stschorey
@stschorey.bsky.social
writer | editor | PhD, UNC Chapel Hill | 🏳️🌈
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Time to spill the tea! Meet the cover of my debut novel-length work, The Bush Tea Murder, coming from Crooked Lane Books in April 2026!
Want to win one of 5 physical galleys of the book? Enter at Goodreads between now and 11/16: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
Want to win one of 5 physical galleys of the book? Enter at Goodreads between now and 11/16: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Time to spill the tea! Meet the cover of my debut novel-length work, The Bush Tea Murder, coming from Crooked Lane Books in April 2026!
Want to win one of 5 physical galleys of the book? Enter at Goodreads between now and 11/16: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
Want to win one of 5 physical galleys of the book? Enter at Goodreads between now and 11/16: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
Shout out to the debt collector who called on our week long NICU stay before we ever even got the bill.
Is America great yet?
Is America great yet?
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Shout out to the debt collector who called on our week long NICU stay before we ever even got the bill.
Is America great yet?
Is America great yet?
“Heavener had left her windows open that day as she taught addition and subtraction. She then heard the whistling of a colleague who had spotted federal immigration agents across the street. As gas filled the streets, students ran inside and teachers stood between the children and federal agents...”
Funston Elementary School’s sense of safety was violated last Friday when a federal agent threw a tear gas canister from their vehicle across the street and the gas wafted over the school property, a teacher told reporters Thursday.
'Sanctuary' mission of Logan Square grade school tested by fed's use of tear gas, teacher says
Funston Elementary School's sense of safety was violated last Friday when a federal agent threw a tear gas canister from their vehicle across the street and the gas wafted over the school property, she told reporters.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
“Heavener had left her windows open that day as she taught addition and subtraction. She then heard the whistling of a colleague who had spotted federal immigration agents across the street. As gas filled the streets, students ran inside and teachers stood between the children and federal agents...”
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For Latin American Heritage month give the gift of a review! Reviews sell books. If you liked a book, review it. Even a sentence. If you can't do the one sentence maybe upvote a good review you agree with.
In the age of the algorithm we gotta work the system. Upvote, click or share. Thnx.
In the age of the algorithm we gotta work the system. Upvote, click or share. Thnx.
September 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
For Latin American Heritage month give the gift of a review! Reviews sell books. If you liked a book, review it. Even a sentence. If you can't do the one sentence maybe upvote a good review you agree with.
In the age of the algorithm we gotta work the system. Upvote, click or share. Thnx.
In the age of the algorithm we gotta work the system. Upvote, click or share. Thnx.
“Now, my silhouette reshaped by hormones, surgery on the horizon, I watch it unfold itself like some ghoulish flower, its shape continually swelling, bursting, and reforming as it seeks an escape, a way to move undetected in the world, and I see myself.”
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Here's Gretchen Felker Martin's original essay that appeared in the back of COME INTO ME #2. She's a phenomenal writer and you should absolutely read her work.
September 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“Now, my silhouette reshaped by hormones, surgery on the horizon, I watch it unfold itself like some ghoulish flower, its shape continually swelling, bursting, and reforming as it seeks an escape, a way to move undetected in the world, and I see myself.”
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Gretchen Felker-Martin
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"school shooting industry"
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"school shooting industry"
Nothing quite as damning to the nation as a 10 year old telling a reporter they didn’t know where to hide bc they practiced shooting drills in the classroom and not the church.
August 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Nothing quite as damning to the nation as a 10 year old telling a reporter they didn’t know where to hide bc they practiced shooting drills in the classroom and not the church.
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Sign up & join me Saturday, Sept. 13th for “Genre Mashups - Including a Pinch of Horror in Your Next Mystery/Suspense”!
This FREE ZOOM presentation examines how horror blends with mystery, crime, thriller, and suspense elements.
Register NOW! - sistersincrime-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This FREE ZOOM presentation examines how horror blends with mystery, crime, thriller, and suspense elements.
Register NOW! - sistersincrime-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Sign up & join me Saturday, Sept. 13th for “Genre Mashups - Including a Pinch of Horror in Your Next Mystery/Suspense”!
This FREE ZOOM presentation examines how horror blends with mystery, crime, thriller, and suspense elements.
Register NOW! - sistersincrime-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This FREE ZOOM presentation examines how horror blends with mystery, crime, thriller, and suspense elements.
Register NOW! - sistersincrime-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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To me, seeing someone announce art or good news during terrible times isn't like trying to sell balloons at a funeral, it's like getting hugged at that funeral. When maybe you didn't know how much you needed that hug. From anyone. Or everyone. Folks need all the soul fuel they can get.
