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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 15h

I ended up on the wrong corner of the internet today, with 3 guys asking “Zendaya or Sidney Sweeney?” And they gave a guy shit for picking Zendaya, then he corrected their pronunciation of her name and seemed to feel embarrassed that he corrected them, and they said “what have you even seen with…

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if you want to support human-made independent literature AND you want some of the best weird fiction you'll ever read for this spooky season, might i suggest: asterismbooks.com/product/toad...

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Toadstones | Asterism Books

Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star’s lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper’s final job for her late employer. An exhumation to retrieve a poetry manuscri...

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 23h

If y’all haven’t read this book, you need to read this book

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October🎃 which means, SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5! **This is our yearly Best-Of Weird Fiction anthology, only eligible REPRINTS will be considered** Get the full submissions details here, and check out the full cover reveal! tinyurl.com/4474xej6

THE CALL OF THE WEIRD
All October, Tenebrous Press is accepting submissions for the Fifth Volume of our Weird Fiction Award anthology, BRAVE NEW WEIRD.
This is a reprint anthology. Only works published between 10/31/25-10/31/26 will be considered.
Full details at www.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by Matt Blairstone.
Beneath a swirling tile mosaic sea filled with fish and squid, two mountain giants surround a rural village who are burning a wicker man in their honor.
One of the giants eats the worshippers, while the other digs what they're throwin' down.

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Agita Magazine opens for submissions on October 17 for issue 3: ekphrasis. Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art. Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it. Send us stories at the intersection. Guidelines at agitamag.com/submissions

A black circle. On the outside it says "agita 3" and "agitamag.com." On the inside it says "Ekphrasis, February 1, 2027, submissions open Oct. 17 to Nov. 17, Guest editor Zachary Gillan."

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m sitting by myself for lunch today. I decided not to sit by the table of multiple middle aged business boys talking about Tarantino movies. i loved Kill Bill also but I‘d like to continue loving it

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I found a fellow Horror Mom in my OWN NEIGHBORHOOD and she mentioned WITHOUT me bringing it up how much The Fourth Kind scared her. Omg. 😃

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m so glad all the media outlets and anyone else who can find an excuse to monetize it understands that we want to read and think about AI every second of every day. Every minute we’re not, we are like “oh god, oh no, did I just forget to do something, please somebody help me remember! Assist mehhh

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lol for real. We are all of our characters. To the bone. Judge us and yourself accordingly!!!!

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Danger Slater @dangerslater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Full of goopy body-horror, hungry houses, axe murder, and people intentionally going over the previously agreed upon $50 limit during a Secret Santa gift exchange.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love exaggerating with older ladies about how grumpy we are and how we don’t want to face the day. She scheduled my physical therapy for my knee that decided to stop cushioning my delicate wobbly-ass bones

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Coffinesque @coffinesque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was just reading up on scene separators. An asterisk/bullet point is a dinkus, a floral one is a fleuron, and any other fancy one is a dingbat (1920s slang for a whatchamacallit). The Langdon Home for Malevolent Livestock collection will use tiny animals that change base on who's in the story!

A screenshot of text featuring a scene separator that consists of tiny farm animals. From left to right, they are: a ram, a pig, a sheep, and a goat.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s football season. I don’t care about sports but there was a weird CGI robot that’d come on the TV screen sometimes during games, and my uncle, who we lost this year once said “I hate that fucking robot” which entertained me. So football makes me think of him. 💜 Lived in Boulder/loved the Broncos

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My cat just woke up from a nap and looked at me as though he was very lost and needed something to ground him back in this dimension as I passed by. By the time I looked at him again, he had resumed his usual expression of serenity and harsh judgment. He recovers quickly from things.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The window is open. The crickets are singing and a bird is carrying on. I try to be thankful for summer and fall when I can and remember that noticing these things is its own reward 🦗🦜

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026

hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

my story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was cleaning a shelf and found my really cool bracelet (the bottom one) that‘d been missing for a few weeks. I traded a book for it at a local event I tabled at this summer. I think she said it was hematite. I don’t know about these things tbh but I’m glad it’s not lost

A picture of my arm with a watch band, a dark green beaded bracelet, and another one that has kind of a metallic dark greenish goldish rainbow-y look to it. Almost like an oil slick rainbow.

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New poem alert! (in @neonpajamas.bsky.social's Poem and Prompt series neonpajamas.substack.com/p/091-poem-p...)

