H.M. Joinville

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Writer of horror & poetry, MLIS, history blogger, and recovering Midwesterner..ope #amquerying Words in Bookends Review, Athena Review & the upcoming WriteHive anthology "Surviving Humanity" out 2026. https://www.readex.com/blog

Photos are a flashlight on the ground, an abandoned mansion in the woods, a tent in the woods, a rocking chair in an attic, and a brick lined underground tunnel.
Red background with a black devil like creature, the krampus with his tongue out, licking the air. The creator is shoving a distraught young boy into a basket while a placid faced girl gathers apples into a basket nearby.
Spotify cover of the book
Three people on an ancient stairway, a woman and two men. The woman is higher up staring down at them with a look of indifference. The caption is of them addressing her as "Woman, demon, countess, or whatever the hell you are..."
Golden book cover with a little blonde girl in a blue dress is sitting on a rainbow rug and playing yarn with a white kitten. She says "Everyday is a fresh new horror."
Bloody typewriter with quote by Halsey "And I've grown familiar With villains that live in my head They beg me to write them So I'll never die when I'm dead"
T swift and Kelce embracing. T swift has "Everyone" labelled on her and Kelce has "Trump's eventual obituary" on him.
Black and white antique looking drawing of immigrants on the deck of an ocean liner looking towards the statue of Liberty. She is tired looking and behind her is flames. Ships in the harbor are also on fire.
The Cracker Barrel logo but the man is holding a file that says "Client List" and winking at the viewer
A mug filled with a chai latte sits on a cozy blanket in front of a roaring fire
"My space obsessed 2 year old just got this book today and has spent the better part of the day running around saying"Icy Uranus" and I am just trying to hold it together.' An image of a child's book that reads "Icy Uranus seems really quite shy. it looks a bit weird spinning on one side."
Top image an illustration of slaves crammed into a slave ship. Bottom image shirtless men crammed together with their hands atop their head sitting on the floor. They are the men that Trump deported to an El Salvador prison without due process. In the middle reads "160 years and we haven't learned a god damned thing."
Yeah, fair enough. It’s like he thinks tariffs are some genius business move instead of a tax on Americans that often backfires. But hey, economic literacy has never been his strong suit.
Picture of Katharine Lee Bates
His aim isn't to cut off Medicaid and Meals on Wheels and school lunches. That's not what he's doing. He's committing acts so horrible that they force state attorney generals, judges, and other organizations to block his orders in the courts. Once they do that, he can appeal and appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court. He's forcing the court to make decisions on these matters knowing they will vote in his favor and further define the powers of the presidency. He's doing this to consolidate more power so he can rule without limits.
Two images. Left is Blade from The Puppet Master. The second is Melania Trump. Both wear dark outfits and wide brimmed hats.
TV with a black screen that reads "Something went wrong. Please try again later. For more help, go to amazon.com"
The silhouette of a girl standing in front of a giant flaming dumpster with 2025 spray painted on the side of it.
Leather bound signed limited edition of Wicked by Gregory McGuire
The past is a foreign land, with travel guides read by none. The pictures are enough to know we all had way more fun. Its capital city: Yesterday. The GDP: Rose-tinted lenses. Its population grows, as nostalgia clouds our senses. It has one shady neighborhood. We dare not speak its name. It's filled with all the things we hide that fill us all with shame. For there we keep our slavery, our genocides, our wars. Our oppression lives on that block, our blame, a rocky shore. We built a wall around it and locked the final gate. We made a welcome sign that reads, "Wasn't America great?" H.M. Joinville
I'm well acquainted with villains that live in my head They beg me to write them so they'll never die when I'm dead. Halsey
“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.” - Sylvia Plath
Old VHS tapes
Pitch Eddy, a struggling journalist with a failing marriage, inherits her estranged grandmother’s decaying estate in a remote Kansas town. Hoping for a fresh start, she instead uncovers the town’s dark past—disappearances, twisted rituals, and a sinister church preparing for the mysterious “Harvest.” As Eddy unravels the truth behind her family’s tragic history, she must confront horrors both human and otherworldly, in order to save her sanity, her life, and the entire human race.
I do not wish for a man to look at me like I hung the stars. I want him to think I set them on fire.
Jason from Friday the 13th in a flannel shirt standing in front of a Christmas tree and wearing a birthday party hat.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing—the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars. Blake Crouch, Dark Matter
The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood
You listened for 20,647 minutes this year
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Critters. Furry, black, creature withe talon fingers and a mouth full of sharp teeth.
A head full of ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Headline: James Van Der Beek selling 'Varsity Blues' jersey to help pay for cancer treatment costs.
Cover of Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear
Fearless series book 1 by Francine Pascal
S. By J.J. Abrams
Calling this book Anti-Christian is like saying the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is Anti- Single white guy living in Texas who has an overly attached relationship with his family. I mean it's in there, sure, but if that is what you walked away with we are not watching the same movie. This book is about someone who uses a town's faith, struggles, and his position of power to manipulate them. It's about weaponizing faith. Not every character who is Christian in this book, particularly the mother, are bad people. Even at their worst selves, there is a level of pity for them because you know that they are pawns. I won't go into any more detail but I had to correct previous comments that this book is somehow "Anti-Christian." This is such a good book. I couldn't put it down. It reflects a lot of what is going on in society today and it would be a shame to miss all of that because you wrote it off as anti-christian.
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage!”
The book The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
A mouse reading a book, by a fire, in a chair. There is a table with tea and cheese beside him.
Vance Joy dream your life away
Cover of the book Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan