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Cynthia Gómez

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2024 Ignyte nominee for "Lips Like Sugar." Member HWA. "The Nightmare Box and Other Stories" out now from cursedmorselspress.com. Stories in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Tree & Stone. Rep: Lauren Bajek. http://linktr.ee/cynthiasaysboo

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 4h

You can nominate all through the year. Feed the maw, friends.

Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 5h

HWA folks! Have you recommended others' work to the Recommended Reading list for the Bram Stoker Awards? Horror writers, have you submitted your own work to the juries? Here's how! You can even click through to the full rules if you're intrepid! www.thebramstokerawards.com/submissions/

Submissions – The Bram Stoker Awards

www.thebramstokerawards.com

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 9h

We?

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 9h

Chicagoans won nothing, because that restraining order will be ignored.

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 9h

Yes! This is how we figure out who our characters are, and how we build them.

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 11h

Right? One of the most emotionally significant scenes in Muñeca happened because I put a character in front of a door and I didn't know what they were going to do next. I had to ask myself: what would ___ do? And why?
The resulting scene is my single favorite scene in the book.

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 11h

Also really happy to see @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Teenage Girls Can Be Demons on this. I love a Hailey Piper short story; they are brainworms in all the best ways. (And, look, @kristinaten.bsky.social, you're there too!)

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 11h

Many thanks to the generous @lmanusos.bsky.social at Book Riot for spotlighting @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS as a 'knockout horror collection'.

bookriot.com/recent-upcom...

6 Recent & Upcoming Knockout Horror Short Story Collections

Dabble in the abuses of power that happen everyday, read about Halloween pranks going horribly wrong, and more

bookriot.com

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, I can't agree with Murrow on this one.

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 14h

They're not forming actual relationships, though. You can call them unhealthy obsessions, maybe. Toxic techno-addictions. Parasitic connections.

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 14h

I haven't even finished "Uncertain Sons" and it still fucked me up. I expect it will end up on a lot of lists.

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 14h

This includes a short review of Thomas Ha's 'Uncertain Sons';a round up of blog posts by both Real Life Ray and Work Ray; notes on wandering in London; and a reminder that you can buy my books directly from me.

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 23h

BLOG POST: Reading, thinking, doing October 2025.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 15h

Nobody has to stand during the National Anthem (also, this isn't that anthem.)

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 19h

Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters are freaking out after photos emerged of Super Bowl singer Bad Bunny sitting during “God Bless America” at a New York Yankees playoff game.

MAGA Melts Down as Bad Bunny Sits for ‘God Bless America’

The singer is causing anger among Republicans for his actions during a baseball game.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 15h

Also, nobody has to stand during the national anthem either.

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 15h

Humans aren't forming relationships with AI, any more than you can form a relationship with your calculator.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

I don't give a shit what they *say.*
I give a shit what they *do.*

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

These issues aren't imaginary tho.

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

Ha!

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

Not spamming strangers on the Internet; how are you?

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

Well, there's no news media any more, so they can do all the Kent States they want and nobody will hear about them.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

Most of the writing opportunities I've had.

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/cult-leader-...

Cult Leader Not Even Charismatic

NEW YORK—Baffled by the woman’s sway over her millions of acolytes, sources confirmed Monday that local cult leader Taylor Swift, 34, was not even charismatic. “Typically, the cult leaders I study are...

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

Also, Taylor Swift is a terrible lyricist.

I truly do not understand how she has the sway she has. She's mediocre and catchy; that's it.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

Hip-hop reached its apex in the 1990s, says I.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

Um.
What.

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

Bay Area folks! I'll be doing two readings this month:

*Friday 10/24, 7 p.m, Tally Ho! Books, Oakland

*Saturday 10/25, 6:30 p.m.: Latin American Club, San Francisco (part of LitCrawl).

I'd love to see some of your faces there. I'll be reading at least one completely new work.

Scary Stories by the Campfire | Tally Ho! Books

Oakland's newest queer and women owned independent bookstore

tallyhobookstore.com

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

We love to see it.

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Tommy Orange

Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.

www.macfound.org

Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations and happy book birthday to you!!

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