"It always surprises people to see how twisted a girl can be, and they don’t always like it." 📚🔪🎶 New nonfiction today by @ivygrimes.bsky.social: "Weird Girl Fiction" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

RIP Marjane Satrapi

“We believe Natasha went willingly. We thought we saw a smile on her face.” Oh, wow, I love this gripping story by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social. Check it out, friends!❤️

’magine (verb) ...The locals will say this when you talk about what you found in the woods behind the old Landry place, but you’ll see in their eyes that they know exactly what you’re talking about. Can you solve this mystery by @verybadllama.bsky.social? Full story: paranoidtree.com/read/vol-65

How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo... #DOGE #USAID

“Explicit queerness is hovering around the edges of this book, but I’ve always read it as implicitly queer from cover to cover.”—Jax Connelly on Excavation: A Memoir. heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/06/04/w...

Got interviewed by one of my favorite writers @anniejowrites.bsky.social for one of my fave places Short Story Long @aaronburch.bsky.social

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

write and delete, write and delete, until the end of time

So frigging happy to have a story in @flashfrog.bsky.social! And this art is absolutely perfect.

Happy Pride to all who celebrate! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The Banshee Appears, by R Prowse (1682). #PhantomsFriday

Still out here trying to milk the Blue Moon for all it’s worth.

Today is the Feast of St Joan of Arc - patron Saint of rabble-rousers, truth-tellers, prisoners, soldiers, cross-dressers, deep-believers, and those who hear voices and experience visions. May we all follow her example by pulling on our big boy pants and doing what we must to set the world right.

Still out here trying to milk the Blue Moon for all it’s worth.

We need the Marcia Lucas biopic

capping off an unusually busy month with a little tiny micro in scaffold lit! I hope you will take a look. It won’t take long. You should do it www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

I'm back in Monkeybicycle today with a new flash story. This one is about comic books. Check it out if you wanna 💙 📚 Link to the story: monkeybicycle.net/downsizing/

I'm still hoping to raise more for this as we still don't have my parents and brother back into a permanent home. The costs of doing anything right now are so high and this has been extremely hard. Any donations or shares are greatly appreciated!

A wonderfully chilling story about a group of abandoned dolls living in a landfill that does an excellent job of implying horror around the margins of the words on the page - Hollow Cast by Sarah Grey. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/holl...

🔴 BREAKING - France votes unanimously to abolish Code Noir, a colonial-era slavery law

Interviewer @allisonwyss.bsky.social talks to Danilo John Thomas about his story collection ORE VEIN (Veliz Press) necessaryfiction.com/interviews/a...

Please read this piece or at least the thread. We are all doomed and damaged by this relentless conservative game plan wrapped up as family values. Seeing the numbers is staggering.

For those interested, here is a link to @librarygoblin.bsky.social's book: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/frig...

Today is my book release day! One of my favorite collections is King’s Skeleton Crew and I’ve always wanted to release a short story collection. Today’s that day! Time of Death: A Collection of Medical Horror is here! Ghosts, werewolves, zombies, scary nuns, you name it, we got it!

Happy World Dracula Day, especially if Lee was your first crush.

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “The Robot Trombonist” by @mattleibel.bsky.social is now up! Art by @lindamayhawkins.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/05/25/t...

On this day in Horror History, THE BROOD was released in 1979.

Obey the call of the darkness.

"He’s more than a popular villain or a Halloween mask. He’s more than a money maker. He is human, like everybody else, and like everybody else, he gets lonely." In (late) honor of World Goth Day, here's @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @villaineralit.bsky.social villaineralit.com/2026/03/24/s...!

when you come down to it Godzilla is just the most righteous shit of all time

We open tonight at midnight, world!

There's never been a better time to get a “F*CK ICE" tattoo in Los Angeles than right now. @izzymirez.bsky.social visited El Clasico for his own resistance ink by local artist Anthony Medina. For our full list of artists offering anti-ICE tattoos visit lataco.com. 🎥: Erwin Recinos

Katherine Grasso’s “How Girls Are” traces the ways women learn to wound and rescue one another. Read the full piece in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

On this day in Horror History, THE SHINING was released in 1980.

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Happy World Goth Day. Rock the gloom.

"What I really want to ask is: How many of them wanted it?" @maurayzmore.bsky.social in @literarygarage.bsky.social literarygarage.com/body-count

“The answer, I realize, is here for me." --- "In grief, inside of which we are from now on going to be living, we’ll share and confide things. One observation: it was there—in his songs, in his writing." this by Scott Garson in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/garson/se...

The news about Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund has left me absolutely ENRAGED! So I made some art about it. Here are some ideas for other places where we could put that money to much better use. Click the link to read the whole comic! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/trumps-18-...

Happy World Bee Day. I see you, I hear you buzzing, I appreciate you.

Emily Duffin. #WorldBeeDay

new new: "Tongues," by Julian Shen: wigleaf.com

Doesn’t the devil live for ever; who ever heard that the devil was dead?

Ok it's publication day for TERRESTRIAL! Grateful to Alan @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and to anyone who's read or reviewed or posted about or looked at my book. Asterism has copies: asterismbooks.com/product/terr...

I guess I’ll look into that AI story that won the contest, but first I’m going to read this hardcover memoir written by a real, flawed human girl person.

"When the mailboxes started appearing all over town—the ones in which you could send letters to your dead that they’d be able to receive and read—we all regarded it as something dangerous." 📬 Find @anniejowrites.bsky.social's haunting story in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Unsent-Love-...

Thank you, Tom Kane.

New Fiction today from Lori Sambol Brody. Lori Sambol Brody lives in the mountains of Southern California. Her short fiction has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Tin House Flash Fridays, the New Orleans Review, Craft, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.