Turns out the ship was a metaphor for hubris and - that's right, the crew an allegory about hope amidst despair. Well, gotta let you go, Jenkins is banging at the blast door begging to be let back inside but also sitting here next to me. Yessir, it's a head scratcher.

I bet screaming into a hole in the ground until the Earth screamed back would fix me.

Feels right

"But if I have to pay for the cars, not steal them, my chop shop will go under 🥺👉👈"

Pablo Picasso sitting at a screening of Willy Wonka

Working on something that doesn't want to be written. Folks keep telling me it's a great idea. I keep getting in the way, over thinking it. Only cure: I need to write some absolute garbage. Pure trash. Like 5-10 really busted stories to make me less precious.

Feel in my bones that if there was a mysterious cabin in the woods where everyone who ever stayed was never seen again it would be a repeat #1 Tiktok filming location. And the more I think about it the more true it becomes, folks would just keep feeding themselves to it for the clicks.

While many of the parodies are gold (The Shining, Dracula, King Kong, the many Twilight Zones) "Bad Dream House" is such quintessential America Horror it deserves its own documentary.

I guess it's Prime Day(s) again, so here are some options if you'd rather not help Jeff Bezos grow even richer. 🧵 First, a couple of Starter Packs of Indie Bookstores to support. (If you are or know of an indie bookstore w/ a Bluesky account that's not listed, let me know.) go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm

Perfectly cloudy, cool Fall day and the sun's started poking out

Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cob

Got an email from THE David Bowie asking if I wanted him to promote AL on his website for a promotional fee. I'm honoured, sir, but am I worthy of such esteemed ghostly boosting? 🥺

Very proud to have a story in this collection 🖤📼

I wish I could explain to the "we're doomed" folk that it usually takes a long time for a species to go extinct. Understand? We're talking generations upon generations before the last human. So if we're going to be around for a while either way, we might as well make things better instead.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I don't post pictures of my kid online, but I got the proofs back for this years school photos and never has there been a more beautiful child also how is my baby so big already, I swear I blinked I only blinked! 😭❤️

Best decade, have fun. But also: Respect your knees/in-step; don't worry so much, just do The Thing you're putting off; love more deeply for fewer; wear your sunscreen.

"Any number of programs could make perfection, but only life made art from flaws." —Erika Swyler, WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON

I'm devastated to miss this tonight (had it marked on my calendar for a month), but life with kids is famously a thing of curve-balls 🥲 If you're in Bridgewater/the south shore area/Halifax (what a hub!) show up and show some love, looks like a fantastic one!

What a life 💔 What a legend. Rest in power 💗

Irish 'Mean Girls' and I'm dead. She's from Sligo. Fetch me a coffin!

Two of our new books out this week are selections on @indiebookstores.ca's inaugural Booksellers’ List! 📚 🧵 Read the thread below for more about The Witch of Willow Sound by Vanessa F. Penney and The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed! @premeemohamed.com

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a "All right, sounds fun, let's dive in."

BARRY LYNDON (1975) dir. S. Kubrick

Gorgeous, loaded with practical effects/sets, an enthusiastic adaptation - yes, I will be lining up on opening day!

happy sigourney weaver pumpkin photoshoot day to all who celebrate

This marketing team deserves a massive raise

🎃 Happy October 1st Please allow Tim Curry, at his most professional, to remind you that a) no part/job is too small and b) Anything Can Happen on Halloween ✨🎃🦇

None of this would be happening if I had an enormous cursed sword

I remain so proud of this, my most experimental story (all of these recipes are from my personal collection that I have hand-written/perfected over the years; ask and I'll send them) and this whole collection. It failed to make a splash on release. T'is life. T'is also d*mn good 🖤 a.co/d/2PK73Tj

My little sister is reading my book (the one I'm querying around). She's had it for two days and this is the message I get just now. The sort of thing that keeps a girl going 🖤🖤🖤

This is the kind of wholesome content we need to bring back into the world.

Tom Thomson (Canadian, 1877–1917) "Autumn’s Garland," 1915-1916

I would actually love to live through some Unprecedented Times: Countries working together, the ultra rich disavowing themselves of their wealth, true equality across many boards, the unilateral respect for nature. We live in exhaustively Repeated Times. Change would be nice.

i know people say this all the time but if you're ever given the chance, tell the artists who make the things that move you how much their work has meant while they're still around. i've never regretted doing it, not fucking once

Spent a solid twenty minutes just sitting back and watching this video and completely untangled the worst part of my writer's block. So I reckoned in the right direction, I guess 😌

yisss

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1) Transition from pre-code to code enforcement, censorship, creative work-arounds in 1930s Hollywood. 2) The personal lives of several Old Hollywood stars. 3) Screwball comedies (best of, worst of, history of)

Reckon building a small birch fire on the edge of a gently flowing river, miles from anywhere on a cold autumn evening, with nothing to do but keep the fire going and my hatchet sharp would fix me right up.

I AM ALSO EXCITED. Join us, Halifax!

Anyway, evergreen

Do you know how excited I am for these events with @daviddemchuk.com and @peterbcounter.com? REAL DAMN EXCITED IS HOW EXCITED.

I think a lot about the conversation I once had with a young woman. I mentioned I like to buy cutlery from the thrift store, bc excellent quality for pennies. She made the "that's so weird" face & smirked "So, you eat off someone else's fork?" Folks, this conversation took place at a restaurant.

TWO great opportunities from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia! The Charles R. Saunders Prize for an "emerging or early-career writer with a speculative fiction work-in-progress" and the Hal-Con 2025 zines are both OPEN for applications, and closing next month! Apply at writers.ns.ca

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1) haunted houses (the history, the metaphor, the famous examples) 2) writing and publishing 3) history of disease/medicine/mortuary arts

This week has been a whirlwind (it's Wednesday, Lemon, I know I know) stress and bad news piling up. If you have some spare good energy/vibes to spare I'd appreciate it 🖤

Here's a book I loved! I think you'll love it too! Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson Coming of age ✔️ Small town shenanigans ✔️ Working together ✔️ Gorgeously written ✔️ 🇨🇦 author ✔️ This novel brought me back to my childhood, riding my bike & hoping to find some unsolved mystery.