Maureen O’Leary

I also want to stop everything and read this right now, another NBA finalist.

I do have others but through tiny presses now defunct. 🤷‍♀️

Book cover of folk horror novel Harrowfield. Cover shows a tree sheltering 2 standing stones.

October is the month to read folk horror of the quiet kind.

Harrowfield isn't just available to purchase via mybook.to/Harrowfield, it's also on Kindle Unlimited. And if you've read it, I'd love it if you leave a review. ❤

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

So glad my friend introduced me to your books. I am such a fan.

The story I have within is the saddest I have ever written. As a reader, I love Chthonic Matter. I am proud of this. chthonicmatter.wordpress.com

Yes! Horror and crime mostly. Book comes out in a little over a year. 👻

8 Books That Love Reality TV as Much as You Do - Electric Literature Novels about fictionalized reality TV premises, and cultural analysis of the shows we can’t stop watching

There is something addictive about people who put their lives on display.

1/2 We have a ton of extra inventory & need to make room for new titles! All of our 22-24 quarterly anthologies are $8, Not Ghosts, But Spirits is $18 for paperback and $33 for hardcover, & we have overstock titles listed at $7-$8 on our PayHip store! No code needed—

I was a weapon in the war. I am one.

THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell

#SundaySentence

Bring back art nouveau you cowards

I already do. I am such a fan.

“. . . one must break with one’s past to embrace one’s future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”

DARKFEVER by
@karenmariemoning.bsky.social

#sundaysentence

It so good.

“As the smoke spiraled out her nostrils, she took the cigarette from between her lips and squeezed the glowing end between her dead fingertips.”
S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes
#SundaySentence

The thing about being first-generation college was that no one we knew had any idea what the hell we were supposed to be doing there other than taking some classes and hoping they added up to a grand theory of our lives.
#SundaySentence from the brilliant The Payback by Kashana Cauley.

Now we were in a different story with a more violent plot and a worse end than we’d thought.

MERCY by Joan Silber.

#Sundaysentence

He was perceptive only when he sensed that other people might be judging him.

SWALLOWS by Natsuo Kirino

#sundaysentence

The Unpredictable Choreography of Marriage, Identity, and Ambition - Electric Literature Lauren Morrow’s “Little Movements” follows a Black choreographer who leaves her life behind to pursue her dreams

Lauren Morrow’s debut novel “Little Movements” explores being a Black artist in a space not built with you in mind, and the toll of constantly having to prove your value. (@cherrylousy.bsky.social)

Frost Zone Stories Book 2, including terrific stories by @jennyhart2001.bsky.social @dianedooley.bsky.social @malcolmtimperley.bsky.social @camdenscorner.bsky.social Nick Young, Michael Penncavage, Kay Hanifen, D Thomas Minton, @kenfoxe.bsky.social Ann Wuehler and @maureenow.bsky.social

I’m in this.

Illinois, you elected a real one.

If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded.

These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them.

“She was like a powerful atmospheric depression that squeezes every puff of smoke out of chimneys and casts winter smog over cities.” Olga Tokarczuk, HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT (coming 12/2/25) #sundaysentence

Men in khaki work clothes will pry loose the slats of Reba's Grill, where the owner cooked in her hat because she couldn't remember the ingredients without it #SundaySentence

He recalled reading, long ago, that falling asleep in the snow was the most pleasant form of dying.

“Deer” from TALES NOCTURNAL by Tim Foley

#sundaysentence

YouTube video by Story Hour May 28, 2025 Story Hour: Victoria Nations and Premee Mohamed (Guest Host: Sam Rebelein)

I missed tonight's @storyhour.bsky.social
live webcast so I listened to an earlier one featuring

@victorianations.bsky.social & @premeemohamed.com, w/ guest host @rebelsam94.bsky.social

Two beautifully quiet but decidedly weird stories.

youtu.be/j3BBQLNw9Kk

My story is within!

Frost Zone Stories 2 cover on the left: purple and green canopy of maple leaves/b&w in the centre, under which is a path. A skeletal figure in black raggedy dress points down the path, Frost Zone stories banner at the top. To the Right: ...She cursed the neighbourhood tomcat that must have marked her car in the night, and she figured the defroster was making the print seem bigger than a man's hand... "The New Winter" by Maureen O'Leary Frost Zone Stories book 2 - Autumn 2025

Closing the TOC for book 2 - which will be available in 4 days - is @maureenow.bsky.social Maureen O'Leary's chilling tale "The New Winter" - something is roaming the neighbourhood...
#litmag #quiethorror #shortstories
books2read.com/u/3JMW5A

Night & Day A horror anthology edited by the genre’s greatest, Ellen Datlow, with one side featuring stories about what haunts the night while the other side s...

Night and Day edited by @datlow.bsky.social is officially out today! Do you prefer your terror shrouded in darkness or caught in the bright, stark light?

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Night-...

A cover of a book of Countee Cullen’s selected poems. Shows a photographic portrait of Cullen on the cover.

This much is granted for an hour:
That we are young and tender,
That I am bee and you are flower,
Honey-mouthed and swaying slender.
~Countee Cullen from “To One Who Said Me Nay”

That’s my poetic #SundaySentence for this week—what was YOUR favorite sentence?