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✒️ Gazing deep into this world was like seeing the innards of a living thing, like peeling back warm flesh to reveal the #graceful dance of muscle against muscle. Watching the slithering things glinting beneath a black pool of their own blood, one could almost hear the beat they moved to. · Inktober 17th · Art by @monstark Story by @matthewjocasio · #inktober2017 #inktober #instaprose #instafic #microfiction #horror #writersofinstagram #writer #sequentialart #story #art #ink #illustration

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✒️ Those who’d been denied their desires grew #fat from the abundance of their oleaginous kingdom, where every living thing bled together in a most intimate and grotesque fashion. · Inktober 16th · Art by @monstark Story by @matthewjocasio · #inktober2017 #inktober #instaprose #instafic #microfiction #horror #writersofinstagram #writer #sequentialart #story #art #ink #illustration

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✒️ How #mysterious it is to still be standing after the sky has fallen. To be reduced to fragile seekers traversing the fresh wilds of twisted familiarity. Searching for anything that remains while blinded by corruption and deafened by echos. · Inktober 15th · Art by @monstark Story by @matthewjocasio · @matthewjocasio This is going to get fun and weird as we morph into this month’s monstrosities. We’re going to try and hold tight to one a day now that the dust has settled on both our lives. I’m done moving (again!), Mark’s done tabling at conventions, and we’re both ready to get messy. · #inktober2017 #inktober #instaprose #instafic #microfiction #horror #writersofinstagram #writer #sequentialart #story #art #ink #illustration

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~ Some were determined to save those they’d lost, others only themselves. It was a very human response to be so tenacious, so #fierce when descending the abyss. · Inktober 14th · Art by @monstark Story by @matthewjocasio · Hey gang, so Mark had a convention last weekend that sapped his time, then Matt got caught up in moving to a new home! Pardon the delays in the story. We will be finishing out the series despite the dark days of Inktober being past us, because like any human, we are nothing if not tenacious. · #inktober2017 #inktober #instaprose #instafic #microfiction #ink #illustration #horror #belatedupdates

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~ The swelling call of the void grows irresistible to those who had but a taste. Imbued with a yearning for the bleak tranquility of the black world, they #run to it. · Inktober XXX · Art by @monstark Story by @matthewjocasio · #inktober2017 #inktober #instaprose #instafic #microfiction #ink #illustration #horror

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~ Being reborn together brought an evening between all creatures. In the gurgling #shriek that echos from their warped maws, a common refrain is heard like the immutable call of death. · Inktober 9th · Art by @monstark Story by @matthewjocasio · #inktober2017 #inktober #instaprose #instafic #microfiction #ink #illustration #horror

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~ The new world that the jetfall created was a #crooked rendition of what once was. Every living thing soaked in the relentless black, becoming more rich, more full…pulsing and dripping with something like life. Succulent grasses writhe underfoot while trees swell along gnarled branches, drinking deep from the rivers of soot that snake across once-barren plains like an infection traveling through poisoned veins. · Inktober 8th · Art by @monstark Story by @matthewjocasio · #inktober2017 #inktober #instaprose #instafic #microfiction #ink #illustration #horror

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~ It divided us. Some danced beneath, embracing the deluge as a Stygian blessing from the heavens. Most of us ran for cover. • Inktober 2nd • Inks by @Monstark Words by @matthewjocasio #inktober2017 #inktober

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‪Turn swift did the sky‬ ‪Drops of pitch from clouds of soot‬ ‪Blackened everything‬ Inktober 1st ‪Words @matthewjocasio Inks @Monstark ‬ ‪#inktober2017 #inktober #haiku‬ The beginning of a beastly Inktober collaboration between myself and Monstark. Following the official prompts, we’re weaving a story of horror and madness in celebration of this blackest month.

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Quick Redesign

Hello, whoever might be seeing this from ECCC. I’m redesigning my brand-spanking new site and until it is done, we’re back here at my forgotten Tumblr. See my older stuff at the site for my now-defunct penname, Jack Bracken Send me an email at matthew.ocasio@gmail.com Things coming up with my new site include:

A couple webcomics

52 Ways to Write a Story

#wightforhire

All my minis and shorts free to read

All the behind-the-scenes material on my upcoming projects

More love

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Another haiku bookmark from my trip back in/to Time Warp. @popgunwar

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Another haiku bookmark done at Time Warp, though with a much more nebulous prompt. #wightforhire (at Time Warp Comics)

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I was doing free haiku bookmarks for people at Farel Dalrymple's signing at my old stomping ground, Time Warp Comics in Boulder, CO. popgunwar