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Tim Melody Pratt
@timpratt.org
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Writer and editor. Loser of Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, and Stoker Awards (won a Hugo tho). Been published in Best American Short Stories AND Best American Erotica. Genderfluid. Any pronouns I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 4h
deadline over red wine begun
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 9h
Philip K Dick still undefeated at correctly predicting our current dystopia
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 11h
"A Day in the Life of a Spider," age 7. My mom still has it in a shoebox somewhere I think
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 11h
The writer Robert B. Parker bought two houses, side by side, one for him and one for his true love and wife Joan, and they would visit one another often
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 11h
Yeah, same thing to me, turned off hard mode and colorblind mode, I assume it's because Amazon broke the whole internet
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 11h
this is flatwoods monster erasure
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 12h
yesterday my teenager was describing a difficult experience and said "it was trenches"

I love language
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 12h
Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever.

I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
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Apex Magazine 2026
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 12h
YES... HA HA HA... YES!
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d
We saw them a couple nights ago and I said to my wife “He has a nice enough voice but he’s up there with JENNY LEWIS, it’s like putting Michael Buble on stage with Pavarotti”
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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 1d
You're an artist. Make something.

Gonna start saying that to myself
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'You're an engineer. Build something.' from Iron Man 3 works every time for me. Brain too full! No words coming out! Talent has fled the building! Oh wait no there it is
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d
Let your little kids believe Santa Claus is real (I mean, if that’s appropriate to your cultural milieu). Not for “keep wonder alive” reasons, though that’s nice, but because:

It’s good for kids to learn early on that adults will lie to them
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d
We interviewed Joe for the November issue of Locus (out in a couple of weeks) and he talked about the movie a bit and was full of praise for you, specifically
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d
That PW review though. Reminds me of the time my kid was about seven and he told me “these cookies you made are as good as the ones from the store!”
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d
Pleased to report the kids are alright
bettyassme.bsky.social 🌈Spooky_Titty_ass_Tricey👻 @bettyassme.bsky.social · 1d
Idk what I was expecting but this is dope.
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d
The address for an event I attended was “666 Bellevue” and I went “oh no we’re at the beginning of a bad horror movie about the abandoned asylum where the devil lives”
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d
Went to the Autumn Festival of Lights at Lake Merritt Gardens and it was super cool, dozens of illuminated installations by a wide variety of artists
The author sitting on a throne with illuminated butterfly wings A giant skeleton in glowing Day of the Dead decorations climbing out of the ground A huge inflatable tentacled monster with glowing tentacles emerging from the ground An illuminated wasp nest
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 2d
no kings but shark
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10d
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 2d
The stories are all 3-4K words long so there’s no time to screw around, I have to get right into it, the pacing is great fun
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 2d
(writing two stories in a day is not common for me, but if you think of them as chapters of a novella it's less impressive. They do work as standalones though)
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 2d
5,600 words today, and I finished drafts of "In the Catacombs" and "The Lurking Oracle," the second and third stories in a six-story suite of interconnected Mythos pieces I'm writing
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 2d
(Just looked up the interview, and I misremembered, it wasn't at a con, it was at Clarion, the writing workshop where he often taught; though it wasn't at my year of Clarion. We just played Hearts a lot)
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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 2d
Came to say this! The game is called Assumption and you don't wanna lose (winning also has its issues). One time some fans at a convention decided to play, and asked Powers if he wanted to sit in.

Instead, he left the building
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