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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Writing plans for next 6 months: Finish small tweaks to speculative novelette and publish through my micro press. Finish horror novella to sub to small press/indie press. Redraft fun murder mystery and sub to agents. I guess.😳

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The horror novella I’m working on will get published elsewhere, but I’m pub’ing this novelette through my press (it’s a novelette, who even publishes those) and I am driving myself crazy with front cover variations. Just so many. (It doesn’t entirely help that I am not very good at creating covers)

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Tales From Between @talesfrombetween.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New story by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social is up at talesfrombetween.com right now!

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a strange little book coming soooooon:

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We’ve started publishing 3 paragraph flash fiction over on talesfrombetween.com

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have you tripped into Grime Time yet?

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We’re publishing a new three paragraph strange story every Wednesday, but only if we get enough good submissions! So submit already! Head to the site: talesfrombetween.com

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We’re publishing a new three paragraph strange story every Wednesday, but only if we get enough good submissions! So submit already! Head to the site: talesfrombetween.com

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our first Rule of Three short is up! Hit the link: talesfrombetween.com/2026/09/16/h... Can you tell a strange story in just three paragraphs?? 🤔

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Another reason why Ed Sheeran sucks.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Available at various places. Yes, that one.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Available at various places. Yes, that one.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We want your odd quickies. Write em up!

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We want your odd quickies. Write em up!

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's a great weekend to read The Cellar Below the Cellar, while not hating me! Come for the misery potluck, stay for the relatively clean water. www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

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The Cellar Below the Cellar

A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless auroras. When a wild solar storm wipes out ...

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Flashback to an Ivy Grimes story we published at TFB. A time travelling Henry VIII? Well why not. Can you write the weird good stuff? Then we’re looking for your three paragraph literary oddities! Deets on the Tales From Between site.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bit niche, but there’s a woman in my office whose laugh sounds exactly (exactly) like one of the backwards laughs in the Red Dwarf ep Backwards. I believe you hear it right after the bar room unrumble. It’s uncanny.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Get to it:

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

*rings bell* Bring out yer fiction! *rings bell*

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

TFB is OPEN to submissions! Our first ongoing fiction opportunity is called RULE OF THREE. We want your short fictions. Full info here: talesfrombetween.wordpress.com/submissions/

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SUBMISSIONS

TFB PRESENTS RULE OF THREE WHAT WE WANT Chunks of tasty fiction told across THREE PARAGRAPHS and THREE PARAGRAPHS ONLY. (Kinda up to you how chunky those paras are) (within reason) (don’t be …

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The new TFB fiction opp is just the start. We WILL be bringing back a version of our TFB Presents short story collections in the future.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m in Rotterdam and signed off into blusky and suddenly a bunch of direct messages appeared that I hadn’t seen before from months ago. 🫨

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I know it’s not a new observation, but why is it that each and every car that is blasting music at an obnoxious level is always playing exclusively terrible music. No one is ever blasting Paul Simon at an ear bleeding volume.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Latest book read:

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I don’t think any other eyes will see it until at least draft 4..!😄

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Finished writing the first draft of a fun murder mystery novel a few weeks back, and today I completed draft one of a horror novelette. I have a second horror novelette to complete and then draft two of the novel.

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Tim Robinson: I'm Doing Something!

ALT: Tim Robinson: I'm Doing Something!

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As I step out as a writer again, with stories to show off, it occurs I’m actually going to have to consider and work out some sort of consistent and useful social media presence.

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Annoyed Liz Lemon

ALT: Annoyed Liz Lemon

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Every time a new Phoebe Bridgers album comes out I hear that first single and think ‘ah, yep, like this’. Then I listen to the full album. Why can’t I be cool and like the dreary songs.🥲

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Watched I Saw The TV Glow, was a weird enjoyable time, but the ‘baddie’ was giving me major Mighty Boosh flashbacks.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Spent the whole book assuming there was going to be a twist or turn because it couldn’t just be that guy. It was that guy.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Read a book not too long ago where it was supposed to be a reveal who a serial killer was. Turned out it was the guy acting like a scary monster killer in the first chapter. Would never have guessed.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You do read some books that all the same gaggle of reviewers rave about and wonder what on Earth it is they’re talking about.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Now I let the draft sit for a bit, and in the meantime I get to work finishing my horror novelette. 🕺

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’v just hit THE END on my fun murder mystery novel. The first long work I’ve been able to finish in yeeeaaarrrsss.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’m up to the chapter in my murder mystery where I reveal the killer. 🫨

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What happened to US sitcoms like Parks & Rec, 30 Rock, Arrested Development? Superstore feels like the last one I saw. Are they still made but we don’t get them? Seems to be all 10 ep light comedy things with big stars on streaming services these days, like Shrinking.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m pushing through because I want to finish, but good lord is the main characters first person narration repetitive. Could’ve trimmed a lot. A book from an author who is massively popular in the current horror fiction world, too.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I miiiight finish writing this first draft this week. It’ll be more or less done, at least.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My three year old just patted me on the belly and said ‘Hello there, big fella.’ Might be time to cut back on the biscuits.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Well, blocked someone on here for the first time. ‘Actors taking the dirty Potter cash are shitty- shitty people’ is apparently not a strong enough sentiment for them. Enough to try and start a pile on.

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Matthew Stott @matthewstott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Let me tell you in mopey first person how my life started terribly, then got worse, then actually got even worse. And I haven’t even got to this books story yet. Humour? I don’t know her.

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