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Glory Fink

@gloryfink.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈 Writer of engaging nonfiction and fiction with humor and heart Genres: paranormal, sci-fi, fantasy, LGBTQIA+ romance & poetry Black Lives Matter ✊🏼Trans Lives Matter 🔗 https://linktr.ee/glorywritestheblues

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Biscuit barks at the dark. Bubby Vama says not tonight Then comes tea, bread, and the truth that may break the whole family 📚💙🪐⚡ Chapter 9 of Those D*mn Brownies is cozy fantasy with bite 🎧 open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #CozyFantasy #FantasyPodcast #AudioFiction #ThoseDamnBrownies

🎧 Those D*mn Brownies — Season 2, Episode 2: Chapter 9: How to Kill Your Mother in 99 Easy Steps

Listen now | 🎧 Those D*mn Brownies — Season 2, Episode 2: Chapter 9: How to Kill Your Mother in 99 Easy Steps | Bubby Vama opens the door and tells the darkness: not tonight. But the truth inside the...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I wrote a student newspaper column about condoms The university president tried to expel me He failed I graduated with honors Now I’m revisiting the column with more humor, context, and receipts 💙📚💡 The Condom Column That Shook Higher Education: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #FreeSpeech

The Condom Column That Shook Higher Education

From the Vault: safe sex, student journalism, and the wild ride at Southern Miss | Some essays arrive with a thesis statement. Some arrive with a paper trail. And some arrive from the vault wearing li...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For anyone who enjoys small-town gossip, Southern quirks, Jewish divorce law, and the sentence “He experienced it as a warning from God” 💙📚 New Fillmore story: How the Dixie Mafia Got a Get open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #SouthernHumor #JewishStories #SmallTownStories

How the Dixie Mafia Got a Get

A darkly funny Southern short story about a Jewish divorce, a missing get, and the small-town intervention that solved it in the most unexpected way

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 5mo ago

chapter 17 The Trouble with Angels contains: 📚💙🪐⚡🎧 archangels at waffle house and a heavenly murder mystery dinner where the corpse would not respect procedure for readers who like cozy-horror satire: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #TheTroubleWithAngels #AudioFiction #Fantasy #CozyHorror

🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 10: Chapter 17: The Trouble with God, According to Lucifer (The Corpse Was Uncooperative)

Listen now | 🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 10: Chapter 17: The Trouble with God, According to Lucifer (The Corpse Was Uncooperative) | When the fate of humanity is still hanging somewh...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For readers who love tender folklore, queer hope, and stories where magic comes to help instead of haunt Deadname Dan is a gentle, moonlit story about identity, belonging, and becoming yourself 📚💙🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #MiddleGrade #QueerBooks #TransJoy #Folklore #GentleFantasy

Deadname Dan

Some names are not lost. They are only on their way home. When twelve-year-old Abigail hears her deadname one time too many, her best friend tells her of a moonlit spirit who carries away outgrown nam...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If your idea of self-care is porch-sitting, sweet tea, and laughing at petty civic announcements: Fillmore’s spring report is here. Slugs thriving, teens feral, crawfish prices criminal 🌱🫖 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #smalltown #southernhumor #satire #SweetTeaEnergy

Fillmore Spring Report: Slugs Are Thriving, Teens Are Feral, Crawfish Prices Are Criminal

Fillmore Quarterly News — Spring Edition | Fillmore’s Spring Edition reports that Easter and Passover prep is ramping up (including a warning to stop dyeing baby chicks and to buy ham early), while ga...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If you like afterlife bureaucracy + celestial chaos + cozy-horror satire with heart: this episode is a cathartic little “no, actually” to the universe 💙📚⚡🩸🪐 Read/listen: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #FictionPodcast

🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 7: Chapter 14, Part 3: I Need to Speak to the Manager of Existence—Because Honey, You Don’t Deserve the Headache I’m About to Give Someone

Listen now | Chapter 14, Part 3: I Need to Speak to the Manager of Existence—Because Honey, You Don’t Deserve the Headache I’m About to Give Someone | In Part 3, Hannah’s grief stops being a file and ...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Preorders OPEN ✨🚀 CAPTURED AMONG THE STARS by @clockhartwrite.bsky.social Captain Kyra Johnson: surviving grief, claiming power, and now… captured by alien crocodiles. 🐊👽 💙📚⚡ PB writteninmelanin.com/store/p/tlw2p HB writteninmelanin.com/store/p/tlw2h E writteninmelanin.com/store/p/tlw2e

Square, red-toned sci-fi promo graphic. Large title at top: “THE LADY WIDOW.” On the left is a 3D book mockup: “The Lady Widow Book 2: Captured Among the Stars” by C. M. Lockhart, showing two women in a spaceship setting, tense and ready to fight, with green laser beams and a crocodile-like alien figure at the bottom. On the right, white text reads: “Book 2 coming May 26, 2026” and: “In this Black space opera, a grieving widow becomes the captain of her late husband’s spaceship to avenge his murder.” Bottom text compares vibes: “Cowboy Bebop x Frieren x Star Trek: Discovery.” A cute star/planet sticker appears in the lower right.

Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Heaven runs on forms. Grief files an escalation. Upper Admin says: “Please regulate your tone.” 💙📚🎧 If you like afterlife bureaucracy + celestial chaos + cozy-horror satire with heart: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #AudioFiction #UrbanFantasy #SatireWithHeart

🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 6: Chapter 14, Part 2

Chapter 14, Part 2: I Need to Speak to the Manager of Existence—Because Honey, You Don’t Deserve the Headache I’m About to Give Someone

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 7mo ago

All that’s holding me together today: 2 soup bowls of coffee, avocado toast, and an irrational spite to inject more whimsy into our increasingly cursed timeline

Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Need a palate cleanser for your nervous system? This episode is a sunset carnival reunion where kindness is accessible, hydration is enforced, and a five-year-old CEO ambushes an archangel with a clipboard and Party Pony Rescue Plan 📚💙🎧⚡ Read/Listen Here: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin...

🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 4 (Chapter 13)

Listen now | The Ways & The Means: By Blood and By Policy | This family reunion has everything: carnival lights, laminated schedules, and emotional-support water stations. Michael hauls Gabriel into t...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If you enjoy “afterlife bureaucracy” + “celestial chaos” + cozy-ominous satire: Chapter 11 features an apocalypse memo appearing by a hotel ICE MACHINE. Three immortals lean in like it’s office gossip, but the paper feels… holy-wrong. 💙📚⚡🩸🎧🪐 #FictionPodcast #AudioDrama

🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 2: Chapter 11

Listen now | Business Casual Armageddon | A Holiday Inn Express is the last place you expect to witness divine crisis management. But when the universe is glitching, it turns out apocalypse paperwork ...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If “paradise” feels uncanny when you’re grieving, here’s an episode that gets it: afterlife bureaucracy, celestial chaos, and cozy-horror satire—with heart. 🕯🥭 💙📚⚡🩸🎧🪐 open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #AudioDrama #CozyHorror

🎧 The Trouble with Angels — Season 2, Episode 1

Listen now | Drink Up, The World’s About to End (Chapter 10) | Paradise is supposed to be soothing. But grief doesn’t believe in palm trees. Hannah and Bob step into Maui — a place so perfect it feels...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 8mo ago

False Spring: one warm day and suddenly everybody’s on the porch in flip-flops, planning a whole garden life. 🌱 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #SouthernHumor

False Spring and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves in Fillmore

This week, seed catalogs have hit the mailboxes—which means Fillmore has entered its holiest season: Delulu Planning Season. People are choosing tomatoes like soulmates, the hardware store has built a...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Dark academia + cozy-creepy mystery readers: Chapter 12 is bureaucracy horror. 🕯📄 Detention. “Documentation review.” Polite threats. Gwen survives by getting smarter than the system. ⚡📚💙 Read/listen: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #DarkAcademia #CozyMystery #FictionPodcast

🎧 Boarding School Murder Mystery — Chapter 12 (80% Off Christmas Special expires Jan 2026)

Listen now | Chapter 12: A Perfectly Reasonable Punishment: Detention and Deportation Threats (Season 1 Finale) | Gwen’s big mouth finally catches up to her—right in the middle of class. 😳 Whisperen d...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Need a cozy dark academia mystery where “case closed” feels like a threat? 😌🔒 Fog + whispers + institutional secrets + a narrator who won’t stop noticing the wrong details. 💙📚⚡ Read It Here: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #CozyMystery #DarkAcademia #ParanormalMystery #FictionPodcast

