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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

💀 Seed of Chucky
💀 Bride of Chucky
💀 I Saw the TV Glow
💀 Nope
💀 Jennifer's Body
💀 Evil Dead 2
💀 Nightmare on Elm St. 2
💀 Friday the 13th (1980)
💀 Beau is Afraid
💀 The Human Centipede (it remains a pox upon my soul)

Cindy Vs. The Army of Darkness Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

💀 Alien
💀 Terrified
💀 The Autopsy of Jane Doe
💀 Hereditary
💀 It Follows
💀 Exhuma
💀 The Wickerman
💀 Army of Darkness
💀 The Descent
💀 A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter @eveharms.com · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

Evil Dead 2
Frankenhooker
Hellraiser
Reanimator
The Thing
Inland Empire
Under the Skin
Videodrome
Gozu
Lair of the White Worm

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · 18d

All the things I love in a story!

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · 18d

Hot damn this is excellent

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 19d

"Look at the fucking thing. Really look. See the horns, claws, that festering skin, all those yellow fangs, those fucked-up eyes?

Big fucking deal."

Read 'What to Do When A Demon is Talking Shit at You' by @cindyphanauthor.com

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What to Do When A Demon is Talking Shit at You by Cindy Phan

The demon rears on its splayed legs and slaps its naked thighs, leering as it talks shit at you with its long, forked tongue. So listen, and listen good:

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 21d

Trending topics, or as we call them, The Horrors™️

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 25d

"There was a sound, too heavy to be fluttering, but definitely the sound of wings, and then the feeling of three-taloned toes digging into her calf."

Read 'The Cockatrice' by @lost-squonk.bsky.social

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#Fabulism #SFF #Fantasy #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction

The Cockatrice by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann

Gayle spent a lot of time in bed letting her weight press into the mattress. The blankets were piled on top of her in a heap of warmth that was never as comforting as she needed it to be.

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Sep 6

I am almost a whole week late, but my story "The Cockatrice" is available to read in this month's Inner Worlds!

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · Aug 31

💚💫 Issue Eight has landed! 💫💚

This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.

If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...

#SFF #Horror

Inner Worlds cover with acid green masthead and artwork showing a part of a Black person's face in dark blue with a glitchy texture, surrounded by flame like shapes like heatvision hotspots, with green and yellow edges and bright scarlet centres. The person's gaze is very intense, and seems hurt, wary, angry.

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Aug 24

New story out next week!

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · Aug 24

⭐️ One week to go and it's Issue Eight TOC time! ⭐️

Featuring 14 fantastic stories by
@cindyphanauthor.com
@busayo.bsky.social
@jolantru.bsky.social
@catherinemccarthy.bsky.social
@katharinetyndall.bsky.social
@esichr.bsky.social
@chloehsmith.bsky.social
@lost-squonk.bsky.social
& more!

I Don’t Mind by Josie Levin
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky
Lily Facsimile by D. W. West
Forest by Joyce Chng
What To Do When A Demon Is Talking Shit To You
by Cindy Phan
Glitches by Arvee Fantilagan
Soul Cakes by Catherine McCarthy
Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall
The Cockatrice by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann
In The Vanguard by Chloe Smith
They Fear Our Open Hair by Sabahat Ali Wani
The Shift Room by Mary Wanjiru
River Kin by Gail Brown
Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · Aug 12

Gender is a spectrum and education is the prism.

Education happens at home, in school, in art, in books, in society.

They want to destroy the prism so we can only see one color of light.

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Jul 18

Reposting because the original draft of this was inspired by the terror of being alone in my Milwaukee apartment and hearing 30 minutes of jets overhead, not realizing that they were practicing for the air and water show downtown.

This week, of all weeks, I've been hearing them again.

Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · Jul 16

Our mid-month release is a piece called “To Ashes” by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann. Psychological & darkly emotional. If you feel like the world keeps changing every time you look, it’ll resonate!

#flashfiction #writingcommunity

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/to-a...

@lost-squonk.bsky.social

To Ashes

I.There are countless jets flying over the apartment. They announce themselves with roars so loud they vibrate in my shins. Sasha and I close the blinds and shut off the lights. We huddle on the fl…

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Jul 16

My apocalyptic short story "To Ashes" is up now at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · Jul 16

Our mid-month release is a piece called “To Ashes” by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann. Psychological & darkly emotional. If you feel like the world keeps changing every time you look, it’ll resonate!

#flashfiction #writingcommunity

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/to-a...

@lost-squonk.bsky.social

To Ashes

I.There are countless jets flying over the apartment. They announce themselves with roars so loud they vibrate in my shins. Sasha and I close the blinds and shut off the lights. We huddle on the fl…

www.flashfictiononline.com

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Jul 16

I'm hoping we get a tv show so the story and lore get some room to breathe

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Jul 16

I think they're more going for the cute metaphor for consuming fans' souls but I just read the lyrics and there is definitely an argument to be made in favor of pegging

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Jul 16

It's so much fun! And the soundtrack is 100% bops

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Jul 6

As someone who was just in North Carolina for a whole week, I didn't even go outside and I was covered in sweat the whole time

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Jul 6

My sister just told me that before my grandma was cremated, the cremation people put her hair in a little baggie to return to our family. And my sister just looked at me and said "if anybody wanted it, I knew it would be you."

I mean she's right but idk how to feel about that.

Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Jul 5

Hello! My life is chaos and I am bad at self-promo but I have a story in this month's Flash Fiction Online!

Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · Jul 2

This month we ask our readers, what is sacred? Get a copy of our July 2025 issue on our website or through our distributor @weightlessbooks.bsky.social

#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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Flash Fiction Online July 2025

Flash Fiction Online’s July 2025 issue asks our readers, “What is sacred?” Stories this month include: “Recitations” by Jacob Baugher “A Concise History of the G…

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · May 21

Today, we invite you to sit a while "In the Café That Was Once a Detention Center" by @lilliantsay.bsky.social, and remember the past as we move into the future:

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In the Café That Was Once a Detention Center - Small Wonders

In the corner once stacked with torture tools / Now stands the curving sofa like a snake / In velvet blue.

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · May 21

Good luck! Get lots of rest friend 💚💚💚

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · May 21

Oh no!!! Can you contact your doc for a paxlovid scrip? Tastes like ass but can decrease risk of long covid

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David Kronig @davekronig.bsky.social · May 5

Do you want to to (1) actively resist fascism, (2) signal your resistance to fascism, (3) show solidarity with people being targeted by fascism?

Wear a mask. A mask shows your willingness to not comply, your opposition to the eugenics agenda, and you're making spaces safer for vulnerable folks.

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · May 5

I am pruning our rose bush (a multi-week process) and i refuse to wear gloves

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · May 5

We know it's spring because I always have at least three thorns embeded in my hands at all times.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Apr 20

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · Apr 20

oh hey welcome to your trial, blackshirts

Six men charged after forcibly removing woman from North Idaho town hall

The Coeur d'Alene City Attorney's Office has filed charges against six men involved in the forced removal of a woman at a Kootenai County town hall in February.

www.kivitv.com

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Apr 18

Omg I am just now realizing i have not put page numbers on my subs for *years*

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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann @lost-squonk.bsky.social · Apr 9

Writing something deeply personal and meaningful that also happens to heavily frature a murder clown

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · Apr 9

Writing something deeply personal and meaningful that also happens to have cephalopod on cephalopod smut.

Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · Apr 9

Writing something deeply personal and meaningful that also happens to have talking gorillas.

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