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Micah Castle 🎃

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One the best book series I've ever read. I could read it forever. So so engrossing and smooth, flowing prose. I hope for a 4th book 🙏

Meerkat Press @meerkatpress.bsky.social · 12h

Join us DECEMBER 5, 2025 at 7 PM for Goodbye World Ball, a live-streamed, interactive release party for Kathe Koja's DARK MATTER, book 3 in the Dark Factory series. With Kathe Koja & special guests and giveaways!!

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November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM

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Join us DECEMBER 5, 2025 at 7 PM for Goodbye World Ball, a live-streamed, interactive release party for Kathe Koja's DARK MATTER, book 3 in the Dark Factory series. With Kathe Koja & special guests and giveaways!!

https://smpl.is/aefsk

@Kathe Koja

November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Symbols of belief (3)
If all things are full of gods, then the gods must find habitation/incarnation within the human form as well. ~Charmskool

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#DarkFactory #DarkPark #DarkMatter #CharmianDuglass#immersivestory #kathekoja @kkoja.bsky.social

November 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM

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K. Guillory

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Kathe Koja is back with more future-rave adventures and cyberspace predictions in DARK MATTER. I caught up with her for an interview.

Support more authors talking about cyberspace! We need them! www.themetaculture.co/kathe-koja-r...

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Kathe Koja Returns With More Futureshock in Dark Matter

Kathe Koja is back with more predictions about cyberspace in "Dark Matter". We talk it out here.

www.themetaculture.co

November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM

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Kathe Koja

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Talking with Kelly is always enormous fun and we had fun here talking about #DarkMatter - you can tell! Next time, around a bonfire 🔥

K. Guillory @kgpaints.bsky.social · 3d

Kathe Koja is back with more future-rave adventures and cyberspace predictions in DARK MATTER. I caught up with her for an interview.

Support more authors talking about cyberspace! We need them! www.themetaculture.co/kathe-koja-r...

@kkoja.bsky.social @meerkatpress.bsky.social

Kathe Koja Returns With More Futureshock in Dark Matter

Kathe Koja is back with more predictions about cyberspace in "Dark Matter". We talk it out here.

www.themetaculture.co

November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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Kathe Koja's #TheCipher on Times Now list of 10 horror books that will make you look for the monster under your bed! What a list...

https://smpl.is/aer26

November 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM

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Kathe Koja

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Thank you @genni.bsky.social and @aurealisfsf.bsky.social for the #DarkMatter love!

Meerkat Press @meerkatpress.bsky.social · 6d

Aurealis Magazine Reviews #DarkMatter by Kathe Koja: Lush and queer, a visual display of text and art to the cascading thrum of music. … ~EUGEN BACON

https://smpl.is/aendn

@Kathe Koja @Eugen Bacon @Aurealis Magazine

November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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Kathe Koja

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Strange fierce times, and strange times too to be launching a new novel. Then again, darkfactory.club/punch-holes-... #darkmatter #darkfactory

Punch holes in the sky

We came into this world spittin’ mad, runnin’ full bore . . . the Lord put us here to punch holes in the sky. –

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November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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"Dark Matter is a vital and edifying conclusion to Kathe Koja’s Dark Factory project,,,"

MIKE THORN, author of Shelter for the Damned and Darkest Hours

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#DarkMatter #kathekoja @Kathe Koja @Mike Thorn

November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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Kathe Koja

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Inside us all, the universe . . . Stellar art by Kobie Solomon for #DarkFactory #darkmatter @meerkatpress.bsky.social

B&W illustration of a young man looking back over his shoulder, one eye regarding the viewer, as his body flows away to reveal a universe of stars, darkness, and a third eye blazing inside

November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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Jeremy C. Shipp

@jeremycshipp.bsky.social

My newest creation is this pair of semi-magical, fabric art earrings featuring red flowers. I designed, hand-sewed, and hand-embroidered them. The metal is stainless steel and hypoallergenic.

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Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art earrings. They're green with embroidered red flowers, little white snowflakes, and short yellow lines. The earrings are held together with a red blanket stitch. The earrings are a bit puffy. There's a swirly yellow marble paper in the background.

