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Amber Baird
@amberbairdpdx.bsky.social
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Literary thriller & horror writer. PDX/PNW.

Querying KINSHIP 💀🩸🌲🥩🐻
Revising BURRITO GODS 🌯✨🔥🌈🙏

Short fiction in: Maudlin House + Troublemaker Firestarter + Hawai'i Pacific Review + PULP LIT MAG + more
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Some influences for To the Burrito Gods. Querying soon. #amrevising
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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TO THE BURRITO GODS: a horror story about working in food service.

⛪️ workplace cult
🌯 foodie satire
💋 sapphic w/ trans LI

Querying soon. #questpit #A #H #LF #WIP
First panel is a mood board in pink, gold, and blue. "To the Burrito Gods" printed in the middle. Images in the board: two hands clasping, a burrito, a rainbow, something on fire, someone praying, an eye up close, a smashed up car, a computer and sketchbook, a series of knives. On the right panel against a grungy green background, info: Desperate Amanda doesn't have a lot of options in rural Oregon, but she thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul. Movie poster for Sorry to Bother You X book cover for Pizza Girl. TO THE BURRITO GODS is a horror story about working in food service featuring a late queer coming-of-age for fans of Rachel Harrison and Grady Hendrix.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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BURRITO GODS revision progress:

25000/70000

So far, the draft has been very clean, far less has been needed than when I was revising my last novel. Hope I don't find any major plot holes soon...
October 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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TO THE BURRITO GODS: a horror story about working in food service.

⛪️ workplace cult
🌯 foodie satire
💋 sapphic w/ trans LI

Querying soon. #DVPit #A #H #LF #LGBT #WIP
First panel is a mood board in pink, gold, and blue. "To the Burrito Gods" printed in the middle. Images in the board: two hands clasping, a burrito, a rainbow, something on fire, someone praying, an eye up close, a smashed up car, a computer and sketchbook, a series of knives. On the right panel against a grungy green background, info: Desperate Amanda doesn't have a lot of options in rural Oregon, but she thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul. Movie poster for Sorry to Bother You X book cover for Pizza Girl. TO THE BURRITO GODS is a horror story about working in food service featuring a late queer coming-of-age for fans of Rachel Harrison and Grady Hendrix.
October 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Show me your cat.
A brown tabby cat curled up in a cardboard box fitting and therefore sitting perfectly, dead ass asleep and covering its little nose with its paw
September 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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BURRITO GODS revision progress:

5000/70000

I hope to finish by Thanksgiving.
September 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Seeking beta readers for my queer horror novel about working in food service. Likely later this fall.

Just message me if you’re interested. (Open to exchange beta service for books of a similar genre also.)
September 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Influences for KINSHIP, the literary horror novel I’m #querying.

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite
Books flat lay on a table: My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Boy Parts by Eliza Clark Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite
August 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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TO THE BURRITO GODS: a horror story about working in food service.

⛪️ workplace cult
🌯 foodie satire
💋 sapphic w/ trans LI

Querying soon. #QuestPit #A #H #LF #LGBTQ #WIP
August 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Close to finishing the first draft of my horror novel about working in food service featuring a late queer coming of age. I love this story.
July 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Horror, thriller, and literary books I’ve enjoyed in the last few months. 1: physical/digital; 2: audio.
Book covers of physically/digitally read books I enjoyed in the last few months: -Strange Pictures by Uketsu -The Last Word by Taylor Adams -Situation Nowhere by Bobby Miller -The God of the Woods by Liz Moore -The Last Session by Julia Bartz -The Sundowner’s Dance by Todd Keisling -Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe -Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Covers of audiobooks I’ve enjoyed in the last few months: -What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall -Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent -The Shining by Stephen King -Tilt by Emma Pattee -Sky Daddy by Kate Folk -Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett -Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou -We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kleiwer -Bear by Julia Phillips
June 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Amanda thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul.

⛪️ workplace cult
🌯 foodie satire
🩷sapphic w/trans LI

#questpit #a #w #lf #h
A burrito glowing over a sparkly golden background with the title To the Burrito Gods!
May 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I Saw the TV Glow x Galaxy Quest. A disgraced showrunner commissions a spell to force the cast of his cancelled vampire show VALLEY VAMP to do a reboot, but the spell goes awry and the cast becomes their characters… at Comic Con. Even the dead one. #questpit #w #a #h
Character board for VALLEY VAMP. Rebecca Price is giving GOOP vibes with sunshine and avocado, and is linked to Daniel Silver by a divorce decree. Daniel is still living his best Michelob Ultra Teen Choice Awards life. Sasha Shannon is making a living on Only Fans. Madison Silver now does music, being gay, and hailing Satan. She is connected with rainbow hearts to Casey Jackson, who was presenting as a boy at the time she was on the show and has recently written a tell-all.
May 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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KINSHIP. Dexter x Flowers in the Attic for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh.

