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AC Cross

@aaronccross.bsky.social
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Author of Where Blood Runs Gold, The Boddicker Letters, and Zoo. Doctor but not that kind. Raconteur. Darn good cook. 100% undiluted awesome. Amateur memelord and shitposter. www.aaronccross.com

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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 29m
#HorrorWritersChat Comments are disabled so I'll say thanks for a great week of questions! Starting tomorrow, there's a free horror story every day in October here: www.aaronccross.com I also have a Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/aaronccross and two horror books here: www.amazon.com/stores/A.C.-...
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 39m
AQ4: #HorrorWritersChat Spoiler alert: already got some! I have a few on my Patreon for free. My favorite is Aulae Damnationis. It was inspired by ‘Heresy in Disguise’ by Falconer and ‘Hellfire’ from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 54m
Q3: #HorrorWritersChat Come on, SO many pun-based choices. - Elton John becomes a man of combustion and steel. - Queen finds themselves spiraling through the dead of space. - Metallica haunted in their sleeps by a malevolent creature. - The Police stranded on a desert island. (Name the songs!)
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 1h
Q2: #HorrorWritersChat Yes, for sure. I mean, every October, I write a 500-word horror story based solely on a song title and put it on my website. I published a book of those. I also have some longer short stories based on lyrics/feel of songs. In my non-horror, references are constant and clear
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 1h
Q1: #HorrorWritersChat Forever and a day, I'm AC Cross. I write cosmic and body and gross and bleak and sometimes non-horror horror. Music, for me, varies. One minute, it's Billy Joel, the next it's Iron Maiden, the next it's The Night Flight Orchesta or Captain Black Beard. NO country though.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New story up on Patreon! This is probably the most uncomfortable story I've published (both in feel and subject matter) so reader discretion is advised. www.patreon.com/aaronccross/...
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Active Shooter | AC Cross
“…so, as you can see, by connecting the –” Bzzzzzzzz I frown and stop my lecture. A cell phone going off isn’t acceptable. They know this. I
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New story up on Patreon! This is probably the most uncomfortable story I've published (both in feel and subject matter) so reader discretion is advised. www.patreon.com/aaronccross/...
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Active Shooter | AC Cross
“…so, as you can see, by connecting the –” Bzzzzzzzz I frown and stop my lecture. A cell phone going off isn’t acceptable. They know this. I
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Okay, I'm finalizing the track listing for this year's October Music. If you have song or artist recommendations, drop them below and I'll add them to the list.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, while I am always glad to have new followers, I do need to be clear: If your entire profile /personality is themed or built around politics, you will not like me. If you think I support you, I do not (doesn't matter which direction you go). I shitpost and badmouth AI and am aggressively bland.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a phrase in Italian: i bastardi del tostapane moriranno. It means, roughly, 'when the AI bubble bursts, an entire generation of scumbags are going to lose their asses' and I think that's beautiful.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Disclosure: I'm a big fan of the Hide Posts feature of Bluesky. It lets me hide tiresome shit without having to mute or block the person who posted it right away.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just came up with the term 'socially-confited' and that may be the best new phrase I've ever made.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Okay, I'm finalizing the track listing for this year's October Music. If you have song or artist recommendations, drop them below and I'll add them to the list.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's Monday, it's gray and gross, and I Don't Wanna, so let's be mean. Anti-AI sentiment is gatekeeping? Good. Some things SHOULD be gatekept. If you want to write or draw or paint or make music, you learn or you give up. Not everyone should be able to do everything. Not everyone should create.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's Monday, it's gray and gross, and I Don't Wanna, so let's be mean. Anti-AI sentiment is gatekeeping? Good. Some things SHOULD be gatekept. If you want to write or draw or paint or make music, you learn or you give up. Not everyone should be able to do everything. Not everyone should create.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New story up on Patreon - free as always. Also, if you have suggestions for either artists or song titles for this year's October Music, let me know down below and I'll see what I can do to use them! www.patreon.com/aaronccross/...
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Dinner for Two | AC Cross
Five dead in ritual slaying - tzzt Gruesome murders at Boar’s End Apartments today as - tzzt - the suspect was found at the scene, still cov
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Please enjoy these terrible-ass Canva promotions for some of my books. I am not an artist and graphic design is beyond my capabilities. So, the descriptions are valid but ignore the format. Thank you. You can get my books here: www.amazon.com/stores/A.C.-... or here www.aaronccross.com
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is a TikTok trend where people claim to have deciphered the Voynich Manuscript not with any sort of proof but because they just 'know' what it means and if that isn't another tick mark in the 'let's glass the planet and start over' pros column, I don't know what is.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Maybe this accurate, maybe it's not, but at least adults in 1884 didn't have to figure out self-promotion or navigate AI shittery.
Whale.

