Thank goddddd bluesky finally has drafts so I can take 3-5 business days to figure out if my dumbass post ideas are actually good (yes this sat in my drafts for a week)
Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann
@lost-squonk.bsky.social
Writer, editor, sad lil cryptid they/them https://linktr.ee/emlyndornemann
"Trans people always knew they were trans." I literally thought my tits were too ginormous for me to be anything but a woman. When I had a reduction for my health in 2019 I had a whole-ass identity crisis. The eggshell can be as flimsy as it is opaque.
Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️⚧️ 📚@danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Trans people Always Knew they were trans” Not true! Some of us found manhood to be a goofy cosplay and had lots of close female friends and the male friends we had were punks and nerds and we didn’t so much want to fuck women as bask in the glory of their womanhood!
Spent my last like 3 luteal phases in really awful depressive episodes but this month I'm just kinda sleepy and also crying watching YouTube shorts of wholesome Pokémon trades at card shows.
Completely insane. AltNPS claimed to know the name of Alex Pretti's killer, refused to say it because "the truth always comes out," and then just deleted the post. A man was executed on the street in my hometown, and AltNPS is using that as an excuse to vaguepost for attention.
Done. Took three minutes. If you use Discord, tell them what you think.
Aaaaaa this is so cool! Congrats to my fellow Fraidy Cats 💚
Fraidy Cat Press@fraidycatpress.bsky.social · 9mo agoExtremely proud to be mentioned in Best Horror of the Year Vol 17 from @datlow.bsky.social ! Big shoutouts to @cwmcguinness.bsky.social, @collyleonard.bsky.social @lost-squonk.bsky.social , JC Wiles, & everyone else who's trusted us with your words the last 2 years! #besthorror #shortfic #horrorlit
One thing they dont tell you when you start testosterone is that anything voice activated will start to think you're your husband
Is it even a voicenote from me if I dont have to loudly stop my cats from eating something in the middle of it?
Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
There are two wolves in me: one, a literature snob with an MFA and the other a gremlin freak, foaming at the mouth. Both fucking love chainsaw man.
I don’t know man if Joyce Carol Oats doubted that I read I would do the honourable thing and curl up into a ball and die.
I just finished reading Tender is the Flesh and now I just have to...go to sleep?
One thing about me is I will always be playing Pokémon go in the club.
Was giving myself editing brain breaks with 10 mins of this week's dragula episode but once I hit the floor show I couldn't stop and now it's 11:30 and my edits are not doneeee
Pretty sure every time I see a drag show I just sit there like this the whole time
a cartoon character with a star in his eyes is smiling
Alt: Stephen Universe with a big smile and stars in his eyes
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10 horror movies to get to know me by 💀 Seed of Chucky 💀 Bride of Chucky 💀 I Saw the TV Glow 💀 Nope 💀 Jennifer's Body 💀 Evil Dead 2 💀 Nightmare on Elm St. 2 💀 Friday the 13th (1980) 💀 Beau is Afraid 💀 The Human Centipede (it remains a pox upon my soul)
Cindy Phan@cindyphanauthor.com · 11mo ago10 horror movies to get to know me by 💀 Alien 💀 Terrified 💀 The Autopsy of Jane Doe 💀 Hereditary 💀 It Follows 💀 Exhuma 💀 The Wickerman 💀 Army of Darkness 💀 The Descent 💀 A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Hot damn this is excellent
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · 12mo ago"Look at the fucking thing. Really look. See the horns, claws, that festering skin, all those yellow fangs, those fucked-up eyes? Big fucking deal." Read 'What to Do When A Demon is Talking Shit at You' by @cindyphanauthor.com inner-worlds.ghost.io/what-to-do-w...
Trending topics, or as we call them, The Horrors™️
"There was a sound, too heavy to be fluttering, but definitely the sound of wings, and then the feeling of three-taloned toes digging into her calf." Read 'The Cockatrice' by @lost-squonk.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/the-cockatri... #Fabulism #SFF #Fantasy #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction
The Cockatrice by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann
Gayle spent a lot of time in bed letting her weight press into the mattress. The blankets were piled on top of her in a heap of warmth that was never as comforting as she needed it to be.
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I am almost a whole week late, but my story "The Cockatrice" is available to read in this month's Inner Worlds!
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · last yr.💚💫 Issue Eight has landed! 💫💚 This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences. If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-... #SFF #Horror
New story out next week!
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · last yr.⭐️ One week to go and it's Issue Eight TOC time! ⭐️ Featuring 14 fantastic stories by @cindyphanauthor.com @busayo.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social @katharinetyndall.bsky.social @esichr.bsky.social @chloehsmith.bsky.social @lost-squonk.bsky.social & more!
Gender is a spectrum and education is the prism. Education happens at home, in school, in art, in books, in society. They want to destroy the prism so we can only see one color of light.
Reposting because the original draft of this was inspired by the terror of being alone in my Milwaukee apartment and hearing 30 minutes of jets overhead, not realizing that they were practicing for the air and water show downtown. This week, of all weeks, I've been hearing them again.
Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · last yr.Our mid-month release is a piece called “To Ashes” by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann. Psychological & darkly emotional. If you feel like the world keeps changing every time you look, it’ll resonate! #flashfiction #writingcommunity www.flashfictiononline.com/article/to-a... @lost-squonk.bsky.social
My apocalyptic short story "To Ashes" is up now at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · last yr.Our mid-month release is a piece called “To Ashes” by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann. Psychological & darkly emotional. If you feel like the world keeps changing every time you look, it’ll resonate! #flashfiction #writingcommunity www.flashfictiononline.com/article/to-a... @lost-squonk.bsky.social
My sister just told me that before my grandma was cremated, the cremation people put her hair in a little baggie to return to our family. And my sister just looked at me and said "if anybody wanted it, I knew it would be you." I mean she's right but idk how to feel about that.
Hello! My life is chaos and I am bad at self-promo but I have a story in this month's Flash Fiction Online!
Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · last yr.This month we ask our readers, what is sacred? Get a copy of our July 2025 issue on our website or through our distributor @weightlessbooks.bsky.social #writingcommunity #flashfiction www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
Today, we invite you to sit a while "In the Café That Was Once a Detention Center" by @lilliantsay.bsky.social, and remember the past as we move into the future: smallwondersmag.com/...
In the Café That Was Once a Detention Center - Small Wonders
In the corner once stacked with torture tools / Now stands the curving sofa like a snake / In velvet blue.
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Do you want to to (1) actively resist fascism, (2) signal your resistance to fascism, (3) show solidarity with people being targeted by fascism? Wear a mask. A mask shows your willingness to not comply, your opposition to the eugenics agenda, and you're making spaces safer for vulnerable folks.
We know it's spring because I always have at least three thorns embeded in my hands at all times.