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Jan Stinchcomb
@janstinchcomb.bsky.social
Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.)
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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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GOOD NEWS. My novel--a retelling of Hansel & Gretel in which the parents are addicted to opioids--originally titled Abandon & now titled A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR, will be published by Cornerstone Press (Univ. of Wisconsin) in February 2028.
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.

i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.

thank you. thank you.
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Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
StandWithMinnesota.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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For the first time since this kind of astonishing list came out, we're open for subs. Don't know how long it will last.

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January 25, 2026 at 5:40 PM
the united states of sleepless nights
January 25, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Three from me in @wigleaf.bsky.social 🖤
January 24, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Because I know you need a poem for dealing with hurt right about now.
@pdforan.bsky.social
I have a tiny thing in Issue 4 of Poems for Tomorrow (scrolling required). Thanks, editors, for giving it a place to live.

poems4tomorrow.wixsite.com/poems-for-to...
January 24, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Absolutely disgusting.
NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207

7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez

One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
January 22, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!
January 22, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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You might not know you need a coming-of-age story that's also a reflection on the cult classic film JENNIFER'S BODY, but you should NOT miss "Jennifer's Daughter" by Sara S. Messenger, up for free at Nightmare Mag:
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/jenn...
Jennifer’s Daughter - Nightmare Magazine
My mom was sixteen when a band of boys took her out to the woods and bound her to a tree and tortured her to death, like in Jennifer’s Body, so you see her womb was kinda already out of commish by the...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Women in Horror month is coming up, and here at Timber Ghost we'd love to highlight some amazing women. If you are a woman involved in the horror industry at all and would like to be featured in an interview on our website in March, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know.
January 22, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I missed this one when I took my brief holiday break. Fortunately it’s evergreen.
My latest comic breaking down the “generosity” of billionaires is live! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-genero...
January 22, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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Mark your calendars or drop a silver dollar in the swamp so the chronotoads whisper a reminder to you while you sleep.
January 21, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Every once in a while, a poem lands with you at just the right time.

Thanks to @ewam72.bsky.social & @cutandplaced.bsky.social for sharing the beauty and pain of this imagined—but all too real—Rockwellian scene with us. 🩵❤️

Read the full issue: paranoidtree.com/read/vol-61
January 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Get your body horror here!
A Word of Caution Before Your Tonsil Surgery by Ági Bori

maudlinhouse.net/a-word-of-ca...
January 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A girl can still hope.
January 21, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for Fiction!
January 20, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Peace.
January 20, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it" — Martin Luther King Jr

#martinlutherking #mlk #mlkday2025
January 19, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity"

Remembering #EdgarAllanPoe, born 19 January 1809.
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 AM
"She bet the tourists weren't too happy hearing all the locals hanging out in front of their hotel, having a good time, definitely not being good little Hawaiians."
Melissa Llanes Brownlee, Bitter Over Sweet

#SundaySentence
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January 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Love Lethal, Death Divine is on NetGalley.
Request if you want dark fantasy with a touch of romance, Slavic folklore and political intrigue.
January 18, 2026 at 9:45 AM