#questpit #q #a #lf #h
Collage of 5 images overlaid with word KINSHIP: sharp metal nails coming out of a bright red lipsticked mouth, a lesbian couple clasping hands, a bloody white cloth against a pink background, light shining behind a spiderweb with a juicy spider and the shadow of a hand, a man's bare back as he is held by another man.
May 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Megan's reunion with her long-lost brother is complicated when he kills his lover. Luckily, she knows what to do, but after some family bonding/crime cleanup, he becomes enamored with her. Awkward. Or useful? #questpit #Q #A #LF #H
Collage of 5 images overlaid with word KINSHIP: sharp metal nails coming out of a bright red lipsticked mouth, a lesbian couple clasping hands, a bloody white cloth against a pink background, light shining behind a spiderweb with a juicy spider and the shadow of a hand, a man's bare back as he is held by another man.
May 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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My new bold jumping spider, Jeremy.
April 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Books I've rated 5 stars in the first quarter of the year:

Where I End by Sophie White
Erasure by Percival Everett
Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
The List by Yomi Adegoke
Guillotine by Delilah S Dawson
This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
Collage of book covers (titles in post text)
April 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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"Burrito Gods is the 'The Craft Beer of Pseudo-Mexican Food' (says one publication), taking the Pacific Northwest by storm, fast casual like all the others before them, but new and much hipper." #1stlinepit #a #t #spec #lf #wip
Desperate Amanda thinks her dreams have come true when she's hired at Burrito Gods, a hip fast-casual joint, making a thriving wage, only to find that to climb the ranks she'll have to lose her soul. To the Burrito Gods is an anticapitalist queer story centered around the horrors of working in food service, featuring: a workplace cult, foodie & corporate satire, healing from trauma, sapphic romance, trans LI. A gloved hand holds out a burrito, transposed over gleaming white and gold marble, which a hand is shadowed on.
April 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Driving all night across the state in a part of California no one vacations in, a part that still belongs to the animals, my eyes burn for sleep. #1stlinepit #q #a #t #lf
Collage of 5 images overlaid with word KINSHIP: sharp metal nails coming out of a bright red lipsticked mouth, a lesbian couple clasping hands, a bloody white cloth against a pink background, light shining behind a spiderweb with a juicy spider and the shadow of a hand, a man's bare back as he is held by another man. KINSHIP first lines. Driving all night across the state in a part of California no one vacations in, a part that still belongs to the animals, my eyes burn for sleep. Car flanked as it is by clear paths as far as I can see, would it be so bad to let my eyes drift closed for just a moment?
April 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Today’s book mail. Excited to dig into the latest offerings from @ghoulish.bsky.social and @maudlinhouse.bsky.social.
Picture of two books: A Feast of Putrid Delight by Valentina Rojas and Situation Nowhere by Bobby Miller.
March 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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#revpitwaiting day 13: other WIPs.

To the Burrito Gods - about the cultish horror of working in food service (pictured)

Valley Vamp - Galaxy Quest x Buffy

Sleeping With Colleen - Ingrid Goes West with ASMR that goes fully unhinged
Grid with a blurry man holding up a burrito to the camera; the surface of the moon; the sun illuminating clouds; a woman hugging another woman's denim-clad knees; swirly gold and white marble; a golden sign that says "Create Your Future."
March 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Cancelled show that haunts me: Made for Love. Even worse, they took it off streaming. There is no legal way to watch this and that’s bullshit.
Made for Love poster, a young woman stands in the desert seeming to glitch.
March 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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KINSHIP mood board for #revpitwaiting!
Collage of 5 images overlaid with word KINSHIP: sharp metal nails coming out of a bright red lipsticked mouth, a lesbian couple clasping hands, a bloody white cloth against a pink background, light shining behind a spiderweb with a juicy spider and the shadow of a hand, a man's bare back as he is held by another man.
March 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Book haul from today’s trip to Powell’s.
Stack of books: Introducing Post-Modernism, Horse Girl Fever by Kevin Maloney, Hot Singles in Your Area by Jordan Shiveley, Night Beast by Ruth Joffre, Trve Cvlt by Michael Bettendorf, Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting, Luster by Raven Leilani, A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan, Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, a Junji Ito coloring book.
March 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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New book concept incoming.
March 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM