Austin Blaze

Disappointment to himself and others. @umichWriters alum. Fiction in Hobart, @MISTERBULLBULL, Red Rock Review, @SuperstitionRev.

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

@chekhovscoyote @MarinerBooks Hell yeah, Sam! Can’t wait to read it.

[Samuel Jensen @chekhovscoyote]

after a year of work with the legends at @MarinerBooks, it's happening

MARCH OF THE WAR PRIESTS releases 2/23/27. my lifeblood's in it. i'm thrilled and afraid and so grateful.

if you can, please consider pre-ordering; it's so helpful to the book

https://t.co/yAGxVwHyNj

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

What makes Vance uniquely contemptible in this admin of ghouls and sycophants is his desperate insistence that he’s neither, racing to social media after each new atrocity to convince himself and the world, via tired meme or limp equivocation, that he’s worthy of love or respect.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

This is preposterous.

First of all, she's not waving the officers through and has no right to do so even if she were. She is waving another car through, before the officers approach her car.

Second, the officers are not randomly searching her, they are approaching her vehicle because she is violating the law: namely, she is obstructing a lawful enforcement operation. You're not allowed to walk up to or drive up to people who are enforcing the law to make it harder for them to do their jobs.

Third, this defense attorney is drawing a meaningless distinction between an ICE officer and a "real police officer." Again, you're not allowed to interrupt a lawful enforcement operation, which is exactly what this woman was doing.

Fourth, the officer didn't discharge his weapon to prevent her from fleeing. When he discharged his weapon, she had pointed the vehicle at him and pressed the gas. He discharged his weapon in self defense, and other angles of the video show the woman *clearly* hit the officer with her car while accelerating.

The gaslighting is off the charts and I'm having none of it. This guy was doing his job. She tried to stop him from doing his job. When he approached her car, she tried to hit him.

A tragedy? Absolutely. But a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

@mgoldsm La Chimera, no question, thank me later.

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

@chekhovscoyote @MarinerBooks @RhetoricAndThis @HarperCollins @carolinezancan Holy shit!! Can’t wait to read, it man.

[Samuel Jensen @chekhovscoyote]

okay. hell. here's the big one. my debut novel MARCH OF THE WAR PRIESTS is forthcoming from @MarinerBooks. unreal. utmost thanks to @RhetoricAndThis, @HarperCollins, and Maya Horn and @carolinezancan at Mariner. get ready to meet these desert rats

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

New short story up at Hobart. Thanks to ⁦@roflcoptermcgee⁩ for giving this a home. https://t.co/1TxNzFtkFU

[Joe @roflcoptermcgee]

“The neighbor looks back at her yard, past the clothesline where her husband’s t-shirts—all of them adorned with an American flag or a bible verse—billow in the wind.”

from PRIVACY FENCE by Austin Blaze @austintblaze on Hobart

https://t.co/mmNO1Zej47

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

⁦@UMich⁩ is spending millions of dollars to surveil, harass, and intimidate any student who has the audacity to speak out against an ongoing genocide. Disgraceful. https://t.co/wL0n1X4NW4

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

@chekhovscoyote @RhetoricAndThis Hell yeah, Sam. Congrats.

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

New story up at @MISTERBULLBULL. Give it a read.

[BULL @MISTERBULLBULL]

"Schilling bled through his sock, Jordan battled through the flu, Strug stuck it to the Russians on a bum ankle. If Sam truly aspired to have his moisture-wicking quarter-zip hung in the proverbial rafters, he'd have to overcome adversity." @austintblaze https://t.co/p94CHdrRn9

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

Been tinkering with this one for years. Thanks to Red Rock Review for giving it a home.

https://t.co/dzwbCClw8y

[Michael J. Stern @MichaelJStern1]

CNN has a story titled “where the Harris campaign went wrong.”

Nope, I won’t read it.

Harris ran a great campaign.

The story should be titled “where the American people went wrong.”

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

Hard to believe that Cheney endorsement didn’t get the base fired up.

[Samuel Jensen @chekhovscoyote]

I have a little write-up/review/gush about Alexander Sammartino's LAST ACTS up with my friends at @commonmag.

This book is wild. It hit hard and it hard close to home. Read it, but you might need an ice bath afterward.

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

@Aaron__Burch In my two semesters of teaching undergrad at least ten stories/essays included the phrase “snap back to reality”

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

Imagine being asked the biggest meatball question in the history of election coverage, a golden opportunity to display your humanity after three weeks of uninterrupted pants-shitting, and going with “see, this is why nobody trusts the media.”

[Sam Robinson @samueljrob]

Fox 2’s Charlie Langton to Republican VP nominee JD Vance: “What makes you smile? What makes you happy?”

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

@Aaron__Burch That whole collection is so good man.

[Austin Blaze @austintblaze]

“Should abortion be legal? I guess. Do I think people should have access to it? Absolutely not. Am I gonna make this the central issue of my reelection campaign? Buddy you better believe it.”

[AlexGangitano @AlexGangitano]

BIDEN tonight at a fundraiser in NYC: “I’m a practicing Catholic. I don’t want abortion on demand but I thought Roe v Wade was right.”