Author of Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors. Horror Writer, regular type dude, Lecturer at University of North Texas.https://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mvtgajx7r22hMy newest story, "Sous Lumiere Aigre" is available in Podcast form, narrated by Tina Connolly! https://beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-366-sous-lumiere-aigre/19 Sep 2026 00:25 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvtgajx7r22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mvqds5dxbc2zMy newest story is out with BCS, my ninth time in that publication! "Sous Lumiere Aigre" is a dark fairy tale about a grumpy traveling merchant who sells junk and becomes a (*very*) reluctant child guardian [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2026 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvqds5dxbc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mvlocksn6s2iCan we please stop with the cross-section shots of food where the guy in the black gloves squeezes all the fluids out of it? That is never going to be and never has been an appetizing image.15 Sep 2026 22:28 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvlocksn6s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3muxkij3rfc2tAn awesome blurb from literary horror maestro @johnlangan.bsky.social for my forthcoming collection, Noctivagants! https://www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page/noctivagants-nightmares-surrealities?fbclid=IwY2xjawUBG69wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMTI0YUZrbWU0ZklieHBLTGdzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeBZZzJb0TgnuUufzEl-nS9ca9viO6l2oFzqny4qK9u9TWl7MMw3dCJgCV3qQ_aem_EQKZJzPE12DeXrJTtXsIpw07 Sep 2026 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3muxkij3rfc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mupbt6z3ss2yICYMI, this came out a few weeks ago, and is one of the most ambitious works I've yet published. If you're a lover of scifi, gothic fiction, and complicated relationships/power dynamics, this might be a story for you! [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupbt6z3ss2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3muamng233c24Whoa, looks like my second collection, NOCTIVAGANTS is now available for pre-order on Lethe Press's website! Check it out! https://www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page/noctivagants-nightmares-surrealities29 Aug 2026 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3muamng233c24https://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3msvbrpbvzs2jMy gothic romance science fiction/cosmic horror novella, "A Canvas Unending," is out today with Issue 2 of Quest Magazine! Ever wonder what Jane Eyre in space would be like? Now you don't have to wonder! The story also features original art by John Provencher! https://read.quest/content/a-canvas-unending12 Aug 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvbrpbvzs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3msvbrpbvzs2jMy gothic romance science fiction/cosmic horror novella, "A Canvas Unending," is out today with Issue 2 of Quest Magazine! Ever wonder what Jane Eyre in space would be like? Now you don't have to wonder! The story also features original art by John Provencher! https://read.quest/content/a-canvas-unending12 Aug 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvbrpbvzs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mso7fi74mk23I'm always haunted by the father-son dialogue between these two poems by poets James and Franz Wright respectively. How Franz Wright begins his poem with a Franz Wright image but closes with a contamination/homage to his father's imagery.09 Aug 2026 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mso7fi74mk23https://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3ms55hcb3m22aThis is one of the rare poems I've written since moving to Texas, and another of the poems that attempts to capture the feeling of a sleepless night. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Aug 2026 23:33 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms55hcb3m22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mry7wor6zs2hConcept for a historical horror anthology: an anthology where each story furnishes a different supernatural explanation for the mysterious Bronze Age Collapse.01 Aug 2026 00:34 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mry7wor6zs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mruydqywz22eThe real Big Beautiful Bill was the 1908s we made along the way [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jul 2026 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruydqywz22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mqrmvblvns2nMidnight Rooms by @okokno.bsky.social found in the wild, Saratoga Springs, NY16 Jul 2026 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrmvblvns2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mpp23r7z5k2fI sold a novella yesterday! Gothic scifi cosmic horror tale of a human artist's dangerous affair with the alien aristocrat whose child she's tutoring on an estate in the zone of perpetual twilight on a tidally locked moon. Black vegetation-✔️ Body horror-✔️ Unreliable narrator-✔️ Alien art forms-✔️02 Jul 2026 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpp23r7z5k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mpmes4bzms2jMy newest poem about monsters and monstrousness is out today! [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmes4bzms2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mp7celowkk2ySeeing this just makes me mad again that Archive 81 got cancelled https://www.reddit.com/r/zillowgonewild/comments/1ug8c3d/the_house_from_archive_81/26 Jun 2026 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp7celowkk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mp2jzzhxtk2bI sure do love having backyard parrots24 Jun 2026 18:25 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2jzzhxtk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mossfwlync2aI cannot explain to myself why I have such a deep-seated hatred of Marc Cucurella's hair, but any team he's playing for I end up rooting against21 Jun 2026 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mossfwlync2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3moody6iirk2ySomehow, someway, I really want to write a horror story based on the One Electron universe theory19 Jun 2026 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3moody6iirk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mltg2f6q7s23“What do you mean you need to fold these?”14 May 2026 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltg2f6q7s23https://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3mldp7tiuok2bGot to see a painted bunting for the first time after this lil guy hit his head on a window and got stunned08 May 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldp7tiuok2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jduckwriter.bsky.social/post/3ml4uztfiis2oWho pulled off the look better?05 May 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:pnbl545edg2ikpabvxgdnk5j/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4uztfiis2o