Tim Hoelscher
@timhoelscherauthor.com
Horror Writer | Tech: Founder, @gavagai.com | Dog Enthusiast | Cat Aficionado | Goat Manager | Chicken Aggregator | HWA Member | Married | Alpha Gal Positive | he/him/his
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In today's Editor Pick - a grim, riveting tale of stitching, survival, and the monstrous cost of "improvement." It's Liam Hogan's Work in Progress. Read it for free at gavagai.com
New story up on Gavagai!
New story up on Gavagai!
In today's Editor Pick - a grim, riveting tale of stitching, survival, and the monstrous cost of "improvement." It's Liam Hogan's Work in Progress. Read it for free at gavagai.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New story up on Gavagai!
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We have a new story up on Gavagai today, perfect to whet your appetite for the weekend: After Party from Diana Olney! gavagai.com
Happy Friday! Please enjoy today's Editor Pick: Diana Olney's After Party. And this weekend, please use caution if you're heading out on the town. It'd be a shame to find yourself waking up on a train with only a vague idea of how you got there...
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We have a new story up on Gavagai today, perfect to whet your appetite for the weekend: After Party from Diana Olney! gavagai.com
For today's Editor Pick: Mother’s Little Poppet by KT Wagner—a chilling tale of family, memory and vengeance. We hope you enjoy it! Read it on gavagai.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New story from Masimba Musodza up on Gavagai! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
In today’s Editor Pick: When Euan swears he’s seen an old woman riding a hyena across the Zimbabwean plains, everyone laughs—until the night laughs back. It’s “The Clever Girls” by Masimba Musodza. Read it for free on www.gavagai.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New story from Masimba Musodza up on Gavagai! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
New Editor Pick up from Nick Mamatas: Airvalve Semilunar Astern!
In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New Editor Pick up from Nick Mamatas: Airvalve Semilunar Astern!
New Editor Pick on Gavagai from @amandamblake.bsky.social!
My most difficult-to-spell story "Chrysalis in Chrysanthemum," a short pregnancy cosmic body horror story, is an Editor's Pick at Gavagai, a new site for horror writers and readers. I have invites if anyone wants any, but here's the link to the story:
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
www.gavagai.com/posts/386
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November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
New Editor Pick on Gavagai from @amandamblake.bsky.social!
Another one for today! Come and have a read! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
For today’s Editor Pick, we jump from the darkly culinary to the deep sea with Fishing by Chris Wilcox: a creeping maritime horror about infection, obsession, and the pull of the sea. Read for free on gavagai.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Another one for today! Come and have a read! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
Our Editor Pick for today: Colleen Anderson’s Love Bites. Happy #Halloween!
For Halloween, treat yourself to Colleen Anderson’s disturbingly toothsome tale of hunger and obsession. Let yourself be consumed by Love Bites. Read it for free at gavagai.com!
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Our Editor Pick for today: Colleen Anderson’s Love Bites. Happy #Halloween!
Our Editor Pick today was Susan L. Lin’s Revenge Dress. Amazing writer!
With today’s Editor Pick we move from the swamp to seamstress with Revenge Dress, a poignant quiet horror tale by Susan J. Lin where existential threads spiral downward to an inevitable end. Read it here for free: www.gavagai.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Our Editor Pick today was Susan L. Lin’s Revenge Dress. Amazing writer!
Hey all - I am looking for an artist for mainstream horror illustration work. Maybe some Stephen Gammell-esque stuff, black and white/inky. I’m not sure how to articulate that so any help is appreciated! Oh and open to commissions in the near future. Tysm! #art
October 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Hey all - I am looking for an artist for mainstream horror illustration work. Maybe some Stephen Gammell-esque stuff, black and white/inky. I’m not sure how to articulate that so any help is appreciated! Oh and open to commissions in the near future. Tysm! #art
We are open for the first round of submissions for our #horror submission call #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
We sent out the first batch of invites overnight and already had a great response for the horror submission call! Thanks to everyone who submitted. There were a few technical issues, but thankfully nothing too major. We’ll be keeping our eyes on the site logs and the suggestion box tho.
October 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We are open for the first round of submissions for our #horror submission call #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
I feel like selling an old iPhone on eBay thrusts you into the world of Russian mobsters where the stakes are life and death and survival hangs on the results of an IMEI check.
