Maureen O’Leary
@maureenow.bsky.social
Our Lady of the Grain is an amazing story within a truly fantastic anthology. Highly recommend.
So excited that "Our Lady of the Grain" is part of Harvest the Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror, ed. by C.M. Muller and out now from Chthonic Matter. I can't wait to read the other spooky stories in this anthology!
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Our Lady of the Grain is an amazing story within a truly fantastic anthology. Highly recommend.
The history of a nation is more than names and places, dates and events—it’s a flow of capital and blood over time, currents of euphoria and fear, victory and grief that bring a country to its present borders.
#SundaySentence
THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER @chris-arnold.bsky.social
#SundaySentence
THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER @chris-arnold.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The history of a nation is more than names and places, dates and events—it’s a flow of capital and blood over time, currents of euphoria and fear, victory and grief that bring a country to its present borders.
#SundaySentence
THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER @chris-arnold.bsky.social
#SundaySentence
THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER @chris-arnold.bsky.social
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"She knew she wasn't the same kind of bad mother that her own mother had been, but of course the menu of bad mothers is an endless and varied one."
Amber Sparks, Happy People Don't Live Here
#SundaySentence
Amber Sparks, Happy People Don't Live Here
#SundaySentence
November 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"She knew she wasn't the same kind of bad mother that her own mother had been, but of course the menu of bad mothers is an endless and varied one."
Amber Sparks, Happy People Don't Live Here
#SundaySentence
Amber Sparks, Happy People Don't Live Here
#SundaySentence
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"Nobody thinks of the present as the future past." Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar #SundaySentence
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Nobody thinks of the present as the future past." Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar #SundaySentence
Sally forth! Not angels or mercenaries, Cherrise thought. We walk to work like kindergarteners holding a rope.
SACRAMENT by Susan Straight
#sundaysentence
SACRAMENT by Susan Straight
#sundaysentence
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Sally forth! Not angels or mercenaries, Cherrise thought. We walk to work like kindergarteners holding a rope.
SACRAMENT by Susan Straight
#sundaysentence
SACRAMENT by Susan Straight
#sundaysentence
girl same
October 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
girl same
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Struggling with creativity and focus, I come back to Natalie Goldberg’s foundation for my #SundaySentence :
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” #Booksky ✍🏼📚
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” #Booksky ✍🏼📚
October 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Struggling with creativity and focus, I come back to Natalie Goldberg’s foundation for my #SundaySentence :
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” #Booksky ✍🏼📚
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” #Booksky ✍🏼📚
I found myself praying that the book will be taught more and more in California, where a quarter of the people living in the state were born outside America, and nearly half of all children have one parent who is an immigrant.
CALIFORNIA REWRITTEN by John Freeman #sundaysentence
@heydaybooks.com
CALIFORNIA REWRITTEN by John Freeman #sundaysentence
@heydaybooks.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I found myself praying that the book will be taught more and more in California, where a quarter of the people living in the state were born outside America, and nearly half of all children have one parent who is an immigrant.
CALIFORNIA REWRITTEN by John Freeman #sundaysentence
@heydaybooks.com
CALIFORNIA REWRITTEN by John Freeman #sundaysentence
@heydaybooks.com
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From family letters to poetry and journalism, 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝙍𝙚𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣 author John Freeman traces the origins of his writing life and the call to share extraordinary journeys through words.
Why John Freeman Still Believes in the Power of Story
From family letters to poetry and journalism, John Freeman traces the origins of his writing life and the call to share extraordinary journeys through words.
buff.ly
October 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
From family letters to poetry and journalism, 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝙍𝙚𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣 author John Freeman traces the origins of his writing life and the call to share extraordinary journeys through words.
Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES by Christopher Buehlman
#sundaysentence
BETWEEN TWO FIRES by Christopher Buehlman
#sundaysentence
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES by Christopher Buehlman
#sundaysentence
BETWEEN TWO FIRES by Christopher Buehlman
#sundaysentence
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“The three o’clock bell is big over the harbor, flakes of bronze dropping slow to the water, bell in her mouth, bell in her scabbard.”
~Leni Zumas, ‘Red Clocks’
#sundaysentence
~Leni Zumas, ‘Red Clocks’
#sundaysentence
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“The three o’clock bell is big over the harbor, flakes of bronze dropping slow to the water, bell in her mouth, bell in her scabbard.”
~Leni Zumas, ‘Red Clocks’
#sundaysentence
~Leni Zumas, ‘Red Clocks’
#sundaysentence
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“In those days you fell in and out of love with writers quicker than Byron did…”
Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope
#sundaysentence
Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope
#sundaysentence
October 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
“In those days you fell in and out of love with writers quicker than Byron did…”
Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope
#sundaysentence
Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope
#sundaysentence
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“There is no doubt that creative work is itself done under a compulsion often indistinguishable from a purely clinical obsession.” — Ernest Becker #sundaysentence
October 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“There is no doubt that creative work is itself done under a compulsion often indistinguishable from a purely clinical obsession.” — Ernest Becker #sundaysentence
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October 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#Readers, what's the best sentence you read this week? Share at #SundaySentence!
Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
October 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#Readers, what's the best sentence you read this week? Share at #SundaySentence!
Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
Obsession is the only way I know how to relate to anything that moves me.
“Ulysses of Ladykind” from GOBLIN MODE by Caroline Hagood @carolinehagood.bsky.social
#SundaySentence
“Ulysses of Ladykind” from GOBLIN MODE by Caroline Hagood @carolinehagood.bsky.social
#SundaySentence
October 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Obsession is the only way I know how to relate to anything that moves me.
“Ulysses of Ladykind” from GOBLIN MODE by Caroline Hagood @carolinehagood.bsky.social
#SundaySentence
“Ulysses of Ladykind” from GOBLIN MODE by Caroline Hagood @carolinehagood.bsky.social
#SundaySentence
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I also want to stop everything and read this right now, another NBA finalist.
October 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I also want to stop everything and read this right now, another NBA finalist.
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October is the month to read folk horror of the quiet kind.
Harrowfield isn't just available to purchase via mybook.to/Harrowfield, it's also on Kindle Unlimited. And if you've read it, I'd love it if you leave a review. ❤
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Harrowfield isn't just available to purchase via mybook.to/Harrowfield, it's also on Kindle Unlimited. And if you've read it, I'd love it if you leave a review. ❤
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
October 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
October is the month to read folk horror of the quiet kind.
Harrowfield isn't just available to purchase via mybook.to/Harrowfield, it's also on Kindle Unlimited. And if you've read it, I'd love it if you leave a review. ❤
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Harrowfield isn't just available to purchase via mybook.to/Harrowfield, it's also on Kindle Unlimited. And if you've read it, I'd love it if you leave a review. ❤
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
The story I have within is the saddest I have ever written. As a reader, I love Chthonic Matter. I am proud of this. chthonicmatter.wordpress.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The story I have within is the saddest I have ever written. As a reader, I love Chthonic Matter. I am proud of this. chthonicmatter.wordpress.com
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There is something addictive about people who put their lives on display.
8 Books That Love Reality TV as Much as You Do - Electric Literature
Novels about fictionalized reality TV premises, and cultural analysis of the shows we can’t stop watching
buff.ly
October 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
There is something addictive about people who put their lives on display.
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1/2 We have a ton of extra inventory & need to make room for new titles! All of our 22-24 quarterly anthologies are $8, Not Ghosts, But Spirits is $18 for paperback and $33 for hardcover, & we have overstock titles listed at $7-$8 on our PayHip store! No code needed—
October 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
1/2 We have a ton of extra inventory & need to make room for new titles! All of our 22-24 quarterly anthologies are $8, Not Ghosts, But Spirits is $18 for paperback and $33 for hardcover, & we have overstock titles listed at $7-$8 on our PayHip store! No code needed—
October 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Bring back art nouveau you cowards
Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-dreams-and-ghosts-1897
October 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Bring back art nouveau you cowards
“. . . one must break with one’s past to embrace one’s future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”
DARKFEVER by
@karenmariemoning.bsky.social
#sundaysentence
DARKFEVER by
@karenmariemoning.bsky.social
#sundaysentence
September 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“. . . one must break with one’s past to embrace one’s future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”
DARKFEVER by
@karenmariemoning.bsky.social
#sundaysentence
DARKFEVER by
@karenmariemoning.bsky.social
#sundaysentence
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“As the smoke spiraled out her nostrils, she took the cigarette from between her lips and squeezed the glowing end between her dead fingertips.”
S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes
#SundaySentence
S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes
#SundaySentence
September 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“As the smoke spiraled out her nostrils, she took the cigarette from between her lips and squeezed the glowing end between her dead fingertips.”
S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes
#SundaySentence
S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes
#SundaySentence