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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's almost apartments now.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

What on (and just above, mostly to the left) blue blazes? Shroomses.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

and I love you and I'm tired of you Anyone else wishing their beloved novel would just shut up already? #amwriting #speculativefiction #wip

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In “Like Paralda”—available now in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52—an ambitious musician explores the utility of envy and how artistic autonomy means mutation: becoming something the system can no longer commodify. #anticapitalist #speculativefiction #WeirdFiction

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"A Concise Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Terms". A must-have for writing a novel about a basilica built on terrible secrets! Okay, maybe not a must-have, but fun & useful. Great estate sale find. Certainly not the original owner’s intended use…😈 #SpeculativeFiction #WritingResearch #ReligiousHorror

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I’m proud to announce that my short story “Like Paralda” has been published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no. 52. I’m honored to be included among so many remarkable LCRW contributors. Available July 7, 2026. Link in bio.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is exactly the sort of history I love to explore in my writing. What if pulp occultism was real and ubiquitous? So far, all the answers I’ve cobbled together point toward something as bleak and beautiful as our own world, if weirder and worse.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Fought a gang of pill bugs for a key under the moldering hemp doormat and he was in.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

BLACK BRANE by @michaelcisco.bsky.social Reading this book is clinging to the edge of a hole. Finishing is falling in. It swallows whole horror and philosophy and string theory and the occult. Entangle yourself in this novel.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Sámano Córdova A mother grows something to love from her son's lung - a monster, a person, a monster. Strange, dark, hopeful, heartbreaking. A story of loving on purpose. Find a cozy spot to hang from your arm tail, unhinge your novel-jaw, and devour this book.

Cover design by Alex Merto @alexmerto [Image 1 & 2] & Miette Kringen [Image 3]

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Haunted Chest of Drawers Marcelin (Ed.): "La Vie Parisienne" (1863)

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Attended @awpwriter.org in Baltimore. What a treat. I spent the first two days talking about how charming it was, only to find out it's called Charm City! I friggin love you, Bmore, can't wait to come back.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is the year I discover the spirit of Christmas. After that, I'm not sure. I guess, learn and incorporate its true name into a pentacle written on virgin parchment, summon it, bind it within a magic circle of salt, then bend it to my mortal will? We'll see if there's time.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"I simply want ice cream and to be alive until I am dead." - "The House Call" from Near Flesh, by Katherine Dunn. #writingcommunity

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"I regard writing not as investigation of character, but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed." - Evelyn Waugh This quote gifted me the fulfilling experience of reading something I already knew, but couldn't yet voice. #writingcommunity

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Move over annelids, handelids are the new it-worm!

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Carolina anole(?) enjoying a warm right triangle.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Sound on! A magical and chilling experience at Congaree National Park. Arboretum: Bassoons in the Congaree National Park put on by @sc.edu

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I think what I want is to live without knowing or feeling it. Antisocieties, by michaelcisco.bsky.social

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

"So, how was your life? What did you do?" - my toddler

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Now that he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible. 1984, by George Orwell

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

The girl woke up feeling entirely at ease. She knew from habit that her mother would soon come into her room to open the curtains and let the morning in. Her mother would look at her with tender love, and say:

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Would exasperation, however, if relief had longer been postponed, finally have betrayed me? It little matters, for relief arrived.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture. After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

The White Ma'at: a woman, or a woman-shaped thing, built in a long and heavy way, with a tall forehead like a white wall and a knotty blue vein labouring up it. What lies on the other side is a great store of irregular, wonderful knowledge; a cellar provisioned with all the vintages of magic.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Of course I was under the spell—and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. But I gave myself up to it: it was an antidote to any pain, and I had more pains than one. THE TURN OF THE SCREW, by Henry James

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Happy Christmas to me! Can't wait to crack this one open. My secret Santa says there is even more coming from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social too!

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

1/2 A dead willow leans above the pool, tangling its wan, skeleton-like reflection with the green scum that mottles the water. There are no blackbirds, no kildees, no dragon-flies even, such as one usually finds in a place of that sort. It is all silent and desolate.

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

You can't manufacture saints like sausages! THE SHADOWY STREET, by Jean Ray

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

1/2 The infernal swimmer shouted curses and supplications. ”Ballister! I'll make you rich, richer than all men on earth put together! I'll make you die, you imbecile, in horrible tortures that are unknown on your accursed planet!

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Matthew Bean @mbean.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Sometimes you holler at your dog to stop barking not because they'll listen, but so the neighbors know you'd like them to shut up too.

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