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New piece in @havehashad.com today! True story! My first lucha. Certainly not my last, but the funnest for sure. Thanks to Crow for picking up this shortie www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

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New Fiction: "All Thumbs" by @colinalexander.bsky.social shotgunhoney.com/fiction/all-...

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We all know Thomas’s stories are excellent in and of themselves, but this is that rarest kind of collection where all the pieces build and intertwine and the sum is more than its parts.

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COVER REVEAL!! Thanks to @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social for hosting the big reveal for WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN, my debut short story collection dropping in July from @rhppress.bsky.social! Included: preorder links and an interview!! 👇👇👇

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A 3 year old did a mock draft on Reddit. It’ll brighten your day. The comments are great too. www.reddit.com/r/NFL_Draft/...

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I'm absolutely over the moon to announce my 2nd collection, THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN, will be out next year from @rdspress.bsky.social! It's been eight years since my first collection, and I seriously cannot wait to share this book with everyone! 🖤☠️

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WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN by @cwblackwell.bsky.social is now available for preorder! To find out more about the book, and see the cover reveal, go check out this interview with CW at @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social's newsletter jamesdfhannah.substack.com/p/34-five-fo...

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"Fuck fascists" sign spotted hanging over the interstate. 🫡

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The Pampered Idiot, by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807–45, 📸 by @b_smialowski

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The biggest giveaway of this being bullshit isn’t the weight or the blood pressure. It’s the temperature. They got lazy and went with the pseudoscientific average.

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BOOK COVER REVEAL GOOD BOY by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social (Oct 2025) PRE-ORDER NOW! Available in paperback & ebook, worldwide 💙 🖤 After a boy vanishes on the outskirts of a small Northern town, a woman spies from her window a mysterious man digging a grave www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/good...

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I have some bad news

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Walking my 12 year old dog with arthritis in both hips and she decided she wanted to run so I did and I’m not in as bad of shape as I thought. I got Hokas for my plantar fasciitis and they are magic.

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Excited to have my story "Dancing into the Fire" published in WestWord's @retreatwest.bsky.social ILLUSION edition. I wrote it after a trip to the Swedish Arctic circle - no surprise it features extreme cold ❄️ open.substack.com/pub/westword...

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If your gut reaction is to lol or type FAFO then you’re a piece of shit and I hope you find some self reflection soon. Fuck you.

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You gotta check this out. It’s so damn good.

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FREE THIS WEEKEND ONLY! Human Tenderloin: A Collection of Horror Stories by Craig Wallwork U.K. amzn.eu/d/3O0uKii U.S. a.co/d/3BJGmzs If these stories can mess with Stephen Graham Jones’ head, what will they do to yours? #BookSky

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My stepson’s high school put on a two week presentation of Le Mis and we saw it last night. It rivals the traveling production. Just phenomenal. The choreographer might end up on Broadway. He played Thénardier and now I have Master of the House in my head.

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New flash at The Good Life Review today! "The Next Empty Cup" - I hope you'll check it out! Huge thanks to the staff at TGLR! You've all been so wonderful to work with! ❤️ @goodlifelitmag.bsky.social

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Anyone else think of Game of Thrones when they saw this?

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today's Joshua Hebburn story gives me coover vibes while also being uniquely hebburnian "Bob walked into a bar and said to the bartender, “I’ll have a martini. Hold the vermouth. Hold the olive. Hold the gin. Hold the glass.” https://www.havehashad.com/ci239

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SECRET SUBMISSION CALL!! By which we me mean... a "SECRETS" themed submission call. In ~48 hours. Saturday, 4/12, 12pm (noon) ET. Sub call capped at 150 submissions. Guest editors? Team hex (Kate, Danny, Joe)!

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When the libertarian understands it, you know it’s obvious.

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"With the big race looming, my anxiety got so bad I went to see my old fourth grade teacher Ms. Jane, who’d quit teaching for the motivational therapy business." outlooksprings.com/stories/the-...

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It’s Indie April, so I appreciate any help spreading the word about The Owl Men of Shanidar. If you like sci-fi and weird tales, give this novel a chance. Release is April 28! Mybook.to/OwlMen

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New story alert! Thank you, Emerge Literary Journal. This new issue looks amazing 🤩 Read “Midge and the Red Blazer” here ⬇️ emergeliteraryjournal.com/midge-and-th...

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Learned how to say sent from my iPhone in German in a teams call. But what did my brain shoot into the ether to make room for it?

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This is what happens when organizations have the money to fight back: Without warning, New Hampshire lawmakers tried to defund the NH library completely; within 90 minutes, Every Library was able to deploy defense. The amendment got killed 24 hours later. www.everylibrary.org/nhdefundingr...

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back home from tour and have a backlog of books going to the post office tomorrow. want one? $20 signed and shipped. HYA stickers going with each order until i run out! message me for paypal/venmo info

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Damn, that went fast. So proud of my bin-dwelling little lit mag and the Trash Family that's been created. Thank you everyone who encouraged, supported and believed in TCL. I'm Trash Cat and my baby is one today. I won't force you to hold it but you best say it's beautiful 😀

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After what seems like forever, the print proof of my 1984-set crime novel THAT OCTOBER is on its way to me. Not long now until the book is out there. Here's what some authors who read THAT OCTOBER had to say.

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“You see how much their charging for white sheets now? Your out of your mind. Rather sow my own then buy em.”

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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

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First blooms of spring

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new piece in @havehashad.com today!!! I think it’s my favorite piece I’ve written in the last, like, year Honored to have it be in my favorite lit mag, skull Number 10 baby!!! 💀 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/car...

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