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Kat
@kathleenalys.bsky.social
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writer | lesbian | she/her
Simon's Ghost 🥀
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nice argument, dude. however, i am already using my four hundred and four dire wolf skulls to channel my necromantic attack spell on you
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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taking home a cat you found outside is fun because they don't know inside house rules, but also instinctively know that they are a little baby and you have to take care of them
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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potato chip chocolate chip cookies
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Big, beautiful theaters like these are my favorite part of LA. We saw a fantastic performance of Hadestown at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. Absolutely stunning, 10/10 would see again 🌹
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The teenage me whose life was changed by 1) reading Frankenstein and 2) seeing The Shape of Water had no idea what masterpiece GDT had in store for her
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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This isn't even my final form 🐈‍⬛
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Did you think it was over?
Nothing's ever really over.
Join us for Simon's Halloween: a very special Simon's Ghost video to celebrate 1 year since publication #ʜᴀʟʟᴏᴡᴇᴇɴ2025 #horrorwriters
October 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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10 books to get to know me!
saw this trend floating around, here's my take
1. The Secret History
2. Uzumaki
3. Beloved
4. Things Have Gotten Worse Since Last We Spoke
5. Frankenstein
6. My Heart is a Chainsaw
7. Camp Damascus
8. My Best Friend’s Exorcism
9. Something Wicked This Way Comes
10. Carrie
October 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Just in time for Halloween, LEECHGIRL is back! 20 physical copies of my erotic horror short-story zine are ready to be injected straight into your veins.
For 8 buckaroos you get 13 pages of blood-loving girl-on-girl goodness. Each copy is hand-made with love by ME
etsy.me/46UG5tN
#horrorzine #zine
October 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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My short story, NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH, has it's home in Poe Girl Publishing's horror anthology TALES OF THE RAVEN. Do you ever get the feeling that you're being.... watched? 👁️ www.amazon.com/Winter-Raven...
August 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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My wife found this living dust mote in the desert and now he is my son???
August 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Excited to announce that SIMON'S GHOST is available right now at Book Soup right here in West Hollywood! This is my first ever consignment, and I'm proud to a local author supported by this indie gem of Los Angeles
www.booksoup.com/book/9781916...
January 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Crucibitch666: 1:28 AM Nov 8, 2023 unpopular opinion but i’m so sick of vamp/vamp writers’ fucking superiority complex over vamp/human. Romance between humans and vampires didnt just begin with twilight, and not all vamp/human content is automatically toxic and abusive. You guys are just prudes and boring. TheDarkOne: 1:44 AM Nov 8, 2023 It’s honestly so funny how you think you’re being subversive with this take. Vampire fiction is a convenient way to explore dark subject matter and unhealthy relationship dynamics, and rejecting those stories under the guise of faux sex posi is just shutting down interpretations of monster romance you don’t like. Crucibitch666: 2:06 AM Nov 8, 2023 Lmao what is the reading comprehension on this website? That’s not at ALL what i said and if you actually bothered to read my post you would know that I’m not talking about rejecting anything, i’m EXCLUSIVELY talking about when people mis-read or label vamp/human stories as promoting abuse or pedo, taking it out of context of the author’s intent FangFaggot: 2:09 AM Nov 8, 2023 lol wait arent u the person who's stalking ur ex-boyfriend wtf Crucibitch666: 2:30 AM Nov 8, 2023 Okay first of all? That’s not ANY of your fucking business and if yo I AM A PARASITE I NEED YOUR WARMTH I NEED YOU TO FEED ME I NEED TO TAKE SOMETHING GOOD INTO ME I NEED TO FEEL ALIVE I NEED BLOOD I NEED BLOOD I NEED BLOOD I NEED BLOOD I NEED BLOOD
December 22, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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to share their personal fantasy. Most of them happened to be very sexual and some of them were very, very dark. There was this girl who posted under the username Crucibitch666 who just wrote paragraphs and paragraphs of her not-so-thinly veiled wish to turn into a vampire so that she could use her powers of flight and invisibility to stalk her ex-boyfriend. She never used any names or landmarks or anything, so maybe it wasn’t real at all. But she sure described the guy’s house in detail; walking by the porch with the swinging bench they used to sit on, shapeshifting into a bat so she could fly up to the veranda and press her face against his bedroom on the second floor. She just wanted to watch him. This girl dreamed of immortality and superhuman powers and congress with the devil, just to spend it all staring at this guy while he was sleeping until his mom came in and woke him up. I did some roleplaying on VamPal even though it wasn’t my thing, not really. But as long as I was able to at least meet them halfway, there were people who were happy to be my prey or my thralls or whatever term they liked for being the one to give the blood instead of taking it. I would write them novels’ worth of descriptions about how I would sink my fangs into their skin and drink them up. They obliged, told me what their skin smelled like and how hot their blood was for my greedy consumption. They made me feel special. Like I was half-beast, half-god. That’s how things started with Amanda, though I first knew her on VamPal under the username Druzilla. Her whole thing was that she wanted a vampire master. Not a romantic, brooding Vampire Diaries superhero. No, Mandy wanted a real monster.
