Tim Hoelscher
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Horror Writer | Tech: Founder, @gavagai.com | Dog Enthusiast | Cat Aficionado | Goat Manager | Chicken Aggregator | HWA Member | Married | Alpha Gal Positive | he/him/his
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We're on a publishing hiatus to let the team decompress after a whirlwind first month of Gavagai! We'll return to Editor Pick posts on Saturday. In the meantime, come on over and try your hand at our weekly microfiction contest The Gavagai 1000! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting gavagai.com
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Happy Thanksgiving for those celebrating. Hopefully everyone will be able to get some writing done between "fun" holiday family conversations and food comas! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting
The folk horror tree is on display!
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The folk horror tree is on display!
Happy Thanksgiving for those celebrating. Hopefully everyone will be able to get some writing done between "fun" holiday family conversations and food comas! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting
We're on a publishing hiatus to let the team decompress after a whirlwind first month of Gavagai! We'll return to Editor Pick posts on Saturday. In the meantime, come on over and try your hand at our weekly microfiction contest The Gavagai 1000! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting gavagai.com
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November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Happy Thanksgiving for those celebrating. Hopefully everyone will be able to get some writing done between "fun" holiday family conversations and food comas! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting
Watching this tonight!
Currently watching: Good Boy — 2025 · Movie
Currently watching: Good Boy — 2025 · Movie
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Watching this tonight!
Currently watching: Good Boy — 2025 · Movie
Currently watching: Good Boy — 2025 · Movie
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Warning: The man on page one of my new novella knows you're reading. He's begging you to stop.
I need 20 ARC readers for THIS BOOK MAY KILL YOU (18k meta-horror).
Get a free digital ARC for an honest review. DM me "I'M IN" to claim one.(You're not safe.)
#MetaHorror
#ARCReaders
I need 20 ARC readers for THIS BOOK MAY KILL YOU (18k meta-horror).
Get a free digital ARC for an honest review. DM me "I'M IN" to claim one.(You're not safe.)
#MetaHorror
#ARCReaders
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Warning: The man on page one of my new novella knows you're reading. He's begging you to stop.
I need 20 ARC readers for THIS BOOK MAY KILL YOU (18k meta-horror).
Get a free digital ARC for an honest review. DM me "I'M IN" to claim one.(You're not safe.)
#MetaHorror
#ARCReaders
I need 20 ARC readers for THIS BOOK MAY KILL YOU (18k meta-horror).
Get a free digital ARC for an honest review. DM me "I'M IN" to claim one.(You're not safe.)
#MetaHorror
#ARCReaders
Reposted by Tim Hoelscher
Not a Creature was Stirring — by Miles Carnegie
The radiator usually clanked at 3:02 AM. It didn't tonight. Joe had bled the lines. He needed absolute silence.
He sat in the armchair, the Persian rug beneath him lost under heavy plastic. It extended from the hearth to the sofa. It crinkled slightl…
The radiator usually clanked at 3:02 AM. It didn't tonight. Joe had bled the lines. He needed absolute silence.
He sat in the armchair, the Persian rug beneath him lost under heavy plastic. It extended from the hearth to the sofa. It crinkled slightl…
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Not a Creature was Stirring — by Miles Carnegie
The radiator usually clanked at 3:02 AM. It didn't tonight. Joe had bled the lines. He needed absolute silence.
He sat in the armchair, the Persian rug beneath him lost under heavy plastic. It extended from the hearth to the sofa. It crinkled slightl…
The radiator usually clanked at 3:02 AM. It didn't tonight. Joe had bled the lines. He needed absolute silence.
He sat in the armchair, the Persian rug beneath him lost under heavy plastic. It extended from the hearth to the sofa. It crinkled slightl…
Reposted by Tim Hoelscher
The Human Cloud — by Miles Carnegie
The commercials promised magic.
"Ask anything, your AI knows all ."
Slick videos showed gleaming data centers, blue light washing over racks of servers, the hum of machines that "learned" like a brain. Reporters swooned, CEOs grinned, and investors lit cigars w…
The commercials promised magic.
"Ask anything, your AI knows all ."
Slick videos showed gleaming data centers, blue light washing over racks of servers, the hum of machines that "learned" like a brain. Reporters swooned, CEOs grinned, and investors lit cigars w…
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Human Cloud — by Miles Carnegie
The commercials promised magic.
"Ask anything, your AI knows all ."
Slick videos showed gleaming data centers, blue light washing over racks of servers, the hum of machines that "learned" like a brain. Reporters swooned, CEOs grinned, and investors lit cigars w…
The commercials promised magic.
"Ask anything, your AI knows all ."
Slick videos showed gleaming data centers, blue light washing over racks of servers, the hum of machines that "learned" like a brain. Reporters swooned, CEOs grinned, and investors lit cigars w…
Reposted by Tim Hoelscher
Dearly Beloved — by Miles Carnegie
Alan's eyes burned from three hours of staring at the numbers. The Copper Pot's overhead was eating them alive, chewing through their wedding fund like a starved animal. He rubbed his face, noting the metallic taste that had been lingering in his mouth all week. "…
Alan's eyes burned from three hours of staring at the numbers. The Copper Pot's overhead was eating them alive, chewing through their wedding fund like a starved animal. He rubbed his face, noting the metallic taste that had been lingering in his mouth all week. "…
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Dearly Beloved — by Miles Carnegie
Alan's eyes burned from three hours of staring at the numbers. The Copper Pot's overhead was eating them alive, chewing through their wedding fund like a starved animal. He rubbed his face, noting the metallic taste that had been lingering in his mouth all week. "…
Alan's eyes burned from three hours of staring at the numbers. The Copper Pot's overhead was eating them alive, chewing through their wedding fund like a starved animal. He rubbed his face, noting the metallic taste that had been lingering in his mouth all week. "…
New story up on Gavagai!
