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Overall though I gotta say, it was heartening to see so many strangers instantly jump in and work together to help her. Most people most of the time are pretty great

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He paused and said “Sorry about that.” She smiled and said very levelly “I’m used to it”

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A young woman with first responder training assessed her. Then suggested we move her to the curb (MAJOR street, heavy traffic all around us) when some old guy runs up and yells “Don’t move her, don’t touch her!” “I’m a trained first responder, sir. What are your qualifications?” “Oh. Nothing.”

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The car had the green light. Just before the woman got loaded in the ambulance she said that she tried to stop but the brakes on her scooter didn’t work. She actually apologized to the driver (another young woman who was understandably very shaken up)

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 5h

Yesterday afternoon a woman on a rental scooter got hit by a car as I was crossing a major street; I called emergency services and others joined to redirect traffic and hold her hand. It was low speed and she seemed ok once the terror wore off but she cracked her head so who knows Wear helmets!

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Recently read Jasmine Guillory’s Flirting Lessons (her first queer romance!) and very sweet Greene Sisters trilogy by Kristina Forest

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 18h

I usually try to watch at least 31 horror movies in October (some days I miss, some days I watch more than one) so I like it!

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 23h

The really weird one was in my twenties, asleep in bed with my girlfriend the Feyrie Princess, when the room FILLED with blinding white light for half a minute, like stadium bright Window looked out on woods, no way to get a big truck out there or anything, we saw no signs when we checked

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 23h

I saw a ghost made of blue smoke in the hallway when I was about 8 years old A translucent woman leaned over me in bed and woke me up before disappearing in my thirties (that inspired my story “A Champion of Nigh-Space”)

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 30/09/2026

Spending a day reading and gaming and walking around a lake is rejuvenating

The author smiling in a cherry print lacy top

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 30/09/2026

I know I said I was taking another day off but looking at my notes and deciding which story to start on tomorrow isn’t really WORKING right

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 30/09/2026

It's new Hurley story day! For a buck you get 120+ pieces of short, weird fiction you can read instead of doom scrolling. Join the 1000+ other folks who think that's a GREAT idea www.patreon.com/kameronhurley

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Kameron Hurley — creating Short Stories

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 30/09/2026

now that AI is eating programmer jobs what do the snotty jerks say to English majors instead of “learn to code” learn to forage in the fetid ruins learn to sell your vital fluids to billionaires learn to grift

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One of my faves too, “The Seven Geases" is one of funniest stories ever and also wonderfully gross

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And I think in October I’ll pause the horror novel for a bit and work on some short stories, the idea pile is getting tall again

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I’m reading this now and really enjoying it. Combines two things I love (unusual narrative structures and punishingly intricate board games)

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@bleakhousing.bsky.social Ship of Death is awesome, enjoying it soooo much

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since I switched to writing full time I’ve been observing weekends (yay) but not really taking time off otherwise? So I am boldly declaring that I’m taking THE REST OF THE MONTH (see note) OFF WORK TO READ AND PLAY VIDEOGAMES note: yes I know that’s only two days. Baby steps

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i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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I've encountered the word "apotropaic" twice in different contexts in the past two days and I assume this is a sign that I should Take Measures

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Okay I found a less cake like recipe and they’re in the oven and it smells great in here

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like in theory these are my breakfast for the week. And the upside down CAKE ones are not really muffins, they are cupcakes. But are the banana chocolate chip muffins any LESS like a dessert? Not really by much

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

wow! though my brain immediately goes: with the tiniest little twist in one direction this could be a queer romance and with a tiny little twist in another it could be survival horror

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Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

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It's the most complicated and involved one but it's not like I have a lot of other stuff I MUST do today

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hmm. gonna make muffins. but I'm torn. could do corn muffins and whip up some honey butter to go with them. or I could do banana chocolate chip again, always a classic. or I could get real wild and make pineapple upside down cake muffins

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 27/09/2026

I had a wonderful time reading and babbling and signing at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego this weekend! Then I went to the gayborhood and made friends with some queer girls and we drank and chatted into the night A successful journey!

The storefront of Mysterious Galaxy bookshop

The author smiling with a tiara and a rainbow unicorn dress, sitting behind a table next to a copy of her book. The front of the table has a hobbit hole door on it. So cute!

A sign in the shape of a rainbow heart that says “welcome to Hillcrest, established 1907”

The leaf covered wall of a lesbian bar in San Diego, with a neon sign that says “welcome home beautiful”

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Haven’t had that much fun at a bar since my night at the gay bar with the girlies in New Orleans at World Fantasy in 2022

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 27/09/2026

After my reading I walked to a nice park and then got a car over to the lesbian bar for dinner and a drink but it’s a Saturday night so soon it was jumping and I got to chatting with two wonderful thirtyish bi girls who love fantasy novels and we got DRUNK

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

She’s royalty but in a cool relatable way

The author smiling in the sunshine wearing a tiara and shades

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Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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Fuckdy Fuckt, kind of pretty really

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This is today! It’ll be great, I even know what I’m doing

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Finally saw the Odyssey The cyclops is very Large Adult Son huh Spider-Man and Punisher had more chemistry than Telly and Melly More like the PTSDyssey am I right That sea WAS pretty wine-dark Nice to be reminded my studio apartment is WAY nicer than an ancient palace I enjoyed the show!

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We saw you from across the bar. My god. Can you see us too. It’s been so long. We never even bother screaming anymore

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I am about to get on a PLANE to go to SAN DIEGO so I can EAT TACOS and GET A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP before my event tomorrow (which you should all attend)

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"Where You Lead, I Will Follow: An Oral History of the Denver Incident" by Erica L. Satifka (2020)

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I wrote my first contemporary romance this year (it’s going out on sub soon!) and I only dared after 30 years of reading them and ten years of analyzing them and two years of devouring books in the same tonal space as my idea

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Mine also has an Ultraman figure and Mount Fuji so it’s especially ill suited

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