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Anthony Roberts
@anthonyhroberts.bsky.social
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A Writer of Dark Fiction, Book Fiend, Evil Cat Lover, Proud Tsalagi in Aotearoa New Zealand, Native Voices, Dystopian Vibes, Poe, Wells, Jackson, Matheson, King. Follow me, I’m old school horrific. DMs iffy. 🪶🖤🔪🐈‍⬛🦇🪓🐀📚 www.anthonyhrobertsauthor.com
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 13h
I have a story in Aurealis, Australia's Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine. (Issue #182) "Land of the Long Black Cloud" is set in Wellington, NZ, 160 years from now. This Oklahoma Cherokee never imagined he'd be writing down-under SciFi. "God is Change." O. Butler aurealis.com.au/store/aureal...
Aurealis #182 — Aurealis
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 10h
In my story, societal collapse has occurred in Aotearoa NZ. Power dynamics have shifted to those people whose societal norms pre-collapse were community-based rather than capitalist-individualist. And there’s some mysterious tech involved. 🤙🏽
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 12h
So they knew - they knew all along! (Cheers) #wisdomofthematriarch
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 12h
Questions from an Elder: As I get older, I drift more deeply into serious and stupid questions. Why was washing behind my ears so important to my mother and grandmother? I feel that key matriarchal information was withheld. The truth is out there. Enlighten me.
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a purple sky with the words the truth is out there written on it
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 13h
I have a story in Aurealis, Australia's Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine. (Issue #182) "Land of the Long Black Cloud" is set in Wellington, NZ, 160 years from now. This Oklahoma Cherokee never imagined he'd be writing down-under SciFi. "God is Change." O. Butler aurealis.com.au/store/aureal...
Aurealis #182 — Aurealis
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 3d
I didn't know it until the very end at the Author's credits section though I did think to myself when I got to his story, "Nah, I can't be THAT Wayne Brady. It's a common enough name - this ain't the King of Improv Wayne jumping head first into THE STAND."
Fun stuff.
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 3d
Finished “The End Of The World As We Know It” and want to do two things immediately (see image). I’ll return to this anthology for many rereads. And Wayne Brady… can’t be that Wayne Brady? Laws yes. 🖤💙📚😱 #constantreader #shortstories #darkfiction @briankeene.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 3d
Another free spirit departs this mortal realm. Goodbye Diane Keaton.
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 4d
It was a great day to go to the mailbox. #shirleyjackson #anthology #darkfiction #favouriteauthors #shortstories 💙📚🖤 @datlow.bsky.social
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 4d
My mother was Tsalagi and my father was Irish American (hard drinking). Their marriage was rocky and ended in an ugly divorce. I grew up feeling of two worlds but an outlier to both. It took me many years to realise that I was the dream of my ancestors and that they were always beside me.
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 4d
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 5d
In these lousy no-good times, you gotta hold on to the little things that bring you joy. I love crisps and they love me back. 🥔 #heartfelt #potatolove
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 7d
#PoemOfTheDay Poe’s ‘Annabelle Lee’. The first poem I ever read as a wee lad.
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea 🖤💙📚 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/...
Annabel Lee
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be lo...
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 8d
MEGA Church = MEGA Creep. It’s kind of a ‘chicken and the egg’ thing. And two words that should always trigger you to hide your children - ‘Traveling Evangelist’. Under his eye. 👁️ #gilead #pedopreacher #creeper edition.cnn.com/2025/10/02/u...
Texas megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges | CNN
The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts of lewd and indecent a...
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SpecFicNZ @specficnz.bsky.social · 9d
Check out the podcast here: lnk.bio/flametreepod...

Congratulations, Anne Wilkins!

#scifishortstory #membersuccess #scifipodcast #congrats #specficnz
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 11d
There are moments of my life that haunt me. I ask myself, "How could you have been so shitty to [insert that undeserving person]. The poet, Garbielle Calvocoressi, says 'It’s okay to feel horribly ashamed. Best not to look away." #poetry #poemoftheday
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Karma Affirmation Cistern Don’t Be Afraid Keep Going Toward the Horror
Life can be like that all the time if you let it. Remember all the balance beams and the room full of stuffed animals at the children’s hospital? When you learned it’s okay to hold out your hand and h...
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 11d
In the elder times you'd carry your dog-eared, beat to shit, horror/scifi novels around in your back pocket. Portable reading from back in the daze.
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Dan Eady Author @handle.invalid · 15d
If anyone is curious about New Zealand horror (beyond Peter Jackson’s early films) a friend of mine has collated a list of NZ based horror authors and artists to celebrate and share this October

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Tear into some New Zealand Horror Books this October
This October, we will be showcasing New Zealand horror writers and cover artists on social media and beyond. We invite authors, cover artists, and readers to share their favourite NZ horror books and ...
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 12d
…described by music critic Malcolm Jack as "slow, repetitive, three-chord drone-rock jams, sung in a voice so drawling and ragged that Parks sounds like she’s been gargling bong water" Shit, that sounds like a critic’s slam but I’m say, “Praise Be. Let the girl get her groove on.”
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 12d
Weed wacking to Tess Parks under a weary Wellington sky. Is their a clan for Elder NDNs still hippie-ing past 60? Or is it just all of us? #vibes #thegroove #lowfi #pyschedelic 🪶🙌🏾🧠🫀👁️https://youtu.be/k_-hFR46b0w?si=xA8OYtbRwJ5V-N7O
TESS PARKS - HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOREVER (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
YouTube video by Tess Parks
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 12d
Have you read Carmen Maria Machado’s excellent short story ‘“The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror”? It dives right into Hitch’s sadism creep factor though it centers around ‘Psycho’. I did a pilgrimage to Bodega Bay once. Gulls everywhere, miserable weather, perfect. 🖤
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12d
From her lifetime of pioneering work with chimpanzees to her
tireless advocacy for the environment...

Jane Goodall was a one-of-a-kind treasure to the world!

I was lucky enough to be able to thank her personally when our paths crossed not long ago.

Thanks again, Ms. Goodall. You will be missed. ♥️
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 13d
When we lived in Big Island Hawaii, my Kiwi partner settled for Vegemite, but once we moved to her homeland, it was Marmite all day all night. 🖤 #beingkiwi #aotearoa 🇳🇿 #breakfast
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 14d
Never been much of a sports follower. Didn't get it. Then I married a Kiwi. Then I moved to Aotearoa. Then my wife indoctrinated me: All Blacks. Black Ferns. Bleed black. The Ferns earned a bronze at the recent World Cup, but damn, the power, heart, and grace of these warrior women. 🖤🖤🖤
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 15d
Family, the saw is
a silhouette of a person dancing in front of a fire with makeagif.com at the bottom of the screen
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Anthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 19d
@bevvincent.bsky.social Lifelong constant reader. My family can't buy me King books because they never know what I've read and what I haven't. Santa brought me your book last Christmas. Thanks for the hard work of putting it together. I enjoy leaving it on the coffee table for visitors to peruse. 🖤
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