Rae Foster
@raefosterwriter.bsky.social
Writer. History and folklore enthusiast 🧛♀️ 80s horror fiend 📼 Antique camera collector 📸 She/Her
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Rae Foster
@raefosterwriter.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Issue I.pdf
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My micro-fiction “The Womb That Wonders” was published today over at The Cove Review. It’s a nasty little piece about myths and women’s bodies. Hope you enjoy!
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A Friday evening surprise. The first audio version of "House Traveler." Incredibly well done by Preston Buttons. With great audio by Chelsea Davis (the trippy voice for the Liar is particularly cool!) And hosted by Scott Campbell! If you missed it last year in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, check it out!
"The five of us were gathered on the floor of one of the last houses"
House Traveler, by Thomas Ha
Narrator: Preston Buttons
Host: Scott Campbell
Audio: Chelsea Davis
This story first appeared in Bourbon Penn #34 and is reprinted in Thomas Ha’s debut collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories
House Traveler, by Thomas Ha
Narrator: Preston Buttons
Host: Scott Campbell
Audio: Chelsea Davis
This story first appeared in Bourbon Penn #34 and is reprinted in Thomas Ha’s debut collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories
PseudoPod 1003: House Traveler
The five of us were gathered on the floor of one of the last houses, trying to decide which of the group would be the one to go outside. Sitting around an electric camping lantern…
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November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A Friday evening surprise. The first audio version of "House Traveler." Incredibly well done by Preston Buttons. With great audio by Chelsea Davis (the trippy voice for the Liar is particularly cool!) And hosted by Scott Campbell! If you missed it last year in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, check it out!
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Honestly have no idea what some people get out of using AI for writing. Just had all the parts of a story idea click into place and it’s such a satisfying feeling. Why the hell would anyone want to outsource creativity?
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Honestly have no idea what some people get out of using AI for writing. Just had all the parts of a story idea click into place and it’s such a satisfying feeling. Why the hell would anyone want to outsource creativity?
Another rejection / another submission.
A handful of rejections with plans to submit today and tomorrow. 19 rejections so far, one more for an even 20 🤞🏻
A rejection. A submission.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Another rejection / another submission.
I read ANAGRAMS by Lorrie Moore in a college course called 'Tragedy in Romance'. It opened my eyes to experimentation in literature--how a novel doesn't have follow one exact shape.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I read ANAGRAMS by Lorrie Moore in a college course called 'Tragedy in Romance'. It opened my eyes to experimentation in literature--how a novel doesn't have follow one exact shape.
My last read: Lumberjack by @anthonyengebretson.bsky.social A tight, tense historical novella with a protagonist so dangerously delusional, I had to take a breather after one particular chapter. 5 🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓/5
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My last read: Lumberjack by @anthonyengebretson.bsky.social A tight, tense historical novella with a protagonist so dangerously delusional, I had to take a breather after one particular chapter. 5 🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓/5
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
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Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇
October 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇
A good reminder as I get back to my YA novel draft.
Between today and the end of the year there are about 151 days.
If you write 600 words every day between today and the last day of the year you’ll have a draft of your novel.
If you write 600 words every day between today and the last day of the year you’ll have a draft of your novel.
August 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A good reminder as I get back to my YA novel draft.
A handful of rejections with plans to submit today and tomorrow. 19 rejections so far, one more for an even 20 🤞🏻
A rejection. A submission.
Two rejections today
Two more submissions today
Two more submissions today
July 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A handful of rejections with plans to submit today and tomorrow. 19 rejections so far, one more for an even 20 🤞🏻
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My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...
![Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:obalt57atoxc2zooldtuur75/bafkreifnjtvupzmkqg7cggiv2z5nckzpp5yd2sm7h5gg2kq3plbwv2btuy@jpeg)
July 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...
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Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.
If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.
If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.
Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Seize The Press Magazine is an anticapitalist publication looking to publish dark speculative fiction. Bleak sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror and all kinds of weird, messy, genre-de...
www.seizethepress.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.
