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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · Feb 17

My weirdo sci-fi slowburning romance debut novel More Bugs is available in eBook form now after getting some fresh blurbs and attention from year end lists... 👀 👽 🛸 #sff 💙📚

eBook: www.knighterrantpress.com/product-page...
Print: www.knighterrantpress.com/product-page...
Info: emreed.net/more_bugs

eReader devices and a paperback book showing the cover of More Bugs, a cool and creepy illustration of a person pulling away the side of their face to show a large beetle crawling out. Has a quote from David Lewis, writing in Strange Horizons' 2024 in review: "a psychologically rich love story with subcutaneous insectoids who are all at once unsettling and touchingly romantic." and a blurb from Eve Harms, author of Transmuted: "An insightful and thought-provoking portrait of suburban alienation and longing with a delightful dash of body horror. Through engrossing prose, Reed stealthily weaves the impossible and everyday to reveal the suffocating dread of our personal histories."

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · Aug 5

hallway entity

labubu with the strange face drooling blood from inland empire

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Your daily Inland Empire screenshot @bluetomorrows.bsky.social · 2h

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鮎 @sweetfish.site · 2h

day 14: doubles

doubles

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 6h

the reason everyone is always calling him old even though hes like 23 is because he's employed and it's really what it does to your soul

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theworksofegan @theworksofegan.net · 21h

does anyone with experience using the neocities cli know how to bypass the check for whether a file exists so i can overwrite existing files? am i missing something?

and is there a way to use git to upload only the files I've edited?

trying to find a good way to migrate off of github.

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 6h

also "men's book club" "female rage" etc all boring bc those things are not real. genius is always bisexual or whatever james joyce said

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 6h

Stuff in other mediums made by people who only read nonfiction kind of have an annoying vibe to me lol

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 20h

If God is up there he is playing a 4x game bc every time I go to a gig he's like "DEPLOY 40-50X SIX FOOT TALL MEN TO THEIR LOCATION!!!!!"

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DOKI DOKI CRT PANIC @crtpixel.bsky.social · 1d

BUBBLE BOBBLE
TAITO 1986
ARCADE

Bub the green dinosaur enjoying a quick coctail

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 1d

I love Pill but need to increase my knowledge in this genre www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaK-...

A.I.Y.M?

YouTube video by Pill - Topic

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 1d

What is, iyo, the best punk band with a saxophone? Like I mean, saxophonist as a band Member, not a song or two where they pipe it in

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 1d

I think most “horror fans” and “SF fans” who pick up this book will be disappointed, which is too bad! It’s probably also too gross and melancholy for most “romance fans.” Fabulism? Introspective slice of life (with SF/horror elements for flavor)?

Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 1d

I pitch it as SF because that's my strongest influence, but it also explores the terrain of body horror, eerie doppelgangers and suburban alienation & is just as likely to get shelved there. It's only listed as horror in the janky Goodreads tagging system I can't figure out lol emreed.net/more_bugs

MORE BUGS, a novel by Em Reed

emreed.net

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 1d

lol... this is repeatedly my problem sadly!

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 1d

MORE BUGS, a novel by Em Reed

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 1d

I blinked and it's already halfway through October, though maybe an opportune moment to check out my book if you want something spooky for the season of mists and rains... (we all finished the new Pynchon already, right?) #sff #horror #booksky

My book shelved in the horror section at a Waterstones

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Simpley Thom. 🏳️‍🌈 @mongreldog.bsky.social · 1d

"The Simpsons Main Title Theme" lyrics
Danny Elfman Lyrics
"The SImpsoms Main Title Theme"
Ah The Simpsons
Submit Corrections

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

So to supper, but my mind is so full of our business that I am no company at all, and then their drink do not please me, till I did send to Goody Stanks for some of her’s which is very small and fresh, with a little taste of wormewood, which ever after did please me very well.

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metal flesh express @oma-metal-flesh.bsky.social · 2d

domino club. literally just CLICK to PLAY GAMES for FREE domino.gallery/jams/boneyar...

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Game Vecanti @gamevecanti.bsky.social · 2d

An English fan translation of "Screaming Mad George's Paranoiascape" (PS1) has been released by "Aeon Genesis": aeongenesis.net/projects/par...

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 2d

it was a DIY-heavy day at Glasgow Zine Library! I helped frame tote bags from different zine fairs as a part of the library's ephemera collection, and cleaned the windows for this quilt display. If you donate to a trans rights charity, you might win it! www.publiclibraryquilts.com/quilt-raffle