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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 5h

How weird and gross of her. I’m sorry you’re going through this 🖤

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 8h

This is the wonderful cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social for the October issue of The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com—for which I had the great pleasure of being the fiction guest editor!—with stories by Malena Salazar Maciá, Testimony Odey, Erin Ulm, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, Kat Sedia, and Scott Payne

$The cover of The Deadlands Issue 40, Fall 2025. Subtitled "a journal of ends and beginnings". Author names on the cover are Maciá, Biscotti, Odey, Ross, Ulm, Wollin, Amado, Pearce, Lemberg, Sedia, Romano, and Payne. The cover art shows a fractured red sky, maze-like with golden fissures, surrounds a golden skull at the top of a long, golden path awaiting a lone figure.$

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 8h

Per my Bluesky friend, it’s a process called fasciation, which the internet says is “a condition of abnormal growth in vascular plants in which the apical meristem…becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of growth, thus producing flattened, ribbon-like..or elaborately contorted tissue.”

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 9h

When Vincent Price was in a one-man play about Oscar Wilde, Anita Bryant denounced it. When he was asked about her opinion, Price said Wilde already had a term for Bryant: A Woman of No Importance.
He was a Bi-icon of the highest order

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 9h

I’m very sorry for your loss 🖤

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 11h

yesss 🌻

Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 11h

The weird plants are the best plants.

I didn’t know the word for it, so thanks for “fasciation.” Now I know!

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 11h

YAY!! Congrats!! ✨✨✨

Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 11h

LIFE

Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 11h

Went back to visit the late season sunflowers, and while I expected the usual autumnal Eldritch horrors of this time of year, you can’t ever truly prepare for Eldritch horrors, so

A huge, bloated, misshapen sunflower with lumps ragged yellow petals. The seeds on its head are engorged like pus-filled pimples. There’s a cluster of missing seeds and it’s bleach-dead white underneath. The sunflower is so heavy despite this desiccation, so dead, but alive. There is a large black fly off-centre on its face/head.

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 13h

Literal pickles taste best 😁

Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 13h

Some people scrub their bathtubs. I eat pickles.

Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 13h

...EAT MORE PICKLES!!!

Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 13h

😄
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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 14h

I generally go for dill because they're not as sweet, but I have had some very good bread and butter pickles before and would not say no to them now.

Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 14h

I highly recommend baby dills! You also get to feel like a giant!

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1d

If you've already read Watermyth and would like to check out other works by me, did you know I have 27 published works of short fiction that have been reprinted and sometimes translated? Also poems:

mythopoetica.com/bibliography

Bibliography – through wildwood, through water

mythopoetica.com

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 15h

Ate a bunch of pickles while waiting out my problems. The problems persist. But the pickles were nice.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 17h

What? @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS is already 1-month old. They grow up so fast. Please grab a copy, if you haven't. Praised by @kellylink.bsky.social @jeffreyford8.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @wiswell.bsky.social @byzantienne.bsky.social @stevetem.bsky.social Brian Evenson, and more.

Cover for Thomas ha's UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, featuring Giger-esque figures of bone on red background.

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 20h

🖤🖤🖤

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 20h

Aw, look at him sitting up, taking in the sights 🖤

Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 1d

All due respect to Joyce Carol Oates, check out my sister’s skeleton display 💀☠️🦴🦴

A plastic skeleton posed so that it’s clinging to a square porch pillar, appearing as if it’s climbed halfway up. Next to the skeleton, hanging from a fence, is a skeleton grim reaper in a black cape with a red clown nose. On top of the fence post behind the reaper is a laughing plastic dog skeleton.

A plastic skeleton posed over some potted plants posed to that it’s dancing with its arms up. It’s smiling and also has a red clown nose. Behind it is another skeleton posed so that’s it climbing up a pillar. Beside the dancing skeleton is a plastic scorpion skeleton.

A legless grim reaper skeleton hanging between the porch pillars over the front door window. It’s very high up, with its arms up. It has two black plastic bat friends on either side of it.

Another skeleton clinging halfway to another pillar. This one is wearing a shiny green lizard costume (with hood with goggly eyes and tail). The skeleton’s skull is turned a full 180 degrees, sitting backward on its body to stare at the camera.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 1d

Amazing news!! Congrats!!! ✨✨✨

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E. L. Chen @elainechen.com · 1d

Kermit flail! Giddy I can finally announce that @orbitbooks.bsky.social's horror imprint, Run For It, has acquired my mid-life crisis found footage horror movie novel ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD. 🪰 1/

A graphic from Run For It with a photo of me, a middle-aged Asian woman with long black hair and glasses wearing an olive green bomber jacket. Above is a red banner that reads, "Acquisition Announcement", and below is "One of Us Is Already Dead, E. L. Chen."

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