Sophia Adamowicz

Thank you, @trashcatlit.bsky.social, for nominating my weird little flash fiction story for the Genrepunk Awards! This is my first award nomination, and I am truly humbled.
Read 'Wixton Fen' here: trashcatlit.com/wixton-fen/

The history of a hell hole Part 3: Once more into the deep

The third and final part of my spooky cultural history of Derbyshire's deepest natural pothole:

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The history of a hell hole: Part 2 Murder at the mouth of Hades

Part 2 of my history of Eldon Hole, featuring dastardly deeds under cover of darkness
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History of a hell hole Part 1: The first descent

This month, two cavers became trapped down the deepest chasm in Derbyshire. But they were far from the first to descend into a living nightmare...
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First rain of August
Dog paws splash down the pavement
Towards windfall pears

Explorers trapped 60m down in Peak District cave They were stuck inside the cave throughout the night until just before sunrise

The real-life setting of my folk horror novel is causing real-life mischief! Glad everyone was okay in the end. @romgothsam.bsky.social you might (not) appreciate this:

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Funny bones, blood and guts Horror gets viscerally witty

Is #TogetherMovie a horror comedy? Which other horror films have made you laugh recently?
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The Mer-demon of Todi How a sea devil made a splash in Italy

I discovered this fishy fella on my recent trip to Italy. Here's what I found out about his species: open.substack.com/pub/sophiaad...

I sometimes have nightmares that I’ve got a real job. Always wake up relieved, safe in the knowledge that I’m contributing nothing to society.

So glad you enjoyed!

Sophia Adamowicz (@sophiaadamowicz) Did your parents ever try and terrify you with a cautionary tale?

Did your parents ever try and terrify you into good behaviour?
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From our latest issue 🦝
We had to have both of @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social submissions!
🧵1/2
In Wixton Fen, we loved the contrast of modern eco-ignorance and ancient vengeful desire - the two voices perfect. The pace builds to the chilling conclusion wonderfully.
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2/2
Fair Game was started in a TCL writealong - from a blind-chosen set of prompts - and we loved where @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social took those. The voice is superb and the quiet, building dread is divine.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/fair-game/

The Brink was highly commended in the I Am Writing Horror competition! It pleaseth me well.

Would read! #BluePit

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A moodboard with a cave in the background, eight pictures and a title in the middle: The Brink, a folk horror. Beginning in the twelve o' clock position, the pictures show a bawdy interaction at a seventeenth-century inn, a woodcut of a devil offering a cup to a figure in bed, an underground cavern, a man screaming, a cave system, the entrance to a deep pothole, a rotting sheep and a hillside in the Peak District.

Slewfoot X The Lamb

Derbyshire, 1642. A young woman, tasked with securing human sacrifices for a guzzling mouth of hell, falls in love with the ideal victim—putting her family and the entire village at risk.

#BluePit #Q #A #LGBT #ND #H

Tried to resist jumping on the Salt Path bandwagon. Failed.
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Me, calling you donate item to the British Heart Foundation: it’s a lamp with three prongs tendrilling out of it
Phone Operative:…? *wonders why I’m donating a Lovecraftian horror*

My two pence on the Salt Path scandal: the passages on the natural world were often beautiful, but I was disturbed by the anti-medical bias running through the narrative. As someone who's struggled with depression and anxiety, I've heard plenty of bullshit on the miraculous healing powers of nature.

Horror is getting nastier. Can you stomach it? Cannibalism, carnivores and cat murder are the new norms in horror fiction

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Brilliant story! I like how it pulls the rug from under your feet more than once

Great story! So much complex emotion in a small package

Delighted to have not one, but two pieces in this summer's volume of @trashcatlit.bsky.social! 'Wixton Fen' is inspired by a very real place nearby, where I ran with some buddies last summer. It was vast, beautiful and lonely...
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Now I’m not allowed to say which of these titles is mine (if you know, you know), but I’ve been shortlisted for the I Am Writing horror comp!

No worries! Comes with the Eastern European territory

Thrilled to be three-times a trash cat 🐈‍⬛ 🐀🦡

Munching on handfuls of dry granola straight from the box like some kind of bourgeois horse is one of life’s greatest pleasures

Thrilled that @wishbonewords.bsky.social has accepted my flash fiction piece, 'Trial by Water'. It comes from a deep place. I can't wait to share it with the world.