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Mallika Narayanan

@nmals.bsky.social

Writer • baker • cooker • singer • alpaca lover • traveller • bad barista art maker • recovering graphic designer No unsolicited DMs

221 Followers  |  187 Following  |  13 Posts  |  Joined: 27.09.2023  |  1.6167

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YippeeeyYayay! Congrats, Sumitra, @pleomorphic2.bsky.social 🥳🎉 Thanks for the shout🥰 I've had a sneak peek at this NiF and gosh, can't wait to see and read your gorgeous words. It was sheer joy working on this cover. Thanks for trusting me with you literary baby😘

16.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same, Finn! And what part of NO DMs do people not get? Idk. Anyway, great to see you here, under blue skies😊

22.11.2024 15:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Molotov Cocktail How to Establish Cordial Relations with Your Cephalopod Neighbour by Mairead Robinson A giant squid has moved in next-door and the walls are whisper-thin. He plays techno and raves, a flummoxing splas...

ICYMI - You gotta read "How to Establish Cordial Relations with Your Cephalopod Neighbour," 3rd place #FlashMonster winner by @maireadwrites.bsky.social
themolotovcocktail.com/vol-14/flash...

07.11.2023 19:34 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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The Molotov Cocktail A Whisper of Before by JP Relph I hate how time leaves tracks on Nellie’s flesh. Barely a year, but the change is terrible. Her frigid skin ravaged by fernlike brown veins. I miss how she used to be...

"While she’s eating, I gently brush and plait her hair. It used to be Amy’s job, something she loved until she couldn’t bear the sound of bloodless scalp pulling free." - "A Whisper of Before" by @therelphian.bsky.social #FlashMonster 2023 winner! themolotovcocktail.com/vol-14/flash...

01.11.2023 20:13 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Ooh I like this!

06.11.2023 15:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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You called it savings an eye looking through the gaping hole on the little piggy's back racking up every little thing we never said. Look there they are, our mouths our brains our mean words, spent as the cuddles & the promises as thin as the night
#MicroFlashMonday

06.11.2023 15:52 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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30.10.2023 17:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gun running
bullets flying
bodies falling
mind numbing
evil rampaging
flesh exploding
life spilling
blood flooding
vampires drinking
world turning
ever spinning

#MicroFlashMonday #WHQCommunity

30.10.2023 16:53 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much, Nicole!❤️🥰 It's a wonderful, strange feeling!

25.10.2023 16:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today, IN THE DARK I SEE YOU is officially out in the world!!!
That it should come out on Dushera—a day when the goddess of all artistic virtues, blesses us with her infinite capacity to create—is a boon.
Now go, get yourself a copy!!
#bookreleaseday #releaseday #pubday #itdisy

24.10.2023 19:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Holy wow. Julia!! Uft.

19.10.2023 00:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You guys, my author copies are here! I'm too giddy to do an unboxing video right now. Updates with photos and/or video to follow!! Where's the time flying? It's the 3rd and my book comes out in exactly 3 weeks!!! 😱😱😍🎉📕🚨

03.10.2023 21:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
6 photos. 1st: a man at his desk laptop open, thinking & caption says "what my friends think I do". 2nd: A hobo lounging on some steps & caption says "what my mom thinks I do". 3rd: A woman and a man dressed fancy, drinks and exaggerated smoke in hand society lady like, & caption says "what society thinks I do". 4th: A photo of JK Rowling holding an Harry Potter book & caption says "What editors expect me to  do". 5th: A man sitting, thinking, with an open book and a quill in his hand & caption says "what I think I do". 6th: A frazzled man lost in thought playing with a slinky at his desk & caption says "What I really do"

6 photos. 1st: a man at his desk laptop open, thinking & caption says "what my friends think I do". 2nd: A hobo lounging on some steps & caption says "what my mom thinks I do". 3rd: A woman and a man dressed fancy, drinks and exaggerated smoke in hand society lady like, & caption says "what society thinks I do". 4th: A photo of JK Rowling holding an Harry Potter book & caption says "What editors expect me to do". 5th: A man sitting, thinking, with an open book and a quill in his hand & caption says "what I think I do". 6th: A frazzled man lost in thought playing with a slinky at his desk & caption says "What I really do"

(Cue Jeopardy music) Answer: What is a writer.
Thanks to that pesky inner voice I've embodied all 6 depictions at some point. Often on the same day. Happy Friday, y'all❤️

29.09.2023 20:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Woohoo! Congrats Kathy!! xx 🎉🎉

28.09.2023 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Is this the cutest mushroom 🍄 you've ever seen or what? As soon as I spotted it I fell into a Disney portal where everything turned cutesy and doll like, nostalgic music and all.

27.09.2023 15:53 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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