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Tim Melody Pratt
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Writer and editor. Loser of Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, and Stoker Awards (won a Hugo tho). Been published in Best American Short Stories AND Best American Erotica. Genderfluid. Any pronouns

I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)
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I fear neither death nor dishonor
A bottle of pumpkin pecan creamer, a bottle of bourbon cream, a glass containing both and some ice
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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My child is no longer a child: he turned 18 today. What an amazing trip it’s been
My son as a tiny baby with big blue eyes in a striped onesie My son as a toddler in a striped shirt and round dark glasses petting a goat My son as a middle schooler smiling while brandishing a homemade stone axe My son as a high school senior sitting on brick steps with headphones around his neck looking cool as hell
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I vacillate between thinking I’d love to live in a minimalist modern apartment and thinking I’d love to live in the house Galen Dara painted for the cover of Heirs of Grace
Detail of Galen Dara’s cover painting for Heirs of Grace featuring a strange tall ramshackle house with a pointy turret on top and curling roots beneath
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Crime writer Richard Stark (AKA Donald Westlake) describes my hometown in a 1963 novel
Excerpt from “The Man with the Getaway Face” that reads Goldsboro is small and pinch-faced, a backwater town on the Neuse River, surrounded by tobacco fields. There's an air base nearby, and the State Hospital for Negro Insane. These, and cotton and fertilizer, are what the town lives on.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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A mural of a panda standing in the water next to a photo of my friend’s dog in the same pose
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Richard Abbate’s “Black Cat Peeking Over Wall” next to a photo of my friend’s dog in the same pose
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Detail of Wyeth’s “Christina's World” next to a photo of my friend’s dog in the same pose
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Better photos of ME from last night
The author smiling with blonde hair and a dress with skulls and leaves on it The author walking down the street, bathed in the light of the setting sun The author on a train with her hair up, going for a sexy librarian kinda thing
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Last night’s event with Gretchen McNeil at @booksinc.bsky.social in San Francisco was great! Check out her book, it’s fantastic
Cover of They Fear Not Men in the Woods. It has creepy trees! Gretchen McNeil and Tim Melody Pratt side by side at the signing table in amazing dresses
October 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I should get more things with sweetheart necklines
The author in a gothy black dress with a sweetheart neckline
October 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Instagram keeps trying to sell me Marla Mason’s cloak (I already have it, @sundew.bsky.social made it for me years ago!)
An Instagram ad for a purple and white cloak from a company called Knightweave
October 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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It’s a thousand degrees in my house so I’m running the big fan and have achieved inadvertent supermodel hair
The author with her blonde hair blowing around her head like she meant to do that
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Went to the Autumn Festival of Lights at Lake Merritt Gardens and it was super cool, dozens of illuminated installations by a wide variety of artists
The author sitting on a throne with illuminated butterfly wings A giant skeleton in glowing Day of the Dead decorations climbing out of the ground A huge inflatable tentacled monster with glowing tentacles emerging from the ground An illuminated wasp nest
October 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Saw Rilo Kiley at the Greek last night with @sundew.bsky.social

They played “With Arms Oustretched” and “A Better Son/Daughter” back to back so I just cried for like 7 straight minutes
Shot of the crowd at the Greek Theater Blake Sennett and Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley performing on stage
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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I am leaving my HOUSE for the second night in a ROW
The author smiling in a dinosaur print dress
October 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Someone did a cold and rainy without asking me
The author in twintails with ribbons looking stricken by the CHILL
October 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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You’re Next (2011)
A little girl pushing a hello kitty purse onto her face like an animal mask
October 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Last night’s cocktail of my own devising
Bottles of cherry liqueur, Coca Cola, bourbon, and cherry pistachio syrup, and a small plastic bag of bourbon smoked sugar A rocks glass with a sugared rim containing a mysterious yet captivating beverage with a couple of ice cubes floating inside
October 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I’m joining the great Gretchen McNeil for an event at Books Inc in San Francisco on the 27th to promote her fantastic new book They Fear Not Men in the Woods! Get it on your calendar

(I’ll mention it again closer to but I just got this cute graphic so here you go)
A flyer announcing Gretchen McNeil’s event at Books Inc on October 27th, with special guest Tim Melody Pratt
October 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Fine it’s autumn
The author looking serious in a black Wednesday Addams kind of dress with a white collar The author’s face from the nose up in the lower right corner of a photo that is otherwise cloudy sky
October 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Here’s a screenshot some of y’all can put at the top of your posts
Screenshot from Ura Horror that reads “WARNING: further viewing may cause serious harm to your physical and mental health” in Japanese and English
October 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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I love Japanese found footage (especially Koji Shiraishi but many other filmmakers too)
A screenshot from Cult by Koji Shiraishi depicting a girl’s disembodied head stuck to the ceiling spewing about 20 tentacle/worm things from her mouth toward the floor
October 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Girl same
A screenshot from the movie Cult with a spiritual psychic priest telling a young woman “Your body is easy for demons to attach to”
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Classic Oglaf comic. Panel one shows a masked man saying "Get hydrated ladies, you're about to lose a whole lot of moisture through your pussies!" to a group of women. Next panel, one says "Oh really? You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?" Third panel, he says, "Oh, I will figure it out. I will give you multiple solutions." Panel four he leers at her and says, "My mind is sharp and my hands are so deft I could make a hummingbird come. I will solve your puzzle vagina down to a very well known fact." Panel five she lifts her skirts to reveal a limp penis. Panel six he leans in with his hand on his chin to consider it thoughtfully. Panel seven he kneels to look closer and holds up a hand and says "Wait... Waaaiit... I got this..."
October 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Off to see Good Boy with my horror movie buddy Anna
The author smiling in a black t shirt featuring anthropomorphic concession snacks as in the classic “let’s all go to the lobby and have ourselves a snack” movie ad, but these are monstrous and wielding bloody weapons and carrying a banner that says “Let’s watch horror movies”
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM