Sam Peil 🧟😈🤡

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writer. teacher. mother. #amquerying zombies #amwriting horroromance 😈 🌊 ♾️ she/her/hers. #landback #blacklivesmatter #freepalestine

One Night at the Bottom of the Lake
@sampeil

Fire water overlay on a collage of photos: man in front of lake with axe, blonde woman’s hair, campfire, kayak on water, blacksmith and tools, lake, forge

Text at top: Accidentally waking your great-great grandfather at the bottom of the lake.

Text: Expectation (image-blacksmith working in smithy)

Text: Reality (image-demon in front of water holding balloons)

Unhinged comments from my CP and me

They say blood is thicker than water, but my family was built at the bottom of a lake.
@sampeil

4 by 3 film stripesque grid of grainy photos. Top to bottom, left to right: gates casting a shadow. night view of a building with light on, trees in shadow; dirt hole with cones; skinny view of grass; close view of rock with sky in background; porceline doll cylindrical glass case with fern on top, night view of trees lit from bottom with sky looking blue, skinny view of dry creek bottom with red dusty rocks; hydroplant building with water rushing in front of building, ceiling with metal fish hanging from it, right turn arrow behind a chainlink fence, trees and steep hill in background, skinny view of a large stone and concrete circle bordering a firepit.

He waits until I’ve had one sip before he starts grilling me. “Why’d you bail off your kayak?” He’s still wearing his wet suit, which makes him look like Batman with a dad bod—muscular with a bit of a belly.
“Are you trying to be the park ranger version of Bru—” Stalling, I let the steam warm my face before I take a sip. If I remembered how words work, I’d change the subject.
He smiles at me with dimples that I can still make out even through his salt-and-pepper facial hair. “The park ranger what now?”
“I don’t remember.”
“Come on. I pulled you out of the water, you can say it.”
“You look like Batman. In your wetsuit…or drysuit.” Is it the cold water or the grief that broke my filter? Christ, I almost said he could still get it. “Nevermind.”
There’s a glint in his hazel eyes like he knows it was so much worse in my head.

Fire and Water overlay

Text: They say blood is thicker than water, but my family was built at the bottom of a lake.
@sampeil

Computer screen with a word document showing the outline view of All Levels. Various note cards in front of the screen showing one side with time stamps and setting details for each chapter and the other side with internal and external stakes for each chapter.

Devil masked person holding balloons in front of a lake text: HANGRY, HORNY, & POSSIBLY POSSESSED
HE'S SO
OBNOXIOUS.
, LOVE HIM. ع
WILLIAM, YOU LITTLE SHIT.
SINGLE MOM
DEMON
BLACKSMITH
BATDAD.
BOD DIVORCE
LONG LOST
LOVE
ONe NIGHT
AT THe
BOTTOM OF
THe LAKe
WRITTEN BY SAMI PEIL
COMING SOON TO THE QUERY TRENCHES

Milky Way sky reflection on a lake

Text: INSPIRED BY A REAL DROWNED TOWN
I BEG YOUR FINEST
PARDON"
"THE GRIEF AND LOVE AND FEAR AND TENSION ARE
ALL SO
PALPABLE!!
"OK WELL..
YOU ALREADY BROKE ME"
ONE NIGHT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE
by Sami Peil
Kay just wants to get the hell off of this drowned town.

Red background with blood splatter dentist crossi bf his arms. Torn part over his face with zombie eyes

HORROR
SHEADSHOTS
HOOKUPS
DON'T NAME THE DEAD
by Sami Peil
The dentist will eat you now.

Pen doodles of stick figures, boat, cough, cabin with zz, circle with flames, Marshy dog

Two people with longish hair standing on a rocky shore with a castle in the background and a blue and pink galaxy with 3 celestial bodies in the sky.

Text: LOVE
GALAXY
HERE FOR THE RIGHT TREASONS...
SIERRA BRANHAM

Watercolor painting of a lake at sunset. Black silhouette of a young tree. Pink sky reflected in the water.

Red light and coffee

Photo if a lake at sunset. Silhouette of tree. Pink sky and reflection on lake.

Not pictured, the drowned town under the lake

Text at top: Accidentally waking your great-great grandfather at the bottom of the lake.

Text: Expectation (image-blacksmith working in smithy)

Text: Reality (image-demon in front of water holding balloons)

William asks, “Kay? Would you be a real dear and fetch me a drink. Something sweet, please.”
I’m both offended and relieved. I’m not in the practice of serving men at their command, but I could use a fucking second. I’d rather not leave Lincoln out here alone. He nods to me, though, like he sees the rollercoaster of possibilities rushing through my mind.
“There’s Dr. Pepper in the cooler in the back of the truck,” Lincoln says.
“Doctor Pepper? I must meet this man.” William points at my arm. “He won’t help much with that I’m afraid.”

