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Jillian Spiridon
Jillian Spiridon

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It’s the Story of a Hiatus

I’ll be back — sometime. — If you’ve been following me for any iota of time, you may be wondering, “What’s going on here?” Well, I’m here to tell you I’m going to be on a hiatus probably from here till the end of the year. Why? I can’t figure out what I love to write…

Hiatus

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It’s the Story of a Hiatus
It’s the Story of a Hiatus
Hiatus

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Give a Belated Welcome to The Cat’s Cradle, My New(ish) Substack Newsletter

Want to come along for this existential road trip of mine? — It started with a whisper. I didn’t really tell many people about it. Sure, I linked to it on Twitter when I wrote the introductory post, but it died on the vine a little thereafter (not helped since Twitter hates links of all kinds these days). Yes, I started a…

Newsletter

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Give a Belated Welcome to The Cat’s Cradle, My New(ish) Substack Newsletter
Give a Belated Welcome to The Cat’s Cradle, My New(ish) Substack Newsletter
Newsletter

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A Quick Guide to My Writing

Or — just that little thing known as an Index. — If you’re looking for the wonders of other worlds and the hope of distant realities… then you might want to take a stroll over to my Fiction page where you can find everything from daring speculative fiction to chunks of microfiction for the people who love stories but don’t have a lot of time. …

Index

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A Quick Guide to My Writing
A Quick Guide to My Writing
Index

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4 days ago

Lovers

Poetic Prose Knots #1 — Your words bleed through with your love for her. I can feel the pain, the uncertainty, the truth that she was yours and you were hers in the secrets between moments. Beautiful unbecomings, I suppose, in the way of love lighting up like a beacon in the night. I saw…

Prose Poetry

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Lovers
Lovers
Prose Poetry

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5 days ago

I’m Sorry Comes Too Late

A Poem — i know you never left her, not really, and i’m sorry i couldn’t be what you wanted most. “i’m sorry” — that’s too sad, isn’t it, when it can’t erase what i did to you at all. you can lie about who you are — i don’t care anymore —…

Poetry

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I’m Sorry Comes Too Late
I’m Sorry Comes Too Late
Poetry

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5 days ago

Fee and the Giant

Just Friends Fairy Tales — #1 — Ophelia awoke in the clouds. It was bright up here, so close that she felt almost as if she could touch the sun with her fingertips. If she had been back in her bed, she would have thought she had reached the realm of the angels — those faraway places…

Microfiction

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Fee and the Giant
Fee and the Giant
Microfiction

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5 days ago

Firebird Girls

A Poem — they say the world will end in fire — but i never believed that for one moment even as ice cradled my senses and made me weak till i couldn’t see up from down or back again. and i knew you through the glass, as sweet as something from a dream, until…

Poetry

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Firebird Girls
Firebird Girls
Poetry

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5 days ago

I Know a Place

100 Lyrics into Stories — No28 — “I’m going to say this once,” she said as they sat in a coffee shop together for the first time. He glanced at her, his eyes wary. “What is it?” “I thought you did forget,” she whispered. “I mean, who wouldn’t? And — and I want to say I’m sorry…

100 Story Challenge

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I Know a Place
I Know a Place
100 Story Challenge

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6 days ago

I’m Looking Through You

100 Lyrics into Stories — No27 — For a long time, they said he was mad — thinking he heard and saw a girl every time he fell into the drug trips. But something wasn’t right. Something about her wasn’t right. He wanted to know what lay on the other side of the glass as if she…

100 Story Challenge

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I’m Looking Through You
I’m Looking Through You
100 Story Challenge

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6 days ago

Take the Conversation

100 Lyrics into Stories — No26 — “What do you want to know?” he asked, his fingertips trailing across her hand as lightly as a butterfly’s wings against the petals of a flower. “Ask, and I’ll tell you. There are so many things I want to talk to you about.” She looked at him with nervous eyes. …

100 Story Challenge

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Take the Conversation
Take the Conversation
100 Story Challenge

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Jillian Spiridon

Jillian Spiridon

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just another writer with too many cats

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