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R.L. Meza

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OUR LOVE WILL DEVOUR US. Spec fic in Clarkesworld, Nightmare. Painter. Gamer. 4 cats in a trench coat. Vegan. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (he,him) NO A I rlmeza.com

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · Jul 18

beat the heat with my screwed up family in OUR LOVE WILL DEVOUR US, a winter isolation horror novel about two mothers trying to save their children from the monster inside their daughter. come for the frostbite and cannibalism, stay to get your heart wrecked: darkmattermagazine.shop/products/our...

Our Love Will Devour Us

"A terrifying, twisted roller coaster of a book. From the first page to the last, R. L. Meza's gripping debut novel affirms a rising star in horror." —Noelle W. Ihli, author of Ask for Andrea "Genuine...

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 2d

Contract signed! Thrilled to announce that my flash fic, "Behold the Beholder," will appear in an upcoming issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly (@chmmagazine.bsky.social) 😱

It's a story that asks, What if you voyeured a god?

What if the god caught you? 🫦

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 57m

you too! (spidermen meme here) congratulations!!!

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 59m

thank youuu!

R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 2h

also, where is the opt-out to turn it off

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 7h

do a gay man silent hill

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 20h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 5h

happy birthday!

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 15h

For the PM people, and because I find this one hilarious 👻

⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 22h

Day 10, #hARToween25
Undead, Feeling Cute
😈🎨🦇

An illustration in gouache: a zombie stands in a graveyard at night, holding a severed arm that holds a phone, about to take a selfie

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 14h

thanks!

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thank you!

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Out next week! @gemmafiles.bsky.social's LITTLE HORN includes 14 dark short stories and novelettes, each with an accompanying original full-page illustration by the author.

Available in hardcover, paperback, and eBook!
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...

Cover art for LITTLE HORN shows the title spelled out in bound sticks on a dark dirt background. Natural bits of earth and nature are mixed in to the dirt. Gemma's author name appears in pumpkin orange with little horns incorporated into the serif typography.

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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 1d

When God closes a door He opens a window. This drives me NUTS. Terrible roommate. The electric bill is outrageous. There's a bird's nest in the bathroom

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 22h

This sounds rad.

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 20h

contract signed! “Baker’s Dozen” will be appearing in Cosmic Horror Monthly! A novice male nurse assists with multiple births on a remote island during a raging storm.

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 20h

day 69 … nice

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 1d

if I was in the blair witch project I would simply stay in bed

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday my Mental Health was a Xtra Small but today its up to a Boy's Medium

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 1d

gonna be floor to ceiling crybabies with nowhere to piss

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 1d

yes and

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

entire media & publishing industry is just the hell dimension from event horizon now. i'm sure it's fine.

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 1d

nice try, NOPE monster

drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 2d

if i had to see this today, so do you

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

The most important art advice possible

DannyAraya @dannyaraya.bsky.social · 2d

Creators, be less tasteful and more indulgent.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 2d

While I like some of the actors in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series, fuck all of them.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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