunted, who seek and are sought, who long for something just beyond their grasp.

It is available to read on Amazon (paperback and hardcover) and it is also available as an ebook on Kindle or Kindle Unlimited!!

[beccawise7]

I cannot love passionately in a world unable to see below the surface.

Dive into the depths with me or remain in the shallows and let me be.

~beccawise7💜🖤

[writergallery]

Follow WriterGallery on Instagram to see more of my work or to buy my books! (Books linked in Instagram bio.) This is an excerpt from ‘Short Stay,’ a poetry collection with a mental illness and psych ward theme.

[eluari]

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, dass du dein Buch verlegen konntest! Wie heißt der Titel? Ich würde gern mal reinschnuppern. Hatte damals immer mal wieder hier bei dir reingeguckt und es freut mich tierisch, dass du es geschafft hast!

Ahh ganz, ganz lieben Dank! Mein Buch heißt Melodie der Asche. Hier das Cover, Innenklappenillustrationen usw. 🥰 Hier gibt's das Buch übrigens signiert und mit gratis Charakterkarten. Alles selbst illustriert.

- And for my english speaking lovelies: This is the German version of BttS - my queer / mm high fantasy. 💕🥰 All Illustrations are painted by me (and there is lots of character art as well 🥹) I'm also including a picture of the cake, because a lovely queer reader, who’s a baker, made it himself and brought it to me at Leipzig Book Fair. He told me it was his first time ever visiting a book fair, and he came just to say thank you – because this book changed his life. 😭✨ I could barely hold back my tears. I’ll cherish that moment forever.

[jaycatalyst]

If I Could See Myself Through Your Eyes

By: Jay Catalyst

If I could see myself through your eyes, I’d find fewer reasons to cry. Seeing my reflection most days kills me inside— I can’t see the beautiful things you see in me.

If I held myself the way you hold me, I wouldn’t feel so empty. I’d carry the warmth and love you give so freely, without hesitation.

Even on the days I feel unworthy, you remind me where my safe haven is— inside your arms is my place. Because this… this is who you are.

You change my world in so many ways. And I hate it some days— not because of you, but because I fear how much I’ve come to need you.

I’m growing used to you being here. So what happens… when you disappear?

Will I be able to stand on my own again? Will I feel the cold where once there was warmth? How do I calm the fear that locks me in place— afraid to move forward because I don’t know what lies ahead?

The end of my beginning to happiness again.

I don’t want to chase. But I don’t want to run. I just want to stay in the place that feels like home— even if it doesn’t look like it most days.

I just want to love me the way you do. So I can finally let go… of the one who sees me beyond the mask I wear— the one who saw the truth of who I am and who I can be.

[beautifullyscarred423]

Who am I if I'm not beautiful ..? Who am I if I don't command attention when I walk in a room without speaking a word .. Who am I if I'm not sexual or seductive and fulfill all wants and needs?.. Who am I if I am not desired and fantasized and wanted by all Who am I if I'm not the immaculate mother whore and will still beg for more Who am I if I just stop..? Am I still A Woman? Or just a woman?..

[alex-the-huntsman]

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-vanished-worlds-alex-huntsman/1146959869

Figured I should announce it here, but my first novel has officially published!! I’ve been working on this story for the past few years, and never thought I’d actually publish until I stumbled across an indie publisher at a Ren Faire last summer. Now, that story is available to you in paperback! It’s a campy sci-if romance inspired by 80’s and 90’s novels, but gayer

This novel tells the story of Tristan and Joane, the former pilot and bodyguard (respectively) of a brash, hard-edged scientific crew. Years after a falling out drove their crew apart, the pair are reunited when their former employer turns up missing in connection with a slew of Vanished Worlds (get it)

Armed with their wits, what few clues their old friend left them, and a whole lot of unresolved baggage, the pair are forced to travel across the universe trying to put together the pieces of the puzzle, learn to trust one another again, and maybe confront the feelings that drove them apart in the first place.

[jamiepage19]

Hard to believe that it’s been 13 years since I published Thoughts of Summertime. It feels like it was just yesterday. Still one of the coolest feelings in the world.

[elph13]

Writing is a process of breaking and re-making. Of putting words on the page and knowing in your bones they aren’t quite right, not yet, but you will not find the better ones without these clumsy inadequacies. Of seeing a finished novel not as a beautiful achievement but a palimpsest of mistakes and curious diversions. When I look back on a paragraph in the final page, the printed ink raised under my fingers, I feel the ghosts of all the paragraphs it could have been. Edited out, straightened, stripped, rebuilt, enforced, the dead drafts linger.

So writing now, I look down and think, you are temporary, you are a straw house. Soon I will be killing you and making pictures with your bones.

[michaelhenryorg]

Hello Tumblr!! I published my first book and blog everybody. Check it out! 🥳🍾

[thebadasshistorian]

Click to learn more about my debut poetry collection, ‘Our Little Agonies.’ Coming May 1 2025 💜

[writergallery]

👽Memories👽

In the end,

I was just a collection of memories

Fading away 

Like footprints in the sand. 

(A poem by C.C)

[oliman]

I wrote a short story that got published!

I've been trying to write full novels for years without much luck, but then my partner helped me realize that I needed to build up a portfolio first in order to get people's attention. Happy to say it's going well so far!

For the first time in my life, I feel like there's a genuine chance I can do this.

Check it out if you want at: https://academyoftheheartandmind.com/2025/02/19/no-place-for-rain/.

[awritersheartisbroken]

I'm Published!!!

My poetry is now available for purchase through the following link:

[thelattertimesofbeingcrazyfc]

Weekend Writing Prompt #392

“Swarm” Sammie Cox Ernie A swarm of words, none align, dreams sink, hope fades. Willie Torres Jr. 12/6/2024 If you feel inspired and uplifted by this content, please consider supporting my work at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/willie13. Every contribution helps me create more of what you enjoy!