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Allison Mulder

@amulderwrites.bsky.social

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SFFH author with shorts in Escape Pod, Fireside Fiction, & more. Somewhere in the middle of the Venn diagram of silly and scary. Dabbler in too many hobbies. ND. She/her. https://allisonmulder.wordpress.com/welcome/what-i-write/

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ghosts! Guilt! Grandma! Complicated Family Dynamics!

Some of my favorite recurring themes, all wrapped up in "Who Could Feel Haunted With Luck in Their Pocket?"

Now free to read online at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social
#shortstory

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 3h

Happy birthday!!

How about...

"An onion but it grew Wrong"

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 5h

WHOOOO

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 9h

All I want is to watch As Above, So Below there.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 1d

A true sign of fall:
Adding more blankets onto my bed at last.

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats!!

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CC Kirby @cckirby.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Trebek saying "the creature" on this episode of Jeopardy! from Halloween 1997

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats!!

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!!

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 1d

*crosses fingers* 8D

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!! The concept of your CHM story sounds amazing, too!

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 1d

The 14/10 has just been read as a date and now everything is broken.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 1d

They're GOOD spreadsheets, Brent!

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!! I have a fondness for it. <3

As well as the memory of reading it to an in-person crit group consisting of one very horror writer who loved it and two older, quite literary, grandfatherly men not used to genre writing, who were very Polite and Tactful about it. XD

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you much!!

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!!

There was a little more space between the acceptances, lol, but tonight was my "catch up on the paperwork of the last few days" night, and well. Here we are. XD

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!!

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon skeleton is standing in front of a window in a room .

Alt: a cartoon skeleton claps its hands to its cheekbones, blushing happily.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

<3 <3 <3

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

*silently looks between inbox and all my stories on submission in case anybody Else wants to get in on this impromptu announcement thread*

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

"But what if I want you to READ something to me?"

*out of breath, shuffling through papers* YES, well, we have that, too?? Somehow?? If you're in Lincoln area on the 16th??

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 6d

If anyone is roundabouts the Lincoln, NE area, I've been asked to take part in Larksong Writers Place's "Writers in Conversation" series on October 16!

I and another horror author (TBD) will spend about an hour doing some brief readings and chatting about horror, craft, etc.

Join us if you can!

Writers in Conversation - Third Thursdays | Larksong Writers Place - Page -1

View all of our upcoming events on location at the Larksong Writers Place in Lincoln, NE.

larksongwritersplace.org

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

"But Allison!" you may be saying. "Those sound so good! How am I to wait?"

Reminder that you can read this little amuse-bouche of a drabble that came out a few days ago over at @100footcrow.bsky.social :

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 4d

It's up! My new sci-fi drabble, "Time Capsule from a Crumbling Earth" is now available to read at @100footcrow.bsky.social .

If you have a minute or two free, give it a look, and I hope you enjoy!

Time Capsule from a Crumbling Earth - 100-Foot Crow

By: Allison Mulder. Last. People keep commenting that on the Capsule goodbye forum, and for someone, it will be true. The last entry on the last server shoved in beside the records, the art, the every...

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!!

I'm very excited for them to be out in the world, watching, studying, deciding Whether Your Skin Looks Tasty. :3

Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Second, my fairy tale-esque fantasy short story, "The Backwards Princess of Unusual Parentage" (originally published at @lunastation.bsky.social ) will be reprinted at @penumbricmag.bsky.social in the future!

And can I just say, announcing this while reading Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher... ;D

a cartoon of winnie the pooh looking at himself in the mirror

Alt: a cartoon of winnie the pooh looking at himself in the mirror and dancing.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Contracts signed, so TWO short story sales to announce tonight!

Very happy that my new horror short, "Skin-Stealer Hates the Winter," will appear in a future issue of @chmmagazine.bsky.social !

It's a weird one, gross but perhaps cozy-leaning?

My "people-eater with food sensitivities" story. :D

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

OH HEY, what a coincidence, me seeing this while double-checking their handle for a lil announcement of my own!

Maybe we'll be TOC-mates!

Congrats!!

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