Tim Hoelscher
Horror Writer | Tech: Founder, @gavagai.com | Dog Enthusiast | Cat Aficionado | Goat Manager | Chicken Aggregator | HWA Member | Married | Alpha Gal Positive | he/him/his
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- New story up yesterday on Gavagai!
- In today’s Editor Pick: On the run from a blown con and nursing a shattered tail, a peniless thief hops a train out of Chicago and collides with a stranger whose own escape plan is far more dangerous than his. It’s Rachel Ashcraft’s A Cat of Constant Sorrow. Read it for free at gavagai.com
- Reposted by Tim Hoelscher✨🦌ICYMI🦌✨ New weird deer horror short story was published on @gavagai.com a few days ago! Check it out!! Read "Dear/Deer" here: gavagai.com/posts/965
- In today's Editor Pick: Every morning, a lone deer waits at the window; what begins as a child’s comfort curdles into a lesson about hunger, neglect and the terrible cost of being watched. It's Dear/Deer by Abigail Kemske (@abigailkemske.bsky.social)! Read it for free at gavagai.com/posts/965
- Awww yeah! Awards are in the offing! So much goodness on our first digital anthology! #WritingCommunity #horror #AmWriting #WriterSky
- Come on by and check out the writing community and the stories since we launched last October! We're using Bluesky tech under the hood so Bluesky users can log in seamlessly! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
- We're doing a retrospective of all the stories we've published on Gavagai since the first piece went live on October 28. Join the writing community and have a read at gavagai.com #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting
- Reposted by Tim HoelscherWhat's this? One last short story publication sneaking in before the end of the year? And it's horror you say? 🪳🪳🪳 Find "The Itch of Guilt," out now @gavagai.com www.gavagai.com/posts/602
- Reposted by Tim HoelscherMy debut novel, #PRIMACY, is out now. Empires fall when you push back. “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Wall Street and it gets even crazier from there!” #frankenstein #horrorbooks #fantasyhorror #classicmonsters
- Reposted by Tim HoelscherCongrats to Zack Zagranis, the winner of the Gavagai 1000 microfiction contest (the prompt word was “shatter”). Read it here: www.gavagai.com/g1000/week/3
- We've got a new story up on Gavagai from EJ Delaney, and this week's Gavagai 1000 #microfiction contest wraps up tonight at midnight. Try your hand and see how you do! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
- Gavagai @gavagai.com · 55s In today's Editor Pick: A predator who has fed on fear for centuries encounters something new: a girl who doesn’t see him at all. It's E J Delaney's Fear Itselfie. Read it for free at gavagai.com
- We're excited to release this new feature for writers on the site! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting #WIP
- Morning everyone! Last night under cover of darkness we released our new (beta) Critique Circles feature. It's a way for writers to form private groups to get feedback on their writing. Take a look and tell us what else you'd like to see! gavagai.com #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting #WIP
- New story up on Gavagai today! Check it out! We're also hoping to go live with our Critique Circles feature this weekend (in beta of course!) gavagai.com #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
- In today's Editor Pick: a goblin-touched mother and her children confront a neighborhood witch in this tale of monsters, motherhood, and a dark harvest. It's Rhea Rose's Goblin Harvest. Read it for free at gavagai.com
- In today's Editor Pick, a surgeon’s trembling hands begin as a symptom, and become a sentence: it's Hands by Miles Carnegie. Read it for free at gavagai.com #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
- Currently reading: Black Water — Alberto Manguel #AmReading Rereading this. I picked up a used copy a while back, but I first read it in high school. It was pretty life-changing. I hadn't read anything else like it at the time. Full of brilliant authors.
- The folk horror tree is on display!
- Happy Thanksgiving for those celebrating. Hopefully everyone will be able to get some writing done between "fun" holiday family conversations and food comas! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting
- We're on a publishing hiatus to let the team decompress after a whirlwind first month of Gavagai! We'll return to Editor Pick posts on Saturday. In the meantime, come on over and try your hand at our weekly microfiction contest The Gavagai 1000! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting gavagai.com
- Watching this tonight! Currently watching: Good Boy — 2025 · Movie
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- Reposted by Tim HoelscherNot a Creature was Stirring — by Miles Carnegie The radiator usually clanked at 3:02 AM. It didn't tonight. Joe had bled the lines. He needed absolute silence. He sat in the armchair, the Persian rug beneath him lost under heavy plastic. It extended from the hearth to the sofa. It crinkled slightl…
- Reposted by Tim HoelscherThe Human Cloud — by Miles Carnegie The commercials promised magic. "Ask anything, your AI knows all ." Slick videos showed gleaming data centers, blue light washing over racks of servers, the hum of machines that "learned" like a brain. Reporters swooned, CEOs grinned, and investors lit cigars w…
- Reposted by Tim HoelscherDearly Beloved — by Miles Carnegie Alan's eyes burned from three hours of staring at the numbers. The Copper Pot's overhead was eating them alive, chewing through their wedding fund like a starved animal. He rubbed his face, noting the metallic taste that had been lingering in his mouth all week. "…
- New story up on Gavagai!
- A weekend wedding, a scenic estate, a wife a little too enchanted by the sea. What could possibly go wrong? It's Ayida Shonibar's The Depth Where Light Fades. Read it for free on gavagai.com!
- New story!
