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Laura Keating

@lorekeating.bsky.social

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Writer of Fiction; Bae of Fundy Website https://www.lorekeating.com/ Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print She/Her

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · Aug 12

[Very Attenborough voice] The Author, startled by onlookers, observed in her natural New Brunswick habitat. Help keep this isolated creature's environment thriving.

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The Author, startled by the viewer, in her natural New Brunswick habitat.

Laura Keating crouched under a rock pretending to be a squirrel (?) on a walk in the Irving Nature Park in Saint John, NB. The park served as inspiration for Canon Park in her horror novella, "Agony's Lodestone."

The cover of "Agony's Lodestone" by Laura Keating
Art by Trevor Henderson.
Publisher: Tenebrous Press
Ghostly arms reach desperately out of a barren tree in a dark forest; in the trees roots a videotape growing into the soil.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 17h

Turns out the ship was a metaphor for hubris and - that's right, the crew an allegory about hope amidst despair. Well, gotta let you go, Jenkins is banging at the blast door begging to be let back inside but also sitting here next to me. Yessir, it's a head scratcher.

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18h

hey admiral, we stopped on planet X-14938-J7 in response to a federation emergency beacon broadcast and -- yeah, yeah, it was our ship we found crashed. yep. yeah. no the bodies of the crew were us. yeah Twilight Zone bullshit, that's what we figured. we'll take off and nuke it.

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 19h

I bet screaming into a hole in the ground until the Earth screamed back would fix me.

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 22h

Feels right

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 22h

This is terrible, Beau. I'm so sorry!

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 22h

"But if I have to pay for the cars, not steal them, my chop shop will go under 🥺👉👈"

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Pablo Picasso sitting at a screening of Willy Wonka

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 1d

Working on something that doesn't want to be written.
Folks keep telling me it's a great idea. I keep getting in the way, over thinking it.
Only cure: I need to write some absolute garbage. Pure trash. Like 5-10 really busted stories to make me less precious.

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 1d

Atwood pivoted (several times!) from clear-cut lit to sci-fi and I think few have ever complained.
Pivot away!

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 1d

Doing it. Thinking I've got myself a natural sequel to my short story "Lost Grad Class, 2003" from 'Compendium of Creeps' 🔥

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 1d

Feel in my bones that if there was a mysterious cabin in the woods where everyone who ever stayed was never seen again it would be a repeat #1 Tiktok filming location. And the more I think about it the more true it becomes, folks would just keep feeding themselves to it for the clicks.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 1d

While many of the parodies are gold (The Shining, Dracula, King Kong, the many Twilight Zones) "Bad Dream House" is such quintessential America Horror it deserves its own documentary.

The Simpson family standing outside of their "Bad" dream house as it sucks itself into a void in the first segment of the first episode of the Treehouse of Horror series.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 1d

I guess it's Prime Day(s) again, so here are some options if you'd rather not help Jeff Bezos grow even richer. 🧵

First, a couple of Starter Packs of Indie Bookstores to support. (If you are or know of an indie bookstore w/ a Bluesky account that's not listed, let me know.)
go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't read that one from the Mythological Cycle, or is it Ulster?

Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 1d

Was so sad to have missed the readings/conversations (alas, solo parenting this week, what canyudo!)
Glad you had a good time in Halifax and congratulations on the grant!! 🍾✨

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 1d

Perfectly cloudy, cool Fall day and the sun's started poking out

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wormbuxx @wormbuxx.bsky.social · 1d

Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cob

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 2d

Huzzaahhhhhhhhhh

a black and white photo of david bowie in a suit and tie .

Alt: david bowie in a suit and tie from "Life on Mars" music video.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 2d

Broadcasting from the Bowie Martian Base 🖤🥹

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 2d

Got an email from THE David Bowie asking if I wanted him to promote AL on his website for a promotional fee.

I'm honoured, sir, but am I worthy of such esteemed ghostly boosting? 🥺

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 2d

Very proud to have a story in this collection 🖤📼

🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 2d

Hey all, remember that found footage book @gabino.bsky.social and I put together? Well, we did it again! If you dug FOUND, check out FOUND2. Eighteen more stories of found footage horror! 🖤📼 www.amazon.com/dp/0648731561

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I could explain to the "we're doomed" folk that it usually takes a long time for a species to go extinct. Understand? We're talking generations upon generations before the last human.

So if we're going to be around for a while either way, we might as well make things better instead.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Hemsworth in "Furiosa" gives a run for the money

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 3d

I don't post pictures of my kid online, but I got the proofs back for this years school photos and never has there been a more beautiful child also how is my baby so big already, I swear I blinked I only blinked! 😭❤️