Isabella Nesheiwat

Joined January 2025

9 stories

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An emerging author and poet (mostly) of Greek mythology retellings. Read more on Substack (bellaslibrary99). Debut collection out now: Turning & Turning (the book patch bookstore) <3

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how to make a mother's grief. Content Warning.
Yield: at least 1 ruined harvest Difficulty: Impossible to master without... Prep time: Longer than a season, shorter than a myth.
By Isabella Nesheiwatabout a month ago in Poets
Piecemeal: Prologue. Content Warning.
The story goes that the Needle Pines bleed and scream because they’re tired of being cut down. That’s how it’s always been told—older than you, older than the town itself, passed mouth to mouth like smoke.
By Isabella Nesheiwat2 months ago in Chapters
metamorphose
She is already leaving her own skin, when his hand brushes hers in vain; her pulse loosens, letting bark begin, and sap learns the language once held by vein.
By Isabella Nesheiwat2 months ago in Poets
harvest pantuom
She waits, patient in the field, where memory bruises the soil. Each dawn she listens for her name in the hush between plough-beats.
By Isabella Nesheiwat4 months ago in Poets
At Tara
The hill exhales a damp, metallic breath, its ridges scarred by centuries of rain; the soil remembers coronation, death, and presses bone to stone like wax to vein.
By Isabella Nesheiwat4 months ago in Poets
my working conditions
It's quite simple, really. Something that trickles is the best soundtrack, Whether water or music is subjective. A space - room, building, chair -
By Isabella Nesheiwat4 months ago in Poets
INCISION. Content Warning.
it's like sepsis when you're months post-op. the mirror flinched -- are you still alive? i'd still crawl back to you, no matter what.
By Isabella Nesheiwat4 months ago in Poets
time difference
You will see the sunrise before I do. That's what it's like in the future. It's not Bluetooth controlled robots or flying cars. It's subtle.
By Isabella Nesheiwat5 months ago in Poets
LIMINALITY. Winner in The Road Drops Here Challenge. Content Warning.
Our headlights snake across the Western Oregon highway, gliding across the Dulles. Out here, there's only two kinds
By Isabella Nesheiwat5 months ago in Poets

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how to make a mother's grief. Content Warning.

Piecemeal: Prologue. Content Warning.

metamorphose

harvest pantuom

At Tara

my working conditions

INCISION. Content Warning.

time difference

LIMINALITY. Winner in The Road Drops Here Challenge. Content Warning.

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