Letitia Trent
@letitiatrent.bsky.social
#filmsky #poetry #mutantfam #booksky #Arkansas writer & film watcher. Pls pay me Criterion. Shirley Jackson Award nominee. Novel Summer Girls out from Haunted Doll House, July 2024. I write sometimes on Substack: https://letitiatrent.substack.com/
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Halloween watchlist w/my husband. Pinning it to the top so I don't forget.
1. The Exorcist (re-watch for me)
2. Talk to Me (new to both of us)
3. In the Mouth of Madness (re-watch for me)
4. Ugly Stepsister (new to both)
Also playing Call of Cthuhlu & Sinking City & Still Wakes The Deep
1. The Exorcist (re-watch for me)
2. Talk to Me (new to both of us)
3. In the Mouth of Madness (re-watch for me)
4. Ugly Stepsister (new to both)
Also playing Call of Cthuhlu & Sinking City & Still Wakes The Deep
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Congratulations to contributor @writerbrucej.bsky.social on the publication of LOVE, DIRT -- the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award with University of Iowa Press! buff.ly/Sf9Md1u
Love, Dirt
From the intimate confines of a Nebraska farmhouse to the bustling streets of South America, the characters of Love, Dirt traverse uneasy spaces in search of human connection. A closeted teen on a…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Congratulations to contributor @writerbrucej.bsky.social on the publication of LOVE, DIRT -- the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award with University of Iowa Press! buff.ly/Sf9Md1u
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“The memory of my own voice would come back to me, the way I’d hurled it around: my father, my father, my father.”
Read Mimi Diamond’s Issue Sixteen story, online today:
www.thedriftmag.com/good-health/
Read Mimi Diamond’s Issue Sixteen story, online today:
www.thedriftmag.com/good-health/
Good Health
Fiction
www.thedriftmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“The memory of my own voice would come back to me, the way I’d hurled it around: my father, my father, my father.”
Read Mimi Diamond’s Issue Sixteen story, online today:
www.thedriftmag.com/good-health/
Read Mimi Diamond’s Issue Sixteen story, online today:
www.thedriftmag.com/good-health/
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Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. (...) The things we can accomplish together are, by definition, within our sphere of control, even if we have to act through structures that are bigger than any of us alone to achieve them.
By @erikmbaker
By @erikmbaker
“To imagine yourself as a modern-day Seneca, a sage liberated from the cares afflicting more ordinary souls, is its own form of self-indulgence,” @erikmbaker.bsky.social argues in his Issue Sixteen essay on self-help philosophy.
www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Shitty Life
Self-Help Gets Philosophical
www.thedriftmag.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. (...) The things we can accomplish together are, by definition, within our sphere of control, even if we have to act through structures that are bigger than any of us alone to achieve them.
By @erikmbaker
By @erikmbaker
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Whoah, cool:
THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @sgj.bsky.social makes it onto Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025!
"Jones’ chilling vampire Western is a retribution-fueled nightmare for readers with iron guts." Congratulations, Stephen and @sagapressbooks.bsky.social!
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"Jones’ chilling vampire Western is a retribution-fueled nightmare for readers with iron guts." Congratulations, Stephen and @sagapressbooks.bsky.social!
time.com/collections/...
'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Whoah, cool:
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Wonderful BBC archive clip about black magic in Norfolk in 1964 - soot-blackened sheep’s hearts, weird effigies, and isolated fenland villages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
1964: A Curious Case of Black Magic in Norfolk | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Wonderful BBC archive clip about black magic in Norfolk in 1964 - soot-blackened sheep’s hearts, weird effigies, and isolated fenland villages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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“Think dog as hygrometer calibrated for storm-turn, dog as live wire volta.”
Just a beauty of a review this morning by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza of Catherine Rockwood’s chapbook DOGWITCH, new from Bottlecap Press (2025).
@martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social
Just a beauty of a review this morning by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza of Catherine Rockwood’s chapbook DOGWITCH, new from Bottlecap Press (2025).
@martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social
Howl It So: A Review of Catherine Rockwood’s Dogwitch by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood (Bottlecap Press, 2025). 28 pages. $10 Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood (Bottlecap Press, 2025) As family lore goes, I was a little girl who required an extensive colle…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“Think dog as hygrometer calibrated for storm-turn, dog as live wire volta.”
Just a beauty of a review this morning by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza of Catherine Rockwood’s chapbook DOGWITCH, new from Bottlecap Press (2025).
@martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social
Just a beauty of a review this morning by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza of Catherine Rockwood’s chapbook DOGWITCH, new from Bottlecap Press (2025).
@martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social
📽️The Materialists is so tonally weird that I am almost hypnotized. Dakota Johnson makes me think of Keanu Reeves sometimes. Sometimes compelling to watch but almost never speaking in a way that seems spontaneous or human.
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
📽️The Materialists is so tonally weird that I am almost hypnotized. Dakota Johnson makes me think of Keanu Reeves sometimes. Sometimes compelling to watch but almost never speaking in a way that seems spontaneous or human.
Terrible CG in It: Welcome to Derry is puzzling. The 1st ep was ruined for me w/the flying bat baby thing. I liked ep 2 much better, & then 3 has that graveyard scene. I like the kids. I love the intro, and I can ignore the military stuff. But the CG & occasionally the script confuse me w/badness.
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Terrible CG in It: Welcome to Derry is puzzling. The 1st ep was ruined for me w/the flying bat baby thing. I liked ep 2 much better, & then 3 has that graveyard scene. I like the kids. I love the intro, and I can ignore the military stuff. But the CG & occasionally the script confuse me w/badness.
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An illegal street racer pulled up to me in Malta & threw This House of Grief at me, shouting, "Read it, you English dolt!" Then screeched off. This is a terrible way to get me to read anything but I picked it up from where it had ricocheted off a now dead pigeon and devoured it in 2 days. Brilliant.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
An illegal street racer pulled up to me in Malta & threw This House of Grief at me, shouting, "Read it, you English dolt!" Then screeched off. This is a terrible way to get me to read anything but I picked it up from where it had ricocheted off a now dead pigeon and devoured it in 2 days. Brilliant.
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Oh, I loved Tom Piccirilli's A Choir of Ill Children so much!
In the American South, writes Elizabeth Broadbent, "[t]he past is our wound, and the past is our anchor." Here are five Southern Gothic stories that explore generational trauma and inescapable connections to the past.
Five Southern Gothic Books about Generational Trauma That You (Probably) Haven’t Read - Reactor
Families grappling with ancestral sin and the crimes of the past
reactormag.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Oh, I loved Tom Piccirilli's A Choir of Ill Children so much!
New Gemma Files!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New Gemma Files!!!!
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Pilot just came on to say it’s his last flight ever and he’s retiring. Come on man don’t say that to me. Don’t tell me that right now.
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Pilot just came on to say it’s his last flight ever and he’s retiring. Come on man don’t say that to me. Don’t tell me that right now.
Absolutely delighted to have a couple of poems in this lush, perfect collection of poems from Luna Luna, thank u @lisamariebasile.bsky.social for including them!
www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-...
www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-...
'To not want is death' — poetry by Letitia Trent
Taking a Picture of the Waxing Gibbous Moon with My Shitty Phone I tried to forget this poem the entire walk, to let the lines go and focus on the meaty slap of my sandals against the pavement, th...
www.lunalunamagazine.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Absolutely delighted to have a couple of poems in this lush, perfect collection of poems from Luna Luna, thank u @lisamariebasile.bsky.social for including them!
www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-...
www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Thrilled to be featuring your story today, Karen. Thank you for sending it our way @karenschauber.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity
Delighted to have my #flashfiction “MLS Listing” published today at @fictivedream.bsky.social. Many thanks to Editor, Laura Black.
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#shortfiction #flashlit
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#shortfiction #flashlit
MLS Listing
by Karen Schauber WE WOULD RENDEZVOUS at palatial homes cantilevered high over the Pacific Ocean. Private residences with long rectangular vanishing-edge swimming pools, lagoon-style grottos, each …
fictivedream.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thrilled to be featuring your story today, Karen. Thank you for sending it our way @karenschauber.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity
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Gish Jen’s Bad Bad Girl, Virginia Giuffre’s Nobody’s Girl, and Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Gish Jen, Virginia Giuffre, Claire-Louise Bennett, and more
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October 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Gish Jen’s Bad Bad Girl, Virginia Giuffre’s Nobody’s Girl, and Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.
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"The Night Soil Salvagers no longer need to perform the service they have provided."
We're looking back at short fiction published at Reactor–today's let's revisit "The Night Soil Salvagers" by Gregory Norman Bossert, edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
We're looking back at short fiction published at Reactor–today's let's revisit "The Night Soil Salvagers" by Gregory Norman Bossert, edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
The Night Soil Salvagers - Reactor
The Night Soil Salvagers no longer need to perform the service they have provided for longer than memory can account for. Instead, they pass the nights in playful and profound acts of artistry, music,...
reactormag.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"The Night Soil Salvagers no longer need to perform the service they have provided."
We're looking back at short fiction published at Reactor–today's let's revisit "The Night Soil Salvagers" by Gregory Norman Bossert, edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
We're looking back at short fiction published at Reactor–today's let's revisit "The Night Soil Salvagers" by Gregory Norman Bossert, edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
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Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
📽️Watched The Exorcist with my husband last night & he loved it despite the Southern Baptist devil trauma. He was surprised at how beautiful and intentionally-paced it was. I wonder if I can get him to watch Sorcerer w/me. That was my real spooky season kickoff.
October 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
📽️Watched The Exorcist with my husband last night & he loved it despite the Southern Baptist devil trauma. He was surprised at how beautiful and intentionally-paced it was. I wonder if I can get him to watch Sorcerer w/me. That was my real spooky season kickoff.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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For not having any lines she’s very charismatic in this performance so far. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam
October 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
For not having any lines she’s very charismatic in this performance so far. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam
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October 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM