Zebulon Hearse

"Quarry" Before You Query: Using and Keeping Commonplace Books - Classes & Workshops | Literary Cleveland Could you write forever in an empty room? Would you rather not?

I'll facilitate a four-week workshop for the wonderful @literarycleveland.bsky.social in November—yr writing, and short readings in T. Berrigan, S. R. Delany, G. Eliot, C.S. Giscombe, J.-K. Huysmans, B. Mayer, H. Oyeyemi, M. N. Philip, E. A. Poe, & Sei Shonagōn www.litcleveland.org/classes-work...

oh, right, now also—

Horrorshow today (Wednesday) at 1700EST on wobc-fm.org.

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

Stopping before the locker rooms.
“Up there,” I point. “There’s something wrong with the heart.”
Ricardo doesn’t have time for this. “We don’t have time for this. That isn’t the heart, that’s the sun."

Today on ergot.: 'Inside It Now' by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Chri...

Horrorshow today (Wednesday) at 1700EST on wobc-fm.org.

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A new story 'Private Notary' is available to all today on Seize the Press!

The Mascot’s Head — Zebulon Horse The mascot’s head is coming off today. That’s what they say, in notices posted to every pole in Wakeman. They—who is that they? Who tore the store down, months ago—they rang the cuckoo clocks of he…

“The mascot’s head” is out today in @minorliteratures.bsky.social / but also, the mascot’s head is still on today—I went by twice.

minorliteratures.com/2025/05/20/t...

The Mascot’s Head — Zebulon Horse The mascot’s head is coming off today. That’s what they say, in notices posted to every pole in Wakeman. They—who is that they? Who tore the store down, months ago—they rang the cuckoo clocks of he…

The Mascot’s Head — Zebulon Horse (@zebulonhourse.bsky.social)

minorliteratures.com/2025/05/20/t...

and coming up this week ...

— new fiction from @zebulonhourse.bsky.social
— @carolinehardaker.bsky.social reviews Zdravka Evtimova
— Benjamin Robinson on Pádraig Ó Raghallaigh

It's been out for two weeks! Just a little reminder in case you'd like to get in on this.

I've only been posting positive reviews, but some people truly hate my novel! It's exciting to inspire a bit of genuine revulsion.

lots to look forward to in May too ...

I hope we're all doing well in the meat grinder. I'm in the slaughterhouse, and this abattoir is a college is finally out. Find me in the knocking box: asterismbooks.com/product/this...

My short novel, The psychic surgeon assists, has been out for a year today, sharing a birthday with me, and with new Calamari titles from @orchidtierney.bsky.social and Sasha Hawkins:
calamaripress.com

Glad to have "Dead Men's Fingernails" up on The Fabulist today: fabulistmagazine.com/dead-mens-fi...

I cut a cover for Centaur 8, out this week *•*

“the Gawain Poet, Shirley Jackson, and now, Ivy Grimes!”

I used to hate people and wish a plague would kill them all. Once I started studying the matter, I felt better. They aren’t much smarter than animals, the trouble comes with expecting too much from them.

Today on ergot. 'Green' by Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Ivy_...

Star Shapes Amazon.com: Star Shapes eBook : Grimes, Ivy , Baldwin, Alana: Kindle Store

Available for free on Amazon for the next couple of days:

my novella Star Shapes, an absurd and slightly disturbing Southern Gothic tale!

www.amazon.com/Star-Shapes-...

Horrorshow at 1700EST in and around Oberlin, Ohio at 91,500,000 Hz, or streaming online at wobc-fm.org

“Halloween” and “Halloween”, that’s the stinger—also P. Donaggio’s electronic stingers, Wario in the Forest of Fear, and “800 Pristine Corpses”—and, as they say, Turn on, tune in, drop dead.

went up Gifford this morning, and the snow’s unsanded, but not so high that you couldn’t spot the Horse’s hand, if it arose

www.propagule.co/fiction/the-...

oh, looks like “The Horse’s hand” is up in Propagule No. 6!

www.propagule.co/fiction/the-...

Hell yes!

No radio today—

Horrorshow airs at 1700 EST—that’s now—on WOBC FM 91.5, or at wobc-fm.org.

"An egg that swells and ripens with pus as yellow-green as primroses in an untended garden.

An egg for the one foreseen to come waltzing over milky swales."

Today on ergot.: 'The Dancer's Dozen' by R.L. Summerling @rlsummerling.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/R.L....