Shantell Powell
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Shantell Powell
@shanmonster.bsky.social
Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Work appears in The Deadlands, Augur Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, On Spec, etc. Aurora finalist and total weirdo.
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If AI would clean my toilet and dig the hair out of my bathtub drain, I'd be ok with that. Probably.
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I always loved her in that dress, too. One of my favourite songs/videos of hers. It came out while I was still in high school.
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The only reason why it makes sense to have it facing the wall is if you have cats who love to unroll it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I've been reluctant to go back ever since. Now far more so.
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I went there with my sister in '01. Border patrol ran full background checks & searched the car because they found a small container of plastic beads that my sister forgot she had. They treated us like dangerous criminals over crappy beads while a pic of the Twin Towers & George W loomed overhead.
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
And sweet-tempered, too.
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
He's such a sweetheart. I love him.
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Aw, shucks!
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I can't say I have a wide knowledge of the various monsters, but I know a few things and have written about some of the things that go bump in the ice.
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I'm Mi'kmaw/Inuk. I don't know a whole lot of Mi'kmaq stories, unfortunately. My dad hid that in Mi'kmaw until I was in my 40s.
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Sweet! I especially love Inuit monsters. Terrifying shape changing composite creatures.
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Thanks.
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Do you know if this is international or just in the US? I haven't seen anything that specifies.
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The one that goes uh-AAAW-uh.
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Thanks! My most recent publication is in Bloodletter's Trans Voices in Horror collection. My poem "Removed" is Indigenous ecohorror. open.substack.com/pub/bloodlet...
Trans Voices in Horror: Published
Find it on shelves, online, and at our (free!) Brooklyn release party 🎈
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM