Dino Parenti
@dparenti.bsky.social
World faker, picture taker, furniture maker. Author of BITTER BREED and DEAD RECKONING & OTHER STORIES.
Alien: Earth is off to a killer start. The dread is solid but with a Blade-Runneresque theme underscoring it all. And capping the first two episodes with metal tracks is, well, metal.
August 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Alien: Earth is off to a killer start. The dread is solid but with a Blade-Runneresque theme underscoring it all. And capping the first two episodes with metal tracks is, well, metal.
When I bought my first CD player in 1987, I had money left over for just one CD, and I chose Ozzy’s live Tribute album to Randy Rhoads. It was the perfect 1st disc, which I still have. Sleep well, Mad Man.
July 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When I bought my first CD player in 1987, I had money left over for just one CD, and I chose Ozzy’s live Tribute album to Randy Rhoads. It was the perfect 1st disc, which I still have. Sleep well, Mad Man.
Things can always be worse, so here’s a family of geese I had to slow down for just now.
April 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Things can always be worse, so here’s a family of geese I had to slow down for just now.
My novella "Bitter Breed" gets a solid write-up over at horroraddicts.net. Give it a look here: horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/b...
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February 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My novella "Bitter Breed" gets a solid write-up over at horroraddicts.net. Give it a look here: horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/b...
As a kid, I couldn't believe the same man that made the impressionistic The Elephant man also made the bombastic Dune. That the same filmmaker could make such vastly varied work. I was quickly hooked. What a loss to art.
January 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
As a kid, I couldn't believe the same man that made the impressionistic The Elephant man also made the bombastic Dune. That the same filmmaker could make such vastly varied work. I was quickly hooked. What a loss to art.
HWA members: this is the last day to recommend works for Bram Stoker consideration. If you've read & liked my novella BITTER BREED (Long Fiction), or my short stories TITHING (Frontiers of Fright) and SHADOW KIDS (Writer’s Retreat: Tales of Writing and Madness), give them a kind nod. Many thanks!
January 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
HWA members: this is the last day to recommend works for Bram Stoker consideration. If you've read & liked my novella BITTER BREED (Long Fiction), or my short stories TITHING (Frontiers of Fright) and SHADOW KIDS (Writer’s Retreat: Tales of Writing and Madness), give them a kind nod. Many thanks!
75-year-old mahogany that comprised the bar-top & backsplash of a mansion's parlor, saved from the dumpster! Now to strip it, and then, what to build with it?
November 26, 2024 at 4:21 PM
75-year-old mahogany that comprised the bar-top & backsplash of a mansion's parlor, saved from the dumpster! Now to strip it, and then, what to build with it?
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Worth noting for folks just getting here -- you can actually turn off the ability of non-logged-in accounts to see your stuff here. Under settings -> moderation, you'll find:
November 17, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Worth noting for folks just getting here -- you can actually turn off the ability of non-logged-in accounts to see your stuff here. Under settings -> moderation, you'll find:
After the busy day I have in store for me, Sunday becomes a needed mental health day of alone-time. Take them when you need them, friends.
November 16, 2024 at 4:38 PM
After the busy day I have in store for me, Sunday becomes a needed mental health day of alone-time. Take them when you need them, friends.
Never thought I would have to dust off a Drumpf tale that I wrote for a different anthology that came out in 2017, but we’re also not the most judicious, self-reflective, nuanced, forward-looking of species either, so here we go again.
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Official guidelines for FUMPTRUCK are now available. What’s needed most? Nonfiction, open letters, essays, artwork, and experimental pieces of any kind. How about a few more announcements:
@genni.bsky.social, @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social, @dparenti.bsky.social, Harrison Demchick, and Maxwell Ian Gold
@genni.bsky.social, @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social, @dparenti.bsky.social, Harrison Demchick, and Maxwell Ian Gold
November 11, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Never thought I would have to dust off a Drumpf tale that I wrote for a different anthology that came out in 2017, but we’re also not the most judicious, self-reflective, nuanced, forward-looking of species either, so here we go again.
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Official guidelines for FUMPTRUCK are now available. What’s needed most? Nonfiction, open letters, essays, artwork, and experimental pieces of any kind. How about a few more announcements:
@genni.bsky.social, @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social, @dparenti.bsky.social, Harrison Demchick, and Maxwell Ian Gold
@genni.bsky.social, @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social, @dparenti.bsky.social, Harrison Demchick, and Maxwell Ian Gold
November 11, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Official guidelines for FUMPTRUCK are now available. What’s needed most? Nonfiction, open letters, essays, artwork, and experimental pieces of any kind. How about a few more announcements:
@genni.bsky.social, @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social, @dparenti.bsky.social, Harrison Demchick, and Maxwell Ian Gold
@genni.bsky.social, @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social, @dparenti.bsky.social, Harrison Demchick, and Maxwell Ian Gold
This site feels like the inverse of X in terms of toxicity, and I hope it stays that way because I can't keep up with all these social media platforms.
