Tracie McBride
@teemcbee.bsky.social
Ngāpuhi, horror writer, educator, meditator. Embracing my cronehood. My daughter says I'm woke. She/her.
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Reposted by Tracie McBride
Only 4 days left until the campaign ends and as it stands at under 30% that we cannot afford to make Season Two.
Please share our Kickstarter below and help us make Season Two a reality
You can also help by writing your own social media posts and tagging friends you think will enjoy us!
Please share our Kickstarter below and help us make Season Two a reality
You can also help by writing your own social media posts and tagging friends you think will enjoy us!
The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two
Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!
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November 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Only 4 days left until the campaign ends and as it stands at under 30% that we cannot afford to make Season Two.
Please share our Kickstarter below and help us make Season Two a reality
You can also help by writing your own social media posts and tagging friends you think will enjoy us!
Please share our Kickstarter below and help us make Season Two a reality
You can also help by writing your own social media posts and tagging friends you think will enjoy us!
Reposted by Tracie McBride
Thanks for including us your October round up @index.transfer-orbit.ghost.io.ap.brid.gy!
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Table of Contents October 2025
A roundup of the short fiction coming out this month
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November 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Thanks for including us your October round up @index.transfer-orbit.ghost.io.ap.brid.gy!
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I'm in Australia. Did not have this on my 2025 bingo card -USA becomes one of those countries which invite prosperous foreigners to take pity and donate money to keep their people from starving to death.
November 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I'm in Australia. Did not have this on my 2025 bingo card -USA becomes one of those countries which invite prosperous foreigners to take pity and donate money to keep their people from starving to death.
Reposted by Tracie McBride
I have no idea how much longer this Kindle sale will last but right now you can grab my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES for $1.99.
Any signal boosts are much appreciated!
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
Any signal boosts are much appreciated!
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I have no idea how much longer this Kindle sale will last but right now you can grab my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES for $1.99.
Any signal boosts are much appreciated!
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
Any signal boosts are much appreciated!
www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
Reposted by Tracie McBride
For the evening crowd—
My new story “Empire” kicked off Punk Noir magazine’s Tightrope series today.
Just 1K words. If you can spare a couple minutes, give it a read. Thanks to @meproctor.bsky.social, who whipped the series into shape.
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My new story “Empire” kicked off Punk Noir magazine’s Tightrope series today.
Just 1K words. If you can spare a couple minutes, give it a read. Thanks to @meproctor.bsky.social, who whipped the series into shape.
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/e...
“Empire” by Frank Vatel
“Empire” by Frank Vatel “…for Jacob Nowak, who was given the promise of eternal life in Baptism…” Whenever a spider-man goes home to the lord, there’s always a prayer next day. Priest c…
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November 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
For the evening crowd—
My new story “Empire” kicked off Punk Noir magazine’s Tightrope series today.
Just 1K words. If you can spare a couple minutes, give it a read. Thanks to @meproctor.bsky.social, who whipped the series into shape.
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/e...
My new story “Empire” kicked off Punk Noir magazine’s Tightrope series today.
Just 1K words. If you can spare a couple minutes, give it a read. Thanks to @meproctor.bsky.social, who whipped the series into shape.
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/e...
Yesterday for Halloween I wore my Wednesday Addams dress to school, and whenever anyone asked if I was dressed as Wednesday Addams, I gave one of two responses:
A. No, I'm Wednesday Addam's grandma.
or
B. (deadpan) No. These are my regular clothes.
A. No, I'm Wednesday Addam's grandma.
or
B. (deadpan) No. These are my regular clothes.
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yesterday for Halloween I wore my Wednesday Addams dress to school, and whenever anyone asked if I was dressed as Wednesday Addams, I gave one of two responses:
A. No, I'm Wednesday Addam's grandma.
or
B. (deadpan) No. These are my regular clothes.
A. No, I'm Wednesday Addam's grandma.
or
B. (deadpan) No. These are my regular clothes.
Kids at school today were given a very short and simple story and asked to draw a storyboard for it. One girl ignored the instructions and instead chose to illustrate in six frames her identical twin sister's death by drowning (said sister is currently alive).
Sooo...how was your day?
Sooo...how was your day?
October 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Kids at school today were given a very short and simple story and asked to draw a storyboard for it. One girl ignored the instructions and instead chose to illustrate in six frames her identical twin sister's death by drowning (said sister is currently alive).
Sooo...how was your day?
Sooo...how was your day?
These are the rules as I understand it: It is not OK to sexually objectify men, unless it's Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark, and then only when he is shirtless and wielding a scythe.
October 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
These are the rules as I understand it: It is not OK to sexually objectify men, unless it's Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark, and then only when he is shirtless and wielding a scythe.
