The CryptoNaturalist (Jarod K. Anderson)

Ohio nature writer and poet.
New Novel: Strange Animals (Cozy/Creepy/Cryptid Fantasy)
Memoir: Something in the Woods Loves You
New dandelion nonfic April 2027

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The paperback of Something in the Woods Loves You is out on 10/13!

You can get signed copies via my local bookstore: https://t.co/2W5BERZ86j

[The CryptoNaturalist (Jarod K. Anderson) @CryptoNature]

Wait, so is Ohio a state now?
Is the corn maze still my bank? Is the “Hell is Real” sign still my doctor?
This is confusing.

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Cover for my new book about dandelions! It's out this spring (preorder available now). #nonfiction #dandelion #dandelions #wildflowers

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If you plan to grow an oak, you need to take the acorn seriously.
If you plan to grow contentment, you need to take your moments seriously.

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We name constellations of stars instead of dandelions because one seems permanent to us.

Seems.

There, the hunter stands tall with a shining belt.

Here, the dandelions are a running elk, gold against an emerald sky.

Both are nature. Both fleeting.
As real as we can make them.

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There's an endless autumn in me,
scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke.

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Here it is! The cover for my next horror novel, Children of the Wrong Heaven.

A mommy support group becomes convinced their children are aliens. This deeply upsets the townsfolk around them…and also the aliens.

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#OneMinuteOfPoetry 10/20/2026 "Orcas" by @CryptoNature. Hold on to the magic of the real. #poetry #voiceover

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Tough writing day.

But comforted by the knowledge that, when this novel is finished and I’m reading it a couple years from now, I won’t be able to tell which parts were hard to write and which were easy.

The hard days are fleeting; whatever small good I win from them is not.

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When we turn away from sensing our family resemblance in nature, we transform every wonder in the universe from a window into a mirror.

We block out the light in the name of celebrating ourselves above all else. (3/3)

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And the problem isn’t that he is wrong.

The problem is that he is incurious. He is missing the imaginative perception to understand that the river herself, the river who made the valley, is just like him but bigger and more powerful.

She is the divine he craves. (2/3)

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A man comes to the edge of a river valley.

He thinks how difficult it would have been for him to carve that same valley with just his two hands, with shovel and pick and his bundle of days.

So, now he knows that God must be like him, but so much bigger and more powerful. (1/3)

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New design by the wonderfully talented @corruptedgem available at the CryptoNaturalist store! https://t.co/mkfrARGexi

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Ritz crackers are Girl Scout cookies for salt-lovers.

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Does anybody know how you get into being one of those carnivorous bog plants? That seems like a pretty chill lifestyle.

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At the end of the retreat, they share what they have written with the public. They must produce at least one poem and one essay (on any subject they choose).

I think this would reveal a lot. (2/2)

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I want political candidates to do three day retreats during which they stay in a cabin without internet access, no phones or other devices, just a computer with basic word-processing software. (1/2)

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A sheep is what happens when a werewolf bites a tiny cloud.

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For sale: baby shoes, used AI instead.