My copy of Lonesome and Festering arrived today! @ericraglin1992.bsky.social's work is always weird and wonderful, so I can't wait to dig into this collection!
Tiffany Michelle Brown (she/her)
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Author of A Taste of Revolution and How Lovely to Be a Woman: Stories and Poems. Co-host of the Horror in the Margins podcast. Whisky enthusiast. Foodie. Wifey. Dancer. www.tmbwrites.com
@sonorataylor.bsky.social and I are watching The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Thanks to the Gaultier costuming and very on-stage staging, the opening of the film is like a very strange, noir perfume commercial + lost boys energy. Helen Mirren is ravishing, per usual.
Okay, ending the Love Is Blind with a live performance of the song "Stop the Wedding" by Ashe is diabolical.
I survived my Fitness Ghouls class at Killer Fitness this morning! Kay guided us through all the scary movies and we fought back and made our way to the end credits. Ghostface didn't stand a chance!
We went to an art expo today, and I brought home a piece of my childhood. 🥰 When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Disney animated films, and I very specifically wanted to be a Disney colorist when I grew up. Animated films were a special type of magic to me, and honestly, I still feel that way.
Just got out of You See Can Everything, and holy crap, there is so much to process. 🫠
Ooh, I am writing a piece that is raw and angry and scathing, and it feels really, really good. 😈
Five years ago my debut poetry book came out. It's called CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE?. It has both a sharp cosmic-horror-comedy taste & a seasoning of something deeper. In it, Lupe Fiasco asks Lovecraft if he's from the streets and Donald Glover gives Hastur his autograph. I think you'll dig it.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 5d agoYou should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.
A night at the theater! My first time seeing The Music Man. About to find out what this capital-T trouble in River City is all about.
OMG, is that my nervous system actually relaxing a little for the first time in two years?!?!
If my home state goes blue...Arizona...I will lose my shit!
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More history tonight!! Georgia didn’t just send Jon Ossoff back to the U.S. Senate. Voters elected Bentley Hudgins as the first trans, nonbinary lawmaker in the state legislature. www.advocate.com/politics/ele...
Bentley Hudgins wins Georgia Assembly seat as first out trans and nonbinary state lawmaker
The longtime organizer made history in the deep south.
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RESULT: First Senate flip for Democrats: Roy Cooper will be the next Senator in North Carolina. This is Democrats' first Senate win in this state since 2008, when Kay Hagan won. This is the seat she then lost in 2014.
Democrat Jasmine Clark won her race in Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, Decision Desk HQ projects. Clark, who received her doctorate in microbiology from Emory University, is set to be the first-ever Black woman Ph.D. scientist to serve in Congress. https://bit.ly/4sFKGdH
Enrolling in employee benefits and seeing how expensive it is to have health insurance the day before midterm elections is rather sobering. Please feel free to vent/commiserate in the comments. Or post some funny GIFs - maybe we all need a laugh? All responses are welcome!
Banana Crisis: Stuffed Animal's Existential Woes
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I did a better job of taking pictures at LA Comic Con today! We saw some cool things, and I made sure to pick up goodies from my fave artists. And Albanese was handing out gummy bears all weekend, so we are stocked!
Wow, this is beyond disappointing. An author who had a story accepted found out Allegory fed their story to an AI detector without notifying them first. Like, this is really gross. I hate that we, as writers, have to add vigilance for these types of practices onto our sub checklists. 👎
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Horror writers are like "If I can make just one person deeply upset, it will all be worth it."
Everything I read in September and October: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang Headlights by CJ Leede Death in its Many Forms by S.H. Cooper Lakewood by Megan Giddings A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
I didn't take enough pictures today, but we had a lot of fun! There were many Velmas at Comic Con today. 🧡 Droids cruising around the show floor. And I got to see my friend @denniskcrosby.bsky.social provide insight and advice about publishing during the Writers Coffeehouse (preorder his book!).
I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/
When I chopped my hair earlier this year, I immediately knew the assignment for Halloween! Wishing you all a day of treats, no tricks! 🎃🎃🎃
A Nightmare on Strip Street was incredible! I didn't know how much I needed to see cenobites doing a can-can. Or classic slashers performing as a boy band. Or a man named Rubin being invited on stage to receive lap dances from Ghostface and Michael Myers. My soul is healed.
Tricksters, I have an early Halloween TREAT for you! My story, "When the Motherfucker Just Won't Die," dropped today, rounding out Ominous Thrill's Her Horrorween. 💅🎃 Thank you to @jeffschmidt.bsky.social for including this story in such a killer, fierce, feminist lineup during October...
REMINDER! We're reading your stories in the month of November as I try to fill out the table of contents for Fusion Fragment #32 (our October 2027 issue). Full guidelines here: www.fusionfragment.com/submissions/
Met some brilliant doggos at a Pasadena Humane event this morning! Red and Benny are very good boys, excellent models, and looking for homes. 💙💙💙
