Tim Hoelscher
@timhoelscherauthor.com
Horror Writer | Tech: Founder, @gavagai.com | Dog Enthusiast | Cat Aficionado | Goat Manager | Chicken Aggregator | HWA Member | Married | Alpha Gal Positive | he/him/his
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We'll be publishing the first story in our "A Working Definition of Us" series tomorrow morning for Valentine's Day. We're still looking for contributions for the February 20th and 27th installments. We'd love to read your work! Read & Submit at gavagai.com
We're still looking for stories for the February 20th and 27th installments of "A Working Definition of Us." Hop on over to Gavagai and submit your story today! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #ValentinesDay #romance
Heyooo! We released our Android app on Google Play this evening. The iPhone app is currently available in TestFlight for those interested in adopting early. Check it out if you’re of a mind! Install the app and log in with your Bluesky account! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
Good evening! We wanted to let you know that Gavagai Is now on Google Play!
You can now use Gavagai directly from your Android device. This is an early public release, and we’ll be improving it steadily. If you encounter rough edges or have ideas, we’d love to hear from you. You can give 🧵 1/3
You can now use Gavagai directly from your Android device. This is an early public release, and we’ll be improving it steadily. If you encounter rough edges or have ideas, we’d love to hear from you. You can give 🧵 1/3
February 18, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Heyooo! We released our Android app on Google Play this evening. The iPhone app is currently available in TestFlight for those interested in adopting early. Check it out if you’re of a mind! Install the app and log in with your Bluesky account! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
Hey fellow writers! Looking for the last installments for this romantic/antiromantic triptych! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting
We're looking for the last installments for this triptych! Throw your hat in the ring if you have a piece that might work for it! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
We'll be publishing the first story in our "A Working Definition of Us" series tomorrow morning for Valentine's Day. We're still looking for contributions for the February 20th and 27th installments. We'd love to read your work! Read & Submit at gavagai.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Hey fellow writers! Looking for the last installments for this romantic/antiromantic triptych! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting
Our first #SurrealSunday post is up! This is our new program on Gavagai for works that fall outside the traditional plot or narrative structure, sometimes moving more into statements or art pieces than traditional written work. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #horror
For today's Surreal Sunday piece: A line of lipsticks becomes a war chest of memory, desire and violence dressed in matte finish. It's Twilight in Five Lipsticks by Lynne Sargent. Enjoy!
February 15, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Our first #SurrealSunday post is up! This is our new program on Gavagai for works that fall outside the traditional plot or narrative structure, sometimes moving more into statements or art pieces than traditional written work. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #horror
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It's a prequel to my very first published story, "In the Teeth of the Gale," in @littlebluemarble.bsky.social in 2019, so if you're curious what happens next, here it is!
littlebluemarble.ca/2019/10/25/i...
littlebluemarble.ca/2019/10/25/i...
In the Teeth of the Gale - Little Blue Marble
I pressed the last hydrocorn shoot into its eyelet and secured the completed tray to the floating platform. Standing up, I swelled with pride ...
littlebluemarble.ca
February 14, 2026 at 8:17 PM
It's a prequel to my very first published story, "In the Teeth of the Gale," in @littlebluemarble.bsky.social in 2019, so if you're curious what happens next, here it is!
littlebluemarble.ca/2019/10/25/i...
littlebluemarble.ca/2019/10/25/i...
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I'm so excited to share this tale of a family dealing with the aftermath of climate collapse, and grateful to @gavagai.com for giving it a home.
Today is the first installment of our "A Working Definition of Us" series, exploring relationships and interactions between two entities. Today we have Ramez Yoakeim's (@yoakeim.bsky.social) Son of the Sea. Enjoy!
February 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I'm so excited to share this tale of a family dealing with the aftermath of climate collapse, and grateful to @gavagai.com for giving it a home.
Today we're posting the first story in our "A Working Definition of Us" story triptych. Today we have Ramez Yoakeim's @yoakeim.bsky.social excellent piece "Son of the Sea." Check it out at gavagai.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Today we're posting the first story in our "A Working Definition of Us" story triptych. Today we have Ramez Yoakeim's @yoakeim.bsky.social excellent piece "Son of the Sea." Check it out at gavagai.com
We're still looking for stories for the February 20th and 27th installments of "A Working Definition of Us." Hop on over to Gavagai and submit your story today! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #ValentinesDay #romance
We'll be publishing the first story in our "A Working Definition of Us" series tomorrow morning for Valentine's Day. We're still looking for contributions for the February 20th and 27th installments. We'd love to read your work! Read & Submit at gavagai.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
We're still looking for stories for the February 20th and 27th installments of "A Working Definition of Us." Hop on over to Gavagai and submit your story today! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #ValentinesDay #romance
Reposted by Tim Hoelscher
In today's Editor Pick: A desert warehouse full of forgotten toys reveals a secret: humanity’s robotic takeover has been decades in the making - and it started in the toy aisle. It's The Toys Did Not Come to Play by Bebe Bayliss. Read it for free at gavagai.com!
