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Tammy Komoff

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Horror/Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a pack of mutts. Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting. Work in LCRW, Uncharted, Abyss & Apex Member of HWA, Codex Eugie Award Finalist tammykomoff.com #writer #horror

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Tammy Komoff@tammykomoff.bsky.social · last wk.

Marie Curie left radioactive fingerprints in her home. We can still detect her long ago gentle touches on the back of a chair, or a favorite teacup's handle, the whisper of ghostly lips upon the rim. Her notebooks are locked in lead boxes. Nearly 100 years after her death her presence lingers.

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Tammy Komoff@tammykomoff.bsky.social · last wk.

I love a good obsession. One that starts in a curio cabinet, spills into the kitchen, takes over the garage, becoming something extraordinary. This weekend I visited The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum. A modern Victorian cabinet of curiosities. Krakens & carnivorous snails. Marine magic.

Tammy Komoff@tammykomoff.bsky.social · 2w ago

In Oslo, Norway a secret "Future Library" is being quietly collected, not to be revealed for 100 years. Every year a writer contributes a story. They are stored in these glass drawers. In 2114, they will published in an anthology. A library built for readers the creators will never meet.

The Silent Room in Oslo's main public library. The stories are sealed in these glass drawers, only to be opened in 2114, when they'll be collected in an anthology. A grove of trees was planted when the project began. It will be harvested and used to make the paper the anthology is printed on. Image of what is called the Silent Room. It is an irregularly shaped oval with layers of blonde birch wood stacked upon one another reminiscent of tree rings. Interspersed amongst the layers of thin rectangles of light, these are glass drawers where the manuscripts are kept. What an honor it would be to be included in this anthology.
Tammy Komoff@tammykomoff.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌳 The Tree Library in Sweden is a 217-volume collection of wooden books. 📖 Each volume is dedicated to a different tree species and bound in that tree's own bark. Its pages feature the tree's leaves, mosses, lichens, and other natural materials. A very cool way to document nature.

The tree book collection. Several books, their spines made of the bark, the front and back covers of the wood.
Tammy Komoff@tammykomoff.bsky.social · 2w ago

You can tell a good American diner not by the decor-really the more slapdash the better-but by the groups of old men. You know the type: grizzled, wearing military Veteran caps, laughing, reminiscing, wiping damp eyes with wrinkled hands. They serve more than coffee. They serve a feeling of home.

Image pulled from Naples, Fl newspaper. Old me. Sit in diner chatting, one wears a U.S. Army baseball cap. An assortment of empty plates, crinkled napkins , half-full coffee mugs and paper placemats on the table before them.