Jillian Spiridon

Joined February 2021

325 stories

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just another writer with too many cats

twitter: @jillianspiridon

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In the Illusion's Arms
The first wave of illusion is always the worst, right when it picks me up and cradles me in its ever-provoking tide of whimsy
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
The Pulse of a Story: A Playlist
Circa 2010, I think every writer I knew made playlists to go along with their novel drafts. It was "the thing" to do at the time for writers (especially after Stephenie Meyer of Twilight fame made it a point to acknowledge her musical muses in the acknowledgements of all her books). I was nineteen, an aspiring writer with her head full of bits and bobs and fantastical fluff, and who was I to deny the allure of the beats to be found for my own stories?
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Beat
Monochrome
The words "black and white" really had no meaning to him, at least not in the ways normal people construed them, and he grew up with a world set in shades of sepia
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Dating is So Overrated: A History
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a great personality must be in want of a partner.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Confessions
Wendy's Regret
No matter how often she looked at the London skyscape, Wendy could not find the star that had once led home— yes, home, because that's what it had been—
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Breathe Deep, Listen, and You'll Know
You could have written a book about the sorrows, each one colliding like dominoes falling down a line, but never did you chase away the hopes that erupted
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Cupid's Folly
Her parents named her Love as a joke between them, something they whispered to each other on the nights when they were just too high to care either way,
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Counting Constellations
The stars blinked at her through the sun roof as her mother peeled the car out of the driveway, and only one look back through the rearview
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Wishes and Wanderlust
Kladie knew the mountains as if they were her own form, dusted brown in the summer and paled in the winter, and she would look to them every night outside her window,
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
The Sun Must Rise and Set
The snowbirds will tell you how they can fly away from the frost and live beyond their fickle means in a mansion aplenty by the sea.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
What's Gone Will Not Come Back
In a world bridged on the edge of sense, where reality bent to a will and a way, she knew best how to concoct spells that could be shared or gifted or traded
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
When Forever Says Goodbye
The shattered pieces of what we were hit me with a punch-gut magnitude, quaking through and wrecking all the memories we left behind
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets

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In the Illusion's Arms

The Pulse of a Story: A Playlist

Monochrome

Dating is So Overrated: A History

Wendy's Regret

Breathe Deep, Listen, and You'll Know

Cupid's Folly

Counting Constellations

Wishes and Wanderlust

The Sun Must Rise and Set

What's Gone Will Not Come Back

When Forever Says Goodbye

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