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Amy "Gory" Grech

@amygrech.bsky.social

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NYC-based prolific crime/horror author/poet. Active HWA Member. Alien Buddha Press published my poetry chapbook, A Shadow of Your Former Self. SEO is my bread and butter. 🔪🩸 ☕️ https://ko-fi.com/amygrech 💻 crimsonscreams.com

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Amy "Gory" Grech @amygrech.bsky.social · Jul 15

Experience a dramatic reading of “Bruised and Battered Nevermore”, my love letter to Poe @horrorreads.bsky.social
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#AuthorSky #BookSky #EdgarAllanPoe #HorrorSky #NewYorkCity #NYCAuthor #WriterSky #WritingSky

Bruised And Battered Nevermore by Amy Grech

YouTube video by Horror Stories Daily

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Amy "Gory" Grech @amygrech.bsky.social · 3h

Sitting in the dark playing Russian roulette with my thoughts.

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Scare Blair @blairloudly.bsky.social · 3h

i dont ignore my problems i rationalize them into submission

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Yup! 👍🏻 🕷️

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Awesome 👏🏻 I’m watching Madame Web 🕸️

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𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔥 ℭ𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔅𝔲𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔱 @shadowham.bsky.social · 3h

never burn your lard on a stranger’s fire

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h

Your moment of calm: A white-tailed kite hunting above the Tomales Bay Trail, near Point Reyes Station.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 12h

idk flipping houses looks really hard

A yellow and white house rest upside-down between a field and a large tree.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 15h

HOUR 5:
Legs beginning to cramp and I really have to pee. Nice lady brought me pretzel from food court. Still awaiting further instructions, but am starting to have my doubts. Must stay strong.

A view of an escalator with a sign on the floor that reads, "PLEASE STAY WITHIN THE YELLOW BOX," accompanied by yellow footprints.

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subtrauma @subtrauma.bsky.social · 5h

Shitty day, but this helps

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 5h

"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?"

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?

Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 7h

There are 78 days until the end of the year.

If you wrote 600 words every day between now and then you’d have a short novel.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 13h

Hello #portfolioday

I'm Jeremy. I thought I'd share some of the creatures I've made in the past 12 months or so. I designed, hand-sewed, and hand-embroidered all of them.

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's a photo of four fabric art creations with a black background and a dark red ground. There are two homunculi, one smaller than the other. The large one is gray with big twinkly red eyes and a little frown. The smaller homunculus is green with twinkly red eyes and a little frown. She's holding a rainbow-colored staff with a green stone on the top. The stone appears to be glowing a bit. The other two creatures are white ghosts with gray faces. They have twinkly black eyes and little frowns. They each have two twirly hair wisps coming out of their heads. They're wearing cone-shaped party hats. The hats are black and they're covered with red eyes and there's a red poof on the top. One hat is large and one hat is extremely small.

Here's a photo of fabric art creatures with a white fabric background. There's a cute and creepy mothman with a black body and a gray face with twinkly red eyes and sharp teeth. There's a green Kentucky goblin with a lighter green face and large pointy ears. He has twinkly yellow eyes and he's wearing a black party hat covered with red googly eyes and a big red poof at the top. There's also a red death worm with nine cream-colored eyes and sharp teeth. The tiny homunculus witch is sitting on the worm's head. She's very small, with large twinkly red eyes and a green body. She's wearing a small version of the party hat the goblin's wearing.

Here's a lovely photo of the cosmic ghost bag. She's a black ghost with various stars and planets embroidered on her body. There are little white stars, larger white stars, yellow stars, purple stars, a dark purple planet, a light purple planet, a red planet with a yellow ring. She has a gray moon-like face with large sparkly black eyes and a little frown. She's wearing a black fabric witch hat. She's resting on my palm and there's green fur in the background of the picture.

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john granule @bogbird.bsky.social · 5h

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 7h

The villagers were treated to an astonishing sight at dawn. The old crone's hut on chicken legs proceeded to do "Bird of Paradise" and "Downward-facing Dog".

-The Tale of Baba Yoga.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 7h

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Element of Surprise tshirt.
Warning: Surprise is extremely volatile. Do not mix with uranium.
collabs.shop/ta9zlj

A guy wearing a grey tshirt that looks like the periodic table. It says
Ah!
The element of surprise!

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One Dog’s Opinion 🐾 @onedogsopinion.bsky.social · 7h

a six year gap in my résumé that just says “there was a circus, there were some monkeys, mistakes were made”

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 8h

french onion soup pairs well with insider trading

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 8h

thank goodness all crimes are legal during soup season

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Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social · 8h

sharon covert ... taking covert ghost photos

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eSpec Books, LLC @especbooks.bsky.social · 17h

Got a Library Thing account? Request the E-Book of the Souvenir Anthology from Stokercon 2025, essays, interviews, and stories, curated and edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail. Great reads from great horror authors!
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@dackleymcphail.bsky.social
#stoker #hwa #horror

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Randee Dawn @randeedawn.com · 1d

Jolly good! I'm off to @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social soon, with a panel, a presentation, a party 🍰 and a reading -- so I hope to see some of you there! (Esp. since I plan to debut a bit of my upcoming @solarisbooks.bsky.social "Tune"-iverse novel "We Interrupt This Program" at the reading!) 📚👀

Randee Dawn's World Fantasy Convention 2025 schedule

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Amy "Gory" Grech @amygrech.bsky.social · 18h

👀 you there! 📚🤩🍹

Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow's Intense @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social · 18h

Don't LEAF us -- come on into the next BBB reading at Barrows on 10/21 at 7pm for comforting sips, stories and a salon-like atmosphere w/ authors @matthewkressel.net, @cwroseauthor.bsky.social,
@crissachappell.bsky.social & #PaulaBomer ! 📚🎙️🧉

More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com

Matthew Kressel, C.W. Rose, Crissa-Jean Chappell and Paula Bomer in an ad for Brooklyn Books & Booze' October 21 reading at 7pm.

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Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow's Intense @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social · 18h

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Strong Women, Strange Worlds @swsworlds.bsky.social · 1d

There was an earthquake in SWSWland and our next Quick Reads got a bit... shook up. But it's all good be- wait, who's that? It's a... it's a...GHOST?! 😨

There's only one way to find out! Three days from now, 7 pm EST. See you there! 👻 #SWSWQR

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Strong Women Strange Worlds presents

Third Thursday QuickReads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror by

Judith Rossell

Jessica Lucci

Mary G. Thompson

Julie Leong

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October 16, 7pm EDT Free On Zoom

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