Jonathan Louis Duckworth
@jduckwriter.bsky.social
Author of Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors. Horror Writer, regular type dude, Lecturer at University of North Texas.
This is one of the rare poems I've written since moving to Texas, and another of the poems that attempts to capture the feeling of a sleepless night.
Kaleidotrope@kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 3d agoRestless dreams wake you in the dead of night to an "Apostrophe for the Monstrous" by @jduckwriter.bsky.social. kaleidotrope.net/summer-2026/...
Restless dreams wake you in the dead of night to an "Apostrophe for the Monstrous" by @jduckwriter.bsky.social. kaleidotrope.net/summer-2026/...
Concept for a historical horror anthology: an anthology where each story furnishes a different supernatural explanation for the mysterious Bronze Age Collapse.
The real Big Beautiful Bill was the 1908s we made along the way
Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · last wk.just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster
I sold a novella yesterday! Gothic scifi cosmic horror tale of a human artist's dangerous affair with the alien aristocrat whose child she's tutoring on an estate in the zone of perpetual twilight on a tidally locked moon. Black vegetation-✔️ Body horror-✔️ Unreliable narrator-✔️ Alien art forms-✔️
My newest poem about monsters and monstrousness is out today!
Kaleidotrope@kaleidotrope.bsky.social · last mo.Poetry by @writerjencrow.bsky.social, @jduckwriter.bsky.social, @thatkeira.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, @ajdalton1.bsky.social, @ianli.bsky.social, and @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social!
Seeing this just makes me mad again that Archive 81 got cancelled www.reddit.com/r/zillowgone...
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I cannot explain to myself why I have such a deep-seated hatred of Marc Cucurella's hair, but any team he's playing for I end up rooting against
Somehow, someway, I really want to write a horror story based on the One Electron universe theory
“What do you mean you need to fold these?”
Got to see a painted bunting for the first time after this lil guy hit his head on a window and got stunned
Finishing Book of the New Sun with this little guy
If Bluesky goes down I’ll go from almost never posting to never posting
Hannah Cohen@hcohen.bsky.social · 4mo agoIf Bluesky goes down, you’ll find me in Barton Town on GaiaOnline
As a reminder, this amazing book of @lindzmcleod.bsky.social's collaborative short stories is available with Stanchion Books. Among many awesome pieces you'll find, "By Which Flesh is Crost" about an oneirophage solving a mystery in a country manor. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
An Honour & A Privilege | Stanchion
In collaboration with eleven writers, including The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee, and Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou, award-winning a...
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Lately I’ve become addicted to these Turkish style breakfasts
He sure does love being tucked in for his iconic 7:30 nap
I continue to be frustrated and disappointed with Bluesky's algorithm. Not only do I get zero engagement, but I also barely ever see posts from a lot of the people I care about while my feed is clogged with strangers
Just received my contributor copy of The Joining: Scenes of Wedding Terror edited by @jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social ! This is a wonderful, star-studded anthology featuring lots of great writers whose work I admire. Get it from @crystallake.bsky.social
I started this newest novel on January 2nd, and finished it just now on February 1st. 63k words long. Dieselpunk dark fantasy/horror with trains, planes, and abominables, vaguely in the mold of In the Mountains of Madness.
BCS 2025! "Vanya and the Dog Witch" @walterwriter.bsky.social BCS #447 "early in spring when his father killed Mishka the three-legged dog. For savaging one of their few hens he said. Yet Vanya had seen toothmarks on neither flesh nor bone." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/vany... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Vanya and the Dog Witch by Walter J. Wiese
“My father forbid me to come to you, either with mushrooms or with the dog's collar,” Vanya told the dog witch. It had been early in spring when his father killed Mishka the three-legged dog. For sava...
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With an introduction by Dr Graham Robert Scott. And I’ve just re-located @jduckwriter.bsky.social and @melisfluous.bsky.social here 👏 Available from publishers @stanchion.bsky.social #AHAAP @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
Cristín Leach@cristinleach.bsky.social · 8mo ago11 short stories, PLUS how we did it 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @eapetricone.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social @thomasdlee.bsky.social @foxesandroses.bsky.social Jonathan Duckworth @lynnreneemaxcy.bsky.social @pegahouji.bsky.social Melissa Ren @pegasusunder.bsky.social
BCS of 2025! "Bloody Muddy Water" by @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #439 "Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye. It was a conjanet—a special weave made to protect against conja." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Bloody Muddy Water by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft, and the fiber looked to be made fro...
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#BCSof2025! "For Those Who Sink and Those Who Float" @jduckwriter.bsky.social BCS #426 "Lim hesitates in the shallows, her courage evaporated in sight of the gray ribbon of the shoreline and the pale sky above. She has never been to the dry world" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/for-...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - For Those Who Sink and Those Who Float by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
Lim hesitates in the shallows, her courage all evaporated in sight of the wobbling gray ribbon of the shoreline and the pale sky above it. She has never been to the dry world of the shore, where the b...
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Massive news, everyone! I've just signed an agreement of representation with Harry Sherer at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social! What a great feeling to have such a massive and storied agency at my back. Here's to a big and eventful 2026!
Having begun it July 31st, I've finally finished the first draft of this novel which turned out to be two novels. 242k words--I think I'm going to lie down now.
This is a really awesome book—it was wonderful collaborating with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social on our oneirophage story!
Stanchion@stanchion.bsky.social · 8mo agoHappy publication day, @lindzmcleod.bsky.social & your brilliant collaborators! An Honour & A Privilege is now available to order from wherever you buy books online, as well as direct from Stanchion in physical & PDF form www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