A weekend wedding, a scenic estate, a wife a little too enchanted by the sea. What could possibly go wrong? It's Ayida Shonibar's The Depth Where Light Fades. Read it for free on gavagai.com!
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
New story up on Gavagai!
New story!
In today's Editor Pick: a possession, an exorcism, and something far more complicated between them. It's Caias Ward's Gutter-Washed Favorites. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New story!
New story up on Gavagai!
In today's Editor Pick - a grim, riveting tale of stitching, survival, and the monstrous cost of "improvement." It's Liam Hogan's Work in Progress. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New story up on Gavagai!
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We have a new story up on Gavagai today, perfect to whet your appetite for the weekend: After Party from Diana Olney! gavagai.com
Happy Friday! Please enjoy today's Editor Pick: Diana Olney's After Party. And this weekend, please use caution if you're heading out on the town. It'd be a shame to find yourself waking up on a train with only a vague idea of how you got there...
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We have a new story up on Gavagai today, perfect to whet your appetite for the weekend: After Party from Diana Olney! gavagai.com
For today's Editor Pick: Mother’s Little Poppet by KT Wagner—a chilling tale of family, memory and vengeance. We hope you enjoy it! Read it on gavagai.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New story from Masimba Musodza up on Gavagai! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
In today’s Editor Pick: When Euan swears he’s seen an old woman riding a hyena across the Zimbabwean plains, everyone laughs—until the night laughs back. It’s “The Clever Girls” by Masimba Musodza. Read it for free on www.gavagai.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New story from Masimba Musodza up on Gavagai! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
New Editor Pick up from Nick Mamatas: Airvalve Semilunar Astern!
In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New Editor Pick up from Nick Mamatas: Airvalve Semilunar Astern!
New Editor Pick on Gavagai from @amandamblake.bsky.social!
My most difficult-to-spell story "Chrysalis in Chrysanthemum," a short pregnancy cosmic body horror story, is an Editor's Pick at Gavagai, a new site for horror writers and readers. I have invites if anyone wants any, but here's the link to the story:
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
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November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
New Editor Pick on Gavagai from @amandamblake.bsky.social!
Another one for today! Come and have a read! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
For today’s Editor Pick, we jump from the darkly culinary to the deep sea with Fishing by Chris Wilcox: a creeping maritime horror about infection, obsession, and the pull of the sea. Read for free on gavagai.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Another one for today! Come and have a read! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
Our Editor Pick for today: Colleen Anderson’s Love Bites. Happy #Halloween!
For Halloween, treat yourself to Colleen Anderson’s disturbingly toothsome tale of hunger and obsession. Let yourself be consumed by Love Bites. Read it for free at gavagai.com!
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Our Editor Pick for today: Colleen Anderson’s Love Bites. Happy #Halloween!
Our Editor Pick today was Susan L. Lin’s Revenge Dress. Amazing writer!
With today’s Editor Pick we move from the swamp to seamstress with Revenge Dress, a poignant quiet horror tale by Susan J. Lin where existential threads spiral downward to an inevitable end. Read it here for free: www.gavagai.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Our Editor Pick today was Susan L. Lin’s Revenge Dress. Amazing writer!
Hey all - I am looking for an artist for mainstream horror illustration work. Maybe some Stephen Gammell-esque stuff, black and white/inky. I’m not sure how to articulate that so any help is appreciated! Oh and open to commissions in the near future. Tysm! #art
October 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Hey all - I am looking for an artist for mainstream horror illustration work. Maybe some Stephen Gammell-esque stuff, black and white/inky. I’m not sure how to articulate that so any help is appreciated! Oh and open to commissions in the near future. Tysm! #art
We are open for the first round of submissions for our #horror submission call #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
We sent out the first batch of invites overnight and already had a great response for the horror submission call! Thanks to everyone who submitted. There were a few technical issues, but thankfully nothing too major. We’ll be keeping our eyes on the site logs and the suggestion box tho.
October 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We are open for the first round of submissions for our #horror submission call #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
I feel like selling an old iPhone on eBay thrusts you into the world of Russian mobsters where the stakes are life and death and survival hangs on the results of an IMEI check.
October 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I feel like selling an old iPhone on eBay thrusts you into the world of Russian mobsters where the stakes are life and death and survival hangs on the results of an IMEI check.
Bumpy attacking Weeze’s tail in triptych #Caturday #FatherICraveViolence
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Bumpy attacking Weeze’s tail in triptych #Caturday #FatherICraveViolence
Happy birthday to the sweetest girl in town… LOUISE! AKA “Weeze!” The big 10 today! #DogsOfBlueSky #WritersDogs
October 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Happy birthday to the sweetest girl in town… LOUISE! AKA “Weeze!” The big 10 today! #DogsOfBlueSky #WritersDogs
Omg my wife and I were away last night and our house sitter stayed over but Bumpy is so angry with us. He wouldn’t even deign to look at me until I offered him a small turkey peace offering. So temperamental 🙄
October 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Omg my wife and I were away last night and our house sitter stayed over but Bumpy is so angry with us. He wouldn’t even deign to look at me until I offered him a small turkey peace offering. So temperamental 🙄