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Dave Serrette

@daveserrette.bsky.social

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Elementally destitute storyteller. I write stuff. Buy my books, I guess. Nobody wins unless we all win Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina

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Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · Jul 11

Hey #booksky. Do you like #horrorbooks about snuff films, 90s nostalgia, and human desperation? Then you should totally read my #novella. It's pretty okay.

Available in #paperback and #ebook (including #KindleUnlimited).

#indiewriters #indiehorror #indiebooks

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Picture Tube: A Novella

Amazon.com: Picture Tube: A Novella eBook : Serrette, Dave: Kindle Store

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Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 1d

He's just so damn proud of his baby girl and he wants everyone to know it. And that makes you have a better time too.

When Brooks and Dunn walk up on him sounding like a bad karaoke night, you can see the love and appreciation in his face. You can see the admiration. And it just makes you happy.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 1d

Babe Ruth let us see his success in a context that made us feel like he was one of us.

Posty? Yeah, he's the same. He's your drunk uncle who is just having way too much fun at your cousin's wedding. But you know what? He paid for the wedding. He gave everyone an open bar.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 1d

No one except baseball fans know who either of those guys were, yet everyone knows Babe Ruth. Why is that?

It's because the Great Bambino played baseball like any of us would have, stumbling to the plate full of hot dogs and beer, with a giant stupid grin and smashed them out of the park.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 1d

The appeal of Post Malone is the same as Babe Ruth.

Babe Ruth isn't a legend because he was a great ball player. Credit where credit is due, he objectively is among the best of all time. That said, the big comparisons are Walter Johnson's pitching record and Ted Williams's hitting stats.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 2d

I got my hot take:

I'm not informed enough to have a hot take on anything.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 3d

The modern world is severely lacking in nonsense minced oath interjections. Let's bring back "Jumping Jehoshaphat" and "Jiminy Christmas".

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 3d

If an entire industry can only exist through exploitation, maybe it isn't one that should exist at all. Crazy, I know.

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Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 3d

So we got Texas invading Illinois. I'm really not feeling very "United" at the moment.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 4d

Subjecting children to abuse is not speech, nor should it be covered by the freedoms there of.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 4d

Last day to submit to our FLESH zine! So long as it's the 7th somewhere on Earth, you're good to submit something. We got a WILD amount of submissions for this zine--more than we've had for any zine--so it might be a minute before we get back to you.
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Submission Calls

Open for submissions October 1st – 7th FLESH ZineFor this submission call, we’re looking for pieces (500 words or fewer) connected to the broad theme of FLESH. This zine will be include…

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Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 4d

But wouldn't it be refreshing if it did?

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 4d

Let's keep this manufactured outrage going and maybe we'll both boost in the algorithm.

Also, I tried way to hard to turn cishetpatriarchy into a spider pun, but it just wasn't coming.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 4d

Listen. I'm not saying *you* can't have a baked potato, or some lovely mash, but personally, when it comes beefsteak dinners *I* prefer the texture pairing of crispy fries.

Sometimes I like leek and potato soup. Especially in the fall. Sometimes the frites turn into home fries the next morning.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 4d

I spent the morning trying to think of a hot take for some engagement bait to boost my conversion percentage and translate potential to realized sales, but all I can really think about is steak frites.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 5d

Woah. I just wanted a haunted house, not hell on earth.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 10d

I'm almost 40 years old and I just learned that what I always called a tiba is actually a sousaphone and I'd never really paid attention to actual tubas before.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 13d

Another audiobook submitted for review. I never thought narration would.becpme a part of my literary career, but here we are.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 13d

Not me crying when I got to Tony Todd's last words in Bloodlines.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 14d

I really just want to plow through a box of pumpkin spice oatmeal cream pies. Take that how you will.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 15d

Would it be too on the nose to get my own book banned? I mean, really. What are you sickos thinking reading it?

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Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social · 18d

Do it

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Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 16d

Hot take: mismatched socks is a nightmare. I'll go barefoot before I wear two different socks.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 16d

Fuck that was a good sandwich.

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 16d

Alt-left, Alt-right, or Ctrl-Alt-Delete?

Dave Serrette @daveserrette.bsky.social · 16d

I like to spend my time walking around my yard picking up hickory nuts and tell myself I'm going to crack them and bake something. Right now I have a 5 gallon bucket that pairs really well with the banana graveyard in my freezer.

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