November 8, 2024 at 4:05 PM
This site feels like the inverse of X in terms of toxicity, and I hope it stays that way because I can't keep up with all these social media platforms.
Very honored to have my short story, "Tithing," a Lovecraftian take on "The Lottery," included in "Frontiers of Fright: A Southwest Horror Anthology," out by the Denver Horror Collective! a.co/d/h6A4Hft
November 5, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Very honored to have my short story, "Tithing," a Lovecraftian take on "The Lottery," included in "Frontiers of Fright: A Southwest Horror Anthology," out by the Denver Horror Collective! a.co/d/h6A4Hft
This labor of pulp love is a month old! Thank you to everyone who's read and commented on "Bitter Breed" thus far. If you'd like to post a quick, honest review on Amazon or Goodreads, I would be additionally grateful. It's the best way to set those algorithms straight. a.co/d/grpJLJX
October 29, 2024 at 4:44 PM
This labor of pulp love is a month old! Thank you to everyone who's read and commented on "Bitter Breed" thus far. If you'd like to post a quick, honest review on Amazon or Goodreads, I would be additionally grateful. It's the best way to set those algorithms straight. a.co/d/grpJLJX
Just broke 50k on my current WIP, and though I know I'm writing a novel, it finally feels "real." Does anyone else experience these weird, arbitrary milestones with their own work?
October 23, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Just broke 50k on my current WIP, and though I know I'm writing a novel, it finally feels "real." Does anyone else experience these weird, arbitrary milestones with their own work?
One of the best television dads of all time, and a real force of nature. Farewell, Mr. Amos.
October 1, 2024 at 7:27 PM
One of the best television dads of all time, and a real force of nature. Farewell, Mr. Amos.
It's a BITTER BREED birthday! How will you celebrate? May I recommend a purchase, so you can soothe the hungry creatures within?
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Bitter Breed: Parenti, Dino: 9781685101367: Amazon.com: Books
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September 27, 2024 at 2:58 PM
It's a BITTER BREED birthday! How will you celebrate? May I recommend a purchase, so you can soothe the hungry creatures within?
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Preorders for my novella, "Bitter Breed," releasing this Friday (9/27), are available from Journalstone as well as Amazon.
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Bitter Breed - JournalStone
BITTER BREED “Bitter Breed showcases Dino Parenti’s unique talent of writing smart horror with nuanced characters. He unearths the secrets of this cinematic story with amazing skill.” —Mercedes M. Y...
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September 23, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Preorders for my novella, "Bitter Breed," releasing this Friday (9/27), are available from Journalstone as well as Amazon.
journalstone.com/bookstore/bi...
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First preorder for "Bitter Breed" is now live at Journalstone. Pre-ordering a paperback also gets you a free electronic version: journalstone.com/bookstore/bi...
September 18, 2024 at 3:07 PM
First preorder for "Bitter Breed" is now live at Journalstone. Pre-ordering a paperback also gets you a free electronic version: journalstone.com/bookstore/bi...
COVER REVEAL for my first novella, “Bitter Breed,” dropping on 9/27 from Journalstone, in which the desperate agendas of 7 people collide in a snowed-in mountain diner surrounded by predatory creatures one of them created. Pre-order links coming soon!
September 16, 2024 at 3:12 PM
COVER REVEAL for my first novella, “Bitter Breed,” dropping on 9/27 from Journalstone, in which the desperate agendas of 7 people collide in a snowed-in mountain diner surrounded by predatory creatures one of them created. Pre-order links coming soon!
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA was an absolute blast. If FURY ROAD is a perfect, 2-minute punk song, then FURIOSA is a 12-minute Pink Floyd epic. It’s an experience. The trailers do it little justice. Please catch it on the biggest, loudest theater you know.
May 27, 2024 at 6:57 PM
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA was an absolute blast. If FURY ROAD is a perfect, 2-minute punk song, then FURIOSA is a 12-minute Pink Floyd epic. It’s an experience. The trailers do it little justice. Please catch it on the biggest, loudest theater you know.
Excited to share that my story, "Shadow Kids," about the costs exacted by past and future ghosts for literary immortality, appears in Writers Retreat: Tales of Writing and Madness, by January Ember Press.
May 16, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Excited to share that my story, "Shadow Kids," about the costs exacted by past and future ghosts for literary immortality, appears in Writers Retreat: Tales of Writing and Madness, by January Ember Press.
You MIGHT be a badass, but you will never be I-painted-a-young-Steve-McQueen-mural-on-the-side-of-my-house level of badass.
April 15, 2024 at 5:58 PM
You MIGHT be a badass, but you will never be I-painted-a-young-Steve-McQueen-mural-on-the-side-of-my-house level of badass.
My first ever shelfie at a bookstore. If you’re ever in Southern California, please check out Octavia’s Bookshelf in Pasadena.
March 26, 2024 at 5:34 PM
My first ever shelfie at a bookstore. If you’re ever in Southern California, please check out Octavia’s Bookshelf in Pasadena.