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Carrie-Edmund Laben
@carrielaben.com
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Debut novel A HAWK IN THE WOODS
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Spanish: http://tinyurl.com/4k5647nu

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"My gaze stays on the body of Kris’s grandmother throughout dinner. My back is to the wall, and I can see her through the gap between Kris’s mother’s and father’s chairs."

#ghostadvent Night 11: I Wish You Died Laughing by @lioabendan.bsky.social

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An oval leaf, green but with yellow fungus spots.
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Good morning!
A two and a half week old black hooded rat pup looks at the camera from out of a toilet paper tube.
December 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"It is all oranges and browns with flecks of black, like an iodine stain over reality. Maybe you could call some of those features a chin. That’s it. This app sucks."

#ghostadvent Night 10: Phantom View by @wiswell.bsky.social

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A shop window display that is a white bust with half a feminine face and chin on hand, wearing two eye patches with bejeweled eye designs.
December 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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"In the early morning coyotes wake me
their voices almost human. Who is guilty? All of us"

#ghostadvent Night 9: Séance by Elizabeth Wing

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A winged ant on a door screen.
December 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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"Not the devil, but a common enough trickster. Worthy of some degree of pity, Martelloni thinks, like all children at play."

#ghostadvent Night 8: The Retirement Home for Psychic Detectives by the ever-fascinating @horrorsong.blog

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Urban roofscape with American crow.
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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The wine box is popular with young and old alike!
17 day old baby hooded rat in a wine box.
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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“So you believe, then? In ghosts?”

“I do. But they don’t believe in me. Can smell the desperation,”..."

#ghostadvent Night 7: Asking for It by Kristi Deemester (is she really not on here?)

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A garden bed at The Cloisters labeled Poison Plant above the birthwort. Other plants nearby include hound's tongue, horehound, and gromwell.
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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With alt text:
Anduril Founder @PalmerLuckey's surprising view on the Future of Warfare: Interviewer: "Do you believe that Space will become the defining domain for 21st century national defense?" Palmer Luckey: "I think space is very important, but I think the subterranean domain will define the 21st century There's more crust than air or sea or land... so a vehicle that moves through the crust of the earth is going to be a huge deal I have built working prototypes of this"
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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"'Robyn,' she said, 'You know I don't take sugar!'"

##ghostadvent Night 6: My Wife and My Dead Wife by @robynhitchcock.bsky.social

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My hand holding a glass of red wine, with nearly-matching purple nail polish.
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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TFW the edible was much stronger than expected and also OMG there are baby rats! In your house!
Potato enby smiling to the best of their ability, they have an itty bitty 16 day old baby rat on their shoulder.
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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"It’s the Lutherans,” said Jakub. “That’s what my father says.” Jakub’s family was Jewish. “They don’t think the regular holidays are good enough, so they made up a bunch of their own.”

#ghostadvent Night 5: Totensonntag by the illustrious Brian Evenson

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A banded orbweaver spider on her web, in front of a red wall.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Can I call it or what?
15 day old black hooded rat pup with open eyes! If you squint you can see my journal behind her, yeah.
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Two weeks old today. From pink jelly beans to fully furred and walking... but their eyes still won't open until tomorrow or the next day.
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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"Maybe we’ll meet in the city we knew, in the country that bore us."

#ghostadvent Night 4: Gash Wondimu by Agazit Abate

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A pink-barred pseudeustrotia moth (more tan than pink really) on an equally tan pillowcase with a woven texture.
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Getting very active!
December 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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“I have a wife and a child,” Mitya said. “I don’t need this. The farmer who had no troubles just had to buy a pig, as they say.”

#ghostadvent Night 3 - Punks Don't Die by my personal long-time fave @esedia.bsky.social

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Landscape with dead trees and lush meadow regrowth along the North Fork of the Flathead River in Montana. There is a large log house in the distant background and beyond that, mountains.
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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"I know the prayers. She’d etched them into my gray matter, laying each down like steel bars over gaping windows."

#ghostadvent Night 2: Drown-Haunted by veteran ghost-adventeer @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/drow...
Two empty yellow-ish snail shells on a cracked pavement.
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Day 12. Y'all ever seen a rat's belly button?
A black hooded rat pup is sleeping stretched out on his back and yes, you can see his wee little belly button.
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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"He was simply mortally weary of the narrow circumstances of his life. He had had twenty years of it--twenty years of garrets and roof-chambers and dingy flats and shabby lodgings..."

#ghostadvent Night 1: The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions

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A small Cyclorrhaphan fly caught on the leaf of a sundew
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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11 days. Look at this beauty!
A marten hooded rat pup of 11 days in the cupped hand of a considerably older and larger potato enby. The marten color looks like something between brindle and merle in a dog.
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Pictured: a face a lot of parents will probably relate to.
Cowen the marten hooded rat gripping the bars of her cage with a plaintive face while a single black-hooded baby continues to nurse.
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Observe how well-camouflaged the young literrati is in its natural habitat.
A nine days old black hooded rat pup on the black and white cover of the paperback edition of Joan Didion's WHERE I'VE BEEN, WHERE I'M GOING
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Gonna call you Pease Porridge 'cause you're nine days old.
A marten mismarked hooded nine day old rat, sitting on the hand of a potato enby. It is super sploot posed.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Ah, the joy of fresh paper towels.

Gonna need a bigger cage soon.
Cowen the marten hooded rat nursing her eight day old babies. They are all partly covered by paper towels.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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A fine strong profile
A week-old baby rat with pale fuzz and pink extremities held in a hand with purple-painted nails.
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 AM