An easy tool for writing to your reps and telling them not to cave on the government shutdown. We stood with them, they must stand with us. democracy.io#!/

Feeling very "I just don't know" today. But I appreciate and love all my friends here. Thank you for being so amazing.

Started the day moving some pictures with Rush, now Primus and I are shaking hands with beef. #Rush #Primus #Music #writingcommunity #adhd #mentalhealth youtu.be/JqKiH4UWrzk?...

In case you missed it, I wrote a thing to hopefully help folks not land in the wrong place. Since then, it’s been agent/editor approved more than once. Hah. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...

Had to take a break from reading his memoir to write this lengthy love letter to Tim Curry’s amazing career: www.patreon.com/posts/143183... Remember, my Patreon is always free. #TimCurry #RockyHorror #Writing #writingcommunity #free #authorsky #read

The office is taking shape. Right now, it has strong video/record/used bookstore vibes. Once I get a new desk and chair, it’ll be impossible to get me out of there. #AMwriting #writingcommunity #writer #authorlife #writesky

#5amWritersClub a tiny chapter 19.40% shorter and sliced a bit off another scene. My bedroom is still under siege. 91 distractions today. #amEditing #writingCommunity #writerSky #authorSky

7 years ago?!??

Picked this up at the library today. Excited to learn more about my favorite actor. #TimCurry #Vagabond #Library #Memoir #Books #writingcommunity #adhd #mentalhealth

More friends hitched a ride with us to Corning. #Books #Booksky #Bookstoread #HarlanEllison #EmilyCarroll #LewisCarroll #CliveBarker #JeffSmith #horror #fantasy #writingcommunity #authorlife #ADHD #MentalHealth #comics

Spinnin’ John Carpenter’s Escape from New York soundtrack on vinyl while doing more work on the new project. That's bliss. #amwriting #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #JohnCarpenter #music #filmsky #vinyl #adhd #mentalhealth

Wrote the first paragraph of a new project titled “Only the Bad Parts.” Shit is DARK. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #authorsky #art #adhd

Some friends followed me to Corning. #StephenKing #RayBradbury #GradyHendrix #Books #Booksky #HorrorCommunity #art #Writingcommunity

Not a good ADHD day for me, to put it mildly. Hoping tomorrow is better. #adhd #mentalhealth #anxiety #art #writing #writingcommunity

If you can't make my Doctor Who Game Show on Zoom on November 15th, you can still get tickets to watch it any time day or night from November 17th to December 17th. Click the link and make a small donation. #DoctorWho Doctorwhogameondemand.eventbrite.com

Too true…

Something I think needs to be better understood: corporations & billionaires often spend more trying to defeat progressives than it would cost them in the proposed increased taxes if those people won. It’s never just about the money. It’s about no longer being the sole beneficiaries of society.

*sobs* I just wish Dick Cheney had lived long enough to see this...

Enjoying a rare moment of hope scrolling.

Wha...? A Crystal Lake Hoodie! I don't even have one! www.crystallakepub.com/product/crys...

Also, still waiting on some platforms to report in, but we raised over $30 for Partners for Peace from my royalties fundraiser in September and October! I'll report the grand total once I have it. #HorrorWritersChat

My chisel cracks the seal open. Only then did I understand the folly of my curiosity, and the stupidity of using a chisel because it kept going and stabbed the thing inside, and now it’s just goo, and my mom is gonna be so mad I’m out this late and didn’t even unleash hell. Q4 #horrorwriterschat

"My chisel cracks the seal open. Only then did I understand the folly of my curiosity. Only then did the terrible truth seep into my sinews, down to my marrow; we are nothing, insignificant to the icy world around us as we grasp and keen for someone... anyone... to hold us." #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat ...As my eyes scanned ancient words of hidden knowledge I could already feel a curse taking hold, turning my blood to dust, making the flesh drop from my bones. Mortal eyes weren't meant to behold such secrets. And I would never live to reveal what I had learnt

#HorrorWritersChat At that moment my eyes closed without my permission, I tried to open them again but I could not, I reached to feel what made them close and I realized my eyelids were gone, my sight forever trapped beneath flesh, truth within my reach and I was unworthy to lay my eyes upon it

Thanks Gree! #HorrorWritersChat, your first Christmas horror story of the season is here! "The Wild Hunt" follows two sisters who run away from home... and discover something ancient in a blizzard. Amazon: tinyurl.com/4y33j7xr B&N: tinyurl.com/ymb8249b Kobo: tinyurl.com/2tuyy4vx

Q4: #HorrorWritersChat A word that cannot be spoken, A word that cannot be read, To see it is to be broken, To utter it is to join the dead.

