Amanda M. Blake

and that we let the tree thrive where
i fell before the fall and rest
undisturbed by the turning of leaves (2/2)

you will find me under the color-fading #oak
food for roots and food for thought
a cautionary tale untold until uncovered
but perhaps it is best i remain remains
unspoken and forgotten except in whispers
wondering what my ghost wants (1/2)

#crowcalls

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So glad you enjoyed it!

This was a story about the most disgusting Thanksgiving meal ever. I loved it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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It really is. It's a pleasant mindfuck. It makes you breakfast afterward and gets you coffee just because.

N&F(M8): Finished at 141,249 words.

Too late to work out, so I'm going to go collapse. Good night.

Just an epilogue left to attack, and I'm not even sure I'm keeping it, but I kind of want to give it a go, jic.

I think I'm just entirely unmoored by the dismantling of even the flimsiest ethical structures we had a nation. Just floating in the morass, wondering where the dock disappeared to.

Honestly, after a year's sabbatical, a year and a half of no work, and now over half a year working on my own through IC, I think I'm half-feral.

My horror-thriller-satire WHEREVER HE MAY SWARM is on sale now 🐜📣🐜

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Things I'm noticing from short story sub calls: Indie horror is shrinking, indie sci-fi is expanding.

Too bad I'm absolute pants at sci-fi.

To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche

♥️

graham cracker meant to end
pleasures of the flesh
join with something hot
and dark melting over the sides
under the heated weight of
#scorched marshmallow eyes
please sir may i have s'more?

#crowcalls

This kinda got buried yesterday when we posted it and could use some more people sharing and getting excited because ummmmm new Sunny Moraine??? Exorcism bondage? Are you fucking serious omg

Fuzzy pink socks: Friday Update Photo by Karola G on Pexels.com News: Nothing to share today. Works in Progress: I’m going to just sit down today and try my absolute best to finish Never & Forever (Meridian Book 8). I&#…

What's going on, Friday blog post: amandamblake.com/2025/12/05/f...

I need people to understand the truth of this post because literally every week at least once I am asked "so who do I report the judge to when they get something wrong?"

This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?

My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.

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Also, porn as a genre is worth protecting, even if you don't like it. The less protection it gets, the more dangerous it becomes for its participants (and those who didn't consent to participate). The more protection it gets, the better it becomes. This is also about sex work.

People get confused when talking about porn bc some people treat porn as content and others treat porn as genre. When you realize censorship is interested in removing pornographic content, not just the genre, you'll realize they're probably coming after you, too, whatever you're doing. Protect porn.

a woman in a blue jacket is saying it 's against all laws of god and man ! ALT: a woman in a blue jacket is saying it 's against all laws of god and man !

Abomination!

Echo Echo's artwork in the background of a slew of posi-blurbs from Clay Chapman, Tamika Thompson, Pedro Iniguez, David Simmons, Michael Boulerice and M.Shaw

THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR.

In 2026, SPLIT SCREAM returns w/new novelettes from @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social:

CURSED PLACES.

Preorders coming sometime down the road, but you can reserve yours by signing up for the 2026 Tenebrous Book Club! store.tenebrouspress.com

N&F(M8): 135,094/140,000 words

Okay, now it's just mocking me.

I was INVESTED in this story.

An art tribute to The Birds by Sara Century via her zine When I Walk Into The Darkness: Writings on the Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Sara Century

I might change the cover last minute like I love to do, but either way the preorder for my next zine is live. This ships out in NINE DAYS, it's called When I Walk Into The Darkness: Writings on the Films of Alfred Hitchcock. I cover a few films, pick it up at sara-century.square.site

Covers of The Gods Below by Andrea Stewart, Ebony Gate by Ken Bebelle and Julia Vee, Daughter of the Wolves by K.S. Villoso, The First Step by Tao Wong, and A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang

An Asian Fantasy giveaway you say? 👀‼️

*the giveaway runs until Dec. 8! 🤍

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My family and I recently finished a rewatch of the series. I had no memory of the episodes, just a vibe in my mind that was well-deserved. Although I'm not remembering anything from everyone's descriptions of this episode.

It's nuts, but I'm so fond of it. Glad you liked!

I read this book recently and it's PHENOMENAL (though NOT for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach)