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Gothic horror | Dark sci-fi | Monster romance

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J. Federle

Gothic horror | Dark sci-fi | Monster romance

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Why Human Collabs Are Crucial to Creativity: My New Logo

By EditorWriterJF on October 15, 2025October 21, 2025

In January 2025, I launched the Author-Oddity Newsletter. After about eight months, as things started to gel, I decided to invest in a logo. Is branding crucial for a good author newsletter? Nope. But I figured, would it feel cool? Would it boost my confidence for a reasonable price? Would it be a whole bunch…

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Haunting Reads for Ghost Pokemon: Lavender Town and My Love of Writing

By EditorWriterJF on September 15, 2025September 9, 2025

I’ve played Pokemon since I was about 10 years old. I remember hiding under my blankets at night with a flashlight and a Game Boy Color, burning my batteries down. When I played, I didn’t just see pixels. I could smell that knee-high grass, and the caves had dank, sticky air like the storage unit…

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Poetry and Nature as Important Tools to Express Emotion

By EditorWriterJF on July 22, 2025August 14, 2025

Sometimes books find you when you need them most. This July, Jarod Anderson’s Something in the Woods Loves You was that book for me. The poetry in its language and message was exactly what I needed. The book is part memoir, part essay, part nature writing. The author, born and raised in Ohio, is struggling…

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My Sister’s Heart Transplant

By EditorWriterJF on January 7, 2020April 2, 2024

TL;DR: My sister got a heart transplant. Please be an organ donor. Click this link: https://www.donatelife.net/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━√v^√v^√ ❤️️ In December of 2018, my sister’s heart failed. No warning. She was 21 years old. It was a rare genetic hiccup. Doctors saved her life that December…but at a cost. Her body became, in a sense, battery…

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J. Federle is a wandering lover of ghost stories and folktales. She left Kentucky to study poetry in England. Now she lives in Peru with her husband and cow-colored dog, where she writes about her own ghosts and folks. Find her work in The Saturday Evening Post, The Threepenny Review, and the NoSleep Podcast, among other awesome publications.
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