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Tom Coombe

@calmtomb

Horror writer, occasionally funny

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To be clear, by “eat the peel” I mean “be cursed with the knowledge that this naked cash grab exists,” not “go see it.”

12.03.2026 19:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No way that could backfire!

12.03.2026 14:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Monstrous, at the very least.

12.03.2026 14:05 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A lot of people responding to this pointing out that it would take multiple trucks several hours to transport the oil from one tanker. That's where my proposal comes in: One very large truck.

12.03.2026 14:00 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

I'm not sure what an FBI director does all day, but I will assume it's not stuff like this.

12.03.2026 13:55 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

They've squeezed all the juice from the orange and now we're gonna have to eat the peel.

12.03.2026 12:19 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

"Yeah, well, it depends on the artist. You know, José Feliciano, ya got no complaints."

11.03.2026 21:14 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for hosting this week’s action-oriented #HorrorWritersChat.

There isn’t a lot of action in this collection, but plenty of weirdness and discomfort.

11.03.2026 20:05 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

11.03.2026 19:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“The movies make this look easy. Swing an axe, yank it back, swing again. This blade is lodged into a bone as old as the pyramids and just as durable.”

#HorrorWritersChat

11.03.2026 19:55 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

My favorite type of monster is something like the Xenomorph or the titual beast from The Thing, and nothing like that has really appeared in one of my stories.

#HorrorWritersChat

11.03.2026 19:34 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

I have not, but my favorite archetypes are the outsider or person who must overcome a fear related to the threat, both of which are embodied by Brodie in Jaws.

#HorrorWritersChat

11.03.2026 19:22 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Hi everyone. Tom Coombe here, author of a lot of non-action focused horror (my stories are mostly "What if you saw/found a weird thing?").

My favorite piece of action/horror media is either Aliens or Resident Evil 4.

#HorrorWritersChat

11.03.2026 19:08 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1

These fucking goblins hate any book that's not called something like "The 200-Hour Work Week."

11.03.2026 16:38 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

I mean, I guess they could be grateful it's just shoes. Next week, Trump could insist they all try this "great new blood pressure medication" he's heard about.

11.03.2026 15:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In the midst of all the myriad horrors, we can sometimes get a feel-good news story, like "Child-King President Forces Lackeys to Wear Ill-Fitting Shoes."

11.03.2026 12:53 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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some people see books as entertainment and other people see books as wily enemies to be humiliated, outfoxed, and defeated

10.03.2026 15:28 👍 1567 🔁 157 💬 88 📌 73

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

10.03.2026 20:41 👍 7578 🔁 1644 💬 106 📌 19

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

10.03.2026 21:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hopefully they can get this weird looking building out of the way in time.

10.03.2026 12:36 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Sidewalk chalk writing: “eat poop”

Sidewalk chalk writing: “eat poop”

Gang activity

10.03.2026 12:01 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Preview
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due’s sec…

Starting this tonight:

09.03.2026 19:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“You will not know the day or the hour when I will circle back unto thee.” - The Business Christian’s Parables

09.03.2026 19:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Add one word to a film to ruin it.

- Martha Marcy May Marlene: Origins
- There Will Be Blood, Caitlyn
- Pretty Goodfellas

09.03.2026 17:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Literally LOLing.

09.03.2026 16:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's usually my strategy too. I've never used Steady Body. My go-tos have been Quick Slash and Mark of Pride lately.

09.03.2026 15:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

For me it was a lack of spark. I remember exactly one time in my life where I felt any sort of spiritual connection to something higher, and I was 12. Since then, there's been nothing. Prayer, meditation, what have you, all feel empty. I'd rather go for a walk.

09.03.2026 14:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is how I access Bluesky.

09.03.2026 14:24 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Psyched to have a new story at @theforge.bsky.social today, about hosting Jesus for dinner 🥣

09.03.2026 13:47 👍 38 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 3

Thank you!!!

08.03.2026 21:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0