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Laurel Hightower

@laurelhightower.bsky.social

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Horror loving mom. Author of that mothman book, BELOW. Also WHISPERS IN THE DARK, CROSSROADS, EVERY WOMAN KNOWS THIS, SILENT KEY, SPIRIT COVEN, and THE DAY OF THE DOOR

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks, Ned!

Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks!

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 8h

Mission accomplished?

Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 17h

Eeeee thank you!!

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely thrilled seeing this lil gal out in the world!!

Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight's bedtime story is one of my most anticipated reads of the year. @laurelhightower.bsky.social is a horror treasure. 🩸📚💙

The Long Low Whistle by Laurel Hightower

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 17h

Ahhhhh yay!!! Thank you, Dana!!

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intelligentwat 🇹🇹 @zinrock.bsky.social · 2d

ghoulish behavior

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 2d

Jfc

Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 3d

Look the rest of us are supposed to die to feed the machine, John. Know your place, gawsh

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 3d

Ugh I am sorry. Please give yourself credit for that very measured response

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so sorry. Been thinking of y'all- please let me know if I can help

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 4d

Aren't they just?

Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 4d

Hope y'all are doing ok

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Kayleigh | Developmental Editor ✍🏻📚 @editsinthemargins.com · 4d

Michelle Steinberg, M.Ed @michellesteinberg.bsky.social · 4d

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 4d

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 4d

Oh excuse me Ruby, did I get in the way of your toe beans?

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 4d

Dang, @frank212.bsky.social coming in hard with that title. The column is just as good 💗💗💗

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 4d

Issue # 7 of my monthly column, MOANS FROM THE CONDIMENT FRIDGE, with @mrbullbull.bsky.social dropped today.

This issue is titled ALL OF MY FEVER DREAMS ARE UPSIDE DOWN. It's about the absurd & getting asthma in 1980.

You can click the link below, 👇👇

mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 5d

Pick up our Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology, Why Didn't You Just Leave, if you like your ghost stories dark, scary, and smart. #halloween #ghosts #horror
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Why Didn't You Just Leave paperback | Cursed Morsels Press

It's the question asked of any story about a haunting: why didn't you just leave? But if accounts of people who have stayed in haunted houses are any indication … it's never that simple.In...

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 7d

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · 7d

Heck yes!!

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