Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 20hThese little assholes. Stink bugs. Twice a year, we get nailed by seasonal swarms of them—trying to get in the house or out of the house. They don’t bite, but are super annoying and big. And we live in the woods, so there’s tons of them. We pulled 20 or so from our bedroom curtains last week. 150
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When I briefly met Harlan Ellison a million years ago, he was signing books in a university bookstore. I asked him what he was going to do that night. “Sit in my hotel room and stare at the wall,” he said. 311551
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh good. I have complete faith in these tech overlords to do what’s right for American society and the planet as a whole. I mean, they’ve given me zero reason to doubt them. At this weird intersection of delusional billionaires, Republican greed, and epoch-ending technology, I feel very confident. 040
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Stanley Kubrick and his longtime driver, Emilio D’Allessandro. They became great friends, and Emilio’s book STANLEY AND ME shows a different side to the director. Emilio liked cars and wasn’t much of a film buff, and never even saw Stanley’s movies until much later. They were just pals. 030
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I like book’s. What about you? What are some of you’re favorite book’s? 250
Reposted by Polly SchattelAndrew K. Clark ✨ @theandrewkclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thanks to the folks over at Nerd Daily for publishing an excerpt of Hollow Folk today. Read part of chapter 1, then place your order if you haven’t 👀 thenerddaily.com/hollow-folk-...thenerddaily.comRead An Excerpt From 'Hollow Folk' by Andrew K. Clark | The Nerd DailySet deep in the mountains of Western North Carolina during the sweltering summer of 1993, Hollow Folk is a lyrical, atmospheric horror romance by Southern Appalachian author Andrew K. Clark. 072
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the most interesting voices in horror. And he’s young! Keep an eye on this dude. 163
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Maybe it’s, you know, not a phase? 🤷🏼♀️ Let kids be kids. You don’t own them. They own themselves. A parents’ job is to help usher a young human soul into a happy adulthood as effectively as possible. Not to change them, not to fix them. You are a steward, helping someone to find their rightful place. 040
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is good advice. It’s not Trump. It goes deeper than Trump. 040
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Living with a dietitian wife is not only like, “Holy crap, you’re not eating that!” but also like, “Holy crap, look at all the protein in your urine! Your creatinine levels are probably insane!” And then sashaying out of the bathroom while I have nightmares about little creatinines coming to get me. 190
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My kid's in Arizona, and my wife and I are enjoying his Mexican food journey with vicarious relish. He said this place was super cheap, super authentic, and super meaty. Which would be a problem for us, granted. But we can still gaze at it in quiet, covetous wonder. 0150
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ah yes, like the evil clown Pennywise but with less panache, Jill Stein reappears every few years, doing her damage in cycles. 391
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Working on my Strat today. I like tinkering around with my guitars. In another lifetime, I could have been a luthier. I just like looking at them. But Leo Fender nailed it. I mostly play Tele’s, but the Strat is truly a perfect guitar. The most expressive musical instrument ever invented. 050
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Argiope aurantia. The garden spider. Big, dramatic beautiful webs. Almost always a female. And yep, there’s the crushed and disarrayed corpse of her boyfriend. These girls don’t play. But they’re completely harmless to humans. They’re our friends, but you don’t want to run into her face first. 140
Reposted by Polly SchattelWeird Fiction Quarterly @weirdfictionquarterly.com · 24/09/2026"Liminal Spaces & Beings" is NOW out. Get our latest release before that amorphous being growling behind you beats you to it. #LiminalSpaces #WeirdFictionQuarterly #FlashFiction #WeirdFiction #Shapeshiftersweirdfictionquarterly.comNOCLIP through our new Liminal Spaces & Beings issueOur new issue on liminal spaces and beings has escaped containment and is now available for anyone to order and read. 0169
Reposted by Polly SchattelRon Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In honour of Bruce Springsteen's birthday I thought I'd post a few faves from my Rawnboy Channel Here's "Badlands" RS youtu.be/kpY9hsRGFjk?...youtu.beRON SINGS "BADLANDS" BY BRUCE SPRINGSTEENYouTube video by Rawnboy 0395
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m so glad Sen. Tuber-Man brought this up. For too long the furries have been in charge of our skies! How can they bring our American travelers in safely with those big paws and those eyeholes they can’t even see out of! Biden should have never personally hired those radical furry terrorists! 030
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I want to be like this guy. I want to straighten my fez and pull a Luger from my lapel and back everyone against the wall while I tell them my devious plans. I want to quit the room in a swirl of hookah smoke, rush downstairs and into the street, hop in the taxi, and take off into the crowded night. 260