If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.
If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.
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Drafting flash fiction at the car dealership
July 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Drafting flash fiction at the car dealership
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I am mildly obsessed with nailing a good first line, and IMO to do so one must convey at least three or four details/pieces of information. As a reader, I want to know several things immediately: what's the MC doing? What time period/era is this? What's just happened to stir up conflict in the MC's
"It cost me every penny in my pocket to get half an hour alone with Haverstock before he was hanged, but if I had known then what I know now, I would have paid ten times as much."
I do like to start my novels with a banger first line. INTO THE CAVES OF HELL WE GO, FRIENDS.
I do like to start my novels with a banger first line. INTO THE CAVES OF HELL WE GO, FRIENDS.
July 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I am mildly obsessed with nailing a good first line, and IMO to do so one must convey at least three or four details/pieces of information. As a reader, I want to know several things immediately: what's the MC doing? What time period/era is this? What's just happened to stir up conflict in the MC's
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"Some kind of a noise. Or a nudge, a push."
We are BEYOND thrilled to have @aaronburch.bsky.social back in hex this week with "The Attic!" This story is the best kind of surprise, linguistically wonderful, a foray into the unsettling, all without losing Aaron's great sense of heart. Don't miss it!
We are BEYOND thrilled to have @aaronburch.bsky.social back in hex this week with "The Attic!" This story is the best kind of surprise, linguistically wonderful, a foray into the unsettling, all without losing Aaron's great sense of heart. Don't miss it!
The Attic by Aaron Burch
Some kind of a noise. Or a nudge, a push.
Probably both. A “Babe, babe,” together with or followed by, enough of a jostle to wake me up while trying not to startle me.
“Sorry,” Michelle said. “I...
hexliterary.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Some kind of a noise. Or a nudge, a push."
We are BEYOND thrilled to have @aaronburch.bsky.social back in hex this week with "The Attic!" This story is the best kind of surprise, linguistically wonderful, a foray into the unsettling, all without losing Aaron's great sense of heart. Don't miss it!
We are BEYOND thrilled to have @aaronburch.bsky.social back in hex this week with "The Attic!" This story is the best kind of surprise, linguistically wonderful, a foray into the unsettling, all without losing Aaron's great sense of heart. Don't miss it!
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"She must have nodded off after all. All night through the early hours unsleeping, then Gwen found herself awake. There was a wrongness: something was wrong."
Today on ergot: 'Buttons' by Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Se%C...
Today on ergot: 'Buttons' by Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Se%C...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
July 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"She must have nodded off after all. All night through the early hours unsleeping, then Gwen found herself awake. There was a wrongness: something was wrong."
Today on ergot: 'Buttons' by Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Se%C...
Today on ergot: 'Buttons' by Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Se%C...
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In case you missed it yesterday, I have a new story in issue 45 of @3lobedmag.com about a haunted schoolhouse.
www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...
www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...
3LBE Magazine - Her Shadow, Nailed to the Floor by A.C. Wise
We stand outside the schoolhouse, a huddle of uncertain birds, a collective knot of shoulders bowed low by grief. We, the parents of the children who are gone. It is bright daylight; we don't dare com...
www.3lobedmag.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In case you missed it yesterday, I have a new story in issue 45 of @3lobedmag.com about a haunted schoolhouse.
www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...
www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...
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Today is the official release of The S&L #4— and the completion of the set of four we'd originally funded!
With it, we celebrate how much we've learned and all the excellent artists and readers who made it possible.
Congratulations, team. They're perfect.🖤💀
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
With it, we celebrate how much we've learned and all the excellent artists and readers who made it possible.
Congratulations, team. They're perfect.🖤💀
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
July 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Today is the official release of The S&L #4— and the completion of the set of four we'd originally funded!
With it, we celebrate how much we've learned and all the excellent artists and readers who made it possible.
Congratulations, team. They're perfect.🖤💀
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
With it, we celebrate how much we've learned and all the excellent artists and readers who made it possible.