Drawing of an adult in 1884
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Playing Control for the first time. I'm digging it. I like the unapologetically 'this is effing weird' vibes and feel of it.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Time for another Meme Friday. The weather is gray and getting chilly so let's warm up. Sleep in tomorrow. Watch something mindless. Read Catcher in the Rye. Go one of two ways - either realize it's not very good or decide to kill John Lennon. Remember Lennon already got got back in 1980 and give up.
When you're losing an argument but don't want to admit you were wrong

Man in medieval garb standing on tree limb over cliff, about to chop the limb and plummet
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Time for another Meme Friday. The weather is gray and getting chilly so let's warm up. Sleep in tomorrow. Watch something mindless. Read Catcher in the Rye. Go one of two ways - either realize it's not very good or decide to kill John Lennon. Remember Lennon already got got back in 1980 and give up.
When you're losing an argument but don't want to admit you were wrong

Man in medieval garb standing on tree limb over cliff, about to chop the limb and plummet
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New story up on Patreon - free as always. Also, if you have suggestions for either artists or song titles for this year's October Music, let me know down below and I'll see what I can do to use them! www.patreon.com/aaronccross/...
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Dinner for Two | AC Cross
Five dead in ritual slaying - tzzt Gruesome murders at Boar’s End Apartments today as - tzzt - the suspect was found at the scene, still cov
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me with my bluesky mutuals
Today my five-year-old laughed at this painting in the middle of a museum for like six minutes

