Erik Engberg 🏳️‍🌈
LightNews LightNews
banner
erikengberg.me
Erik Engberg 🏳️‍🌈
@erikengberg.me
1.1K followers 390 following 4.5K posts
Norwegian spending most of his time reading, and some of the time writing.

Night Of The Demon (NEW HORROR SHORT STORY)

a.co/d/aGnTLHz

Four Cats And A Life Improved (SHORT STORY):

https://a.co/d/2kooovy

https://erikengberg.beehiiv.com/

He/him
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
erikengberg.me
Erik Engberg 🏳️‍🌈 @erikengberg.me · Sep 13
I just recorded and uploaded an audiobook version of my short story Four Cats And A Life Improved!

A lightly fictionalized story about four very real cats and the life they helped save.

My first YouTube video since 2017! Please enjoy!

youtu.be/vZDKbPrQrwE?...
Four Cats And A Life Improved (AUDIOBOOK)
YouTube video by OWDMRG
youtu.be
erikengberg.me
Lucky enough to have a copy of this in my bookshelf, rediscovered while unpacking some old boxes recently, planning to reread again soon!
drewtoothpaste.bsky.social drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 1h
my novel VEINS is now available at drewtoothpaste.com and i'm including some excerpts here. it downloads as a PDF and it's $4.99
Veins by DREW I started doing slogans when I was 18. That's just a phrase you say to advertise someone's company. They're free to make, but they're worth a lot if you get the right one. For example, "It's cold. It's dessert. We call it ice cream." That works for any ice cream company. Or you can make a specific slogan like "Take a bite out of life. Apple Computer." The logo of Apple has a bite in it, so it's perfect. Every company needs a slogan so you remember them. Even regular things like lamps need a slogan. A lot of people probably think lamps are no big deal, but wait until it gets dark outside. Then you really appreciate them. A hundred years ago when it got dark, we would just have to go to bed, but not now. "Thanks, Lamps." That's a lamp slogan. "Don't live half your life in the shadows." That's another one they could use. In Finland, they only have sun half of the year, and they get depressed. It can happen to anyone. Companies like Apple or lamp companies can afford to spend money on slogans, because it's all profit. You don't need anything special to make a lamp. All you need is a lightbulb and a dream. Put quotes around that, because it's another great slogan. Bug spray is really expensive, so I tried to catch some spiders and put them in my apartment, to be natural predators. I only got 6 spiders, and after I put them under my bed, all they did was make spiderwebs. I had to pull all the spiderwebs I found (they are gross and make your apartment look dirty) but they kept making more every day. I got tired of pulling them, so I squashed the spiders I could find and looked on the internet to find other predators. When I searched online it said the main predator of bugs was lizards, but I didn't want to get them. Lizardwebs would be even worse (because they are bigger than spiders) and I didn't want to be sitting at home and have them stare at me with their dead eyes. You don't know if they are going to just snap and bite you, or s---- on your bed, because they don't have eyebrows, or emotions. I still don't like swimming. When I drive by the water park I start feeling nervous like someone's going to yell at me. They'll take my glasses, and they'll put me on the slide, and when I get to the bottom I can't find my glasses, and I'm cold, and my skin is poisoned. Swimming for me is like going to a store, and as soon as you walk in, they put a blindfold on you and spray Raid. Then, when you get back home, everyone tells you "I love that store."
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
erikengberg.me
The way #TheMorningShow envisions Bradley traveling to Belarus is how I imagine traveling to the USA.
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
erikengberg.me
Kanskje jeg bare aldri skal lese bøker av menn igjen 😈 #lesesky
Bookmarks next to the books Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz and Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, which I will begin reading after dinner
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
erikengberg.me
Er med kona på julebord. Trubaduren begynte å spille Status fucking Quo Rocking All Over The World og ropte at vi måtte bli med på refrenget fordi "alle kan den!" Så svært tydelig på 20åringene som sitter til min høyre at de ALDRI hadde hørt den før. Selvfølgelig. Herre faen.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
erikengberg.me
A giant print of this used to hang on my wall but has since been relegated to sitting in the basement because it's more of a bachelor pad print 😈
drewtoothpaste.bsky.social drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 2d
stop hitting yourself
And the angel said to him, Stop hitting yourself! But he could not stop, for the angel was hitting him, with his own hands.
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
erikengberg.me
Vi kjøpte en ATV for å brøyte gårdsplass og vei når vi flytta på landet i år, og jeg har gått å gruet meg i mange måneder, men nå kom snøen og det var faktisk lettere, kjappere og tilnærmet gøy å brøyte med ATV! Forbehold om verre snøtype og mengde senere da!
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
erikengberg.me
Fy faen 😭 Fikk seriøst vondt i magen pga angst enkelte deler av denne boka, og innså etterhvert hvor mye av meg selv det var i hovedpersonen. Ikke i form av traumer, men i personlighet og depresjon. Jeg har selv hatt det fint i snart 6 år nå, men ja. Fy fan #lesesky
Storygraph screenshot of an update of me reviewing Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman and giving it 5 stars. It destroyed me.
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Reposted by Erik Engberg 🏳️‍🌈
dasharez0ne.bsky.social
DA R0MAN Z0NE - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELTEAN SHOPPIN IN A STORE AND IT SAYS "BREAD AND CIRCUSES ONLY KEEP US DISTACTED IF WE CAN AFFORD THE BREAD AND THE CIRCUS DOESNT STOP EVERY FEW MINUTES FOR AN AD BREAK " - DA RULING CLASS IS FORGETING THAT THEY GOTTA WORK A LITTLE HARDER TO KEEP US OCCUPIED AFTER THEY TOOK ALL THE DAMB WEALTH, THEY DONT EXPERIENCE HUMAN EMOTION'S SO THEY THINK LOOKING AT A.I ON A SCREEN IS THE SAME AS A TV SHOW TO US, IMAGINE CONSIDERING YOUR SELF SUPERIOR TO DA AVERAGE PERSON YET YOU CAN DERIVE NO SUBJECTIVE FEELING FROM ANY WORK OF WRITING ART OR MUSIC, A BOOK IS THE SAME AS A BRICK OR A DOORKNOB TO YOU, AND YOU LIVE WITH THE CONVICTION THAT THERE IS NOTHING BEYOND THIS WORLD YET CHOOSE TO SPEND YOUR TIME HERE AT WORK,,,, AGAINST TERM'S OF SERVICE TO SAY HOW TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
erikengberg.me
Pathetic! This user incurred psychic damage from looking at the comment section of his uncle's AI generated boomer post!
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
erikengberg.me
I know a lot of people are skeptical of Taylor Lorenz but I thought this video was really excellent! And very sad about Sydney Sweeney, I used to be a big fan for two giant reasons, but she seems to be having a hard time and making bad stuff!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdyZ...
How Sydney Sweeney Lost The Culture War
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
m.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
erikengberg.me
Du er bra hjemmepilled og sparemaxxer når du skrur av lyset på et offentlig toalett.
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
erikengberg.me
I've actually gotten around to the idea that #TwinPeaks is just qualityslop. The only reason I like it is because it's the greatest thing I've ever seen.
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
erikengberg.me
Leaning more and more towards hate in my love/hate relationship with #TulsaKing.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
erikengberg.me
Watching TV for the first time in a week and only thinking how I'd rather be reading a book. Very different from a few years ago when I couldn't read and only watched TV!!
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
erikengberg.me
Gotta be a decade since I watched Gone Girl and I don't really remember it, but I've had the book in my shelf for three years I guess because it was supposed to be good, but guys, it's SO GOOD!
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Reposted by Erik Engberg 🏳️‍🌈
erikengberg.me
I sat down and wrote something for the first time in three months! Some updates about things published (a new short story, an audiobook), future things to come (I'm writing my book next!) and real time processing that I'm gonna stop caring so much about sport

