Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann
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Em(lyn) Meredith Dornemann
@lost-squonk.bsky.social
Writer, editor, sad lil cryptid
they/them

https://linktr.ee/emlyndornemann
Is it even a voicenote from me if I dont have to loudly stop my cats from eating something in the middle of it?
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
There are two wolves in me: one, a literature snob with an MFA and the other a gremlin freak, foaming at the mouth. Both fucking love chainsaw man.
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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I don’t know man if Joyce Carol Oats doubted that I read I would do the honourable thing and curl up into a ball and die.
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I just finished reading Tender is the Flesh and now I just have to...go to sleep?
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
One thing about me is I will always be playing Pokémon go in the club.
October 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Was giving myself editing brain breaks with 10 mins of this week's dragula episode but once I hit the floor show I couldn't stop and now it's 11:30 and my edits are not doneeee
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Pretty sure every time I see a drag show I just sit there like this the whole time
a cartoon character with a star in his eyes is smiling
Alt: Stephen Universe with a big smile and stars in his eyes
media.tenor.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
10 horror movies to get to know me by

💀 Seed of Chucky
💀 Bride of Chucky
💀 I Saw the TV Glow
💀 Nope
💀 Jennifer's Body
💀 Evil Dead 2
💀 Nightmare on Elm St. 2
💀 Friday the 13th (1980)
💀 Beau is Afraid
💀 The Human Centipede (it remains a pox upon my soul)
10 horror movies to get to know me by

💀 Alien
💀 Terrified
💀 The Autopsy of Jane Doe
💀 Hereditary
💀 It Follows
💀 Exhuma
💀 The Wickerman
💀 Army of Darkness
💀 The Descent
💀 A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
10 horror movies to get to know me by

Evil Dead 2
Frankenhooker
Hellraiser
Reanimator
The Thing
Inland Empire
Under the Skin
Videodrome
Gozu
Lair of the White Worm
October 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Hot damn this is excellent
September 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Trending topics, or as we call them, The Horrors™️
September 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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"There was a sound, too heavy to be fluttering, but definitely the sound of wings, and then the feeling of three-taloned toes digging into her calf."

Read 'The Cockatrice' by @lost-squonk.bsky.social

inner-worlds.ghost.io/the-cockatri...

#Fabulism #SFF #Fantasy #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction
The Cockatrice by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann
Gayle spent a lot of time in bed letting her weight press into the mattress. The blankets were piled on top of her in a heap of warmth that was never as comforting as she needed it to be.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
September 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I am almost a whole week late, but my story "The Cockatrice" is available to read in this month's Inner Worlds!
💚💫 Issue Eight has landed! 💫💚

This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.

If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...

#SFF #Horror
September 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New story out next week!
August 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Gender is a spectrum and education is the prism.

Education happens at home, in school, in art, in books, in society.

They want to destroy the prism so we can only see one color of light.
August 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reposting because the original draft of this was inspired by the terror of being alone in my Milwaukee apartment and hearing 30 minutes of jets overhead, not realizing that they were practicing for the air and water show downtown.

This week, of all weeks, I've been hearing them again.
July 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My apocalyptic short story "To Ashes" is up now at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My sister just told me that before my grandma was cremated, the cremation people put her hair in a little baggie to return to our family. And my sister just looked at me and said "if anybody wanted it, I knew it would be you."

I mean she's right but idk how to feel about that.
July 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Hello! My life is chaos and I am bad at self-promo but I have a story in this month's Flash Fiction Online!
July 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Today, we invite you to sit a while "In the Café That Was Once a Detention Center" by @lilliantsay.bsky.social, and remember the past as we move into the future:

smallwondersmag.com/...
In the Café That Was Once a Detention Center - Small Wonders
In the corner once stacked with torture tools / Now stands the curving sofa like a snake / In velvet blue.
smallwondersmag.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Do you want to to (1) actively resist fascism, (2) signal your resistance to fascism, (3) show solidarity with people being targeted by fascism?

Wear a mask. A mask shows your willingness to not comply, your opposition to the eugenics agenda, and you're making spaces safer for vulnerable folks.
May 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We know it's spring because I always have at least three thorns embeded in my hands at all times.
May 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
April 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Writing something deeply personal and meaningful that also happens to heavily frature a murder clown
Writing something deeply personal and meaningful that also happens to have cephalopod on cephalopod smut.
Writing something deeply personal and meaningful that also happens to have talking gorillas.
April 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
At one point I was very worried that being on T would take away my ability to cry but I'm happy to report that I'm nearly a year in and started crying in the middle of making bereakfast because I thought about the first episode of Anohana a little too hard.
April 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM