stschorey
@stschorey.bsky.social
writer | editor | PhD, UNC Chapel Hill | 🏳️🌈
“Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird, Emily.
It’s a lowly little sewer rat
That snorts pesticides like they were
Lines of coke and still
Shows up on time to work the next day
Looking no worse for wear.”
Caitlin Seida
It’s a lowly little sewer rat
That snorts pesticides like they were
Lines of coke and still
Shows up on time to work the next day
Looking no worse for wear.”
Caitlin Seida
August 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird, Emily.
It’s a lowly little sewer rat
That snorts pesticides like they were
Lines of coke and still
Shows up on time to work the next day
Looking no worse for wear.”
Caitlin Seida
It’s a lowly little sewer rat
That snorts pesticides like they were
Lines of coke and still
Shows up on time to work the next day
Looking no worse for wear.”
Caitlin Seida
Easing into the weekend right with popcorn and @cwblackwell.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Easing into the weekend right with popcorn and @cwblackwell.bsky.social
“There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.”
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
June 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.”
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
June 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
This might be my favorite haunted house book after Shirley Jackson’s. Surprisingly sweet, smart reflections on true crime, more than a few gorgeous pages of prose.
_Just Like Home_ by @sarahgailey.bsky.social
_Just Like Home_ by @sarahgailey.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This might be my favorite haunted house book after Shirley Jackson’s. Surprisingly sweet, smart reflections on true crime, more than a few gorgeous pages of prose.
_Just Like Home_ by @sarahgailey.bsky.social
_Just Like Home_ by @sarahgailey.bsky.social
I really believe a well written acknowledgments section is just as powerful as a novel or monograph on its own. I’ve collected some favorites over the years, the newest of which is by the ever thoughtful, always kind @mcmanlypants.bsky.social
Book @ www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children...
Book @ www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children...
May 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I really believe a well written acknowledgments section is just as powerful as a novel or monograph on its own. I’ve collected some favorites over the years, the newest of which is by the ever thoughtful, always kind @mcmanlypants.bsky.social
Book @ www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children...
Book @ www.michaelgwilliamsbooks.com/buy-children...
“But I also had ... not sure what to call it exactly. Willful blindness? Selective idiocy? Hopefulness. I think that's what it was”
April 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“But I also had ... not sure what to call it exactly. Willful blindness? Selective idiocy? Hopefulness. I think that's what it was”
“The mask is ugly and grotesque and familiar, and we cannot stop staring at it because all monsters are mirrors.”
@paultremblay.bsky.social
@paultremblay.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“The mask is ugly and grotesque and familiar, and we cannot stop staring at it because all monsters are mirrors.”
@paultremblay.bsky.social
@paultremblay.bsky.social
“Forgiveness, which takes you back to the person you were and lets you reset them. Hope, which exists in a future in which you are new. Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life. They are time-travel.”
Kaliane Bradley
Kaliane Bradley
April 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“Forgiveness, which takes you back to the person you were and lets you reset them. Hope, which exists in a future in which you are new. Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life. They are time-travel.”
Kaliane Bradley
Kaliane Bradley
THIS is how you do hope punk suspense and dark fiction. Absolutely phenomenal.
@alyssacolelit.bsky.social
@alyssacolelit.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
THIS is how you do hope punk suspense and dark fiction. Absolutely phenomenal.
@alyssacolelit.bsky.social
@alyssacolelit.bsky.social
“remember there is good / as long as i exist there is good / if we forget there is good we forget there is hope / and if we forget there is hope then they win / they cannot win”
@catarinehancock.bsky.social
@catarinehancock.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“remember there is good / as long as i exist there is good / if we forget there is good we forget there is hope / and if we forget there is hope then they win / they cannot win”
@catarinehancock.bsky.social
@catarinehancock.bsky.social
“In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and
which coincided point for point with it.”
Jorge Luis Borges
which coincided point for point with it.”
Jorge Luis Borges
January 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and
which coincided point for point with it.”
Jorge Luis Borges
which coincided point for point with it.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“Q—
A: Well, it’s either that, or you’ve got some very tidy coyotes living in that forest.”
@barrettbowlin.bsky.social
A: Well, it’s either that, or you’ve got some very tidy coyotes living in that forest.”
