digital painting a deer covered in blood. It has a long neck made of worms. It's head still intact, worms burst from the eye sockets and mouth.

The worms are angry

A screenshot from an I Think You Should Leave skit in which the character is wishing misfortune upon someone. He's in a park, wearing a plaid shirt, shrugging and smiling in the middle of his sentence.

🤣 I've kinda moved to Tumblr but I still peek in here once in a while to make sure no one's trying to contact me haha

a man is crying with the words " all these feelings hitting me at once " above him ALT: a man is crying with the words " all these feelings hitting me at once " above him

I go inactive for three weeks--

Hello, Fellow Horror Lovers! — Michelle Heller Post by Michelle Heller

I'M BACK, FRIENDS.

I'm approaching this at a different angle, now.

I'm primarily posting free shorts on Tumblr while offering novels, when I finish them, for cheap (paperback) and free (eBook).

A more in-depth post about what I'm gonna be doing from now on:

I'm not gonna make any /official/ announcements yet but I've been cooking something up these past few weeks (or months? what is time lmao) to have my cake and eat it too. We'll see 😂. I'm still writing things it's just...too expensive to self-publish. So I'm fiddling with that. 👀

I might finish the Worst series over time because I really love those characters. My brain bounces from thing to thing so I'm certain I'll come back it it one day, though I'm not sure I'd publish them officially. It's just so expensive 😭

I'm still writing, just mostly to declutter my brain instead of anything I plan to publish. Being a storyteller without an audience just didn't make the costs worth it. Constant submission rejections also sucked. Just don't have the skill to make it work. Ah well. It was fun!

I am no longer writing. I've lowered my prices on my Lulu store, and the novels I have will always be available, but I sadly do not have an audience and can't afford to continue doing this.

It's been rad, y'all.

If you want a silly book, they're here:

www.lulu.com/search?contr...

But I've been putting my writing efforts into other, more fulfilling things lately. It's a bummer, but I just can't financially justify writing to a wall. I'll still be around because y'all are awesome, but it's clear that I couldn't quite hack it at this. But that's okay. It was so much fun.

I don't have the audience to pay for this passion of mine. I'm not writing anything that sells. I just can't dump any more into it. I'll be leaving all my stuff up just for old time's sake; the books I have completed will always be available! 🧵

This is because of The Horrors of course, and those of us on this income deferrment are going to be kicked off it any day now. My monthly expenses will probably be unreasonable after that. It saddens me to make this thread, really, but the reality is this: 🧵

Evening friends! The cool news: next month I will be at #AuthorConVI with some good pals of mine to mingle, chill, and hopefully sell some books! The not so cool news: It'll probably be my last convention.

I'm on the SAVE plan for my student loans, and any day now, I won't be. 🧵

Just wanna shout-out to my buddy @tlbodine.bsky.social for getting on the shortlist for Brave New Weird! Her work is awesome and you guys should check it out :)

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In my last work, the antagonist was an extremely fucked up deer lol. I generally didn't lean to the supernatural when developing horror stories unless it was like, a backstory. I love me some body horror

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It's hard to say! I can't tickle myself, so to speak, lol. I'd mostly write whatever I thought would be cool or exceptionally awful 🤣

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I likes subverting safety and comfort. A lot of my stories, published and otherwise, take place in settings where the characters are not inherently uneasy to begin with!

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Bit late due to work. Heyo all. I'm Michelle and I stuck to horror comedy, mostly. My latest work was inspired by creature features like Tremors and Slither!

👀👀 can't wait for these

Fuckin dying

"Hush My Bitchtits" made me ugly laugh

A plushie version of Trevor Henderson's "Long Horse" artwork. It is, well, a long horse - snake-like neck with a skull on the end, with dark, dead sockets. HE'S BENDY and is very cute

GOT MY LONG HORSE AND HE'S AMAZING

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Scars, muscle, lasting injuries. Kyle in particular winds up covered in them throughout my notes, lol

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Depends on the story. Some characters have to give up an impossible desire, or a self destructive stubborn goal, etc etc.

Usually they're giving up something that hurts them, but they have a hard time letting go of.

YEAAAH she's not doing great still lmao

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They tend to be better for what they went through. Even if it takes a while.

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I'm Michelle, I write comedy horror/body horror/etc, and I think I'd be hard pressed to give up my creativity.

So far mine is a tie between "bladder full" and "can't quit job" 🤣🤣