Eolas Pellor
Author. Born in the UK, grew up in Canada. Earned 4 degrees. Taught for nearly 3 decades. Writing seriously since 2023.
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- #pretendpanel #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts It creeps in. I just wrote a short story that has a line in it about Trump's desire to annex Canada and Greenland -- it provides some of the set up for the story. I've written another short story about the CIA assassinating someone.
- #WriteSky #AmQuerying Just received a one sentence rejection 350 days after I queried. At this point no response would have been preferable. That agent won’t be seeing any future work from me. Yeah, it’s petty…
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- #pretendpanel #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts Politics creeps in to my longer fiction, if not my short stories. Politics is part of life, and to the extent that fiction mirrors life, you can't avoid taking political positions, or encountering them in others' work.
- Today is Waitangi Day here in Aotearoa, #pretendpanel, and it gets me thinking about the role of politics in the stories we tell. February 6th: Do you enjoy writing or reading political plotlines? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
- Reposted by Eolas PellorToday is Waitangi Day here in Aotearoa, #pretendpanel, and it gets me thinking about the role of politics in the stories we tell. February 6th: Do you enjoy writing or reading political plotlines? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
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- #ReaderSky #ShortStories My humorous flash/vignette "the Corigan" is up on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/eolaspel...
- Reposted by Eolas Pellor#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky The boys find a dead hallway 👀 (They're like 11-12yo here btw) From #Tenement, my dystopian mystery about people living in an infinite building.
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- One book 📚 — Dracula One movie 🎥 — The Public Eye [1992] One album 💿 — Desire — Bob Dylan One TV show 📺 — The Prisoner [1967-68]
- A little romantic vignette, suitable for the time of year. #BlueSky #Romance #FlashFiction open.substack.com/pub/eolaspel...
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- Reposted by Eolas PellorI want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.
- Finished the first draft of a short story...it'a a bit of a downer, but a friend had requested a short story about a man committing suicide. #WriteSky #ShortStories #AuthorSky
- Never trust a billionaire.
- Reposted by Eolas PellorWe been said this fascism thing for over a decade.
- Reposted by Eolas PellorThey want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.
- Everyone deserves dignity. Everyone deserves to have their rights respected. Everyone deserves due process. Not "sometimes," not "if they haven't broken the law," not if they're over 18, not only if they look like us. Always. In every case. Even if they are, actually, hardened criminals. #BlueSky
- Reposted by Eolas PellorMeanwhile in the US:
- Held captive on Gwällen’s island, Hærem hopes to be re-united with her family. As she evades her captor’s plans, she attempts a desperate plan to escape. Check out my story on Substack eolaspellor.substack.com/p/the-swan-m...
- Reposted by Eolas PellorJANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”
- Reposted by Eolas PellorYes, ICE is killing or permanently maiming people & getting away with it. "...said one of the nurses, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care. “There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.” #Pinks #ProudBlue
- #pretendpanel #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts First I would like to acknowledge Hiria Dunning for all her efforts hosting Pretend Panel. I really look forward to it, and I know others do to. I'd like to acknowledge Dan F. Bispo and PJC Cahill, for their consistent support
- #pretendpanel, amazing answers yesterday, cheers! I hope you all find what you need to break through to where you want to be. January 31st: Freebie Saturday! Post anything you want e.g. plug something, acknowledge someone, ask a question #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
- #WriteSky #ReaderSky #ShortStories Held captive on Gwällen’s island, Hærem hopes to be re-united with her family. As she evades her captor’s plans, she attempts a desperate plan to escape. Check out my story on Substack open.substack.com/pub/eolaspel...
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- #pretendpanel #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts I've gotten off to a very slow start in 2026, I'd like to pick up my output to at least a short story per week, or 10 days maybe. There's 48 weeks left in the year, so ending up with between 33 and 48 stories is daunting, but do-able
- Hello #pretendpanel, here's your next question... January 30th: What's the next evolution you would like to see for yourself as a writer? (in terms of skill, output, input, etc - maybe focus on things you can control and not pipedreams) #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
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- Digging out the car from under a mantle of white… 46.2 cm which fortunately is very powdery.
- Reposted by Eolas PellorWe’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow. Here it is:
- Reposted by Eolas PellorStatement from the Minnesota Timberwolves team chaplain with alt text (ht @gregolear.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Eolas PellorWhen authorities used ICE's facial recognition app on a detained woman, it returned two different and incorrect names, raising serious questions about the accuracy of the app. Officials have said the app is better than a birth certificate. www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
- Reposted by Eolas PellorThe deputy White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, called Pretti a “domestic terrorist” and an “assassin.” In fact, Pretti was a registered nurse working in intensive care at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital. This is who he really was.
- Reposted by Eolas PellorICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:
- Reposted by Eolas PellorThe killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
- Renee Good. Liam Conejo Ramos Alex Pretti People keep calling these atrocities “pivotal moments”, but no one is pivoting.
- The Pursuit of Feilim and Oínin continues, as the high king and the jealous husband try to capture them. Will the great hunter, Cole, find them where all others have failed? The third part of my novella "The High King's Captain" is now available on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/eolaspel...
- Part two, if you missed it: eolaspellor.substack.com/p/the-high-k...
- People who aren’t frightened are either complicit or clueless. And at this point in time, there’s no excuse for being clueless.
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- Reposted by Eolas PellorTomorrow, the Democratic Party of Evanston members will vote to endorse candidates. Unfortunately, the DPOE misrepresented us on the ballot, didn’t tell us, and still has not issued a formal correction. So we’re doing it ourselves:
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- Reposted by Eolas PellorUse Real Time! Permanent Standard Time approximates natural solar time, for best sleep and circadian health. Ditch Daylight Saving Time!
- #pretendpanel #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts I'm probably not going to succeed as a writer. That could be frigid temperatures and SAD talking, but the fact is that the publishing industry is in flux, people are trying to replace the actual craft of writing with AI and... 🧵...2
- #WriteSky #WritingCommunity Since lots of "experts" make free with their writing advice (and usually charge for it) I thought I'd offer mine: 1) Write what you want. There's no point writing stories you wouldn't want to read. 🪡....
- The king is hatching his plots against Feilim. Oínin has been publicly humiliated by her abusive husband. Can the queen help either of them? Pt 2 of "The High King's Captain" is now available on Substack #ReaderSky #BlueSky #WriteSky open.substack.com/pub/eolaspel...
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- #pretendpanel #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts I started writing the novel I'm about to query as a dual POV, and ended up eliminating the one POV entirely. If' I'd left it in the manuscript would have been about 180K words, which I think is absurd, so I don't regret taking it out
