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Lauren Bolger

@renbolger.bsky.social
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Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available thru Malarkey Books. Words in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction My website: www.laurenbolger.com Jewish / Free Palestine

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Holy smokes. You have got to be kidding me. That is not good.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
10 yr old: Who’s that big guy with the blonde bowl cut? …he has huge muscles… …Jimithy Jeremy? … …who was he? *who was he?* … oh! He-Man!
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’m eating lots of pizza left over from my son’s birthday party. It’s called being frugal.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sometimes I want to make a mashup of goofy IG ads like how I used to decorate notebooks with magazine clippings.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ahh Chris. Godspeed. I hope it lets up for you soon and 8 feels better soon and the Tiny One begins to sleep for longer stretches.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Enjoying the new Keith Rosson so far. Had me at teen kid putting a goofy old man voice. These are the kinds of quirky character building gems that make me happy 💜 Also the kid has the same name as my daughter who is similar in age. In a Horror book. Soo we’ll see how that one goes lol
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
lol this is fully correct
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O F SCARY @ossuary.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ok my bad guys *now* it's live
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
👆 Agree with Spencer! This is a great pic :)
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Spending the day revising pneumatic actuation copy while longing to work on my book so I can go home and come up with one thousand excuses why I cannot work on my book just yet.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
lol this is good entertainment, thank you.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Listening to the album Stone by Baroness todayyy. It's been a while. :) I think this is my favorite of theirs.
Art by John Dyer Baizley (the lead singer of the band!) Pink, blue, yellow, and green watery colors. Three women adorned with or trapped by chains, thin rope, or snakelike vines with their faces obscured. The woman in the front has her hands bound by the snakelike vines.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ah cool!! If you do, let me know what you think!!
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Omg that part was nuts! the part in the basement right after too was 😱😱
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Most of the way thru watching Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum. Really loving how well-done the characters are, and it is a *damn* scary entry into the found footage genre! The scares feel original too.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Most of the way thru watching Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum. Really loving how well-done the characters are, and it is a *damn* scary entry into the found footage genre! The scares feel original too.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
lol!
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When Harry Met Sally could have been so different. And shorter.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
my fave HS story I told my kids was one I made to be an enemies-to-lovers story but it has a twist. I finally started thinking he wasn’t so vile after being suckered into driving him somewhere. But when I arrived at his destination he thanked me, then farted in my car and laughed before getting out
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🥰🥰🥰
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
morning streaming 🧡🖤
The album cover for Infestissumam by Ghost. A Satanic pope with a skeletal face rises from an ancient city and puts his hands out to present a baby (very large in scale like the pope in comparison with the city structures) in a coliseum type structure. A red-orange sun is behind them. We can see half of it on the horizon in the background and the suns’ rays are very thin lines drawn with precise symmetry.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wrote a poem for the first time in a long while 🍀 It needs some more work 💪 It’s about death 🙃
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Mr. Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Any horror writers up for contributing to the 7th installment of the @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social horror recommendations article? @raforall.bsky.social @shawnnaderesch.bsky.social @fulmerford.com @christopherhawkins.bsky.social @renbolger.bsky.social Last year: thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/10/...
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Horror Stories: Abbott and Costello Meet the Crazy Mixed-Up Featured Creatures from Planet X | Third Coast Review
Welcome to the sixth installment of Third Coast Review’s Featured Creatures... Find your next scare here.
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My watch buzzed at me. I went to check it and there’s no watch on my wrist. Only a hair band. I remember that I misplaced it and haven’t worn it all day. I think it’s haunting me bc it is thirsty for more data
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hope you enjoy it if you do!
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh my god a Ghost cover band is coming to a venue like 8 minutes from my house that had closed down but just reopened this week!!!!!!!!!1111111
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love Robert Pattinson! My husband is looking forward to this one and I’ll be seeing it with him. Did you ever see Mickey 17?