The Collegiate appreciates your participation tonight. Do stay a while – the esoteric laboratory has much to show you. Have you answered the questions? Do you have something to share? Promote below, and share each others’ posts! We shall continue our correspondence next week. #HorrorWritersChat

here's my #horrorhaiku break open the seal | under the moons at midnight | prepare to wither | #horrorwriterschat

I'm taking a short break from anything Land of Gold-related, as I've focused on it the entirety of October. Instead, I'm going to once again promote @chaoticauthor.online's wonderful work, as he has been a founder of this incredible hashtag community! bsky.app/profile/chao... #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for another engaging chat! My debut novel Little White Flowers is available online at most major book retailers, many smaller book retailers, and it's also available either in print or ebook at many libraries. books2read.com/LittleWhiteF... #HorrorWritersChat

No, no, no, #HorrorWritersChat, it wasn't meant to be opened... We are nothing, Dr. You've doomed us all. There is no return from the terrible truth that we are but flesh and blood, weak and writhing in a hungry nothing. That without some comfort, some sweetness, we will be shredded and devoured.

#HorrorWritersChat The ideal seal containing a Terrie Truth? I see a dark blue square with a big white F… and a black square with a big white X… and these gateways to hell lurk on mobile phones across the world, portals for the good, sometimes, but mostly for the bitter, twisted & hateful.

Ah, whatever I don't want to know or see or acknowledge. Animals and people I love die. That lumpy thing could be cancer. The world is shit. Really, no one cares. Those truths just make everyone cry. Hide them inside old socks and Tupperware, for the love of Cthulhu. #horrorwriterschat

I think a full understanding of a Terrible Truth would be unattainable. We can't even hold ourselves accountable to "self evident" rights. The terrible truth is that we will never discover what that truth is. #HorrorWritersChat

Q3: #HorrorWritersChat Telepathy. If we could hear each other’s thoughts? If we couldn’t shut it off? We’d kill every last one of us—then the silence for the few survivors would be worse… What’s inside our minds should only be let out by the mind’s own hand…

I think such a seal would be located in the searchers' place of value. It could be something personal or tied into family lore. The seal doesn't have to belong to the family but it certainly would attach itself to a strong gathering of energies. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I gazed upon The Adversary. It was exactly and precisely a man. He was like me, but just different enough that I understood why I was supposed to hate him.

#HorrorWritersChat Hello! I’m Gary Kruse, and I write supernatural mysteries, dark thrillers and tales of witches, vampires, ghosts and my Terrible yet bleeding obvious Truth; that humans are the biggest monsters of all…

Electric is the shock which opens the universe to my previously limited sight. A shock too much for my heart which fails & I plunge into a darkness, a void, where those who went before me walk & bewail their fate. The chant 'If only ...' goes round and round, & soon I, too, howl. #HorrorWritersChat

"My chisel cracks the seal open. Only then, did I understand the folly of my curiosity. Colours that taste like oil on my skin. Stars that set my eyes ablaze, their lavender crawling into my brain. My heart, one with the void, growing wings and flying away, never looking back." #HorrorWritersChat

Hello, #HorrorWritersChat! J.D. Buffington here, author of horror and scifi. My haunted house novel was cursed with AI art by a boutique publisher. After getting my rights back, I bought the remaining stock and sealed them in a box to never see the light of day again.

#HorrorWritersChat With the breaking of the seal came the screams, though I could not tell whether they were from my own throat, my surroundings, or the scroll itself — for the terrible visions ripped my mind asunder.

I'm late, I thought this started at 3. I write all sorts of horror. I have an esoteric horror seal containing a very small shoggoth. We should not open it. #horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat The stone doors tall enough to rival mountains scraped against the floor as they opened, it stepped out, covered in spiky red fur with the head of a wolf and the eyes of an octopus. It was at that moment that I looked at where it had been kept and asked "Hey, where's the candy?"

Oooh tough question. The seal would be under a pane of glass in a forgotten conservatory, pressed between the roots of a withered rosebush. It hums at dusk, when the light dies slow. Anyone who tries to read the inscription forgets their own name before they read the last word. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Question 3: The human brain was never meant to advance this far. We're a bunch of monkeys who figured out how to split the atom. Unless we can fundamentally change our nature, we're probably doomed.

My chisel cracks the seal open. Only then did I understand the folly of my curiosity. There is nothing behind the seal. Nothing. It was a test, and I have proven myself unworthy. I swallow heavily as footsteps thud against the stairs above. They know. #HorrorWritersChat

I was not brought here to enlighten humanity, I was sent to smother it with darkness. #HorrorWritersChat