@barrettbowlin.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“Q—
A: Well, it’s either that, or you’ve got some very tidy coyotes living in that forest.”
@barrettbowlin.bsky.social
A: Well, it’s either that, or you’ve got some very tidy coyotes living in that forest.”
@barrettbowlin.bsky.social
“Go back to sleep.That was what Doctor Hoffman told the twins. This is a nightmare…
Penny always remembered it. It was something every kid heard, all the time.”
@meganabbott.bsky.social
Penny always remembered it. It was something every kid heard, all the time.”
@meganabbott.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Go back to sleep.That was what Doctor Hoffman told the twins. This is a nightmare…
Penny always remembered it. It was something every kid heard, all the time.”
@meganabbott.bsky.social
Penny always remembered it. It was something every kid heard, all the time.”
@meganabbott.bsky.social
We’ve been paralleling this guy on the highway for the last hour—I think I’ve seen this movie 😅
December 29, 2024 at 5:17 PM
We’ve been paralleling this guy on the highway for the last hour—I think I’ve seen this movie 😅
“BRO, tell me we still know how to speak of kings!”
this translation isn’t for everyone but I seem to re-listen to it around this time while getting the house ready for a new year, bc it is gd delightful.
*highly recommend audiobook on this one vs the paperback
this translation isn’t for everyone but I seem to re-listen to it around this time while getting the house ready for a new year, bc it is gd delightful.
*highly recommend audiobook on this one vs the paperback
December 28, 2024 at 4:18 PM
“BRO, tell me we still know how to speak of kings!”
this translation isn’t for everyone but I seem to re-listen to it around this time while getting the house ready for a new year, bc it is gd delightful.
*highly recommend audiobook on this one vs the paperback
this translation isn’t for everyone but I seem to re-listen to it around this time while getting the house ready for a new year, bc it is gd delightful.
*highly recommend audiobook on this one vs the paperback
“Whoever is not willing to talk about anti-capitalism should also keep quiet about anti-fascism.”
Alberto Toscano
Alberto Toscano
December 14, 2024 at 1:06 PM
“Whoever is not willing to talk about anti-capitalism should also keep quiet about anti-fascism.”
Alberto Toscano
Alberto Toscano
“It’s the end of the world, Bonner. That’s as complicated as the math needs to get. It’s over.”
@keithrosson.bsky.social
@keithrosson.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 5:21 PM
“It’s the end of the world, Bonner. That’s as complicated as the math needs to get. It’s over.”
@keithrosson.bsky.social
@keithrosson.bsky.social
Folks talk about Goosebumps as the GOAT kids gateway horror but they’re forgetting this stone cold gaslighting classic
November 9, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Folks talk about Goosebumps as the GOAT kids gateway horror but they’re forgetting this stone cold gaslighting classic
“The hot girl at the bike shop promised that if I took care of my new ride, it would last the rest of my life. I’ve been riding it all winter and still haven’t oiled the chain. […] The blue has vanished under layers of street-streaked grey.”
@arielmarkenjack.bsky.social
@arielmarkenjack.bsky.social
October 23, 2024 at 11:36 AM
“The hot girl at the bike shop promised that if I took care of my new ride, it would last the rest of my life. I’ve been riding it all winter and still haven’t oiled the chain. […] The blue has vanished under layers of street-streaked grey.”
@arielmarkenjack.bsky.social
@arielmarkenjack.bsky.social
"I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation. It was at least change, and it came with a rush."
October 26, 2023 at 2:17 PM
"I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation. It was at least change, and it came with a rush."
“Is that some alpha-male move?” she asked around her straw.
“Extended eye contact to assert dominance? I saw it on the Discovery Channel,” I said. “Did it work? Do you feel like prey?”
“Extended eye contact to assert dominance? I saw it on the Discovery Channel,” I said. “Did it work? Do you feel like prey?”
October 25, 2023 at 7:43 PM
“Is that some alpha-male move?” she asked around her straw.
“Extended eye contact to assert dominance? I saw it on the Discovery Channel,” I said. “Did it work? Do you feel like prey?”
“Extended eye contact to assert dominance? I saw it on the Discovery Channel,” I said. “Did it work? Do you feel like prey?”
Writing is a hardship I must bear
August 26, 2023 at 4:37 PM
Writing is a hardship I must bear