Very true! That's why I never throw any words away - but it is frustrating at the time.
Mine do seem to rot, but in a good way, like kombucha 😂
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Very true! That's why I never throw any words away - but it is frustrating at the time.
Mine do seem to rot, but in a good way, like kombucha 😂
Feeling close to scrapping my latest short story. It's weird but not weird enough to keep me interested. Perhaps it needs to fester in the folder where I keep my other garbage stories 😮💨
Some Saturday morning reading…
#horrorauthor #queerhorror #bodyhorror #splatterpunk #tbrpile #horror
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Yes, that's a great one! Last Breath was probably my fav.
I think if they had been arranged differently, or split into 2 collections, I would have liked them better. It's like when albums have songs on it that just don't fit.
The book cover for 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill, re-released as The Black Phone Stories. The cover features a picture of the Grabber from the film The Black Phone, a man with a top hat, grey hair flowing out the back, face painted the same shade of grey in makeup, the bottom half of the face is covered by a mask with a menacing grin and is also the same shade of grey.
Maintained my goal of reading a short story a day this week with 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill.
Hill is a great writer, but this collection was tonally a little too broad & varied for me.
My Rating: ☎️☎️☎️, that's 3 of 5 phone calls from the dead
23/365 Short stories read 📚
Good point! I definitely want the most goodliness.
Thanks 😊
One of my goals this year is to start submitting stories to pro markets. Yesterday I saw an upcoming open call that's perfect for the only short story I wrote last year.
Now I just need to stare at my cover letter a few more days, do the add/remove comma ritual, & throw up after hitting send 😆
1st read of '26: Not a Speck of Light - Laird Barron - @lairdbarron.bsky.social
- 'Blood in My Mouth' and 'Tiptoe' were exceptional. All around solid horror short stories, with some overlap (big fan). All of them Alaska winter bleak.
#reading #bookblog #booksky #horrorbooks
First read of the year was a delightfully dark collection of human depravity! Inhumanities by Andrew Robertson is perfect for fans of body horror & looking to explore the worst humanity has to offer.
My Rating: 4 out of 5 stained porn mags with stuck together pages; bring soap 🧼
#queerhorror
Thanks 😊
😂 Haven't heard that one before!
A tall bearded person and a short person with purple hair smile at the camera. Behind them is a grey concrete building with glass doors. On the building it says: Laurier Brantford YMCA
Guess who is now a member of the Brantford YMCA? 🫢
With hubby by my side, I got in the pool, in the "slow af" lane & managed to not drown for 1.1 km, that's 44 laps 🏊 🎉 I haven't swam much in my life, so let's see how this goes!
A thousand thanks to hubby for always encouraging me ❤️
Thank you 😊 The first words are always the toughest!
If you hear screeching, like the rusty gates of hell trying to open, sorry about that. It's just me attempting to write a short story after much too long of a break.
Hey, I wrote a post about the bleak start to this new year, about one year of Keeping ScOR, and about some of the media response to the Venezuela invasion.
buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
Getting ready for the last round of holiday visits today. Was nice taking this week off after the busy season, but I'm itching to get back to writing projects next week.
Hopefully I can maintain my streak of reading 1 short story a day once real life kicks back in 📚
Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.
Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word about my Patreon? My goal for the night is one new patron.
Patrons help support my art and my existence. You'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, and other fun posts.
www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Hubby is out for the day and my schedule is clear, which means I can finally binge season 5 of Stranger Things 🎉
"Wrathful gods, drowning cities, and an ancient, bloody mystery—Piper's novel had me from the jump. No Gods For Drowning is a superior offering." — @lairdbarron.bsky.social, author of Not A Speck of Light
COMING MARCH 3!
badhandbooks.com/preorders/no...
This is the way, lol. I enjoyed Santa Jaws over the holidays for the same reason!
#MustRead horror kicks off 2026 like this:
The Lineup choose the best indie & small press books of 2025, @bloody-disgusting.com explain the horror references in the #StrangerThings finale (caution: spoilers!), @whatsleepsbeneath.com look back at the most terrifying scenes of 2000 film The Skulls
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Jay’s Screenwriting Workshop Jan. 21-Feb 15th is discounted 10% off because WHOOPS the deal applies to everything! This was actually a mistake but hey! Save $10 on this great workshop!
A screenshot from the website of some of the deals offered. Darkness Beckons short story collection on No Returns DEEP DEAL. $7.68 down 65% from $21.95 Audio Bookish Skeleton shirt down 40% from $27 to $16.20
Summon a Ghost Mystery pack on sale, two books at $50 down 40% to $30 The Witching Hour by Anne Rice down 65% to $4.55 from $12.99
A flat lay on red background featuring books on sale on the website! Plus the Pink NO GODS NO BILLIONAIRES tote which YES is 40% off right now! What a steal.
LAST CHANCE for the Little Ghosts’ NO RETURNS sale! 10-65% deals automatically applied at www.littleghostsbooks.com until MIDNIGHT.
Chris will be in the shop packing your sale orders for pickup & shipping bright and early tomorrow.
Thanks everyone for supporting us through our annual hibernation!
Snow covered peaks and a golden orange Full Wolf Moon rise in Montana.
epicene and virile energy
such palpable enigmas
strike a balance
as unknown thresholds
mesh the friend and foe
never straying too far
twice born and raised
in a full blind fever
let the howling rise
a familiar sensation
like a worn sweater
#poet #poetry #writerslife
Sending hugs 🫂
Trade you 😆
Hope you're feeling better soon!
