B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz

October is OCD Awareness Month For my latest Pittsburgh City Paper article, I got to boost the work that The Center for OCD and Anxiety is doing to help raise awareness (and also share a little glimpse of my own personal experience as someone who has obsessive compulsive disorder)

What's the worst that can happen? [clears throat & unfurls list]

I've put next year's call for talks up on UPenn... go and check it out! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/109315

I have $22 until next payday (and let's be honest, that's rent), and would really appreciate anyone letting me draw pictures for them.

Thanks so much! You can download graphics here or order your own posters, stickers, and preorder sweatshirts & t-shirts! alternatehistories.com/collections/...

Please submit to my next anthology! #subcall #horror #LGBTQ #cosmichorror #cthulhu Queering Cthulhu obsidianbutterfly.com/qrcthsub.html #horrorwriterschat

Hey friends, throw some hands! It's only one but I feel it does make it count 😁

‘See’st thou yon gray gleaming hall, Where the deep elm-shadows fall? Voices that have left the earth Long ago, Still are murmuring round its hearth, Soft and low’ ~ The Haunted House, Felicia Dorothea Hemans and @racheldeering.bsky.social supernaturally here for this very uncanny #BookWormSat

One of my illustrations for the work of Lord Dunsany. This tale, called Bethmoora. I am VERT excited to say, it is released with PS publishing and the trade paperback has worldwide distribution so, wherever you are, you can have. pspublishing.co.uk/the-kith-of-...

Om jameel:her health is deteriorating.Despite suffering from a heart valve condition,she has suffered uterine& tore wall hemorrhaging&urgently gather $200 surgery to stop the bleeding Her situation is dangerous Stop her tears kids by donating &returns to her kids embrace😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...

In Gaza,I’m utterly defeated. My child lost one eye,and the last is dying.I have nothing left no options,no power,only tears.I beg you on my knees,have mercy on a helpless parent. Please save his only remaining sight before total darkness falls! Verified by:molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/196611

I beg you to hear our cry for help. I am exhausted; I lost my husband and everything else. I am now homeless with my young daughter, suffering from severe malnutrition, and I have an injury to my leg. Plz,help us by providing a tent and food for my daughter😭🙏 Molly Shah ✅ chuffed.org/project/1730...

Is screaming in Norwegian required? Do I need to start studying Norwegian?

I'm in this bundle. Never been in a bundle before. If you find me kind of annoying and don't want to give me a direct sale, but are compelled by the siren song of everyone saying Minty Fresh is really good, you can always buy this bundle and support other authors as well. ✨️

“The Skeleton Dance endures not because it was forward-thinking (even though it was) but because it reaches back into the past—many centuries further than 1929—to the Medieval tradition of the danse macabre.” The Skeleton Dance — How Disney’s 1929 Short Became a Masterpiece of the Macabre:

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life

Couldn't stop thinking about pathetic spider donut so I decided to draw him

Today is my birthday and I'd love if people would share my artwork 🥰🖤

Happy National Apple Day! Speaking of apples, the most brutal Irish curse I’ve ever come across is go ndéana an diabhal dréimire de chnámh do dhroma is é ag piocadh úll i ngairdín Ifrinn. It means “may the Devil make a ladder of your backbone while he picks apples in the garden of Hell.”

Greeks: sculpture is about the ideal body, perfect proportions, beauty through which we can experience th— Etruscans, over in the corner:

Have you heard about the BIG GAY VAMPIRE BUNDLE? 22 LGBTQIA+ vampire books & stories by incredible authors like @ladzwriting.bsky.social and @bookspotlight.bsky.social (and myself of course) for just $23 - that's just over a buck a book! Grab yours today itch.io/b/3951/big-g...

Call me the yinzerbread witch 🥁

Call me the yinzerbread witch 🥁

#31DaysOfGraves Day 17: Music This gravestone for Silva Gardner was purchased by her father, Newport Gardner (born Occramer Marycoo). He was kidnapped in Africa at age 14, enslaved, and—after winning a lottery that allowed him to buy freedom for his family—owned a music school in Newport, RI.

I do wish my life were more like a fairytale. Just me and 23 of my closest friends, baked in a pie, waiting to do a jump scare on some king.

I'd have every data center shut down immediately for a single bag of Doritos.

After sixteen years together, this week I had to say goodbye to my Chicory. I'm going to miss her something awful.

I loved today's #AScareADay story. We read Violent Hunt's 'The Prayer'. What if your prayer was answered and your just dead husband came back? There are no revenants here in the traditional sense but plenty of creeping discomfort and dread. Well worth a read!

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

BABY ANCIENT HORSE JUST DROPPED

Instead of focusing on something stupid like what AI boosters say when they try to sell you snake-oil shit, why not buy my new short story collection of older horror and crime stories, some of which no one has ever seen? It's available on Itch -

#OCDAwarenessWeek boost for this article spotlighting The Center for OCD and Anxiety, written by me, your friendly, neighborhood, freelancer with OCD