Samuel M. Moss
@perfidiousscript.bsky.social
Novel: 'The Veldt Institute' (Double--Negative, 2025) https://double--negative.com/003-the-veldt-institute.html
Stories: Always Crashing, 3:AM, minor lit[s], Seize the Press
More: perfidiousscript.com
Runs @ergot.bsky.social
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Stories: Always Crashing, 3:AM, minor lit[s], Seize the Press
More: perfidiousscript.com
Runs @ergot.bsky.social
Photo: linktr.ee/doomstache
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2025 recap.
This was the best year I have had for publishing, so far:
- 1 set of poems
- 4 short stories (including 1 novel excerpt and 1 flash piece)
- 1 novel
This was the best year I have had for publishing, so far:
- 1 set of poems
- 4 short stories (including 1 novel excerpt and 1 flash piece)
- 1 novel
Woke up in the middle of the night and realized that the probability that there is a guy in LA that writes fiction and directs - and calls himself an *autheur* - is 1 so I puked a little in my mouth.
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Woke up in the middle of the night and realized that the probability that there is a guy in LA that writes fiction and directs - and calls himself an *autheur* - is 1 so I puked a little in my mouth.
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This marketing targeted me, and I bought the black Black Friday shirt to support ergot writers like @spicycloaca.bsky.social and @kayv.bsky.social.
It is currently Black Friday.
This shirt is also black, but it says 'ergot.'
If you buy this shirt, you will support ergot. writers.
www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8357...
This shirt is also black, but it says 'ergot.'
If you buy this shirt, you will support ergot. writers.
www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8357...
ergot. logo by ergot
Logo for the ergot. literary magazine.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This marketing targeted me, and I bought the black Black Friday shirt to support ergot writers like @spicycloaca.bsky.social and @kayv.bsky.social.
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There's a @fictioncollective2.bsky.social flash sale right now, which includes 50% off my novel Daydreamers. Use code FLASH at checkout. Through Dec 2.
"Mesmerizing ... one of the best books I read this year." —Books of Substance
www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...
"Mesmerizing ... one of the best books I read this year." —Books of Substance
www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There's a @fictioncollective2.bsky.social flash sale right now, which includes 50% off my novel Daydreamers. Use code FLASH at checkout. Through Dec 2.
"Mesmerizing ... one of the best books I read this year." —Books of Substance
www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...
"Mesmerizing ... one of the best books I read this year." —Books of Substance
www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
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as someone whose jewish ancestors who came over in the exact same wave of mass migration that stephen miller's did, my contempt for this creep is boundless
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
as someone whose jewish ancestors who came over in the exact same wave of mass migration that stephen miller's did, my contempt for this creep is boundless
Pretty sure watching the K-Pop demon hunters debut live performance at the Macy's Parade might be the most significant cultural moment I'll live through.
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Pretty sure watching the K-Pop demon hunters debut live performance at the Macy's Parade might be the most significant cultural moment I'll live through.
Do you think attaining enlightenment, and being able to see all your past lives, is like looking through your high school yearbook but a billion times worse?
Like "Ugh the rebirth where I was a genocidal warlord? Can't believe I did that. What was I even wearing? The skin of my enemies? So tacky."
Like "Ugh the rebirth where I was a genocidal warlord? Can't believe I did that. What was I even wearing? The skin of my enemies? So tacky."
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Do you think attaining enlightenment, and being able to see all your past lives, is like looking through your high school yearbook but a billion times worse?
Like "Ugh the rebirth where I was a genocidal warlord? Can't believe I did that. What was I even wearing? The skin of my enemies? So tacky."
Like "Ugh the rebirth where I was a genocidal warlord? Can't believe I did that. What was I even wearing? The skin of my enemies? So tacky."
Just seems like, in ten-billion years, when Caroline Leavitt finally burns off the last of her karma, achieves enlightenment she's going to be exiting the cycle of rebirth feeling PRETTY silly.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Just seems like, in ten-billion years, when Caroline Leavitt finally burns off the last of her karma, achieves enlightenment she's going to be exiting the cycle of rebirth feeling PRETTY silly.
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wrote a post-apocalyptic poem on a vintage graphic
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
wrote a post-apocalyptic poem on a vintage graphic
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out tomorrow ...
ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #29 — ft. everything we published in November (and more!) — goes out Friday ...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
out tomorrow ...
