Dopabeane

Author, horror aficionado, and indie publisher

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

For those of you who are familiar with my platform on Reddit:

@Reddit banned me (wrongly per the terms of their own TOS) so I'm shifting my long running series, The North American Pantheon, to @substack You can find it here:

https://t.co/U0BWsLddoB

Thanks as always 💖💖💖

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

@Reddit This is a long shot, but your autofilter just permanently suspended my 7-year-old account for "content violations" that were already successfully appealed after a human being checked and agreed they weren't actually violations. Can a human being please take a look again?

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

Don't ignore the shadows here
Nor the small dim stars in the corner
The wet crescent spreading under those pinprick stars, that glistening smile
Don't ignore it
Don't smile back, either
Smiles #exacerbate its savagery
And as you'll soon learn, it is savage enough already
#vss365

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

@TWGrim_Official I'm feeling this so hard right now. But you're the best, so don't you worry <3

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

My imaginary friend was a redhead who lived under my bed. When I moved away, I forgot her...

Until many years later when I saw in the #paper that police had gone to my childhood home where - buried right under my old room - they found a corpse with beautiful copper hair.
#vss365

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

Two men followed me home, their smiles dull as dead crescent moons. I thought it was the end

Then

From the shadows came a behemoth, a horror, a great rotting angel with a mouth of nightmares, and chased them away

He was ugly and unexpected, but a #hero nonetheless

#vss365

[Mr. Michael Squid @mrmichaelsquid]

I'm thrilled to announce The Chrysalis (the first short horror story I've filmed) has won Best Short Horror in the Independent Horror Movie Awards! Took home a few other laurels for Best Special Effects, Best Atmosphere, Most Disturbing, and Best Scare! 🦋
https://t.co/6xYn9JnZFj

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

@nmoorewrites Definitely! It was supposed to be released at the same time, but I'm a dork and somehow published it four days early, so the paperback's going to be a little bit kte. And thank you for the retweet, you're awesome 💛

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

Hey everybody, I know I've been MIA forever, but that's because I was working on this big boy:
https://t.co/ANOLGDPIcS

It's cheap, and it'd mean everything if you peeped it. But even if you don't, I 💚 you and appreciate your tolerance, and I hope you have a lovely week!

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

My father cared for a wild bird.
When he died, it stared at him for hours with eyes like dark stars. Then it #plucked its own tailfeather and placed it in my father's mouth.

The next morning, he was alive.

The bird lay, withered and lifeless, against his cheek.

#vss365

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

I got lost one windy winter night. Layers of soft cold enfolded me. Mist and frozen, drafty wind and curled around me, a cloak of ice and aether that coalesced into a phantom horse that bit me. I ran. It followed.
That mean, misty #draft horse chased me all the way home.

#vss365

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

When I die
I will return to all the places I have lived
To find the souls of all my pets
And carry them to our #eternal home
Where there will be snow and sunshine and trees
And a squashy couch for us to nap together
Where they will know they are loved
And never forgotten

#vss365

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

My house has many creaks and thumps. This is why:
One night, I found my sister limp in the arms of a willowy horror. When it saw me it sank into the floor, taking her with it.
Sometimes I hear creaks and thumps in the walls, followed by her #shriek.
I'm glad it wasn't me.
#vss365

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

An ugly man with a rubbery face lived in the park. We often threw rocks at him.
Until one day he peeled his face off, revealing a tangle of teeth and lion eyes.
I ran, propelled by #horror so powerful it bordered on euphoria.
I do not go to parks anymore.
Or throw rocks.

#vss365

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

@KitTheBadPoet I'd love to look at it! Also, give me a little bit of time and I'll see about finding other potential markets :)

[🏳️‍🌈A D'Amico🏳️‍🌈 @adamicoarts]

#Inktober2019 #horror #dolls

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

My brother died as a child. I remember my grief, how it drowned me.

I remember the night of his funeral, when I woke and saw his moonlit face pressed against my window.

He is not alive, but he laughs and sings and flies each night.

So, #alive or not, he still lives.

#vss365

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

My cellar is a garden of darkness

Of plump moths and shiny roaches

Of sly rats, helpful bats, and shadows that pull my hair

There the king of the cellar presides, twisted and dried, with silver eyes that shine when I come near

That is why I stay out of my #cellar

#vss365

[🏳️‍🌈A D'Amico🏳️‍🌈 @adamicoarts]

#Inktober2019 #horror

[Dopabeane @dopabeane]

They said the treatment would cure my daughter.
It did more. It made her #invincible. Immortal.
And doomed to live forever as a child.
I once feared her death.
I now fear mine, and what will happen to her when I'm gone.
I think it would've been better to let her die.

#vss365