Mae Murray
@maeisafraid.bsky.social
“Prose like rusted barbed wire.” | British Fantasy Award Finalist, THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS | Brave New Weird Award Winner | I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU | maemurray.com
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if that's how Dread Central treats women of color then I'm good, effectively forever
December 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
if that's how Dread Central treats women of color then I'm good, effectively forever
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So proud of these women. Hear their stories AND also go to work too share each one.
I’m so glad Sharai is speaking plainly about this. I have been silent for two years about why I only worked for Dread Central as their social media coordinator for 8 days. On the outside, it looked like I blew a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But what you don’t know is that I was hired over one -
I had to start somewhere because I am drowning in receipts. Here’s why I quit though:
buymeacoffee.com/sharai/why-i...
buymeacoffee.com/sharai/why-i...
December 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
So proud of these women. Hear their stories AND also go to work too share each one.
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I find it really interesting it seems so far to be all women who had to deal with this. And by interesting, I mean predictable.
December 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I find it really interesting it seems so far to be all women who had to deal with this. And by interesting, I mean predictable.
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So looking forward to being a part of this event tonight!!!
Tonight I will be at the historic Loring Greenough House in Boston to celebrate the Solstice with fellow authors @alyssaalessi.bsky.social @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social and @christaqua.bsky.social! I’ll be reading my Indigenous ghost story BUCKSKIN FOR LINEN. This event has been SOLD OUT. 😮
December 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So looking forward to being a part of this event tonight!!!
He is so fucking insufferable. As much as I’m sorry this happened to others, it feels so good to know I wasn’t alone or crazy, like I was made to feel.
Time to share my story too! Long story short, I was offered a monthly column creating a deep cuts watchlist since they are my specialty. Everything was going great, I was given a platform to talk about my favorites. Now how it all ended…
I had to start somewhere because I am drowning in receipts. Here’s why I quit though:
buymeacoffee.com/sharai/why-i...
buymeacoffee.com/sharai/why-i...
December 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
He is so fucking insufferable. As much as I’m sorry this happened to others, it feels so good to know I wasn’t alone or crazy, like I was made to feel.
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Time to share my story too! Long story short, I was offered a monthly column creating a deep cuts watchlist since they are my specialty. Everything was going great, I was given a platform to talk about my favorites. Now how it all ended…
I had to start somewhere because I am drowning in receipts. Here’s why I quit though:
buymeacoffee.com/sharai/why-i...
buymeacoffee.com/sharai/why-i...
Why I Quit My Job With Nothing Lined Up — Sharai Bohannon
Post by Sharai Bohannon
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December 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Time to share my story too! Long story short, I was offered a monthly column creating a deep cuts watchlist since they are my specialty. Everything was going great, I was given a platform to talk about my favorites. Now how it all ended…
Tonight I will be at the historic Loring Greenough House in Boston to celebrate the Solstice with fellow authors @alyssaalessi.bsky.social @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social and @christaqua.bsky.social! I’ll be reading my Indigenous ghost story BUCKSKIN FOR LINEN. This event has been SOLD OUT. 😮
December 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Tonight I will be at the historic Loring Greenough House in Boston to celebrate the Solstice with fellow authors @alyssaalessi.bsky.social @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social and @christaqua.bsky.social! I’ll be reading my Indigenous ghost story BUCKSKIN FOR LINEN. This event has been SOLD OUT. 😮
Watching HEATED RIVALRY takes me back to pirating QUEER AS FOLK in the early 2000s and having my teenaged shit rocked. Kids these days are so lucky to have the gay hockey show.
December 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Watching HEATED RIVALRY takes me back to pirating QUEER AS FOLK in the early 2000s and having my teenaged shit rocked. Kids these days are so lucky to have the gay hockey show.
I have plenty of receipts of interactions with Josh Korngut, but much more happened on video calls. I don’t feel the need to post screenshots, because I can verify everything I experienced is 100% consistent with what @sharai.bsky.social experienced. So I will direct you to her account of things. ♥️
December 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I have plenty of receipts of interactions with Josh Korngut, but much more happened on video calls. I don’t feel the need to post screenshots, because I can verify everything I experienced is 100% consistent with what @sharai.bsky.social experienced. So I will direct you to her account of things. ♥️
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I hope more people share there stories because I have been listening to them for over a year. While Dread Central might not do anything about it, we can stop other freelancers from having to fight for their money and put up a jealous monster.
December 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I hope more people share there stories because I have been listening to them for over a year. While Dread Central might not do anything about it, we can stop other freelancers from having to fight for their money and put up a jealous monster.
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He does this all the time. I am still discovering things he took credit for after making me plead to try them for months or telling me I could just write them for the site for free after my news quota was met.
of Josh Korngut’s closest friends. When I was hired, I was under the impression that I’d be managed by the person who hired me, the EIC at the time. But come to find out, Josh was to be my manager. And he took every opportunity to blatantly laugh in my face at my ideas, and eventually steal them.
December 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
He does this all the time. I am still discovering things he took credit for after making me plead to try them for months or telling me I could just write them for the site for free after my news quota was met.
I’m so glad Sharai is speaking plainly about this. I have been silent for two years about why I only worked for Dread Central as their social media coordinator for 8 days. On the outside, it looked like I blew a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But what you don’t know is that I was hired over one -
I had to start somewhere because I am drowning in receipts. Here’s why I quit though:
buymeacoffee.com/sharai/why-i...
buymeacoffee.com/sharai/why-i...
Why I Quit My Job With Nothing Lined Up — Sharai Bohannon
Post by Sharai Bohannon
buymeacoffee.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I’m so glad Sharai is speaking plainly about this. I have been silent for two years about why I only worked for Dread Central as their social media coordinator for 8 days. On the outside, it looked like I blew a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But what you don’t know is that I was hired over one -
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We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
December 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
We desperately need this, now more than ever. Belief in a Free Palestine is a belief in freedom for all people, respect for their histories and traditions, not one above the other. It is my job at work to light the Menorah so that everyone who steps through our doors knows they are welcome.
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
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Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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December 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We desperately need this, now more than ever. Belief in a Free Palestine is a belief in freedom for all people, respect for their histories and traditions, not one above the other. It is my job at work to light the Menorah so that everyone who steps through our doors knows they are welcome.
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Gonna use you as a springboard here Varra
North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephan Graham Jones
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
The Book of Queer Saints edited by Mae Murray
North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephan Graham Jones
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
The Book of Queer Saints edited by Mae Murray
December 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Gonna use you as a springboard here Varra
North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephan Graham Jones
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
The Book of Queer Saints edited by Mae Murray
North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephan Graham Jones
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
The Book of Queer Saints edited by Mae Murray
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An absolutely crucial, devastating, and extremely important piece from @miatretta.bsky.social.
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I Lived Through Two School Shootings: Brown and Saugus High School
America’s failure to protect students must end.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
An absolutely crucial, devastating, and extremely important piece from @miatretta.bsky.social.
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My absolute favorite part of my job is providing toys and food to families like the one I grew up in during the holiday season. Seeing the kids I work with light up, and the families so filled with gratitude in a way the people in power could never understand.
December 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My absolute favorite part of my job is providing toys and food to families like the one I grew up in during the holiday season. Seeing the kids I work with light up, and the families so filled with gratitude in a way the people in power could never understand.
I grew up in Arkansas with little access to media beyond Christian propaganda. I was at the video rental every weekend. In the early 2000s, a neighbor had a computer—I began pirating queer music and movies. Stories became my escape from a place I didn’t belong. I wanted to make stories like that.
With all this awful news going on i wanna ask this question once again to fellow artists and general creatives. What got YOU into art? what sparked that motivation to start writing? what made you wanna pick up a camera and start taking pics? Like share with us your reasons.