Old portrait of a man with a tiny face
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Going back and re-reading the Chariot WIP because I may need to give in to dark writing for a bit and, yep, the upcoming scene involving the dancers and wire is the single most disturbing/disgusting thing I've ever written. Yes, even more than the minnows scene in The Boddicker Letters.
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J.L. DoomRona, Middle Grade Author 👻 🎃 @jldurona.com · 24/09/2026
We all can't all donate, especially in this all-for-me-non-for-you society we've let ourselves get pulled into, but even a share would mean the world to my fam, y'all ❤️
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alright, now that I've had a good sleep (first one in a few days) and a little time, I should probably explain why my 'I'm 40' post was not celebratory so much as despairing. First, I do want to say thank you to all the lovely people wishing me a great birthday. It was a nice, chill day overall!
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Q4: #HorrorWritersChat I would be so genuinely stunned, mainly because it's not every day you see actual, literal pigs take wing and soar across the sky, that it would take a second for me to recover. But, in the end, all the thanks and glory go to my readers. They are the only reason I succeed.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Q3: #HorrorWritersChat I mean, the natural choice given my writing is Lovecraft, but I think he'd be really uncomfortable at an author table. So, I'm genuinely not sure. Another author who makes their audiences feel bad at the end, I imagine.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Q2: #HorrorWritersChat Ooh, tough one. I don't know who'd necessarily be on the panel, but it would definitely be about Bleak Endings and how they can not only be thematically appropriate within a story but NECESSARY at times. We'd discuss how creating that sick pit in the stomach can be massive.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Q1: #HorrorWritersChat Philosophically and physically, I am still AC Cross. I write cosmic and body and gross and bleak and even non-horror horror sometimes. Elevator pitch for His Chariot? Picture the movie 8mm and its grimy, greasy feel and combine it with sickly, dying Lovecraftian influence.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alright, now that I've had a good sleep (first one in a few days) and a little time, I should probably explain why my 'I'm 40' post was not celebratory so much as despairing. First, I do want to say thank you to all the lovely people wishing me a great birthday. It was a nice, chill day overall!
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I realize my midnight post was pretty morose, so let me genuinely say thank you to all my friends, readers, supporters, authors, editors, bloggers, and the like. You all have expanded my world and for that I am eternally grateful.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I realize my midnight post was pretty morose, so let me genuinely say thank you to all my friends, readers, supporters, authors, editors, bloggers, and the like. You all have expanded my world and for that I am eternally grateful.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Glenfarclas 25-Year scotch to ring in turning 40. I won’t say I’m excited. I’m feeling a lot of ugly things right now. But it’s another year and we’ll see how it goes. May hope and optimism prevail. Cheers.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Glenfarclas 25-Year scotch to ring in turning 40. I won’t say I’m excited. I’m feeling a lot of ugly things right now. But it’s another year and we’ll see how it goes. May hope and optimism prevail. Cheers.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I've sold four books this month. That's a lot more than usual. Not that I'm complaining, but it's surprising. This is a nicer skeet than my previous one I deleted, I think.
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Clayton Snyder @cw-snyder.com · 21/09/2026
Hey, this is live! Buy my book! a.co/d/0eDttZI2
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Red Sands
Amazon.com: Red Sands eBook : Snyder, Clayton: Kindle Store
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just read something that made me so mad that it actually crystallized a genuine hate for someone. Won't say what it is because it'll get me yelled at, but there are some actions that can't and shouldn't be forgiven, especially when they were done with the full awareness of what could happen. Horrid.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Do not get this. It is straight up dog piss. Shiner didn’t whiff - they let the bat go, it flew into the stands, and it demolished a kid.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just saying. It's September, it's closing in on my birthday (40th...*shudder*), this book has incredible cover art, and I love the little Pringles-style horror stories which - since it's spooky season - should fit right there in your TBR. www.amazon.com/October-Musi...
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Jae Koyanagi @jaekoyanagi.com · 19/09/2026
If you're into Lovecraftian horror, THE BODDICKER LETTERS by @aaronccross.bsky.social is a wonderfully unsettling epistolary novella set in the mythos in the 1920s. Finished it last night and will be ordering myself a print copy
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
how would you describe your social media reach?
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Help her out if you can. She doesn’t deserve this life-dump and neither does her cat.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Help her out if you can. She doesn’t deserve this life-dump and neither does her cat.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Meme Friday once again. I think the world just needs one big nap. Buy that thing you want. Cheer about something (not political - ain't nobody got time for that). Take a shot of bourbon at 9 AM. Take another at 9:02. 9:04. 9:05. 9:07. Go to sleep in the car. Wake up at a truck stop. Accept fate.
Me being dragged to Hell after Jesus showed me the Memes I laughed at:

Cat yelling and being pulled away
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hit me with your suggestions or I'll be forced to choose myself and nobody wants that.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm tired of my Patreon dying. New free story for you all! If you like it, leave a comment or sign up - for free. I don't need to be paid unless you want to. www.patreon.com/aaronccross/...
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Try it. That’s what they told me. It’ll be fine. That’s what they told me. Nobody really gets hurt. That’s what they told me. We all had to
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There have only been a couple times in my life where, after one bite, I had to stop and ask myself what even is my life. One was in Stillwater with frozen corn dogs. The other was just now with THIS. It was VISCERALLY upsetting. It had the physical taste and texture of depression. Life’s too short.
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AC Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He'd be a little impressed with What I've Done, but not in What It's Meant. PhD? Awesome. But not a professor or anything useful. Published multiple books? Awesome. But only a handful of people have ever read them. Beyond that, total disappointment. Wife? Kids? House? None of that? And almost 40?
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