Carrie-Edmund Laben

What if the world was on fire? What if a tiny group of queers, burnouts, and witches were fighting an oppressive government and an evil scientist from South Africa? What if family was way more complicated than most people think? It's not the news, it's my new novel: wordhorde.com/product/ss-b...

Beloved friends! (And foes, and that one guy who's just kinda always around!) Today is the day! Today you can buy SMOKE SEASON as an audiobook, narrated by the mellifluous Mark Sanderlin. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Smoke-...

There are few joys like opening up a micropress book of local ghost stories and discovering that it's not just rehashed versions of the common urban legends but a genuinely bananas collection of body-snatching incidents, the mysterious deaths of carnies, and the like.

Wanting to ban trans women from sports is, even once you root out the biological ignorance on the effects of HRT, about punishing women for being too good at things.

Lets get it started

I know a lot of good kids and "creative, empathetic, loves animals" while all extremely positive qualities are also like, the most generic good-kid qualities? There's nothing personal in that at all.

Left Behind and Truth's Decline: How We Came to Live in Tim LaHaye’s World by @workerslit.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/left-behind-...

Posting the ProPublica link instead of the "snitch cop has a sad" NYT framing because this whole thing is an even wilder ride than it looks on the surface.

Ethics and morals aside I feel like dating someone you know you can easily fool would just be... unbearably boring. And lonely.

nooo no it doesn't nothing compares honestly #HorrorWatch

Damn, yeah, that final sequence doesn't get less haunting... #horrorwatch

I am revising my estimation of seeing this cold from "amazing" to "how did anyone survive the experience?" #horrorwatch

Wait, what about someone who was killed *by* brain damage, like Johnny? #horrorwatch

This scene is weirdly... subtle... for what it is, which is a wild sentence to type... #horrorwatch

Wait, does a single named character in this movie *not* die because of the bad decisions of a woman? Damn, movie. #horrorwatch

Being one of those extras must have been intense. #horrorwatch

You'd think they could've drawn one woman who deals with trauma by *over*functioning out of the lot... #horrorwatch

This interview sequence is phenomenal. I can't think of a popular horror movie with more unconventional but effective pacing. #horrorwatch

Smoking right over your sick daughter's bed... #horrorwatch peak 60s parenting!

This is a LOT of philosophical discussion for the circumstances. #horrorwatch

What's the point of arguing for a back door if you already know you're surrounded? #horrorwatch

Barbara, I know the answer is 'trauma' but WHAT IS YOUR DEAL?! #horrorwatch

God could you imagine how electric this movie was the first time it aired? There was literally nothing like it. Not even at the start. #HorrorWatch

But sincerely: this lighting. #horrorwatch

I thought 1960s cars had a little more steel to 'em. Huh. #horrorwatch

Most vindicated obnoxious nerd in horror movie history. #horrorwatch #ripjohnny

He's still right, Barbara, you're under a damn tree. #horrorwatch

Honestly Johnny is right tho. That's why we have global warming and lead-poisoned governance now. To say nothing of zombies. #horrorwatch

This opening shot is really giving my hometown, if you're wondering how I caught the horror bug in the first place. #horrorwatch

Just hit go on a rightfully classic #horrorwatch

My sister-in-law got this great photo of my signing at @eveninghouse.bsky.social last night.

My entire book tour is a balance of explaining why Montana, despite everything, has "a better world is possible" baked in, while trying not to accidentally encourage gentrification of a whole-ass state.

When I grew up you only got hassled at the Canadian border if you were brown or looked a little too poor, like any other place you encounter a regular cop.

I finished reading Smoke Season at midnight and it was beautiful and strange and familiar and joyful and I’m so glad @carrielaben.com wrote it and @fionamaevegeist.bsky.social bought me a copy

Flat Armb. My favorite subway station.

Thank you to @carrielaben.com for writing a lovely, strange novel in SMOKE SEASON, using Weird’s reality-shifting nature to explore new possibilities of loving and being, and for joining us tonight in the shop ❤️🖤 Got some signed copies in stock for readers who enjoy queer, antifascist imagination!

Huge shout-out to @eveninghouse.bsky.social and @johnchrostek.com for any amazing event, and thanks so much @holir.bsky.social for making the connection. Love the space, love the energy.