{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Quilled Sister", "icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/00/1703138.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://quilledsister.micro.blog/", "feed_url": "https://quilledsister.micro.blog/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/05/28/in-theo-of-golden-allen.html", "content_html": "

In “Theo of Golden,” Allen Levi has created a character (and accompanying ensemble) I will truly miss spending my evenings with. What a gift!

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It’s new story day! And this one’s a collab with @jatowler! Read here: Today I am Keening

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So it was never

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The noise, look, or animals

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But profit always

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…a haiku about the arguments against sustainable energy like wind and solar farms now that we have all these AI data centers popping up everywhere. We all ready knew but now it’s just painfully obvious all those “concerns” were lies.

\n", "date_published": "2026-05-23T15:27:40-04:00", "url": "https://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/05/23/so-it-was-never-the.html" }, { "id": "http://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/05/14/i-like-to-leave-hints.html", "content_html": "

I like to leave hints for Morning Me, like putting a plate near the muffins that need to be eaten soon or a glass by the fridge so I finish the cold brew.\nUnfortunately, Morning Me is stupid. And gets irritated that Night Me left dishes randomly about.

\n", "date_published": "2026-05-14T19:46:03-04:00", "url": "https://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/05/14/i-like-to-leave-hints.html" }, { "id": "http://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/05/06/sing-snuff-out-the-light.html", "content_html": "

Sing ‘Snuff Out The Light’

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As I slather the aloe

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Denial of fault

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….a haiku on my sunburn (which was totally worth the beach days). Each time I’m in this pain I blame the sun as if there aren’t >1000 products that would save me this fate.

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The sun has burned me,

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And while I know it’s my fault,

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My fury boundless.

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…a haiku on why I can’t even THINK because Lord have mercy do my arms itch/hurt!! Aaaaaaaaaahhhh 😭

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Thirteen minute mile,

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The last time I felt this free,

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Was a dream long gone.

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…a haiku for the 5k I ran this morning. I once called myself a Runner and am determined to do so again. Do not let illness or the world convince you to be less than You.

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“And if you speak to my betrothed like that again, I won’t have you killed, no. I will do it myself, with pleasure.” #unrelatedcharacterquotes

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Do you bowl-ieve in the power of friendship? New short story: Today I am Devotion

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A quiet sun day

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Only birds and the soft wind

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A clown horn calls out.

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…a haiku for a tiny event that made me laugh for several minutes. Out here writing in this gorgeous glimpse of spring and somewhere in the distance, one lone clown horn honk. The kids must be free and having a great time.

\n", "date_published": "2026-03-22T15:05:49-04:00", "url": "https://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/03/22/a-quiet-sun-day-only.html" }, { "id": "http://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/03/11/hi-my-name-is-callie.html", "content_html": "

Hi my name is Callie and I have a comma addiction.

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As I refurbish old posts, I’m am finding my biggest issue is the onslaught of unnecessary commas! Why did I feel the need to instruct so many breaths and dramatic pauses??

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So there. Only used 1 this whole post.

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The book is always better

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The viewings leave such to be desired

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Nothing is taken down to the letter

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And I want the director fired

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Why can’t he take the light

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That burned so brightly in me

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that kept me woke throughout the night

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And shine it out for all to see?

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He’s pilfered and he’s filtered

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To condense into the time

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And I am left bewildered

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At the audacity of his crime!

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The faces wrong, the words atrocious!

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A subplot gone, my rage ferocious!

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A forced romance, there goes the sequel

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(It can’t advance without its equal).

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I sit here mad, in my uneasy chair

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I’ve been had, and it isn’t fair

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For I will watch this film again.

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The story botched, but still a win.

