Poison Garden Ghost Collection, hand illustrated by Sophie Humphreys yorkghostmerchants.com/black-boxlimit…

Ithaca is really beautiful, but also... does have gorges.

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In medieval times, there was a belief that when unmarried women died, their souls turned into black cats. As a spinster, all I can say is…this makes my day. #FolkloreThursday

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my chapbook is live!!!! many many thanks to the Variant Literature team and to Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. for picking the chap and blurbing it and to Ben Kline and @jasonbcrawford for adding their words to it as well!!!!!!!

I think these are absolutely lovely -- and quite respectful.

This book was gifted from one man named Clifford to another man named Clifford just about 100 years ago:

The roads into Ightfield are said to be haunted by a phantom horseman riding a large black horse. Upon appearing, he charges at passers by with great speed but disappears before reaching them. #Paranormal #Shropshire #Ghosts #Folklore

Ooh! Publishing on Thursday, The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins. These covers get better & better & look at those endpapers, so ghoulishly pretty. Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes, cover by Mauricio Villamayor & Mag Ruhig. #GildedNightmares

Crows call the morning, hop the mist and shout their dreams of the night. Cunning folk check spiderwebs, dewed-silk thrumming with omens for the unfolding day. Children pull on their porridge force fields.

A story of a very fraught mother/daughter relationship -- maybe you can relate? I hope not! girlmeetswolf.substack.com/p/its-monday-s… #amwriting, #mothers, #abuse, #daughters, #ambivalence, #memoir, #anger, #love, #motherdaughtertime

My university’s last budget meeting

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 today at 15:30 to hear an abridged version of Manish Chauhan's BBC National Short Story Award-shortlisted 'Pieces'. 📻 Read the full story as well as the other shortlisted stories here: commapress.co.uk/books/the-bbc-…

September 18, 1955: 8:00: A bath 9:45: A day of talk on deck with Carl Shakin, “wonderful mystic rapport” as they hold hands across a table, watch a movie, eat a turkey dinner, “windy black night on deck No Carl” upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia…

i’ve got a poem in The New Yorker this week—a kind of meditation on mortality + retail time, with cameos from Halloween City 🎃, Mircea Eliade, + my sister! (from Assembled Audience, due out in 2026 from Milkweed Editions) newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Mask of Hercules clevelandart.org/art/1968.339

Cowriting meeting tonight! 9/18 Adrián Lamo:30 EST. If you are interested, just message me here! Silent cowriting group on Zoom: camera/off. Prompts for poetry, fiction and nonfiction provided as the meeting starts. Hope to see you! #amwriting, #writingcommunity, #writingcommunity

I got three of my poems (that I don't hate) about mental illness and women pub'ed by Baby Teeth! It's a great journal and they pay! babyteethjournal.com And they're Aussies! #amwriting, #poetry, #ampublishing, #WritingCommunity, #MentalHealthAwareness, #Babyteeth

Albert Gleizes