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Rebecca Summerling (she/her)

@rlsummerling.bsky.social

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Writer and reader of the strange. Assistant editor at Seize the Press. Associate editor at Violet Lichen Books My stories can be found in The Dark, Nightjar Press, Interzone, ergot. www.rlsummerling.com Banner art by John Chrostek

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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · Apr 1

Here's some excellent news from me! I have a new story in this month's issue of The Dark! It's called "His Most Feared Constellation". In a desolate corner of junkspace, a man makes a cup of tea while he waits for his daughter to visit ✨❄️

Front cover of issue 119 of The Dark depicting an apocalyptic yeti (I think!)

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 4h

If I told you there might be a sudden *free* new release out tomorrow, would you be excited? Would you try to deduce the nature of it from a hint?

ELKNFEDR beside scribbles of red, grey, black

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 1d

Forgive the cobbled-together feel of this, but eat up!

Nine stories in this TropiWeird combo - including two stories never before seen! As they say in PR: buen provecho!

kyr-1066.itch.io/a-series-of-...

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major and D'Angelo in the same week. Jesus Christ, ease off the gas, universe.

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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 1d

I watched this on a loop after Prince died, so much emotion! Really sad to hear of D'Angelo's passing and hope we get some similarly brilliant tributes

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

one of the realest tributes to Prince anybody did after he died. Somebody major needs to get on TV and do for “The Charade” what D’Angelo did here

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D'Angelo ft. Princess Sometimes It Snows in April

YouTube video by samuel

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

RIP D'angelo. Black Messiah is a top 5 of all time record.

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Hannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s affirmation:

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 2d

some inspirations:
1) Barbara Comyns
2) Haruki Murakami
3) Raymond Chandler
4) Leonora Carrington
5) Marie Redonnet

To read what has been mildly inspired, here are my stories:
ivyivyivyivy.com/stories/

Stories

Old Woman and the Girls in Rejection Letters Shadow Land in scaffold lit Pearl Ring in Heavy Feather Review Our Mutual Friend in HAD Three Plagues for Ninth Letter, Featured Writer Green in ergot. …

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

Getting into book cover design and cooking up a few right now. Here’s a new one for the awesome @trentbwrites.bsky.social and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Go check the book out!!

Malarkey forever 🤘💀🤘

Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

Book cover for The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown. Features a winding snake over a river. Blurb by Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri: “a book that examines not only the soul of a man but—perhaps—the soul of a nation."

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 6d

Got one! Nice tactile paperback of What Comes to Light, a @trashcatlit.bsky.social charity anthology with a story by me and 26 better ones by other writers. But how many of them have taken photos with cats in? Get a copy! All proceeds to the Wildlife Trusts! Save a stoat! mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

Two photos of an anthology titled What Comes to Light, one showing the front cover with Arsehole the imperious tabby cat looming behind it, and another one with Oscar the elderly ginger cat pretending to be interested in a story called Threequarter Lane

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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus this is bleak

Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 4d

I am going to insufferable about this

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

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

Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 4d

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

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The Eco-Update #19

Dispatches from the planet.

www.briefecology.com

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 5d

Newest #collagetober pieces! Trick - The Craft, and Treat - The VVitch.

A black and white digital collage featuring a rattlesnake coiled at the bottom of a goblet etched with clouds and inside the goblet is a single bright orange flame

A black and white digital collage featuring black Phillip the goat from the witch inside a black and gold frame (in color). At the bottom of the frame are a black and white tree branch, apple, and crow feathers.

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 5d

Ain’t no mail like contributor book mail! So proud to be in this anthology from @aanpress.bsky.social

Cover of a book titled Mmeory. The cover image is abstract, like a face with eyes.

The book is open to a story titled “He Walks the Same Streets” by Guan Un.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 5d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 5d

Holy shit this Gobelins student film is absolutely incredible. Real Vampire Hunter D vibes

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NICCOLO - Animation Short Film 2025 - GOBELINS

YouTube video by GOBELINS Paris

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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 6d

I've been catching up on some horror films recently and watched Red Rooms last night. What a film, I cannot stop thinking about it

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 7d

In an age lit by fire, only the most curious and driven souls turned a flame to the unknown. The least fortunate peered beyond the veil.

This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution releases October 20. Ebook preorder up now on Amazon & Kobo ⬇️