Diane Dooley

"Alice Lives Here Forevermore" by Diane Dooley (@dianedooley.bsky.social), in October's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/dooleyAlice.html

An endless Tuesday …

-from "Alice Lives Here Forevermore" by Diane Dooley (@dianedooley.bsky.social), in October's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstory #horror

Congrats! They're a pleasure to work with :)

I know it's kind of pathetic to be in bed by 6pm, but then I remember what a rough year it's been. Lost both my parents and currently recovering from my second bout of pneumonia.
*turns on electric blanket*

You know, I don't think anyone could pay me enough to give a flying fuck about anyone's immigration status. Country borders are imaginary, made-up lines, subject to change every time stupid, egotistical men start another war. We are all humans, sharing the same planet, and nobody owns the earth.

Alice Lives Here Forevermore: New Short Story Now Available Alice has no friends, is not allowed outside, and doesn’t even go to school. Her mother won’t allow it. Direct link to Alice Lives Here Forevemore. Come meet poor little Alice, the prot…

Blogging about my latest short story:

Flowers and seed. Fall, Vermont

Gathering seed.

Hey, @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social
First time we've shared a ToC!

'Alice Lives Here Forevermore': new story from me in the current issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social
Come meet poor wee Alice :)

Amazing tennis story in Shanghai :)

My published short stories: dianedooley.wordpress.com/short-stories/

Illustration: Sue Babcock

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Hey indie publishers: Brief Ecology is looking for new and upcoming eco-fiction to review! We like eco-horror, eco-gothic, eco-anti-gothic, eco-weird, eco-literary, and whatever else we're not picky. Get in touch if you've got titles that you think fit!

Coming next Wednesday, October 1st: Pulp Asylum issue #9, including Oladosu Michael Emerald's new story, "3:00 AM Will Come Again."

PulpAsylum.com

Happy birthday, Cathy!

Happy birthday! Would you like to tell me about your medical maladies in excruciating detail?

Dangling donuts. So terrifying, LOL. Love you, PDX.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

Share your favorite black and white movie.

Looking out to sea at the New Jersey shore.

Driftwood, rocks and seashells, New Jersey shore.

Hi everyone!

Down the shore...

Digest-sized paperback books of Frost Zone Stories 1 & 2. Book 1 on the left, pale blue with a distressed purple French door - an author name on each window pane: Elizabeth Guilt, Katie Marie, Stephen McQuiggan, Odin Meadows, Micah Castle, Lena Ng, Marc Ruvolo, Kristal Stittle, Amelia Gorman, James Owens. A skeleton hand reaches from behind the door, a zombie squirrel in lower left looks up at door, vines down each side of cover. BOOK 2: an abstract canopy of purple and green maple leaves with a portal-like B&W section in the centre above a path, a skeletal figure wearing a raggedy black dress points to the path. Each cover has the title at the top, white type in black banner Frost Zone , below this STORIES in an oval shape. The author names for book 2 are on the back of the paperback (down the side of cover on the eBook version): Jenny Hart, Diane Dooley, Malcolm Timperley, Camden Rose, Nick Young, MIchael Penncavage, Kay Hanifen, D.THomas Minton, Ken Foxe, Ann Wuehler, Maureen O'Leary

The 2025 issues: book 1 & book 2 side by side. Twenty-one authors of short stories in total.
Next month submissions will open for books 3&4
#litmag #quiethorror #darkfiction #shortstories #literaryhorror #originalfiction #micropress

That sounds amazing.

HE is the cancer. HE is the virus.

Me, gazing at the place where Melville wrote such sentences.

New Short Story: Patience, With All Things Me and my sisters were rough on our dolls when we were kids, and there were a lot of us — sisters, I mean. The dolls had all kinds of inappropriate adventures and ended up dismembered or drag…

One of my very rare blog posts (remember them?) as I have a new short story out with @frostzonestories.bsky.social.
Fans of creepy dolls will enjoy it :)

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

Close to Me.

You can scoff your food in the UK, though.

Well, the women's final was really dull. Especially compared to the semi finals.
#USOpen

Well, I wasn't going to watch the men's final, but now I think I will so I can join in the booing that the orange malignancy so richly deserves.
#USOpen