@irette.bsky.social
Writer. Gardener. Lover of theatre. Amateur bird watcher. I know way too much about baking cookies. Words in FIYAH, Strange Horizons, and other places. www.iretteypatterson.com
First marigold blooms of the season.
22.06.2025 04:05 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking down at 2 grow bags with potato plants growing in them.
Update - Yukon Gold potatoes. According to the information that came with the seed potatoes, they should be ready to harvest the first week in May. I don’t see any signs of them slowing down, though. No yellow leaves or flowers. Oh well. There’s nothing to do but wait.
20.04.2025 13:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White rose bush in a field.
Purple irises in bloom
Pink rose bush in bloom
First bloom of the season - roses and irises.
20.04.2025 13:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seed packet collection- beans, marigolds, basil, sweet peppers, cucumbers, and dill.
Found the Dollar Tree location with an excellent seed selection. My regular store was picked over. And look - my favorite cuke variety was available- Marketmore 76.
11.04.2025 23:11 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3 collard plants in a garden. Picture taken from above.
Collards have graduated to the big garden right ahead of the rain. I experimented with placing the smaller Alabama Blue between the Green Glaze. I might end up moving it, though. I think those Green Glaze collards will jump.
06.04.2025 13:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just sent 6 collard seedlings home with my sister, 2 of the following - Big Daddy Greasy, Green Glaze McCormack’s, and Alabama Blue. She said hers weren’t growing well. Alas, no pictures.
05.04.2025 21:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They’ve worked for me so far. I’ll report back on the potatoes when they’re farther along. I’m interested in container gardening because I want to be able to garden even if I live in an apartment.
Once the Irish potatoes are done it’ll be time to start sweet potatoes.
Alabama Blue collards seedlings and Green Glaze McCormack’s collards seedlings in 6 count green seed starter tray. View from above.
First seedling gift of the season is a go! Collards for a colleague.
02.04.2025 21:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😂
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Fiction submissions opening 3 submission windows for 2025
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If you were close, I’d give you some seedlings. They’re both new-to-me varieties.
31.03.2025 23:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gumbo
Fried chicken and Mac and cheese
Shrimp and grits
Beignets
And of course I ate.
31.03.2025 23:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
St. Charles Street Streetcar, New Orleans
Path of Live oak trees
Garden district, New Orleans, LA
Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA
Pictures from my New Orleans trip.
31.03.2025 23:16 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yukon Gold potato seedlings in grow bag
Irish cobbler potato seedlings in grow bag.
Irish potato grow bag experiment update - 30 days. Yukon Gold and Irish Cobbler. USDA zone 8a
31.03.2025 23:13 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Green Glaze McCormack’s collards seedlings
Alabama Blue collards seedlings
The collard green seedlings are growing y’all! Green Glaze on the left. Alabama Blue on the right.
31.03.2025 23:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I carefully planted some carrot seeds. I bet if I threw some on the ground they’d do better 😂.
19.03.2025 23:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Well, Publishers Weekly likes THE PAYBACK. “As their scheme unfolds, Cauley burnishes her page-turner with shrewd commentary on the debt burden placed on first-generation college students. It’s a knockout.” www.publishersweekly.com/9781668075531
19.03.2025 13:42 — 👍 145 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 0
Congrats to the BSFA Awards 2024 Shortlist
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The 2024 Nebula Awards ballot has been announced by SFWA. Congratulations to the finalists!
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Haven Spec Magazine, Issue Nineteen, March 2025. Cover and table of contents. The contents are as follows: Cover Art by Abi Stevens Art. Fiction: Handsomest Gentlest by M. R. Robinson. A True Account of a Pre-Teen Blob by Marie Vibbert. Coming Home to Leviathan by Sagan Yee. Host by Catherine McCarthy. Poetry: Bandits of Dream City by Sharang Biswas. What Does Your Revolution Look Like? by Ewen Ma. Dawn Witching with Crows by Devin Miller. Hermit of the Crossroads by Marie Brennan. Nonfiction: Letter from the Editor, Ya Herd? By Leon Perniciaro. Short Fiction Reviews By Danai Christopoulou. Interviews with Lindz McLeod and Terese Mason Pierre.
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Legacy: A Short Story - A picture of a lightning strike to a town below at night. Cover Art Copyright – © Hassanmohiudin | Dreamstime.com
This week’s short story “Legacy” is a 3,907 word historical fantasy about grandmothers and granddaughters and what it means to feel safe in an insecure world.
TW - This story takes place during the Atlanta Child Murders in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
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Hooray! My new cozy fantasy short story "Mail-Order Magic" is out now and free to read at @morningtransport.bsky.social : www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/mail-order...
Enjoy!
Dammit @jrdawson.bsky.social "Six People to Revise You" in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social issue 62 made me ugly cry.
You should go read it.
Uh, anyone watching #ParadiseHulu over here? Because that last episode had me stressed.
Also, they finally show the people getting left behind when the chosen few selected to save the human race leave.
Collards seedlings in an open milk jug greenhouse.
Milk jug greenhouse update. Collards seedlings planted Christmas morning. They sprouted when they got ready.
26.02.2025 02:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For the past couple of mornings, I woke up knowing exactly what l wanted to write. And then there was this morning. Just me and the blank screen looking back at me 🤣.
26.02.2025 02:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My short story "Winning" is available to read for free on my website through March 1, 2025.
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Brussels sprouts plant pulled up on a black table.
Pulled up the last Brussels sprouts plant. Onward!
24.02.2025 23:28 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
