Rusty Coffin Nails
@braegrosz.com
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She/They. Greyromantic. Aspiring bog body. Writer. You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.
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Hello, new followers! And old followers who like handy threads of links to boost!

I’m Rusty, pen name B. Rae Grosz (she/they), purveyor of sad, strange stories, true and fictional. I write about ghosts and other hauntings, often with folklore, fairytale, and/or gothic inspirations.

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ghost stories & other haunting tales
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You are the third person to recommend Finch to me. Is taking this as a sign the modern equivalent of augury?
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Are you a nerdy goth who likes hedgehogs? There’s a museum exhibit of a skull for that!
Museum exhibit of a small skull, labeled with a card that reads:

European Hedgehog 
(Skull) 
Erinaceus concolor 
Ward’s Articulation 
1892 circa
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I am trying, despite my knowledge that caffeine doesn’t seem to affect me unless taken with adderall, which I, alas, no longer have.
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Surely there’s a chance that today will be the day when I unlock the secret to doing things as quickly as I want to, rather than being forced to accept the constraints of time!
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I know that my plan to catch up on all the reading and all the writing I didn’t have time for while I was on vacation, while also getting laundry and other neglected chores done today is not realistic. Probably. But…
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I know that my plan to catch up on all the reading and all the writing I didn’t have time for while I was on vacation, while also getting laundry and other neglected chores done today is not realistic. Probably. But…
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I assembled a list of short films you can watch right now for free this Halloween. Scary, strange, surreal, and sometimes funny, this list includes live action, stop motion, and animated films from around the world and from filmmakers you've never heard of before
Some Strange Things You Should Watch for Halloween
20 short weird, scary, funny, and surreal films you can watch right now.
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All October, Atthis Arts is celebrating Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we hope you'll join us! We're going to start with a *spark*. This one is a must-read. Go get it. Incendiary by Gerald L. Coleman.
Incendiary: Poems & Essays
Poems & Essays
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I'm very suggestible and will point a camera at pretty much anything for pretty much anyone. I filmed a hedgehog for @romgothsam.bsky.social the other day because I saw the hedgehog and thought, "Sam will want to see the hedgehog!"
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I managed to get one gloomy photo of my own during my vacation this past week.
Where the creek meets the lake. The water is low from drought, leaving more rocks exposed along the shores than usual, but above, the sky is darkening as a much needed storm gathers.
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#AScareADay - October 5th - “The Kraken” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

This poem made me remember how, as a kid, I thought that there weren’t krakens and other giant sea monsters anymore, because too many of them died from getting tangled up with ships and injured or trapped by the wreckage.
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Day 5 of #AScareADay and it was a lovely little poem 'The Kraken' by Alfred Tennyson.

A short, sweet and sad one.

I did a little reading

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The Kraken by Alfred Tennyson (1830)
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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#AScareADay="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AScareADay – Day 5 – The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

#AScareADay - Day 5 - A short little poem today, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. For my creative response, I thought I would share a little short piece I wrote a while ago, called Sea Skins. It's not a kraken, but it's about bodies and changes,…
#AScareADay – Day 5 – The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#AScareADay - Day 5 - A short little poem today, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. For my creative response, I thought I would share a little short piece I wrote a while ago, called Sea Skins. It's not a kraken, but it's about bodies and changes, and the sea.
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from Faustina: A Fantasy of Autumn in the Heart of Appalachia (1888) by Frank Cowan

Please enjoy this poem about a slug
THE SLUG

With lengthening uligineity,
And tentacles protruding timidly,
A slow-paced slug approaches my right hand
Palm-pressed against a rotten tree-trunk—Ugh!
Before it touches me, I feel a chill
Anticipative in my blood and bones;
As if I felt in fact, from out a shroud,
The outstretched clammy finger of Decay!
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Newspapers tell of a hunchback peddler named Moses who disappeared in the Pennsylvania mountains. One of the last to see him was a young farmer's daughter. Years later, when she was grown and married, she moved into an old, abandoned log cabin. (1/2)

#PhantomsFriday
Clipping of headlines of newspaper article from The Morning Herald, Baltimore, Maryland, Sunday, December 6th:

SPIRIT OF MOSES

A Tale of a Farm-house in the Alleghenies

A Farmer Disturbed by Ghostly Visitations on Occupying a Mountain Homestead Near the Place Where the Old Hunchback Had Last Been Seen
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Ever wondered what stories are being told elsewhere? Help us raise funds to translate non-colonial African languages books into English!

https://ko-fi.com/africantranslationproject

You can check their art shop for my zine! You can even donate your own art to the shop! Any reblog helps too!
Image description: A book opens to blooming flowers. Text reads, "The African Translation Project. Donate money or a flash-scope creative piece to raise fund for global fiction and African voices", followed by the URL the post links to. The graphics is in the colors of the South African flag, which are black, green, red, yellow and white. Fern, various leaves and abstract graphics in soothing indigo, green and white. The text reads: "Slow growth, or 10 ways I cope. A zine on the subject of self-care", followed by the URL the image links to.
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For fans of vampires and werewolves and queer rage
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Autumn reading for people who want to be sad 🖤
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My third book of October will be The Faerie Hounds of York by @ardenpowell.bsky.social !
A copy of The Faerie Hounds of York sitting on a side table
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Thanks for the art share Davis!
Hi, I'm Liv, a woodcut printmaker and finalist for the Artist World Fantasy Award this year. All of my 2D art is sketched, hand-carved in wood, then inked and printed on my etching press. Sometimes I add color with watercolors, or gilding. #art #woodcut #printmaking
Vertical rectangular black ink woodcut print on cream colored paper. A lumpy humanoid figure is playing a flute perched upon a black rock. Bog plants grow around it and a black crescent moon is in the upper right corner. The creature has only 3 thick toes and fingers, no eyes, and the face terminates in tentacles around where the mouth must be. A vertical rectangular black ink woodcut on cream colored paper. A thick black border is filled with strange flora and fauna. The central scene is a goat-headed and footed figure cradling a monstrous infant. Both have gold halos behind their heads, and black tentacles emerge behind them. Two crustacean-like monsters perch on the cloud flanking them. The print is colored with watercolor, in greens, reds, orange, yellow, and purple. A vertical black ink woodcut print on off-white paper. This piece is in a style reminiscent of post-colonial Aztec manuscripts. A dog-like humanoid being holds a seated naked human in one hand, gestures with the other, and a florish emerges from its mouth, indicating speach. In the margins are cut up snakes, a scorpion, foot symbols, and two skulls flanking a moon symbol. A vertical rectangular black ink woodcut print on cream colored paper. The head of a lion shaped like a sun with many rays floats inside a stoppered bottle. Vines cradle the bottom of the round flask, and wings emerge near the neck of the vessel.
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#AScareADay="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AScareADay – Day 4 – The Buried Alive by John Galt

#AScareADay - Day 4 Today's short story is "The Buried Alive" by John Galt (1821). My response to it is an extract from an early novel featuring Katy Porter, which no longer makes canonical sense. But here's an extract!
#AScareADay – Day 4 – The Buried Alive by John Galt
#AScareADay - Day 4 Today's short story is "The Buried Alive" by John Galt (1821). My response to it is an extract from an early novel featuring Katy Porter, which no longer makes canonical sense. But here's an extract!
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It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!