erikengberg.beehiiv.com/p/recent-dev...
Recent Developments And Future Plans: Marriage, Dog, And Book
I've gotten married, adopted a dog, and published a new short story and an audiobook of the old one since I lasted updated this blog! I also talk about sports and how I will cut back on caring about t...
erikengberg.beehiiv.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
erikengberg.me
I absolutely hate when YouTube videos of talking have annoying stock music playing low in the background! It is annoying and useless! It serves no purpose other than annoying your subscribers!
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
erikengberg.me
I sat down and wrote something for the first time in three months! Some updates about things published (a new short story, an audiobook), future things to come (I'm writing my book next!) and real time processing that I'm gonna stop caring so much about sport

erikengberg.beehiiv.com/p/recent-dev...
Recent Developments And Future Plans: Marriage, Dog, And Book
I've gotten married, adopted a dog, and published a new short story and an audiobook of the old one since I lasted updated this blog! I also talk about sports and how I will cut back on caring about t...
erikengberg.beehiiv.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by Erik Engberg 🏳️‍🌈
papirbanan69.bsky.social
Sorry at jeg er fordomsfull, men hvis jeg møter en britisk cisperson så kommer jeg til å anta at de er transfobe inntil det motsatte er bevist.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
erikengberg.me
I Who Have Never Known Men is extremely my shit (two thirds in/one third of the book unread!). Likewise, Tom fucking Clancy I've just found out is extremely my shit.

Multitudes, I contain. A very complex man. I love to performatively read!!
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
erikengberg.me
It sucks ass to be a sports fan, actually! I've been priced out of actually watching the games for years now, but every day I check the scores and I get to feel bad from Monday thru Sunday because some guys who kick a ball together don't do it good enough! It stinks! It sucks! I hate it! #football
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Reposted by Erik Engberg 🏳️‍🌈
dasharez0ne.bsky.social
:( - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETON SCROLLEN THERE NOTIFICATIONS AND IT SAYS " DONT FORGET TO PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR PHONE OR THE CORPORATIONS MIGHT GET MAD" - YOUR ABILITY TO FOCUS ON YOUR OWN EXISTANCE IS BEING PINGED BUZZED AND BEEPED AWAY THOUSANDS OF TIMES EVERY DAY , IF HAVIN TO WORK ALL THE DAMB TIME AINT ENOUGH, YOUR MENTAL SPACE MUST BE OCCUPIED AT ALL TIMES BY FAR AWAY COMPUTERS, YOUR WRIST CLICKS, YOUR POCKET BUZZES, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP THE RED DOT!!!! DO NOT PUT THIS SHIT ON MY TELEPHONE!!! IM PROBLY HALFWAY DONE WITH MY LIFE AND I SEE THAT CLOCK TICKIN CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT WITH EVERY DAY I WAKE UP ALIVE AND THE COMPUTER HAS THE GALL TO TELL ME I MISSED A BUNCH OF SHIT! I WOULDENT SAY I "MISSED IT" MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
erikengberg.me
Kiwi har pepperkaker til 5kr rett ved siden av krumkaker til 75kr. Butikkmogulene ler av oss.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
erikengberg.me
Eleanor Oliphant is giving me anxiety 🥺
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
erikengberg.me
Slipper å ha dårlig samvittighet for at jeg leser for få kvinnelige forfattere denne uka i alle fall! #lesesky
Three books I started today, all by women authors, Gone Girl, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, and I Who Have Never Known Men
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM