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Recall is linked to your sense of smell, and even repressed memories can be awakened with the right odor. For me, paper and ink, the #vellichor of an old library, summons faint recollections of chanting voices that make the 666 branded into my left wrist itch and burn. #vss365

Welp, one more month in the #submission trenches has come and gone. April was a bit better than March, but there is definitely room for improvement. Rejections, acceptances, and writerly whinging within. Check it out. #writingcommunity #amwriting rejectomancy.com/2025/05/05/sub…

There’s no funerals in the bunker, but folks used to pick a song that’d play over the PA after their body was recycled. Like an #elegy or something. The administrator ended the practice when people kept choosing The Smiths' “Meat is Murder”. No sense of humor, that guy. #vss365

As a collector of forbidden lore, I’ve got a side gig selling #tracings from the Necronomicon and other dire tomes. Tracings are inert, but the thought of all the wannabe wizards out there trying to summon elder gods with what amounts to refrigerator art gives me a giggle.#vss365

What appeared to be another organ trafficking ring was something far stranger. We’d find people in seedy hotels, incisions expertly #sutured, but no organs were removed. There was always money, too, sometimes millions, and each victim bore a new tattoo—a five-pointed star.#vss365

Unnatural #Pallor is line of cosmetics aimed at the dead—vampires, zombies, and revenants—to help them blend in to living society. Products like Barely Breathing foundations and the numerous shades Kiss N’ Kill lipstick have proven immensely popular with the unliving. #vss365

He was a purveyor of keloid kindness. An adept at back-handed compliments and manipulations shrouded in best intentions. Those around him slowly diminished, smiling through their #scars, dying planets drifting further and further from the sun of his poisonous affection. #vss365

Had a problem with leprechauns and sprites getting into my trash. The little fuckers are worse than racoons. So I #dissolved an iron supplement in a mug of beer and left it out. Cleaning up the little, poison-bloated corpses was gross, but my trash cans remain unmolested. #vss365

Today on the blog, we're talking about the big milestone I recently hit - 900 submissions. We'll take a look at how the last 100 subs have gone and what the future may hold. (1000 subs?) Check it out. #writingcommunity #amwriting rejectomancy.com/2025/05/12/900…

Working as a pharmacist in Salem, you get used to certain idiosyncrasies of prescribing physicians and their patients. Today, someone brought me a “prescription” written on a scrap of parchment that just read one #soporific draught. Turns out that’s just Tylenol PM. #vss365

Some medical conditions offer partial #immunity to the Z-virus. For example, people with bacterial meningitis still turn when bitten, but retain their intellect and emotions. They’re still trapped in a rotting corpse that hungers for flesh; they’re just fully aware of it. #vss365

These young hitters have grown up on John Wick and The #Matrix. They think killing is cinematic, artistic. Foolish notions dispelled by that first mark begging for his life, by the stink of blood and gun smoke that lingers on your skin no matter how many showers you take. #vss365

There’s a vast, empty region of space beyond Arcturus that deep haul traders call the Trench. Most avoid it, but some report seeing a bright light gleaming in that endless void. Those that follow it disappear, like hapless minnows drawn to the hungry lure of #anglerfish. #vss365

When a mark knows you’re coming, they usually just load up on guns, with no thought given to #defense. The smarter ones, though, might wear a bullet-proof vest. A half-measure at best, because only cops and soldiers aim for center mass. Hitmen shoot for knees and heads. #vss365

While researching human pain response, I have documented nine distinct sounds that comprise an escalating scale of suffering. The responses on the lower end tend to be more nuanced, however. The #whimper, for example, is an expression of pain, fear, and grief. Fascinating.#vss365

In centuries past, the #selkies gathered off the shores near Donegal to sing. Their haunting voices were a lullaby, a slow, steady dirge that soothed a great darkness within the black ocean depths. Now the selkies are gone, their voices silent, and the sleeper stirs. #vss365

When we emerged into what was left of the world, the fate of those who did not go below was apparent in the remains we found. Intact skeletons laid out in orderly repose implied a peaceful death, while piles of bones cracked for their #marrow spoke of a more savage fate. #vss365

Hunting guides in Alaska are always arguing about which caliber of handgun or rifle to carry for bear defense. Who cares? What I want to know is if you’ve got your #narwhal horn lance for those black new moon nights when the were-orcas come calling. #vss365

When our survey ship reached the Konrad System, we expected exoplanets. Instead, we found once-abundant worlds stripped bare. Dr. Ndama put words to our horror. He said it reminded him of how #predators would leave the remains of their kills rotting in the Serengeti sun. #vss365

Seismic activity opened a new trench in the Atlantic. We sent ROVs down and found the huge tear in the seabed aswarm with life of a very specific type. Squid, octopi, #nudibranchs, and other squirming, tentacled things gathered by the millions, as if waiting for something.#vss365