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Samuel M. Moss

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perfidiousscript.com Author of 'The Veldt Institute' (Double--Negative, 2025) https://double--negative.com/003-the-veldt-institute.html) Work in Always Crashing, 3:AM, minor lit[s], Seize the Press. Runs @ergot.bsky.social Photo: linktr.ee/doomstache

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 23d

Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html

Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

The Veldt Institute | Asterism Books

### *At the Veldt Institute everyone is sick, so no one is sick.* Endless fields of grass. A sky so bright there are barely shadows. At the center of this expanse is the Veldt Institute, an austere s...

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Depth Noir @depthnoir.bsky.social · 14h

Iro Agoratsiou, 2022

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 11h

I use Orwellian to refer to things that remind me of Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Kafkaesque is when there's a longwinded monologue by someone who may or may not be a mouse

Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social · 13h

Far-right X users who like saying "Orwelian" and "kafkaesque" should be forced to read ALL the books by the two authors and pass an exam on them.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 1d

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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 2d

tired: seeing the world in black and white
wired: seeing the world in shades of gray
inspired: seeing the world in full color
on fire: seeing the world through a mantis shrimp's eyes

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David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social · 3d

Very excited to be in conversation about SQUIMBOP with the great @specktor.bsky.social
in LA this coming Tues -- we started the conversation several years ago, w/r/t DODGE CITY 2: @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @southwestreview.bsky.social @1111press.bsky.social

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The Mythmaker Gazes at Himself: A Conversation with David Leo Rice | Los Angeles Review of Books

Matthew Specktor and author David Leo Rice discuss his book series, “A Room in Dodge City.”

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to Ben Lockwood for some kind words on 'The Veldt Institute' in Brief Ecology!

Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 3d

A new Eco-Update is live! Stories about capitalist wind-grabbing, a new study on desert ecology, and an eco-fiction review of @perfidiousscript.bsky.social’s The Veldt Institute

🏡🌐🌎🧪

www.briefecology.com/p/the-eco-up...

The Eco-Update #19

Dispatches from the planet.

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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 3d

The Eco-Update #19

Dispatches from the planet.

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 4d

Early on I realized that a 'Harry Potter enemies-to-friends fanfic romance' subplot would be 'The Veldt Institute's ticket to the bestseller list.

Hindsight is 20/20, and perhaps Dobby/Filch wasn't the right choice.

If you want emotional depth instead of just pretty faces, this is your book.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 4d

For whom does the nothing noth?

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 4d

The pines make a music like no other, rising and falling like a distant surf at night that calms the darkness before first light. “Soughing” we call it, from
Old English, no less. How weightless words are when nothing will do.

Philip Levine, Breath

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 4d

An ongoing thread of short story collections coming in 2026, of work weird/surreal/dark/uncanny/unsettling/ghostly/ghastly, across genres, so that they're all in one place that I can refer back to when I inevitably forget what books I was meaning to request review copies of:

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 5d

whatever the spec fic equivalent of this is, too

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 5d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5d

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As you journey along the path you meet an old man. He tells you that modern neuroscience has proved that all our actions and decisions are merely the machinations of a predetermined universe and that our concept of free will' is naught but a comforting illusion. If you agree with his hypothesis, turn to page 72

If you disagree, turn to page 72

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 5d

A few thoughts on Joanna Howard's 'Porthole'
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Samuel Moss's review of Porthole

5/5: 'Porthole' lives somewhere between the normally-plotted-American-literary tradition and the atmospheric-european-innovative tradition. With a few changes, it might have become a pretty basic no...

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 6d

Could be 'Foreign Accent Syndrome' which is a (rare)
neurological syndrome: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign...

Foreign accent syndrome - Wikipedia

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 6d

You know what we say around here?
In the club* we all fam†!

* Small press literary scene
† Are vying for the attention of the same 10 - 15 people in the hopes that they will help promote our work

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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 6d

Mindlessly doomscrolling my immediate surroundings like some kind of savannah-dwelling primate

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks Stuart!

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 6d

@perfidiousscript.bsky.social this came in the post yesterday and I’m very excited to start reading.

Copy of The Veldt Institute by Samuel M. Miss

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · 7d

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 7d

No Country for Old Cows (2007)

Edited screenshots from No Country for Old Men. Anton Chigurh (with cow horns and cow ears) sits in a hotel chair and asks someone across from him, "If the tool you followed brought you to this, of what use was the tool?"

In a zoomed out view, Anton sits silently behind a table with the 4 cow tools look8ng at his victim as if studying him.

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 8d

Could use a 2-3 star review to balance these out.

If you're into plot-heavy novels about suburban couples going through a divorce and want to write a hit piece about 'The Veldt Institute' (bonus points if you work in 'self-indulgent', 'incomprehensible' or 'unstructured') hit me up.

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 8d

Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series

feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich

music by
Barry Paul Clark
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free, all ages

ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station

This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...

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