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R.L. Meza

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OUR LOVE WILL DEVOUR US. Spec fic in Clarkesworld, Nightmare. Painter. Gamer. 4 cats in a trench coat. Vegan. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (he,him) NO A I rlmeza.com

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · Jul 18

beat the heat with my screwed up family in OUR LOVE WILL DEVOUR US, a winter isolation horror novel about two mothers trying to save their children from the monster inside their daughter. come for the frostbite and cannibalism, stay to get your heart wrecked: darkmattermagazine.shop/products/our...

Our Love Will Devour Us

"A terrifying, twisted roller coaster of a book. From the first page to the last, R. L. Meza's gripping debut novel affirms a rising star in horror." —Noelle W. Ihli, author of Ask for Andrea "Genuine...

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 10m

day 68 and 13 chapters done

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 16h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 15h

Meowlignant (2021)

A woman with long brown hair and a vest seen from behind and the cat is being carried in the vest with only its face showing at the back of the woman’s head, reminiscent of Gabriel in Malignant (2021)

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 14h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 16h

‼️PORCUPINE UNDER CAR ALERT

theres a whole damn porcupine under my car

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 18h

Did you know @nightmare-magazine.com turned 13 this month??!?
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

Editorial: October 2025 - Nightmare Magazine

We always try to pull out the stops in our birthday issues, and this year is no different. There’s no real theme this month---although regret and reparation loom large---but every single piece is out ...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Help farahat's family 💔🍉 @husamaa.bsky.social · 6d

Another night in Gaza
My children sleep on the ground, no electricity, no mattresses, no safety.
This is what "bedtime" looks like in war.💔💔
We just asking for a chance to live ;we still belive in hope..any help can make a huge difference to us ♥️
tinyurl.com/FarhatKidsGaza

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Help farahat's family 💔🍉 @husamaa.bsky.social · 18h

@rlmeza.bsky.social
my family and I are living as displaced people, homeless and jobless, with no clear future for ourselves or our children. the war has stripped us of everything Our daily life has become a constant search for basic necessities.”💔
share or Donate ♥️🙏

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 22h

GASP

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, do you like gay whalers? Gay bank robbers? Muscular lesbian artisans? With a side of magic and weirdness? All of this and more is in Call and Response, my collection of short stories out from Neon Hemlock next week! Available to pre-order from the publisher: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock

A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....

www.neonhemlock.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 23h

Trans rights protect EVERY GENDER. Just like the rights black people fought for protect EVERY RACE. Including white people! Y'all are enjoying the spoils of someone else's hard work every damn day.

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · Jul 12

Kids today are too fucked up, not like in my day where we learned about life and death and the birds and the bees the normal way, by being shown rotten dot com by our friends brother when we were 11 years old

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 23h

oops did they include an average-looking female character with a name and independent story arc or

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 1d

Bumper sticker that says
"My other car is legs."

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah we got checks (bouncing) and balances (negative)

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 23h

HELLO

Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 23h

Gay JOHN WICK x MAD MAX FURY ROAD + soul magic

When his ma’s murdered, Noah embarks on a cross-desert hunt for answers—w/ an annoyingly attractive war criminal offering help. As Noah’s suspicion turns to feelings (ugh!), secrets from his companion’s past threaten to destroy them both. #dvpit #a #f

A mood board of eight pictures: reddish dunes, the wheel of a dirt bike, two silhouettes of men, silhouettes in a nightclub, a truck driving through dust, tents in a desert, and a lone house on flat sand.

R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 1d

day 67 done

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 1d

Never did, never will.

Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1d

Folks who tell you that it’s okay to temporarily sacrifice a marginalized group in order to win

Do not care about the marginalized group

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Deadbeat Bat Dad @dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · 1d

Pinteresthead has such unfinished Halloween projects to show you.

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Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 1d

Happy book birthday to my debut picture book The Fib from @gloobooks.bsky.social !!! I hope everyone enjoys this fabulous fable about monsters and honesty.
gloobooks.com

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 3d

The man, the myth, the legend: Mothman

An illustration of a flying Mothman. He is airborne and has a dark body with red webbing in his wings and red antenna. His face is pale with his mouth twisted in an open scream, his eyes are wide and are red. The background is a pale pink

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 2d

ALL BOARD GAMES ARE COOPERATIVE!
you work together to get to the end so you can stop playing

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 1d

This review for Goodnight Moon is a fucking masterpiece.

Margaret Wise Brown's nihilistic classic is a howling renunciation of God, here depicted as a "quiet old lady whispering 'hush'." There is no afterlife here, no reward, no release from the crushing mundanity of life. There is only the bowl of pathetic mush, the forlorn mittens, the abandoned balloon, the telephone that never rings. We live our lives in a "great green room", but at the end we accumulate nothing but the discarded trappings of our childhoods. Even love cannot offer solace: where are our families when the end comes? "Goodnight nobody," we call into the blackness.

There is no hope in the world without us. We know what will happen, when we close our eyes, to the young mouse left alone with two kittens. They will toy with him; they will torture him and leave his decapitated body on our pillow. But we will never awake to see its guts splayed out near our heads. "Goodnight air," the poem ends. "Goodnight noises everywhere." We fall, silently, into the void.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/900911702

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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 2d

Once again releasing into the wild the fact that if you invite me to talk on a podcast about almost anything I will show up and show out. Not math, but otherwise.

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