RIP Rob Reiner. One of the best to ever do it.

Book cover for The Haunted Blizzard by Aviaq Johnston (Inhabit Media). A teenage girl walks home in a burgeoning blizzard, happy to have an unexpected snow day. Ignoring an Elder’s warning about the terror the blizzard holds, she finds herself alone in her home with an unseen presence stalking and tormenting her. What does it want? And will she survive? https://inhabitmedia.com/2025/04/16/the-haunted-blizzard/

Book cover for The Toronto Book Of The Dead by Adam Bunch (Dundurn Press). Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459738065-the-toronto-book-of-the-dead

Book cover for The Monsters Are Here by Lori D'Angelo (ELJ Editions). Thirty stories which can be described as Kelly Link meets Bram Stoker and Nathaniel Hawthorne in a forest or an alternative universe with aliens. https://elj-editions.com/the-monsters-are-here/

Book cover for Tiri Is Scared of the Dark by Nadia Sammurtok and Rachel Rupke, illustrated by Ali Hinch (Inhabit Media). Tiri has a secret: he is scared of the dark. He doesn’t want anyone to find out, but as he spends the day with his friends, he learns they are each scared of something, too. Tuktu is scared of heights. Ukaliq is scared of swimming in deep water. Will Tiri be able to open up and face his own fear? See how the friends learn to support one another. https://inhabiteducationbooks.com/collections/arvaaq-books/products/tiri-is-scared-of-the-dark

2/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @theotherali.bsky.social @inhabitmedia.bsky.social @adambunch.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @sclly21.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

Book cover for The Haunted Blizzard by Aviaq Johnston (Inhabit Media). A teenage girl walks home in a burgeoning blizzard, happy to have an unexpected snow day. Ignoring an Elder’s warning about the terror the blizzard holds, she finds herself alone in her home with an unseen presence stalking and tormenting her. What does it want? And will she survive? https://inhabitmedia.com/2025/04/16/the-haunted-blizzard/

Book cover for The Monsters Are Here by Lori D'Angelo (ELJ Editions). Thirty stories which can be described as Kelly Link meets Bram Stoker and Nathaniel Hawthorne in a forest or an alternative universe with aliens. https://elj-editions.com/the-monsters-are-here/

Book cover for The Toronto Book Of The Dead by Adam Bunch (Dundurn Press). Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459738065-the-toronto-book-of-the-dead

Book cover for Tiri Is Scared of the Dark by Nadia Sammurtok and Rachel Rupke, illustrated by Ali Hinch (Inhabit Media). Tiri has a secret: he is scared of the dark. He doesn’t want anyone to find out, but as he spends the day with his friends, he learns they are each scared of something, too. Tuktu is scared of heights. Ukaliq is scared of swimming in deep water. Will Tiri be able to open up and face his own fear? See how the friends learn to support one another. https://inhabiteducationbooks.com/collections/arvaaq-books/products/tiri-is-scared-of-the-dark

2/2... The Toronto Book Of The Dead (@adambunch.bsky.social, @dundurnpress.bsky.social) & The Monsters Are Here (@sclly21.bsky.social, @emergejournal.bsky.social) and two from @inhabitmedia.bsky.social: Tiri Is Scared of the Dark ill. @theotherali.bsky.social & The Haunted Blizzard. #DSPBposts

2nd daily spotlight from our latest issue 🦝
We loved the tight breathlessness of this piece from
@sclly21.bsky.social
Every word so intentional, the emotional nostalgic tone is wonderful.

Creative use of prompts: The Year You Were Ten, Cryptid, Needle

Read here: trashcatlit.com/sasquatch-in...

HERE THEY ARE! 25 contributors to the upcoming Prompted Stories issue. Split into new and existing Trash Family for your consumption. The issue will launch on Thursday 🦝
@leighaplin.bsky.social @madeleinewrite.bsky.social @lucimcummings.bsky.social @sclly21.bsky.social @adlibby.bsky.social
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Sasquatch in the Woods Lori D’Angelo At the end of that summer, my friends were all talking about Patrick Swazye on the dance floor, but it was the Bigfoot movie with that lady from Anne of Green Gables and that ki…

"At the end of that summer, my friends were all talking about Patrick Swazye on the dance floor, but it was the Bigfoot movie [...] that affected me the most"

Great micro from @sclly21.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social

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Bridgewater College student is raising money for lifesaving treatment for beloved horse "If I did not have that horse, I don't want to think about what life would have been like," Clarissa Burrow said. "I don't even know if I'd be here."

Please consider reading this story about a girl and the bond she has with her horse.

www.dnronline.com/news/communi...

#bridgewatercollege #horses #animallovers #equestrians

The monsters are coming! I will be participating in a panel at the Fall for the Book Festival at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., in October.

@fallforthebook.bsky.social
@emergejournal.bsky.social

#fallforthebook #shortstories #fallfeels🍂 #literature #fiction #georgemasonuniversity

This was such a fun poem to co-write. #poetry #writing

Local nonprofits face uncertainty amid federal funding cuts Recent federal funding cuts will negatively impact programs meant to help some of the community’s most vulnerable members, including HIV patients, Medicaid recipients and refugees, community leaders s...

Here's how federa funding cuts are impacting #Harrisonburg nonprofits. #Medicaid #refugees #churchworldservices #journalism

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I'm selling and signing books at James Blakey's Read Local Authors booth at the Broadway Community Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come see us!

Come see me May 8th at the MAC in Morgantown! I'll be reading at 6 p.m. #fiction #shortstories #WVU

Come join me at Masanutten Regional Library! The Monsters Are Here, and you should be too. #shortstories

An Object of Great Desire By Lori D'Angelo

New story up at Microromance Magazine:

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New poem up @librelit.bsky.social!

She's amazing. And she doesn't need an Academy Award to prove she's successful. Still, I hope she gets one--next year.

The Secret by Lori D'Angelo When Maginalt offered to show us how to cheat Death, of course, I said I was interested.

I have a new short story up at Exquisite Death Zine:

www.exquisitedeathezine.com/the-secret-b...

We didn’t have #FridayReads this week, so we’re doing Sunday whatever because every day is a book day. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a crime/horror hybrid full of action, magic, violence, and monsters.

www.amazon.com/dp/0316427012/

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I have new dark weird fiction up at Exquisite Death Zine. You can chevk out my story, "The Secret" here: www.exquisitedeathezine.com/the-secret-b...

New story out in issue 2.
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@nyurtsaba.bsky.social thank you for posting this lovely review of my book at Tupelo Quarterly Review. www.tupeloquarterly.com/uncategorize...

Thank you!

Thank you to Microromance Magazine for nominating my story for this award!
#romance #lovestories #fiction

It was really fun to collaborate with C.M. Gigliotti on this poem.
#poetry #poems #writingcommunity

Excited to have helped write a poem for this issue by providing the "flame" for another poet's "spark." #poetry #writing It was fun to participate in this unique collaborative process. #literaryjournals #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky

@s2fjournal.bsky.social

Excited to have helped to write a collaborative poem for Spark To Flame issue 4. www.s2fjournal.com

It is so rough out there. It seems like most of the people making money from writing are those already famous, and often those people are famous for something else and may not actually be doing their own writing.

New story in 50 Give or Take today from Vine Leaves Press.
#microfiction #shortstories #fiction #writingcommunity #booksky #fictionwriters

3 @newversenews.bsky.social life and death #poems : “Algorithm” by Elaine Sorrentino, “On the Death of a CEO” by @sclly21.bsky.social Lori D’Angelo, “The Truth About Cynicism” by Michael Mark. bit.ly/39DQ3WM #poetsonbluesky