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Cyndi Gradel
@cyndigradel.bsky.social
🖤Horror🖤 Stories on Creepy and The Other Stories.
🔪Final Girl🔪
Finally getting caught up. 🤡🎈
November 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Made it home from work and now I get to look at the beautiful snow. No fun driving in this. Be safe out there! ❄️⛄️
November 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Rejection today on a story I really love. ☹️
#writing
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ALT: a close up of a child 's face with the words it 's okay on the bottom
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November 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My brother looking thru my shelves:
So you like this guy, Stephen Graham Jones, huh? You have a lot of his books!
Me:
a person with a scream mask on their face
Alt: Ghostface
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November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Reading this today 🖤
Never Whistle at Night
Edited by Shane Hawk and @tvayyyy.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just heard Chipotle is BOGO tonight.
a man in a tan sweater says i 'll be right back !
ALT: a man in a tan sweater says i 'll be right back !
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November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Some great books on The Chicago Public Library best of 2025. Including The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social
It's that special time of the year... CPL's 2025 Best of Best lists are here! Best of Best compiles 2025's top reads for kids, teens and adults.

Check the thread below to see CPL staff's top 10 favorite books. #CPLBest📚🏆

View the rest of the lists: chipublib.org/bestofthebest
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
What a deal!
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Stuck in place you don’t want to be this Thanksgiving? I got you! Like every year, I can be your boss, angry/needy boyfriend, friend in trouble, the mob, or whatever you need on the phone. Also happy to yell at your racist uncle. Price? Purchase a copy of this beauty! Rescue and a book, baby.
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Should I get up and do my laundry or keep reading comic books?
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I don’t like it when people try to change peanut butter and jelly. I need the same thing I had as a kid. It has to be squishy white bread with Jif and grape jelly.
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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hey, on there with @blacktopkid.bsky.social, Grady, @natcassidy.bsky.social and—and no way can I actually list all the books/writers. but NPR can, does. anyway/also: my first time to be listed alongside Seamus Heaney? who knew that was even in the offing. want to read that Anaconda one, too:
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Movie night 🍿🎥
Krampus
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This song always makes me want to go back to playing the piano. 🎹
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Currently reading:
Zombie Bake-Off by @sgj.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A few underrated horror movies starring Lou Diamond Phillips:
#horror
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I did a little reader's guide to @sgj.bsky.social books on my Instagram! Check it out:
www.instagram.com/p/DRXYe7biWU9/
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
👀 Chicago Writers 👀
#writing
Attention all writers! CPL is excited to announce its Write at CPL Celebration happening at Harold Washington Library Center on December 1, 2025.

Visitors can expect local writing organizations, workshops, activities and more!

Register here: chi.gov/writingcelebration
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Movie night 🍿🎥
Another one that I missed in theaters.
The Conjuring: Last Rites
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Got family visiting this week. Do y’all think it’s mean to leave this behind the guest bedroom door?
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I have work to do but I’m so sleepy 😫
a girl sits at a desk with a clipboard that says nancy thompson on it
Alt: Nancy Thompson at a desk falling asleep
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November 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
👀 Holiday horror!!!
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Smashed my own hand with a piece of metal. My injuries are never as cool as SGJs
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Dreaming of starting a podcast to talk about slashers. Mostly because my friends and family are tired of hearing me talk about them. 🤣 #horror
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Can’t count how many times 🖤🔪
Here goes one more.
Movie night 🎥🍿
#Scream
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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hey, cool, made it to the ballot. open for voting, now through that top-ribbon at www.readinmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM