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Lori D'Angelo
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Fiction writer. WVU MFA grad. Lover of dogs, cats, and sometimes kids. Short story collection, The Monsters Are Here, out now from ELJ editions. Loridangelo.com
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Lori D'Angelo @sclly21.bsky.social · Nov 12
I went back to my alma mater, West Virginia University, and I read from my book. When I was an MFA student attending readings, I said, "Someday it's going to be me up there." Yesterday, it was. This is a picture of me this morning standing outside of Colson Hall holding my book. #debutfiction
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2/2... The Toronto Book Of The Dead (@adambunch.bsky.social, @dundurnpress.bsky.social) & The Monsters Are Here (@sclly21.bsky.social, @emergejournal.bsky.social) and two from @inhabitmedia.bsky.social: Tiri Is Scared of the Dark ill. @theotherali.bsky.social & The Haunted Blizzard. #DSPBposts
Book cover for The Haunted Blizzard by Aviaq Johnston (Inhabit Media). A teenage girl walks home in a burgeoning blizzard, happy to have an unexpected snow day. Ignoring an Elder’s warning about the terror the blizzard holds, she finds herself alone in her home with an unseen presence stalking and tormenting her. What does it want? And will she survive? https://inhabitmedia.com/2025/04/16/the-haunted-blizzard/ Book cover for The Monsters Are Here by Lori D'Angelo (ELJ Editions). Thirty stories which can be described as Kelly Link meets Bram Stoker and Nathaniel Hawthorne in a forest or an alternative universe with aliens. https://elj-editions.com/the-monsters-are-here/ Book cover for The Toronto Book Of The Dead by Adam Bunch (Dundurn Press). Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459738065-the-toronto-book-of-the-dead Book cover for Tiri Is Scared of the Dark by Nadia Sammurtok and Rachel Rupke, illustrated by Ali Hinch (Inhabit Media). Tiri has a secret: he is scared of the dark. He doesn’t want anyone to find out, but as he spends the day with his friends, he learns they are each scared of something, too. Tuktu is scared of heights. Ukaliq is scared of swimming in deep water. Will Tiri be able to open up and face his own fear? See how the friends learn to support one another. https://inhabiteducationbooks.com/collections/arvaaq-books/products/tiri-is-scared-of-the-dark
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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trashcatlit.bsky.social
2nd daily spotlight from our latest issue 🦝
We loved the tight breathlessness of this piece from
@sclly21.bsky.social
Every word so intentional, the emotional nostalgic tone is wonderful.

Creative use of prompts: The Year You Were Ten, Cryptid, Needle

Read here: trashcatlit.com/sasquatch-in...
September 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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HERE THEY ARE! 25 contributors to the upcoming Prompted Stories issue. Split into new and existing Trash Family for your consumption. The issue will launch on Thursday 🦝
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1/3
September 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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"At the end of that summer, my friends were all talking about Patrick Swazye on the dance floor, but it was the Bigfoot movie [...] that affected me the most"

Great micro from @sclly21.bsky.social in @trashcatlit.bsky.social

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Sasquatch in the Woods
Lori D’Angelo At the end of that summer, my friends were all talking about Patrick Swazye on the dance floor, but it was the Bigfoot movie with that lady from Anne of Green Gables and that ki…
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September 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
sclly21.bsky.social
Please consider reading this story about a girl and the bond she has with her horse.

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#bridgewatercollege #horses #animallovers #equestrians
Bridgewater College student is raising money for lifesaving treatment for beloved horse
"If I did not have that horse, I don't want to think about what life would have been like," Clarissa Burrow said. "I don't even know if I'd be here."
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August 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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The monsters are coming! I will be participating in a panel at the Fall for the Book Festival at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., in October.

@fallforthebook.bsky.social
@emergejournal.bsky.social

#fallforthebook #shortstories #fallfeels🍂 #literature #fiction #georgemasonuniversity
August 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
sclly21.bsky.social
This was such a fun poem to co-write. #poetry #writing
s2fjournal.bsky.social Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Dec 29
“Well alright I admit that I’m in love with a girl who came from the eighties” by @sclly21.bsky.social (Flame) and C. M. Gigliotti (Spark) has everything you want—Breakfast Club, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.

Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
Photo of a heart in the condensation of a window
July 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Here's how federa funding cuts are impacting #Harrisonburg nonprofits. #Medicaid #refugees #churchworldservices #journalism

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Local nonprofits face uncertainty amid federal funding cuts
Recent federal funding cuts will negatively impact programs meant to help some of the community’s most vulnerable members, including HIV patients, Medicaid recipients and refugees, community leaders s...
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July 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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I'm selling and signing books at James Blakey's Read Local Authors booth at the Broadway Community Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come see us!
May 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
sclly21.bsky.social
Come see me May 8th at the MAC in Morgantown! I'll be reading at 6 p.m. #fiction #shortstories #WVU
May 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Come join me at Masanutten Regional Library! The Monsters Are Here, and you should be too. #shortstories
April 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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New story up at Microromance Magazine:

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An Object of Great Desire
By Lori D'Angelo
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March 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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New poem up @librelit.bsky.social!
librelit.bsky.social Libre @librelit.bsky.social · Mar 12
“Predictably, the audience stayed, / superior feeling, watching curiously to / see if she would implode and how bad.”

Poetry today by @sclly21.bsky.social

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March 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
sclly21.bsky.social
She's amazing. And she doesn't need an Academy Award to prove she's successful. Still, I hope she gets one--next year.
March 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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gabino.bsky.social
We didn’t have #FridayReads this week, so we’re doing Sunday whatever because every day is a book day. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a crime/horror hybrid full of action, magic, violence, and monsters.

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March 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
sclly21.bsky.social
I have new dark weird fiction up at Exquisite Death Zine. You can chevk out my story, "The Secret" here: www.exquisitedeathezine.com/the-secret-b...
February 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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New story out in issue 2.
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January 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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@nyurtsaba.bsky.social thank you for posting this lovely review of my book at Tupelo Quarterly Review. www.tupeloquarterly.com/uncategorize...
A Review of Lori D'Angelo's The Monsters are Here by Nicole Yurcaba
In her debut short story collection, The Monsters are Here, fiction writer Lori D’Angelo establishes herself as a writer daring to venture into new spectacles of character innovation, dark humor, and ...
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January 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
sclly21.bsky.social
Thank you to Microromance Magazine for nominating my story for this award!
#romance #lovestories #fiction
January 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
sclly21.bsky.social
It was really fun to collaborate with C.M. Gigliotti on this poem.
#poetry #poems #writingcommunity
s2fjournal.bsky.social Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Dec 29
“Well alright I admit that I’m in love with a girl who came from the eighties” by @sclly21.bsky.social (Flame) and C. M. Gigliotti (Spark) has everything you want—Breakfast Club, Madonna, and Michael Jackson.

Check it out, page 9: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

#WritingCommunity #poetry 📝
Photo of a heart in the condensation of a window
December 29, 2024 at 3:26 PM
sclly21.bsky.social
Excited to have helped write a poem for this issue by providing the "flame" for another poet's "spark." #poetry #writing It was fun to participate in this unique collaborative process. #literaryjournals #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky
s2fjournal.bsky.social Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · Dec 15
We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Four: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue...

In this issue, we have three co-authored poems and seven poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process. 📝
Cover art by Emily Cai. Spark to Flame’s Issue Four cover art is of Zurich old down buildings over a calm river, with an older gentleman leaning over a bridge on the left. Colors are calm and muted.
December 15, 2024 at 3:08 PM
sclly21.bsky.social
Excited to have helped to write a collaborative poem for Spark To Flame issue 4. www.s2fjournal.com
December 15, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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New story in 50 Give or Take today from Vine Leaves Press.
#microfiction #shortstories #fiction #writingcommunity #booksky #fictionwriters
December 11, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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3 @newversenews.bsky.social life and death #poems : “Algorithm” by Elaine Sorrentino, “On the Death of a CEO” by @sclly21.bsky.social Lori D’Angelo, “The Truth About Cynicism” by Michael Mark. bit.ly/39DQ3WM #poetsonbluesky
December 10, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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NVN Tuesday at Substack... Delay-Deny-Depose: 3 @newversenews.bsky.social Poems: “Algorithm” by Elaine Sorrentino, “On the Death of a CEO” by @sclly21.bsky.social Lori D’Angelo, “The Truth About Cynicism” by Michael Mark. thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-tuesda... #pietsonbluesky
NVN Tuesday... Delay-Deny-Depose: 3 Poems
“Algorithm” by Elaine Sorrentino, “On the Death of a CEO” by Lori D’Angelo, “The Truth About Cynicism” by Michael Mark
thenewversenews.substack.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:18 AM