Escalate any disagreement by saying “here we go” whenever someone starts talking

I almost missed sharing this: my latest short story “Flashlight Tag” is available today in Chthonic Matter Quarterly #12! Get your copy direct or from Amazon (but preferably direct!) Very proud to appear in another project from CM Muller! chthonicmatter.wordpress.com #indie #horrorlit #shortstory

I was sad to find @houseofgamut.bsky.social left out of the Annual Best Horror of the Year summation (though ultimately understandable since we lost that publication last year). While I am exceedingly proud of my story, here's a thread of great (and free!) Gamut fiction you should read:

I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books. This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.

Stoked for this one! You’d be crazy to miss out on it!

Trying to make sense of the last 12 months to figure out when the hell I lost all of my free time for creativity.

Howdy folks! Just as a little heads up, my story Devouring a Perfect Circle will be appearing in volume 8, and the folks at Fraidy Cat have been amazing to work with! Just think of it! A part of me to stick somewhere in your house to haunt you. 💙📚🪐 #horrorlit #horror #writingcommunity

Ahhh! This is the one! #writingcommunity #horrorlit

You can pick up Volume 7 from us directly here: fraidycatpress.com/product/frai... It's also available wherever books are sold, but buying direct helps us the most! #indie #horror #shortstories #cosmic #scifihorror #rage #wrath

FCQ7 is our rage-themed volume and features excellent writing by: @kayv.bsky.social @nicholeon.bsky.social C.O. Davidson @abigailkemske.bsky.social @alexhoeft.bsky.social C. Lenz @corriehaldane.bsky.social @jdlskie.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social Myra Stephenson Rachel Desiree Felix

Good news! We have FCQ Volume 7 and 8 available for preorder now! There's even a discounted bundle! FCQ 7&8 Bundle: fraidycatpress.com/product/fcq-... FCQ 7: fraidycatpress.com/product/frai... FCQ 8: fraidycatpress.com/product/frai... #indiehorror #newrelease #cosmichorror #rage #gnaw

FCQ8 is our gnaw-themed issue and features excellent writing from: @jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social (with an original novelette) Art by Valerie Marshall Jasmine Harrell @therrien.bsky.social Tremain Xenos @abastedo-writing.bsky.social @breathinghead.bsky.social @jfennellauthor.bsky.social

You can get FCQ8 directly from us here (or wherever books are sold): fraidycatpress.com/product/frai... Buying direct is appreciated and helps us out immensely! #indie #horror #smallpress #independentpublishing #shopsmall #buydirect #cosmic #gnaw

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

With a dangerous amount of caffeine and "Coconut Mall" on an infinite loop, there's nothing I can't achieve.

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

Waiting for a submission response has me like:

All these things the AI ads show people doing are so pathetic. Why wouldn’t you want to plan your own road trip? Why would you consult AI to pick out flowers for a bouquet? Abdicating joy to AI is so sad.

You can catch my weird slip-stream fabulist story about blue jays and tears in reality in Saros SF #5 very soon! Beyond stoked to have this story appear alongside so many talented authors in a great outlet like Saros!

It's embarrassing how paralyzed I've become waiting for a response on one singular story submission.

You can get this STACKED anthology for free when you subscribe to Chthonic Matter Quarterly! CM Muller is a great editor and he's assembled an awesome TOC for this, his latest themed anthology!

im asking too much from these comforting soups and stews. they were never intended to have to do this much comforting

We are the sons of the dragulas you couldn't slam in the back of

King

Love to everyone at Voidcon this weekend! Sorry that I can’t attend for myself or @fraidycatpress.bsky.social - I believe a lot of our published authors will be there

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions. Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

I know it's Tuesday but I might need a little drinky poo

if you think the Basic Income for Artists in Ireland being made permanent is a good thing, wait until you learn about the income tax breaks for artists earning up to €50k p/a 💃💫

And I just… we could do this. We could afford to do this, as a country. There is no good fucking reason why we cannot do this. We simply choose not to because we believe that Jesus loves billionaires more than loser slothful creative people

Jason Mendoza would LOVE Trevor Lawrence.

taylor swift is the mr beast of music

“I’m not doing spooky season this year life is spooky enough” SHUT UP

Crying while my kids watch HOMEWARD BOUND, if you want to know how my mental state is these days.

I’m a huge cereal fan and the costs of EVERYTHING are out of control.

If It Makes You Happy

Overcome with a terrible melancholy that will just not let go.

Eating clean and taking care of myself because I REALLY don’t want to get space dementia.

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.

Waiting for a submission response when I see bold popping up all over the Submission-Grinder from @diabolicalplots.com has me like:

Fuckin yikes, man

Watching/listening to One Punch Man on a loop so I never have to feel anything other than awesome.

This is absolute rockstar status.

I wasn’t a huge fan of My Chemical Romance as a teenager, but I wish I had been. I wish I’d had the music to help me get in touch with my anger and sorrow, really at any point sooner in my life. Their show in Chicago was fucking amazing. Feels like my brain got rewired in a really good way.

✨Story Spotlight Issue 6✨ Blight sends a young Irish girl to a colonial English school where an ancient tree teaches her that fungal networks run deeper than human-drawn borders. You can read “Westward I Reach” by @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social in Baubles from Bones Issue 6, coming August 27th!! 🪐📚💀

@augursociety.bsky.social if an author submits 2 stories to augur during an open call but has to withdraw one, can said author submit another story or is the cap 2 submissions total regardless of withdrawal?

I know I'm behind on stuff for @fraidycatpress.bsky.social and for that I'm very sorry. Had some health issues recently and lost my grandfather last week. Promise I'll get back to everyone with responses, contracts, and everything else I owe you all as soon as I can!

If there's one episode of TV I wish I could force everyone to watch and internalize, it's the 30 Rock where Liz, who has always seen herself as a bullied nerd underdog, finds out she's actually been hated all her life because she's mean.