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Nicole Crucial

Writer

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About

Nikki Kroushl (sometimes writing as Nicole Crucial) is a graduate of UNC Wilmington's BFA program in creative writing. Much like a houseplant, she loves sunlight, the indoors, astrology poems, and when the cat sits next to her on the window sill.

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Her fabulist fiction, self-indulgent essays, and occasional rogue poem appear in Pussy Magic, Luna Station Quarterly, Diabolical Plots, Zizzle Literary, mutiny!, Runestone Literary Journal, and other places. 

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St. Rosea Court

Pussy Magic Blog. Fiction.

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Adoration

Pussy Magic, Vol. 4. Fiction.

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Dear SenseMate Customer Service

Pussy Magic, Vol. 4. Fiction.

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The Anatomy of Spines

Luna Station Quarterly, Issue 41. Fiction.

"issue 2" of mutiny! magazine. A tree is walled in by two curving, concrete walls.

House of Poets

mutiny! issue 2, page 50. Fiction.

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The Ceiling of the World

Diabolical Plots Year Five. Fiction.

The cover of Zizzle, issue 2: "Short stories for young minds." A realistic painting of a young white

Familiar

Zizzle, Issue 2. Fiction.

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Multiple pieces

"Rinse Cycle," "Portrait of a Young Prostitute," and "august and september." Atlantis magazine, Issue 78. Nonfiction and poetry.

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Multiple pieces

"Candlelight," "Gifts," and "mercy doesn't pay." Second Story Journal, volume x. Poetry and fiction.

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My Brother the Sun

Atlantis magazine, Issue 76.

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Happy

Second Story Journal, volume ix

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Babylon

In the Beginning: Dark YA Retellings of Biblical Stories

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The Soul Repairman

Runestone Journal, volume 2. Fiction.

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