December 22, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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when will it end?? Regular exercise? Hydrating??? THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
December 19, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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it has been 0 days since kat last thought about Perfect Blue
December 19, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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My point here being that blood-drinking has played an important role in history, all the way back to the very beginning of it all. And I feel that. I really, really do. I wonder if you feel it, too. Maybe you’ve bitten your own tongue by accident and suddenly get that little burst of iron in your mouth, and you know that flavor so intimately even if you can’t even remember the last time you tasted it. You were just born knowing. Or maybe you get a little cut, and for some reason you decide to wait instead of getting a bandage right away. You see that shiny bead of blood rising up to the tip of your finger. You ask yourself “How much is this going to bleed, really? Maybe I’ll just watch for a while.” A certain kind of person is reading this and going ‘Mallory, what’s the big deal? Don’t you see blood every month?’ Which I guess is not unfair. But any doctor could tell you that the blood you expel while on your period is different from the blood you shed when you’ve been cut. That’s dead blood. Rotten blood scraped off walls of the uterus and dumped out through the body’s most efficient sewage disposal. It’s not the red, oxygenated stuff that rushes and gushes when your skin is opened up. That probably sounds defensive. It’s not meant to be. I don’t know why I’m trying to convince you, dear stranger reading this very odd manifesto, that I’m not some sort of creep. So I’ll just lean into it. Yes, I’ve had roommates for many years who menstruate. And yes, I could tell when they were on their period. Yes, there’s that first moment when you walk into the bathroom or bedroom, and there’s that heady smell of blood and birth and sex. For a while, I got my fix by looking at pictures of blood and open wounds. This was pretty easy to find, there’s all kinds of gnarly websites you can stumble into. Don’t expect me to write a step-by-step instruction guide on how to get your NSFL (Not Safe for Life) fix, I don’t want to be saddled with the responsibility of what you’ll do with that information. Just imagine the worst image you’ve ever accidentally seen on your regular feed, and then imagine what you could find if you sought that kind of stuff out on purpose. Those pics scratched a certain itch, but made me sad to watch people post gore or self-harm pictures online. Some of it is fake, but not as much as you’d hope. And I can’t imagine what you’d have to be going through to put photos of you cutting your wrists on the internet for strangers to ogle. I didn’t want to be there anymore. Amidst the doom and gloom, surfing these channels of misery eventually led me to discover my shining light in the dark; Vampal, a place for people to share all their deepest, most intimate fantasies. Fantasies that were especially, specifically, exclusively about vampires. To be frank, the VamPal community had some genuinely lovely people in it. But It wasn’t all roses. Every user was encouraged-- nay, compelled
December 18, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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C’est la vie. If the secret gets out, it gets out. It’s 2023, people are pretty open-minded these days. The normies will find out about Vampal, and be entertained/curious/disgusted for a few days before the next new weird online thing rolls into town. Oh, you mean to tell me that geeks are pretending to be vampires on the internet? Shocking. Definitely no one saw that coming. The only problem is it's just a little different for me. The vampire stuff… I guess that was my gateway, and my method of connecting with other people who might indulge my interests. But I was never worked up about the idea of immortal, tragically sexy monsters who have mind control or turn into bats or look like David Boreanaz. I was just deeply, terribly, obsessively fascinated with blood. Did you know ancient Egyptians had a god named Shezmu, who was the god of wine and revelry as well as the god of blood? They used red wine to symbolize blood in his ceremonies. It’s like there’s always been this tether between blood and pleasure. This connection between the divine spirit and the sensual experience of consumption. You probably also know about the Blood of Christ. Most people consider Jesus offering his blood as wine to be metaphorical. But the principles of Transubstantiation says that the sacramental wine literally becomes the blood of Jesus during Communion, and that it must be shared among the entire congregation to drink in order to be closer to God. Being a human is too difficult I think I will become a leech I will not participate in society I will not work or write or make anything I'll just swim and sleep and eat And I won't do anything good ever again
December 17, 2024 at 7:10 AM
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Disclaimer: This work of fiction contains references to sex and dark subjects. It may not be suitable for all readers. It’s November 21st, 2023. It rained today. Felt like a real, solid Fall day, all cold and wet outside. Perfect for snuggling up indoors and watching Interview With a Vampire, and if you’re lucky then maybe there’s another warm body under the blanket with you. That’d be perfect. I’ve watched every vampire movie I could get my hands on. But I think my favorite has got to be Thirst, directed by Park Chan-wook. I don’t know what it is about it that affected me. The sensuality, I guess? Or the sex. The first time I watched that movie was in my bedroom when I was fourteen. My mom walked in during the toe-sucking scene, I think we were both so horrified and embarrassed that she just closed the door and walked away. At the time I was just relieved I wasn’t grounded, or that she wasn’t going to take my TV away. I failed to consider that she was making a tactical retreat so that she could call our priest and tell him all about my scandalous Scarlet Letter. This isn’t about any of that, though. I guess this is just for me to get my thoughts straightened out, arrange all my guilty little secrets. Though they may not be secrets for much longer, depending on whether Amanda blabs about what I did to her. As if she’s entirely innocent, herself. I’ve locked my socials just in case, though. That way I won’t be tempted to DM her.
December 16, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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LEECHGIRL: a short horror story
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cover for LEECHGIRL digital zine. hand-drawn in pen.
December 16, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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Disclaimer: This work of fiction contains references to sex and dark subjects. It may not be suitable for all readers. It’s November 21st, 2023. It rained today. Felt like a real, solid Fall day, all cold and wet outside. Perfect for snuggling up indoors and watching Interview With a Vampire, and if you’re lucky then maybe there’s another warm body under the blanket with you. That’d be perfect. I’ve watched every vampire movie I could get my hands on. But I think my favorite has got to be Thirst, directed by Park Chan-wook. I don’t know what it is about it that affected me. The sensuality, I guess? Or the sex. The first time I watched that movie was in my bedroom when I was fourteen. My mom walked in during the toe-sucking scene, I think we were both so horrified and embarrassed that she just closed the door and walked away. At the time I was just relieved I wasn’t grounded, or that she wasn’t going to take my TV away. I failed to consider that she was making a tactical retreat so that she could call our priest and tell him all about my scandalous Scarlet Letter. This isn’t about any of that, though. I guess this is just for me to get my thoughts straightened out, arrange all my guilty little secrets. Though they may not be secrets for much longer, depending on whether Amanda blabs about what I did to her. As if she’s entirely innocent, herself. I’ve locked my socials just in case, though. That way I won’t be tempted to DM her.
December 16, 2024 at 6:16 AM
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December 16, 2024 at 6:13 AM
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since the holidays are coming up, this is your reminder that YOU can purchase SIMON'S GHOST as a holiday gift for the macabre people in your life that you love.
And for a limited time only, if you buy my book i may or may not exterminate a health insurance CEO as a special holiday bonus ❤️🎄
December 15, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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wretched beast. he looks like such a fucking fool and he doesnt even KNOW
December 13, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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ooooh i just looked up some pictures and it looks so cool!
back when i lived in milwaukee, my spot was the Milwaukee Art Museum which looks like a big weird boat
December 3, 2024 at 7:49 PM