Substacks recommended by Lyrics and Fire

Recommended by Lyrics and Fire

Fabiana's Cool Stories & Burning Questions

Life through my eyes... a publication about nothing...and about everything. Where the mundane meets spirituality and vice versa.

When Silence speaks: The Inner Journal of Terod Naej

✨When Silence Speaks is where whispers turn into wisdom and boldness begins. We help you level up your Spiritual Quotient (SQ).

Ink & Shadows with L.G. Wells

Welcome to Ink & Shadows. Here, you'll find my original horror and paranormal stories, musings on the craft of writing, reviews of books that span genres, and whatever else crawls out of the depths of my imagination. Join me if you dare.

Writing In The Shadows

By Laura B Writing in the Shadows

I'm the naughty devil on your shoulder... dark thoughts, messy truths, and just enough dark humor to keep you coming back. 🖤

My views are solely mine.

✨Beautifully Broken✨

Grateful recovering addict. Proud boy mom of 2: one son, and one dog. Very cerebral. Excited to talk about addiction recovery and finding your way after multiple long-term incarcerations.

Suffer Quickly ⚡️

By Toni Sakoman: Suffer Quickly ⚡️

For seekers craving depth. For sufferers ready to make sense of their pain—and turn it into purpose. I offer soul and structure. Philosophy for those who truly live.

Moss & Matchsticks

By Moss and Matchsticks

For anyone who’s ever felt too complex, too much, or just bloody knackered. I write sharp, funny essays on burnout, love & life. Matchsticks for the brittleness of burnout, moss for the softness that saves us from going feral.

John Michael Alaia's Substack

New author of Horror/thrillers prepping for first release!

Whispers of Her Soul

For deep feelers learning how pain shapes love, family, emotional patterns, nervous system healing, and the way we live and trust.

Just a Soul-Sista with a pen-writing nostalgia, truth, and stories from the heart.

My personal notes on discipline, business, and life, for those who choose character over comfort.

writing about my emotions, thoughts and all that i feel so deeply

Thoughts about life: mental health, animal abuse, marketing and everything in between.

Permission to Weird

This is where 'what if' questions become poems, stories, and experiments. Serialized dystopian fiction and middle-grade magical realism, really weird short stories, feminist poems and sometimes angry songs, sarcastic label designs. Want permission?

Chris B. Writes

I share my life adventures as a loving dad and caregiver to my son Bray Bray. I am also an award-winning published poet.

The Quantum Model

A model certified in Neuroscience and Meditation- exploring where the mind meets matter.

Weird but interesting writer...

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Optimism From Darkness

I like to look at the joys in life while being honest about what I’ve been through. I tackle trauma, loss, medical difficulties, and hardships with a little laughter and a lot of love.

I have been through a lot in my life but my trauma doesn’t define me. I like to look for the joys in life, while being honest about where I’ve been. Jump in with open eyes and an open heart.

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Those Fuzzy Days

By Fazli Sameer

Life, with all its intricacies along a long and winding road

A writer who deserves more attention

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retired, learning, and sharing

Writer, wanderer, and reluctant observer of the absurd. I split my time between Greece and the Midwest, exploring where politics, history, and humanity blur—and what’s still worth saving.

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My Big Fat Funny Life

By Nick Athanassiadis

Funny, heartfelt stories from a Greek-American life in Kalamata — about Greece, marriage, bureaucracy, coffee, cats, and the little absurdities that make life unforgettable.

By The Joyful Fool

The Joyful Fool is where laughter winks at lament and storytelling stirs resistance. Rooted in a theology of joy, we tumble past fear-based legalism and into holy trouble—where foolishness becomes sacred and mischief cracks open grace.

A passionate writer, who writes engaging short stories/articles that are meaningful and relatable. This space is for anyone going through inner struggles.

An Irish poet and storyteller, committed anarchist, sometime activist and occasional dabbler in the esoteric arts. Self proclaimed friend of all extraterrestrials, faeries and friendly dragons.

By J A Z Z A L O N S O

welcome to my junkyard <3 i like to talk about little things and get all worked up about them and scatter them round in a fuss and then find them again when i clean up my room...

Travis’s Substack

Poems to keep you warm

We are the mapmakers, seed-planters and navigators venturing into a new paradigm as we stand on a pivotal nexus for humanity and planetary evolution.

Franky's Substack

By Franky Dyson

My personal Substack

She's an excellent writer i highly recommend you

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Dream of ElectricScapes

By Electricscapes

I am Malrik Raithmoor — The Liturgist. Creator of Liturgicwave: a genre where pain becomes poetry, and story becomes ritual. For heretics, seekers, and saints of rupture. This is not comfort. This is catharsis.© 2026 Malrik Raithmoor | All rights reserved

Alternative History

By Jordan Nuttall

Revisiting the past through historic books and rare manuscripts, uncovering details often absent from modern historical narratives.

Welcome to my story. Weaving a family tree's threads into the captivating narrative of grief, conflict, and emerging hope while reminiscing on a bygone era.

Maryam Jegarvand

Spilling words on love and life. Poetry, prose, a novel in progress and thoughts on transformation.

Elham Sarikhani

This is a sanctuary for the exiled soul, raw truths, shadow wisdom, and fierce beauty for those who refuse false healing. I write from the wound, the vision, and the fire. Psychology, exile, divinity, and the unbearable grace of becoming real.

warm-blooded words from the underbelly of being alive

Voices From Morocco (VFM)

A writer, poet, and journalist from Morocco: I am here to share with you untold poems and human stories about North Africa and the Middle East, through dimensions and angles unseen by people's eyes.

Welcome to my world!

E.B-Lacey | Australian Author

Short prose, poetry and flash fiction. Small pieces with a long aftertaste. E.B-L, Aus.

Astronaut of Life

Astronaut of Life is a publication that explores all aspects of life through a spiritual lens. Go inward to explore.

Stories. Poems & Thoughts from a mental health warrior who has suffered with, lived with and survived a Bipolar I diagnosis since 1992. I am here to share open, honest and raw words that chronicle my experiences.

The Whispering Pirate

The Whispering Pirate is where history, hard truths, and hidden connections surface—tying the old to the new, the science to the spirit, and the mind to what it might need to know.

Lead by Ear - Engineering Management in Acoustics

The guidance your company didn't give you when they promoted you. From overwhelmed engineer to confident leader.

The World According to Mr.10

Emotionally intelligent and cinematic intimate storytelling for the modern ambitious man.

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You know, Cannot Name It

@lintara writes in the register of discernment: power, fear, form — and the quiet protocols that train the nervous system before language arrives. Her work does not comfort. It makes mechanisms visible — until they become impossible to unsee.

Óðr's Substack

By Óðr Sierra Sierra

My personal Substack

Colin Cuming’s Eternal Spiral

Self taught writer from Texas writing in the Sunbelt Gothic genre. Think Larry Brown, Cormac McCarthy, Harry Crews, Barry Hannah, Denis Johnson.

Alix || Writing from the edges of cities, nights, and lifestyle.

Katarina - Breeze

I write from the moment before language forms. From that quiet edge where something truth begins to move. I listen more than I shape, and I follow what arrives. This space is simply where those words land.