- In today's Editor Pick: a possession, an exorcism, and something far more complicated between them. It's Caias Ward's Gutter-Washed Favorites. Read it for free at gavagai.com
- New story up on Gavagai!
- In today's Editor Pick - a grim, riveting tale of stitching, survival, and the monstrous cost of "improvement." It's Liam Hogan's Work in Progress. Read it for free at gavagai.com
- Currently reading: The Radium Girls — Kate Moore #AmReading
- We have a new story up on Gavagai today, perfect to whet your appetite for the weekend: After Party from Diana Olney! gavagai.com
- For today's Editor Pick: Mother’s Little Poppet by KT Wagner—a chilling tale of family, memory and vengeance. We hope you enjoy it! Read it on gavagai.com
- New story from Masimba Musodza up on Gavagai! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
- In today’s Editor Pick: When Euan swears he’s seen an old woman riding a hyena across the Zimbabwean plains, everyone laughs—until the night laughs back. It’s “The Clever Girls” by Masimba Musodza. Read it for free on www.gavagai.com
- New Editor Pick up from Nick Mamatas: Airvalve Semilunar Astern!
- In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!
- New Editor Pick on Gavagai from @amandamblake.bsky.social!
- My most difficult-to-spell story "Chrysalis in Chrysanthemum," a short pregnancy cosmic body horror story, is an Editor's Pick at Gavagai, a new site for horror writers and readers. I have invites if anyone wants any, but here's the link to the story: www.gavagai.com/posts/386
- Another one for today! Come and have a read! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
- For today’s Editor Pick, we jump from the darkly culinary to the deep sea with Fishing by Chris Wilcox: a creeping maritime horror about infection, obsession, and the pull of the sea. Read for free on gavagai.com
- Our Editor Pick for today: Colleen Anderson’s Love Bites. Happy #Halloween!
- For Halloween, treat yourself to Colleen Anderson’s disturbingly toothsome tale of hunger and obsession. Let yourself be consumed by Love Bites. Read it for free at gavagai.com!
- Our Editor Pick today was Susan L. Lin’s Revenge Dress. Amazing writer!
- With today’s Editor Pick we move from the swamp to seamstress with Revenge Dress, a poignant quiet horror tale by Susan J. Lin where existential threads spiral downward to an inevitable end. Read it here for free: www.gavagai.com
- Hey all - I am looking for an artist for mainstream horror illustration work. Maybe some Stephen Gammell-esque stuff, black and white/inky. I’m not sure how to articulate that so any help is appreciated! Oh and open to commissions in the near future. Tysm! #art
- We are open for the first round of submissions for our #horror submission call #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
- I feel like selling an old iPhone on eBay thrusts you into the world of Russian mobsters where the stakes are life and death and survival hangs on the results of an IMEI check.
- Bumpy attacking Weeze’s tail in triptych #Caturday #FatherICraveViolence
- Happy birthday to the sweetest girl in town… LOUISE! AKA “Weeze!” The big 10 today! #DogsOfBlueSky #WritersDogs
- Omg my wife and I were away last night and our house sitter stayed over but Bumpy is so angry with us. He wouldn’t even deign to look at me until I offered him a small turkey peace offering. So temperamental 🙄
- Just under a week to Gavagai’s grand opening and #horror short story submission call. Hop on over to gavagai.com and get an invite homie!
- Just under a week before we start sending out invites and open for our first submission call! Jump over to gavagai.com to request an invite now if you want to submit! While this one is horror in honor of Halloween and our October 13 launch, we’ll be reading subs well into November #WritingCommunity
- Bumpy decided to just go stand in his little travel basket. He’s been doing this a lot. We started taking him for walks when we took Weeze, and I wasn’t sure he liked it. But now I think he’s really starting to dig it. This basket pops right onto the wheeled stroller thing
- Reposted by Tim HoelscherICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.
- Reposted by Tim HoelscherSubmissions open October 13 for #horror! We’re a new paying market for short fiction and a Bluesky-adjacent writing community. Join in the fun! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky
- It’s an acorn year. The barrage of acorns falling on the roof and skylights is like gunfire. It’s every couple of years and I always forget how loud it is
- Did you know that Starburster is the only song that was allowed to be recorded in Ireland for the last two years? It’s Irish law.
- Hey all! Please give my new project a peek. It’s a writer-focused community that leverages the open Bluesky infrastructure to provide a new way for writers to socialize and publish. We’re excited to open later this month and are looking forward to showing what the team and I have been building
- Hey #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting! Gavagai is a new Bluesky-adjacent community specifically for writers! We're using an invite code system for new accounts. If you're interested, give us a follow and visit gavagai.com and click the link to request an invite! Doors open October 13!
- Wistful autumn Weeze #DogsOfBluesky
- When I was a kid I had… not quite an imaginary friend, but like an imaginary cool kid I knew named “Boy Hoshens.” Every time I watch Alien: Earth I think of that when I hear “Boy Kavalier.”
- Man has anybody gotten oauth stuff working with Bluesky? It’s a bear. What a rat’s nest of requests and tokens 😞
- I got a shit ton done today. We are prepping for my wife's shoulder surgery later this week and getting the house one-hand friendly. It was also Litter Box Day and I attended the 3PM First Clumping of the Clay. Very moving.
- Been quiet and busy with myriad projects and feeling the weight of everything. But there's been a lot good happening personally and I'm starting to emerge from my self-imposed isolation. Hope everyone is doing well!
