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💞 shane 💞
@sdreidwrites.bsky.social
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writer | poet | he/him🏳️‍⚧️
words in Best Served Cold, Engendered Lit, Drip Lit Magazine, Icarus Writing Collective and Cowpokes | prose editor @ Sophon Lit Journal
revising: 🖤 HARRISON’S HEED 🖤
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🥩COVER REVEAL🥩

I’m so excited to help reveal the cover for BOYMEAT: an erotic trans anthology!! This has been put together by @thornyfilth and @wolfehorror, with the cover created by @advalentinus and @thornyfilth!!

The anthology is out this summer and all proceeds will go to Point of Pride❤️
A black graphic with red text in lowercase at the top and bottom that says “cover real, coming this summer” in the middle of the graphic is the boy meat anthology cover. This is a close up of a slab of meat in plastic packaging like at a grocery store. The words “boy meat” are written over the top in what looks like permanent marker, and there is a printed nutrition label that says “an erotic transmasculine anthology” with all the contributes and curators listed A black graphic with red lowercase cursive text that reads “I’m a contributor” left aligned is the boy meat cover. On the right is an author highlight that says “Harrison just wanted to stay home on Halloween. Unfortunately, the scare actor in a haunted forest he’s dragged along to has other plans…” and then beneath says “A KNIFE’s EDGE BY SHANE REID”
April 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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🍎🖤 ANTHOLOGY ANNOUNCEMENT 🖤🍎

@clcpress.bsky.social charity anthology BOYMEAT is coming this summer, and you’ll be able to find my short story KNIFE’S EDGE in it, alongside many other amazing contributors 👀

All profits will be donated to the Point of Pride charity.
A black square graphic with an old hand written style of receipt image. There is a space for name, phone, address, and columns for quantity, description, and amount. There are pen style doodles on the receipt. The text reads: “CLC PRESENTS: STORY TITLE BY CONTRIBUTOR NAME IN… Boy meat, an erotic transmasculine anthology. Benefitting point of pride, coming this summer.” “Knife’s Edge by Shane Dorian Reid” is in a yellowish font against a background with apples bobbing in water. Beneath, captions as follows are separated by stars. “Halloween vibes in a haunted forest, dubious knife fun, scare actor x twink he wants to hunt, “run, pretty boy”, apple bobbing as *almost* murder”
March 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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happy #saturdark again!! 👀

I’m once again asking people not to get sick of my silly, horror romance book that has a lot of forest-set psychological torture, torment, and Harrison facing all the terrors (and sometimes Tal going through a whole load of suffering!)🪵🌲💔🖤
Text that reads: Phantom hands were back on Harrison, caging him into his tree nook. He looked for who the hands belonged to. Surely there had to be something. A glimmer, a hint, beyond the glimpses in his dreams. ‘Don’t go’, he wanted to say. ‘Don’t leave me. It’s colder when you’re not here.’ “What if I don’t come back tomorrow?” he asked. Breath fanned over his collarbone, and Harrison closed his eyes, forgetting to look at all. The text is pasted over a person among a forest background with their neck exposed, wearing a greyish sweatshirt/T-shirt
March 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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🎶What if Eurydice didn’t want to be saved? And what if Orpheus couldn’t find his voice?🎶

💔m/m Eurydice and Orpheus
💔decaying in death
💔”i couldn’t save you”
💔 body horror and tragedy
💔 they both rot on either side of life & death

thank you again @wolfehorror.bsky.social for creating this event 🥹🖤
Collage of pictures as follows: Top left: overlapping pages of sheet music Top Center: text that reads “but will you return? I came looking for you. I want to go home.” Top right: ice has frozen over a person beneath Middle left: a rib cage is highlighted in red tones Middle Center: a graveyard is covered in snow with red tones throughout Middle right: a person is clutching their hair, fallen to the floor Bottom left: a song graphic that says “Orpheus’s voice. This file cannot be played.” Bottom right: a graphic of a song titled “the song he won’t hear” by Orpheus
February 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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🔪Run, run, run, pretty boy 🔪

🍎 scare actor tal
🍎 hunted through a haunted forest
🍎 apple bobbing as murder
🍎 dubious knife fun
🍎 a Halloween night stand to something more

teasing something getting revamped for a secret thing!! 👀🖤

thank you to @wolfehorror.bsky.social for #sludgepit!!

