S.H. Mansouri
@shmansouri.bsky.social
Punches keys and hopes for clarity. Never wanted water once.
Best experience I had publishing a story was with @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
The editor of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social once said this:
"...don't bend your own style so far that it saps the individuality that your voice in my opinion has. A vivid and unique sense of voice to me is a rare and precious thing, that makes a writer's fiction come alive."
That's stuck with me.
"...don't bend your own style so far that it saps the individuality that your voice in my opinion has. A vivid and unique sense of voice to me is a rare and precious thing, that makes a writer's fiction come alive."
That's stuck with me.
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Best experience I had publishing a story was with @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
Worst thing about moving is finding another comic shop
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Worst thing about moving is finding another comic shop
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Do I think Satan has some good ideas? Yes. But do I “worship” him? Yes
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Do I think Satan has some good ideas? Yes. But do I “worship” him? Yes
Thinking ST season 5’s gonna have a ‘Luke, I’m your father’ moment.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Thinking ST season 5’s gonna have a ‘Luke, I’m your father’ moment.
That Kevin Hart thing on Netflix had me in tears.
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
That Kevin Hart thing on Netflix had me in tears.
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"Woman Like Stone Like Water" is my pleistocene ghost story in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, but nobody's yet invented ghosts or mysteries so it isn't very scary
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Woman Like Stone Like Water by Malda Marlys
The stranger turned at the noise she was making and stared at her rather rudely. (Did plains people not train their children properly?) He didn’t quite seem able to stand, but he scooted away from her...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Woman Like Stone Like Water" is my pleistocene ghost story in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, but nobody's yet invented ghosts or mysteries so it isn't very scary
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
Pacing, editing, camerawork, whatever you call it, Magnolia & Requiem to a Dream gave me major anxiety. Watched Friendship last night and it did the same thing. I’ll pin it down someday.
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Pacing, editing, camerawork, whatever you call it, Magnolia & Requiem to a Dream gave me major anxiety. Watched Friendship last night and it did the same thing. I’ll pin it down someday.
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Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks is an outstanding deep dive into five of Stephen King’s most iconic early works.
@carolinebicks.bsky.social
@carolinebicks.bsky.social
Monsters in the Archives Review: Inside King's Nightmares
Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks is an outstanding deep dive into five of Stephen King’s most iconic early works.
capesandtights.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks is an outstanding deep dive into five of Stephen King’s most iconic early works.
@carolinebicks.bsky.social
@carolinebicks.bsky.social
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Come join me this coming Monday, November 24th, for my exclusive LA appearance — the launch of ONLY WAY OUT, already an instant Amazon bestseller. I’ll be chatting with Liska Jacobs, which will be awesome. Come visit!
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Come join me this coming Monday, November 24th, for my exclusive LA appearance — the launch of ONLY WAY OUT, already an instant Amazon bestseller. I’ll be chatting with Liska Jacobs, which will be awesome. Come visit!
How can 90% of fantasy characters on tv have British accents? Makes zero sense.
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
How can 90% of fantasy characters on tv have British accents? Makes zero sense.
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Oh hey, I have a new short story coming soon in the Final Curtain anthology, tales about The Phantom of the Opera! Mine’s called “Now We Sing the Killing Song” and if you’ve been keeping up with my western monster stories, this is one of them!
www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...
www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...
Final Curtain | Lethe Press
edited by Steve Berman A mysterious dirge in human form, Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera is both man and monster, the villain of one of the more famous novels of the early 20th century. Fittingly...
www.lethepressbooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Oh hey, I have a new short story coming soon in the Final Curtain anthology, tales about The Phantom of the Opera! Mine’s called “Now We Sing the Killing Song” and if you’ve been keeping up with my western monster stories, this is one of them!
www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...
www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...
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Hey hey!
Do you love Elden Ring, Bloodborne, or Dark Souls and wish someone would write a weird quiet horror story paying homage to the occult in said videogames???
If that’s the case, you need to check out my new story over at @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
Do you love Elden Ring, Bloodborne, or Dark Souls and wish someone would write a weird quiet horror story paying homage to the occult in said videogames???
If that’s the case, you need to check out my new story over at @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
For When the Night is Behind You and the Depths are Ahead by Corey Farrenkopf
We stood in front of the video game store for the midnight release of Castles Underground III. The crowd wore different homemade versions of the crimson armor featured on the posters, foam swords surp...
www.3lobedmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hey hey!
