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RJ Aurand

@rjaurand.bsky.social

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Appalachian writer & poet | small press editor | Le Fanu studies | weird horror

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Words in Otherside, Apex, Orion's Belt, Podcastle, Uncharted, Small Wonders, The Deadlands, & more!

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http://ko-fi.com/rjaurand

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@rjaurand.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:36 PM

Me remembering when both of you were independently in my DMs saying you liked each other lmao

@slimyswampghost.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 4:16 AMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

until the end of the world

clouds in a blue sky that look like a gigantic humanoid figure
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@lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 11:45 AMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

@vandroidhelsing.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 11:05 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

sorry but the ghost story you wrote is too sad. what if it was about an alive person instead :) and the importance of family :D

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@nellucnhoj.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 7:22 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

A reminder for those at the back.

A redraw of the i nice panel from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, where Batman snaps a rifle in two over his knee.

He says "THIS is the weaponnof the enemy. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it."

I've replace the rifle with a plank of wood labelled "AI Slop"
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@othersidespec.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:00 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! The perfect addition to your fall reading list, @rjaurand.bsky.social's “This Is Not a Place of Honor” combines vampires, vikings, and nuclear semiotics. Oh, and desperate sapphic yearning for a woman who died a thousand years ago.

🩸 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/this-...

Blurry orange and red background. White text reads:

This Is Not a Place of Honor by RJ Aurand

Like a thousand tourists before you, you lay your head on her breast, using your scarf to protect your skin from freezing to her silvered armor, communing with the drumming of her immortal heart. Is she aware of the passage of time? Would waking, for her, be like surfacing from a long, deep dream?

You’ve lingered too long.
@elijah.mea.rsOct 12, 2026, 3:05 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

I promise you that this story would blow your tits clean off, if only they hadn't been turned to stone

@dezi.questOct 11, 2026, 10:32 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

this is a 10/10 character sheet holy shit

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@doriandawes.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:45 AMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

Can't stop thinking about the people who want horror to be hopeful and uplifting and why that is so diametrically opposed to what horror is and why we need horror

@ecatherine.comOct 11, 2026, 4:07 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

We are $600 away from halfway there. If you can share, thank you. I got moved to rehab four days ago, and I'm learning to walk again. 🖤

@dollcinder.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:35 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

I don’t want everything tailored to my interests I want stuff made by perverts and sickos that makes me think about stuff differently

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@heartlines-spec.comOct 10, 2026, 2:11 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

We have RE-OPENED for short story and poetry submissions from Canadian/Turtle Island writers 🍁🍁🍁

Our extended period will be open until October 18th. We'd love to see:
❣obvious Sci-Fi or Fantasy elements
❣ relationships shown on-the-page

heartlinesspec.moksha.io/publication/...

@zeburnay.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:25 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

Augur of Emptiness, From the Book of Augurs. Soft cover edition available at the shop(s)

An augur of emptiness
@rjaurand.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:00 PM

I believe in u

@discoelysiumbot.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:00 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

@rjaurand.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 5:23 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

"Daisy Farrow, one day dead, emerged from her coffin in the form of a swan as it was being lowered..."

My story in Tales & Feathers Vol 4 is finally free to read! If you're looking to kill 5 minutes, why not catch up on this week's unbituaries from a ttrpg town?

augursociety.org/duskhollow-t...

@featherfangart.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:56 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

The Shadow Prince

My piece for one of this year's #drawtober topics. Wanted to follow up on the rider from the last year. 💕
#originalart

portrait like illustration of a living armor/knight with a void/shadows flowing out of his helmet. The knight has his hands resting on the pommel of a giant longsword. He is partly overgrown by ivy leaves. His eyes are like two moons
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@brandon.gvg.ioOct 5, 2026, 6:32 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

Remember when King Neptune AI slopped his hundreds of awful burgers in seconds and SpongeBob painstakingly made one delicious burger by hand

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@rjaurand.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:15 PMReposted by @rjaurand.bsky.social

"To the Android I Saw Get Pushed onto the Tracks at the Archives Metro Station" is FREE TO READ today in Orion's Belt! This story made my critique partners lose their collective shit, and it will make you lose yours too!

@rjaurand.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 1:00 AM

Thank you so much!

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