Laura Ellen Scott
@lauraellenscott.bsky.social
Paused novelist. Author of Death Wishing, The Juliet, The Mean Bone in Her Body, Crybaby Lane, and Blue Billy. I specialize in low impact hexes.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Spirit Halloween under serves alien/ufo enthusiasts.
October 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Spirit Halloween under serves alien/ufo enthusiasts.
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I just found out that REFUSE TO BE DONE is going into its 8th printing! I've heard so many stories from writers whose projects have been helped along by this little yellow book over the past three years. Nothing makes me happier!
September 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I just found out that REFUSE TO BE DONE is going into its 8th printing! I've heard so many stories from writers whose projects have been helped along by this little yellow book over the past three years. Nothing makes me happier!
Our local #NoKings event in Fairfax VA happened this morning. Lots of young people there, so that was cool. The 14 yr old next to us had a sign that said “Trump is giving pick me vibes.” I was thrilled to be the only one of our group of flag waving 60-somethings who knew what that meant.
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Our local #NoKings event in Fairfax VA happened this morning. Lots of young people there, so that was cool. The 14 yr old next to us had a sign that said “Trump is giving pick me vibes.” I was thrilled to be the only one of our group of flag waving 60-somethings who knew what that meant.
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The spirit of Portland has spread all across America! Fairfax, Virginia. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Thursday night at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social I'll be in conversation with @ambersparks.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! www.harvard.com/event/amber-...
October 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thursday night at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social I'll be in conversation with @ambersparks.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! www.harvard.com/event/amber-...
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My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...
October 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...
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Thank you to Matt for letting me answer my most-asked craft question in his craft newsletter! (If you don’t subscribe to No Failure, Only Practice, you should probably remedy that btw.)
Happy pub day to @ambersparks.bsky.social and her excellent novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE! Thanks to Amber for guest-posting at No Failure, Only Practice with a craft essay on "How to Write a Novel with the Kitchen Sink Thrown In," a fun look at what to do with your many/too-many obsessions.
October 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Thank you to Matt for letting me answer my most-asked craft question in his craft newsletter! (If you don’t subscribe to No Failure, Only Practice, you should probably remedy that btw.)
If you just keep saying “don’t go to The Hague” often enough, he’ll decide he wants to go.
October 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you just keep saying “don’t go to The Hague” often enough, he’ll decide he wants to go.
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I'm honored to have my essay "The man from my hometown on the plane" nominated by @pitheadchapel.bsky.social for Best of the Net pitheadchapel.com/the-man-from...
Please join us in congratulating our Best of the Net 2026 Nominees! Good luck everyone!
September 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I'm honored to have my essay "The man from my hometown on the plane" nominated by @pitheadchapel.bsky.social for Best of the Net pitheadchapel.com/the-man-from...
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Glandscapes, poems by Mickie Kennedy. Button Poetry. I’m only a few poems into it and it is excellent.
September 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Glandscapes, poems by Mickie Kennedy. Button Poetry. I’m only a few poems into it and it is excellent.
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Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!
New Short Story, Long Day! New Amber Sparks Day!
It's @ambersparks.bsky.social on SSL day!
(w/ some new fave story art from @philmcandrew.bsky.social!)
It's @ambersparks.bsky.social on SSL day!
(w/ some new fave story art from @philmcandrew.bsky.social!)
"Your Life in Parties" by Amber Sparks
"...your retirement party, the one they threw for you at the atrocious Italian restaurant. Surprise!, they all yell, which is so awkward because this isn’t a surprise party...."
ashortstorylong.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.
September 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.
While everyone is bitching about decorum today, let’s not forget 9/11. Including the part where some dude called into a tv show to point out that his building was now the tallest one in the neighborhood.
September 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
While everyone is bitching about decorum today, let’s not forget 9/11. Including the part where some dude called into a tv show to point out that his building was now the tallest one in the neighborhood.
Remember, gag gifts are often given as punctuation to running jokes.
September 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Remember, gag gifts are often given as punctuation to running jokes.
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I think this may be what they're worried about ...
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama?
Let me connect a few dots for you that may be a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I think this may be what they're worried about ...
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...
Laurie Anderson has spent part of her later career making/performing music for dogs, but her earlier music includes dogs and is easily dog-adaptable for kitchen sing-alongs. Try “Babydoll” from Strange Angels if you are new to this art form.
September 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Laurie Anderson has spent part of her later career making/performing music for dogs, but her earlier music includes dogs and is easily dog-adaptable for kitchen sing-alongs. Try “Babydoll” from Strange Angels if you are new to this art form.
It’s so clear that the people who don’t understand why Lana Del Rey would fall for a swamp boat tour guide have never been on a swamp boat tour.
August 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It’s so clear that the people who don’t understand why Lana Del Rey would fall for a swamp boat tour guide have never been on a swamp boat tour.
My city has a couple of skip container locations for recycling glass. Both areas smell like my uncle Vernon.
August 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My city has a couple of skip container locations for recycling glass. Both areas smell like my uncle Vernon.
The preheat ding from my oven is the same “doot” at the beginning of “Genius of Love” and the chirp from the microwave is the “doot-doot” from the second phrase. So, at least 4-7 times a week, my brain makes me answer doot doot do-doot.This has been happening for 8 years, and it’s how I cope.
August 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The preheat ding from my oven is the same “doot” at the beginning of “Genius of Love” and the chirp from the microwave is the “doot-doot” from the second phrase. So, at least 4-7 times a week, my brain makes me answer doot doot do-doot.This has been happening for 8 years, and it’s how I cope.
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Welcome!
AI ZOMBO
The only limit is your neural network. Colonize the more desirable planets.
dcollie2.github.io
August 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Welcome!
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DC will not stand idle as this administration tries to take our people and our home.
Crowd at Audi Field chanting “Free D.C.” at the Spirit match.
#freedc
#freedc
August 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
DC will not stand idle as this administration tries to take our people and our home.
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Yeah you can be "unhinged" but how do I get "hinged"
August 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yeah you can be "unhinged" but how do I get "hinged"
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Creep coming on Tuesday 7/22
It may be written for kids, but the latest novel by @paultremblay.bsky.social might be one of the creepiest #books of the year, for any age. #BookSky
Book Review: Another by Paul Tremblay
Paul Tremblay’s novel features young Casey Wilson, who encounters a strange phone call leading to a bizarre sleepover with an unknown boy, Morel. As eerie events unfold, Casey navigates his p…
afpljournal.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Creep coming on Tuesday 7/22