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….a poem inspired by Netflix’s recent movies on books I have absolutely adored. I ate “The Guernsey Lliterary and Potato Peel Pie Society” like a famished reader. It was so well done and I fell in love with each character, and how the author made all of it so real. And I don’t mean in the way some excellent fantasy authors make you seriously consider magic, but as if I was truly peering into these people’s lives. I felt a different, but equal, kind of joy from reading the series of “The Thursday Murder Club” books. Less real people, but just fun to read in the same way beach books are, but a little more cerebral.\nThen I watched their Netflix counterparts. Look, I knew going in. I’m one of the “DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?!” complainers. And on top of that, it was, ya know, Netflix. So when characters got mushed together and subplots traded in for cameos, I only groaned minimally.\nAnd really, I shouldn’t groan at all. Because “Guernsey” is now one of my treasured volumes. It’s one I will tell others they HAVE to read, but refuse to lend my own copy out (we all have a few of those, don’t we?). But- and here’s the turn- I wouldn’t have even looked it up if Netflix hadn’t suggested the movie to me. It came up on my “for you” list and I thought “well that sounds more like the title of a book… an interesting book.” So I went on my search, found it, and the rest is me curled up in a ball well into the night in my plant nook.\nSo can I complain? In this time of growing illiteracy (both basic and media and artistic, really all senses) shouldn’t we be celebrating anything that can lead people to story? Or should we be arguing that instead- these things should be done perfectly right?\nI’m really asking. I’ve argued myself in both directions.\nI suppose tonight my stance is, this book led me to rhyme for the first time in weeks, and I am grateful for any way it came to me.

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What is your top “The Book Was Better”?

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“Of course I still use checks! Anyone taking your money should hear the power flick of your pen, dearie.”\n#unrelatedcharacterquotes

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-24T21:19:37-04:00", "url": "https://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/02/24/of-course-i-still-use.html" }, { "id": "http://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/02/19/new-conspiracy-for-a-new.html", "title": "New Conspiracy for a New Age", "content_html": "

With too many conspiracies being proven true lately (and mostly the sad, bad ones) I think we all deserve a new fun one. As a treat.

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Especially since so many of the entertaining ones have been stolen from us, like good ol’ Nessy (who at best was a monk’s fever dream after too much scribing with dubious-plant-based inks, and at worst was a money grab, and realistically, probs both).

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So I give you: There is no Eye in Evolve.\n(Get it? No I, no eye? Hee hee)

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It starts with a great base: Jellyfish are trying to take over the world. Why? Easy- they’ve managed to float basically unchanged through all of history, ever, no matter if oceans freeze (they don’t even go dormant really. They just kind… stop… until they melt) or meteors take out half the population- big deal! They’re good! Just wait for the random midnight that happens under certain moons to repopulate under conditions even horoscope girlies think is a bit much.

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Until us- humans are starting to change the ocean in ways that jellies are having to actually adjust to. Ugh. They are having to evolve for the first time… like ever. Well, more like the 3rd time, but that’s about 45000 fewer times than the next least-evolving species. They’re shifting the genus around to deal with acidification and temperature change and food scarcity. This is too much for the jellyfish. If they’re gonna have to make an actual effort- damn it- it’s gonna be a big one.

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Yet hate is a strong feeling for a brainless floating blob. They’re not taking over the world to kill us all- no no! That would really trash up the waterways. They just think they, we, the planet, would be better off jelly. Jelly is great. We should all be jelly.

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The process? Gotta take those weird mammalian things that crawled out of the waters back to a more suitable standard.\nThe first move? Get rid of the eye. Don’t need that. Jelly got rhopalia, does the trick.\nRhopalia are VERY light sensitive. Obviously, infiltrate leading technology (easy- have you ever seen an AI bot and a jellyfish in the same room? No. How about an IT expert and a jellyfish? No one has. Ever. Cause they’re the same). Blow up the lights. Lamps? Huge bulbs, never go out. Make them literally buzz with annoying power. Phones? Big huge screens that each update get subtly brighter. Make bigger phones more socially cool. Cars? Turn those beams UP. No human should be able to see when driving. Give up the eyeball or crash trying.

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It might… it might also be moths in charge. Never mind I’ll worry about that later.

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This is why you’re addicted to your phone. It’s not marketing schemes, it’s not the government taking your data. It’s the jellies.

