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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

WE ARE $125 AWAY FROM GOAL! Help a Black indie author tell this story, get some sneak peaks of the art, and reserve your copy of an awesome book! $7 for the eBook version! Give a tip for $1! #Authorsky #Writesky #Booksky #Blackbooksky #amwriting #mutualaid

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm feeling the extreme warmth and optimism that only comes when my morning coffee hits. Blessings and good tidings to you all!! It's that double exclamation point feeling.

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O F SCARY @ossuary.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My campaign to be the 2026 FACE OF HALLOWEEN is LIVE! This contest is run by Colossal Impact and has a $13000 cash prize that I will be using to help with production costs for Voidcon 2027. All you need to do to help is share my campaign and vote for me. faceofhalloween.org/2026/cieri

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It’s up to you to decide their fate... Help decide who will haunt the pages of Rue Morgue Magazine, claim $13,000, and meet horror legends!

I'm A Pulp Novelist Based Out Of NYC. I've Written Three Books, Including The Sapphic Satanic Panic Novel Backmask.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I just discovered Persephone Books, which seem like they'd be made for me (other than how expensive they are). BUT in this old guardian article, the founder says she doesn't care for Barbara Pym!! www.theguardian.com/books/2012/n...

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One shade of grey: how Nicola Beauman made an unlikely success of Persephone Books

When she founded Persephone Books to resurrect 'forgotten' novels, and publish them in signature grey covers, Nicola Beauman had no inkling of the cult status it would achieve – nor that one of her ti...

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’ll have to look into these! That’s a great point.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

bake a cathedral Edith Södergran, ‘Hope’, translated by Jaakko A. Ahokas.

I want to forget my manners - I couldn't care less about noble styles, I roll up my sleeves.
The dough of poetry is rising ...
Oh, what a sorrow - I can't bake cathedrals...
The soaring high forms —
The goal of persistent yearning.
Child of our time -
doesn't your soul have its right shell?
Before I die
I'll bake a cathedral.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

oh, I'll have to check the podcast out, too!

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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why is cafeteria pizza always the same? A square of dough with a scattering of cheese and pepperoni and a quiet voice whispering underneath it all as you chew explaining that if you give in, just a little, your life would be so much better. Why is that?

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you so much for reading and sharing about Glass Stories, Anika!!

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Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What if it wasn't a glass slipper but a glass book? What if the action took place in a bookshop and not at a grand ball? Just a couple of questions answered in @ivygrimes.bsky.social witty and surreal collection Glass Stories. grimscribepress.com/glass-stories/

Painting of a figure in robes with a covered winged skull floating above them.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

NOW LIVE! When Brody loses his wife, he takes his daughter to a small mountain town to try to restart. What he finds is bad neighbors, worse cops, and ghostly intruders. But is there something darker lurking in the town of Orolet? #Booksky BACK IT TODAY! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

STAY WOKE
BLACK AF PROTAGONIST
STAY WOKE
K.C. CLYBURN
SPOOKY CABIN IN THE WOODS
SMALL TOWN BIG SCANDAL
A DEAD WIFE RETURNS FROM THE GRAVE?
TENSE/UNCOMFORTABLE
BODIES IN THE LAKE
ALL FATHER AND DAUGHTER HAVE IS EACH OTHER

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maybe it's time for me to bring in a picture of Rod Stewart when I get my hair cut

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today's question for consideration: It feels like there’s pressure in both literary and genre fiction to write about “important topics.” Is there a way to offer readers escapism and depth at the same time, though? ivygrimes.substack.com/p/dear-ivy-w...

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Dear Ivy: Writing Advice

escapism v. importance

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Get in on this exciting project now!

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 06/10/2026

hey if any graphic designer out here has some spare few minutes to do some odds and ends graphic designery things to help out with a couple of things as I try to fix up this website, I would pay you some dollars for your time please email sean @ the website that this is. thx

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RELEASE DAY! YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, featuring New Weird Cosmic Horror from 30+ trans & gender nonconforming creators, is OUT NOW WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD. Direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com Prcoeeds benefit the Trans Doe Task Force & Trans Legal Services Network. Hail the Weird🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Cover art by Mx Morgan G Robles, a swan alights on a cosmic sea, flanked by the colors of the trans flag.

