Profile avatar
morbidloren.bsky.social
No rest for the morbid! Still Wish You Were Here, 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, Death's Garden Revisited, This Morbid Life: Essays, Lost Angels, & Unsafe Words: Stories. she/her
240 posts 523 followers 615 following
Prolific Poster

This is lovely.

So glad to be a part of this!

87% Of Loud Crashing Noises Are Nothing, Report Top Experts From Other Room theonion.com/87-of-l...

Like your romance reads with a touch of heat? The succubus Lorelei sees Azaziel in her master's dance club and vows to do anything to bring him to heel. How could she guess he would possess her with a mortal girl's soul -- and unleash the love triangle from Hell? lorenrhoads.com/writing/as-a...

Like, my nostalgia is not for how the past was, but for how I used to envision the future.

I had the honor of appearing in the first issue of Orpheus magazine orpheus.hotglue.me/one talking about graveyards, writing, and taking courage.

I hate it when my ailing king is usurped by his scheming foreign vizier

Does it feel like time to escape? I reviewed a travel book as the world burns down: horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/b...

A moment of peace to brighten your timeline: youtu.be/-5YRhvH6Uys?...

UM.

Bird is the word.

Beàta reviews The Reluctant Undertaker by Angel Leigh-McCoy: The story follows two sisters, Isabella and Bluciel, who reunite after their mother’s death... I found the book quite enjoyable. The right audience will enjoy this book very much. www.queerscifi.com/review-the-r... #DarkFantasy #Mystery

Good morning

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you. Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

“It takes no compromise to give people their rights…it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.” ― Harvey Milk

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

"I must not fear, fear is the mind-killer" is a very useful mantra to mentally loop especially if you set it to a techno beat

Creatives, listen up. I know it sucks. I know it's hard. But art isn't about making things when it's easy and good and comfy. Art is rebellion. Art is rage. Art is protest. Art is political fire. Write it. Draw it. Sculpt it. Build it. If you cannot find the joy, do it out of spite and fury.

This has to be the worst time possible for the Surgeon General to say "Alcohol is bad for you" because holy fuck have I needed alcohol. Reminds me of when the nutritionist tried to revamp my whole diet as I was on deadline for my first novel. NO, NOT NOW.

Too close to home this morning.

SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵

The sky was glorious tonight.

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

First tarot pull of the year

Let’s create more problems for 2025 than 2025 creates for us.

Heading into 2025 like

If you missed it the first time, or if you read it the first time and had been missing it since, I give you Shiv Ramdas' Rice Truck Saga:

Write because you are going to run out of everything else: time, money, fucks to give. But you will never run out of your own bullshit. You could live forever on this unlimited fuel of emotional damage and charm. Plus people think you're funny. You're such a good writer. Live más.

When I met Ray Bradbury and told him how I was struggling with my first novel, he said, “Don’t think. Just write.” That was the most liberating advice anyone ever gave me.

WANT

Me facing 2025.

This made me laugh.

Since we’re talking about how much billionaires suck again, here’s a reminder that your local indie bookstore deserves your business this holiday season. They have gift cards and are happy to mail stuff out. Same goes for @bookshop-org.bsky.social. Buy books. Give books. Support bookstores.

I’d like to find a home for an occult detective story collection and edit an anthology of ghost stories, while I’m wishing.

I’m in the last hours finally of a 24-hr blood pressure test. At least the dawn is spectacular. As was last night’s sunset. What is time, when measured in 30 minute bites between bruising torture?

2,000-year-old tomb of Roman soldier unearthed in Netherlands via @https://twitter.com/Archaeology_Mag archaeologymag.com/2024/12/tomb...

Looking for a gift for the dark spirits on your list? Let Chantal's Cemetery Photography offer some suggestions: chantallarochelle.ca/2024/12/01/a...

I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

If you see this, post a vampire and pass it on.

Nothing more Punk Rock than being alive when they want you dead.

Boneyards inspire me. They make me wonder what those sleeping in stone tombs dream of? Sunlight? Warmth?Retracing the wraith ways to their former homes? I know the dead in such places mainly complain to each other about a lack of visitors as I have as I have heard the whispers. – #CLNolan