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Lana Casiello

@lanacasiello

I write folk horror influenced by my heritage that includes things like the Hawaiian diaspora, colonialism, identity, spirits, and curses. Iโ€™m chronically inconsistent with social media. ๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธ www.lanacasiello.com

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I will no longer be posting here.

Iโ€™ll keep my account just incase there is an opportunity in the future, but Iโ€™ve never really been able to make it work.

Iโ€™ve enjoyed the haiku folks. Thanks for letting me try my hand at making poetry.

Wishing my BlueSky friends all the best. ๐Ÿ‘‹

03.02.2026 03:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A heart like lightning
Quick to stir with bright grandeur
Then nothing, nothing

#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt

30.01.2026 02:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
I Know a Place and Wolf Worm ARCs on NetGalley

I Know a Place and Wolf Worm ARCs on NetGalley

Rejection letter for Bodies of Work ARC. Iโ€™ll be patient and wait for the release date.

Rejection letter for Bodies of Work ARC. Iโ€™ll be patient and wait for the release date.

New to NetGalley. So psyched to get to read & review I Know A Place by @natcassidy.bsky.social , and Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher.

Wasnโ€™t approved for a 3rd request though. Perhaps Iโ€™m not popular enough. Yet. Iโ€™m a late bloomer, thereโ€™s still time. Right? (High School 30+ years all over again ๐Ÿค“)

28.01.2026 04:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The forests know this:
No oak undoes its acorns
They fall where they may

#haikufeels
#haiku

26.01.2026 15:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

A page, a window
Glimpses into other times
Haunted questions drift
If those boats never landed
Imagine what could have been

Drawing 135 by: @completethehaiga.bsky.social
#tanka
#poetry

26.01.2026 06:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Got through 4/8 episodes. Iโ€™m still on the fence.

Claire Danes is a great actor, but her characterโ€™s anxiety and awkwardness is making me want to claw my skin off.

Matthew Rhys has a knack for playing the untrustworthy guy. But this is nowhere near as good as The Americans.

24.01.2026 05:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Watching The Beast In Me
Why is everyone always answering their phones in tense situations? Itโ€™d be way more realistic if we just had a close up of the actors faces watching their calls get dumped to voicemail.

24.01.2026 03:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats!!

23.01.2026 02:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
#horrorwriterschat
Introduce yourself, the kind of horror you write, and your favorite international day and why.

#horrorwriterschat Introduce yourself, the kind of horror you write, and your favorite international day and why.

A) Lana Casiello, I โค๏ธ a sneaky social metaphor in folk horror. My series is influenced by my Hawaiian heritage, identity in the diaspora, curses, spirits, & legends.

B) International Paranormal Day, May 3
Because itโ€™s not too hot, not too cold, and we all share stories.
#horrorwriterschat

22.01.2026 16:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Roasted toasted nice
The way the sun dries our fruit
Without quenching thirst

#haiku
#haikufeels
#poetry

A poem about labor and capitalism.

22.01.2026 15:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A gear without teeth
Is a wheel spinning in place
Going nowhere fast

#haiku
#haikufeels

08.01.2026 01:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No one cares for prunes
Those wrinkles mean lifeโ€™s fleeting
But plums donโ€™t stay plums

#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt

08.01.2026 02:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Redirecting...

I know thereโ€™s a lot happening today. Hereโ€™s an excerpt from the short story Iโ€™m currently writing as a distraction if you need a break from the shit world we live in.

#ShortStories #Booksky #WritingCommunity

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07.01.2026 23:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A gear without teeth
Is a wheel spinning in place
Going nowhere fast

#haiku
#haikufeels

08.01.2026 01:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi.

The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi.

Finished my 1st book of 2026

The Lantern of Lost Memories is the 1st book by Sanaka Hiiragi to be translated into English. Itโ€™s a cozy story about the place between life & death. About how sacrifice, memory, and identity intersect like shattered glass across planes of existence.

#bookreviews

02.01.2026 01:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fruit of old growth vines
Twelve grapes of wrath plucked sun ripe
Poison on the lips

#dailyhaikuprompt
#haiku
#newyear

01.01.2026 17:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thriller ๐ŸงŸโ€โ™‚๏ธ

01.01.2026 17:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ideas like snow
Clear crystalline connections
Drift and melt away

#haiku
#haikufeels

01.01.2026 17:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ๅไบŒๆœˆ
่Šฑใฎๆ€ใ„ๅ‡บ
้›ชใฎไธ‹

Jyuunigatsu
Hana no omoidรฉ
yuki no shita

December
Memories of flowers
Under the snow

#Haiku #Poetry #ไฟณๅฅ #่ฉฉ
#DailyHaikuPrompt : December
#Haikufeels : #under

06.12.2025 13:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

lone silhouetteโ€ฆ
a something bird
in december

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (December)

06.12.2025 08:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 51 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Red drops in the snow
What eyes hold color brightly
What see only white

#haiku
#haikudailyprompt
#decembercherries

06.12.2025 16:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Under the nutshell
Hollow spaces fill with meat
Cracked, devoured, tossed
#haikufeels
#haiku

06.12.2025 16:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dreams so lovely, other lives stretch their limbs, but vanish as the sun seeps through gauzy curtains.

#onelineoctober
#haikufeels

26.10.2025 12:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#HaikuFeels Prompt: Dusk

@annemorrigan.bsky.social

26.10.2025 03:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The dim light flattens
What the dark turns to monsters
And oh what monsters

#Haikufeels
#haiku

26.10.2025 03:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Ambassador crow line drawing

Ambassador crow line drawing

a crow or the wind on the mesa, line drawing for haiga.

edging the mesa
wind or
a crow

a crow or the wind on the mesa, line drawing for haiga. edging the mesa wind or a crow

Line drawing of a crow outline for haiga:

cleansing the day
sun trailing the old crowโ€™s path

Line drawing of a crow outline for haiga: cleansing the day sun trailing the old crowโ€™s path

a woman sitting from behind, or is she a crow?

a woman sitting from behind, or is she a crow?

This morning at Seabeck, Kristen Lindquist presented on crow haiku from Bashล to now. Here are a few of my own crow pieces:

25.10.2025 18:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Inexperience
Desired by psychopaths
Release the Files

#haikuhorrorprompt

26.10.2025 03:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Familiar faces
Eyes as windows, doors and souls
Each a haunted house

#haikufeels
#haiku

15.10.2025 11:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wild geese fly north against their better nature

#onelineoctober
#monoku
#haikufeels

15.10.2025 11:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reverence for the sun
Hush falls with its dying light
Echoes off the moon

#haiku
#haikufeels

22.09.2025 13:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0