Scarina’s Vault
@scarinasvault.bsky.social
Licensed funeral director, writer, horror aficionado, photographer.
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Buried New Jersey: Underground Adventures in the Garden State
Have you ever seen a cemetery that made you want to pull your car over and explore? Do you get a thrill exploring an old cemetery? Let licensed funeral director, Janice L. Phillips, take you on a trip...
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My favorite untraditional Christmas songs are Fairytale of New York by The Pogues & Christmade Wrapping by The Waitresses.
My favorite traditional Christmas carol is O, Holy Night.
My favorite traditional Christmas carol is O, Holy Night.
December 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
My favorite untraditional Christmas songs are Fairytale of New York by The Pogues & Christmade Wrapping by The Waitresses.
My favorite traditional Christmas carol is O, Holy Night.
My favorite traditional Christmas carol is O, Holy Night.
I’m going to be honest, my mental state isn’t great right now. My psychiatrist has upped my meds & I have an assessment with an intensive outpatient program on Monday. I should be so happy right now. My book is out, something I’ve dreamed of since I was little, & I’m doing amazing at work.
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I’m going to be honest, my mental state isn’t great right now. My psychiatrist has upped my meds & I have an assessment with an intensive outpatient program on Monday. I should be so happy right now. My book is out, something I’ve dreamed of since I was little, & I’m doing amazing at work.
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Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
I’ve been up since 1 am with overnight death calls & my train home was packed. I was going to blow a gasket when this woman got on this unbelievably packed train with a chair. If you have chair money then you have Lyft money.
December 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I’ve been up since 1 am with overnight death calls & my train home was packed. I was going to blow a gasket when this woman got on this unbelievably packed train with a chair. If you have chair money then you have Lyft money.
My mom’s only flaw is that she doesn’t care for Star Wars.
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
My mom’s only flaw is that she doesn’t care for Star Wars.
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FYI for people who don't want to use Amazon, here it is on bookshop. It's on backorder too...but eventually it won't be and then they'd be supporting you AND indie/local bookstores.
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Buried New Jersey: Underground Adventures in the Garden State
Underground Adventures in the Garden State
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December 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
FYI for people who don't want to use Amazon, here it is on bookshop. It's on backorder too...but eventually it won't be and then they'd be supporting you AND indie/local bookstores.
bookshop.org/p/books/buri...
bookshop.org/p/books/buri...
BEHOLD MY WRAPPED.
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
BEHOLD MY WRAPPED.
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
Monmouth county, N.J., has a smug aura that it hasn’t earned.
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Monmouth county, N.J., has a smug aura that it hasn’t earned.
Thanks to tarlcabot25, I’m going to watch the broadcast diction of MST3K’s The Dead Talk Back. I love when an alarm blares and Mike and the bots are horrified.
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Thanks to tarlcabot25, I’m going to watch the broadcast diction of MST3K’s The Dead Talk Back. I love when an alarm blares and Mike and the bots are horrified.
I just checked, it’s still happening. Very funereal and harmonica heavy. Please play this for 2 hours when I die.
A radio station here in Minneapolis is stuck -
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December 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I just checked, it’s still happening. Very funereal and harmonica heavy. Please play this for 2 hours when I die.
Write a memoir about how you became a funeral director, I thought. It’ll be easier this time, no research.
Here my list of things to research:
-Paleolithic burial culture
-animals that mourn
-ancient Egyptian funerary culture
-Interview my mom about my past
Here my list of things to research:
-Paleolithic burial culture
-animals that mourn
-ancient Egyptian funerary culture
-Interview my mom about my past
December 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Write a memoir about how you became a funeral director, I thought. It’ll be easier this time, no research.
Here my list of things to research:
-Paleolithic burial culture
-animals that mourn
-ancient Egyptian funerary culture
-Interview my mom about my past
Here my list of things to research:
-Paleolithic burial culture
-animals that mourn
-ancient Egyptian funerary culture
-Interview my mom about my past
If you listen to Vecna’s monologue at the end of Stranger Things s4, you’ll notice some similarities with the Unabomber. I think they’d get along.