August 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
To me, seeing someone announce art or good news during terrible times isn't like trying to sell balloons at a funeral, it's like getting hugged at that funeral. When maybe you didn't know how much you needed that hug. From anyone. Or everyone. Folks need all the soul fuel they can get.
“as industrious as the state
whose success was poultry & eggs
tobacco & soybeans
as well as convictions”
Thylias Moss
whose success was poultry & eggs
tobacco & soybeans
as well as convictions”
Thylias Moss
The Subculture of the Wrongfully Accused
Ultimately improved by it: slant light hitting his prison obliquely near the state bird’s pointed head accentuated crest, the black-ringed bill from which wheat-wheat-wheat-wheat from which whoit chee...
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August 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“as industrious as the state
whose success was poultry & eggs
tobacco & soybeans
as well as convictions”
Thylias Moss
whose success was poultry & eggs
tobacco & soybeans
as well as convictions”
Thylias Moss
“She thinks of her life as a path that’s narrowed, a twisting stairway she has always been walking down. She remembers her grandmother telling her that the things that feel inevitable are not always so, that gentle moments have power.”
@bethgoder.bsky.social
@bethgoder.bsky.social
Miles To Go Before I Sleep - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The third time Zoey meets Death, she is unarmed except for a bag of twenty-seven kazoos.
psychopomp.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“She thinks of her life as a path that’s narrowed, a twisting stairway she has always been walking down. She remembers her grandmother telling her that the things that feel inevitable are not always so, that gentle moments have power.”
@bethgoder.bsky.social
@bethgoder.bsky.social
“What the surgeon cut from her
had hair and half a crooked smile.
Teratoma it was called, monster-swelling.”
@vanopticon.bsky.social
had hair and half a crooked smile.
Teratoma it was called, monster-swelling.”
@vanopticon.bsky.social
Pygmalion
Cyprus sweats and sings through the window: pigeons chasing boys who chased them, women whispering the name he kisses with a desiccating gesture: cool breath through lips pursed like the papyrus reed ...
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August 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“What the surgeon cut from her
had hair and half a crooked smile.
Teratoma it was called, monster-swelling.”
@vanopticon.bsky.social
had hair and half a crooked smile.
Teratoma it was called, monster-swelling.”
@vanopticon.bsky.social
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My debut novel came out a year ago this month, so for this month I’ll be selling signed copies of my book for $20 flat no shipping. If your local I’ll deliver to you.
Please consider supporting an indie writer.
You ain’t even gotta read the book if you don’t want to! It got other purposes, like 🧵
Please consider supporting an indie writer.
You ain’t even gotta read the book if you don’t want to! It got other purposes, like 🧵
January 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My debut novel came out a year ago this month, so for this month I’ll be selling signed copies of my book for $20 flat no shipping. If your local I’ll deliver to you.
Please consider supporting an indie writer.
You ain’t even gotta read the book if you don’t want to! It got other purposes, like 🧵
Please consider supporting an indie writer.
You ain’t even gotta read the book if you don’t want to! It got other purposes, like 🧵
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Our newest horror novel debuts today!
When detective Debra Foley follows the trail of murder evidence through the picturesque vineyards of Sonoma Valley, she discovers a truth far more gruesome than the tabloids could have ever imagined. The Private Reserve, the newest horror novel by Jason Huebinger, debuts today!
August 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Our newest horror novel debuts today!
“The day folds up like money
if you’re lucky.”
Kevin Young
if you’re lucky.”
Kevin Young
Busking
You’ve seen me, brushed past— my strings screech & light up like a third rail— Mornings, I am fed by flies, strangers, sunrise.
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August 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
“The day folds up like money
if you’re lucky.”
Kevin Young
if you’re lucky.”
Kevin Young
It’s about that time of year where I start sincerely convincing myself that a new planner and more Halloween decorations will fix me
August 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It’s about that time of year where I start sincerely convincing myself that a new planner and more Halloween decorations will fix me
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Actually, I spoke too soon because I did write this flash for Shotgun Honey about Jennifer Holiday from HOLLYWOOD DOWN LOW:
shotgunhoney.com/fiction/one-...
shotgunhoney.com/fiction/one-...
One Last Dance for Your Friend by Meghan Leigh Paulk
When you walk through the doors of Club Ten, my jaw drops like a broken elevator. To see you again. Here. After the way we left things. Still, I shouldn’t be surprised. You’ve always been an invete…
shotgunhoney.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Actually, I spoke too soon because I did write this flash for Shotgun Honey about Jennifer Holiday from HOLLYWOOD DOWN LOW:
shotgunhoney.com/fiction/one-...
shotgunhoney.com/fiction/one-...
I read this months ago and still think about it—so good
One-sentence wedding horror won out. Twenty minutes straight of one sentence, no breaks, and I’m exhausted.
And yes, this is the story where the Devil puts a candle in his “fundament.”
