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Jan Stinchcomb
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Dark/Horror/Speculative Fiction
VERUSHKA is out now (JournalStone)
Stories in Gamut Magazine, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf
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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · Feb 3
Art is not frivolous or escapist. If you are making or consuming (or promoting) art, you don’t need to explain or apologize.
There’s a reason why fascists go after artists.
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"IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO THE DEAD"

I love this. @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in @poolpartymag.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The absolute pleasure of receiving hard copies on a cold Saturday.
5 copies of Paranoid Tree Press, Vol. 58, featuring my micro, Gang of Babies. There is a pair of pink and white baby feet against a dark background on the cover.
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The absolute pleasure of receiving hard copies on a cold Saturday.
5 copies of Paranoid Tree Press, Vol. 58, featuring my micro, Gang of Babies. There is a pair of pink and white baby feet against a dark background on the cover.
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Farewell to Frank Gehry. Visited his Santa Monica house in 2019. (Did a whole Gehry-LA tour)
Traditional house with Ghery add ons
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Full supermoon tonight: the Cold Moon, or my favorite, the Long Night Moon.
Waxing supermoon alongside evergreens in a light blue evening sky.
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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"The thrill of being on the inside of a secret works just as well as it did back in high school."
@acwise.bsky.social in The Dark Magazine
December 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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still true 📚
rokwon.bsky.social R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · Nov 11
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We just need a few more subscribers and we'll be able to raise our fiction payment rates in the new year. Help us out. We're so close!
Get more from Bourbon Penn on Patreon
creating a Weird Literary Journal
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December 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Out TODAY, or so I'm told.
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Jerks, all glowed up, out today (again) from @tortoisebooks.bsky.social

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December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Submittable will open for Gargoyle Online #13 submissions at 9pm today.
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Hey! This is available to preorder now. Coming 12/16:

I'm in here with a bunch of cool kids. You know what to do.
@brigidsgatepress.bsky.social 🖤

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Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane
Check out Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane - <em>A sprinkling of the </em><strong><em>macabre</em></strong><em>....</em></p></p><em>A dash of </em><strong><em>depravity</em></strong...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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"Last week, I thought the river was speaking to me."
@rebecca-turkewitz.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

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The Great Miss Valentina Speaks
Rebecca Turkewitz   Biddeford, Maine, 1855 I like the mill girls, but I do not like the mills, whose windows glow all night like rows of yellow cat eyes. The girls have come to this town of noise a…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Hey! This is available to preorder now. Coming 12/16:

I'm in here with a bunch of cool kids. You know what to do.
@brigidsgatepress.bsky.social 🖤

bookshop.org/p/books/pois...
Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane
Check out Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane - <em>A sprinkling of the </em><strong><em>macabre</em></strong><em>....</em></p></p><em>A dash of </em><strong><em>depravity</em></strong...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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"Last week, I thought the river was speaking to me."
@rebecca-turkewitz.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

pitheadchapel.com/the-great-mi...
The Great Miss Valentina Speaks
Rebecca Turkewitz   Biddeford, Maine, 1855 I like the mill girls, but I do not like the mills, whose windows glow all night like rows of yellow cat eyes. The girls have come to this town of noise a…
pitheadchapel.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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An excerpt from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) summing up the current situation:
November 22, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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If anybody's like a super go-getter and wants to look at my website for writing classes to take or give to your friends for christmas, instead of waiting for me to promote them individually in very annoying ways, here's a link:
Allison Wyss : teaching
Allison Wyss is a writer living in Minneapolis who teaches classes at Loft Literary Center and offers manuscript consultation services. Her short story collection, Splendid Anatomies (Veliz Books), wa...
www.allisonwyss.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Today is World AIDS Day.

“An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988.

#WAD2025
Graphic for World AIDS Day 2025 showing a Black woman standing on a higher red ledge reaching down to pull up a Black man on a lower red ledge, with the words ‘World AIDS Day | 2025’ on the bottom.
December 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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I only just heard about Daniel Woodrell. 💔

I love Winter’s Bone. I hate pancreatic cancer.
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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I only just heard about Daniel Woodrell. 💔

I love Winter’s Bone. I hate pancreatic cancer.
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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open for submissions! Please share with colleagues in French.
mlnjournal.bsky.social MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 7d
A reminder that we are open for submissions for our French issue-- deadline January 30. Articles in French or English.
Email [email protected] with any questions.
Please share with interested colleagues!
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I know everyone’s relieved that Mercury retrograde is over, but you need to play it cool for a few more days.
a skeleton dressed as a fairy with pink wings and a wand
Alt: a skeleton dressed as a fairy with pink wings and a wand
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November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Farewell to a modern great

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Russian prosecutors asking to have Pussy Riot officially declared an "extremist" organization.
From Pussy Riot's official facebook:
"Singing in the streets is not extremism. If telling the truth is extreme, then hold my Red Bull."
Three masked women in punky black dresses release neon-pink smoke into the air.
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?

We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM