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Sasha Brown

@sashabrown.bsky.social
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Sasha Brown is a Stoker-nominated writer whose stories have been called “Creative! But in a bad way.” He’s in lit mags like Passages North and Wigleaf, and in genre pubs like Bourbon Penn and Weird Horror. He’s online at sashabrownwriter.com.

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Couples: do you feel competitive about which of you will die first?
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
fleshing out even more stories for my upcoming collection, First Person Stories Where The Guy Dies
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These are two of the best new authors I'm aware of. Cursed Morsels has super good taste, man.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Important lizard update: jam time
this is a lizard standing on a cheap keyboard looking hella groovy
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
did not realize @diabolicalplots.com was publishing nonfiction now www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
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DP FICTION #139A: “Everyone Wants to be a Part of Sasha” by J.N. Bilse – Diabolical Plots
If you are thinking about starting a short fiction publication and would like to discuss with someone experienced how to get started, please do contact us!
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
here's some flowers
buncha flowers in my grandmother's china pitcher. This is my favorite kind of bouquet - chaotic and scrubby. I realized after I took this pic there was a black-eyed Susan sideways across the top, it's not even in water.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is Burt Macklin, a bearded dragon we got through the wonderful rescue operation @herphavenrescue.bsky.social. He's settling right in!
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today's flowers
Mostly yellow today, in an odd sort of cascade that happened by accident but I left it.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
important lizard update: howdy pardner
this is a lizard wearing a cowboy hat
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
GUESS WHAT WE GOT
I'll just tell you it's a MOTHERFUCKIN LIZARD
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Although it is the best collection to be published this year, Gore Poetics is deeply wet and should be avoided at all costs.
A seething, coping waste of time that wishes to destroy the canon and mocks the concept of values.
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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
On "gatekeeping", writing is the price of entry to being a writer. It's the only bar you have to clear.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I am the Official Melodakazooist of Agita Press you people better start being cooler to me you can start by preordering Grace Daly's new book agitapublishing.com/catalog/esca...
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Escapist Fiction
Your gentle roommate is getting violent. Your Type-A girlfriend is neglecting her job. Your loving mother is creeping you out. Everyone is acting strange, but don’t fret: The narrator is here to guide...
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
THAT'S ME, OMG IT'S ME, LOOK LOOK I hope you like potty-mouthed harpies! And murder! It's my 50th story acceptance! And it's to a press I love, for a story I love. That's nice, isn't it? This is fun.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
this is so good! oh man, voice! It's so clever, I love this piece. @nightshadesmag.bsky.social continues to have extremely good taste in weird shit.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
doing a scavenger hunt with my kid where each clue is a puzzle that must be solved (it's a chore I want him to do with me) 1) Look upon the fairest hill; Plant a glyph to keep it still. Once the garden is protected, Your next clue may be collected. (plant the pretty garden stone he made me)
my kid posing next to the freshly-planted garden stone
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
what's a better name for a lizard: Burt Macklin or Duke Silver
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
in trouble with the wife for calling watermelon "the celery of fruit"
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You ever eat something just to find out whether it's food?
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"It takes a while for whatever I’m writing to find its identity. A novel may become a story, which may become a screenplay—because, why not?...I feel like I marinate a lot. I think one of the greatest skills a writer can have is patience." -interview with Joey Hedger
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Interview with Joey Hedger
Deliver Thy Pigs, community, going veg
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Having a 10yo is great because they're at an age where you can announce "Your mother and I are avid Frenchers" and watch them die inside
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Sasha's Organizational Tip: do you have a Bullshit Zone? Everyone in your family needs a Bullshit Zone. Easily accessible, relatively visible, judgment free. Mine is next to the printer. I go through it when I run out of room for new bullshit.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
They're holding in a rant about second person POV. Clenching so hard. They even have that upper lip sweat.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
EVERYTHING IS SO ANNOYING RIGHT NOW
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Today's flowers!
