R.L. Meza

@rlmeza

Author of OUR LOVE WILL DEVOUR US. Spec fic in Clarkesworld, Nightmare, CHM. Artist. Gamer. 4 cats in a trench coat. Vegan. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 he,him NO A I rlmeza.com

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R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Jul 8

GRUDGE sweatshirt jump scare

A blue sweatshirt balled up on top of a wooden stand in my closet has the woman from THE GRUDGE printed on the back and staring out at me like she’s about to crawl out

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Jul 4

me: *spontaneously names the two main characters for my novel while drafting* the names:

Sam and Dean Winchester I think? sort of cooly sit-standing on a classic car’s hood. I don’t watch SUPERNATURAL, but there are like 15 seasons so it’s uh popular enough to warrant a name change. nice one, brain, so original

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Jul 1

below 25 in the submission queue

from THE CELL: a screaming kidnapped woman drenched by a downpour of water gradually filling her tiled cell to drown her

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Jun 29

Change a horror movie title to make it cosy. LOVERFIELD

from CLOVERFIELD: two soldiers are walking four bloodied survivors between them down a bright tunnel

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Jun 20

got this living stone at the Friday Night Market in Old Town, so that’s cool. looks like an alien toe. but plant.

a fleshy round stubby green plant. the top is flat and lighter green, bisected by an indentation and covered with a squiggly brain like pattern.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· May 30

submitted “Man O’ Were” to the WERE-2 anthology, this morning. wishing my freaky little sci-fi horror guy the best of luck.

A Portuguese man o’ war floating on the surface of clear blue water with tentacles trailing

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Apr 23

stop injecting with ozwmpic and start injecting with t-Virus

t-Virus from RESIDENT EVIL pictured as blue spirals in glass vials

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Mar 22

my haul from the Steam spring sale (all new to me, so no spoilers please):

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Mar 18

Homer Simpson calling from down in the well to tell Rachel from THE RING, “Seven Days.”

Rachel from THE RING answering the phone with an intense expression.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Mar 10

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Vladislav the Poker, a stern man with long hair, a mustache, and a goatee, is dressed in a fancy black jacket, aiming a bow and arrow indoors.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Mar 5

so excited to read this! ahhhhh!!!

a hardback novel titled ABOUT A PLACE IN THE KINKI REGION by author Sesuji. The cover is a black and grey photo beneath a red sky, the view from the bushes looking across a body of water at a bridge and road bordered by forested hills.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Feb 12

saw this posted recently regarding (I think?) pricing game titles. but for me, asking at least twice what you are now would be perfectly reasonable and wouldn’t deter me from purchasing.

"In a player's mind, what does it mean to spend five bucks? Well, that's five bucks. But six bucks?
Well, that's still five bucks.
"Four bucks is also kind of five bucks," he continued. "Three bucks is two bucks. And two bucks is basically free.
"So we've got these tiers: You know, twelve bucks... that's ten bucks. But thirteen bucks is fifteen bucks.
"And we found that eight bucks is still five bucks. It doesn't become ten bucks. Seven ninety nine, that's five bucks, right?
"So, eight bucks going to five bucks is the biggest differential we could find in pricing, so we found it very optimal."

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Feb 9

Daniel Plainview in the closing scene from THERE WILL BE BLOOD sits in his private bowling alley at home, hunched with his back to the camera, legs splayed, the ruins of his dinner to his right and the dead body of his nemesis, who he just beat, on the left. Red text across the top reads: I’m finished.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Feb 3

close-up of an ugly creamy pale wall with a painted-over cockroach lying on its back with one long leg sticking out

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Jan 19

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."

Evil, a big burning round ball of cosmic bullshit from THE FIFTH ELEMENT, out and about ruining life

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Jan 16

no new pictures, where are you at mentally?

Jessica Lange as Constance from American Horror Story season 1 pissed off and telling the ghost maid, “There’s not going to be a swimming pool, you stupid slut.”

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Jan 3

this but with fistfuls of green and pink pancake, crumbs flying out my mouth

Sydney Sweeney in Euphoria crying and screaming, “I have never, ever been happier”

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Dec 31

"You just died. The 6th picture in your gallery is what killed you." maybe I won’t do A Month of Dick 2026

Reading Herman Melville's Moby Dick together in January 2026! A schedule of chapters divided into days. Will reading Moby Dick for the first time kill me?

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Dec 30

how I’m walking out of 2025

Villanelle from Killing Eve creeping in a neighborhood with houses behind her. She’s wearing too-small pajamas and has her hair tied back and abrasions on her face. She’s holding a finger to her lips like shh. She has been through some shit.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Nov 23

rough draft finished

A blurry closeup of a computer screen with the words “The End” and the date 11/23/25 in Times New Roman font

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Sep 1

NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE

A night-vision shot from Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum. The man in the foreground is scared, realizing the ghost is behind him.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Apr 8

Album cover for The Ichthyologist by Giant Squid shows a sea-creaturey hand with eyes for fingertips and a mouth in its palm, on a softly mottled background of oceanic colors

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Apr 7

Yay new leaf, I didn’t kill it, it’s surviving me, yay

A bright green new monstera leaf unfurled

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Mar 16

Share some of the best eyes in movies 🎥👀🖤

Actor Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later, crazy-eyed and shirtless and dripping wet at gunpoint

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Mar 10

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender:

Painter Bob Ross figurine has a button that plays audio clips of his quotes, but it’s super old so the figurine sounds demon possessed.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Mar 9

XOXO

Background shows an in-progress coastal mushroom oil painting, out of focus, by me, reference photo by me. Foreground shows an in-focus middle finger painted to read: fuck A I.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Feb 23

Yay!

elephant ear alocasia flower, surrounded by plant leaves with a window in the background.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Oct 5

Looking for the perfect Halloween month read? There’s a book for that! Get the ebook ON SALE for only $1.99 through the Dark Matter INK Halloween shop: darkmattermagazine.shop/products/our...

Image shows a book cover with a cabin in the snowy dark, and the title in large red letters reads: Our Love Will Devour Us. Ebook on sale now at the Dark Matter INK Halloween shop.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Sep 9

What’s a meme you have saved because it’s one of your favorites?

A Guinea pig wearing pink sunglasses rides a pink toy car through sparkling lights. Meme text reads: the horrors persist, but so do I.

R.L. Meza@rlmeza· Aug 20

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?