February 12, 2026 at 2:11 PM
In today's Editor Pick: A desert warehouse full of forgotten toys reveals a secret: humanity’s robotic takeover has been decades in the making - and it started in the toy aisle. It's The Toys Did Not Come to Play by Bebe Bayliss. Read it for free at gavagai.com!
Our new iPhone app goes live today! Well, beta live. So live-ish. But if you’re a user or reader and want to get a mobile dose of short fiction, you could do worse! Available through Apple’s TestFlight as we ramp up to full release in the App Store. Android flavor coming soon! #WritingCommunity
Hey all -
The Gavagai iPhone app has been quietly living in TestFlight for a small group of early testers. We're ready to widen the circle!
If you read, post, comment or lurk here regularly, we’d love it if you give it a shot.
This is still technically beta. You may find rough edges. 🧵 1/4
The Gavagai iPhone app has been quietly living in TestFlight for a small group of early testers. We're ready to widen the circle!
If you read, post, comment or lurk here regularly, we’d love it if you give it a shot.
This is still technically beta. You may find rough edges. 🧵 1/4
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Our new iPhone app goes live today! Well, beta live. So live-ish. But if you’re a user or reader and want to get a mobile dose of short fiction, you could do worse! Available through Apple’s TestFlight as we ramp up to full release in the App Store. Android flavor coming soon! #WritingCommunity
Reposted by Tim Hoelscher
In today's Editor Pick: On a long-standing river crossing, an unseen caretaker weighs duty, decay, and the cost of letting evil pass. It's F.B. Hughes's A Good Bridge. Read it at gavagai.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
In today's Editor Pick: On a long-standing river crossing, an unseen caretaker weighs duty, decay, and the cost of letting evil pass. It's F.B. Hughes's A Good Bridge. Read it at gavagai.com
We have a new call up through the end of February. Check it out! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
February Submission Call: A Working Definition of Us — by Gavagai
The Call
We're looking for three stories 2000-3000 words (longer pieces will be considered but we have to be budget conscious!) about two characters making a relationship work despite adversity or dissonance. We're looking for unfor…
The Call
We're looking for three stories 2000-3000 words (longer pieces will be considered but we have to be budget conscious!) about two characters making a relationship work despite adversity or dissonance. We're looking for unfor…
February 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
We have a new call up through the end of February. Check it out! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
We’ve got a new story up today for your Saturday enjoyment! Check it out! You don’t need those super bowls or mega balls, you need some good old fashioned eyeball-readin’! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky #horror
In today's Pick: While clearing out his vinyl collection, a music journalist stumbles onto the vanished legacy of an all-female folk band, and discovers some artists don’t fade from history so much as actively erase themselves. It's Hedge Witch by Tom Johnstone! Read it for free at gavagai.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:10 PM
We’ve got a new story up today for your Saturday enjoyment! Check it out! You don’t need those super bowls or mega balls, you need some good old fashioned eyeball-readin’! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky #horror
New story up yesterday on Gavagai!
In today’s Editor Pick: On the run from a blown con and nursing a shattered tail, a peniless thief hops a train out of Chicago and collides with a stranger whose own escape plan is far more dangerous than his. It’s Rachel Ashcraft’s A Cat of Constant Sorrow. Read it for free at gavagai.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:37 PM
New story up yesterday on Gavagai!
Reposted by Tim Hoelscher
✨🦌ICYMI🦌✨
New weird deer horror short story was published on @gavagai.com a few days ago! Check it out!!
Read "Dear/Deer" here: gavagai.com/posts/965
New weird deer horror short story was published on @gavagai.com a few days ago! Check it out!!
Read "Dear/Deer" here: gavagai.com/posts/965
January 18, 2026 at 4:56 PM
✨🦌ICYMI🦌✨
New weird deer horror short story was published on @gavagai.com a few days ago! Check it out!!
Read "Dear/Deer" here: gavagai.com/posts/965
New weird deer horror short story was published on @gavagai.com a few days ago! Check it out!!
