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@moderntypewriter.bsky.social
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Writer. Lover of villains, monsters, magic, vampires, romance, fairytales and (most of all) stories.
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moderntypewriter.bsky.social
Working on a new werewolf short story, among many other things!

#amwriting #werewolf #shortstories #horror
#writing
It started with hair. I have my mother’s hair. It is silky and fine. Hair that seems to take mere minutes to knot, snarling and tangled, at the back of my head. As tight as a fisted up scream. If it were given the chance, it is hair that would race dark along my legs, curl beneath my arms, prowl relentless even upon my chin and in dappled spots along my neck. We do not give it the chance. My mother is a vanguard armed with combs, scissors, razors and wax. I never see her hands empty. Never see them without something sharp. Every night after I turn ten she picks and plucks, fusses and burns, snips and tugs. We try out every strategic plan of attack that she can think of. I squint up at the full fluorescent roundness of the bathroom light as she inspects my face for perfect symmetry. My eyebrows are always the last job. The finishing touch. My eyes always inevitably start to sting and well. “It’s okay,” she tells me; part tenderness, part terror and part thin-lipped impatience. “It’s supposed to hurt! Being a woman hurts. You’ll get so used to it that you stop noticing, love.” She’s wrong. I always notice. But when I see the other girls wrinkle their noses and laugh behind their hands at the hair on Shannon Finchley’s legs during swim class, I stop complaining. I learn to do it. She is pleased. So, all in all, it is not a complete surprise when she immediately goes and buys a new shaving kit the first time I transform into a wolf.
October 27, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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britfantasysoc.bsky.social
Folk horror writer and poet @stephellis.bsky.social asks where all the older women are in fiction—especially in horror, where the evil crone stereotype dominates, and especially in folk horror, which centres so much on fertility.

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October 24, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
In the past day or so I've had several people ask why I have descriptions on the images I post. It is called ALT text and its primary purpose is to make visual media accessible to people with visual impairments, but there are other benefits, too. You can read more at the link below!
catsofyore.bsky.social Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · Apr 19
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”
October 19, 2024 at 1:32 AM
moderntypewriter.bsky.social
So far...

1. Rolling in the deep by Mira Grant
2. Icarus by K.C Ancrum
3. Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe by Emma Torsz
4. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
5. Cultish by Amanda Montell
tatitatertot.bsky.social xo, tati⁷ @tatitatertot.bsky.social · Oct 18
📚💙 repost with your five favorite reads from this year!

1. terms and conditions by lauren asher
2. grown by tiffany d jackson
3. beartown by fredrik backman
4. the weight of blood by tiffany d jackson
5. the honeys by ryan la sala
zxvq.bsky.social wintxr⁷❄️ @zxvq.bsky.social · Oct 18
📚💙 repost with your five favorite reads from this year!

1. The decagon house murders 💀 by Yukito ayatsuji
2. The refusal of work🏂by David Frayne
3. Managing the monstrous feminine💃by Jane M. Ussher
4. Destination unknown🪽by Agatha Christie
5. All in Her Head😾by Elizabeth Comen

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October 18, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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recklessfiction.bsky.social
There are bones buried beneath your front yard. It was not you who put them there but it is the rain that is drudging them up like worms. You watch as a skeletal hand twitches by your ankle, fingers curling around the laces of your boots. Remember, if you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring it inside.
September 20, 2023 at 2:53 AM
moderntypewriter.bsky.social
Free sapphic medusa retelling if you'd like to read my work! I'm super proud of this one :) <3 I feel like we as writers need to get better at saying that.

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#retelling #medusa #greekmythology #writing #shortstory #sapphic #queerwriter #queerstories
Her (Marble) by Medusa | the-modern-typewriter
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October 18, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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poopraven.bsky.social
Authors, artists, poets, all kinds of creatives deserve at bare minimum a living income from their work.

The idea that receiving money for creating art is somehow disgusting is a lie created and perpetrated to keep the unprivileged far away from being able to influence culture.

Pay the artists.
October 11, 2024 at 1:03 AM
moderntypewriter.bsky.social
New to this platform and figuring out how it works! Let's start with sharing some stories I guess?

Anyone want a Bluebeard retelling? 🖋️

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#writer #fairytale #shortstory
The Blue Key
On her first night in her new home, after a lavish dessert of strawberry cheesecake and cream, her new husband handed her a clinking set of keys across the dining room table. “You can go anywhere in…
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October 18, 2024 at 4:19 PM