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Carrie-Edmund Laben
@carrielaben.com
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Debut novel A HAWK IN THE WOODS
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Me 'n Calvino
Carrie-Edmund the potato enby in a beige fuzzy cardigan, with Calvino the red-eyed marten rat on their shoulder.
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Thought about doing anything today but:
Carson the gray hooded rat. She has fallen asleep on my arm with her head tucked in the crook of my elbow, preventing me from doing the anything.
January 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Behold:
A hairless rat, Collins aka Peanut, wearing a crocheted green and white hat. She looks dubious. The image has been captioned "Rangers are fucking shite"
January 11, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Lies. She's right here.
Collins the hairless rat, wearing a tiny green and white crocheted hat and looking unimpressed.
January 10, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Baby update: 7 weeks old! In the wild (or the feeder bin) they might start breeding themselves, but they are still very much goofy kids. This is Neal Cassady Rat-Laben.
A half-grown black hooded rat sitting on the midsection of a faceless potato enby.
January 9, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Rats are comforting.
The hind end of Cervantes, a nearly 2 month old marten hooded rat (AMAB) who is sittingon my shoulder.
January 8, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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There is a Far Side caption that pops into my head frequently when I encounter something that baffling:
A Far Side cartoon in two panels. Top panel, a man is in bed thinking "I wonder if she knows I exist... Should I call her? Maybe she doesn't even know I exist? Well, maybe she does... I'll call her. No, wait!... I'm not sure if she knows I exist... Dang!" Bottom Panel, a woman is in bed thinking "You know, I think I really like vanilla." Caption at the bottom: Same planet, different worlds
January 7, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet(s).
Capote the blazed fawn Dumbo rat surrounded by baby hooded rats and looking rather pleased.
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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My father has finally achieved his true calling as Anarchist Dad.
A dark blue coffee mug that says Grandpas are dads without rules in white lettering
December 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Tiny Birding Nephew continues to amaze.
A black and white drawing captioned Brandt's Cormorant - Kruncle auntmend. It is in fact a very good drawing of a Brandt's cormorant standing on a rock.
December 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Ok this has to be one of the top 5 unfortunate uses of random quotation marks in history:
A screenshot: While in recovery, the first thing the cardiologist told us was that if Alex wanted to stay alive, he would have to eat as a cow does. At the the time, we couldn't fully process this statement due to the "utter" shock, but it stuck with us and we knew we would do whatever it took to keep Alex "alive".
December 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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On the first day of Christmas, @wordsandmusic.bsky.social gave to me...
The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore, paperback edition from the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult
December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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...and Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but did have to be covered in coconut oil...
A baby red-eyed marten hooded rat that has been coated with coconut oil and now looks a bit like a newborn chicken.
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long"

#ghostadvent, 27th and final night of 2025: Hamlet (Act 1 Scene 1, but all of it really) by @shakespeare.lol
A lit-up Christmas village set before a dark window.
December 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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"Born to raise the sons of Earth/born to give them second birth"
Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein in The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) surrounded by flasks of colored liquid, as one is.
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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"Natalie was lonely, and thirty years too late, I finally understand what loneliness means."

#ghostadvent Night 26: Most Likely To... (Class of 1997) by @acwise.bsky.social

www.thedarkmagazine.com/most-likely-...
A creek at sunset, with greenish water and bare trees.
December 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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"I want to reach beneath my skin and tear him out."

#ghostadvent Night 25: Man Spelt Backwards by Chi Pham

www.smokelong.com/stories/man-...
A classic creepy Kewpie doll in a red dress, sitting into dark wooden rocker draped with quilts.
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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"My heart is meat
and gristle, like Artaud’s: a simple
pump, it never falters."

#ghostadvent Night 24: Letter From a Haunted Room by Lisa Sewell

poets.org/poem/letter-...
Cervantes, a month-old red-eyed marten rat, being held by a potato enby hand with green glitter nail polish. He's hiding his nose under a finger.
December 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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"As ordered, I continued walking the path. I refused to think about what I was leaving behind."

#ghostadvent Night 23: Waystations Lost by @andrewkozma.net

www.seizethepress.com/2024/09/18/w...
A gray rosette of lichen on a gray tombstone.
December 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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"I don’t remember the hall being this big. I remember it being crammed with sticky bodies. Always so fiendishly hot."

#ghostadvent Night 22: Mrs. Charbury at Eltham by Max Porter

lithub.com/mrs-charbury...
Two zebra finches, one leucistic and one standard-colored, in a large glassed-in enclosure with a small section of tree trunk, ladder, nest box, dishes, etc.
December 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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"Her eyes to him must look like a pair of Christmas ornaments glinting in the dark, familiar but frightful."

#ghostadvent Night 21 - Saint Gremmy by @robertarjoyan.bsky.social

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A trail-cam image of a red fox in snowy woods.
December 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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A brown-lipped snail crawling on a stone marker. Like most terrestrial snails, the brown-lipped snail is hermaphroditic.
December 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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"When I dream of my sister gardening, her crops are not eaten by rabbits. The sunflowers grow taller than our fence, lush yellow leaves bursting outward from their upturned heads."

#ghostadvent Night 20 - Homegrown by Madeleine Vigneron

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Night sky with a variegated streak of cloud
December 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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"If I drove up this five-hundred-foot driveway, I would have a difficult time turning around, should I have to leave the house in a hurry."

#ghostadvent Night 19: The Return by the one, the only, the legendary @joycecaroloates.bsky.social

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Looking up at a thick and mostly green pine tree against a very blue sky.
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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"Pentagram diving was not unlike taking an LSD trip or performing a séance."

#ghostadvent Night 18: The Flaming Embusen by @tadethompson.bsky.social

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
A dramatically dark sky over residential Astoria, NY.
December 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM