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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 45m

Tis the season :)

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 52m

And a huge thank you to Okay Donkey for publishing this spooky little story. A dream publication.

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 1d

ICYMI: "Door in the Woods," flash fiction by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social:

Door in the Woods by Chris Scott

Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…

okaydonkeymag.com

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 1h

I've have the incredible luck of getting a few things published over the past week, just how the calendar works sometimes. Thank you for bearing with all the self-promotion routine, and for reading my short fiction. I really, really appreciate it. And I love you.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 1h

Gather round the campfire and let me tell you a scary story about scary stories, at @mrbullbull.bsky.social. Big thanks to @thedrevlow.bsky.social for publishing this, and to *you* for reading it. Happy camping! mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

“I’m not losing my mind, right? This guy was not in the picture we took.”
“Who the hell is he?” They’re squinting hard in the dark. He just looks like another one of them, to put it plainly. Like he could have been a fourth roommate. But there was no fourth roommate. It was always just the three of them.
“I have absolutely no memory of this dude. I’ve never seen him before in my life.”

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 3h

Good. That’s actually the only reason I’m going

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 3h

Ah man this is so so fun, from the one and only @burialmagazine.bsky.social

HAD @havehashad.com · 7h

sound the alarms, we got new Z.H. Gill!!

"My friend DJs at this bar called Okay? Not that I know this for certain—it’s what she tells me, I mean, she speaks of it constantly, of ‘[her] night,’ though I have never been to see her perform..."

https://www.havehashad.com/opbd0

Okay? by Z.H. Gill

My friend DJs at this bar called Okay? Not that I know this for certain—it’s what she tells me, I mean, she speaks of it constantly, of ‘[her] night,’ though I have never been to see her perform and,…

www.havehashad.com

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 4h

Managed to snag a Nine Inch Nails ticket in DC. Everything is going well in my life and nothing bad will ever happen to me.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 5h

So was Icarus!

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 13h

"Everything is exactly how they remember it: Three 21-year-old shitheads, disheveled with bad haircuts, ratty clothes, ugly macho postures. Except there’s a fourth guy this time, in between them, his arms hung around their shoulders." @iamchrisscott.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social · 12h

@iamchrisscott.bsky.social has a very fun and season appropriate spooky campfire story for you today.

Also, I just realized campfire rhymes with vampire.

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 13h

"Everything is exactly how they remember it: Three 21-year-old shitheads, disheveled with bad haircuts, ratty clothes, ugly macho postures. Except there’s a fourth guy this time, in between them, his arms hung around their shoulders." @iamchrisscott.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks so much! I’m just now realizing that too.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 12h

New from me at BULL: Three Middle-Aged Men Telling Scary Stories Around A Campfire 🔥

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 13h

"Everything is exactly how they remember it: Three 21-year-old shitheads, disheveled with bad haircuts, ratty clothes, ugly macho postures. Except there’s a fourth guy this time, in between them, his arms hung around their shoulders." @iamchrisscott.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 2d

Celebrate spooky season with “Someone Adopted a Mile of Route 59” my story about an odd group of people behind a disturbing adopt-a-highway effort 🚧🚙🌕

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 2d

"... for a moment we all just stood there for a bit, under the bright heat of the sun, a steady stream of traffic buzzing by us."

Sweeping, unnerving, abyssal, a brand new #longread from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/chri... #fiction

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 1d

In the mood for nostalgia? Thrilled to have my East Berlin story published by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social

"Jan has no time for their cotton-candy happiness. His father disappeared 5 years ago. No Stasi shadows, no neighbours with a grudge. Just gone.
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...

Cole Beauchamp — Does It Have Pockets

1989: Every day is the same in East Berlin, until it’s not

www.doesithavepockets.com

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 1d

“And ICE is gonna come bust down your door“ is just something that ICE is objectively doing, and something that people who love ICE are in favor of. They don’t even know what they’re upset about.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 1d

The funny thing about the Zach Bryan “anti-ICE” song blowup is it’s not even clear from the lyrics that it’s necessarily anti-ICE because he’s such a terrible lyricist. I’ve read it like five times and no clue what he’s getting at. I doubt the MAGA crowd does either.

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 1d

ICYMI: "Door in the Woods," flash fiction by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social:

Door in the Woods by Chris Scott

Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…

okaydonkeymag.com

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Janice has come to understand what all the groaning is about. She does talk about the fucking mammoth a lot."

This roundhouse kick of a story by @jessdawn.bsky.social *is* about a mammoth, but so much more: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jess... #fiction

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 1d

DIHP issue buddies! Can't wait to read this

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Okay Donkey :)

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that!

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 2d

"... for a moment we all just stood there for a bit, under the bright heat of the sun, a steady stream of traffic buzzing by us."

Sweeping, unnerving, abyssal, a brand new #longread from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/chri... #fiction

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 1d

My students are growing a lot of okra this year. I always love the blossoms.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 1d

You too Cole!

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 1d

The moon was nothing special tonight, in my opinion

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