Here's another lovely view of the earrings at a different angle so you can see that the earrings are a bit puffy.

Here's another lovely image of the earrings next to a quarter and a Bingo playing card featuring a party dog in sunglasses and a party hat.

November 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM

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Aurealis Magazine Reviews #DarkMatter by Kathe Koja: Lush and queer, a visual display of text and art to the cascading thrum of music. … ~EUGEN BACON

https://smpl.is/aendn

@Kathe Koja @Eugen Bacon @Aurealis Magazine

November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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Symbols of Belief (2)
The Oxyrhynchys Papyri contained fragments of the Gospel of Thomas, in which Jesus Christ is said to have remarked “Raise the stone, and there you will find me.” Aristotle reports that Thales of Miletus taught that “All things are full of gods.” ~Charmskool

November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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generalsheenanigans

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62nd read of 25:
What I Know About July by @kathausler.bsky.social is a great modern Berlin-set mystery that kept me guessing and reminded me why I blindly follow @meerkatpress.bsky.social for books to pick up next❤️

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Holding a PB of What I Know About July by Kat Hausler

November 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM

Meerkat Press

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Join us DECEMBER 5, 2025 at 7 PM for Goodbye World Ball, a live-streamed, interactive release party for Kathe Koja's DARK MATTER, book 3 in the Dark Factory series. With Kathe Koja & special guests and giveaways!!

https://smpl.is/aefsk

@Kathe Koja

November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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generalsheenanigans

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Just finished ‘Smoke City’ by @keithrosson.bsky.social (which was amazing) and starting ‘Waking the Dead & Other Stories’ by @yvettetan.bsky.social next. What have you been reading this weekend? 👀
#booksky

My copies of “Smoke City” by Keith Rosson & “Waking the Dead” by Yvette Tan.

April 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM

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WE DO, WE MAKE, WE ARE by Kathe Koja. Now at Vol 1 Brooklyn! You will want to read this :) #Skin #BlogTour

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#queerbodyhorror #bodyhorror #lovestory #performanceart #torturedartist #KatheKoja

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April 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM

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Book Review: SKIN

Skin Kathe Koja Meerkat Press (April 22, 2025) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy When I sat down to read this book I had no idea the ride I was in for. The only thing I knew was that it was a book from Meerkat Press, it was originally published thirty years ago, and it was body horror.…

Book Review: SKIN

Skin Kathe Koja Meerkat Press (April 22, 2025) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy When I sat down to read this book I had no idea the ride I was in for. The only thing I knew was that it was a book from Meerkat Press, it was originally published thirty years ago, and it was body horror. My eyes practically popped out of my head by the end of this story.

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March 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · Aug 11

#BookReview

Skin by Kathe Koja – A Visceral Tale of Art, Madness, and Human Nature

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Skin By Kathe Koja – A Visceral Tale Of Art, Madness, And Human Nature - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website 11/08/2025

‘Skin’ is a brilliant, if quite impenetrable tale. The new edition with Eric LaRocca’s introduction adds a nice flourish, and in the echelons of fiction

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November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Skin

J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · Jul 22

Reading SKIN by Kathe Koja, out from @meerkatpress.bsky.social, and this passage strikes me as seeing GenAI fuck up your personal vision. Wondering what it’s all for when the crowds lap up the sensationalist slop over your art. Seeing the soullessness and knowing your influence is in there…

Screenshot of text from Kathe Koja’s SKIN, the highlighted portion reading, “…horrible, to know they had used their talents and her teachings, skill and knowledge wasted in this absurd and vicious way.

Upstairs she locked her door, turned off her machine; sat grim and still before her worktable as if she now must work to drive the ugliness away.

November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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Matt Neil Hill

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Skin by Kathe Koja, Invaginies by Joe Koch, The Dregs Trilogy by Chris Kelso, The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter, Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson, The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich, In the Shadow of the Phosphorus Dawn by Rob True... oh, wait... "a" book?!