E.A. Petricone
eapetricone.bsky.social
E.A. Petricone
@eapetricone.bsky.social
Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of "We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It." Work in Nightmare Magazine, Apparition Literary Magazine, Strange Horizons, GigaNotoSaurus, Metaphorosis, and other marvelous places.
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Hello new followers! I'm EA and I write dark and hopeful stuff. If you'd like to get a sense of my work, "We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It," is the deepest, darkest, most vicious story that's ever howled out of me.

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/we-t...
We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It - Nightmare Magazine
We are not where we are buried. We are where they kept us. We float now, and see the low building in the woods from above, the long plates of rusted metal, the desiccated grass bundling against the si...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
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“When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.”

Happy #Halloween all 🎃

🎨 'Jack Jill and Jol' by Margaryta Yermolayeva
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Happy Halloween my friends

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS00...
Haunted Elevator (ft. David S. Pumpkins) - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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stopped by the old house when I was in town. looks the same, but dad clearly hasn’t been keeping up with the mowing. went to see the dead woman in the well behind the house; she was pretty mad, but ever since I realized she can’t get out she hasn’t been as scary. knew about my kids somehow though
October 2, 2024 at 3:58 AM
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A thread of some of my favorite spooky reading starts today! First up, “The Daddy Thing” by @kcmeadbrewer.com. If you haven’t read this scary gem, you really should:

electricliterature.com/the-girl-is-...
The Girl is Always Eaten At the End - Electric Literature
"The Daddy Thing" by K.C. Mead Brewer, original fiction about a young girl who befriends a vampire bat, recommended by Electric Literature
electricliterature.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
October 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I was hesitant to blanket block government accounts with this list, and then I saw the kind of crap these accounts are skeeting.

Block freely. This list is not a place of honor.
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Highly recommend The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet :-)

Warm and cuddly sapphic romance with plenty of humour along the way.
📚 BOOK GIVEAWAY! 📚
I've teamed up with some of the best and coolest queer historical romance writers for this awesome giveaway! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell your enemies-to-lovers!

Form to enter: forms.gle/2dJteRjXmLxm5FkR7
September 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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"…There's nothin in the world
That you can do
You gotta come on up to the house
And you been whipped by the forces
That are inside you
Come on up to the house…
Come On Up To The House, by Tom Waits
from the album Mule Variations (Remastered)
tomwaits.bandcamp.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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This is all he said?! This is why ABC (in response to threats from Trump's FCC) is taking Kimmel off the air?!
September 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Sometimes you see something on your TL that you really needed to see.
September 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Re-upping this in light of the $1.5 billion settlement. Authors, make sure you register your details (see thread)👇

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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This is an interesting and important read if you want to know about contracts, negotiations and the ongoing situation regarding MRM.
September newsletter just dropped! In which I discuss some contract woes and take a deep dive into an AI nightmare. (Aside from the usual updates).
open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...
I'm back with some September updates!
Plus a deep dive into an AI cautionary tale.
open.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Thank you SO SO MUCH everyone who searched, flyered, called, help me trap/watch the traps, EVERYBODY who helped get Big Genius Man home

(CRYING AGAIN BECAUSE WTF YOU LITTLE GARBAGEMONSTER)
September 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Thread: Many years ago, I realized that some of my successful writer friends who didn't seem to struggle with the non-writing side of a writing career the way I do had a special advantage: an assistant.
September 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Surprise!!! I’m excited to announce @nervetowrite.bsky.social, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!
September 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000.

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Edmonton / Highlands region friends! Please share and keep an eye out for Premee’s two lost cats and reach out if you see them!
Details and photos for both Fiasco and Franca are in the links!
Anyway at least the City of Edmonton Shelterbuddy links are validated and live now!

edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima...

edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima...
August 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Hello. I am a regular but peripheral character in a TV series. This episode I've got a lot of screen time as well as numerous funny/poignant lines and I'm confident this is because I'm about to get a more prominent role and definitely not that I'm about to die in a tragic car accident or something.
July 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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This small gem by A. R. Ammons...

#smallpoemsunday & @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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We are all dead, and we spoiled the world before we died. There is nothing left. Nothing but dreams.
July 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Jeffries is buying time for us to keep the pressure up. Two reps have flipped, for now—can we get two more? Call your Republican house reps if you have them.
At this point there's reason to think everyone's set, but yeah. No reason to stop calling until the gavel drops.
July 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM