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zddochterman.bsky.social
Speculative Fiction | Codex | Assistant Professor of Writing at USC | Apophatic Utopianist Chillsubs Profile & List of Publicatons: https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/zddochterman
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Everyone should read this super spectral, weird story about having to deal with a party after you’ve been murdered. 1000 words of just stunning writing @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

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Went to the LA Times festival of books and picked up some great fiction from @gravesidepress.bsky.social and Counterpoint and the Made in LA folks. @codysiscowrites.bsky.social

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Stop what you’re doing and read this future award-winning story by the inimitable @horrorsong.blog

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Once again, Emily Dickinson being more metal than metal: Death sets a thing significant The eye had hurried by, Except a perished creature Entreat us tenderly To ponder little workmanships In crayon or in wool, With "This was last her fingers did," Industrious until .

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Alien encounters has now moved to the non-fiction section of the bookstore. (Hopefully!) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

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Was only a matter of time… Thomas Ha “Uncertain Sons” @undertow.bsky.social

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Really loved Spencer Nitkey's atmospheric story of teenage loss and mourning with the legacy of plane crash and strange woodlands mixed in. Weird Horror #10 "In the Dream He is Skinless and Beautiful. www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/skinless-and... @spencerwriting.bsky.social @undertow.bsky.social

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Prose rippling with the horror of frats, hidden murders, busted friendships and the violent foundations of a university. Amazing @spicycloaca.bsky.social @ergot.bsky.social

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Literally fell asleep listening to death metal during the afternoon. I think I’m tired.

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Just read Kay Vaindal’s wild, darkly funny story about malls, Las Vegas, relationships and getting bit by the Void. Can’t recommend it enough. @kayv.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social

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My goal is to spend all the money I make from selling my stories on buying lit mags and books. At this rest, I should only end up a few thousand dollars in debt.

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Ever wonder what Nirvana would've sounded like if they'd gone sludgier, heavier, and screamier? Love this band so much. open.spotify.com/track/2Y6Or4... #nirvana #sludgemetal #thou

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We're back! STP #12 is out now and it's full of dark weird upsetting fiction from Kay Vaindal, Joe Koch, Samuel M. Moss, Tabitha Bast, & Z.D. Dochterman. Plus Tiffany Morris interviews Ivy Grimes, Shinjini Dey on writing disaster in The Singularity, and stellar insightful reviews from Zach Gillan.

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So happy to be part of this issue with my dark, weird story “Avila Beach.”

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What I do to story plot points after two lit mag rejections:

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Wonderful, super helpful critiques on my mushroom-generational trauma-horrorish story from Speculative Ink LA.

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Someone needs to write a horror story about a writer who’s been waiting four months for a response on a story and then goes to Moksha, they’re down to number 6 in line and some evil force makes them hit the “withdrawal submission” button. The end.

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So, what book are you reading? Me:

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Ever write a horror story that's too real to the present moment that it turns your stomach when you think about putting it out in the world? Asking for a friend.

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From 2022, but my favorite story I've read this year. An eerie, almost spectral, minimalist prose. It builds suspense not around the question of "what will happen?" but rather "what is happening?" A land of intangibility & memorylessness. From @thomasha.bsky.social & @bourbonpenn.bsky.social

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Mycelia / fungal horror story finished and sent to writing group!

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Tfw your robot brings you Cthulu-tier espresso. #cafelat #espresso

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How does a VERY serious writer track which days they wrote? With colorful nature stickers of course!!

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Los Angeles abject noir

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Current story I'm writing if it were a: musical genre: sludge metal video game: Death Stranding animal: half-eaten walrus corpse food: destroying angel soup in black bile broth

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Local neighborhood graffiti Cryptid.

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Beyond excited to announce that my story "Avila Beach" will be appearing in the upcoming issue of "Seize the Press," one of my absolute favorite lit mags! @seizethepress.bsky.social There will be severed body parts, a sketchy government compound, and teenagers with no hope for the future galore.

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Just got my print copy of Weird Horror 10! From @undertow.bsky.social. Get weird! Get horrified!

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I will soon be rocking this Baba Yaga shirt as a loving reminder of how much my Ukrainian grandma scared me about her as a child

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