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David McKenna
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🎉 2025 resolution: finish your damn WIPs! 📝 Lover of all things Fantasy and Horror 🦄 英語/日本語
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
What writing take will have you like this?
August 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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We all need an occasional reminder, so listen up. Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.
August 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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But have you tried “collapsing on the couch” about it?
August 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Artist Vaughn Bodé sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bode_v... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his cover artwork. 4th in collaboration with Larry S Todd:
July 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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'Moonshine' by contemporary UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt
July 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Kinda torn over what to read next!
July 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This week's #TremblingWithFear shows us Unit Twenty-Eight by David McKenna ( @davidmck-author.bsky.social )w/drabbles from Sascha Reinhard, DL Ross, & Corinne Pollard ( @corinnepwriter.bsky.social )
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#AmReading #AmWriting #WritersLife #IndieWriter #WritingCommunity
April 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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More Black horror recommendations after watching Sinners!
April 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
New desktop wallpaper for inspiration ✨
April 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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so they're mycoblogging
April 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
14th read of 2025!😁🎉

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Easiest five stars in the world. Kelly Link is quickly becoming my new obsession!
April 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
My short story 'Unit Twenty-Eight' is in Trembling With Fear this week if anyone would like a read! 😁
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Trembling With Fear 4-20-25 - The Horror Tree
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April 21, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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This song is a tribute to the 80s. No, not that 80s, the other 80s. Also, Riki Lindhome is a weird genius who should never change.

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Hysteria (A Comedy Song by Riki Lindhome)
YouTube video by Riki Lindhome
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March 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Yeah, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is @sgj.bsky.social’s masterpiece and I loved it, but I’m also here for this double dose of mayhem from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social.
March 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 19/20
January 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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The PC-9801 can produce mind-boggling effects.
January 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Loads of spelling mistakes in this.
January 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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January 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I’ve been boycotting simon and garfunkel ever since I learned what he did to those smurfs
January 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18/20
January 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM