Stitching Ghost

I'll never stop recommending Tamika Thompson's book!

Picture of a juvenile snow corn snake on a plushy stack of plaid pumpkins

Look at her enjoying Halloween decor, she's truly a member of the family!
#cornsnake #snake

First thing I saw when i opened this app today was AI "art" and it had hundreds of likes... Even IG has the decency to make people pay to put their AI slop in front of my eyeballs!

Read for a while if you can. Watch something. Eat tacos. Turn that music up. Text a friend. Check in with your forever demons. Drink from the skull of your enemies. Take care of yourself. Can’t fight the good fight if you burn out.

Today for Latine Heritage Month, the little book that could! Launched barrio noir (¿Y ahora, cabrones?) and my career (and years later again in France). My first translation, first film option, etc. I’m STOKED it’s back in print!

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Cross stitch mock up of a ghost with the like it's me and my Halloween trinkets against the world.

Mock up of a cross stitch featuring geese and the phrase Gone E-Wording

3/3 Made the trinkets one for a tag yourself post on my IG and the other one is a personal project (geese unrelated to the reference and I'm curious if anyone gets the reference or if it's too niche?) let me know if there's interest for the patterns!

2/3 Made these cross stitch mock ups for a tag yourself post on my IG but I also have the PDF patterns, let me know if there's interest!

1/3 Made these cross stitch mock ups for a tag yourself post on my IG but I also have the PDF patterns, let me know if there's interest!

It probably would have if Fool Me Please hadn't been before it. I saw too much of myself and of my worst nightmare in that story!

It’s #FridayReads time AND Latine Heritage Month! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here are horror and noir mixed with Spanglish, history, anti-colonialism, magic, friendship, revenge, and monsters from the deep.

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Thanks, Gabino!

My next title, MONOCHROMICON: THE COMPLETELY MONOCHROME TRILOGY, releases next Tuesday, 9/23, in all the usual places. It's a supernatural thriller, a neo-noir mystery, and cosmic horror rolled into one. Check it out:

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Last Saturday, a story from this collection WRECKED me and I still haven't recovered from it!

It really is!

A line from Mad Days by @elfordalley.bsky.social 😂

Campus Reform tried to get me fired from being a *postdoc in physics* in 2015 because I said Thomas Jefferson was a rapist

Cover of the book ash and bone: tales of terror by Elford Alley featuring half of a blue sketch of a skull on a solid black background

Finished Find Us (loved it), onto the next. @elfordalley.bsky.social September is going swimmingly (you shouldn't have suggested it if you didn't want to hear about it 😂😂) 🩸📚

It's the little things that make me fall in love with a book 🩸📚

Well my friends, the time has come, send me your horrors (I have been an eldritch horror for a long time I cannot become what I already am!)

Ok for some reason that emphasis came across as very girlypop coded (especially with the luminous eyes mentioned earlier), pop off queen and *looks at notes* slay the whole town! #justgirlthings 🩸📚

3 stories in and loving this one 🩸📚

Currently reading Find Us by Elford Alley and really enjoying it

Never Leaving is looking at me very sternly from the TBR pile as I click buy on yet another book 😅

Starting September at 17.5% completion on the sampler. How's everyone cross stitching going?

it's such a good one, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Thank you! 💜

That looks like it's going to be rad! Love the minder too!

Picture of a cross stitch piece in a spring tensio hoop with a pink and white pumpkin needle minder. The stitching is of folksy geometric flowers and birds and is done all in dark green.

16.56% done and time to move the hoop but I think I might call it a night and curl up with a book. How's everyone stitching going this weekend?

Picture of a corn snake on the book pacifism as pathology by Ward Churchill and Michael Ryan

New bookmark just dropped 😅

I low-key enjoy getting used books that have been highlighted so I can sit there and wonder why they thought that part was particularly important