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It's almost apartments now.

Desktop writing buddy. #amwriting #withadog

What on (and just above, mostly to the left) blue blazes? Shroomses.

and I love you and I'm tired of you Anyone else wishing their beloved novel would just shut up already? #amwriting #speculativefiction #wip

In “Like Paralda”—available now in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52—an ambitious musician explores the utility of envy and how artistic autonomy means mutation: becoming something the system can no longer commodify. #anticapitalist #speculativefiction #WeirdFiction

In “Like Paralda”—available now in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52—an ambitious musician explores the utility of envy and how artistic autonomy means mutation: becoming something the system can no longer commodify. Read the zine digitally or in print—link in bio.

Some of my most influential nonfiction and "nonfiction" books, plus some bonus games. #Shelfie #OccultBooks #Esoterica #Folklore #Mythology #ReligiousStudies #WeirdFiction #SpeculativeFiction #OSR #TTRPG

"A Concise Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Terms". A must-have for writing a novel about a basilica built on terrible secrets! Okay, maybe not a must-have, but fun & useful. Great estate sale find. Certainly not the original owner’s intended use…😈 #SpeculativeFiction #WritingResearch #ReligiousHorror

Water you watching?

I’m proud to announce that my short story “Like Paralda” has been published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no. 52. I’m honored to be included among so many remarkable LCRW contributors. Available July 7, 2026. Link in bio.

From "Ballet Mécanique" by Fernand Léger, 1924 #experimentalfilm #weirdart #avantgardefilm

This is exactly the sort of history I love to explore in my writing. What if pulp occultism was real and ubiquitous? So far, all the answers I’ve cobbled together point toward something as bleak and beautiful as our own world, if weirder and worse.

Fought a gang of pill bugs for a key under the moldering hemp doormat and he was in.

They pray for food. 🙏 🦐 🐠 #shrimpgod #AquariumHobby #Fishkeeping #ShrimpTank

BLACK BRANE by @michaelcisco.bsky.social Reading this book is clinging to the edge of a hole. Finishing is falling in. It swallows whole horror and philosophy and string theory and the occult. Entangle yourself in this novel.

MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Sámano Córdova A mother grows something to love from her son's lung - a monster, a person, a monster. Strange, dark, hopeful, heartbreaking. A story of loving on purpose. Find a cozy spot to hang from your arm tail, unhinge your novel-jaw, and devour this book.

Haunted Chest of Drawers Marcelin (Ed.): "La Vie Parisienne" (1863)

Attended @awpwriter.org in Baltimore. What a treat. I spent the first two days talking about how charming it was, only to find out it's called Charm City! I friggin love you, Bmore, can't wait to come back.

Graveyard growth

This is the year I discover the spirit of Christmas. After that, I'm not sure. I guess, learn and incorporate its true name into a pentacle written on virgin parchment, summon it, bind it within a magic circle of salt, then bend it to my mortal will? We'll see if there's time.

"I simply want ice cream and to be alive until I am dead." - "The House Call" from Near Flesh, by Katherine Dunn. #writingcommunity

"I regard writing not as investigation of character, but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed." - Evelyn Waugh This quote gifted me the fulfilling experience of reading something I already knew, but couldn't yet voice. #writingcommunity

Move over annelids, handelids are the new it-worm!

Carolina anole(?) enjoying a warm right triangle.

Sound on! A magical and chilling experience at Congaree National Park. Arboretum: Bassoons in the Congaree National Park put on by @sc.edu

I think what I want is to live without knowing or feeling it. Antisocieties, by michaelcisco.bsky.social

"So, how was your life? What did you do?" - my toddler

Now that he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. 1984, by George Orwell