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Tim Melody Pratt

@timpratt.org

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Writer and editor. Loser of Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, and Stoker Awards (won a Hugo tho). Been published in Best American Short Stories AND Best American Erotica. Genderfluid. Any pronouns I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 13h

We saw them a couple nights ago and I said to my wife “He has a nice enough voice but he’s up there with JENNY LEWIS, it’s like putting Michael Buble on stage with Pavarotti”

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 14h

You're an artist. Make something.

Gonna start saying that to myself

Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 14h

'You're an engineer. Build something.' from Iron Man 3 works every time for me. Brain too full! No words coming out! Talent has fled the building! Oh wait no there it is

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 13h

Let your little kids believe Santa Claus is real (I mean, if that’s appropriate to your cultural milieu). Not for “keep wonder alive” reasons, though that’s nice, but because:

It’s good for kids to learn early on that adults will lie to them

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 13h

We interviewed Joe for the November issue of Locus (out in a couple of weeks) and he talked about the movie a bit and was full of praise for you, specifically

Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 14h

That PW review though. Reminds me of the time my kid was about seven and he told me “these cookies you made are as good as the ones from the store!”

Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 1d

Book Review: Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark (1984) sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/10/18/b...

#scifi #sciencefiction #books

Eli walks from his crashed spaceship in the middle of the California desert.

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 14h

Pleased to report the kids are alright

🌈Spooky_Titty_ass_Tricey👻 @bettyassme.bsky.social · 18h

Idk what I was expecting but this is dope.

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 14h

The address for an event I attended was “666 Bellevue” and I went “oh no we’re at the beginning of a bad horror movie about the abandoned asylum where the devil lives”

Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 14h

Went to the Autumn Festival of Lights at Lake Merritt Gardens and it was super cool, dozens of illuminated installations by a wide variety of artists

The author sitting on a throne with illuminated butterfly wings

A giant skeleton in glowing Day of the Dead decorations climbing out of the ground

A huge inflatable tentacled monster with glowing tentacles emerging from the ground

Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d

no kings but shark

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 9d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d

The stories are all 3-4K words long so there’s no time to screw around, I have to get right into it, the pacing is great fun

Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d

(writing two stories in a day is not common for me, but if you think of them as chapters of a novella it's less impressive. They do work as standalones though)

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d

5,600 words today, and I finished drafts of "In the Catacombs" and "The Lurking Oracle," the second and third stories in a six-story suite of interconnected Mythos pieces I'm writing

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Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social · 1d

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d

(Just looked up the interview, and I misremembered, it wasn't at a con, it was at Clarion, the writing workshop where he often taught; though it wasn't at my year of Clarion. We just played Hearts a lot)

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 1d

Came to say this! The game is called Assumption and you don't wanna lose (winning also has its issues). One time some fans at a convention decided to play, and asked Powers if he wanted to sit in.

Instead, he left the building

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 2d

This looks seriously cool! Check it out

Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social · 2d

Oo! @cherylmorgan.bsky.social is putting together an anthology: contemporary fantasy stories of resistance & resilience drawing fr Welsh history & legend. I can't think of anyone better to do this. Wanna help? Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)

An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

www.kickstarter.com

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 2d

Saw Rilo Kiley at the Greek last night with @sundew.bsky.social

They played “With Arms Oustretched” and “A Better Son/Daughter” back to back so I just cried for like 7 straight minutes

Blake Sennett and Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley performing on stage

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 3d

who's up for a double-booked rental house horror movie marathon, we got Barbarian, The Yule Log, Bone Lake, and Gone in the Night (more a thriller but I'll allow it), am I forgetting any

Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 4d

He’s a fave. I’ve been watching all I can find, including some fan-made subtitles ones online. Sweet Murder is widely available though, it’s a bit of a slow burn but a great payoff (and the usual near-the-end special effects are better than Occult or Noroi)

Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 4d

Noroi is so good. It could’ve easily made my list. Occult too. Though the end of Sweet Murder is the best conclusion among all three

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 4d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Absentia
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
A Record of Sweet Murder
I Saw the TV Glow

Linn Foster/Silver 🐺 @linnfoster.com · 4d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

The Ritual
Get Out
The Witch
Rec

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 4d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

The Crazies
Ready or Not
Train to Busan
The Parenting

Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 4d

Me, after complaining about stuff: Probably Saturn is in retrograde or Venus is in Azathoth

@sarahday.org: Saturn actually is retrograde

Me: Oh no! All the fathers are regurgitating their children!

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 4d

I am leaving my HOUSE for the second night in a ROW

The author smiling in a dinosaur print dress

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