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calmtomb.bsky.social
Horror writer, occasionally funny
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The hideous man-child roaming our grounds in a Buster Brown suit and claiming to be the state gaming commissioner is in fact the assistant state gaming commissioner.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Our concierge Lou says, “Nothing gets you through an all-night losing streak like a few lines of uncut cocaine.” Find him at the concierge desk before the cartel does.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

River Side Trivia: 4% of all guests are passing through on the way to visit the Clutter family farm in Kansas.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Favorite film genres Favorite film genres 1. Trapped in a snowy hellscape 2. Covering up a crime leads to even worse crimes 3. Unseen forces have doomed main character from the start 4. Violent biopic 5. Die Hard-style situation

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I remain confident that this platform will soon replace my bank.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Can I NOT buy them?

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Not so sure about my city’s new motto.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

15 years as a reporter is probably to thank—or blame —for my extremely lean writing style.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

My gf and I have a running joke about New Hope, PA having an evil/cross-the-river twin called “No Hope” that sold only cigarettes.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Cutting down some trees and then using ancient technology to stick them together.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Facebook in 2015: “Wow, my cousin’s daughter is in college already. Time ready flies.” Facebook now: YOU CAN ONLY PICK 3 MOVIES FROM THIS LIST (Collection of 19 mid-tier films from the 00s, and, say, Raging Bull)

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

80% of the time you can straight up ignore the fire alarm

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Coming May 7: Elvis If He’d Lived. Experience the songs the King would have covered if he had lived into the 1980s or 1990s. (For legal reasons this singer cannot perform Elvis originals)

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Oscars, Superbowl. Glad to see BlueSky has taken up Twitter’s mantle of Making Me Feel Like I Live In A Completely Different Fucking Country.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Thrilled to have a short piece in the Spring issue of New Flash Fiction Review, out today newflashfiction.com/i-dont-know-... @nffr.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I just wrote the grossest (by my standards) story I’ve ever written.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Treat myself and my SO to a decent restaurant. #HorrorWritersChat

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Hmmm… Let’s go with “the opening scene from The Deer Hunter meets the most famous scene from The Deer Hunter” #HorrorWritersChat

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Writing spot: my bedroom Brainstorming spot: in the car #HorrorWritersChat

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Tom Coombe, Pennsylvania-based writer of horror/weird stories. “Wedding crasher crashes the wrong wedding” #HorrorWritersChat

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Age yourself with a movie you saw in theaters

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Yes, the resort has car chargers in the parking garage. They don’t work but we have them.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Two stickers on the same car, describing (I assume) the same animal.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Either my finished short story collection, or my novel about estranged brothers caring for their mother as she (and a quarter of humanity) turns into an aquatic creature. #HorrorWritersChat

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

“Something’s coming.” My stories more often than not find people on the edge of a very bad thing, even though the harbingers of that thing are no picnic. I also seem to write a lot of stories where someone has a vision after consuming something, food or otherwise. #HorrorWritersChat

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My entry point to horror came at 13 with John Bellairs. I’d love to go back in time and collaborate with him on one of his “kids find a cursed object” books. #horrorwriterschat

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Hi folks. I’m Tom. I technically wrote my first horror story in maybe 1990 or 1991, but I didn’t start taking it seriously until around 2016. #HorrorWritersChat

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