Samuel M. Moss
@perfidiousscript.bsky.social
Novel: 'The Veldt Institute' (Double--Negative, 2025) https://double--negative.com/003-the-veldt-institute.html
Stories: Always Crashing, 3:AM, minor lit[s], Seize the Press
More: perfidiousscript.com
Runs @ergot.bsky.social
Photo: linktr.ee/doomstache
Stories: Always Crashing, 3:AM, minor lit[s], Seize the Press
More: perfidiousscript.com
Runs @ergot.bsky.social
Photo: linktr.ee/doomstache
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The Veldt Institute | Asterism Books
### *At the Veldt Institute everyone is sick, so no one is sick.*
Endless fields of grass. A sky so bright there are barely shadows. At the center of this expanse is the Veldt Institute, an austere s...
asterismbooks.com
Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!
Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html
Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html
Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
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“That ocean of lost possibilities is a metaphor that is built up by the book and the game together, and completely expressed in neither.”
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-worlds-memory-of-the-world-winslow-yost
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-worlds-memory-of-the-world-winslow-yost
The World’s Memory of the World | Gabriel Winslow-Yost
The world of Disco Elysium evokes both postrevolutionary melancholy and communist fervor for a more just world.
thebaffler.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“That ocean of lost possibilities is a metaphor that is built up by the book and the game together, and completely expressed in neither.”
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-worlds-memory-of-the-world-winslow-yost
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-worlds-memory-of-the-world-winslow-yost
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New work at the site tomorrow = Tonight is an excellent time to GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS (by @tetmancallis.bsky.social, now at AC)
TETMAN CALLIS / GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS — always crashing
Do you know your neighbors? How well? Do you know their names? GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS. If you see someone in the building you don’t recognize, and who gives you that suspicious feeling, DON’...
www.alwayscrashing.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
New work at the site tomorrow = Tonight is an excellent time to GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS (by @tetmancallis.bsky.social, now at AC)
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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Just a head's up: subs to @thedodgemag.bsky.social close on the 15th! I'm reading fiction for Spring and Summer
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Just a head's up: subs to @thedodgemag.bsky.social close on the 15th! I'm reading fiction for Spring and Summer
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Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
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joe koch isn't just one of the finest writers of weird and transgressive literature working, today, but truly is one of the best to ever do it.
if you ain't reading joe koch, are you even really reading?
if you ain't reading joe koch, are you even really reading?
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
joe koch isn't just one of the finest writers of weird and transgressive literature working, today, but truly is one of the best to ever do it.
if you ain't reading joe koch, are you even really reading?
if you ain't reading joe koch, are you even really reading?
lol. AI is so dumb. I feel like Neo.
(Previous review was blocked, this review got posted).
(Previous review was blocked, this review got posted).
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
lol. AI is so dumb. I feel like Neo.
(Previous review was blocked, this review got posted).
(Previous review was blocked, this review got posted).
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ICYMI - still on sale right now!
We're thrilled to announce that preorders for Violet Lichen's first novella are LIVE! Welcome to the world of @ivygrimes.bsky.social folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR 🔮🪆🌌
Full Announcement HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
Preorder HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Full Announcement HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
Preorder HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
October 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ICYMI - still on sale right now!
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ex-cop pop duo fka pigs
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
ex-cop pop duo fka pigs
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I know all eyes were on Mamdani and NYC last night, but 11 DSA-endorsed candidates have won so far across the country. It’s bigger than NYC. It’s bigger than electoral politics.
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I know all eyes were on Mamdani and NYC last night, but 11 DSA-endorsed candidates have won so far across the country. It’s bigger than NYC. It’s bigger than electoral politics.
If you are outside the New York metropolitan area this morning, please watch where you step.
There are reports of an increase of small, six-legged creatures scuttling out of the city.
Unlike normal cockroaches, billionaires smell like bad cologne and emit a histrionic squeal when frightened.
There are reports of an increase of small, six-legged creatures scuttling out of the city.
Unlike normal cockroaches, billionaires smell like bad cologne and emit a histrionic squeal when frightened.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If you are outside the New York metropolitan area this morning, please watch where you step.
There are reports of an increase of small, six-legged creatures scuttling out of the city.
Unlike normal cockroaches, billionaires smell like bad cologne and emit a histrionic squeal when frightened.
There are reports of an increase of small, six-legged creatures scuttling out of the city.
Unlike normal cockroaches, billionaires smell like bad cologne and emit a histrionic squeal when frightened.
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In honor of the day, I'm posting scary stories:
Here's "A Memory" in @ergot.bsky.social, loosely inspired by the "Einstein room" in Paganini Horror (1989)
"In the new house there was a tunnel...one could pass through and find on reaching the far end that one had returned to the tunnel’s entrance."
Here's "A Memory" in @ergot.bsky.social, loosely inspired by the "Einstein room" in Paganini Horror (1989)
"In the new house there was a tunnel...one could pass through and find on reaching the far end that one had returned to the tunnel’s entrance."
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In honor of the day, I'm posting scary stories:
Here's "A Memory" in @ergot.bsky.social, loosely inspired by the "Einstein room" in Paganini Horror (1989)
"In the new house there was a tunnel...one could pass through and find on reaching the far end that one had returned to the tunnel’s entrance."