🎧 Boarding School Murder Mystery — Chapter 11 (80% OFF Christmas Special expires: Jan 2026)

Listen now | A Perfectly Reasonable Cover-up | Whisperen Academy offered everyone a neat little conclusion and expected the whole school to move on. 📎😌 Gwen didn’t. The official story felt too conveni...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Cozy paranormal murder mystery fans: Chapter 10 is the “no fingerprints + unfinished audit + everyone acting normal” episode If you’ve ever been dismissed by authority and thought “okay but I’m STILL right”—this one’s for you. 👁 ⚡📚💙 Read It Here: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #CozyMystery

🎧 Boarding School Murder Mystery — (Part 10) (80% off Christmas Special)

Listen now | Chapter 10: Something Is Amiss at Whisperen Academy | At Whisperen Academy, rumors spread faster than truth. Fingerprints vanish. Whispers multiply. And what should have been impossible...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Gwen’s day goes from “Health class on alcoholism” to “ghost story about an Alberta highway where the birds are gone and the rules say never whistle after dark.” ⚡💙📚 Read It Here: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #CozyHorror #ParanormalMystery #SerialStory

🎧 Boarding School Murder Mystery — (Part 9)

Listen now | Chapter 9: Werewolves, Wendigos, Whatever: Tales of the Alberta Highway | This week, Gwen’s “normal” school day turns into a crash course in Canadian wilderness horror. A bizarre new Heal...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Fog lifts. A skiff appears. A school holds its breath. Read for the mood; take away how silence and small details raise a story’s stakes💙📚⚡ Read It Here: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #CozyMystery #AtmosphericFiction

🎧 Boarding School Murder Mystery — Part 8

Listen now | Chapter 8: Where Are the Mounties When You Need Them? | When the fog finally lifts over Whisperen Lake, everyone expects sunlight—not a mysterious wooden skiff drifting alone in open wate...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If you’ll be meeting Southern in-laws: this short guide helps you avoid faux pas, read the room, and escape awkward convos with grace. Full of practical tips + ridiculous true stories 💙📚 Read: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #ThanksgivingGuide #MeetingTheFamily #SouthernHospitality

Y’all Ready for This?

A Newcomer’s Guide to Southern Thanksgiving Culture Shock | Visiting your Southern in-laws for Thanksgiving is not a trip — it’s an initiation ritual. Whether you’re arriving with a casserole, a smile...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Love can feel like holding a bird—beautiful, fleeting, and impossible to own. 🕊 💙📚 Explore the emotional truth of letting go in this short, lyrical poem: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin...

A Wild Thing Called Love

The hardest lesson of loving is letting it fly away. This poem reminds us that love is never owned—it soars, it drifts, it disappears into sky. To love is to risk the hollow ache of loss, to feel ribs...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ship Without a Shore explores the tension between past pain and present love, showing how memory can ripple through even our safest harbors 💙📚 Read and reflect: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #poetry #confessionalpoetry #healing #relationships #emotionalwriting

Ship Without a Shore

A poem about the scars that surface when love touches old wounds

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The first scent of snow calls the soul home. ❄️ Pause: take a three-count inhale and notice one memory that rises. Say it aloud, or keep it as your quiet companion 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #winterpoetry #mindfulness

Here's the entire poem shhhh...

The Benediction of Snow
By Glory Fink
When I smell snow in the air,
it awakens something pure and sanctified within me—
something that’s been sleeping all summer long—
and I feel myself becoming more wholly my Self again,
as if the heat and noise have burned away
and left me cleansed by silence.
The air tastes of memories:
early mornings when frost laced the window glass,
when the world was still tender enough
to believe in hope again.
And once again, I can breathe—
deep into my chest,
all the way through my feet,
into the earth I stand upon.
My ribs open;
I am a conduit between Air and Earth,
part of everything and all together.
Every breath becomes a prayer
I didn’t know I was saying.
A hush gathers around me like a benediction,
forgiving without words,
knowing I was trying all along.
Somewhere, a crow calls into the stillness,
and I answer back—
not with my voice,
but with the calmness inside me,
finally remembering how to listen
to the stories the trees and wind
have been whispering all along.

Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Chapter 7 follows Gwen from weekend coffee runs to being the last person to see a missing teacher. Read if you like slow-build suspense, dependable narrators, and characters who feel like friends 💙📚⚡ open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #CozyMystery #BoardingSchool #SerialFiction

Here's the whole scene rather than just what I could fit into the screenshot:
... the Headmistress herself appeared to announce that Mr. Grunfeld was missing.
“Might anyone have heard about his whereabouts?” she asked.
Everyone shook their heads.
After school, Raine fetched me to go to the Headmistress’s office.🪑 The air inside was heavy with the smell of lemon polish and suspicion. 🍋😬 I sat straight in the stiff chair, trying not to fidget while the Headmistress steepled her fingers and looked me over as if I were an unsolved equation.
“Gwen, why didn’t you tell me you saw him at dawn Friday morning on the lakeshore?”
I blinked. “I forgot about it,” I said honestly. “I’ve slept since then.” 😴
“What was he doing? What did he look like?”
“He was just wearing his trench coat,” I said, picturing the scene again. “Walking around, muttering to himself, looking at the ground like he’d lost something.” 🧥🤔
“Why didn’t you go see if you could help him?”
“I didn’t think he liked me,” I replied. “So I didn’t want to irritate him before breakfast and put my foot in my mouth.” I hesitated, then added, “Are you going to call the police, Headmistress?”
The woman’s eyes sharpened. “Why would I call the police, Gwen?”
“Because a man is missing,” I said, baffled. “Isn’t that what you do — so the police can look for him?”
“That’s none of your business, Gwen.”
“Then why is it my business to talk to him before classes if I see him at the lake,” I countered, my voice rising, “but not my business to contact the authorities if his family and work have suddenly lost contact with him?”
The Headmistress’s expression didn’t flicker but she did lightly sigh. “It just is, Gwen.” Apparently, adults get to decide when a missing person is actually missing.
“Has anyone gone to his home?” I pressed. “Maybe he’s sick with the flu and needs medical attention?”
Headmistress Bullock and Raine exchanged a look — the kind adults use when they’ve already decided not to tell you something.
Finally Ra…

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

10 years ago I felt like Beverly Crusher in that TNG episode where everyone she knows keeps disappearing until she's the only one left on the ship. At that point so many people I knew and loved had died or moved away or…(MAGA).

Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.

Cartoon Miss Piggy is karate chopping the convicted felon out of frame
HAI-YAH!

Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Some loves are worth the ache. 💔 You’re My Favorite Mistake explores desire, surrender, and the lessons love teaches—both tender and dangerous. 💙📚 Take a moment to feel it: open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin...

You're My Favorite Mistake

Some desires are worth the damage | In this bittersweet poem of longing and surrender, passion becomes both sin and salvation. You’re My Favorite Mistake explores the ache of wanting someone you shoul...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Exhausted on the second night of Hanukkah, I almost skipped frying. Then the ancestors whispered, the apple fritters called, and magic happened. 🍏✨ 💙📚 Read the poem and remember: small rituals carry love. open.substack.com/pub/gloryfin... #Poetry #Hanukkah #FamilyTraditions #TinyRituals

A Little Oil, A Lot of Ancestors

It takes a whole family to make the magic—and the fritters | Sometimes traditions feel like a lot of work, a little chaos, and a touch of family pressure—but they’re also the moments that anchor us, e...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Fog, stolen coffee, and a missing teacher: Chapter 6 is a cozy little mystery that mixes humor and heart. Perfect for a quiet commute read 💙⚡📚 🌫☕️ Read or listen here: gloryfink.substack.com/p/boarding-s... #CozyMystery #YAreads #ShortStory #FictionPodcast

🎧 Boarding School Murder Mystery — Part 6

Listen now | Chapter 6: Dawn Prayers and The Man Who Wasn’t There | Morning comes wrapped in fog thick enough to swallow the chapel bells. Gwen’s still half-asleep, trying not to spill her instant cof...

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Glory Fink @gloryfink.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Thanks @valorievandieman.bsky.social for helping me get back on Bluesky!

a raccoon looking out of a green dumpster with the words guess who 's back

Alt: a raccoon looking out of a green dumpster with the words guess who 's back

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