I'm up!
oh yes, it’s Fantasy Friday! 🗡️✨
and today we have FLASH
“Knife had not always been Knife. Once it had been Tree. Once it had been Rock.”
Knife Plus by @teemcbee.bsky.social
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and today we have FLASH
“Knife had not always been Knife. Once it had been Tree. Once it had been Rock.”
Knife Plus by @teemcbee.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Knife Plus - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Knife had not always been Knife. Once it had been Tree. Once it had been Rock.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I'm up!
Nine-year-old speculating on the cost of my shoes:
They look like they're from the nineteens, so that would make them more valuable.
(Actual cost to me: $10 from a thrift shop. And now, apparently, my pride.)
They look like they're from the nineteens, so that would make them more valuable.
(Actual cost to me: $10 from a thrift shop. And now, apparently, my pride.)
October 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Nine-year-old speculating on the cost of my shoes:
They look like they're from the nineteens, so that would make them more valuable.
(Actual cost to me: $10 from a thrift shop. And now, apparently, my pride.)
They look like they're from the nineteens, so that would make them more valuable.
(Actual cost to me: $10 from a thrift shop. And now, apparently, my pride.)
Turning 49 Today: Andrew Scott
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People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers. Of course, it’s nice to get a big cheque, but my view is that we’re not here long, so why not do something of value?
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People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers. Of course, it’s nice to get a big cheque, but my view is that we’re not here long, so why not do something of value?
Turning 49 Today: Andrew Scott
Watch the best of new films from around the world today by signing up for the FREE 3-DAY trial going to on Roku, FireStick, and your Itune (app)) People get distracted by box-office figures and ta…
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October 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Want to amaze and delight a classroom full of nine-year-olds in 2025? Just say "six, seven". Use the right intonation and hand gestures, and it's like they're watching a dog juggle.
October 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Want to amaze and delight a classroom full of nine-year-olds in 2025? Just say "six, seven". Use the right intonation and hand gestures, and it's like they're watching a dog juggle.
I just did 20 minutes of sprint interval training for the first time, and ohmyfreakinggod it sucked. Somebody tell me it's worth it. Alternatively, somebody tell me it's fine if I just spend the rest of my life lying on the couch and eating cake.
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I just did 20 minutes of sprint interval training for the first time, and ohmyfreakinggod it sucked. Somebody tell me it's worth it. Alternatively, somebody tell me it's fine if I just spend the rest of my life lying on the couch and eating cake.
Whoops. I already replied to some bullshit when I shouldn't before I saw this.
September 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Whoops. I already replied to some bullshit when I shouldn't before I saw this.
Reposted by Tracie McBride
September 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Been trying really hard not to engage with US political content, but...this had me scraping my jaw off the floor.
on Fox News they’re calling to exterminate unhoused people with lethal injections. so it’ll probably be a month or 2 until CNN is saying the same thing but it will be Gavin Newsom calling it a “Homeless Removal Program” with a big kind smile on his face
September 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Been trying really hard not to engage with US political content, but...this had me scraping my jaw off the floor.
You had me at "Ow".
August 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM
You had me at "Ow".
My story Knife Plus will be out in the next issue of Fantasy Magazine.
Fantasy Issue 98 Short Stories:
The Dragon and the Bog, by @translunarytree.bsky.social
They Return, by @ecastroianni.bsky.social
Flash:
The Memory Breach, by @wunderkind100.bsky.social
Knife Plus, by @teemcbee.bsky.social
🎉 🎉 🎉
The Dragon and the Bog, by @translunarytree.bsky.social
They Return, by @ecastroianni.bsky.social
Flash:
The Memory Breach, by @wunderkind100.bsky.social
Knife Plus, by @teemcbee.bsky.social
🎉 🎉 🎉
August 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
My story Knife Plus will be out in the next issue of Fantasy Magazine.
Gymnastics excursion for the Grade 3s today. I might have inadvertently traumatised some 9-year-olds by telling them that the bottom of the foam pit was lined with the skeletons of the kids that never made it out.
August 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Gymnastics excursion for the Grade 3s today. I might have inadvertently traumatised some 9-year-olds by telling them that the bottom of the foam pit was lined with the skeletons of the kids that never made it out.
A stormy night, driving alone on a quiet country road and listening to The Cure. Forgot how Subway Song ends and scared the bejeesus out of myself.
August 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
A stormy night, driving alone on a quiet country road and listening to The Cure. Forgot how Subway Song ends and scared the bejeesus out of myself.
Quote post with a picture of yourself that makes you feel powerful
August 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Quote post with a picture of yourself that makes you feel powerful
Turns out being overtaken by a 57-year-old woman on a sports oval is a great incentive for 9-year-olds to run faster.
August 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Turns out being overtaken by a 57-year-old woman on a sports oval is a great incentive for 9-year-olds to run faster.