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Donyae Coles

@okokno.bsky.social

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I'm a writer, artist. A brain inside of a pile of blankets. Also check out my book, Midnight Rooms! Find me in these places: https://linktr.ee/okokno

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · Jan 8

I'm back at it! Can't wait for you all to meet Mercy, Idelle, and The Horrors. @thetobiasagency.bsky.social @laneheymont.bsky.social

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Tonya Liburd is querying Postcolonial Horror & Fantasy @spiderlilly.bsky.social · 9h

Hey.
If the Kickstarter for Apex doesn't fund, Apex Magazine will cease to be, and... that would be very sad.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 10h

Learning Latin for the devil.

Screenshot of a Duolingo streak notice. Screenshot features a small yellow flame. The number 666 Day Street a week countdown and a button that says I can do it.

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Alex Jennings @alexjennings.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s pull together and help @zinrock.bsky.social achievement this goal. She’s brilliant, and works on the bleeding edge of horror. Her participation will enrich this program more than they know! gofund.me/defbd960f

Donate to Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey, organized by Teri Clarke

hello, all! my name is Teri Clarke and I write horror and dark fantasy under the… Teri Clarke needs your support for Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 1d

Piero Fassoni (1941-1987), “Mont St. Michel” (n.d.), mixed media on panel, 50 x 59.8 cm.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

And all of this trauma dumping is to say that this person knew exactly what they were doing and did that intentionally to keep me from having this opportunity and many others.

Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

I can send stuff but I can't send money and he still doesn't send stuff. So all that to just basically say I was being financially abused amongst other things and I couldn't fully recognize that until I left the situation and could look back on it.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

And to this day I have left him. I live in an apartment with my kids and to this day he's like I don't have any money. I can't help you. I can't send money. I mean he says b******* that doesn't make sense.

I can get things easier than money.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

And I got so frustrated cuz I was up here living on my friend's couch with my children unhoused and he's crying cuz he needs money to go to the pharmacy and I'm like I don't have any f****** money dude I don't even have a job.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

And he was working 5 days a week and never had no f****** money. Whenever I asked him for help. Can you pay for this? Can you get this? He never had no f****** money.

And when we got here it was the same he was like oh well. Can you give me money for this? Can you give me money for that?

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

That I have paid for literally every aspect of this situation. I paid for the U-Hauls I paid for the storage. I paid for the deposits on our living situation. I paid for the money that was old on the last house like I paid for. Literally all of these things.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

And after everything falls apart and I've got to move to Minnesota and we're houseless and living on my friend's couch and what not. I start realizing that this man is always asking me for money. That he worked his job up until we moved and somehow has no money.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

But also I should write a whole thing about this because I realize when I was watching Kevin can f*** himself actually in that very first episode that wait a minute. I have a narrative that I'm bad with money and that somehow he's not and that's not true.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

That time it gave him the window to go through this process of abuse and also the time between when I got the money and when the money it was used.

And my narrative has always been. I'm bad with money because I forget things and lose track of things.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

With the under the volcano situation that was not possible because I needed a large sum of money for the program. I needed a large sum of money to buy my plane ticket to pay for all of this stuff. And although I am really adept at raising money in that way, it still takes time and in...

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

Like it was just the cost of my plane tickets to get to and from. I did not have lodging costs cuz I had friends that put me up. I did not have food cost because they were feeding me. And that is why that was possible for me to do.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

The only reason why I was able to do that was because the person who offered me the opportunity did not make me pay the full amount like she worked with me on a payment plan. So when it came to actually doing the thing, I was able to put up relatively small amounts that I could earn on the fly.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

And so in my mind I was like well. Of course this is just bad luck. It's bad timing. We're just in a tight spot because I have been able to do this other thing once upon a time.

But in retrospect really thinking about that other thing I was allowed to do that I somehow managed to do the ...

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

Other than he wanted it to happen it was in his heart and mind to spend up that money to keep me from going.

Couldn't see what was happening because I had gone to other things and I had been able to do those things like I want to 200-hour yoga training.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

Because this whole thing is happening during a time where he has a full-time job that pays him enough to support the household. This is before his mother dies. He had been working at the shop for a while. He had an understanding supervisor. There was really no reason why this happened.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

Because it wasn't just all were underwater and we need to dip into this thing.

It was that he knew I was raising money for this and made absolutely no changes to ensure that he didn't do that.

He was knowingly continuing to operate in a way that ensured that we would need to use those funds.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

In fact, in the money that I was raising I accounted for He's not going to be able to work so this is the money to take care of my family while I'm gone so I was already planning to see that it was not a hardship.

And up until recently I was not able to fully see how terrible what he had done was

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

You know I've been really thinking about that situation and honestly I really could not see how diabolical that was.

Because he knew he had to have known there was no way not to know. He knew that I was raising money to do this thing.

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

I've really been wanting to revisit the Opus comics. They were my favorites from way back then.

Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

I got into this last year and I couldn't go because my abusive ex-husband spent up all my money. So send my friend!

Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 2d

Art is resistance! A fave writer, Zin Rocklyn/teri clarke, hanging on by the shreds of her gums, just got into Under the Volcano. Everyone's going to benefit from this award storytelling growth and change, and here's their Kickstarter so we can put our money where our dreams are: gofund.me/35f5cb65e

Donate to Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey, organized by Teri Clarke

hello, all! my name is Teri Clarke and I write horror and dark fantasy under the… Teri Clarke needs your support for Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey

gofund.me

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Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I hadn't thought of him in years.