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wondrous dreams, day or night
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
wondrous dreams, day or night
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"as the butcher measures and marks // My skin staring at Goya’s dog I discovered it was not looking up"
>>> "Missouri Pastoral: 5 Poems" by Brooke Spalding / New at AC
>>> "Missouri Pastoral: 5 Poems" by Brooke Spalding / New at AC
BROOKE SPALDING / MISSOURI PASTORAL: 5 POEMS — always crashing
PRAIRIE MADNESS [SCENE 1] mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead mead * mead mead mead mead * mead mead mead mead mead mead mea...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"as the butcher measures and marks // My skin staring at Goya’s dog I discovered it was not looking up"
>>> "Missouri Pastoral: 5 Poems" by Brooke Spalding / New at AC
>>> "Missouri Pastoral: 5 Poems" by Brooke Spalding / New at AC
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Everything became miracles.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Everything became miracles.
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I feel like it is important to let you know that tomorrow we will be publishing a poem called "Ass-Up in the Garden [Missouri Pastoral 69]"
(It is a very good poem)
(It is a very good poem)
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I feel like it is important to let you know that tomorrow we will be publishing a poem called "Ass-Up in the Garden [Missouri Pastoral 69]"
(It is a very good poem)
(It is a very good poem)
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In honor of this year's Turkey Discourse, please enjoy this clip from Errol Morris's 1982 documentary Vernon, Florida, which if you haven't seen... hoo boy
youtu.be/I_B432x0OL8?...
youtu.be/I_B432x0OL8?...
Turkey Fever
YouTube video by JohnnyBoy0713
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November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In honor of this year's Turkey Discourse, please enjoy this clip from Errol Morris's 1982 documentary Vernon, Florida, which if you haven't seen... hoo boy
youtu.be/I_B432x0OL8?...
youtu.be/I_B432x0OL8?...
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Hello everyone here is my favorite story of mine I have ever published www.drabblecast.org/2024/10/28/d...
Drabblecast 495 – Jared Chapel’s The First Car Ballet
Lights! Wheels! Wipers! Curtain! This week, a marvel of machines and carbureted choreography awaits you. Kay Vaindal (she/her) is a coastal ecologist and weird fiction writer. Her work has appeare…
www.drabblecast.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hello everyone here is my favorite story of mine I have ever published www.drabblecast.org/2024/10/28/d...
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Reposted by Samuel M. Moss
Reposted by Samuel M. Moss
New #WriterBeware blog post: Among the most frequent publisher complaints I receive: non-payment of royalties and failure to provide sales reports. A look at three recent offenders, who collectively owe thousands that it seems unlikely authors will be able to recoup writerbeware.blog/2025/11/21/r...
Royalties in Arrears: Mango Publishing / Blushing Books / Bottlecap Press - Writer Beware
Publishers do a lot of bad things (as the archives of this blog attest), but among the most infuriating–and, often, the hardest to remedy–is the failure to pay authors the money they are due. Non-paym...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: Among the most frequent publisher complaints I receive: non-payment of royalties and failure to provide sales reports. A look at three recent offenders, who collectively owe thousands that it seems unlikely authors will be able to recoup writerbeware.blog/2025/11/21/r...
Many thanks to @sd-stewart.bsky.social for putting down some (very astute and kind) thoughts on 'The Veldt Institute' and to HFR for hosting!
My review of Sam Moss's debut novel The Veldt Institute is up at Heavy Feather Review:
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/11/20/t...
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heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/11/20/t...
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Fiction Review: S. D. Stewart Reads Samuel M. Moss’ Novel The Veldt Institute
“Of course, the Veldt Institute is not commonly known—likely no one outside the Veldt Institute is aware of its existence—but it is clear that those who arrive do so at the exact time that is best …
heavyfeatherreview.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Many thanks to @sd-stewart.bsky.social for putting down some (very astute and kind) thoughts on 'The Veldt Institute' and to HFR for hosting!
Clocked in this morning to find that corporate put a new motivational poster on my rock.
Shows a big smiling face framed by shaggy hair, says 'Sisyphus is happy, why aren't you?'
Shows a big smiling face framed by shaggy hair, says 'Sisyphus is happy, why aren't you?'
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Clocked in this morning to find that corporate put a new motivational poster on my rock.
Shows a big smiling face framed by shaggy hair, says 'Sisyphus is happy, why aren't you?'
Shows a big smiling face framed by shaggy hair, says 'Sisyphus is happy, why aren't you?'
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🙃
@minorliteratures.bsky.social will open for fiction submissions December 1st
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Sometimes I see a description or an image of a book, movie, etc., and it produces an immediate powerful and beautiful idea of what it might be like, and then I read or see the real thing and, however good it is, I feel disappointed that I've diminished or lost my original idea of it
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Sometimes I see a description or an image of a book, movie, etc., and it produces an immediate powerful and beautiful idea of what it might be like, and then I read or see the real thing and, however good it is, I feel disappointed that I've diminished or lost my original idea of it