December 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I grew up in Arkansas with little access to media beyond Christian propaganda. I was at the video rental every weekend. In the early 2000s, a neighbor had a computer—I began pirating queer music and movies. Stories became my escape from a place I didn’t belong. I wanted to make stories like that.
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Thank you so much to @maeisafraid.bsky.social for this awesome blurb for my next book! THE NEON REVELATION is available for preorder now from @timberghostpress.bsky.social and comes out in just a few days!
www.timberghostpress.com/store/p78/Th...
www.timberghostpress.com/store/p78/Th...
December 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Thank you so much to @maeisafraid.bsky.social for this awesome blurb for my next book! THE NEON REVELATION is available for preorder now from @timberghostpress.bsky.social and comes out in just a few days!
www.timberghostpress.com/store/p78/Th...
www.timberghostpress.com/store/p78/Th...
Sometimes I feel like no one read my debut novel, and then suddenly three people say it’s the best book they read in 2025. That means everything to me. /Everything/. Thank you for thinking of me. ♥️
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Sometimes I feel like no one read my debut novel, and then suddenly three people say it’s the best book they read in 2025. That means everything to me. /Everything/. Thank you for thinking of me. ♥️
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I’m Sorry If I Scared You was a damn good book.
December 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’m Sorry If I Scared You was a damn good book.
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I have to pick just one? But how can I possibly decide between the following?
- The Scald Crow by @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social
- Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social
-I’m Sorry if I Scared You by @maeisafraid.bsky.social
- On Sunday She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Schofield
- The Scald Crow by @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social
- Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social
-I’m Sorry if I Scared You by @maeisafraid.bsky.social
- On Sunday She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Schofield
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I have to pick just one? But how can I possibly decide between the following?
- The Scald Crow by @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social
- Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social
-I’m Sorry if I Scared You by @maeisafraid.bsky.social
- On Sunday She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Schofield
- The Scald Crow by @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social
- Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social
-I’m Sorry if I Scared You by @maeisafraid.bsky.social
- On Sunday She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Schofield
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Easily 'I'm Sorry If I Scared You' by @maeisafraid.bsky.social
Beautifully written in a completely unique voice. Grotesque, funny, and profound all at the same time.
Beautifully written in a completely unique voice. Grotesque, funny, and profound all at the same time.
December 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Easily 'I'm Sorry If I Scared You' by @maeisafraid.bsky.social
Beautifully written in a completely unique voice. Grotesque, funny, and profound all at the same time.
Beautifully written in a completely unique voice. Grotesque, funny, and profound all at the same time.
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New Title Announcement! 🎉
SEAFOAM SHALLOWS from @emmaemurray.bsky.social, in which a family checks into a luxury euthanasia resort to avoid the societal collapse at the end of the world, before realizing there's no way out of the resort and the world might not end after all...
SEAFOAM SHALLOWS from @emmaemurray.bsky.social, in which a family checks into a luxury euthanasia resort to avoid the societal collapse at the end of the world, before realizing there's no way out of the resort and the world might not end after all...
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New Title Announcement! 🎉
SEAFOAM SHALLOWS from @emmaemurray.bsky.social, in which a family checks into a luxury euthanasia resort to avoid the societal collapse at the end of the world, before realizing there's no way out of the resort and the world might not end after all...
SEAFOAM SHALLOWS from @emmaemurray.bsky.social, in which a family checks into a luxury euthanasia resort to avoid the societal collapse at the end of the world, before realizing there's no way out of the resort and the world might not end after all...
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Just signed kind of a surreal contract. Not gonna spill the deets yet, but a writer and activist I really respect will be recording an audio version of Macramé Flames, first published in The Book of Queer Saints edited by @maeisafraid.bsky.social.
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just signed kind of a surreal contract. Not gonna spill the deets yet, but a writer and activist I really respect will be recording an audio version of Macramé Flames, first published in The Book of Queer Saints edited by @maeisafraid.bsky.social.