#H #DR
Collage of 6 images. Top left corner: a dark vibe of apples in a barrel of water Top Center: trees on fire with text that reads: “the woods have remembered you ever since you got lost in them.” Top right: dark image of pale, thin trees Middle left: a faded picture of a blue eye Middle Center: trees in a forest with BEWARE spelt over the trunks Middle right: an orange night sky with a crescent moon visible behind branches Bottom left: a shadowy night “Halloween” spelled over gates Bottom right: text that reads “it’s in the shadows, you’re being watched”
February 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Only betas know this so far but tal’s hero complex is so big that it destroys him to the point where he isn’t *always* the hero🫢🤭

this is for the #Saturdark prompt of “touch”👀
Text over a foggy forest lake that reads: “Nobody has ever asked if they can touch me,” Harrison said. “I know.” “You’re the first.” He didn’t need to clarify but he wanted to fill the space. “I know.” “Tell me something nobody has ever done for you.” Tal thought about it for a moment before he took his thumb off Harrison’s neck and brought it to his own mouth, kissing it, before pressing it back into the same space. A removed touch, an understanding pressed to skin, when Harrison wasn’t ready yet. “Nobody has ever let me save them,” Tal answered. He tapped Harrison’s throat. “And I would have died to do so.”
February 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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i’ve only had daisy for not even 3 full months and I’m so in love with her😭😭
February 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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🖤dark things happen deep within in the fog of Terracotta Village🖤

returning to Harrison and Tal often feels like coming home—I’ve poured so much of my soul into this book

thank you to @mdantesinferno continuing #saturdark after @whosthistyler’s created such a cool space to share these prompts🥹
Text above a foggy forest background that reads: His vision swam. Ahead, a deep, grey fog tumbled in waves, blanketing everything beyond. This isn’t me, Taleth said. No, it is but I can’t control it. “Find a way,” Harrison choked out. But in the back of his mind, a voice laughed, sang, and said that Taleth might kill him. Good riddance, good riddance, good riddance—
November 30, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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🎵 what if Orpheus couldn’t find his voice? 🎵

okay but this myth—and make it more tragic~

Split POV’ing a short story is weird but fun, and maybe incorrect, and it might not work but I’m trying anyway💞

I can’t wait to hopefully share more of this strange tale that’s been bugging me lately👀🥹
Text over a greenish blue background that reads: “what if Orpheus couldn’t find his voice?” Text over a greenish blue flowery background that reads: “he had promised him a voice—a voice in the dark. A tether so he could come back to him. His mouth moved stiffly, bleeding and crusted, from months of sorrow.”
November 21, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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💀 what if Eurydice didn’t want to be saved? 💀

some things are cooking for the first time in a long, long time!! anyway, I’m hoping to answer a submission call with a slightly horror M/M Eurydice/Orpheus short that might not be pulled off but I’m hoping💞🖤💞
Text against a blue-lilac flowered background that reads: “what if Eurydice didn’t want to be saved?” Text against a blue-lilac flowered background that reads: “His spine bowed, cracked in too many places to form whole again. How long? How long had he been suspended like that, floating through nothingness?”
November 15, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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HARRISON’S HEED—
Harrison discovers Tal, a forest nymph, after having violent delusions and offers up revenge in exchange for the body he’s tried to carve into himself. But the nymph has his own past to be absolved of, and their bargain starts to go deeper than Harrison could have imagined.
Text that reads: "Stop saving me," Harrison whispered. 'I will when your subconscious stops screaming for you to be saved. Wake up, now, and be prepared. And check your pockets before he does.' A shove broke the dream and Harrison woke with a gasp, scrambling off his bed. But it remained empty. He didn’t find anyone in it. The shove was real, though. The inky shadows on his neck were real, too. As if something corporeal lived in that forest and had taken a hold on him. A collage of images for HARRISON’S HEED. Top left: a picture of a bundle of dark hair on the floor with scissors next to it. Top centre: a quote that reads “get off my mind, give back my heart and get the fuck away from me”. Top right: a picture of bandaged arms lifted in the air against a backdrop of trees. Middle left: a hand reaches out, one finger propped under a man’s chin, lifting it. Middle centre: a dark forest with thin, spindly branches. Middle right: a man’s bare upper body with branches growing over his body. His collarbones are prominent. Bottom left: blood-stained hands. Bottom centre: a red image of hands overlapped with “touch me” written over the top. Bottom right: an image of a boy kneeling in a river with branches growing out of his back. Artwork of Harrison (left) and Tal (right). Harrison has his eyes closed and head tipped back, exposing a scar on his neck. He has long hair curling around his neck. Tal has a pointed ear and long black hair. The colour palette is blue and red. Tal has his face in Harrison’s neck, leaning over him.
August 29, 2023 at 9:30 PM