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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 10h

here's a little something I wrote several years ago about Jacob's Ladder, one of my favorite horror movies all time

Jacob's Ladder | Priscilla Page

Get more from Priscilla Page on Patreon

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 11h

How about a memoir to close ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor Erin Slaughter’s memoir THE DEAD DAD DIARIES is out now from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social 💗 Get your copy now: buff.ly/gIYuqsL

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 14h

My book is coming out in January. if you're interested in pitching a review of it or an interview with me, I'd be delighted and grateful 🥺 it's speculative short stories. There's monsters, outer space, and pie!

This beauty thinks you'd like it:

A gorgeous alligator swims through water

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 14h

This is absolutely FANTASTIC news, and if you haven't read it, I hope you'll come do so: psychopomp.com/we-who-will-not-die/

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 14h

important news! night shades will open for submissions again this coming friday october 17.

🛸 staying open to fill the calendar, 23 spots. all the details are here : www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Submissions

Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is opening October 17, 2025. Staying open until the calendar is full through April. There ar...

www.nightshadesmag.com

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 11h

One of the midwest's most iconic insects, a goldenrod soldier beetle sits in a mid-summer aster. Indiana Dunes National Park.

Macro photo in full on view of a large yellow flower, with an elongated orange/yellow beetle with black legs, antennae, and markings standing on the petals just above the center.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 11h

I'm happy to print it! And thank you so much for offering to read! 💜

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.

Get in touch with me!

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 12h

weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️

youtu.be/K61vuyniu_4?...

weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️ (October 13, 2025)

YouTube video by Melissa Llanes Brownlee

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 13h

Falafel salad wraps

A soft flatbread hd around chickpea patties, greens, and feta

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you! I don't have any physical ARCs 😔 but I am happy to print it out if that's not too unwieldy? I know how hard e-reading can be!

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 13h

It's so good! Just what my brain truly needed 💜💜💜

Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 14h

My book is coming out in January. if you're interested in pitching a review of it or an interview with me, I'd be delighted and grateful 🥺 it's speculative short stories. There's monsters, outer space, and pie!

This beauty thinks you'd like it:

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16h

Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., the last living witness of his cousin Emmett Till's abduction, will be the convocation speaker at the conclusion of Tougaloo College’s Founders’ Week on Sunday, Oct. 12.

Emmett Till Center to Honor His Legacy With Events Across State

The Emmett Till Interpretative Center will continue its “Remembering Emmett” series with events across Mississippi in October and November.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 18h

Hey Bluesky, could you help me spread the word about my Patreon? Signing on as a patron is probably the best way to help keep me afloat as a fabric artist, writer and human being. My goal for the weekend is to get one new patron.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

fabric art, weird little guys, puppets

www.patreon.com

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 15h

Hoping to see you on Tuesday evening! (It's a good thing I looked this up to share it, because I had the time written down incorrectly...time zones, they are a thing...) Registration info below!

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 23d

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

Promo graphic with author photos of Donna Vorreyer, Chris Butler, and Mitchell Nobis. And the NAWP ostrich, of course.
The text says:
A NAWP Reading
Chris L. Butler
Mitch Nobis
Donna Vorreyer
Hosted by
Jared Beloff
October 14, 2025
7:00-8:00PM EST

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 3d

Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 15h

I'm only 40 pages into @ambersparks.bsky.social Happy People Don't Live Here and I can confidently say omg it's perfect

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 19h

From the title to the last sentence, this story by @kathyfish.bsky.social is delectable.

The Saddest Fuckers of All — Ghost Parachute

I am needing a prescription for the Pill. I can no longer use Student Health due to living in a new town and not being a student anymore. I am telling this to the kid as he is rolling out pizza dough ...

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Drewcifer DIEtsch 🎃 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 17h

It's 1982. Disney hopes TRON will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

It's 2010. Disney hopes TRON: LEGACY will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

It's 2025. Disney hopes TRON: ARES will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 21h

@mitchnobis.bsky.social’s book cover appears in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (PS5)

Adrian holds up the green book “The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees” by Mitchell Nobis, which closely matches the pattern on the jacket of the video game character on the screen behind the book

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 20h

“Publisher didn’t register copyright”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Shannon O’Mac @shannonomac.bsky.social · 21h

He cited her warning that "the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22h

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 21h

Let's start ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a departure story ✨ Contributor @dinalrelles.bsky.social has a new piece on saying goodbye in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💕 buff.ly/ddCmt7V

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