A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

Free Short Story: The Absence of Fireflies Deanna’s whole town was in love with horses. Everywhere smelled of manure, impossible to track to a single pair of shoes. We flew by yellow road signs warning not of children playing, but of hidden…

New short story up for free on LucyKRwrites.com! The Absence of Fireflies, a WLW short horror about a weird hometown.

>Her voice was different there, in that town. I knew that I knew her– I’d known her for years– but that place made a stranger of her.

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SkyStay

A graphic made over a background of a photograph of deep space showing stars and a gas cloud. Text on the graphic reads: Recruitment for authors to write stories for Duck Prints Press's next anthology "Beyond the Galactic Tide" featuring stories starring asexual characters in outer space settings is open NOW through January 31st 2026!

Are you a fanfiction author? Have you been wanting to break into publishing your original fiction? We're looking for contributors to BEYOND THE GALACTIC TIDE, our next anthology. What's it about? TL:DR... ACE IN SPACE! For the long version, visit our website: duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-g...

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F.A.Q. Hast thou an uncertainty? Snail Orb and I shall answer your every query, dearie ;) Do I get enough questions to consider any of them Frequently Asked? Not yet! But I’ll answer some here for y…

Anything you want to know? My decorative snail figurine with crystal orb and I are here to answer! lucykrwrites.com/2026/01/08/f...

A photograph showing a tablet on top of piles of books. The book cover on the tablet is Scholarly Pursuits, showing a dragon in a candle-lit room full of books, three bats in the background and a mouse atop a pile of books engaged in conversation with the dragon. One of the piles of books is also topped with the Scholarly Pursuits cover. Text reads: Now available! Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories.

Our most recent anthology SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES is now available! Buy your copy from our webstore, request it from your library, order it at your local bookstore, or purchase it from a retailer who sell our books!

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A graphic on a blue background. Top text reads On Being a Neurodiverse Creator, a Duck Prints Press Panel. Sunday, January 11 | 10 a.m. ET. The middle is an image of a brain with arms and legs and a simplified straining face as it lifts a heavy set of weights. Bottom text reads join patreon.com/duckprintspress for exclusive access.

A graphic with text. The text reads: Description: As an umbrella term for a wide range of ways a brain can work, the word “neurodiverse” has become one way of grouping people with conditions ranging from autism and ADHD, to dyslexia and dysgraphia, to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. For creators, having these conditions can have advantages – such as changing how we see and interact with the world, helping us to unique points of view and frameworks, and supporting our work process – and they can also have disadvantages – such as interfering with ability to focus, causing mood swings that can make creativity tough, and making developing and maintaining creative habits difficult. In this panel, we’ll talk about our own neurodivergence, the ways we find our neurodivergence strengthens us as creators, the challenges that our neurodivergence introduces and how we’ve navigated those challenges, and the value we’ve found in forming communities with other neurodiverse people, touching on the extent to which we find the “neurotypical” and “neurodiverse” frameworks useful and relevant.

Every month, we hold a litcon-style panel on a topic chosen by our Patrons or selected by the panelists themselves. This month, we’re getting together with Sebastian Marie, Puck Malamud, Alex Bauer, Tris Lawrence, and Lucy K. R. about being neurodiverse creators! www.patreon.com/c/duckprints...

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My website is all updated and ready to assist & entertain!
Swing by to learn about my published works, my upcoming projects & personal appearances, some excellent modeling work if I do say so myself, and a surprising number of cats!

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Copperheads, commonly feared by people here in the Southern US, love to eat molting cicadas as a tasty little treat. Don't you find that a little cute? Copperheads just munching up cicadas straight out of the oven. They must be so nice when they're fresh.

Thank you. If you write me again,
Perhaps I’ll read something better.
Surely you’ll be better one day.

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Fix on the hermit’s lantern, and do not think
About the three swords. Do not think about the three swords and
The heart they pierce. I do not see a future
But you will fear everything.
I see myself, written then abandoned.

Fuck, she said, okay, it looks like you’re useless.
(I know they did something in the garden.)
The star is the important part in this one,
And your nakedness.
You will know these shapes from my words, and fear them.

[Excerpt from Part 1 of "Land? Wasted.", a queer Southern poem inspired by The Wasteland.]

Velos the psychic, fictional character,
Told me my fortune though I did not ask
And was, unfortunately, right.
I do not read Tarot, but she does, and I wrote her.

A graphic of the cover of Scholarly Pursuits, featuring a dragon in glasses chatting with a learn-ed mouse, with a single page pulled out to highlight the story "Caffeine and the Unsleeping" by Lucy K.R. Text around the outside of the graphic reads "Academic Vampire x Dropout Barista," "Meet-Ugly!", "Getting Together," "Dissertations & Poetry."

An excerpt from Caffeine and the Unsleeping reading: "Honestly, it was just good to have something to think about for the shift. Do you, uh, want a pastry? While you're reading? On the house." "Thank you for your concern. Sadly, I am unable to partake." "Gluten free?" Ben offers. "Vampire," Vladimir replies. "Ah," says Ben. Text at the bottom reads: "Kickstarter.com/profile/duckprintspress."

Caffeine and the Unsleeping is coming to an Anthology near you! Scholarly Pursuits is crowdfunding now--join Ben, Vladimir, and many others in stories about the cozy side of Dark Academia.

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A new beginning (...again)

>30+ lesbian author, she/her
>Taekwondo student, musician, art lover, Wife Guy, restaurant worker, reader
>Published in And Seek (Not) to Alter Me, She Wears the Midnight Crown, Aim for the Heart, & A Truth Universally Acknowledged
>Find my work with @duckprintspress.com