December 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
If you listen to Vecna’s monologue at the end of Stranger Things s4, you’ll notice some similarities with the Unabomber. I think they’d get along.
Day 4 of writing about writing. This blog post is about my editing process & why I cut certain cemeteries from my book. Editing my manuscript was harder than writing it.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Day 4 of writing about writing. This blog post is about my editing process & why I cut certain cemeteries from my book. Editing my manuscript was harder than writing it.
scarina.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/b...
scarina.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/b...
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“Enter Sandman” is certainly the most intense song ever written about taking a nap
December 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“Enter Sandman” is certainly the most intense song ever written about taking a nap
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Snow, rain, or shine - we're out here on the picket lines ☃️ It's DAY NINETEEN of our national ULP strike.
Our striking baristas in Rockford, IL are braving the weather to make sure Starbucks hears our demands loud an clear: stop union busting and settle a fair contract! #nocontractnocoffee
Our striking baristas in Rockford, IL are braving the weather to make sure Starbucks hears our demands loud an clear: stop union busting and settle a fair contract! #nocontractnocoffee
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Snow, rain, or shine - we're out here on the picket lines ☃️ It's DAY NINETEEN of our national ULP strike.
Our striking baristas in Rockford, IL are braving the weather to make sure Starbucks hears our demands loud an clear: stop union busting and settle a fair contract! #nocontractnocoffee
Our striking baristas in Rockford, IL are braving the weather to make sure Starbucks hears our demands loud an clear: stop union busting and settle a fair contract! #nocontractnocoffee
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I see people using AI and it makes me sad. I see people sending me AI and it makes me angry.
If you’re using AI to write your stories or create your art, you’re robbing yourself. I don’t have to let you rob me or Kaleidotrope’s readers.
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I see people using AI and it makes me sad. I see people sending me AI and it makes me angry.
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Yoooo this person wrote a book about graveyards in New Jersey, where I grew up and while I don't think I went to any graveyards there, fellow (at the time) teens were more brave and would hang out there, taking headstone rubbing and pics.
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My mom just told me her friend tried to buy my book on Amazon and it’s temporarily sold out. 🥹 Now I need a favor: if you bought my book it would be so helpful if you could leave a review. I don’t care if it’s Amazon, Goodreads or my publisher’s website. Let me tell you why this is important.
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Yoooo this person wrote a book about graveyards in New Jersey, where I grew up and while I don't think I went to any graveyards there, fellow (at the time) teens were more brave and would hang out there, taking headstone rubbing and pics.
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I’m off today so I’m ignoring all work texts. The only thing work related that I care about is that my Italian repatriation gets on that plane.
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I’m off today so I’m ignoring all work texts. The only thing work related that I care about is that my Italian repatriation gets on that plane.
A season of Buffy would be 22 regular length episodes long and it was just as narratively rich as Stranger Things, just saying…
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
A season of Buffy would be 22 regular length episodes long and it was just as narratively rich as Stranger Things, just saying…
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Please write book reviews for #indiaauthors after you read their books. It’s vital!
My mom just told me her friend tried to buy my book on Amazon and it’s temporarily sold out. 🥹 Now I need a favor: if you bought my book it would be so helpful if you could leave a review. I don’t care if it’s Amazon, Goodreads or my publisher’s website. Let me tell you why this is important.
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Please write book reviews for #indiaauthors after you read their books. It’s vital!
Happy birthday, Mark Twain. If he were still alive today I’m sure we’d all be terrified because he’d be 190 years old.
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Happy birthday, Mark Twain. If he were still alive today I’m sure we’d all be terrified because he’d be 190 years old.
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The Guardian interviewed Torgo
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The Guardian interviewed Torgo
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Yes
did David Lynch ever find that highway
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yes
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Y'all: Leave reviews. Leave honest reviews. It helps authors SO much.
My mom just told me her friend tried to buy my book on Amazon and it’s temporarily sold out. 🥹 Now I need a favor: if you bought my book it would be so helpful if you could leave a review. I don’t care if it’s Amazon, Goodreads or my publisher’s website. Let me tell you why this is important.
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Y'all: Leave reviews. Leave honest reviews. It helps authors SO much.