For those who think spending more on policing works, look at St. Louis.
We spend more per capita on police than 85% of police depts, yet 68% of violent crimes go unsolved. And police kill us at the highest rate in the nation.
Police don’t need more money. Our communities do.
DRAGON AGE X MEDICI
A scheme to keep a throne
A plan to save a dying immortal
A mission into certain death
A romance broken by rebellion
A bet to alter the fate of the world
From the lethal jungle to the icy seas, Azura will never be the same.
#PitMad#F#EF#A#YA#LGBT#IRMC
As the war between futuristic city-states heats up, Tess and her friends escape a bomb blast in their school. Tess must learn to trust others to escape and find her brother. But when she places her trust in the wrong person, her brother’s life is at stake. #PitMad#YA#SF
PETER PAN X HUCK FINN A space colony. Apartheid cities. Slave-filled Agro-Corps. Fighting his slave Peter costs Hoeken Captain James Hart his hand. Then his son Michael is rescued by Peter. A horrible and joyous journey later, however, Michael can’t save Peter.
#PitMad#A#SF
THE WITCHER X TRUTHWITCH
25 years ago, a curse trapped the home of the Tua in an impenetrable mist. Now Fox has to keep the princess alive long enough to break the curse and convince the Tua to help them defeat the invading beasts before their kingdom is overrun.
#Pitmad#A#F
The Golden Girls with superpowers.
Sylvia, Tiffany, Evie, and Paige have nothing in common until menopause activates long-dormant superpowers within each of them.
#PitMad#WF
When a mystifying seer arrives predicting war and pleading peace, Shadowless, 18yo aroace proso squire, must decide whether to uphold precious, warmongering, family customs or accept Seer's teachings and eternal banishment before war demolishes both.
#PitMad#YA#F#OWN#ND#LGBT
Hey friends! Been a minute. This past month was kinda trash. But I'm back! Ready to fill your timeline with facts of Black excellence, Queer pride, and Socialist possibilities!
#BlackLivesMatter#pride#begaydocrime#PowerToThePeople
Executive Dysfunction: a thread.
🙋♀️: I need to grade, but I'm sure some of these papers will be awful.
🧠: Well that doesn't sound good. In fact, that may just be the same level of terrible as being chased by lions. Best avoid it at all costs.
🤷♀️: And if I do nothing?
🧠: Oh, if you do nothing, you'll feel TWICE as bad, but only afterwards, so you never have enough motivation to get up and just do the thing.
🙍♀️:... Great. Thanks, brain.
🧠: I am the apex of evolution!
🧠: Oh no, no, no. If you're relaxing, you're not being productive.
🙎♀️: But I'm Beta reading for a friend. That is produ-
🧠: NO. If you do literally ANYTHING but grade, you're gonna feel mountains of guilt.
@SeanRBellAuthor When I hear "strong" I always assume that means morally uncompromising with their standards and views of justice.
But sometimes I suppose it means they have big muscles.
Welp, I just let myself free write for a bit to see what came out. It was all great, and I love it.... But it includes some plot/mythology that I hadn't planned to discuss for another 3 books. Sooooo.... Do I leave it as a teaser? 🤷♀️
#WritingCommunity