Emmy Nordstrom Higdon

@emmy_of_spines

Literary Agent

Westwood Creative Artists

📚 lit agent @WCA_LitAgency 📖 advisor @TheFOLD_ ✍ faculty @MSWLMA 🐕‍🦺 recovering PhD 🌈 they/them; Sal: Dr. ♿ clients #SpineSquad 📘

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· 8 Apr 2020

relationships.txt @redditships

My (30 M) girlfriend (30 F) buried all of my beans in the woods and won't tell me where, causing a fight between us. pic.twitter.com/bPBcSd1n0n

The perfect Jack and the Beanstalk, but with preppers, retelling for the modern era. Add it to my #MSWL, but make it queer, pls.

· 5 Apr 2020

Helen Rosner @hels

God I wish this were a haunting allegorical novel and not reality nytimes.com/2020/04/05/sty…

But seriously, give me the haunting “allegorical” novel. #MSWL

· 3 Apr 2020

Okay, my social isolation #MSWL ask is definitely an elite, competitive LEGO-building friendship story. I want messy relationships, sabotage, and high nerdy stakes. Gimme.

Friendship

· 2 Apr 2020

Okay! One more to close out the night, and this one is YA horror. This one I love because it's definitely 1, Welcome to Night Vale vibes, which is completely #MSWL for me. And 2, it makes me LAUGH. My sense of humour is... a little shy... but this book nails it.

YA
Horror

· 27 Mar 2020

I have been bingeing Succession all week, and I want someone to write me the book that is this show, but from Marcia’s POV. Please. #MSWL

· 26 Mar 2020

KYAMONGER @_mechinaries

single mom is forced to go on an Adventure to rescue her hero son.... turns out she's actually pretty good at being a hero herself?? pic.twitter.com/cpxTDRueia

Uh, I'm super into this. #MSWL

Adventure

· 25 Mar 2020

Dale Gilbert Jarvis 💀 @DaleJarvis

One more for the "this is how horror movies start" file:
Mystery headstone found at the bottom of lake.
ow.ly/JuVS50yhfPN pic.twitter.com/TQJJQira84

· 15 Mar 2020

Emma @Little_emmaf

Made my first ever gif! A ghost in Jar👻This was so much fun to make😆 pic.twitter.com/ASzSAOCu2e

#MSWL - SO CUTE. If you could catch them kind of like fireflies? Little ghosty friends?

· 14 Mar 2020

Micro Flash Fiction @MicroFlashFic

“I should learn how to can food.”
“My grandma was into that.”
“What did she can?”
“No idea.”
“She never gave you anything?”
“No. She has tons of unlabeled jars. I wasn’t allowed near them.”
“Did you ask?”
“Once. She said she’d tell me when I was old enough. But she never did.”

· 11 Mar 2020

Dale Gilbert Jarvis 💀 @DaleJarvis

One more for the "this is how horror movies start" file:
Mystery headstone found at the bottom of lake.
ow.ly/JuVS50yhfPN pic.twitter.com/TQJJQira84

· 4 Mar 2020

👁️Trevor👁️ @slimyswampghost

Oh, to be attending the annual festival celebrating the founding of a small seaside fishing town amidst reports of local swimmers going missing, and strange creatures being seen on the nearby beach at midnight

· 3 Mar 2020

Magic Realism Bot @MagicRealismBot

A secret society of professors devise a world where everything is dictionaries.

· 2 Mar 2020

The Library Owl 🎄🎅🦉 @SketchesbyBoze

I’m never not thinking about St. Werburgh (died 699), who raised a beloved goose from the dead after it had already been eaten by her foe and digested. The bones took on flesh and the goose returned to life “with a glad honk.” pic.twitter.com/9Soh7dtmRo

#MSWL THIS is the retelling I'm waiting for.

Retelling

· 2 Mar 2020

Barlow Adams @BarlowAdams

9: Can I sleep with you?
Me: Why?
9: Had a dream about the Lullaby Lady.
M: Who?
9: An old woman with no skin on her hands.
M: Why do you call her that?
9: Because she stands next to your bed and hums while you sleep.
M: Sure, just let Daddy put the house up for sale real quick.

Pretty much any weird, creepy, unsettling thing your kid comes up with unprovoked is on my #MSWL. 🤷🏽‍♀️

· 22 Feb 2020

The Library Owl 🎄🎅🦉 @SketchesbyBoze

things to ask yourself at a party:

• where are the bookshelves
• where are the exits
• who poisoned the wine
• who wanted the hostess dead and why
• does the killer think they can outwit you, the greatest detective in the world

· 19 Feb 2020

Amber Sparks🪓 @ambernoelle

Four-year-old: *coloring* I’m drawing a princess
Me: Yawn
Four-year-old: Her dress is covered with pictures of all her memories
Me: Oh?
Four-year-old: She’s making a worried face, because the dress is almost out of room and then there will be no more memories

· 8 Feb 2020

beth phelan, here sometimes @beth_phelan

I’ve been invited to a Halloween wedding and i don’t know what to wear that’s cute but still that vibe like yeah I’m great at costumes

I never thought I'd want a wedding story, but, #MSWL. Also, my dream life actually?? 👻

· 8 Feb 2020

Saturday #MSWL: rad non-fiction (maybe memoir, maybe anthology) about being aspec!