Do you love Elden Ring, Bloodborne, or Dark Souls and wish someone would write a weird quiet horror story paying homage to the occult in said videogames???
If that’s the case, you need to check out my new story over at @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
Do you love Elden Ring, Bloodborne, or Dark Souls and wish someone would write a weird quiet horror story paying homage to the occult in said videogames???
If that’s the case, you need to check out my new story over at @3lobedmag.com!!!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...
@sgj.bsky.social great ‘where are we and what are we watching?’ story. Was in the dark until I found the ‘inverted chalice’ thing, four walls and a flap, then it all opened up.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
The Porniest Porn in Porntown - Lightspeed Magazine
The woman’s name was lost in The Fall, as was so much else we once thought vital—seasons, rivers, uncharred air—but her image persists, has become indelible. The giant wall of white upon which her tra...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@sgj.bsky.social great ‘where are we and what are we watching?’ story. Was in the dark until I found the ‘inverted chalice’ thing, four walls and a flap, then it all opened up.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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I'll be doing an online workshop on character creation and development for Blue Stoop on December 7th! Interested? Register and pay here: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/nk...
Finding the Heart of Your Story, a masterclass with N.K. Jemisin — Blue Stoop
Building a character is building a world of one; defining them, shaping them, and changing them is what a story is for. In this craft-first virtual masterclass, award winning author N. K. Jemisin will...
www.bluestoop.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'll be doing an online workshop on character creation and development for Blue Stoop on December 7th! Interested? Register and pay here: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/nk...
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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We asked you to decapitate some eggs and you did not fail us:
ghoulish.rip/we-asked-you...
@garbagesauce.bsky.social @gustavblack.bsky.social @neverendingkory.bsky.social @shmansouri.bsky.social @stovensky.bsky.social @bemandy.bsky.social
ghoulish.rip/we-asked-you...
@garbagesauce.bsky.social @gustavblack.bsky.social @neverendingkory.bsky.social @shmansouri.bsky.social @stovensky.bsky.social @bemandy.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We asked you to decapitate some eggs and you did not fail us:
ghoulish.rip/we-asked-you...
@garbagesauce.bsky.social @gustavblack.bsky.social @neverendingkory.bsky.social @shmansouri.bsky.social @stovensky.bsky.social @bemandy.bsky.social
ghoulish.rip/we-asked-you...
@garbagesauce.bsky.social @gustavblack.bsky.social @neverendingkory.bsky.social @shmansouri.bsky.social @stovensky.bsky.social @bemandy.bsky.social
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Books with Pictures is an irreplaceable part of the comics community! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help.
I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
www.gofundme.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Books with Pictures is an irreplaceable part of the comics community! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
The joy of what’s been finished far outweighs what hasn’t, but man, I’d really love to read that third Kvothe installment.
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The joy of what’s been finished far outweighs what hasn’t, but man, I’d really love to read that third Kvothe installment.
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Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
Baffled by how all these farmhouses for rent don’t allow pets
November 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Baffled by how all these farmhouses for rent don’t allow pets
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Catch me on the newest episode of The Patrick Scott Patterson Project this Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts.
@originalpsp.bsky.social and I were actually nemeses in our pro-wrestling days (he once dropped a metal shopping cart on me) so we had a lot to talk about.
Please spread the word!
@originalpsp.bsky.social and I were actually nemeses in our pro-wrestling days (he once dropped a metal shopping cart on me) so we had a lot to talk about.
Please spread the word!
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Catch me on the newest episode of The Patrick Scott Patterson Project this Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts.
@originalpsp.bsky.social and I were actually nemeses in our pro-wrestling days (he once dropped a metal shopping cart on me) so we had a lot to talk about.
Please spread the word!
@originalpsp.bsky.social and I were actually nemeses in our pro-wrestling days (he once dropped a metal shopping cart on me) so we had a lot to talk about.
Please spread the word!
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Hobbes is real and this is genius at work.
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Hobbes is real and this is genius at work.
All Her Fault on peacock? Pretty good, cliffhangers galore, didn’t see that coming.
November 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
All Her Fault on peacock? Pretty good, cliffhangers galore, didn’t see that coming.
If I had to fight a punctuation mark it’d definitely be the hyphen.
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If I had to fight a punctuation mark it’d definitely be the hyphen.