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Bator Brian
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#batebuddies #batebros #batebrothers #batorbuddies #batorbros #batorbrothers #westernpa #westernpennsylvania #pittsburgh #pgh #beavercountypa
October 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM Everybody can reply
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Framed Windows

#frame #windows
#photography #architecturephotography
#pittsburghPA #westernPA #2012 #CMU #phone7 #affinityPhoto
October 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM Everybody can reply
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Your camping trip nightmare is here! The Aroughcoune is a rabid, killing machine created in a secret government lab on Plum Island. Read it now for a true Halloween fright! #MonsterBook #Thriller #HalloweenReads #SecretLab #WesternPA
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October 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM Everybody can reply
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Ken Ashley
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Beautiful day to just chill.

#WesternPA #HomeSweetHome
September 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM Everybody can reply
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Bailey G. Albreit
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Writing progress! Finally finished Chapter 5 with 5441 words. Now the total count is 26,934, including almost 1200 words at the beginning of Chapter 6. Onward!

#writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #paranormal #vampires #ghosts #werewolves #funeraldirectors #grifters #westernPA
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Ken Ashley
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Good morning #EasternRatSnake. Fairly long at ~4’. Must have been napping in our basement window well.

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September 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM Everybody can reply
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Bailey G. Albreit
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Writing progress on Book #4 in the Rest in Grift series: Chapter 4--done! It clocks in at 5211 wds. Total word count now 20,361. Already written almost 4K of Chapter 5. I'm still on schedule (so far).

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September 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM Everybody can reply
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Reflections

#photography #abstractPhotography #reflectionPhotography #windowphotography #smalltownphotography #westernPA #carnegiePA
September 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Puddles!

#photography #abstractPhotography #puddle #puddles #rainyDay #reflection #reflectionPhotography #smallTown #westernPA
September 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM Everybody can reply
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RED

#photography #spotColor #spotColorRed #frame #clutter #abandonedBuilding #texture #smallTown #westernPA
September 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM Everybody can reply
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A series of winter photos I took a few years ago.

Could be the "only" thing I like winter.

#photography #abstractPhotography #winter #leadingLines #frame #smallTown #westernPA
September 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM Everybody can reply
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In the last month or so I found some beautiful silhouettes on those really harsh light days. They can create some really interesting shapes. I will miss the harsh light.

#photography #abstractPhotography #lightandshadow #silhouette #smallTown #westernPA
September 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM Everybody can reply
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Ken Ashley
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Beautiful day for a 3.8 mile #hike along the #Connoquenessing Creek.

#WesternPA #Zelienople
September 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM Everybody can reply
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My thought on my photography.

I shoot things that people pass everyday … without giving them another thought.

But as I stop and look, I see something new, something interesting, something the people around me don't see.

#photography #reflection #silhouette #nightTime #smallTown #westernPA
September 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM Everybody can reply
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No cohesive idea here. Except if you consider all of these have some sort of frame.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM Everybody can reply
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I watched a video on reflections. Find a mirrored glass surface. The exact method from the video blog

I found these old photos Kevin and I had done back in the 1970s with Henry, a friend of ours. It's the exact same method.

#photography #blackandwhite #reflection #smalltown #westernpa
September 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM Everybody can reply
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Diagonals in the image sometimes lead your eye to something … and other times they just lead your eye. These are some older photos I did last decade.
#photography #diagonals #pattern #texture #smallTown #westernPA #affinityPhoto
September 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM Everybody can reply
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Lines, if you look, are everywhere. And many of them are yellow.
#photography #abstractPhotography #leadingLines #reflection #smallTown #westernPA
September 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM Everybody can reply
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Bailey G. Albreit
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Writing progress! Chapters 1 & 2 in Book #4 of the Rest in Grift series DONE.

Total word count so far: 11,993.

Moving on to Chapter 3 tomorrow. Let's go!

#writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #paranormal #vampires #ghosts #fae #werewolves #funeraldirectors #grifters #westernPA
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Bailey G. Albreit
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6. A snippet from the beginning of Chapter Nine, when John goes to hire a minister for the funeral of the vampire he just killed.

#FantasyIndiesSeptember #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #paranormal #vampires #ghosts #funeraldirectors #church #funeral #westernPA
Not sure what I was thinking when I said I’d talk to the minister about Joey’s funeral. Herm was the churchy one, not me. At least it wasn’t a dark, Gothic building, with grey stone and stained glass blocking all view of the outside world, where you felt like you’d already been buried alive. Instead, being in the sanctuary of First Church of the Kindred was like being inside a marshmallow. I imagined a watchful crew of Holy Painters running around, armed with brushes and paint rollers like Crusaders’ swords to maintain the clean, white surfaces. As a kid, I’d never liked being in church. If tourists weren’t handy, churches made it easy for us to part folks from their money. I briefly worried about this when I was around six, expecting a lightning bolt to strike me. It never did. Now I was in a church after beheading a vampire. I didn’t know if I should expect a lightning bolt or an angel chorus. Undertaken by Bailey G. Albreit Chapter Nine – Vigiled Rest in Grift Book #1
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An assortment of local shots

#photography #abstractPhotography #reflection #frame #smallTown #westernpa
September 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM Everybody can reply
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Bailey G. Albreit
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Writing progress! I'm right on schedule. Chapter 1 written in three days, just over 6400 words, to be edited down later. Tomorrow: forging on to Chapter 2!

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Bailey G. Albreit
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I've been offline a lot for the past two days because I've started writing the 4th book in the Rest in Grift series. So far Chapter 1 is 4870 words, and I'll finish it tomorrow!
#writing #writingcommunity #paranormal #vampires #ghosts #werewolves #funeraldirectors #grifting #westernPA
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Bailey G. Albreit
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30. Robin is first on the scene when there's a tragic death on the Ferris wheel during the town's Mardi Gras carnival.

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“Oh, dear,” a familiar voice said. “I saw who it was.” Phyllis Harper was beside me. I jumped a little. “Bernadette O’Neill. My home-ec teacher. Heavens, it’s almost impossible to find subs for core subjects! But a home-ec sub? Oh, I must sound callous. She was Gus’s friend.” “Exsanguination,” I whispered. “The killer wore a long purple dress, a purple, green, and gold wig, and a purple and gold feathered mask. And was tall.” She gazed at me, concerned. “Maybelle Spurlock’s tall.” Gus’s friend had been murdered. I couldn’t help thinking that dating a man whose ‘late’ wife was likely Undead meant it was only a matter of time before she tried to come after me. Requiemed by Bailey G. Albreit Chapter One – Eternally Rested (Requiem Aeternam) Rest in Grift Book #3
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Bailey G. Albreit
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28. Snippet: Reprieve

Phyllis goes to the Easter Eve vigil service after a series of vampire deaths has rocked the town and taken the lives of more than one of her teachers.

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“Good evening, Principal Harper. I thought I heard a lovely soprano during the Psalm. If Meg had seen you, she might have tapped you to be the cantor. She gave Geoff the night off.” “I assumed. Poor boy! He deserves a reprieve.” “You know Mr. and Mrs. O’Neill, of course?” He turned to them. “Of course!” Mrs. O’Neill said a little too loudly, her plate of refreshments shaking alarmingly, though nothing fell. She gripped a cane with her other hand. “Bernie loved working for Phyllis, didn’t she?” she said to her husband, who tipped back a champagne flute. Its diameter was considerably smaller than his mouth so it was a struggle. Some dribbled down his chin but he lacked a free hand to wipe it, grasping a walker with his other hand. I restrained myself from using my hankie to clean his chin. Requiemed by Bailey G. Albreit Chapter Twenty – Stung Rest in Grift Book #3
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