The Outlaw Kass Carcosa

wild the shadows play
upon mirrored keys in shade
white the black sharps flat

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dreams effervescing
to cold first rays of caustic sun
scarring onto boards

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The Tides of Hali | Part V 'surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.' — william faulkner

You can catch the beginning here:

If there's much more interest in this, I may end up giving this a full edit and expand on it into a freestanding, longer work.

#psychologicalhorror #amwriting #authorsky #booksky #serialfiction #kinginyellow

The Tides of Hali | Part V 'surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.' — william faulkner

Part V of my epistolary Weird psychological #horror story Tides of Hali is out on #Substack — and by my count, Part VI should be the conclusion.

It's been a fun exercise for me, playing with some of my favorite things and experimenting with some new forms.

If you've missed it so far — 👇

The Tides of Hali | Part V “all are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." — ambrose bierce

The latest entry in my mini-series inspired by The King in Yellow.

We're starting to bring it home — and it's getting Weird.

As always, free to read on #Substack

#amwriting #writersky #authorsky #booksky #horror #weirdfiction #serial #shortstory

sulfurous lies tongues
twisting effusive in voice
from other lost stars

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#poetry #micropoetry

The Tides of Hali | Part III “and, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.” — william hope hodgson

open.substack.com/pub/jointhek...

Part III of my love letter to the King in Yellow, with my own little spin to it is live now.
As always, available to read for free on #Substack
The last couple parts are coming this week — and it's all a doom spiral into madness from here, babe.

#horror #kinginyellow #carcosa #spooktober

link 👇

blood moons and quiet charms
bathing naked in the dusk
darkening the hours

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#poetry #micropoetry

#horror #scifi #specfic #speculativefiction #amwriting #howto #zines #feelies #kinginyellow #mythpunk #serialfiction #authorsky #booksky #writersky

A selection from last week over on #Substack. A freestanding [Ignition Girl] side story, two parts (3rd coming today, of 5 right now) of a spooky serial, and a couple inspirational guides for DIYing #author (or whatever you make) stuff.

As always, it's all free to read. Come say hi, babe.

saying the meanings
whispering the whims of words
into fading skies

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#poetry #micropoetry

Kass Von Kült (@jointhekult) If you missed out on Part I, you can find a link to it at the top of this entry. My love letter and original spin on Chamber’s The King in Yellow for Spooktober, The Tides of Hali centers around a y...

The second part of my love letter to the King in Yellow is live. If you missed the first part, the link's right up top in the story.
As always, free to read.

A tale of obsession, madness, and myth.

#horror #speculativefiction #weirdfiction #newweird

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the twentieth day
of a month lasting ten years
it leans as it runs

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What if your greatest obsession was just an echo of someone else's madness?

When a strange young woman washes up without her memory, a struggling young psychiatrist thinks he's finally found his first patient.

But when her dreams turn strange, he finds himself on an obsessive spiral into madness.

The Tides of Hali | Part I 'all that we see or seem, is but a dream, within a dream.' - E.A. Poe

Just in time for an early #Spooktober read.

First of a shorter serial (likely 3-4 entries), and my love letter to Chamber's "King in Yellow."

A little #gothic, a little Weird, and a little #darkacademia

#amwriting #horror #lovecraftian

Blurb in post 2:

jointhekult.substack.com/p/the-tides-...

House Rules | An [ Ignition Girl ] Side Story Always on the wrong side of sunrise, in the city that never sleeps.

ICYMI: new #IgnitionGirl short on #substack.

Wherein we find the city the city that never sleeps in a singular version of the future. And what happens when you can't pay your debts.

available, as always, free to read.

#cyberpunk #writersky #booksky #scifi #shortfiction

Catching Feelies: Merch Doesn't Have to Be Merch Or, what the hell are feelies, anyway?

new stuff this week, starting with teaching you how to catch feelies:

jointhekult.substack.com/p/catching-f...

And more importantly: what the hell even are feelies?

#amwriting #substack #design #writersky #booksky

tell me why it cuts
when exquisitely embraced
'twixt sky and silence

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#poetry #micropoetry

what's a heart need most
blood to dream, thirsts unquenching
meandering lost

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#poetry #micropoetry

House Rules | An [ Ignition Girl ] Side Story Always on the wrong side of sunrise, in the city that never sleeps.

I promised a new short set in the world of #IgnitionGirl this week — and here it is, for free, on my #substack.

This time, we see what fabulous #LasVegas is up to in the futuristic world of IG.

Where the house still always wins.

#cyberpunk #scifi #writersky

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Zuckerberg has money but he will never once in his whole life be cool, same as nearly every other billionaire, and that fact eats at all of those extremely rich losers

heron carries air below
dives screaming into the sun
reminding the trees to wake again
shading prey with white-knuckled guns

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#amwriting

stale cigarettes
crushed into bleak asphalt stains
blackened horizon

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#dailyhaiku
#poetry #micropoetry

Kass Von Kült (@jointhekult) Coming up either today or tomorrow [depending on real life]. A short story set in the world of Ignition Girl, with a character that features in Ignition Girl: Killer Queen. ELECTRIC LOVE Kael Vasilyev is the Viridian Group's best acquisitions specialist: a corporate specter hired to make messy problems with AI disappear. His latest job seems simple: Lumina, an AI star of a billion-cred children’s franchise has vanished. The studio wants her back. The trail leads Kael down a path of seedy motels and illicit deepfakes, to a truth stranger than fiction. He finds himself trapped in a claustrophobic standoff between a grieving monster, a terrifyingly perfect creation, and a broken clone that binds them. But Kael has priorities of his own, and in the neon-drenched underbelly of the world’s biggest small town: It’s a horrific family reunion – but that’s showbiz, baby. [this is part of what I meant in the [ insert coin ] piece on Ignition Girl about building out paratext for the world. You don’t need this to understand the story of Ignition Girl, but it’ll build out the world, and Kael, more — and hint at things to come. This will also be getting a free zine release, so if you like to print out stories from Substack, I got you covered, babe]

#shortstory set in the world of Ignition Girl coming up soon in both #Substack and #zine release.

Read more about it here, babe:

substack.com/@jointhekult...

and yes — it's getting a zine release, too.

#cyberpunk #technoir #noir #electriclove #scifi #amwriting #writersky #booksky

when shines the light aloft
behind beneath; a breath
embraced by nighted stars
frigid caress of summer's death

#writing
#poetry #micropoetry
#amwriting

languid sighs the dusk
footprinted by lightning bugs
painting with kisses

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#poetry #micropoetry

I don't sportsball so I went looking for the origin of that meme only to find many MANY racist generated images.

It left me feeling like we should reinvent sports and mock combat in ways that do not enable all the worst elements of necrocapital to exploit primarily Black athletes.

tbf rural telehealth is rarely internet-based anyway, due to ISP monopolies in those areas artificially raising costs. rural telehealth is still largely phone-based, not video-based.