Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How I arrived on BlueSkystatic.klipy.comGeorge Carlin: Pardon Me, I Have Nothing To SayAlt: George Carlin: Pardon Me, I Have Nothing To Say 020
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Post a vampire that’s not the ol’ Draccy-Drac coming in for the spicy wetsstatic.klipy.comThe Lost Boys: David on the CarouselAlt: The Lost Boys: David on the Carousel 041
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, I went to a new record store this weekend, but I’m listening to the new Phoebe Bridgers album for reasons. 021
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Films you’ve watched more than six times with a GIFstatic.klipy.comRambo: Nothing Is Over! John Rambo QuoteAlt: Rambo: Nothing Is Over! John Rambo Quote 130
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Congrats to @inkwellmonster.bsky.social on winning the HWA elections! It looks like now, when she admonishes me to help corral pitch authors at next year’s Stokercon, I better be punctual. 052
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When some awful news-worthy thing happens to a kid, it’s rarely school, friends, or pop culture at the heart of it; it’s usually the goddamned parents. And when parents complain about something their kid does…well, blame-shifting is a helluva drug. 010
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Next year, everyone’s going to be reading a story of mine in an anthology celebrated The Shining, and that story (a transcript of a journalist’s notebook) was partially inspired by how I take notes. Exhibit A: This fucking mess of notes I’m taking for research on food processing. 020
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I like Phoebe Bridgers, have been listening to the new album, but she’s a particular vibe, right? Enough so that when someone says, I’ve been listening to that new Phoebe Bridgers album a lot, the only response should be, “So, um, you being doing all right, man?” My view this evening while walking. 010
Reposted by Paul Michael AndersonChloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I made a meme 0899
Reposted by Paul Michael Anderson🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it. 6672972107
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026So this is 43. Went to work, pitched a new collection, reviewed a story contract. My kid sculpted the Jack o’lantern keychain you see. 150
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I realized I never shared this; my teen has been periodically showing me anime she likes, including Studio Ghibli, and the one I enjoy the most is My Neighbor Totoro. Months ago, she sculpted these guys and they now rest atop my music case. 050
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When I edited, back in the day, I had to cut it at the opening para/end of the page because there were simply too many. Occasionally, I’d get a first time submitter or kid writer and my teacher-side would take over and give personalized feedback, but that was *rare*. 001
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Did I need more books? Fuck no. Did I pick up new books anyway in order to support a new genre shop just outside of DC? Fuck yes. This is the Long Dark House in Alexandria, Virginia. 030
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This might sound painfully arrogant, but I was re-reading my old *old* story “All That You Leave Behind,” for reasons I won’t get into here, and I was struck by how, 10 years later, I *still* love how it turned out. That’s not common for me; I’m infuriatingly nitpicky on shit. 010
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026We all wished that for the sake of our awkward high school goblin selves. 040
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I routinely crack jokes among my close friends about it because we were ALL connected in some way. Ironically, when today finally hit, I was solemn as fuck. 2501
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Oh, heyyy, it’s a book that royally fucked me up. 010
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I can’t begin to thank editor Jamie Flanagan and their team enough for liking a story about a reporter’s obsession written as notes in a notepad (not kidding). 030
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026And just like that, I’ve turned in the final edits (I think? Sure, let’s go with it) for “In These Silences, You Want It More”, which will be appearing in VIEWS FROM THE OVERLOOK, an anthology from Vintage Books next year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s THE SHINING. 140
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026AND HERE COMES AUTUMN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR 020
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I have felt myself wither like an Indiana Jones villain who chose the wrong Holy Grail whenever I’ve talked to my high school students about renting movies and leaving the house with the confidence that no one could contact me if I didn’t want them to. 141
Reposted by Paul Michael AndersonKaty // is listening to the wolfman take a piss @katysaint.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his balls? "No!" Says Lil Jon, "It belongs to the windows! To the walls!" 2835891160
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Stokercon is, for the majority of people, the only public-facing aspect to the HWA, so there’s at least the semblance of transparency with what they do. The rest of HWA? Forget the very real question mark of how it “benefits” writers, no one knows anything about it. Yay for secret clubs, I guess? 0102
Reposted by Paul Michael AndersonAlan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Absolutely. Have a StokerCon committee (like other cons) who also manage the Stoker Awards and throw the entire HWA in the bin. Irredeemable at this point, I think. 0192
Reposted by Paul Michael Anderson🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dudes Rock 0142
Reposted by Paul Michael AndersonCass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 25/08/2026No, there are no acceptable uses. Yes, it is different from collaborating with an actual human being who thinks and feels and understands nuance and was not born of a mass criminal act. (I mean, probably. You never know with some families, I guess.) 1151
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I cannot begin to sum up in any form of articulate speech how much I loathe these people. The closest I get: I wish them an eternal case of poison oak, and I wish for them to have a violent (but non-lethal) allergy to it. 000
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026*shoes, not shows. Dammit. So close. 000
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Hi. Teacher here with 20 years experience and a Master’s in Education. What this clown shows of an ed sec is saying is emphatically *not* how people, especially kids, learn. Learning is not “being fed”, it is not passive, and these ghouls know that…but the monetary donations are *so good*. 370
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026My head canon is, yes, and Rhodes definitely threw some language around, but they were too valuable to piss off and he only assumed command in the last 24 hours of their base’s existence, so he did it out of earshot/in his head. 030
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Welp, I’ve found a new classroom decoration 000
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Legit wrote that on a friend’s moving box two weeks ago. 010
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Wildflowers (1994)static.klipy.comTom Petty Sings 'People Come, People Go'Alt: Tom Petty Sings 'People Come, People Go' 020
Reposted by Paul Michael AndersonHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I just saw this concrete guy proclaim that nature is healing and he knows we're on the mend because kids are drawing dicks in wet concrete again but I would put fifty bucks on it being a millennial dick doodler. 61306
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I don’t know why it’s coming across my feed now, but—static.klipy.comHello ThereAlt: Hello There 010
Reposted by Paul Michael AndersonFANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 14/08/2026THE FLY is a brilliant fusion of horror, romance, loss, and longing. We’re celebrating David Cronenberg’s heartbreaking epic 40 years later.dlvr.itCelebrating 40 Years Of Cronenberg’s THE FLY: A Devastatingly Romantic MovieTHE FLY is a brilliant fusion of horror, romance, loss, and longing. We’re celebrating David Cronenberg’s heartbreaking epic 40 years later. 1112630
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I tried Threads a few years back, it was the fucking worst. 030
Reposted by Paul Michael AndersonRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Every actor justifying their role in harry potter 122105524
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026And not really the point here, and we’re on social media where composition is informal, anyway, but this errant comma on a *publisher’s* bio bugs me. If he meant to present the “previously” as an appositive, he needed a preceding comma (devil horn commas, I teach my students) 010
Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This writer, by the way, is Axios’s *publisher*, and he is apparently this deeply, deeply stupid. I’m really tired of living in a system where connected folks can just fail upwards, and we have to all be okay with that. 3196
