Happy World Poetry Day to all the horror poets out there! Thank you @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social for the shout out! 🤩

You are awesome! Thank you so much!! Happy world poetry day! 💖

Such a nice post to wake up to! Thank you @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social 😍 I’m grateful for the donated words project by @midwesternskirt.bsky.social that inspired me to write this one! 💖

How awesome of you! Thank you so much!!! ☺️

square image with black background and black border. a digital book page is at the center. the page is white with black text. it is the first page of a poem. the title, “Entering the Haunted Manor of My Chronically Ill Body,” is at the top left of the page. poem text is as follows: Entering the Haunted Manor of My Chronically Ill Body The windows of the body of the house watch as I approach the rotting threshold, They have watched me before as I howl at the moon, Pain floating across my body in a haze, This time I approach on human legs drawn inside like an inhale, The walls are raw and embracing me with bleeding arms, Whispering for me to continue into the belly of the halls, There, horned demons wreaking havoc, ripping insulation from the walls, Continuing on to the hall of mirrors, ghosts of who I’d been before reflected vanishing, one by one, when I go near, Their whispered words continuing through lips of vapor, An endless prolix chatter hisses in my ears telling me I cannot turn back, I feel like I’m being buried alive in ectoplasm, I claw my way back towards the front of the manor, To enter an unnecessarily opulent ballroom clad in spiderwebs and corpses, Undead dancers swirl out of tune Both time and space suspended, The dancers bump and fuse together, randomly creating masses of grotesque melded matter, Those masses follow my every movement, They will not leave me alone, There are no miracles here in this nightmare sentient house, page number 18 is in black text at bottom center of page

square image with black background and black border. a digital book page is at the center. the page is white with black text. it is the second page of a poem “Entering the Haunted Manor of My Chronically Ill Body.” poem text is as follows: I cannot verify where my body ends and this house begins, We breathe as one, The odds are that I will stumble around the innards of this crumbling estate until the next full moon. Steph Patterson long rectangular box, longer horizontally, is at the bottom of the page. has a black border and white background. black text reads the donated words author used: prolix miracle verify and then a blue underlined jump link to the donated words list. then the name of the challenge “include a word related to a game" and the author’s word choice: odds page number 19 is in black text at bottom center of page

white square image with black text reads: Steph Patterson (she/her) is a writer from Delaware with a love of horror and dark fantasy. She's a chronically ill ghoul that identifies as bi. When she's not conjuring strange tales, she devours books, tends to familiars, or connects with her coven. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alien Buddha Press, Scavengers Literary Magazine, HNDL Magazine, The Morgue Literary Magazine, Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, and others. She lives with her family in their cozy home on the edge of the forest. You can find her on Instagram and Threads: @spookyspatters

white square image with black text reads: Pages 18-19 feature the poem “Entering the Haunted Manor of My Chronically Ill Body” by Steph Patterson. Steph incorporated the following words into this piece: PROLIX donated by Meesh Montoya MIRACLE donated by Karen Steiger VERIFY donated by Kim Mannix word challenge: game word word choice: odds reading this poem, you will step into the spooky corners and nervous hallways of life with chronic illness. there is no relief here, the rooms don’t have pretty or soft edges, and this house of the body offers no respite. as a chronically ill person myself, i appreciate this vantage point. often our conditions make us feel isolated and unsteady. online (and in-person!) we might present ourselves as “well” people so we don’t get left behind. then we might end up flared-up for days after trying to do something seemingly simple, social or physical. the truth is that having symptoms & diagnoses that are painful, exhausting and life-altering can be mortifying! and it’s ok to look at it through that lens!

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PAGES 18-19: “Entering the Haunted Manor of My Chronically Ill Body” by @spookyspatters.bsky.social

donated words
Meesh Montoya PROLIX
@karenmsteiger.bsky.social MIRACLE
@kimmannix.bsky.social VERIFY
challenge: game word = odds

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I signed up to do this with @donatedwords.bsky.social and so can you! Let's write some awesome poems together! 🤩✨

Indie Book Sale for Fantasy, Sci Fi, and Horror books April 5-7. indie book.sale Images of a dragon reading a book surrounded by gems, crystals, skulls, candle, planter, rocket ship, and stars

Mark your calendars, the next Indie Book Sale is April 5th-7th.

Now I know what I’m doing on Monday!

It’s one of my favorites! So unsettling and weird. I loved it!

You're on there now! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Thank you! 💚🩷 Have you seen the movie yet?! It was SO good!