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And oh, what’s that? You can’t see now that your ridiculously over evolved orbs are reconstituted to a nice little sensory nerve? I guess you’ll be doing a lot of grasping around in the dark. If only you had more arms… many of them… maybe it would be easier to not move so much. To just… float along? BOOM. Everything is jelly.

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I mean this conspiracy has EVERYTHING! A not-so-innocent-afterall main character, government infiltration, a long-con. I think it’s gonna go places.\nMostly wet places. As all places should be. Dark and wet and filled with yummy zooplankton…

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…what?

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Jellyfish. There’s no Eye in Evolve.

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I swear the damn light

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Is brighter than it once was

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In the dark I hide.

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…a haiku for my conspiracy that the lowest setting for screen light on the iPhone is brighter than it once was. Let me lower it further! How am I supposed to waste bed time in these conditions??

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“You look like death reheated.”

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“… the saying is death warmed over.”

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“No baby, you look like death forgot you in the back of the fridge and then threw you in the microwave.”\n#unrelatedchacterquotes

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“So yeah, I’m throwing stones from glasses houses. But at least I can see clearly from in here.” #unrelatedcharacterquotes

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“I like my tea hot enough to burn the day away.”\n#unrelatedcharacterquotes

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I’m going to start doing #characterquotes. I’ll write out a phrase that came to mind & made me think of a character I either have created or should but has nothing to do with any story ever.

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It will look the same as me having a mild mental break with ThE VoiCeS in my head but I’m okay with that.

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-03T20:56:08-04:00", "url": "https://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/02/03/im-going-to-start-doing.html" }, { "id": "http://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/01/08/dracula-in-my-home.html", "title": "Dracula in My Home", "content_html": "

You scream.\nI scream.\nWe all scream.\nBecause you’re in my house and neither of us wants that.\nOh tiny creature of the night\nThey say you are fear\nBut I see fear in your tiny eyes, your shivering wing.\nTrust me.\nI shiver as well when the world is too big, too bright.\nNow get in the tupperware\nso I may release you into the dark.

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-08T09:05:05-04:00", "url": "https://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/01/08/dracula-in-my-home.html" }, { "id": "http://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/01/05/this-little-piggy.html", "title": "This Little Piggy", "content_html": "

I rise\nJust to fall again\nSlam again\nBetray my friend\nWho is just there\nOn the end\nDoing their little best.

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Why are you not like the rest?\nWhy do you keeping passing\nor, is it failing,\nThis test?\nWhen it’s clear you’re not wanted\nNot needed\nNot heeded.

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You’re not meant to roam\nYou’re meant to head home\nBruised and battered\nAs you are

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…a slam poem for my broken pinky toe that I slammed again this morning.

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-05T11:55:49-04:00", "url": "https://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/01/05/this-little-piggy.html" }, { "id": "http://quilledsister.micro.blog/2026/01/03/i-made-some-sliders-it.html", "content_html": "

I made some sliders.\nIt settled a rage in me.\nMustard has answers.

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…a haiku for dinner fixing my hangry-ness before I became violent.

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Sometimes I wake in the night- my subconscious brimming with brilliance that it cannot contain! I thrust myself out of bed towards a pen. Many of my proudest works have been born at midnight.\nOccasionally though, I find the sticky note in the morning and it says like “purple bowl.” Wtf.

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They quoted Byron.\nNot Shelly.\nA beautiful, faithful adaptation I was about to be on my feet for!\nAnd the finale card?\nA quote. By Byron.\nNot her word Beware. Or her line on Beginning.\nThey instead End with Byron.\nIn 2025\nTwo men named before Shelly.\nAnd they still ask who the monster is?\nRage.

\n", "date_published": "2025-11-17T21:30:08-04:00", "url": "https://quilledsister.micro.blog/2025/11/17/they-quoted-byron-not-shelly.html" }, { "id": "http://quilledsister.micro.blog/2025/10/31/131825.html", "content_html": "

In today’s plan of “I’m so independent”

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I hung up some shades, no attendant

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Now I did break a glass

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and fall on my ass

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but damnit the shades look resplendent!

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