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Sasha Brown

@sashabrown.bsky.social

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Sasha Brown is a Stoker-nominated writer & gardener whose stories have been called “Creative! But in a bad way.” He’s in lit mags like Barrelhouse and Wigleaf, and in genre pubs like Bourbon Penn and Weird Horror. He’s online at sashabrownwriter.com.

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 1d

My 9-yo and I wrote the cover story for Interzone #303, and we've created this handy synopsis using legos. Pictured: shark wearing a mech suit made of pirate shipwrecks, attacking a surfer on a chainsaw board. Oh, it gets weirder.

Check it out: shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 3h

oooooh

brutal

I would certainly never do something like that (eyeing the thing I literally sent out yesterday because I was sick of looking at it)

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 3h

Got a possible frost warning for tomorrow night, and that would be the end of dahlia season, so, uh

anyone need any flowers?

just quite a lot of dahlias up in here, like the whole kitchen peninsula is covered

Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 1d

yeah this is how I feel about chatting with parents at fourth-grade dropoff, too

Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to NM Whitley's kickass newsletter, which I also subscribe to! Subscribe here!

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Short Story Rex

where short stories are king and i recommend them a promotional vehicle of one NM Whitley

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 1d

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Reposted by Sasha Brown

cockroaches 🪳 @dreadforts.bsky.social · Feb 19

how is every single queer erotica collection always

welcome to BUCKETS OF GOREFUCK, we are a subversive transgressive indie collection. please read our submission guidelines!

Submission Guidelines
▪︎ no gore
▪︎ no fuck
▪︎ no buckets

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so sorry, man. That's a hard thing. We're thinking about you.

Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 6d

Oh jeez, that makes my day, Angela! Means an especial lot coming from someone whose work I like as much as yours.

If we're doing Favorite Weird Horror stories, there are a lot but I'm awful fond of Milk Teeth by @noirbettie.bsky.social

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/klein4

MILK TEETH — Weird Horror Magazine

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 7d

I regret to say that I did indeed used to think Theo was a nice boy

I realize this reflects poorly on me

in my defense it also reflects poorly on God’s Cruel Joke, which literally publishes stuff like this all the time

truly shameful

Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 7d

Wanna read the story that got these words out of @caninebrainz.bsky.social and @sashabrown.bsky.social?

Two options:

Get the issue here now - www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

Or come to @voidcon.bsky.social and I'll read it to you Friday night (October 10).

Good luck!

A screenshot of black text on a pale background.

What People Are Saying...

"Oh my god dude this is disgusting, I love it."
- junkyard ambrose

"I just read it and good lord, [Theo]. I used to think you were a nice boy."
- Sasha Brown

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 7d

Things Parents Say: “I’m afraid it’s time to move your cockroach palace off the dining room table.”

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 9d

oh duuuuude hell yeah! Weird Horror rules!

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 12d

yooo new Wednesday album

so mad I didn't think of this line

oh wow we like the same music, huh

I like Fever Ray too tho

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 13d

Waxahatchee fuckin rules

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Reposted by Sasha Brown

Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 14d

Friends and creatures, the inimitable @sashabrown.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Sasha's review of Goodnight Moon

5/5: 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 crushi...

www.goodreads.com

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 14d

My new career as the world’s worst children’s book reviewer is really blossoming today

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 17d

Hell yeah, so glad it went well!

Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 18d

you're telling me - I never even win these battles

Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 18d

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 18d

noooo other person named sasha, the horror

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 18d

My 9-yo is all "I built a lego shark wearing a mech suit made from pirate shipwrecks"
I'm like, what?
he's all "He fights surfers on chainsaw surfboards!"
I'm like, should we write this down?
now it's the cover story on Interzone

Check out my kid's literary debut: interzone.press

INTERZONE

Subscriptions and pledges are the lifeblood of small-press zines. Support INTERZONE at Patreon to get mind- and genre-bending fiction and non-fiction from all over the planet

interzone.press

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 18d

I learned everything from you, Jon!

Conveniently, this is free to read online: www.oldmoonpublishing.com/pain-wins

it is not a ghost story, though, I feel compelled to say. It's something else.

Pain Wins | Old Moon Quarterly - Dark Fantasy Magazine

www.oldmoonpublishing.com

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 20d

OH SHIT Y'ALL
GUESS WHAT I GOT IN THE MAIL

oh okay you did actually guess right, it's Disco Murder City by @calebbethea.bsky.social

(seen here bonding joining the disco community with my homemade disco ball plant hanger)

Caleb Motherfuckin Bethea's badass new book, held in front of a disco ball with a...what's that plant called? I don't remember. A plant.

Tradescantia! That's what that is! Zebra tradescantia.

Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 25d

so deeply creepy that bsky put this at the top of my feed, how did they know, but hi! I'll be there! With my kid! Maybe I'll see you!

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · Sep 4

fLoWeRs

Pink & red dahlias in a blue & white china pitcher on a table outside

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · Aug 31

This piece by @easton-smith.bsky.social in @kenyonreview.bsky.social
is fuckin terrific. I think it's weird horror? At no point does anything I expect happen, almost even on a word-to-word level.

kenyonreview.org/piece/the-mi...

The Milk Incident - The Kenyon Review

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