Things That Are Worse Than the Word Fuck (or, So I Hear You Don't Like the Eff Word) by Sami Peil
Well, guess what I don't like?
I don't like funding wars that blow up babies and starve children and spread disease so a bunch of rich assholes can make their billions and hide from the island files.
I don't like listening to you bitch about your expensive boat fuel because across the globe, people are burning and at home rape victims are ignored
and maybe the word fuck
should be the least of your worries when talking heads are justifying
the slaughter of students because those girls are future mothers
of future enemies and by enemies, I mean people you
will condone bombing because 'they hate us'].

Balloon with a face drawn on it in red light, casting a shadow on the floor

Accidentally waking your great-great grandfather at the bottom of the lake.
Expectation blacksmith working
Reality demon holding black balloons in front of a bid of water

Back of a head on colorful background book cover says:
FEED
M.T. ANDERSON
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR

No Take Backs
by Sami Peil

Someone once told me
I’d end up alone on an island.

Not only alone.
But on an island.
In this economy?

Fuck that.

I wouldn’t be alone, I said.
I’d have plenty of people with me;
it just wouldn’t be
you.

Besides, I’m too much for one island
and too scared to tolerate waves
crashing my shores from every direction
and I can’t stand coconut and
I require an entire vat of SPF for one
day in the sun.
I’ll stay landlocked
thank you very much.

I hear Elon has a new rocket, though,
if you’re interested.

They Say Blood by Sami Peil
is thicker than water,
but when your family was built at the bottom of a lake-walked out of a stone hearth through flames, flooded
branches burned yet water logged-
then blood is just water.
When your dad was terrified
of mice because one time his brothers tied him to a tree and let tiny clawed paws run over his body,
and then years later when you're floor camping on shag carpet littered with ash and wood shavings from logs thrown in the stone fireplace,

Orange glow of a forge with water overlay. Text says: They say blood is thicker than water, but my family was built at the bottom of a lake.
@sampeil

Orange glow of a forge with water overlay. Text says: They say blood is thicker than water, but my family was built at the bottom of a lake.
@sampeil

Collage of photos upper left clockwise : silhouette holding an axe in front of a lake, woman with short blonde hair, man at campfire, river, antique box, blacksmith, kayak at sunset, in center graphics anvil? Knife? H ch and

Background is flame and foreground is water overlay that is transparent

Collage of photos upper left clockwise : silhouette holding an axe in front of a lake, woman with short blonde hair, man at campfire, river, antique box, blacksmith, kayak at sunset, in center graphics anvil? Knife? H ch and

Background is flame and foreground is water overlay that is transparent

Text at top: Accidentally waking your great-great grandfather at the bottom of the lake.

Text: Expectation (image-blacksmith working in smithy)

Text: Reality (image-demon in front of water holding balloons)

Text at top: Accidentally waking your great-great grandfather at the bottom of the lake.

Text: Expectation (image-blacksmith working in smithy)

Text: Reality (image-demon in front of water holding balloons)

Text at top: Accidentally waking your great-great grandfather at the bottom of the lake.

Text: Expectation (image-blacksmith working in smithy)

Text: Reality (image-demon in front of water holding balloons)

HORROR
HEADSHOTS
HOOKUPS
THE DENTIST WILL EAT YOU NOW
by Sami Peil
Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a bi love trangle take on the end of the world in the Black Hills. They all want each other but not in the some way.
Red background with blood splatter, dentist with arms crossed and ripped photos of zombie face parts

21 Years Around the Sun:
New Year, New Me
Not like that?

4 images: top left disco balls, right is a woman holding a birthday cake, bottom left is a woman in an orange jumpsuit behind bars, right are bloody zombies

When a perimenopausal woman and her ex-crush accidentally wake the demon locked at the bottom of a lake, they must find a way to eliminate him before sunrise when he'll either kill her or possesses her forever.

Evening lake photo with orange sunset

Photo of hillside with bunkers. American flags on each bunker. Red splatter over the top.

Text says: HE'S ONLY TEETH AND HUNGER •
HORROR
HEADSHOTS
HOOKUPS
DONT NAME THE
STETSON
DEAD
DOVE
VIVVI
CURRENTLY ACCEPTING OFFERS OF REP
@SAMPEIL

Dentist with folded arms standing at an angle. Two ripped images of zombie eyes and zombie mouth over his face. Red background and dark red blood spatter across the whole thing.

