Alexandra Spada - Author

Dormant Planet: Chapter 3 Aisha tends her garden while the cat Sourdough keeps watch

#HappyHalloween! Chapter 3 of my #spacehorror is out now, always FREE to read! 🚨

When alarms blare "HULL BREACH," Aisha has seconds to decide: follow evacuation orders or trust her instincts? What would you do?

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(art/words by ME, no AI)

Dormant Planet: Chapter 2 Nesh and Frayla find themselves on an empty spaceship. Or so they think.

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#SciFi

Me: writes space horror
Also me: gets scared reading my own writing 💀

Chapter 2 of Dormant Planet gave me the creeps and I literally wrote the thing. Latest chapter up on my Substack! It's free, it's bloody, and it ends on a cliffhanger because I'm evil like that 😈

Star Trek is so cool (btw)

The Shining! One of my favorite scary movies 🍿

“6 inches isn’t enough and 12 inches is too much” - @michaelhobbes.bsky.social speaking about Subway has never been more correct.

Dormant Planet: Chapter 2 Nesh and Frayla find themselves on an empty spaceship. Or so they think.

Frayla and Nesh thought they were heading to paradise. New planet, new life, new beginning.

Instead, they're hiding in a closet listening to screams echo through their ship.

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#SpaceHorror #SciFi

taking a 🔫 class today for the very first time, never used one or disabled one so it will be good to have that knowledge under my belt. Yknow. Because this is America.

This Week in Trans Anxiety: Fascist Family Members How do you survive when your family chooses fascism over you?

I am genuinely distressed by the fact that my own family would rather erase me over supporting and defending me.

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went apple picking this weekend

they’re just saying it out loud now. Sickening.

🙇🏾 thank you coffee, you saved me

we said goodbye to the pool for the season today 😭🥲

How to Woo a Tourist (Bring the Weed) A summer hookup story in three acts

a steamy summer hookup story in three acts 😏 enjoy my original memoir writing hehe #originalwriting #romance #memoir

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The Same Chains Surviving child abuse and US government oppression

My latest blog dives into what it's like to grow up in a right-wing home. And let me tell you, it's a helluva lot like dealing with the US government right now as an American.

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Wow, that’s absolutely stunning and incredible. Thank you so much for sharing with us

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

The NonBinary Review by @zoeticpress.bsky.social is open for submissions. Current theme is metamorphosis. More here: www.zoeticpress.com/submit #writingcommunity

I’m obsessed with Angelina Jolie so it’s been one of my favorites for a while hehe

Hackers is such an underrated and excellent film!

I’m honestly just so happy they’re well hydrated up there!

I hand draw all my own illustrations on my “old” (2021) iPad Pro, no AI 🥰 One more reason to check out my stories and their accompanying illustrations 🥰👍🏻

Dormant Planet: Chapter 1 Smoke and shadows launch a space horror story

And here’s the first chapter of my space horror story! #scifi #horror #space
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Mac n' Cheese and My Granite Soul Reflections on a breakup

Wow! I forgot to share my two latest blogs, oops! I’m learning this social media / author thing hehe. But here’s what I wrote last Sunday (memoir reflection) and yesterday (sci-fi horror fiction)

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it’s a perfect summer day 😌☺️

and a relief to know he’s gone, and hopefully his indoctrination methods will disappear into the ether

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I LOVE THIS! Incredible😍🥰

🥹🥹🫶🏻🫶🏻 that’s the cutest thing i’ve ever heard 😭😭

Gods of Substack, Have Mercy on Africans Dear Substack gods, we need to talk.

Please read!!!! Let’s start a movement on Substack to get them to add more payout merchants. African writers can’t get paid because of Stripe restrictions in African countries. Join me in spreading the word to get African writers paid!! open.substack.com/pub/sophieau...