Wicked movie poster in the background of Glinda, the pink witch, on the ground in a pink gown, silver crown and wand with her arm up stretched to try and reach Elphaba the green witch on her broom in the air in a black dress and hat. The text on top of the image reads: “Wicked Horror Edition”

Glinda from the Wicked movie poster is the focus of this image. She is looking to the right at five horror book picks: Pyramidia by Stephanie Sanders-Jacob, Lady of the House by Grace Reynolds, Bunny by Mona Awad, Mewing by Chloe Spencer, Parasocial by Wendy Dalrymple

Image of Elphaba from Wicked is the focus of this with her looking to the left at five horror book picks: The Gravity of Existence by Christina Sng, The Lies We Weave by Grace Reynolds, Her Dark Enchantments by Rosalyn Briar, House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson, and Eye of the Ouroboros by Megan Bontrager.

As a former theater kid, Wicked was one of the highlights of the year for me! If Elphaba and Glinda read horror books, these are their picks.

Glinda - a #pinkhorror queen 💖

Elphaba - #horrorpoetry #cosmichorror #darkfantasy

There are a lot of sapphic vibes because they belong TOGETHER! 🩷💚

Cover of poetry anthology: “Under Her Skin” The top of the cover has the words “A Women in Horror Poetry Collection, Volume 1.” At the bottom it says Edited by Lindy Ryan and Toni Miller. The background is black and there is a feminine figure with flowers covering the eyes, top part of the face, and down the neck with a black substance dripping from the eye area, mouth and neck.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
20/20
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#BookSky 📚📚📚
#BookChallenge
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#HorrorPoetry

ME TO MYSELF: This appointment is annoying. This doctor is annoying. Everything he says is annoying. I hope I'm hiding it well. MY FACE: [pic of guy from Sunny In Philadelphia sneering, visible pissed off]

Chronically Ill
#chronicallyill #chronicillness #chronicillnessmemes

Cover of Parasocial by Wendy Dalrymple. The letters of the title are split up and placed to look like an arrow. The letters are a light pink. Behind the text there is the image of two hands holding a cell phone. The coloring of the image is very psychedelic and neon.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
19/20
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#BookChallenge
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Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor. This book is atmospheric and whimsical AF. 😄✨

Book cover image for Eye of the Ouroboros by Megan Bontregar. The title of the book floats in front of a stag with glowing eyes. There is a snake in the shape of an infinity sign eating itself.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
18/20
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#BookSky 📚📚📚
#BookChallenge
#HorrorSky

BTW I LOVE the look of your book! Adding it to my TBR 🖤

I am always on the look out for horror poets! You're added now 😄

Cover of the book Cursed Images - Scary Stories from a Child of the Internet by Kassidy VanGundy. The background is neon pink and teal with an analog feel to it. There is an old school mac looking computer in the bottom right hand corner with demon hands reaching out of a screen of static.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
17/20
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#BookSky 📚📚📚
#BookChallenge
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A poetry collection!! 😍😍😍 You’ve always got something awesome coming out! I’m continually impressed and inspired by all you create 🖤 Now, I’ve got to manifest some of my own plans…

I think we're going to see a HUGE proliferation of #horror over the next four years. We will need the catharsis, and of all sorts: splatterpunk, weird, cosmic/eldritch, folk/cult, Gothic, and bubblegum, to name a few. Horror contains multitudes. Horror can heal. Horror lets us know we aren't alone.

I got you! You’re added now. 😊

Image of the cover of the anthology book “Curbside Curses: The Yardsale Anthology” Curated by Nadine Stewart. Behind the title, there are storm clouds on the horizon and the image of a suburban neighborhood with houses in a grid. The focus is on one row of houses. The roofs are various colors: red, grey, green and brown. There is white text towards the bottom of the cover that says: 22 Secondhand Horror Stories

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
16/20
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#BookSky 📚📚📚
#BookChallenge
#HorrorSky

Working on it!! 😄

The cover of the poetry book “Into the Forest and all the way Through” by Cynthia Pelayo. The title text is in red and there is a circle of trees surrounding the text that morphs into the shape of a feminine face and long hair.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
15/20
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#BookSky 📚📚📚
#BookChallenge
#HorrorSky
#HorrorPoetry

Oooh! I can't wait to see this!

You're added! Hope you're having a good weekend! 🫶🏻

Cover of the book “Pyramidia” by Stephanie Sanders-Jacob. The book has a bright pick background and an image of a teacup on a saucer with what looks like blood overflowing from the teacup.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
14/20
#Books
#BookSky 📚📚📚
#BookChallenge
#HorrorSky