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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You have passed. You have pass failed. You have failed. You have failed in passing. We are past. We are passing. We have passed. All ghosts are ghosts to each other. Please sign your name at the bottom and turn in your paper as you leave. You have left. You are never leaving.

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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had so much fun talking with @ljabouttown.bsky.social! LJ is an amazing interviewer and was patient with my nervous speech habits/knew how to draw the story out and made me so comfy. We laughed, maybe we cried too? but you can't see our faces.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Y'all, we made it to 100. Met the goal! And yet, wouldn't you know it...now we have a new goal! And that goal is...uh....125!

This offers a screenshot of Goodreads as undeniable proof that The Cellar Below the Cellar has now reached 100 ratings. The screenshot is a little blurry, though.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“I think hunting used to be important for human survival. That’s no longer the case, but they can’t stop…These humans are manipulated by what remains of their memories.”

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Devilry in Godling Wood: A Medieval Horror is out in 18 days! Goliard Damiano seeks fortune in Graf Hagen's court but becomes entangled in unraveling an ancient secret lurking in Godling Wood, where a creature older than time still lurks. www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

Devilry in Golding Wood by Coy Hall. Cover art features a man in a monk's habit on a chimerical horse. A dragon-like creature wraps its tail around the horse's cloven hooves.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yeah, the only thing is, you've gotta decide the day before and get it going

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“There was no stress before 1989, only suffering.”

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Homo sapiens is not made for battle, so it ought to be like rabbits and deer and learn the wisdom and the art of flight. But it loves battle and war."

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Robyn Schindeldecker @flyrobynfly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How far into giving a eulogy do you think you could get before people realize you're just quoting "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"?

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Tiffany Michelle Brown (she/her) @tmbwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tonight, we celebrate the launch of Palm Tree Punk by the incredible @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social at North Figueroa Bookshop, 7-9pm. Mitch has asked me to read, so I'll be sharing some dark verse from Under Her Skin and Under Her Eye. Join us for community, poetry, and creative magic. 🌴👊🌴👊

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Get in on this exciting project now!

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear

In life, we don’t have a choice, because everything we are capable of is still not very much compared with life itself, not nearly as much as we imagine. And if we do t get this not-very-much exactly right, we will not survive. This fundamental principle can’t be terribly different even for spoiler young people in a prosperous society.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026

On The Project Censored Show, I talked about why the Detention Mortality Map keeps the names of people who die in ICE custody, so the scope of the problem is visible and the names are not lost. www.projectcensored.org/the-detentio... @projectcensored.bsky.social

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's time! The @apexmag.bsky.social 2027 Kickstarter is live! Help us fund another year of strange, shocking, beautiful, and surreal speculative fiction! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially into: birds, big storms, Stardew Valley, socks, love poems, lists, harbor seals, friction, ghazals, balloons, The Crane Wives, fall vibes, footprints, chronic illness, and cobwebs.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

an article that talks about Bluesky without the acknowledgment that Black users and trans users helped this place find an audience and that Blacksky was created in response to the belligerence and violence of angry white former Twitter users gentrifying the place is an article not worth reading

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🎃 The Wicker Amber 🎃 @elementalamber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"There is no real justice system." The trial for my sexual assault was one of the worst things I've ever experienced. Defense for the dr who assaulted me and raped others demanded details of my sex life and told the jury should decide for themselves if I lost my (wanted) pregnancies on purpose.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PSA! Our free-submissions window closes today.

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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i'm intrigued by dream horror, but all sound good

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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 29/09/2026

Also, fellow Texans, the GOP might have put your voter status in "suspense" recently, so you should check to make sure everything is correct and you are registered EVEN IF you are pretty sure you're registered. This includes 300K in Houston alone.

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300K Houston-area voters are on Texas’ suspense list. What to know.

About 300,000 Houston-area voters are on Texas’ suspense list. Here’s how to check your status, update your address and make sure you can vote.

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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know when you open a door and there's the door you already opened, closed in front of you, and you think to yourself, Ha, I guess I must've not opened the door, and then someone opens you instead? That feeling?

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