Text from top to bottom:
HORROR
HEADSHOTS
HOOKUPS
THE DENTIST WILL EAT YOU NOW
by Sami Peil
Far-right extremist zombies, a hot dentist, and a bi love triangle toke on the end of the world in the Black Hills. They all want each other but not in the some way.

Two side by side red button memes. The buttons on the left say deal with the hordes or deal with the creeps and the sweaty man below is wiping his forehead.

The left meme is similar to but in muted tones and the sweaty man has been overlayed with a zombie. The buttons say good people and guts

Dentist working on patient, blood splatter animated in that says: he hasn’t lost anyone yet. Background music is vchildren singing “we’re going to the dentist” on a loop

image of Black Hills, amphitheater seats that are orange, cloudy sky. On a stage there is a horde of zombies (mostly sillhouettes). One zombie is crawling amongst the stadium seats. one zombie close up along the right side of the image. Blood splatter across the whole image starting from bottom left corner. white text: THE DENTIST WILL EAT YOU NOW.

yellowed background with red blood splatter and top of zombie head in lower corner. George Washington head faintly visible (Mount Rushmore) along left. Text says: AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO DON'T NAME THE DEAD By Sami Peil 90 words Adult/NA HORROR

dentist in white jacket with red "paint" splatter. just his torso visible. text says: THE DENTIST WILL EAT YOU NOW Sami Peil @sampeil

image of Black Hills, amphitheater seats that are orange, cloudy sky. On a stage there is a horde of zombies (mostly sillhouettes). One zombie is crawling amongst the stadium seats. one zombie close up along the right side of the image. Blood splatter across the whole image starting from bottom left corner. white text: THE DENTIST WILL EAT YOU NOW.

yellowed background with red blood splatter and top of zombie head in lower corner. George Washington head faintly visible (Mount Rushmore) along left. Text says: AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO DON'T NAME THE DEAD By Sami Peil 90 words Adult/NA HORROR

Pic of dentist and patient blood splatter animates in, text says he hasn’t lost anyone yet

Gradient background - horizontal pink on top to purple to blue on bottom. At the top is a black horizontal line interrupted by a black spiral. Below that it says VERACIOUS. In the center is a line drawing of heart in a dark gray. In front of the heart is an old ford pickup. Around these images are squiggly arrows in white. Each arrow points to the following text starting at the upper right and moving clockwise: junkyard makeout, cemetery sunrise, progressive protests, bi girl shenanigans, strawberry lemonade kisses, drumline & drama club, cool grandma

Image of dentist with his patient. Blood splatter loops in, text on splatter says: he hasn’t lost anyone yet

Bloodied white coat on the torso of a man, the dentist.

White Text says:

AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO THE DENTST
By Sami Peil
82k Words
ADULT/NA HORROR

Dentist with patient. Blood splatter animates in. Text: he hasn’t lost anyone yet. Background music is children singing “you’re going to the dentist” on a loop

Gif of dentist working on patient, blood splatter animated in. Text : “he hasn’t lost anyone yet”

Background music is children singing “you’re going to the dentist” on a loop

MEET OUR TEAM slide with bi pride flag in top background and green and yellow on bottom. Yellow envelope with arms in the bottom left corner and zombie graphic on top of that with green/dark green. The team is on the right side in circle photos from top L to R, bottom: Man (Stetson) driving a bright blue vintage looking van. Smiling, thumbs up; woman (Dove) with curly brown hair; The dentist and patient; blond woman with wavy hair and black jacket. Splatter overlay is pinkish

meme with white background. top text says: 21 Years Around the Sun: New Year, New Me. Image below the text is black and white disco balls with a 21 year bday cake and woman holding it in her hands and smiling

two images split below: orange jumpsuit woman behind bars, sitting on a bed in a cell; next image: group of young, fresh looking zombies with blood splatter overlay.

Text below: Not like that?

Looped video
Dentist and patient with animated blood spatter and text “he hasn’t lost anyone yet”

Background music is a children’s song repeating “you’re going to the dentist “

Two side by side red button memes. The buttons on the left say deal with the hordes or deal with the creeps and the sweaty man below is wiping his forehead.

The left meme is similar to but in muted tones and the sweaty man has been overlayed with a zombie. The buttons say good people and guts

Bloodied white coat on the torso of a man, the dentist.

White Text says:

AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO THE DENTST
By Sami Peil
82k Words
ADULT/NA HORROR

Bloodied white coat on the shoulder of a man, the dentist.

White Text says:

AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO THE DENTST
By Sami Peil
82k Words
ADULT/NA HORROR

Bloodied white coat on the torso of a man, the dentist.

White Text says:

AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO THE DENTST
By Sami Peil
82k Words
ADULT/NA HORROR