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R.L. Meza

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OUR LOVE WILL DEVOUR US. Spec fic in Clarkesworld, Nightmare. Painter. Gamer. 4 cats in a trench coat. Vegan. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (he,him) NO A I rlmeza.com

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · Jul 18

beat the heat with my screwed up family in OUR LOVE WILL DEVOUR US, a winter isolation horror novel about two mothers trying to save their children from the monster inside their daughter. come for the frostbite and cannibalism, stay to get your heart wrecked: darkmattermagazine.shop/products/our...

Our Love Will Devour Us

"A terrifying, twisted roller coaster of a book. From the first page to the last, R. L. Meza's gripping debut novel affirms a rising star in horror." —Noelle W. Ihli, author of Ask for Andrea "Genuine...

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 7h

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 10h

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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K8 Häxan 🦇 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 7h

All day, every day now.

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d

There's just 17 DAYS LEFT to back the 2026 Apex Magazine Kickstarter! We've been supporting outstanding authors writing strange, shocking, beautiful stories for 20 years...help us keep doing it for 20 more! 💜👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

"Only 3% to go until...Lesley and Rebecca host a Watch a Horror Movie with the Editors night!"

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 4h

The “baby back ribs” song starts in a kind of dark place

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Azzoz😭💔 @azooz42.bsky.social · 9h

@rlmeza.bsky.social Hello, I’m Azooz, 16. I lost my father, my home, and my school in the war 💔

Now, I carry my family alone, I need to help Mama 😔

Even a small gift helps me to hope
Please donate or share if you can

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 15h

Hey #PortfolioDay! Nice to see you again. My name is Aimee, and I'm a dark-beautiful #DarkArt freelance #illustrator. My current wishlist for projects is: 📚 Book covers and 🃏Trading/Playing card games, but I'm open to anything!
💼: AimeeCozza.com
✉️: [email protected]

An illustration of a person from the chin down. They have both their arms around black wolves, which are asleep and cuddled against the person. Two more wolves are asleep and piled on top. The person and the animals are all smeared and smattered with blood, indicating they had a great meal together.

A man curled over onto his elbows, his head in his hands, amidst green leaves. A glowing, luminous dagger dangles above his neck and spine. His hands are cupped and outstretched towards the sky. Luminous liquid slips through his fingers.

A small child holding a bunny rabbit stuffed animal standing in front of a line of darkened forest. Inside the forest are lots of glowing sets of eyes

An oil painting of a foggy, monochrome forest with a singular man with glowing eyes standing in front of it. Before him are multiple shadows of wolves, their eyes glowing in the darkness as well.

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 14h

Happy release day to @gemmafiles.bsky.social and LITTLE HORN, a new collection of 14 stories and novelettes!

Each story features an accompanying full-page illustration by the author.

Out today in hardcover, paperback, and ebook!
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...

The cover of Little Horn (title spelling out in bound sticks and twigs), flanked by the words "Out Today!" on both sides.

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 14h

day 73 done

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Bips McCallister @hoomph.bsky.social · 1d

Poor guy

One cartoony bunny says to another, “Why do you always wear gloves??”

As the other starts to take a glove off it says, “Ya know what I’ve never taken them off befor—”

The bunny reveals its hand, which is drawn in a very different, non-cartoony, sketchy style. The first bunny looks very surprised and the one who’s hand it is looks very troubled and is sweating.

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 19h

Two sets of hands hold a spider web textile in a spooky black and white image by Pia Paulina Guilmoth

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Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social · 1d

I do like this painting

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EJ Miller-Larson @ejmillerlarson.bsky.social · 1d

Today and every day, happy Indigenous Peoples Day
#art #illustration #indigenousart #lgbtq #queerart #comics #indigenouspeoplesday

Colorful illustration of a nonbinary Indigenous person in front of the US capitol building. They have a shaved hear, black jeans, and a leather jacket and boots in shades of yellow. A red handprint is painted over their mouth as they crouch in front of a bow of burning sage. The smoke from the sage wafts over the outlines of the capitol building that are drawn in white over a purple and pink background.

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · Jan 12

If you see this post an angel

A bull shaped angelic being with an inverted human torso for a face and arms as wings it is covered in blue eyes and gold filigree accents

An insect inspired angel. She has a doubled torso stacked and facing different directions she loose like her carapace is made of porcelain with gold filigree. Her 2 sets of arms are held in prayer with hands clasped, the fore arms have pincers like a preying mantis her wings are pearlescent and shaped after an earwigs wings

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Skeletaun | Very proud of the pun @sentaun.bsky.social · 2d

#Zombieskulltober #12 - "forced joy"

Timelaps below
#DarkArt #Art #HorrorArt #ArtChallenge

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 1d

Got my lists mixed up and now I'm reading the names of my enemies in the produce section

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 1d

yes and the moss and ferns are so thirsty

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 1d

love a good/bad portal

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Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 1d

Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 1d

raining it’s raining yaaaaaaay

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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Monday (if you're into that sort of thing). Start it off right with some short fiction. "Tongue-Tied" by Shelley Lavigne is FREE to read on the CHM website.

https://bit.ly/491CT2b

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 1d

was Dwight relentlessly critiquing his failure

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 17d

🔮 www.neonhemlock.com/books ✨

Ten book covers at Neon Hemlock! Ona psychedelic background.

Stone and Steel
The Dead Withheld
And This Is How to Stay Alive
Empire of the Feast
A Necessary Chaos
Loving Safoa
Call & Response
The Cosmic Color
Off-Time Jive
Redundancies and Potentials

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.

JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."

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