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Writer + visual poet with #mecfs. Orchid in my Belly Button (Elsewhen 2025) Let Them Float + 51 Trillion Bits (2023) Snapshots of Apocalypse (2022)

The best reviews are from people whose writing you admire. A new review of The Mune by @whimsylph
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$🌾Book Review🌾 Book:-An Orchid In My Belly Button Author:-@whimsylph When reality grows strange shoots, Katy Wimhurst tends them with wit, imagination, and just enough darkness to make them bloom. Katy Wimhurst’s An Orchid in My Belly Button is a collection of short stories that delights in blurring the familiar and the fantastical. The surrealism is not just for spectacle—it’s a lens through which our fragile world, both environmental and social, is refracted. Ghost crabs, fox-tailed schoolgirls, and models with greenery sprouting from their scalps may sound absurd, but Wimhurst uses these eccentric conceits to probe pressing issues: the climate crisis, consumerism, alienation, and cruelty in human relationships. Yes, the stories often drift toward dystopian and unsettling territory, but they are buoyed by a playful inventiveness and sly humour. This prevents the book from collapsing under the weight of its bleak subject matter, instead making it both thought-provoking and unexpectedly joyful. Wimhurst’s style is crisp and imaginative, with flashes of lyricism that anchor her more surreal flourishes in an emotional truth. The stories work best when the strangeness feels like an organic extension of the theme rather than a decorative quirk. At her strongest, Wimhurst achieves something close to modern fable-making, where the bizarre becomes a mirror for the ordinary. A few tales risk feeling like sketches rather than fully fleshed narratives, but even these carry sparks of originality that linger in the mind. Overall, An Orchid in My Belly Button is a lively, eccentric, and quietly urgent collection. Wimhurst invites us to laugh, squirm, and reflect in equal measure—and in doing so, she makes the surreal feel strangely essential. A quirky, environmentally attuned, and darkly playful collection of surreal tales that leave their roots deep in the reader’s imagination. Must read♥️♥️$

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