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I cannot emphasize enough, don't give your kid an A name. I get exponentially more butt dials than the rest of you. (sidenote: only my mom, and you, calls me Sasha)
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
During Covid, I used to set up these complicated Dragon Hunt quests in the woods for my kid and his friend. One of them ended at Ponyhenge, a real place in Mass. It's very cool and so is this story.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I blew up a cow for you, please respond
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
a little more circumcised every day
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
hey if being covered in cockroaches is on your bucket list, I got a story for you
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's a good thing 'teh' isn't a word.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
before anyone starts thinking we're good parents, I just gave my kid a strawberry - a normal, whole strawberry that hadn't been sliced - and he went "how am I supposed to eat this"
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My 10-year-old kid cut and arranged this bouquet! Life skills!
Solomon's seal, roses, day lilies, foxgloves, catmint - a chaotic and riotous bouquet (my favorite kind) in an old china pitcher.
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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 14/06/2026
Several people have asked me recently why Analog/Asimov's/F&SF/Ellery Queen/Alfred Hitchcock still don't have Submission Grinder listings again, because the communications from SFWA on the subject have been so positive. So I thought it might be worth addressing this briefly.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
good morning to everyone else whose child is putting on a magic show in their bedroom at 5:34 am
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Hi! I'm a first reader at @apexmag.bsky.social. I've read 1,668 stories for Apex. This is the best one. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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My Suicides
I don’t know if, in the beginning, it was that they promised me anything, or if I imagined they promised me something. At the...
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
YO THIS STORY IS BADASS, I'M JUST SAYING, IT'S VERY ENTERTAINING AND YOU SHOULD READ IT
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I'm up in Flash Fiction Online with...let's call it a musical. I wrote a musical.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
we turned a closet in the attic into a comic nook for our kid this whole project cost like $20 (the lights)
ok so there's an old crib mattress on the ground, and a bean bag on that, and gym mats on the walls (so he can feel like he's in a padded cell? idk) and fairy lights all over, and a shelf full of comics, and this goofy-ass lightup bear that's part of me & the kid's ongoing tradition of finding the corniest Valentine's gifts for my wife, and a bunch of posters on the walls - free! Free posters! I don't know how that happened, he just came home from the comic shop with them. He's ten. Anyway it's cozy and awesome and every kid should have a reading nook they spend lots of time decorating and then realize it's stuffy in there and never actually hang out in it.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Today's flowers: it's peony season. The yellow is my beloved Bartzella, and the coral one is a coral one that puts up exactly one flower every year and here it is.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
IT'S TRUE NM WHITLEY'S STORY IN THE DARK FUCKIN RULES, AND SO DOES MINE IN SMALL WONDERS
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I'm so pleased to bookend this month's @flashfictiononline.bsky.social with my homie @joellekillian.bsky.social. We've been in the trenches together for a long time; I love her voice, her snark, and her empathy. Here's what she sounds like: flashfictiononline.com/issues/may-2...
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May 2026 - Flash Fiction Online
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Large language models are wreaking havoc on the olds they are not equipped for this
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
First iris is up!
just a big yellow mess
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Very excited to share an issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social with the great @johnkpeck.bsky.social, who I haven't hung out with since we were in the iconic Twin Pies Fuck Us Up issue. John's piece fuckin rules: flashfictiononline.com/issues/may-2...
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May 2026 - Flash Fiction Online
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is funny, but also it gets a shocking amount of work done in very few words. I love it.
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I could see, in her eyes, the moment my wife realized I'd gotten carried away writing her Mother's Day card and it had turned into a micro I'm gonna submit to @havehashad.com
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The latest collection from the indomitable @authorplm.bsky.social is MINE ALL MINE. PLM's stories are deeper than most. Emotion and her own wild imagination twist into a rope that'll get you, y'know, some of the way down. Near the end, though, you're gonna have to drop. badass cover too
I propped it near some FLOWERS because that's what I DO
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
read this post from my enemy, in order to identify her weaknesses
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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
THIS STORY IS GREAT
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