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carrielaben.com
"In the early morning coyotes wake me
their voices almost human. Who is guilty? All of us"

#ghostadvent Night 9: Séance by Elizabeth Wing

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
A winged ant on a door screen.
December 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
carrielaben.com
“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

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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
carrielaben.com
"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
carrielaben.com
"That many days on the road, that many days in a row, and you started to lose track of yourself. Most mornings Erlend woke up unsure what town he was in, disoriented, confused."

www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/32/hea...

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A light brown dish towel with embroidered with sunflowers and the slogan "be happy" draped over a basket.
December 7, 2024 at 10:12 PM
carrielaben.com
"Still shopping for a god & blaming stars for problems." heavyfeatherreview.org/2023/11/28/m... #ghostadvent
A blurry photo of the hind end of Cain the rat going away. There is also an empty Bota box.
December 21, 2023 at 11:01 PM
carrielaben.com
"They found an eyeball and several teeth in the second detective's stomach." apex-magazine.com/short-fictio... #ghostadvent @pauljessup.com
A black granite gravestone wet from rain, with the date December 20 visible on it. Trinkets like coins, stickers, and a mechanical pencil have been left at the foot.
December 10, 2023 at 10:00 PM
carrielaben.com
"...and when she sighed it was like the sound made of great waters running back to sea between the narrow sides of little stones."

electricliterature.com/no-mans-mare...

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Shell of an Asian shore crab, dotted with sand.
December 12, 2024 at 9:46 PM
carrielaben.com
"Rats is bogies, I tell you, and bogies is rats; and don't you get to think anything else!"

www.online-literature.com/stoker/820/

#ghostadvent with rats for solstice
Cornell the black self rat and Cain the red-eyed marten rat standing on their hind legs in their cage, with the other rats and a well-chewed Bota box behind them.
December 21, 2024 at 11:47 PM
carrielaben.com
"He saw no recognizable chain store nor familiar corporate logo, save the yellow and red Shell sign impaled on a long pole many yards above a shack of a gas station, glowing like a blood-smeared moon."

weirdfictionreview.com/2017/10/spet...

#ghostadvent with @mattmbartlett.bsky.social
A garbage bin with a wrought iron decoration that looks like an eye.
December 22, 2024 at 11:42 PM
carrielaben.com
"Doesn't memory lie, though? Doesn't it change and shift?" www.heartlines-spec.com/i-think-abou... #ghostadvent @kurellian.bsky.social
A white-lined sphinx moth _Hyles lineata_ perched near a porch light.
December 2, 2023 at 10:18 PM
carrielaben.com
"... the fuck is going on? I won't stand for it, I'm a marquee name..." www.patreon.com/posts/skit-i... #ghostadvent @jayaprakash777.bsky.social
The curled exoskeleton of a garden millipede on a granite ledge.
December 1, 2023 at 10:10 PM
carrielaben.com
"I name no name, but its sordid fame is table talk in hell." allpoetry.com/A-Tale-Of-Th... #ghostadvent
A silver 1930s Plymouth 2-door sedan parked in a cluttered garage.
December 20, 2023 at 12:04 AM
carrielaben.com
"As expected, Hedly found the corpse in the drawing room..." www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-changing... #ghostadvent
Potato enby with glow in the dark facepaint around their eyes.
November 26, 2023 at 10:16 PM
carrielaben.com
"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

web.english.upenn.edu/~nauerbac/on...
A small Cyclorrhaphan fly caught on the leaf of a sundew
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
carrielaben.com
"A strawberry ice cream cone appears in his hand, and with a faint, indigo shimmer the ten of clubs flutters his way." www.uncannymagazine.com/article/all-... #ghostadvent
A black and white zebra spider on a red background on which is printed an indistinct face that appears to possibly screaming.
December 15, 2023 at 10:21 PM
carrielaben.com
"He was willing to credit more to the dead of storm and shipwreck, drifting souls the sea had gulped down with all their sins like a seine dragged about them and left their memories to roll in the swell with their bones."

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/twic...

#ghostadvent
A large carp (?) in shallow water.
December 13, 2024 at 11:08 PM
carrielaben.com

"There were four of them picking at something on the ground, and the something was Robert."

www.thedarkmagazine.com/robert-we-ca...

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View of Lake Zurich from Stallikon in autumn.
December 2, 2024 at 10:07 PM
carrielaben.com
"It feels like ghost stories should mean something, but it’s not at all clear what."

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

#ghostadvent
A fuzzy white caterpillar with a black face on a brown wooden railing.
December 14, 2024 at 11:21 PM
carrielaben.com
"The smell of decay -- heavy and a little acidic -- greeted her right away." outlooksprings.com/stories/a-fo... #ghostadvent
A light brown highland cow sticking her head through a wooden fence to eat a tuft of grass.
December 20, 2023 at 10:02 PM
carrielaben.com
"Maybe we’ll meet in the city we knew, in the country that bore us."

#ghostadvent Night 4: Gash Wondimu by Agazit Abate

www.warscapes.com/literature/g...
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
carrielaben.com
“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?)

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/aski...
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
carrielaben.com
"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
carrielaben.com
"To such experience may belong, I think, one ultimate result of all those irrational partings,—self-wreckings,—sudden isolations,—abrupt severances from all attachment, which form the history of the nomad ..."

americanliterature.com/author/lafca...

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Detail of a stone wall with a weathered carving of a bird and vines. Red ribbons are hanging into the frame from above.
December 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
carrielaben.com
"Hummingbirds serve as a sprawling epitaph, one that leaves no stone unturned."

clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_11_22/

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A dead tree in a damp meadow near Glacier National Park in Montana. In the foreground, a No Trespassing sign is attached to a fallen log.
December 1, 2024 at 10:18 PM
carrielaben.com
"Maybe this is how I finally find the answers (and retribution) I've been seeking for so very long..." strangehorizons.com/fiction/has-... #ghostadvent
A puma at the Queens Zoo doing a tongue blep.
December 18, 2023 at 11:35 PM