I just want to remind folks that "taking care of each other" post-election results also means wearing a mask to make the world safer and more liveable for disabled folks.
If you've stopped masking, let this be the motivation you need to re-engage and care again.
Welcome to episode 667. First, a manipulative pastor promises enlightenment at the cost of earthly possessions (by @PNWCaleb). Then, an abandoned encampment on a far-off planet may not be quite as empty as we expected (by @jessicapeter1).
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SUPER IMPORTANT: Like the previous issues, we have a goal to find extra stories from specific writers. This time, it's weird eco-horror/cli-fi from BIPOC writers. Please help us out by sharing this widely!
We're also looking for first readers. Apply here:
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Honored to be BOTN-nominated by the good folks at @hexliterary 🙏🫡🫶
Here’s my lil piece, “Apocalyptic Date Idea #126,” about a McDonald’s run at the end of the world:
“The eyeless woman smiled, her lips a pale slash across her blood-streaked face.
In some other time, her features might’ve looked soft.”
YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES x A STUDY IN DROWNING
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Issue Four is here! It's available at https://t.co/Pnlp9jDBuO and is pay-what-you-want. It features 8 short stories, 3 poems, and 3 comics in the vein of pulp horror--gore! death! transformation! come check it out 🔪
what is intimacy
but telling each other ghost stories
of the things that haunt us
and the things that bite
Excerpt from my poetry collection "Survival & Other Surprises" (https://t.co/5NXubOxGSa, April 2025)
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"Writing about chronic illness is tricky, because we are neither taught how ableism impacts us, nor how to grieve our aging bodies."
From: Collateral--An Actor's Notes from the Long Covid fringes
@1stlinepit#1stLinePit#WIP (in editing) #A#MEM#NF#CMe#LongCovid
He lifts her into the air. One arm extended all the way to pointed finger, reaching for some unseen light, Hélène soars.
The Dancer
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