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Paula D. Ashe

@pauladashe.bsky.social
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Award winning author of WE ARE HERE TO HURT EACH OTHER. Developmental editor. Hellraiser obsessive. Queen of Martyrs. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏽. Opinions = mine alone. Rep: Lane Heymont linktr.ee/pauladashe

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hey, folks! I'm extending the Cursed Morsels: A Food Systems Horror Anthology call, so you now have until September 28th to submit a story. I was worried I wouldn't have enough stories to fill the book, so it seemed like the right move. Details here: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...
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Submission Calls
Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN Until September 14th) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideal…
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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There's so much good work by trans artists being made, in spite of the narrow limits of what mainstream channels consider it permissible that we create. If you're interested in trying some trans (+ nonbinary, + two spirit, + intersex) stories: beforewegoblog.com/reading-tran...
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A Year of Reading Transly: 24 Recommendations Across Genre and Joy
A year of books that refuse to be simplified   Like many onlookers in the wake of Trump's election last year, I've consistently wrestled with f
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Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Reminder: @scaresthatcare.bsky.social’s annual charity event, AuthorCon, is way less expensive than StokerCon. Readers & authors will get more from the programming than any other con because I singlehandedly curate it to do just that. scaresthatcare.org/author-con Guest of honor list update soon!
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Scares That Care
Join us for Author Con VII, a thrilling book convention dedicated to charity and storytelling, happening March 5-7, 2027!
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’d just like someone who’s actually fucking evil to bite it for once. 🤬
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
WHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYY THIS SUCKS
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Dolly Parton, country music icon, dies at 80
Her death came after in May 2026 she announced she was canceling a Las Vegas show and said she’d been undergoing treatment for kidney stones for several years.
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Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com · 21/08/2026
Hey, guess who's got two thumbs and is opening to submissions on Aug 24? It's THIS MAG. Actually, I guess the magazine doesn't have any thumbs, but I—JJA—do, and I'm eager to get them all over dem horror stories after 6 years out of the editorial chair. I guess it will mostly be my other fingers.
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🥵
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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I want to plug some of my stuff. My short story collection, Shelter From The Storm, moves a bit away from the more Lovecraftian/ghost story mode into a mix of styles, some more experimental. I think of my emerging style here as eerie fabulism. notionpress.com/in/read/shel...
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Shelter From The Storm
12 stories of beauty and terror, from the winding streets of a city that exists in more dimensions than this one, to the ongoing end of time. There are many ways to lose yourself, perhaps as many ways...
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This seems helpful!
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Sharing because I believe context is important.
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
OH HELL YES
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Outstanding story.
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’m crying 😂😂😂 “also cancel culture is real and it made a baby and the baby looked at me”
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I would like a lifetime subscription please
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The latest @locusmag.bsky.social — which you should subscribe to — has interesting book deal news, including forthcoming titles from @elliottgish.bsky.social @zinrock.bsky.social and @horrorsong.blog
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Folks, Lightspeed & Nightmare magazines need your support. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a...
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Announcement: We're Launching a New Kickstarter Soon. Sign up to be notified when it launches! - Lightspeed Magazine
On September 15, 2026, we’ll be launching our first Kickstarter campaign in more than a decade, to fund Year 17 of Lightspeed and Year 15 of Nightmare. Join us for a year of new short fiction from som...
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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 01/08/2026
I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Using a GIF only, share your favorite horror movie (the quoted post is also a top ten favorite, actually in my top three)
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Hellraiser Pinhead: Explorers Quote
Alt: Hellraiser scene of the Hellpriest’s arrival. He is saying, “Explorers in the further regions of experience. Demons to some. Angels to others.”
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is cool.
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hit me.
Text reads: A Writer Ask Game by Theodore Snapdragon. 

