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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle

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My short fiction collection SINKING, SINGING is available from Aqueduct Press. Work published in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Escape Pod, and Uncanny. she/her. gwynnegarfinkle.com

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hello to the new folks following me! I write novels, stories, and poetry (mostly speculative). My collection of short fiction, SINKING, SINGING, came out at the beginning of October. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/sink...

Sinking, Singing by Gwynne Garfinkle

I'm pleased to announce the release of Gwynne Garfinkle's wonderful new collection, Sinking, Singing. Aqueduct Press is publishing i...

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 5h

A Musical Indictment of the Cash-Bail System | “Criminal” | The New Yorker Documentary

YouTube video by The New Yorker

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 12h

I voted yes on Prop 50!

Round red, white and blue sticker saying I VOTED in different languages, with stars and stripes.

Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 16h

I can see them. I'm on my tablet's web browser.

Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 17h

KCOP-3 is showing Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes films all day. (Currently he is fighting Nazis, which seems all too apropos.)

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 20h

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 1d

Such a good film.

Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 1d

In which I write about an amazing discovery re: my dad's writing career (and, in particular, his early film I Bury the Living): gwynnega.dreamwidth.org/2160861.html

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 1d

I really like this poem!

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Mary Soon Lee @marysoonlee.bsky.social · 3d

On the poetry front, my poem "Andy Warhol's Many Cats" has just been published by Uppagus :-) 🐈🐈‍⬛🐾

uppagus.com/poems/soon-l...

For the curious
- first draft written 4/2019
- this draft written 2/2025
- rejected 8 times
- accepted in 58 days
- this is my 51st poem to appear in Uppagus!

✏️📖

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 1d

Just got an email from WaPo: "Start a conversation with Ask The Post AI." Wow, they really want to make sure I never uncancel my subscription, don't they?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Bookshop has free shipping today and tomorrow! It's a great time to pick up my latest, Wearing The Lion! (But only if you want to see Heracles adopting every monster in Ancient Greece.)

Wearing the Lion

Check out Wearing the Lion - <b>"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. <i>Wearing the Lion</i> establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantas...

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 1d

Happy book birthday!

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 1d

HEY IT'S MY BOOK BIRTHDAY

YESSSS

Cancer Eats the Heart is out in the world! Disabled, dying, and chronically ill turn to vampirism as a cure, only to be hunted by twisted vampire hunters for their bones

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Cancer Eats the Heart

For Nix, waging her own private war with multiple sclerosis, a haunted house and a cryptic drifter aren’t the strangest things she’s ever encountered. No, what unnerves Nix is the adole…

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 2d

REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books!

You can request a copy here:

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I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

Get an e-ARC of SONG OF SPORES!

This is for reviewers to request a copy (epub, pdf) of the weird trans, intersex space opera book Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, Broken Eye Books (upcoming Nov 4 2025). Please do not self-reject :) I ...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 2d

Yay, they're showing the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers at the Los Feliz 3! www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS - American Cinematheque

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 2d

My top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: Elvis Costello & The Attractions (14), Susan James (12), Talking Heads (11).

Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 3d

The Val Lewtons are a little too early (1940s), though I love them so much! But yes, giant ants and pod people and teenage werewolves!

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 3d

I did!

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 3d

About to see Frankenstein (1931) on a big screen for the first time. (I've seen it on small screens a zillion times.)

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 3d

The TV show has the energy of live theater, but the movies are really pretty.

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 3d

I met Lara Parker in grad school, and we became friends, which is the whole reason I got into Dark Shadows! I miss her a lot.

Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 3d

Night of Dark Shadows is maybe more successful as a movie, because it doesn't try to duplicate storylines from the soap. (Though a lot of footage got edited out.) It lacks Jonathan Frid but benefits from Lara Parker's dynamic presence.

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Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 3d

There is a gleeful element to House of Dark Shadows, in which Dan Curtis gets to kill off almost the entire cast of characters (something impossible to achieve on a soap opera). When I saw the film in a theater some years ago, someone booed when Barnabas got killed, and we all laughed.

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