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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 27d

2nd daily spotlight from our latest issue 🦝
We loved the tight breathlessness of this piece from
@sclly21.bsky.social
Every word so intentional, the emotional nostalgic tone is wonderful.

Creative use of prompts: The Year You Were Ten, Cryptid, Needle

Read here: trashcatlit.com/sasquatch-in...

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · Sep 1

HERE THEY ARE! 25 contributors to the upcoming Prompted Stories issue. Split into new and existing Trash Family for your consumption. The issue will launch on Thursday 🦝
@leighaplin.bsky.social @madeleinewrite.bsky.social @lucimcummings.bsky.social @sclly21.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · Sep 8

"At the end of that summer, my friends were all talking about Patrick Swazye on the dance floor, but it was the Bigfoot movie [...] that affected me the most"

Great micro from @sclly21.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social

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Sasquatch in the Woods

Lori D’Angelo At the end of that summer, my friends were all talking about Patrick Swazye on the dance floor, but it was the Bigfoot movie with that lady from Anne of Green Gables and that ki…

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Aug 30

Please consider reading this story about a girl and the bond she has with her horse.

www.dnronline.com/news/communi...

#bridgewatercollege #horses #animallovers #equestrians

Bridgewater College student is raising money for lifesaving treatment for beloved horse

"If I did not have that horse, I don't want to think about what life would have been like," Clarissa Burrow said. "I don't even know if I'd be here."

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Aug 15

The monsters are coming! I will be participating in a panel at the Fall for the Book Festival at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., in October.

@fallforthebook.bsky.social
@emergejournal.bsky.social

#fallforthebook #shortstories #fallfeels🍂 #literature #fiction #georgemasonuniversity

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Jul 29

This was such a fun poem to co-write. #poetry #writing

Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Dec 29

“Well alright I admit that I’m in love with a girl who came from the eighties” by @sclly21.bsky.social (Flame) and C. M. Gigliotti (Spark) has everything you want—Breakfast Club, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.

Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝

Photo of a heart in the condensation of a window

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Jul 25

Here's how federa funding cuts are impacting #Harrisonburg nonprofits. #Medicaid #refugees #churchworldservices #journalism

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Local nonprofits face uncertainty amid federal funding cuts

Recent federal funding cuts will negatively impact programs meant to help some of the community’s most vulnerable members, including HIV patients, Medicaid recipients and refugees, community leaders s...

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · May 17

I'm selling and signing books at James Blakey's Read Local Authors booth at the Broadway Community Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come see us!

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · May 2

Come see me May 8th at the MAC in Morgantown! I'll be reading at 6 p.m. #fiction #shortstories #WVU

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Apr 12

Come join me at Masanutten Regional Library! The Monsters Are Here, and you should be too. #shortstories

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Mar 30

New story up at Microromance Magazine:

open.substack.com/pub/microman...

An Object of Great Desire

By Lori D'Angelo

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Mar 12

New poem up @librelit.bsky.social!

Libre @librelit.bsky.social · Mar 12

“Predictably, the audience stayed, / superior feeling, watching curiously to / see if she would implode and how bad.”

Poetry today by @sclly21.bsky.social

www.librelit.com/themagazine/...

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Mar 5

She's amazing. And she doesn't need an Academy Award to prove she's successful. Still, I hope she gets one--next year.

Vulture @vulture.com · Mar 3

Awards season runs on tradition. Songwriter Diane Warren continued her own at this year’s Oscars, losing her 16th nomination. ‘I’ll be back,’ she vowed after.

Diane Warren Vows ‘I’ll Be Back’ After Losing 16th Oscar

Awards season runs on tradition. Songwriter Diane Warren continued her own at this year’s Oscars, losing her 16th nomination. ‘I’ll be back,’ she vowed after.

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Mar 2

I have a new short story up at Exquisite Death Zine:

www.exquisitedeathezine.com/the-secret-b...

The Secret by Lori D'Angelo

When Maginalt offered to show us how to cheat Death, of course, I said I was interested.

www.exquisitedeathezine.com

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Mar 2

We didn’t have #FridayReads this week, so we’re doing Sunday whatever because every day is a book day. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a crime/horror hybrid full of action, magic, violence, and monsters.

www.amazon.com/dp/0316427012/

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Feb 28

I have new dark weird fiction up at Exquisite Death Zine. You can chevk out my story, "The Secret" here: www.exquisitedeathezine.com/the-secret-b...

Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Jan 31

New story out in issue 2.
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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Jan 20

@nyurtsaba.bsky.social thank you for posting this lovely review of my book at Tupelo Quarterly Review. www.tupeloquarterly.com/uncategorize...

A Review of Lori D'Angelo's The Monsters are Here by Nicole Yurcaba

In her debut short story collection, The Monsters are Here, fiction writer Lori D’Angelo establishes herself as a writer daring to venture into new spectacles of character innovation, dark humor, and ...

www.tupeloquarterly.com

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Jan 6

Thank you!

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Jan 3

Thank you to Microromance Magazine for nominating my story for this award!
#romance #lovestories #fiction

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Dec 29

It was really fun to collaborate with C.M. Gigliotti on this poem.
#poetry #poems #writingcommunity

Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Dec 29

“Well alright I admit that I’m in love with a girl who came from the eighties” by @sclly21.bsky.social (Flame) and C. M. Gigliotti (Spark) has everything you want—Breakfast Club, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.

Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Dec 15

Excited to have helped write a poem for this issue by providing the "flame" for another poet's "spark." #poetry #writing It was fun to participate in this unique collaborative process. #literaryjournals #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky

Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Dec 15

We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Four: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

In this issue, we have three co-authored poems and seven poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process. 📝

Cover art by Emily Cai. Spark to Flame’s Issue Four cover art is of Zurich old down buildings over a calm river, with an older gentleman leaning over a bridge on the left. Colors are calm and muted.

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Dec 15

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Dec 15

Excited to have helped to write a collaborative poem for Spark To Flame issue 4. www.s2fjournal.com

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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Dec 13

It is so rough out there. It seems like most of the people making money from writing are those already famous, and often those people are famous for something else and may not actually be doing their own writing.

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