QOTD: how do we feel about books and films in which there are non sequiturs in the story? Works that defy the Chekhov’s gun principle—elements or images are introduced that do not return or have significance later in the story…

Hey GA friends! Next Thursday, October 2nd I’ll be at the amazing @foxtale_book_shoppe in Woodstock with writer and anthologist extraordinaire @frightfulfables ‼️ Come see us.

@theandrewkclark.bsky.social Be ungovernable.

"Effie's Oasis" was such a brilliant story from CJ's MOTEL anthology (edited by @barbarabyar.bsky.social). Well done and well deserved Casey!

Brewing, Abigail McGourlay, 2020

I wrote about another predicted rapture date that happened when I was a kid. It’s a poem from my poetry collection JESUS IN THE TRAILER

Logging on

Sen. Tim Kaine: "Brian Kilmeade 10 days ago suggested that homeless, mentally ill people should be lethally injected. He apologized...He didn't get pulled off the air."

If musicians talk about space in music, the space between the notes, the notes they choose not to play…if artists talk about space in a painting…. What does “space” mean in good fiction?

Hey WNC folks‼️ Tonight is the book launch for bearwallow ‘s new book CIPHER in Hendersonville at trailsidebrews - come hear Jeremy read alongside a number of NC writers.

Monksplaining

Does this look like mansplaining

Had an amazing time at @city.lights.nc this afternoon chatting 80s and Appalachian horror with Dr. Emily Nasser-Hall. If you’re passing through Sylva, this is one of the coolest bookstores on the planet.

Led me to your site. could not come up with a joke, but I got insight!

If you’re near Sylva, come see us today at 3!!

Went by and signed maybe 50 copies of WHERE DARK THINGS RISE today at Malaprop’s! Indie bookstores are where it’s at y’all

Cool to see WHERE DARK THINGS RISE as the Appalachian Book of the Week at City Lights Book Store in Sylva, NC. I’ll be there tomorrow ‼️

Western NC FOLKS - tomorrow I’ll be at City Lights Bookstore chatting with Dr. Emily Nasser-Hall, an amazing film professor. Come see us in Sylva! citylightsnc.com/event/2025-0...

Qualkman

Duck to the Future

The ducking batteries are dead again

Caption this:

Writer’s Diary 18 September: 900 “okay” words today, but one beautiful singular image. I am on the final 4-5 chapters in this rewrite, version 4 I’m calling it. Two of my main characters are in the woods, the third is trying to reassemble an enormous grandfather clock.

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Freedom of speech. Forever and always. No matter who is in power.

Exactly this

Brothers and sisters we are gathered here today to talk about this thing called gritz

Live footage of me mansplaining about my book

Very thankful for this thoughtful blurb for Where Dark Things Rise from the magnificent @pollyschattel.bsky.social

This is why they’re deleting studies

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Had an amazing time tonight at @malapropsbookstore with the inimitable @tessa.fontaine launching WHERE DARK THINGS RISE. Thanks to everyone who came out and folks that joined us online.

Hey WNC Folks, I hope you’ll join us tonight at Malaprop’s for the launch of WHERE DARK THINGS RISE‼️ It’s free but you do have to register. Not local? It will be streamed online (same link): malaprops.com/event/2025-0...

Happy pub day!!!

Need some jams today? Check out the WDTR playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/6V0...

When a bearded man in a kilt offers you a book they have written themselves, just don't ask for grits with it!

Thanks to @lanacasiello.bsky.social for this thoughtful video review of WHERE DARK THINGS RISE www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SUbYX9/

Launch Day ‼️

‼️Sneak. Preview‼️

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