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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀

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🖊Word creature. 🪶Birb person. Basically just an old* fart-in-a-bottle left on a dusty shelf somewhere in Brooklyn, NY. *Old enough to know that being anti-fascist is 👍. website: www.grumpstonegazette.com linktree: https://linktr.ee/justine.gardner

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 11d

The Tenant Farmer

In the cow pasture across the road there used to be an old house. Its red roof vented to the sky, bindweed knotted around the rusted gate. As children, they explored it, crunched through the shards, rummaged among the jars with labels #blurred by sun and rain. #vss365 1/31

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 20h

She would find the river and cross it. Her brother had told her its water was full of #piranha, waiting for her to slip as she hopped the stones they used to ford. She turned to see if he had followed, but behind her was only trees. She could hear rain tapping at the canopy overhead. #vss365 12/31

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 20h

When she reached the woods edge, she looked back to see her brother still at the bush, grabbing berries and shoving them in his mouth. There was a rumble overhead, the sky darkening with sudden storm. Come on, she called, as stepped inside the woods. The trees would be their #raincoat. #vss365 11/31

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 20h

She shook away the thought of their mother, purple wine sloshing in her glass, and moved on from the blackberry bush, continuing with newfound #verve toward the pines. There would other bushes, the better bushes, in the glade in the middle of the woods. #vss365 10/31

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 2d

Was just watching a bit of this fine film the other night at random! Madeline❤️

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 2d

My current conundrum: which inflatable animal costume will I wear for No Kings?

Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 2d

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Creeps! It continues to be delightfully chilly with bright sun here in my corner of the world. Enjoy this red-tailed hawk taking off between the grave stones in search of snacks for today October 10.

#cemetery #gravetober #birdsofpreyknowtheyrecool

A red-tailed hawk in flight flying above tombstones

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 2d

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My creeps! Yesterday was one of those DAYS, so belatedly the gravestone pic for 10/9, which was a blustery day here in Brooklyn. #cemetery #october #gravetober

A field of gravestones on a blustery day. One in foreground is knocked over.

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 3d

She spat it out, her brother laughing as he chewed his own foul mouthful. His mouth dripped with a dark juice that down his chin as it had when they shared the orange. His messy joy recalled their mother, her wineglass out for a refill, singing “I’m a #libertine. I am a harlot.” #vss365 9/31

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 4d

Joralemon Street.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 4d

ta!

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 4d

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Creeps! Today, for October 8, I give you a taste of fall as the temperature begins to dip here in Brooklyn, NY (finally)…

Something about two grave markers leaning into each other as the earth settles beneath them just gets me right in the feels…

#cemetery #greenwood #october

2 grave stones leaning into each to each other surrounded by fallen leaves; in the foreground a single red leaf

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 4d

📌 [saving so I can treat my eyeballs and sigh about my complete lack of drawing skills]

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 4d

Leave it, she said before he poked at the carcass. She turned and resumed walking toward the woods, bucket swinging. He followed. She started to say something more, but then she spotted the first bush, pulled a blackberry into her mouth. It was bitter, the texture dry as fireplace #ash. #vss365 8/31

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 5d

What an absolute toe rag.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 5d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 5d

🪦📸7️⃣ For October the 7th, I give you this kestrel basking in the sun of Brooklyn’s ongoing 2nd (3rd?) summer. It’ll be cold and leaders soon enough, my creeps. I hope? #october #greenwood #cemetery

A kestrel on top of a cross-shaped grave stone on a grassy knoll with a tree behind it.

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 5d

The dead deer was under the crab apple tree at the pasture’s edge. They approached together, her berry bucket #clashing against the canteen on his hip. The smell grew stronger as they neared. The carcass was unmarked save for the flies crawling over the glossy marble of its black eye. #vss365 7/31

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 6d

🪦 And now my creeps, today’s pic for 10/6. Even in death, life finds a way. #cemetery

A photo of a traffic cone in front of some gravestones sprouting grass from the top.

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 6d

🪦Yoinks, creeps! I missed yesterday’s grave pic. For 10/5: a shot from Green-wood’s bucolic Hill of Graves. #cemetery #october

A photo of grassy path through an overgrown meadow dotted with graves at Green-Wood Cemetery.

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 6d

Wait! her brother called, and she turned to see him wiping his sneakers on the dry grass. There was a smell, not of cow manure but something stronger. A stink she #associated with the trash pit at the dump. The puff of air that her nose when Dad made her toss the bags in. Rotten, sweet. #vss365 6/31

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 7d

Morning Womble! I'm finally digging into Wendig's Black River Orchard 🍎 for spooky time but also reading Atul Gawande's supreme ⚰️ Being Mortal with a little side step here and there back into the 💀L.P. Hartley short story collection The Travelling Grave.

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 7d

He didn’t follow, but she knew the way. She walked quickly, keeping to the pasture’s sloping edge to avoid the marshy grass. In time she was #adverted to her brother sneaking behind her by the squelch of feet in a fresh of cow pie. She ignored his yelp and kept walking toward the pines. #vss365 5/31

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 8d

🪦 Hello my creeps! Here is today’s cemetery pic for October 4. Beautiful blue skies for a gentle walk among the graves… #halloween #cemetery

A photo of some grave stones on the side of a hill looking upward with blue sky and trees in the background.

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 8d

Yes. But I say this as someone who buys everything in a feverish swirl 2 days before.

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🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 8d

Glorious! 🔥 🍁

🧟‍♀️ Just—EEK!!! Gardner 💀 @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social · 8d

Gross, said the sister as her brother leaned in, flecking her shirt with orange juice. She stood, pulled her hair from its #elastic tie and redid it high off her sweaty neck. She kicked past a broken chair to the front door, suddenly eager for blackberries and the scent of pine. #vss365 4/31

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