As promised, the first story of August just went up. It's...sad and dark and I don't know how to feel about it except to say I probably need a hug. Or a drink. www.aaronccross.com/stories-your...

Immortality Ain't What It's Cracked Up to Be

​Here’s the thing about immortality: you need specificity. Say you encounter a genie (as one does these days) and you wish to be immortal. Okay, but what does that mean? Does it mean you grow...

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Q4: #HorrorWritersChat Oh this is DANGEROUS. Dracula in the Wild West. Frankenstein Wild West. SAW in the Wild West. I think every horror IP would be well served placed in an Old West setting. You can't prove that it COULDN'T. Also, I call dibs on all of these. Just, you know, in case.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 44m ago

Make horror history with a new setting. Q4: #HorrorWritersChat - Choose an existing horror IP or horror creation and add it to an historical period different from its origin. Share your idea. ---- Outro in 10 mins

Q3: #HorrorWritersChat Interesting one! My horror tends to have components of solitude/loneliness mixed in with the full-blown horror components. I also tend to not write 'happy' endings which probably means something that will undoubtedly be unearthed in braincracking one of these days.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 59m ago

Making it personal. Q3: #HorrorWritersChat - In what ways has your own history (past) impacted or inspired your horror writing? Examples: giving a character your childhood trauma, reimagining an experience with a different ending.

Q2: #HorrorWritersChat It depends! For the protagonists, they have various degrees of a past. For the world/antagonists, I really dig the 'eternally existing' sort of past. The 'they have always been here but hidden' kind of thing. It allows for ANY details about the past to be legitimate. Freedom.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 1h ago

Even fictional characters have a past. Q2: #HorrorWritersChat - How much history, how much of a past, do you give your horror characters? Share an example.

Q1: #HorrorWritersChat Eternally, I am AC Cross. I write cosmic and body and gothic and any kind of horror you may like. I like playing with all the different kinds. In terms of historical fiction stories, I don't know if it counts but 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' slaps.

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 1h ago

Welcome to Horror Writers Chat. It’s time to explore the past. Q1: #HorrorWritersChat - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and share up to three historical horror fiction stories you’ve enjoyed. (Horror set in the past.)

As promised, the first story of August just went up. It's...sad and dark and I don't know how to feel about it except to say I probably need a hug. Or a drink. www.aaronccross.com/stories-your...

Immortality Ain't What It's Cracked Up to Be

​Here’s the thing about immortality: you need specificity. Say you encounter a genie (as one does these days) and you wish to be immortal. Okay, but what does that mean? Does it mean you grow...

aaronccross.com

It makes zero sense that I have well over 60 WIPs/ideas in the hopper...but writing a new short story (each week because I promised I would)? I have NOTHING. No ideas, no even flickers...and if anyone suggests I use AI to generate one, I will encourage them to take a bath with their beloved toaster.

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I feel like im just not pushy enough for this author game, so here I am, being pushy! Buy and/or review this book, its good! mybook.to/CallusandCrow

Crap. Forgot that I owe four (actually, wait, five) stories on my website in August since I got five sales in July. I should get on that today, despite being in a full-on knife fight with the brain raccoons, because I don't think the rest of the week will be BETTER for creativity. But, lunch first.

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I’m now just 34 sales away from 100!! This story’s been out a year and I’d love to finally hit this milestone! 🥰 If you like epic fantasy novellas with magic and romance, maybe check it out! I would really love to get this book into more hands 🫶 [ #booksky ]

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5d ago

🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🌲 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

When you cook breakfast, you can make eggs or you can Make Eggs. This is the latter. I’m in a full-blown ‘my life is meaningless’ spiral so I’m at least holding onto the fact that I can freaking cook.

I would love to get A Light for the Dead to Follow up to 100 sales at last (it's been out a year and I'm still at 62), so if you like epic fantasy novellas full of magic and romance, maybe check it out! 💫

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5d ago

🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🌲 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures@michellefranklin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Without downloading new pics what is it like dating you?

I just heard the phrase 'come correct or don't come at all' and immediately thought 'that's what she said' and the day is ruined and it's only 8:30 in the morning what even is my life now

Let me put it like this. If I can rawdog three degrees, including a PhD, without coffee and real life without depression/anxiety meds, I damn sure don't need AI to do a single thing for me, you lazy bitches.

