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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 03/10/2026

Your #writing word of the day: AMPLE How are you going to use it?

Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 02/10/2026

Launching soon on Ream Loathsome Grace - a swashbuckling tale of #cosmichorror. (Cover art: Arrestation. Scène de la vie des mousquetaires (1847), Florent Willems (1823–1905). Public domain.)

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 01/10/2026

Your #writing word of the day: ICHOR How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 30/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: SMELT How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 28/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: MASCOT How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 25/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: RIND How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 24/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: CORPUS How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 23/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: Vermilion How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 22/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: OBTUSE How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 21/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: FUNNEL How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 18/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: DESTITUTE How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 17/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: SCABROUS How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 16/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: ABBCESS How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 15/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: PULSE How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 14/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: OBFUSCATE How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 11/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: Ergregore How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 10/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: DELPHIC How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 09/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: FAUX How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 08/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: IMPACT How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 04/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: LINT How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 03/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: GREGARIOUS How are you going to use it?

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Carry Cockburn @carrycockburn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🐺 mybook.to/WolfmanWoods An older man chosen for her, a betrothal she doesn’t want, but Aileen’s plan to get out of it unravels from the start on a fateful night that goes from her friend’s bedroom to the deep, dark woods. #KindleUnlimited #Paranormal📕

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 03/09/2026

Wednesday sets its sun What fine works have you done?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 02/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: DEMARCATE How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 02/09/2026

Your #writing word of the day: RAW How are you going to use it?

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 26/08/2026

Ragtown Erected on the edge o’ arid scrubland, Where the last drop o’ clean water flows. A place of miners, madmen, n’ stops unplanned, This town of rags, gleaned wood, n’ shadows. Read the rest on Substack (Free): zoshea.substack.com/p/ragtown #horror #poetry

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 20/08/2026

Conductor’s Last Words Rust n’ creosote bleeds on dirt, From old railroad scars leagues long. Telling the tales of this desert, As a minstrel might in song. Read the Rest at Substack (Free): zoshea.substack.com/p/conductors-l… #westerngothic #poetry

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 20/08/2026

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 12/08/2026

It Rides The Wind Howling through moonless sagebrush, Tasting of dust-eaten lives. Fresh fear stokes the blood rush, In darkness thrives. Read the rest at Substack (Free): zoshea.substack.com/p/it-rides-t... #poem #poetry #horror #cosmichorror #westergothic #darkpoetry

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 08/08/2026

Gone Too Soon Death did not kindly wait for him— Nor did the carriage as he crossed— He chased the ball on childish whim, And just like that his life was lost. Read the rest at Substack (Free): zoshea.substack.com/p/gone-too-s... #horror #ghost #poem #poetry #darkpoetry #gothic

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 07/08/2026

A taphophile is a person who has a passionate interest in cemeteries, funerals, and gravestones. The Taphophile Poems every Friday spin from common epitaphs. Free on Substack substack.com/@zacharywoshea…

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 05/08/2026

Unnatural Disasters Six rooms past the motel ice machine, Fungal stains spread prophecy. Burnt offerings fill the TV screen. Here ends dreadful odyssey. Read the rest on Substack (Free): zoshea.substack.com/p/unnatural-... #poem #poetry #cosmichorror #horror #darkpoetry

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 31/07/2026

The Hourglass Empty They say she stared at a clock, Instead of her mother’s face. Gave the nurses quite the shock— Newborn girl keeping pace. Read the rest on Substack (Free): zoshea.substack.com/p/the-hourgl... #poem #poetry #horror #cosmichorror #darkpoetry

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 29/07/2026

Children of the Broken Home Ten acres deep into scrub and sand, As hot as the Promised Land, Festers a crumpled house of the damned- Walls toppled by Satan's hand. Read the Rest at Substack (Free): zoshea.substack.com/p/children-o... #poem #poetry #horror #westerngothic #darkcountry

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 23/07/2026

Molted Transubstantiation During rattlesnake migration, Damnation’s the reward. Out here in the desolation, Creation comes unmoored. Read the rest at Substack (Free): zoshea.substack.com/p/molted-tra... #poetry #poem #horror #cosmichorror #westerngothic

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 22/07/2026

Reading those APs has been so much fun, damn

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Gréachán @greachan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Loss was my jailer once, her chains the night, Yet through her very headwind did I break, as larks ascend when the night has resigned to die. ~~~ No pain holds the one who learns the sky's wide creed, I am the wind now, and the wind is freed! #vss365

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Gréachán @greachan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So leaf, and root, and every reaching vine Conspire in one slow ministry of green, For revealing, in their own changing shine, What never otherwise could well be seen: That deathlessness itself forever lies Folded in everything that blooms and dies. #vss365

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 17/07/2026

A Soul Unquiet He was a laconic man in life, Silent in all the ways that mattered— In death, his stoic nature shattered. Read the rest on Substack (Free): zoshea.substack.com/p/a-soul-unq... #poem #poetry #horror #ghost #ghoststory

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 16/07/2026

Carcinoma Kingdom Surfacing from sunburst sagebrush, With crowns of eldritch black, And robes of earthen slack. Circling their hunter in a hush. Setting upon the snake in a rush. Read the Rest at Substack (Free): zoshea.substack.com/p/carcinoma-... #poetry #cosmichorror #darkcountry #westerngothic

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 10/07/2026

Forever in Our Hearts His wife claimed he was a gentle man, Doting across their marriage’s span— She worried she might perish from grief. Read the rest at Substack (free): zoshea.substack.com/p/forever-in... #poem #poetry #horror #cosmichorror

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

VANISHED ROADS is available today. These haiku first appeared here on BlueSky. Over the past two years this community has become a home to me. In many ways, I feel we've taken this journey together. I hope you'll consider adding the book to your shelves. www.wolftwin.com/product-page... #haiku

Cover of Vanished Roads by Thomas L. Vaultonburg, featuring original artwork by Tré. A towering blue-gray tree fills the cover, its trunk opening into a luminous passage where a small solitary figure stands. Blue leaves drift through the scene, and winding roots and pathways suggest memory, loss, and renewal. Tré's illustration evokes the contemplative, transformative journey explored throughout this collection of 104 haiku.

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 09/07/2026

False Sovereigns Augustine cobwebs cling, To desolate bird’s nests, Sheltering bones that sing. Read for Free on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/zoshea/p... #poem #poetry #westerngothic #darkpoetry #cosmichorror

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Zack O'Shea - 'not a mimic' - Horror/TTRPG Author @zacharyoshea.com · 07/07/2026

It starts with an itch under the skin. It blossoms into relentless carnage. It ends with those who walk the boundary of life & death. Psychopomps amazon.com/dp/B0CW1FVJ1R/ #horror

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