And yes, this is the story where the Devil puts a candle in his “fundament.”
If you’re at #worldcon today (Sunday), I’ll be reading today at 10:30 am. What will I be reading? Haven’t decided yet - but either a bare-knuckle ghost-boxing story, or a one-sentence (very, very long sentence) wedding story.
Come and vote for one!
Come and vote for one!
August 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I read this months ago and still think about it—so good
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I made my first pitch ever to Writer's Digest in February. How did it go? Spoiler alert...it worked out fine. Here's a few thoughts on what pitching to @writersdigest.bsky.social taught me about a successful pitch...and how short story writing influenced it.
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August 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I made my first pitch ever to Writer's Digest in February. How did it go? Spoiler alert...it worked out fine. Here's a few thoughts on what pitching to @writersdigest.bsky.social taught me about a successful pitch...and how short story writing influenced it.
pmraymond.substack.com/p/what-pitch...
pmraymond.substack.com/p/what-pitch...
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What an honor to receive a shoutout for my story, “Effie’s Oasis.” Thank you again, @mysteriousbookshop.com!
Excellent Library Journal review for this year's installment in our Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year anthology
August 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
What an honor to receive a shoutout for my story, “Effie’s Oasis.” Thank you again, @mysteriousbookshop.com!
“He borrowed my pen once and I wrote a prose poem about it. Since then, everything I write is tinged with his aura. That flash fiction I wrote last month contains his spectacled green eyes, the micro that will publish in August has his clearly bleached white teeth…”
@melissacuisine.bsky.social
@melissacuisine.bsky.social
My Muse is a 55-Year-Old Chemistry Professor | MrBullBull
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August 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“He borrowed my pen once and I wrote a prose poem about it. Since then, everything I write is tinged with his aura. That flash fiction I wrote last month contains his spectacled green eyes, the micro that will publish in August has his clearly bleached white teeth…”
@melissacuisine.bsky.social
@melissacuisine.bsky.social
“There’d been a lot of deliveries and a lot of vials and one or two may have made it home with me. I’d stopped using by then, but I’d never stopped looking for an exit ramp…”
@garivers.bsky.social
@garivers.bsky.social
SONG OF THE CONFESSOR | Fiction By G. A. Rivers – Reckon Review
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August 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
“There’d been a lot of deliveries and a lot of vials and one or two may have made it home with me. I’d stopped using by then, but I’d never stopped looking for an exit ramp…”
@garivers.bsky.social
@garivers.bsky.social
“‘Collecting for the annual county police party,’ he said. ‘Keep your mouth shut about this, Huggy Bear.’
My name’s not Huggy Bear, I wanted to say. But I couldn’t fuck up another job.”
@keithroysdon.bsky.social
My name’s not Huggy Bear, I wanted to say. But I couldn’t fuck up another job.”
@keithroysdon.bsky.social
Here’s my latest short story, “Rousting,” just published by Pistol Jim Press.
open.substack.com/pub/pistolji...
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Rousting by Keith Roysdon
from Escalating Chaos: a Pistol Jim Press series
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August 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“‘Collecting for the annual county police party,’ he said. ‘Keep your mouth shut about this, Huggy Bear.’
My name’s not Huggy Bear, I wanted to say. But I couldn’t fuck up another job.”
@keithroysdon.bsky.social
My name’s not Huggy Bear, I wanted to say. But I couldn’t fuck up another job.”
@keithroysdon.bsky.social
“Sometimes I want to touch you and be
touched in
return. But you think I’m grabbing and I
think you’re
shirking and Mama always said to look out
for men like
you”
Nikki Giovanni
touched in
return. But you think I’m grabbing and I
think you’re
shirking and Mama always said to look out
for men like
you”
Nikki Giovanni
The Laws of Motion
The laws of science teach us a pound of gold weighs as much as a pound of flour though if dropped from any undetermined height in their natural state one would reach bottom and one would fly away Laws...
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August 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“Sometimes I want to touch you and be
touched in
return. But you think I’m grabbing and I
think you’re
shirking and Mama always said to look out
for men like
you”
Nikki Giovanni
touched in
return. But you think I’m grabbing and I
think you’re
shirking and Mama always said to look out
for men like
you”
Nikki Giovanni
It’d be really hard to pull away from this kind of publicity for a first book.
Adding all of these titles to my TBR list, and I hope you do too.
Adding all of these titles to my TBR list, and I hope you do too.
15 of 24 authors, and two judges, have now withdrawn.
First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Hanako Footman, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas
Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies
First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Hanako Footman, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas
Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies
August 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It’d be really hard to pull away from this kind of publicity for a first book.
Adding all of these titles to my TBR list, and I hope you do too.
Adding all of these titles to my TBR list, and I hope you do too.