Brian K. Henry
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Brian K. Henry
@briankhenry.bsky.social
Writer of humorous fiction and more. Check out my YA paranormal novel I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1gwPt3U Big reader of classics, fantasy and more. #parody #mystery #humor #scifi #supernatural #paranormal #booksky
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New fantasy-comedy Badcastle! Killer bats are attacking Dunwill Manor sending the residents into a panic! The Duke's son sets out on an epic journey to stop the deadly plot. This novel takes readers on a crazed adventure with wild characters in the bizarre Marrlands. tinyurl.com/58c4ru7b #booksky
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He's been writing that world basically my entire life. The dragonbone chair is the thing that got me into reading fantasy and I remember sitting in high school classes reading it when I should have been taking notes
February 6, 2026 at 3:53 AM
“Sir, of course your vision of a carefully chosen, highly accomplished, hard-partying crowd of billionaires dancing across a glass-walled space orbiter to the sounds of the Bee Gees is extremely compelling.” tinyurl.com/yc88mcf5 #fiction #writing #humor #parody #shortstory #substack #booksky
The Hard Truth of Space Parties
A short story.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Panda Haiku

Pandas on the moon
fall into dark stony seas
seeking green plant life.

#haiku #poem #poetry #writing #panda #booksky
February 6, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Check out my new free story on Substack: The Hard Truth of Space Parties tinyurl.com/yc88mcf5 #fiction #writing #humor #parody #shortstory #substack #booksky
The Hard Truth of Space Parties
A short story.
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February 5, 2026 at 4:32 AM
5 out of 5 stars to The Witchwood Crown by Tad Williams. This is my first time reading any of the Osten Ard series by Williams and I’m amazed at the depth of this world and the great range of characters. If you like Game of Thrones you should love this! #fantasy #fiction #books #williams #booksky
February 5, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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This week, and probably for the next while, I #amreading The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens #booksky
February 1, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Story idea: Gertrude Stein makes a burrito and touches a burrito and eats a burrito and makes a burrito and touches a plate that has a burrito and sees a taco she sees and sees a burrito… #booksky #parody #writing #gertrudestein
January 31, 2026 at 12:59 AM
“Something about this picture’s not right,” Blenley responded. “The Duke’s supposedly in danger, but we’re the ones in a pestilent swamp miles from home with ravenous beasts lurking around every corner ready to eat us for lunch.” tinyurl.com/58c4ru7b #booksky #kindle #fantasy #ya #fiction #books
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Swan Haiku

Like a dead white swan
she thought back to her lake years:
Nuts, kids and loud moms.

#haiku #poem #poetry #swan #writing
January 29, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Bigfoot Haiku #40

Bigfoot’s lesson plan
did not include reflection
on inner meaning.

#poem #poetry #haiku #bigfoot #booksky #writing
January 29, 2026 at 12:12 AM
New comment on my Substack story: “I don't often manage to finish most of the stories I read, but this one kept me going to the end…That was a very enjoyable read.” tinyurl.com/5n6bjtxn #fiction #writing #shortstory #humor #booksky
The Man With the Perfect Jacket
A short story
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January 27, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Swamp Haiku

Without birds at home
Sshe traipsed into the dark swamp
hearing fevered owls.

#poem #poetry #haiku #swamp #writing #booksky
January 24, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Check out my free short story The Man with the Perfect Jacket on Substack! Sometimes only one jacket will do... tinyurl.com/5n6bjtxn #fiction #writing #shortstory #humor #booksky #stories #substack
The Man With the Perfect Jacket
A short story
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January 23, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Bun-Dren’s incisions and chops alternated with intense intervals of mind diving, marked by him unceremoniously dropping his instruments, slumping his shoulders, peering into Blenley’s half-closed eyelids and chanting rough-edged M’er-smenn formulas. tinyurl.com/58c4ru7b #booksky #fantasy #ya #books
January 22, 2026 at 1:49 AM
7 out of 10 to A Handful of Dust from 1988, starring James Wilby and Kristin Scott Thomas. An enjoyable adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's caustic look at Britain's upper classes in the 1920s. Lots of surprising strange twists in this story. Available on Prime Video. tinyurl.com/4etee27v #booksky #waugh
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January 22, 2026 at 1:12 AM
“Whenever a potential murder victim’s revealed to be a member of a secretive, mystical moon cult led by an eccentric but charismatic leader, that moon cult bears looking into.”

“Not to mention the Moonitorium looks really cool,” added Rochelle.

tinyurl.com/y2zs2vms

#booksky #mystery #parody
January 17, 2026 at 12:32 AM
I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter review: “This novel has everything: suspense, adventure, humour, horror, all mixed together perfectly. It goes from moments of tension to hilarious dialogues that only add colour to the story...” amzn.to/1gwPt3U #booksky #fiction #novel #books #kindle #ya #paranormal
I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter
Amazon.com: I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter eBook : Henry, Brian K.: Kindle Store
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January 15, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Tequila Haiku

She got badly drenched
in slow tequila battles
with surly truckers.

#haiku #poem #poetry #writing #tequila #booksky #humor
January 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM
“Shollop said Aul-Bac and I made some of the best snake kabobs of the day,” Blenley reported brightly. They’d barely succeeded in making the Mole Roll, desperately copying other pairs and ending up with a lumpy, misshapen object with stray bones sticking out of it. tinyurl.com/58c4ru7b #booksky #ya
January 12, 2026 at 12:22 AM
“There is something about gin, the tang in it of the deep wildwood, perhaps, that always makes me think of twilight and mists and dead maidens. Tonight it tinkled in my mouth like secret laughter.” – John Banville, The Book of Evidence #booksky #banville #fiction #quotes #gin
January 10, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Bigfoot Haiku #66

Bigfoot choked roughly
Finding random raccoon bones
In his peach pancake.

#poem #poetry #bigfoot #writing #humor #booksky
January 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter Amazon review: “As this trio of ghost hunters explore an old mansion where spooky disturbances have reportedly taken place, we join them on a slap stick ride of flying ghosts, flying objects and things that go bump in the night!” amzn.to/1gwPt3U #booksky #ya #kindle
I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter
Amazon.com: I Was a Teenage Ghost Hunter eBook : Henry, Brian K.: Kindle Store
amzn.to
January 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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“Welcome to Night Vale“ was delightfully absurd, with a touch of whimsy and a dash of tender. A unique voice where many books are starting to sound the same💙📚✍️

Give it a couple of chapters to settle if you (like me) haven’t listened to the podcast

#writingcommunity #reading #books #readersky #sff
Welcome to Night Vale by Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink
From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative myster...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“I never trusted those Badcastles. Something about their whole messed-up seaside culture’s wrong. Holding sea burials and roasting leathery seals and the whole demented underwater meditation technique. Now they’re having monster bats do their dirty work.”
tinyurl.com/58c4ru7b #booksky #fantasy #ya
January 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
5 out of 5 to Venetian Vespers by John Banville. Set in a mysteriously gloomy and threatening Venice, this is the latest of John Banville’s novels to feature a haunted protagonist dealing with dire matters where not everyone is who they seem to be. A fine moody period piece. #banville #booksky
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM