R.A. Busby

That is actually perfect

Every time I see one of those videos, I’m wondering what will happen when someone just says “Fk it,” and starts retaliating.

“Tell the truth! Tell a lie! Tell the truth! Tell an even BIGGER lie! Yes!”

Country music for me turned out to be an unexpected source of female rage songs.

Awwww!!!! Thank you!!!

Book cover of You Will Speak for the Dead by R.A. Busby. A China teacup with a hedgehog design against a sporulating backdrop.

You Will Speak for the Dead by R.A. Busby is a fabulous #Horror novella that makes you question how your collective accumulation leaves a mark on the world. #SSBA2025 semifinals. #BookSky 💙📚
@stelliform.press @rabusby.bsky.social @specawards.bsky.social

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YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD (@stelliform.press) by @rabusby.bsky.social is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations!

#SSBA #SSBA2025

Yaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!

I’m so delighted! My best wishes to everyone nominated!

Semifinalists for HORROR (cont)

TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE by @mmerriam.bsky.social at @qospress.bsky.social
RESISTERS by @chriscampeau.bsky.social at @tonyanuci.bsky.social
YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD by @rabusby.bsky.social at @stelliform.press

Aaaahhhh!!! I’m so thrilled to make it this far! Thank you!!

BUT DID HE CALL REX?

Omg, you all!! I am so flattered—and genuinely touched! Thank you, Villemy and Mary!!!

First, there’s no legal basis for this. Second, a “Real ID” is sufficient for air travel because it requires extra documentation to obtain. Third and again, there’s no legal basis for this. Fourth and most important, this is the “papers please” stage of fascism and the biggest possible red flag.

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You made me so incredibly happy when you first told me you’d liked “Bits”!

(It was my first published story, and I’ll never stop being amazed that someone outside my family read it and enjoyed it.) 😄 Thank you!

Not me, being SO THRILLED to get listed in @sadiehartmann.bsky.social ‘s new book Feral and Hysterical for You Will Speak for the Dead!

omg omg omg! 😆

So many thanks to @stelliform.press for publishing my weird fungus book!!

Omg. That brings back memories of my mom and her Ball jars and pressure cooker making summer pickles with dill. Thank you!

Let me repeat it! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏼👇🏽

I hope more people find out about that time musclebound fitness celeb Dean Karnazes ran the Badwater Ultra, a 135-mile race through Death Valley and ending up on Mount Whitney…only to come in around a half hour behind a Tucson housewife named Pam.

If you like axolotls—and who doesn’t?—you might like this classic odd story.

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I followed you on the bird app for allllllll of the above.

✂️ South Park Trump in Desert 59 seconds · Clipped by Henry Gale · Original video "The PSA contains synthetic media" by South Park Studios

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…wouldn’t have used the term “homeschool” (1980s).

Seriously, take five minutes to Google things.

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I want to like Chapelwaite. I really do, but for fuck’s sake, DO YOUR RESEARCH. This show is set around 1850. Here’s what people didn’t do or say:
1. They didn’t go in costume for trick-or-treating (episode 2).
2. They didn’t use “pitch” to mean “sales pitch” until 1943 (episode 2).
3. They also…

That AI literally sounds like everyone’s worst toxic ex.

I am now green with envy!!

Omg, I found a station that played those as a retro thing and I was HOOKED. I was hooketh.

I just got done reading it (now that the suspense of the awards is over) and it KICKS ASS.

Creepy and wonderful—and a great example how horror and the supernatural digs into an essential truth.

(And given the exchange between the two women, you might like this 1918 story):

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