Here's "A Memory" in @ergot.bsky.social, loosely inspired by the "Einstein room" in Paganini Horror (1989)
"In the new house there was a tunnel...one could pass through and find on reaching the far end that one had returned to the tunnel’s entrance."
So, T-giving has that big dog show.
Halloween should have a cat show, but it's only black cats competing to see which can do the best 'scary kitty' pose (by letting them take a nap then stretching when they wake up).
But all the cats win (because black cats rule) and all the people get candy.
Halloween should have a cat show, but it's only black cats competing to see which can do the best 'scary kitty' pose (by letting them take a nap then stretching when they wake up).
But all the cats win (because black cats rule) and all the people get candy.
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
So, T-giving has that big dog show.
Halloween should have a cat show, but it's only black cats competing to see which can do the best 'scary kitty' pose (by letting them take a nap then stretching when they wake up).
But all the cats win (because black cats rule) and all the people get candy.
Halloween should have a cat show, but it's only black cats competing to see which can do the best 'scary kitty' pose (by letting them take a nap then stretching when they wake up).
But all the cats win (because black cats rule) and all the people get candy.
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Someone has put together a VERY thorough list of resources for people in the Portland area who need food. For those who have enough to share, please consider putting your time and/or money somewhere. For those who need help, here are places to get it.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Food Resource List - PDX
Food Resources PDX Share this sheet to amplify these existing resources to support individuals & families in accessing food during this government shutdown. A delay in SNAP means over 750,000 families...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Someone has put together a VERY thorough list of resources for people in the Portland area who need food. For those who have enough to share, please consider putting your time and/or money somewhere. For those who need help, here are places to get it.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Some things we’ll be looking for:
- Eco-Horror
- Eco-Gothic/Anti-Gothic
- Haunted & Unhaunted Landscapes
- Eco-Surrealism
- Eco-Weird
- Metaficton
- Unreliable Narrators
More details here 👇
- Eco-Horror
- Eco-Gothic/Anti-Gothic
- Haunted & Unhaunted Landscapes
- Eco-Surrealism
- Eco-Weird
- Metaficton
- Unreliable Narrators
More details here 👇
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Some things we’ll be looking for:
- Eco-Horror
- Eco-Gothic/Anti-Gothic
- Haunted & Unhaunted Landscapes
- Eco-Surrealism
- Eco-Weird
- Metaficton
- Unreliable Narrators
More details here 👇
- Eco-Horror
- Eco-Gothic/Anti-Gothic
- Haunted & Unhaunted Landscapes
- Eco-Surrealism
- Eco-Weird
- Metaficton
- Unreliable Narrators
More details here 👇
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If you live around Houston and like new classical music compositions and new poems, I was commissioned to write three poems to precede three new wind compositions and that will all be happening at MATCH in Midtown this Saturday, Nov. 1st. Come listen!
New Voices
Musiqa is proud to team up with Houston’s award-winning wind quintet WindSync and Houston’s premiere literary arts nonprofit Inprint to present new creations by composers Che Buford, Alexis C. Lamb, K...
matchouston.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If you live around Houston and like new classical music compositions and new poems, I was commissioned to write three poems to precede three new wind compositions and that will all be happening at MATCH in Midtown this Saturday, Nov. 1st. Come listen!
Maybe it's time for a good old 'Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes' style literary debate:
- 10 years
- Realists vs. Surrealist
- Vitriol exchanged in the leading literary periodicals and salons
- Catholics on one side, everyone else on the other
- To be judged by the King of France
- 10 years
- Realists vs. Surrealist
- Vitriol exchanged in the leading literary periodicals and salons
- Catholics on one side, everyone else on the other
- To be judged by the King of France
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Maybe it's time for a good old 'Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes' style literary debate:
- 10 years
- Realists vs. Surrealist
- Vitriol exchanged in the leading literary periodicals and salons
- Catholics on one side, everyone else on the other
- To be judged by the King of France
- 10 years
- Realists vs. Surrealist
- Vitriol exchanged in the leading literary periodicals and salons
- Catholics on one side, everyone else on the other
- To be judged by the King of France
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Candy alternatives to hand out on Halloween:
- moss balls
- imp eggs
- banned books
- unknown bones
- forest gravy
- slightly cursed nickels
- moss balls
- imp eggs
- banned books
- unknown bones
- forest gravy
- slightly cursed nickels
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Candy alternatives to hand out on Halloween:
- moss balls
- imp eggs
- banned books
- unknown bones
- forest gravy
- slightly cursed nickels
- moss balls
- imp eggs
- banned books
- unknown bones
- forest gravy
- slightly cursed nickels
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This year I'm going as Dracula for Christmas. Seems much more likely to scare the shit out of people than if I had done it at Halloween when everybody's doing it.
December 23, 2024 at 9:38 PM
This year I'm going as Dracula for Christmas. Seems much more likely to scare the shit out of people than if I had done it at Halloween when everybody's doing it.
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How about we try a different kind of "LLM" that i can get behind
Lower
ELigibility age for
Medicare to 0
Lower
ELigibility age for
Medicare to 0
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
How about we try a different kind of "LLM" that i can get behind
Lower
ELigibility age for
Medicare to 0
Lower
ELigibility age for
Medicare to 0
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Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house.
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
October 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house.