L. D. Colter - Author

@ldcolter.com

Writer of weird things. Award-winning author of The Perilous Gods set of myth-based dark fantasy from Profile Books/Solaris.

Hope can still float Original post by Milo for Mayor (a dog) on FB ...I, Mayor Milo, do hereby declare the Beulah Floating Unicorn an Official Symbol of Hope for our community. May it remind us that even after the darkest storms, hope can still float...

Flood waters in front of a building with a unicorn float ring in the foregroundThe same unicorn float after the flood on top of an entrance to a building

Guess what?? I did my FIRST podcast interview recently and now you can listen to it on @jessicapixie.bsky.social Substack! On this episode I also read my story “Six Things I Wish I Had Brought From Earth.” Tell me I did alright. 😅

jessicapixiestudios@jessicapixie.bsky.social · last mo.

Enjoy @abigailkemske.bsky.social reading her short story in the recent anthology Tea or Coffee, Stars and Gravity published by @aanpress.bsky.social Next up, @leootherland.bsky.social 🤍 open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...

Follow Nightraiser into the bone place, where a single floating candle flickers in the shadows. What fills the dark spaces left by devotion? New dark fantasy flash, free in Adventitious! 💀🐴🕯️✨ www.adventitious.net/stories/holl...

Image of “The Piebald Horse," an oil painting by Paulus Potter, with a brown-speckled white horse standing in a field against a cloudy sky, looking back just slightly to the viewer. Above the horse is added text from “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery: “Nightraiser paws a hoof into the harrowed earth. Every grave here is laid bare like the land’s been peeled back in great layers.”Image of a watercolour illustration by Raffaele Mainella for Nos Invisibles (1907). A dark figure stands over an open, flower-strewn casket with their hands raised to a lighter sky of dancing, white-clad figures. A dead man lies inside the casket beside a tall candle, its smoke trailing into the distance. Over the sky is added text from “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery: “Neither he nor the rider had prepared for death; it had come for them suddenly, as certain as wildfire.”Image of “The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)” (c. 1896–1908), an oil painting by Albert Pinkham Ryder. Depicts a skeletal, scythe-wielding figure riding a galloping horse through the dark countryside. Over the sky is added text from “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery: “Horses did not have to pay their way through, but perhaps that was the way of humans.”Image of “La calavera de Don Quijote (The Skeleton of Don Quixote)” (c. 1910-1913), a print of a relief etching with engraving by José Guadalupe Posada. A hat-wearing and lance-wielding skeleton rides a skeletal horse through a crowd of smaller, fleeing skeletons. Added text reads, “Hollows After Bones” by Elis Montgomery,” and “Free to Read | Adventitious.”
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · last mo.

Gorgeous. Dark. Sweet. Meet Nightraiser, the skeletal horse resisting the incandescent call of the afterlife to search for his rider. Hollows After Bones by Hugo finalist @elismontgomery.bsky.social. Read it if you like 🐎 very good boys 🕯️ poetic dark fantasy www.adventitious.net/stories/holl...

A tree is not merely wood; it is a natural air conditioner, a source of oxygen, a support for rainfall, and a sanctuary for birds. It is a safeguard for our future. When we cut down trees, we lose more than just greenery; we invite heat, drought, pollution, and suffering. 🌳 Save trees. Save lives.

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