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remember it's never too late to write a review online of a book! Or to pitch an interview with an author! Or to post about a book online! Like this book for just one example off the top of my head:

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Every Galaxy a Circle

An Intriguing Journey through the Cosmos of Human ExperienceIn Every Galaxy a Circle, Chloe N. Clark masterfully intertwines memories, ghosts, and the future, presenting a collection that spans folklo...

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi! I wanted to mention The Barre Incidents could really use some online ratings/reviews if you’ve read it and have an account you post reviews on. Every little bit helps, I think!

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*bragging* I was addicted to the internet *before* the algorithms

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whenever I’m in a destructive writing mood I remember the silly goose in my community college creative writing class who walked with me to the parking lot one day and told me “it’s so easy. You’re just telling a story but you write it down” or some other equally oversimplified description.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was disappointed they didn’t include the scenes with the climatologist from the book. Though I understand why it’d get skipped (for time).

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh wow. Seriously check out this portfolio. So good!!

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favorite part of the day is when my husband tells me his work bathroom stories. Public bathrooms are strange spaces. I hate to be sexist but I don’t think I’ve ever encountered the things he describes hearing from others at his work. Like, college dorms, different story but… dang

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm at 95 reviews on The Cellar Below the Cellar on Greads, and for wholly irrational reasons, I've got to get it up to 100. It's numbers! If you've read it and haven't rated it yet, now's your chance. For the numbers! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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The Cellar Below the Cellar

A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale…

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🎶 Your body is a wonderland 🎶 🎶 Your body is a butthole and two legs 🎶

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a new micro about DYING in the latest @identitytheory.bsky.social. Thanks to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for selecting this, and to you for reading it! It's very short.

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I Died - Identity Theory

I emerge from the forest to discover I died.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The social media fairy telling me I’m done for the day lol

Social media comments. The further you go down the weirder it is lol:

Beautiful
Wonderful to watch
Watched this brilliant
Burning
I hate this show

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Recently watched the series The Haunting of Hill House with the kids, and they really enjoyed it. Got to have a few teachable conversations too. I found my copy of the book and we talked about some of the similarities, differences, and references in the series that came from the book.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just finished reading this essay. Really good stuff. Automata through the ages/in Fiction. You should check it out when you have time!

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"One of my favorite books of the year. I can't shut up about it" @greasygoat.bsky.social Now's the time! Get MIDWESTERN CHROME & discover the Next Big Thing *before* their popularity explodes & they become insufferable😀 (jk @beardedbetts.bsky.social we love you🖤☠️) store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by AriBo, a bustling downtown area rendered in electric purples, pinks, whites and blues; a cyberpunk dude in mirrored shades and sleek zipless clothes lurks in an alleyway, clutching the severed head of an android woman intimately to him; a passerby looks back curiously.
Blurb: “An immediately engrossing
and engaging collection of
Cyberpunk Noir.
One of my favorite books
of the year. I can't shut up
about it.
- Books for Decaying Millennials

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve never been to Riot Fest which is a crime but I took my daughter to see an awesome Pop Punk/Emo cover band this weekend with her friend and her friend’s mom and I had a great time. 🥰

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Maybe this isn’t for Bluesky but Logan in the new Wolverine video game is… attractive. Also, autocorrect changed “isn’t“ to “ain’t“ which is appropriate

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

in many christian denominations, it's traditional to spend sunday in quiet contemplation of the historical and literary role of automata: geoliminal.com/2026/09/19/a...

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Automata in Weird Fiction

To celebrate (and *ahem* advertise) the fact that my short story, “Vaucanson’s Canard,” is available for preorder as an absolutely gorgeous pamphlet from Paradise Editions (with i…

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hell yeah - Tatratea is awesome. Such a weird, cerebral experience.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ve been listening to the new @greenlungband.bsky.social album and really digging it, deciding on my favorites. I love the song Black Magick Radio, and in my mind it’s fun to pretend it’s a companion to my debut book, Kill Radio. This song fucking rips. youtu.be/68hJKOiKGQo?...

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GREEN LUNG - Black Magick Radio (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

YouTube video by Nuclear Blast Records

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My 10 year old asked me if I could do an accent and then asked me to do one, and I did one, and she told me it was mid. 🙃

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Admiral Ackbar: It's a Trap!

Alt: Admiral Ackbar: It's a Trap!

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Whenever I find someone new who loves lots of music I think it’s cool and then I think about Marge Simpson’s quote “music is none of my business” and I think it’s funny. I know, the quote is the opposite of the situation. My brain is silly sometimes

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