Read "Dear/Deer" here: gavagai.com/posts/965
In today's Editor Pick: Every morning, a lone deer waits at the window; what begins as a child’s comfort curdles into a lesson about hunger, neglect and the terrible cost of being watched. It's Dear/Deer by Abigail Kemske (@abigailkemske.bsky.social)! Read it for free at gavagai.com/posts/965
January 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Good morning! In today's Editor Pick: At a suburban block party, one woman discovers just how much cruelty can hide behind perfect smiles. It's Marlaina Cockcroft's Block Party. Enjoy!
January 5, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Awww yeah! Awards are in the offing! So much goodness on our first digital anthology! #WritingCommunity #horror #AmWriting #WriterSky
We’ve got several stories eligible for 2025 awards in our first ever horror anthology, including Stoker and Best Weird Horror! Check out some of our best work in the Gavagai Horror Anthology Volume One! Link in comments!
January 2, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Awww yeah! Awards are in the offing! So much goodness on our first digital anthology! #WritingCommunity #horror #AmWriting #WriterSky
Come on by and check out the writing community and the stories since we launched last October! We're using Bluesky tech under the hood so Bluesky users can log in seamlessly! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
We're doing a retrospective of all the stories we've published on Gavagai since the first piece went live on October 28. Join the writing community and have a read at gavagai.com #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting
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December 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Come on by and check out the writing community and the stories since we launched last October! We're using Bluesky tech under the hood so Bluesky users can log in seamlessly! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
Reposted by Tim Hoelscher
What's this? One last short story publication sneaking in before the end of the year? And it's horror you say?
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Find "The Itch of Guilt," out now @gavagai.com
www.gavagai.com/posts/602
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Find "The Itch of Guilt," out now @gavagai.com
www.gavagai.com/posts/602
gavagai
www.gavagai.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
What's this? One last short story publication sneaking in before the end of the year? And it's horror you say?
🪳🪳🪳
Find "The Itch of Guilt," out now @gavagai.com
www.gavagai.com/posts/602
🪳🪳🪳
Find "The Itch of Guilt," out now @gavagai.com
www.gavagai.com/posts/602
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My debut novel, #PRIMACY, is out now.
Empires fall when you push back.
“League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Wall Street and it gets even crazier from there!”
#frankenstein #horrorbooks #fantasyhorror #classicmonsters
Empires fall when you push back.
“League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Wall Street and it gets even crazier from there!”
#frankenstein #horrorbooks #fantasyhorror #classicmonsters
My debut novel, PRIMACY is out now!
PRIMACY
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December 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
My debut novel, #PRIMACY, is out now.
Empires fall when you push back.
“League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Wall Street and it gets even crazier from there!”
#frankenstein #horrorbooks #fantasyhorror #classicmonsters
Empires fall when you push back.
“League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Wall Street and it gets even crazier from there!”
#frankenstein #horrorbooks #fantasyhorror #classicmonsters
Reposted by Tim Hoelscher
Congrats to Zack Zagranis, the winner of the Gavagai 1000 microfiction contest (the prompt word was “shatter”). Read it here: www.gavagai.com/g1000/week/3
gavagai
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December 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Congrats to Zack Zagranis, the winner of the Gavagai 1000 microfiction contest (the prompt word was “shatter”). Read it here: www.gavagai.com/g1000/week/3
We've got a new story up on Gavagai from EJ Delaney, and this week's Gavagai 1000 #microfiction contest wraps up tonight at midnight. Try your hand and see how you do! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
Gavagai
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In today's Editor Pick: A predator who has fed on fear for centuries encounters something new: a girl who doesn’t see him at all. It's E J Delaney's Fear Itselfie. Read it for free at gavagai.com
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In today's Editor Pick: A predator who has fed on fear for centuries encounters something new: a girl who doesn’t see him at all. It's E J Delaney's Fear Itselfie. Read it for free at gavagai.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We've got a new story up on Gavagai from EJ Delaney, and this week's Gavagai 1000 #microfiction contest wraps up tonight at midnight. Try your hand and see how you do! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
We're excited to release this new feature for writers on the site! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting #WIP
Morning everyone! Last night under cover of darkness we released our new (beta) Critique Circles feature. It's a way for writers to form private groups to get feedback on their writing. Take a look and tell us what else you'd like to see! gavagai.com #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting #WIP
gavagai
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December 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We're excited to release this new feature for writers on the site! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting #WIP
New story up on Gavagai today! Check it out! We're also hoping to go live with our Critique Circles feature this weekend (in beta of course!) gavagai.com #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New story up on Gavagai today! Check it out! We're also hoping to go live with our Critique Circles feature this weekend (in beta of course!) gavagai.com #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
In today's Editor Pick, a surgeon’s trembling hands begin as a symptom, and become a sentence: it's Hands by Miles Carnegie. Read it for free at gavagai.com #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
December 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM