Where was Antok…? If that thing had smashed the binoculars, Antok’s prognosis wasn’t good. His mind raced, and he became painfully aware of the awkward position he’d frozen in, as he felt a cramp threaten to drag along the back of his calf. Call it in. You need to call it in. The rational part of his brain screamed at him as he stood there, ignoring the frigid drops of rain that trickled their way down the back of his neck. It’s happening again; call it in! The thing stretched languidly, and in the flickering breach-light, Gatesman Fields watched as an unmistakable crimson stain was sluiced off the thing’s blades by the rain. Oh. He wondered who was going to give the news to Antok’s husband.

Next chapter of #Oathsworn is up on #Patreon! As a reminder, I'm posting this trilogy as I write it, and you can get access to that and everything else I write-poems, fanfic, short stories, essays-for as little as £1 a month.

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Where was Antok…? If that thing had smashed the binoculars, Antok’s prognosis wasn’t good. His mind raced, and he became painfully aware of the awkward position he’d frozen in, as he felt a cramp threaten to drag along the back of his calf. Call it in. You need to call it in. The rational part of his brain screamed at him as he stood there, ignoring the frigid drops of rain that trickled their way down the back of his neck. It’s happening again; call it in! The thing stretched languidly, and in the flickering breach-light, Gatesman Fields watched as an unmistakable crimson stain was sluiced off the thing’s blades by the rain. Oh. He wondered who was going to give the news to Antok’s husband.

Next chapter of #Oathsworn is up on #Patreon! As a reminder, I'm posting this trilogy as I write it, and you can get access to that and everything else I write-poems, fanfic, short stories, essays-for as little as £1 a month.

www.patreon.com/posts/oathsw...

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L: A young W B Yeats wearing pince nez and a large bow tie. R: A middle-aged Aleister Crowley wearing a large (possibly homburg) black hat and the ‘I’m mad, me’ expression that he always put on for photos

Ah! 19 April – 126th anniversary of the day William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley downstairs as they fought for control of the British branch of the not-at-all-ridiculous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Battle of Blythe Road. According to legend, anyway... 🧵

People routinely allowed in NHS women’s wards without question:
- cis male doctors
- cis male nurses
- cis male porters
- cis male cleaners
- cis male catering staff
- cis male visitors
Etc, ad infinitum
List of people who should be banned from said wards, for some reason:
- Trans women patients

Almost 5am. Fuck it. Up i get.

God im so tired (ha) of insomnia the night before a therapy session. That shit is important, brain. Its good for us. Stop sabotaging us at every fucking step.

Send Mr Kruger my way, I wanna watch him duke it out with the Not-me in my mirror

Someone give me Hollywood money, I'll make you a fuckin horror movie. Fuck.

The second I see The Creature full-frontal in a brightly lit room is the second I stop being afraid of it. What the fuck do you mean that's a creature, that's just Some Guy. And he's still less scary than the other very much human yobs we were introduced to earlier.

Do Not Enter started out strong, even when it established the house wasn't the problem, that there was A Creature. Frantic glimpses of a figure through grainy night-vision goggles! People getting picked off one by one, unseen! And then... the opposite.

Just been disappointed by a horror movie again, so help me out here horror fans: haunted house movies where it's the *house* that's the root problem. Vaguely sentient and malicious BUILDINGS where ghosts are just a by-product. Examples: Haunting of Hill House, The Shining.

me

“Too late,” she whispered. Rowan turned, following her arm, and felt the blood freeze in her veins as three truly enormous dogs emerged from the tree-line ahead of them. “Oh, fu-” she started, not bothering to keep her voice down, and felt the woman’s hand grab hers and yank her back around, pulling her away from the breach - but away from the trees as well. Rowan looked over her shoulder as she adjusted her stride; the dogs either hadn’t spotted them yet, or weren’t worried about them; they were making their way up to the breach, sure, but they were doing it in that very dog-like way, where their paths took them all over the place as they had to sniff at absolutely everything. She’d have found it endearing if they weren’t the size of draft horses.

Next chapter of Oathsworn is up on Patreon! As a reminder, I'm posting this trilogy as I write it, and you can get access to that and everything else I write-poems, fanfic, short stories, essays-for as little as £1 a month.

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Ah shit really?? Fuck, i knew i should have watched Thrash instead.

I just watched The Bone Keeper and that's nearly 2 hours of my life I won't be getting back. CGI was astonishingly good for a film where everything else was so flimsy. Also John Rhys-Davis was there, for some reason? ⭐⭐ because it's still not as bad as Predator 2018.

By a Thread pg 15 is live on Patreon! If you want to read ahead now is your chance!

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Frank Conniff: My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

Frank Conniff: My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

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Thanks Mary! #HorrorWritersChat, if you're a fan of Gothic horror, then check out "The Pure World Comes," about a maid in Victorian England who goes to work for a mad scientist. Think Frankenstein and Crimson Peak had a baby together. It's sure to entertain you!

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Currently a SPFBO 11 semi-finalist, The Boddicker Letters is an epistolary story about a man drawn inexorably toward a life he could not have imagined. Also, there's fish sex and a lot of gross imagery so...you know...that rules too.

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I don't really have anything new to shout out for self promo except that my next book, #Heliruna, is coming out September 18th (but I've already announced that). Follow me on here for updates and eventually the preorder link once preorder goes live. 👀

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Gothic horror x gaslamp fantasy, spiritualism and mediums, women's wrongs, a letter to the villain, small but diverse cast, trans MC, a mysterious scent, dogs...?

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As the next story in the #runnerowen series comes out next week I HOPE: Here's where you can get the first, Friend of the Damned. Please tell me if you like the 2nd person/epistolary POV, I'm afraid it's too confusing...

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Attention fellow autistic authors! Do you have a horror book available in hoopla? I'm putting together a graphic I'm hoping to share next week. (Below is the working graphic.) If you'd like me to include yours, send me the title.

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Lovely time, #HorrorWritersChat! Glad I made it. Great questions. <3

As for promo, since I have all my shorts up on it as PWYW I will link the shop: payhip.com/AReinke

Speaking of isolation, April is Autism Acceptance Month. Looking for a book where a young autistic woman follows her special interest straight into a remote, insular religious community? I've got you covered!

Books2Read link is currently down, but LWF is available most places.

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Winters Tales | Patreon creating dark fantasy short stories, poems and novels.

Great #HorrorWritersChat, Mary!

I am posting chapters of my Urban Fantasy/Horror as I write it over on my Patreon, where you can join and get access to EVERYTHING for as little as £1 a month. Prologue is free to read to let you see what you're in for!

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It took a long time, but I've learned to reach out to people and be honest; it's now not unusual for me to message someone and say "Hey, I'm feeling quite lonely, do you think we could chat?"

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I like to use a combination of long, descriptive, run-on sentences that focus on insanely small details like the splinter working its way into the flesh of a hand... and smaller, shorter, staccato sentences that focus on a person's physical reactions; breath, heartbeat, sweat.

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Two kinds:

1) the loneliness you get from being alone in a crowd, where you're trying to connect but the connection just isn't there...
2) the isolation of wilderness, that feels so freeing until you realise that if anything happened, no-one would know...

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