Let me put it like this. If I can rawdog three degrees, including a PhD, without coffee and real life without depression/anxiety meds, I damn sure don't need AI to do a single thing for me, you lazy bitches.

Please enjoy my new post-genuine freeform poem by reposting it.

I talked a lot yesterday, so I want to get back to my Friday Meme habits from a while back. It's Friday! Rest this weekend. Take a nap. Drink something strong that makes you feel better. Eat something maybe not great for you. Take out a load-bearing beam at a Walmart with your car. Take another nap.

Shouldn't have re-read that short story. Damn curiosity. I've been trying to choke out that whole 'desperately romantic' part of myself for years now and this just undid a lot of that. Damn curiosity.

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Share a celebrity you find distractingly attractive. Lauren Cohan makes my brain go fuzzy.

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Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 6d ago

Share a celebrity you find ✨ stunning ✨ I think Deepika Padukone might just be one of the most beautiful - and talented - women I've ever seen. Watch her movies!!

I may just start answering the questions even without the requisite likes. Is that allowed? Is that, like, a breach of Ask Game etiquette? Am I being a pioneer?

AC Cross@aaronccross.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's Thursday, I'm in no mood to do much, and this seems ike a good waste of time. Hit me.

It's Thursday, I'm in no mood to do much, and this seems ike a good waste of time. Hit me.

Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe@aebrossbooks.com · 6d ago

I'm getting in on the Writer Ask Game from @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social. 1 Like = 1 Answer

I know the perfect way for them to 'get around' the problem. They can fill up a bathtub with water, place their faces deep in the water, and breathe in. That way they can mimic the style of fishes!

Futurism@futurism.com · 7d ago

"I have no idea how to get around this."

Don't want to buy my books but want to help? Say no more, this is where I am planning to contribute: www.redcross.org/donate/cm/wi...

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Q4: #HorrorWritersChat I'll go with oleander. It's pretty and smells nice and will absolutely wreck your shit if you aren't careful. I may or may not have used a variant of it in another of the horror WIPs.

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · last wk.

The sun feels warmer, your skin buzzing with new life. Do you have a favorite poisonous plant, #HorrorWritersChat ? Why? What draws you to it?

Q3: #HorrorWritersChat This isn't how it was meant to go. She said there would be no pain. That it would be glorious. That I would be bringing forth new life... My thoughts grow fuzzy, striated. Green clouds my vision as leaves and roots take hold. I feel something burst in my face. I am Nature.

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · last wk.

The strange compulsion to reach out and touch one of the plants overtakes you. As your fingers touch the petals, they tingle. You freeze, watching tendrils reach out cautiously from the plant. "The roots dig deeper into my veins, foxgloves sprouting from my skin." Finish it. #HorrorWritersChat

Q2: #HorrorWritersChat Swamps in San Dios hold the darkest, evilest things in that world. One character found a bone-white tree that bled real blood and was the epicenter of evil. He didn’t turn out too well.

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · last wk.

The garden is bright and vibrant with a wash of flowers. Oleander. Monkshood. Hydrangea and Mountain Laurel bushes. Small placquards stand beside each one. You realize as you read them, they're symptoms. QUESTION 2 - Have you ever written anything centering plants or poisons? #HorrorWritersChat

Q1: #HorrorWritersChat As always, I'm AC Cross. I write cosmic, body, gothic, and whatever kind of horror you can think of. Mostly. It's so hard to pick a favorite for this one! Maybe The Ritual? I love forests and what they can do for horror.

Artemis Quinn 🏳️‍⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · last wk.

Howdy, #HorrorWritersChat ! The leaves whisper secrets at the edge of a forest that melts into a garden. Its quiet murmurs guide you. You take a step. Q1 - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... share your favorite piece of horror media with plants, poisons, forest, or eco-horror.

...bluff has been called. That is four new stories that are going on my website - not my Patreon, my actual website - in the month of August. Won't lie, I'm a little anxious about the First Book Humilation potential now.

AC Cross@aaronccross.bsky.social · last mo.

Let's make a deal. If I sell five books this month, I will post a new story to my site every week in August. If I sell ten books, I will doodle and autograph 10 blank cards and will hold a drawing for them. If I sell more than ten, I will post the first chapter of my first book (which I LOATHE).