Been extra moody and antisocial lately. Perimenopause: “Don’t look at me. I’m just here for brain fog and irregular cycles.” Major depressive disorder: “You blame me for literally everything. I can’t ever do right in your eyes.” *blood test results return* Hypothyroidism: “I’M BACK, BITCHES!” Me: 😔

Last four watched.

What a great weekend to finish your story for our Halloween contest! Prize: $50 Word limit: 250 Theme: New origins of Halloween traditions. Entry fee: NONE GL and subs: tinyurl.com/TTTHalloween...

Finished Emily Wilson's outstanding translation of "The Odyssey." Spoiler alert: he makes it home. Moving on to @bitterkarella.bsky.social's "Moonflow" next. I'm sure it's just the thing to start before I go to sleep tonight. 😁

Just one more week to get those micro-fiction Halloween tales submitted to our contest. You don't want to be left in the dark all alone, do you? Guidelines and submission portal here: tinyurl.com/TTTHalloween...

Shame on all of you for neglecting to tell me that 1) “Dancing With the Stars” is back, and that 2) the surviving Corey is on it. 💃🏻🕺🪩

My beau has requested a knit eyeball monster from "Alien: Earth." The eyeball part was easy; now I'm working on the monster part. I've got veins on the eyeball. I knit a little bloody bowl of muscle for it to sit in. And I'm making 6 i-cords for the tentacles that will have posable wires in them.

The British version of "Bless your heart."

We've restocked our online store after selling out of nearly everything in Iowa City a couple weeks back. Browse our lovely horrors and pick up a book! www.cursedmorselspress.com

Book mail! @haileypiperfights.bsky.social

Put on your fastest fingers and crank your brain to 11: our surprise flash fiction contest is now open! 🧠 🤏Be quick: the maximum word count is 250. 🕛And then be even quicker: gates close at midnight CST September 30. 🎃 Theme: New origins of Halloween traditions. 💰 Prize: $50 talestoterrify.moksha.io

Just edited my 16YO's horror drabble for his school's contest. This must be how Stephen King feels like when he reads Joe Hill. #SoProud #LikeMotherLikeSon #SpookyIsHereditary

I'm hearing "political violence has no place in America" from people who were more than OK with what happened on Jan 6, 2021.

Please check on your ghouls, spirits, haints, haunts, banshees, yurei, ogbanje, dybbuks, egbere, hungry ghosts, bhootas, and other ghostly creatures. They're going to be very busy soon. 👻

It's my birthday! It's also, coincidentally, release day for THESE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT. Happy book birthday to a short story collection of monstrous infants, feral children, talking dolls, classroom-bound cosmic horrors, and more. Buy wherever you like to buy books: books2read.com/u/mq2V06

While I restock after this weekend's wildly successful ONE OF US event, consider picking up ebooks from our store. We're still running a deal called THE WHOLE SHEBANG where you get every horror ebook we've published and a bunch of digital zines for $20. www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

Our new couch is being delivered today and it has power lumbar support, and I honestly think this will change my life for the better in countless ways. 👵

I never thought I'd love a monster more than I love the Xenomorph, but that eyeball creature is getting there. I feel like if one of @haileypiperfights.bsky.social's books had a baby with one of @ericlarocca.bsky.social's books, this would be it. #alienearth

I won* the Powerball! 💰💰💰 * $7 in

Am I a rich lady at the Kentucky Derby? No. I’m a sun-averse baseball mom at my kids’ championship game. Hat = SPF 50+ by Sun Grubbies Jacket = SPF 50+ by UV Skinz

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha... HARD pass. #TheLongWalk

For some, today marks the start of “Spooky season.” Amateurs. The rest of us live in spooky season. Here at the podcast, it’s just another Maniac Monday.

Yay book mail! @bitterkarella.bsky.social

"To resist is to live imaginatively, and to be imaginative is to be curious."

Tell me you're in the Epstein Files without telling me you're in the Epstein Files.

We put on "After Blue (Dirty Paradise)" last night because it seemed bonkerballs, but at more than 2 hours long, "bonkerballs" turns into "endless slog that's trying too hard" and we quit. Pretentious 21YO NYU Film Studies me would have loved it, but 49YO me ain't got that kinda time left in life.

@haileypiperfights.bsky.social's "A Game in Yellow" is giving me a face in red! 🤭

I don’t know how to explain it, but this video is my whole mood today.

Finally wrote a new story and submitted it, about a gender reveal party that brings about an eldritch horror apocalypse.

Trump's publisher rushed out a new, post-Alaska-Summit edition of "The Art of the Deal."

I slept weird last night and seem to have sprained my right ring finger in my sleep. I will not be taking questions at this time. #wtf

Tik tok, tik tok, Children of the Night.

SINNERS is the biggest Hollywood movie since INCEPTION and WEAPONS just murdered the box office. Original horror + a budget to match the ambitions of talented filmmakers = a winning combination.

Things men have done to me that women (trans or cis) haven't: -Followed me in subway stations -Blocked my path as I walked alone at night -Sat next to me on an otherwise empty subway car -Called me "bitch" when I ignored their catcalls Take a wild fucking guess which group I'm *actually* afraid of.

13YO asked what documents he needs when he files taxes some day, then asked me about my credit score. wut

The next 45 days are going to be a time when everybody in DC needs to know our rights and how to assert them. Here are five important things for everyone to know while DC is under occupation 🧵

Jamiroquai was right. We *are* made of virtual insanity.

"It’s a confection with unresolved trauma, and it knows Muay Thai."

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I'm reading "The Odyssey" before the Nolan movie comes out next year. The translation I'm reading is 500 pages of small type, 75 pages of which are just the introduction, so I'll be reading this for approximately the rest of my life.

#EpsteinFiles Today would have been Virginia Giuffre's Birthday... In her memory Let us all keep fighting #EpsteinFiles Her family wants you to know "She wanted the world to know what they've done to her and so many other survivors " "SHE fought till the last day." Please fight for her now

Came up with a great story title yesterday. Now I just need a story to go with it.

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

Happy Wednesday! Hope your day is an absolute de-light!

Same.

I liked “Together,” but I categorize it more as dark comedy rather than horror. Even the body horror element wasn’t as prominent as the trailers suggested. Still, it’s a fun ride that’s worth seeing.

Few people actually read and STUDY Black women intellectual's work or take it seriously. I believe if they did, their work would be much better. The conversations about love, relationships, ABUNDANCE etc... are all theorized in Black feminist scholarship.

How incredible is this graphic?