October 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I feel like selling an old iPhone on eBay thrusts you into the world of Russian mobsters where the stakes are life and death and survival hangs on the results of an IMEI check.
Bumpy attacking Weeze’s tail in triptych #Caturday #FatherICraveViolence
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Bumpy attacking Weeze’s tail in triptych #Caturday #FatherICraveViolence
Happy birthday to the sweetest girl in town… LOUISE! AKA “Weeze!” The big 10 today! #DogsOfBlueSky #WritersDogs
October 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Happy birthday to the sweetest girl in town… LOUISE! AKA “Weeze!” The big 10 today! #DogsOfBlueSky #WritersDogs
Omg my wife and I were away last night and our house sitter stayed over but Bumpy is so angry with us. He wouldn’t even deign to look at me until I offered him a small turkey peace offering. So temperamental 🙄
October 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Omg my wife and I were away last night and our house sitter stayed over but Bumpy is so angry with us. He wouldn’t even deign to look at me until I offered him a small turkey peace offering. So temperamental 🙄
Just under a week to Gavagai’s grand opening and #horror short story submission call. Hop on over to gavagai.com and get an invite homie!
October 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just under a week to Gavagai’s grand opening and #horror short story submission call. Hop on over to gavagai.com and get an invite homie!
Bumpy decided to just go stand in his little travel basket. He’s been doing this a lot. We started taking him for walks when we took Weeze, and I wasn’t sure he liked it. But now I think he’s really starting to dig it. This basket pops right onto the wheeled stroller thing
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Bumpy decided to just go stand in his little travel basket. He’s been doing this a lot. We started taking him for walks when we took Weeze, and I wasn’t sure he liked it. But now I think he’s really starting to dig it. This basket pops right onto the wheeled stroller thing
Reposted by Tim Hoelscher
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
blockclubchicago.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Reposted by Tim Hoelscher
Submissions open October 13 for #horror! We’re a new paying market for short fiction and a Bluesky-adjacent writing community. Join in the fun! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
Gavagai Horror Story Submission Call — by Gavagai
We’re thrilled to announce that Gavagai, a brand-new social platform for writers and readers, officially opens its doors on October 13, 2025 .
Gavagai is a place where writers can share work, connect with community, and get their voices discovered…
We’re thrilled to announce that Gavagai, a brand-new social platform for writers and readers, officially opens its doors on October 13, 2025 .
Gavagai is a place where writers can share work, connect with community, and get their voices discovered…
October 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Submissions open October 13 for #horror! We’re a new paying market for short fiction and a Bluesky-adjacent writing community. Join in the fun! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
Gavagai Horror Story Submission Call — by Gavagai
We’re thrilled to announce that Gavagai, a brand-new social platform for writers and readers, officially opens its doors on October 13, 2025 .
Gavagai is a place where writers can share work, connect with community, and get their voices discovered…
We’re thrilled to announce that Gavagai, a brand-new social platform for writers and readers, officially opens its doors on October 13, 2025 .
Gavagai is a place where writers can share work, connect with community, and get their voices discovered…
October 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It’s an acorn year. The barrage of acorns falling on the roof and skylights is like gunfire. It’s every couple of years and I always forget how loud it is
September 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s an acorn year. The barrage of acorns falling on the roof and skylights is like gunfire. It’s every couple of years and I always forget how loud it is
Did you know that Starburster is the only song that was allowed to be recorded in Ireland for the last two years? It’s Irish law.
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Did you know that Starburster is the only song that was allowed to be recorded in Ireland for the last two years? It’s Irish law.
Hey all! Please give my new project a peek. It’s a writer-focused community that leverages the open Bluesky infrastructure to provide a new way for writers to socialize and publish. We’re excited to open later this month and are looking forward to showing what the team and I have been building
Hey #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting! Gavagai is a new Bluesky-adjacent community specifically for writers! We're using an invite code system for new accounts. If you're interested, give us a follow and visit gavagai.com and click the link to request an invite! Doors open October 13!
September 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Hey all! Please give my new project a peek. It’s a writer-focused community that leverages the open Bluesky infrastructure to provide a new way for writers to socialize and publish. We’re excited to open later this month and are looking forward to showing what the team and I have been building
Wistful autumn Weeze #DogsOfBluesky
September 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Wistful autumn Weeze #DogsOfBluesky