Steph Grossman

This is what I get for trying to quickly promote my podcast on a random Monday afternoon in a convo about hobbies on Fable. No edit button available.

The Basement GIROS … 🤦‍♀️

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This was going around on Facebook so wanted to tag y’all!

I had a joke about Persephone, but Hades stole it.

‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier From Rebecca to The Birds and scores more creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro

To read: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Watching season one of True Detective for the first time ever

Reading "The Tooth" by Shirley Jackson, and wow, I'm so stressed out lol

Just want to note that I’ve been doing the single top button thing since like 1998 and have just been WAITING for it to be socially acceptable.

Jump scare at the end.

Oof, hope this came out of a pocket.

Thinking about when I used to say “Soder” as a kid instead of “Soda.” My cousins would get soo mad & correct me, but then I’d see my grandma, who was def more of an authority than my cousins, & she’d say “Steph want some soder?” in her Bronx accent & the confusion would start all over again.

To read! (I feel EXTREMELY validated that there's an essay about The Sims in The Paris Review):

Man, I posted this same thing on Threads and it went slightly viral and I got trolled by like 3 people telling me I don’t know how to Google, and that I don’t understand rhetorical questions 😂😭 is this what it’s like to be famous?

Does our moon have a name? Or is it just named Moon? Poor thing. Like a baby being named Baby.

Being from the Northeast, school starting in August over here weirds me out so much. It's still high summer. Pools, not schools! Not until after Labor Day.

lol I knew posting this on Bluesky would help me find likeminded people!

I just fvvking love frosting.

Why must my monthly writing workshop always fall during my luteal phase?

This is a piece I’ve been imagining on my patio for many years. They’ve finally stopped making it 😭

It’s time for my yearly browse through Anthropologie Home, where I pin dozens of items to my Pinterest board and then imagine them in my house for a year. Saves a lot of money.

compliment at a cafe*** lol

Received a compliment from at a cafe on my Fleetwood Mac shirt that I found—inexplicably—at an Abercrombie & Fitch outlet.

I’m telling you, college professors are the punkest people you know.

Just joined r/petpeeves

Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats Disinformation around a “weather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencers—leading to real-world consequences.

People are such fucking assholes. www.wired.com/story/texas-...

The most unexpected Reddit AMA I've ever seen www.reddit.com/r/writing/co...

My heart is breaking thinking of the dead and missing people and kids in Kerr County, TX. Hoping for the best outcome, but seeing footage of the flash flood waters at Camp Mystic is absolutely terrifying.

currently experiencing the horror of hiding in my house, pretending I'm not home, as a pest control salesman continuously knocks at the front door

10th Annual Clark Fiction Prize announces longlist Since 2016, Texas State University’s Department of English has administered the award in celebration of the Clarks’ lifelong contributions to, and love for, literature and the arts.

BRAG: I'm on the planning committee for the Clark Prize, a $25,000 award for exceptional book-length fiction published in the previous year. Nominated by a panel of distinguished authors & critics, here's the amazing longlist of 2024 titles the committee & judge will be choosing from! bit.ly/44H4Sl4

I’ve joined r/bigthief and honestly love the threads I’m seeing.

I’ve realized that my inner-dialogue when something goes wrong is “mother fuck!!!” and I don’t know how I feel about it.