Steph Grossman
@stephgrossman.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Aspiring time traveler. Dreaming Thing. Assistant Prof @ Texas State (former marketing peep @ JSTOR, Penguin RH, S&S). Words: Paste, Joyland, Masters Review, CRAFT, Salamander. Co-Host: Basement Girls horror podcast. https://bit.ly/SGpubs
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Just posting some Halloween 2026 ambiance from my neighborhood before it truly feels too late.
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Just posting some Halloween 2026 ambiance from my neighborhood before it truly feels too late.
Enjoyed this one.
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Enjoyed this one.
I really should use my campus office more.
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I really should use my campus office more.
Submitting to lit mags for the first time since 2023--a whole 9 months of pregnancy and 13 months of focusing almost exclusively on my daughter in between! In shock I didn’t have to reset my Duotrope password.
a cartoon character is standing in a doorway with a broom and the words boom baby below him .
ALT: a cartoon character is standing in a doorway with a broom and the words boom baby below him .
media.tenor.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Submitting to lit mags for the first time since 2023--a whole 9 months of pregnancy and 13 months of focusing almost exclusively on my daughter in between! In shock I didn’t have to reset my Duotrope password.
Just joined r/getoutofbed
October 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Just joined r/getoutofbed
This is what I get for trying to quickly promote my podcast on a random Monday afternoon in a convo about hobbies on Fable. No edit button available.
The Basement GIROS … 🤦♀️
The Basement GIROS … 🤦♀️
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is what I get for trying to quickly promote my podcast on a random Monday afternoon in a convo about hobbies on Fable. No edit button available.
The Basement GIROS … 🤦♀️
The Basement GIROS … 🤦♀️
I had a joke about Persephone, but Hades stole it.
October 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I had a joke about Persephone, but Hades stole it.
To read: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier
From Rebecca to The Birds and scores more creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
To read: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Watching season one of True Detective for the first time ever
September 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Watching season one of True Detective for the first time ever
Reading "The Tooth" by Shirley Jackson, and wow, I'm so stressed out lol
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Reading "The Tooth" by Shirley Jackson, and wow, I'm so stressed out lol
Just want to note that I’ve been doing the single top button thing since like 1998 and have just been WAITING for it to be socially acceptable.
September 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Just want to note that I’ve been doing the single top button thing since like 1998 and have just been WAITING for it to be socially acceptable.
Jump scare at the end.
September 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Jump scare at the end.
Oof, hope this came out of a pocket.
September 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Oof, hope this came out of a pocket.
Thinking about when I used to say “Soder” as a kid instead of “Soda.” My cousins would get soo mad & correct me, but then I’d see my grandma, who was def more of an authority than my cousins, & she’d say “Steph want some soder?” in her Bronx accent & the confusion would start all over again.
August 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thinking about when I used to say “Soder” as a kid instead of “Soda.” My cousins would get soo mad & correct me, but then I’d see my grandma, who was def more of an authority than my cousins, & she’d say “Steph want some soder?” in her Bronx accent & the confusion would start all over again.
To read! (I feel EXTREMELY validated that there's an essay about The Sims in The Paris Review):
“I’ve been nervous: even though she’s on the Long setting for lifespan, it seems like she’s heading toward death.”
Devon Brody’s Sims diary. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/08...
Devon Brody’s Sims diary. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/08...
Sims Diary by Devon Brody
August 13, 2025 – "I notice that I’m walking with an elderly hunch. I’m a whole life stage ahead of Rian because I made myself first."
www.theparisreview.org
August 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
To read! (I feel EXTREMELY validated that there's an essay about The Sims in The Paris Review):
Man, I posted this same thing on Threads and it went slightly viral and I got trolled by like 3 people telling me I don’t know how to Google, and that I don’t understand rhetorical questions 😂😭 is this what it’s like to be famous?
Does our moon have a name? Or is it just named Moon? Poor thing. Like a baby being named Baby.
August 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Man, I posted this same thing on Threads and it went slightly viral and I got trolled by like 3 people telling me I don’t know how to Google, and that I don’t understand rhetorical questions 😂😭 is this what it’s like to be famous?
Does our moon have a name? Or is it just named Moon? Poor thing. Like a baby being named Baby.
August 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Does our moon have a name? Or is it just named Moon? Poor thing. Like a baby being named Baby.
Being from the Northeast, school starting in August over here weirds me out so much. It's still high summer. Pools, not schools! Not until after Labor Day.
August 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Being from the Northeast, school starting in August over here weirds me out so much. It's still high summer. Pools, not schools! Not until after Labor Day.
I just fvvking love frosting.
August 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I just fvvking love frosting.
Why must my monthly writing workshop always fall during my luteal phase?
August 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Why must my monthly writing workshop always fall during my luteal phase?
It’s time for my yearly browse through Anthropologie Home, where I pin dozens of items to my Pinterest board and then imagine them in my house for a year. Saves a lot of money.
August 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s time for my yearly browse through Anthropologie Home, where I pin dozens of items to my Pinterest board and then imagine them in my house for a year. Saves a lot of money.
Received a compliment from at a cafe on my Fleetwood Mac shirt that I found—inexplicably—at an Abercrombie & Fitch outlet.
August 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Received a compliment from at a cafe on my Fleetwood Mac shirt that I found—inexplicably—at an Abercrombie & Fitch outlet.
I’m telling you, college professors are the punkest people you know.
July 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’m telling you, college professors are the punkest people you know.
Just joined r/petpeeves
July 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Just joined r/petpeeves
People are such fucking assholes. www.wired.com/story/texas-...
Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats
Disinformation around a “weather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencers—leading to real-world consequences.
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
People are such fucking assholes. www.wired.com/story/texas-...