1. What's your favorite part of writing?
2. What's the scariest thing you've ever written?
3. Do you usually write happy, sad, or other kinds of endings?
4. Who is your favorite author?
5. What's your favorite type of scene to write?
6. What's your favorite type of symbolism?
7. What's your least favorite part of writing?
8. Where do your ideas come from?
9. What're your favorite themes?
10. What's the most wholesome thing you've written?
11. Have you ever had writer's block?
12. Do you have a favorite character?
13. What drives you to write?
14. What's your favorite part of your current WIP?
15. Do you have a favorite of your writing projects?
16. Do you enjoy editing?
17. What's the saddest thing you've ever written?
18. Do you like long or short form writing better?
19. What's the hardest thing to write?
20. What song(s) inspire you to write?
21. Do you have a specific type of reader in mind when you write?
22. Is your prose more purple or beige?
23. Do you have any monsterous characters, metaphorically or literally?
24. What're your favorite books?
25. Do you usually write with specific themes in mind, or find them during writing?
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A Writer Ask Game!
By Theodore Snapdragon
26. Does being a writer impact how you see the world?
27. What's the weirdest thing you've ever written? The shortest?
28. Would you say you love writing?
29. Is there a specific author you want to be like?
30. What's the most annoying task in writing?
31. What's your biggest grammar pet peeve?
32. Which of your characters do you find yourself thinking of the most?
33. Do you have other passions besides writing?
34. What's the most romantic thing you've ever written?
35. How do you establish setting in your writing?
36. Do you enjoy writing dialogue?
37. How much time do you spend inventing background lore for your writing?
38. What's the longest thing you've ever written?
39. Do you have a favorite genre to write in?…
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Thread, and if you are an author who was published by Daily Science Fiction (DSF), which is now defunct, you may want to check if your stories have been scraped and hosted on this new site that is NOT seeking permission and is making itself impossible to contact directly. FINISH THEM. ⬇️
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hmm. 🤔
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Stacks.
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Gorgeous, gruesome, ghastly. Good stuff from @gaycannibalism.bsky.social
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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In which @reactorsff.bsky.social calls Muñeca a "creepy, engrossing Gothic feast of a debut" and I still pinch myself a little bit. Jenny Hamilton also praises the happy Gothic revival we're in, and I concur. reactormag.com/book-review-...
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Free Will, Family Obligations, and First Love: Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez - Reactor
Jenny Hamilton reviews a "creepy, engrossing Gothic feast of a debut."
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What is this??
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
MAKE CARRIE FAT YOU COWARDS
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Post a meme made by you
Cara Delivigne looking intently at Megan thee Stallion during some awards show.
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✨️intelligentwat✨️ BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
thank you to everyone who has donated, shared, and sent a wonderful, kind word of support. I've relayed every single one to my family. we're still collecting what we can for the kids and for a move closer to the kids' school, friends, and family. gofund.me/f4ba517ba
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Donate to Support for John, Teri, and Kids After Tragic Loss, organized by Teri Clarke
hello. My name is Teri Clarke and my partner John Grimm and I need your… Teri Clarke needs your support for Support for John, Teri, and Kids After Tragic Loss
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Every time I think things couldn’t get any worse a Johnny Depp movie comes out.
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Write your stories in first person. That way if the story is bad you can blame the character, not your own writing. Follow me for more writing tips.
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The works of Joe Koch + Stranger by the Lake = I’m sat
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The eternal struggle.
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I tried to watch that AI Neill Blomkamp movie and I lasted maybe four minutes, including ADHD induced fast forwarding out of nausea/boredom. The most generic plot (?) thrown together in a soulless slop of audiovisual stimulation. It’s a ‘movie’ in the same way that taking a shit is a ‘feast’.
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Caleb @calebjcook.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
WHEW. This is one gnarly and fucked-up collection of stories, and beautifully written, too. Really good stuff, @pauladashe.bsky.social. I’m sure I won’t regret finishing it right before bedtime or anything.
My hand holds the cover of We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe. Be sure to take a good long look at the Man with the Face of Teeth.
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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
With PAPER TRAIL, Don Hertzfeldt abandons stick figures for abstraction and paperwork with fourteen of the most devastating minutes of the year. A superb, heart-annihilating achievement. Watch this short if you can!
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Paper Trail - Fantasia review - Whitlock&Pope
With Paper Trail (★★★★) Don Hertzfeldt abandons stick figures for a life told entirely in scraps of paper, and what begins as bewildering abstraction resolves into fourteen of the most quietly devasta...
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Very excited for this! I’ll also be letting you all know about an upcoming project being (hopefully) released in October! 😏
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
fun fact: this piece was included in dave ring's reading recs for "The Bog Body Motif in Trans SFF" panel at Reader Con 💐⚰️💑 bsky.app/profile/neon...
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Really enjoyed Evil Dead Burn. (Surprising probably no one.)
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
*monster truck announcer voice* 🗣️ SUNDAY💥SUNDAY💥SUNDAY💥
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
❤️🖤❤️
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Let’s help Zin out!
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thinking about this helps me (better) understand why I like cenobites so much (‘I just think they’re neat!’), but it’s because I believe I can endure any pain if there’s a promise of transcendence. If I can be changed, fully. It can’t be worse than this (now).
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Here's the sort of "The Bog Body Motif in Trans SFF unsyllabus" I compiled from this thread as well as contributions from panelists Ann LeBlanc and Sonya Taeffe: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Unsyllabus: The Bog Body Motif in Trans SFF
Something like a syllabus for a course that doesn’t exist…. curated for The Bog Body Motif in Trans SFF, Salon C-D, Saturday, July 11, 2026 13:00. Readercon. Ann LeBlanc dave ring (moderator) Sonya Ta...
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m a goddamn delight. (I actually have writerly news that I’ll share during this discussion. Like, the good kind of news.)
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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Would like to baldly push my wares here this morning, especially a novel of mine that gets scant attention among my other work: BORIS SAYS THE WORDS. The more I think on it, the more I wish this had a bigger audience. That is, say, 15 readers, instead of, say, 5. Etc. a.co/d/07My296K
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This story is so stupid good. I read it this morning and I’m still gobsmacked.
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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This sounds fucking awesome. I love Val Loughcrewe’s work. (Music too!)
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