THE BONE PROPHET out now in @thefuturefire futurefire.net/2021.58/fictio…

'Dusk was the best time for collecting bones.' Highly recommend 'The Bone Prophet' by Hester J. Rook, out now in @thefuturefire, about catastrophe and survival and (re)construction. futurefire.net/2021.58/fictio…

#pc688 AEAEA ON THE SEAS by Hester J. Rook, narrated by @DanielleImara. First published in "Making Monsters: A Speculative and Classical Anthology" (pub. @thefuturefire, 2018) Rated PG-13 podcastle.org/2021/07/20/pod…

AEAEA ON THE SEAS (first published by @thefuturefire in Making Monsters: A Speculative and Classical Anthology) has been reprinted in PodCastle with a fabulous narration by @DanielleImara! podcastle.org/2021/07/20/pod…

What a great story. It is beautiful written. So many images of natural beauty throughout. Circe’s beautiful lush garden. Her long life of longing for another like her and yet unlike her. I love it. Thanks ⁦Hester J. Rook⁩ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod…

Excited to be shortlisted for the OutWrite DC LGBTQ Literary Festival 2021 chapbook contest in both the fiction AND poetry categories, and thrilled for the winners Mari Ness, still masked @soyernotsawyer and @jasonbcrawford!

Something entirely inappropriate for your Monday morning: a recording of BETWIXT BRIGHT STARS AND ENDLESS VOID: A VOIDJUNK REVIEW (Neon Hemlock Press x @jakebeearts x OutWrite DC LGBTQ Literary Festival Festival) can be watched here: facebook.com/watch/live/?v=… ft. my poem (and voice) "oh honey"

COVER REVEAL Infectious Hope: Poems of Hope and Resilience from the Pandemic (ed: @PoetSilviaCR, pub: @IFWGAustralia) My poem "the things that would not have happened, were it not for this" will appear in this beautiful book! ifwgaustralia.com/2021/08/14/cov…

Praise for WHO IS OWED SPRINGTIME by rasha abdulhadi: "...lush and fragrant..." — Hester J. Rook "This collection explores the sincerity and complexity of passions mistimed and out-of-season." —Layla Azmi Goushey, PhD. neonhemlock.com/books/who-is-o…

my poem CLOVE HITCH is out in this issue of Angel! kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2021/cl…

THRILLED to have been a part of this: stone-soup.ghost.io/archive/buildi…

The January issue of Fireside Fiction I guest-edited is out! Hester J. Rook's 'Sheer in the Sun, They Pass' is up for free to read now (and the whole issue is available for purchase, too!). It's equal parts scary and sensual. I couldn't ask for more in a BDSM ghost story, really.

SHEER IN THE SUN, THEY PASS is out now at Fireside Fiction (perfect art by Deericku) sometimes ghosts just want to escape their own haunted house 🏡 sometimes girls just want to be beaten up by other girls 👻 firesidefiction.com/sheer-in-the-s…

“The Bone Prophet” by Hester J. Rook in @thefuturefire loosens your anchor in time by drawing from mythology, past and apocalyptic future in this lyrical flash tale of desperation and perseverance. futurefire.net/2021.58/fictio…

🏳️‍🌈Day 28: Today's offering is sapphic ghosts by Hester J. Rook in Fireside Fiction. "Sheer in the Sun, They Pass." firesidefiction.com/sheer-in-the-s…

Reviewing proofs of V OI D J U N K Issue 3 (this one edited by Marianne Kirby) with the contributors! This horny little zine continues to unnerve and thrill. If you'd like to pre-order a horrifying little creature, you can do so here: neonhemlock.com/books/voidjunk…

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Just sent this to the printer! Pre-order link below if you'd like to check out our erotic speculative occasional.

Unhallowed: a thread of 31 spooky poems 2. "This Soundless Murk", by Hester J. Rook in @thefuturefire futurefire.net/2020.54/fictio…

'Sheer in the Sun, They Pass' by Hester J. Rook (Fireside Fiction) is such a horny piece of haunted fiction about ghosts it's by far one of my favorite stories I've ever worked on. firesidefiction.com/sheer-in-the-s… 23/24