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm writing a dark fantasy about a crazed evil despot right now, and honestly, even in the realm of fantasy it doesn't compare to Donald Trump in real life. He's 100 percent doing the things evil despots do, including destroying their own countries from within. We live in extraordinary times. 0100
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Iris contemplates her place in the universe. Or at least her place in the trails beneath the power lines. #rescue #doglife #pittielove 3100
Reposted by Polly SchattelJayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If you're going to fail at mundane things like having a career, getting fit, integrating your personality, why not spice things up and also fail at something magnificent like trying to make great art? 2265
Reposted by Polly SchattelDavid Whitman @davidwhitman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The press is banned. Gas and diesel prices are through the roof. Grocery store prices continue to climb. Many Americans can barely survive. But, at least the pedo Orange Shitgibbon and his cronies have these two fucking idiots front and center to make things great… 041
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Trans woman goes into a redneck shoe store. I might as well have a “I groom babies and worship Lucifer” t-shirt on. Boone’s not too sure about the whole thing. 060
Reposted by Polly Schattelpopuluxe 🍃 @populuxe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026the years of rice & salt (2002) 0103
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Haha. We ain’t going nowhere. We are resilient, strong, defiant. You can’t legislate authenticity out of existence. Strike one of us down and nine eggy twinks spring up in her place. 081
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Went to see Jay Farrar and Son Volt last night. Fantastic stuff. Farrar isn’t quite the nuclear charisma bomb his old bandmate Jeff Tweedy is, but the songs and the *sound* of them is all there. And he’s held firmly to his muse all these years, which is a real accomplishment. A brilliant artist. 050
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Two cool vegetarian recipes from the maestro himself—a very interesting beer cheese dip, and also a baba ganoush dip oddly mislabeled “taheeni” (which really refers to sesame seed butter, oddly not present in the dish). Pro tip: if you char the eggplant on the open flame, it takes on a smoky edge. 070
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’ve had this clock radio since I was in high school. That’s [a very long time]. We never listen to it, and it doesn’t even show the right hour or minutes. But my wife insists on plugging it in and keeping it going. It takes up a central place in our kitchen. I don’t mind. 1100
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hilarious. Even radical anti-trans groups are saying, “Uh, guys, the anti-trans ads ain’t working so well anymore.” 050
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026That’s what I’m talking about. 8:59:29 is one of my very favorite things I’ve ever written. Very dark but very fun. Hayley Heninger of “Palimpsest” does a fantastic job of narrating. It’s short and sharp. Available on Audible and (soon) Spotify. 050
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Highly acclaimed cop show, 2004: “Miller, you’d better watch yourself. Shenanigans like that are why downtown sent you here in the first place.” Highly acclaimed cop show, 2026: “Muller, you’d better watch it. Shenanigans like that are why the captain sent you here in the first place.” 020
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Proud of this guy. In AVL, we’ve watched him go from talented scribe to Boss man in just a few years. Dude is killing it. 131
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I LOVED this book. One of the most imaginative, most *fun* books I’ve read in a decade. 050
Reposted by Polly SchattelJohn Claude Smith @jcsmith0919.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Liminal Spaces & Beings issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly will be published shortly. The TOC is stellar! Includes my tale, "To Be Or Not...", which deals with a liminal space...or is it a liminal being? Hmmm... weirdfictionquarterly.com/coming-soon-...weirdfictionquarterly.comComing Soon: Liminal Spaces & BeingsWe found the "Liminal Spaces & Beings" manuscript and are publishing it before it disappears between dimensions again! 0113
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Iris in the Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, Appalachia, United States, Planet Earth. 4150
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I've been asked to guest on a cool podcast about Bruce Springsteen going album by album. Life goals met. (Also, Ed Sheeran could take a lesson or two from Bruce. You get more real fans by speaking up and holding true to yourself than you do by sliming your way out of having any opinions at all.) 070
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026What you believe? Just say it. Who you are? Just be it. Nothing clarifies like living your truth. The trans crowd knows how easy it would have been to be silent, to not say the thing, to not live the thing. But our hearts made us stand up and be counted. #saythething #freepalestine 071
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Princess of Brown Road. Iris was a half-feral pitbull mix, wild and terrified, when we came across her. Now she’s a sweet and contented ladybug who couldn’t be a better friend, watchdog and cuddler. One of our best dogs ever. #pittielove #lovewins 060