Congratulations, team. They're perfect.🖤💀
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
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Where to Find Free, Non-AI Images
dannyechase.com/resources/no...
Writers: looking to do the ethical thing and avoid AI in illustrating, promoting, and selling your work? Here are 9 places to find public domain and free to use images.
#writingcommunity #specfic ✍️ 🔱 #Horror 📚😱 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ #write
dannyechase.com/resources/no...
Writers: looking to do the ethical thing and avoid AI in illustrating, promoting, and selling your work? Here are 9 places to find public domain and free to use images.
#writingcommunity #specfic ✍️ 🔱 #Horror 📚😱 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ #write
Where to Find Free, Non-AI Images
dannyechase.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Where to Find Free, Non-AI Images
dannyechase.com/resources/no...
Writers: looking to do the ethical thing and avoid AI in illustrating, promoting, and selling your work? Here are 9 places to find public domain and free to use images.
#writingcommunity #specfic ✍️ 🔱 #Horror 📚😱 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ #write
dannyechase.com/resources/no...
Writers: looking to do the ethical thing and avoid AI in illustrating, promoting, and selling your work? Here are 9 places to find public domain and free to use images.
#writingcommunity #specfic ✍️ 🔱 #Horror 📚😱 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ #write
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Happy Canada Day! Our Canadian-authored eBooks are on sale for just $1 each!
8 books! Grab them all or just the ones you don't have. The sale is for 3 days only—starting July 1 and ending at midnight July 4.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
8 books! Grab them all or just the ones you don't have. The sale is for 3 days only—starting July 1 and ending at midnight July 4.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
July 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Happy Canada Day! Our Canadian-authored eBooks are on sale for just $1 each!
8 books! Grab them all or just the ones you don't have. The sale is for 3 days only—starting July 1 and ending at midnight July 4.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
8 books! Grab them all or just the ones you don't have. The sale is for 3 days only—starting July 1 and ending at midnight July 4.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
A rejection. A submission.
Two rejections today
Two more submissions today
Two more submissions today
July 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A rejection. A submission.
Untitled YA Horror - WIP
I’m in the midst of my second-act slump, so I made a trope graphic to drum up some excitement for myself.
I have nearly half of it drafted, the rest is still in my head. This is a story I’ve picked up and put down since college, and I finally feel like it’s taking shape.
I’m in the midst of my second-act slump, so I made a trope graphic to drum up some excitement for myself.
I have nearly half of it drafted, the rest is still in my head. This is a story I’ve picked up and put down since college, and I finally feel like it’s taking shape.
June 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Untitled YA Horror - WIP
I’m in the midst of my second-act slump, so I made a trope graphic to drum up some excitement for myself.
I have nearly half of it drafted, the rest is still in my head. This is a story I’ve picked up and put down since college, and I finally feel like it’s taking shape.
I’m in the midst of my second-act slump, so I made a trope graphic to drum up some excitement for myself.
I have nearly half of it drafted, the rest is still in my head. This is a story I’ve picked up and put down since college, and I finally feel like it’s taking shape.
Proud of my former city
Ariel view of thousands of protesters marching against Donald Trump in Downtown Los Angeles #NoKingsProtest
June 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Proud of my former city
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I'll be back on one of my favourite topics of folk horror with this one-off online workshop on the 14th August! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo... #folkhorror #horror #writing #workshop #workshops #writers
June 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I'll be back on one of my favourite topics of folk horror with this one-off online workshop on the 14th August! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo... #folkhorror #horror #writing #workshop #workshops #writers
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Los Angeles. Just wow.
June 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Los Angeles. Just wow.
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I had a joke about Orpheus and Eurydice I thought was funny, but looking back wasn't great.
I've nearly got a joke about Troy but it falls down at the end.
I have a joke about Zeus, you'll be thunderstruck by it
June 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I had a joke about Orpheus and Eurydice I thought was funny, but looking back wasn't great.