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
time,” so my dad said “Yeah? How about now?” And the guy had to verbally refuse to physically fight him lol
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My dad was full of stories today. Today he told me a story about this guy on a job with him (electrician, retired, now) who seemed to be kind of throwing his weight around, so my dad asked him “you were a bully in high school, weren’t you?” And the guy said “yeah we beat up guys like you all the…
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You’re da best Kathy :)
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🥰💀🐉
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
lol! We can and should all have our own Grumbus in mind. Both of our Grumbuses are great
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He used to be a fisherman but now he has the eighth largest residential fishtank in the Midwest and he calls the fish his babies
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Grumbus is a hairy, burly, wide-shouldered man who wears athletic tanks and has a huge bristly mustache and when he works out in the gym he gets off the treadmill, swigs his water loudly, and says to his neighbor in a vague New England accent “do this every day and yu’ll feel light on yer feet”
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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🌜Almanac Moons✨
Illustration of a benevolent blue moon. Illustration of a tired but watchful full moon.Illustration of a smiling full moon half-hidden through a birch tree
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have some really great names, courtesy of the name randomizer in Stardew Valley. I have chickens named Pulley, Frarley, Grumbus, and Gra. They’d be fun to put in a story, and you had to decide what they were like based on their weird names.
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xavier garcia @xaviergarcia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey everyone! The good news keeps coming. I got a new Lady Blood story published! If ya got time for some evil Mayan gross horror Sword & Sorcery, definitely check out issue #195 @aurealisfsf.bsky.social's mag. This piece is one of my favourites! aurealis.com.au/store/aureal...
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Aurealis #195 — Aurealis
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not even halfway through double-kid-birthday October and my brain already checked out. More bday parties/appointments are piling up. Today I invented my own appointment time/showed up 5 hours early. Yesterday a higher up quietly informed us of a planned fire drill and I stage-whispered “FIRE??” 🫩
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said
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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Throwback to when I made a Simpsons take on Skinamarink by editing backgrounds from the show
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hahah there’s too much media in this world. TOO MUCH. I wonder if the band and webcomic would go well together
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
lol! The world is large and chock full of Elvises and stages. It was bound to happen
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I thought I should add ginger seasoning to my tofu (among other stuff) and I thought I’ll just shake this stuff right on and wow that’s one of the worst meals I’ve ever, ever eaten
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Told someone what I thought about an album they suggested but I was listening to an album by same name by a totally different band and I’m pretty sure they think I’m bonkers but my other SM is locked down for the night
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hahaha oh yeah those fun crossover cosplays? That’d be a great one. The Queen and the Batman imposter lmao. I was picturing her saying the hockey pads line in that weird unnaturally gruff Batman voice
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Godspeeeeed. I hope they start sleeping good for you guys soon 💜💜💜
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“I’m not wearin’ hockey pads.”
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey! The Barre Incidents turned one on October 1! To celebrate, DM me a receipt of the order dated anytime this month or email it to Lrnbolger(at)gmail.com, and I'll send you the custom Barre Incidents bookmark with art by Mary Verhoeven, a spinach pie recipe, and a signed bookplate!
The Barre Incidents is 1!

According to legend, dead miners leave their graves and walk down the road to resume their work in the quarry. When Kara’s miner father dies, she learns that story is true, and she heard the call as a child from the woods behind her house.

She’ll do anything to help him.
even risk the same fate.

Find it on the
Malarkey Books website,
Asterism, and most other online booksellers

The bottom has a Malarkey books logo (an encircled capitalized M that looks hand-drawn) and the words "Malarkey Books"
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Might I suggest something seasonally appropriate and rather left of the dial? bookshop.org/p/books/wher...
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Where the Pavement Turns to Sand
Check out Where the Pavement Turns to Sand by Sheldon Birnie on Bookshop.org US!
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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
helluva sale going on over at bookshop dot org - free shipping on the 6th and 7th! good time to purchase one of the greatest collections of weird fiction ever written: bookshop.org/p/books/toad...
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Toadstones
Check out Toadstones by Eric Williams on Bookshop.org US!
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