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brandon brown

@cedarchromatic.bsky.social
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writer | director, student affairs & success @vcfa | winner, pen/dau | tinkering on stories, tabletop games | avatar by @angrycomics.bsky.social | they/them blog: brittlealmanac.com | words: BFS Journal, Split Lip Magazine, khōréō magazine

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Marginalized folks know TONE and LANGUAGE CHOICE are only part of what’s being communicated. But those in the power majority are accustomed to spaces that value and demand the faux nicety of polite tones no matter the core message being shared. To them, sounding angry makes you wrong in any event.
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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
seems really cool!!!
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Join us for an afternoon of desire at the virtual author reading in celebration of The Pleasure Issue on September 20th from 12-2pm PT / 3-5pm ET Free w/ a suggested $4 d0nation to our GFM > gofundme.com/f/beestung-y... > Email us for the link at beestung@sundresspublications.com!
Art of two Black people embracing. One figure holds the other from behind, both nude and seated, the sole of one person's foot showing. The person in the front has their  cheek cupped by the person behind them. Text reads: beestung, August 2026, Pleasure. Guest edited by Christian M. Ivey. Illustration by Ava Glori Tuitt.

Author Readings

Q&A With Editor & Writers

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September 20th
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Celes🏳️‍⚧️⬇️↘️➡️👊 @rowletgameing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
this one’s a banger y’all
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 30/08/2026
On 1000xRESIST loving the telling and not just the story:
Q: Ok but more seriously; what’s the thing you’d most want players to take away from the game? I ask because it’s such a thematically dense game that also keeps kind of folding in on itself in its narrative, and you can read the text in so many different ways from the super personal biographical angle to the really big existential questions. I was wondering if there’s a theme or idea that you’d like to highlight as something especially important to you.

Answer from Sunset Visitor: 

So, I think yes, there are many themes and things that it's hard for us to say one thing.

Instead, I will say, what is important to me -- I really hope players come away with the feeling that the game itself loves stories and loves the way stories can be told, and that it and we are RESTLESS in the ways we want to try and tell them.

I also really hope people feel the sense of love we have for games, in the way we told these stories.

I often said internally, this is a narrative game that has played and loved a lot of games, and is excited about them.

That we are always just searching for a moment that we can collectively, as the player and as the maker, look out at a kind of unknown horizon together at the possibility and unpredictability of what could happen next. I think we're always searching for that internally.
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"moon far from our doublewides and fixer-uppers, and we chewed our biscuits and red-eyed gravy over prayer" Stunning as usual from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social. Pay attention to the form in this, how the sentence length unfurls like a spiral: fracturedlit.com/we-didnt-wea...
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We Didn’t Wear Masks | Fractured
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ICYMI! Come hang out with us! Free or $4, whichever you prefer!
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flanthippe @flanthippe.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Barry Lyndon × 21 Savage "a lot"
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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
bro!!! this is good
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 03/08/2026
hell yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmjh...
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Xenoblade Chronicles - Main Theme (Violin Marimba Cover)
YouTube video by Issara Duo
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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This piece rips—sparked a lot for me. Maybe to Joshua’s point, this year I’ve been looking for ways to turn the page on nihilism, and words like these, held together with grit and hope, feel like a good reason to. And to get to writing, too!
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Meatwad and Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunter Force, standing on a  tennis court, and Shake is leaned over saying "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need to be the protagonist of a fairytale horror story in a magical forest"
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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
1000xRESIST is now firmly in the top slot for “games that have made me cry the most.” great videogame. it’s about so many different things and yet it all comes together so well, like a poem.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Jes Staley, ex-Barclays CEO to Jeffrey Epstein: '“You want to know why we are not São Paulo, watch the TV adds [sic] on the Super Bowl...Its all about hip Blacks in hip cars with white women. The group that should be in the streets, has been bought off. by Jay Z.” www.theringer.com/2026/07/23/m...
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This Has Always Been Jay-Z’s Blueprint
Jay-Z said 2026 will be a year of “all offense.” Here’s what that really means.
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Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
For our latest installment of Adaptation Anxiety series, Nathan Likert reviews The Odyssey and what it says about the director's futile guilt & generational angst! "Homer’s text thus becomes a Trojan horse through which the contemporary can be litigated."
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What Can A Homer, Or A Nolan, Offer the Future?
Adaptation is everywhere! In 2026, MTC is running a new series called Adaptation Anxiety, where new and returning writers consider literary adaptations from the last few years. We ask not whet…
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"PEN America isn't alone in conflating government censorship with boycotts, and muddying the specific political project of BDS; media coverage of the report and Mengestu's resignation has credulously accepted the organization's framing."
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PEN America's "Silent Moratorium" Prompts Very Loud Criticism | Defector
PEN America president Dinaw Mengestu resigned from his position this past Thursday after the troubled free-expression organization published a report reaffirming its opposition to cultural boycotts. T...
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Our Kickstarter campaign has ended, with 346 backers pledging $17,835! Thank you all SO MUCH for donating, shouting, helping us over the finish line—it means the world 🧡
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 14/07/2026
I ALSO AM ANTICIPATING UPCOMING FANTASY SPY NOVEL 'WICKHILLS' FROM LOCAL AUTHOR PREMEE MOHAMED Nobody else is apparently lol
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...
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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We're $830 away! SO CLOSE, LET'S GET THIS DONE
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
me hearing the news this morning
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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I started reading Gladman recently, she's so goddamn interesting. And Chandrasekera's work is obviously a bright spot. Looking forward to digging into some of these others 👀
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
khōréō is at $12035 out of their $16500 goal with FOUR DAYS left! Donate and share! Let's get them there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
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khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It's been enough time that I feel comfortable openly saying that I think an issue with E33 is that it believes that Maelle's position is wrong/childish. But is also wants you to believe people in the canvas are *real* people. It implicitly argues her position while wanting player to do otherwise.
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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you have the means, please contribute to khōréō's Kickstarter for their seventh year. I have been a reader for years, and was lucky enough to publish with them last year—they've cultivated a rigorous, thoughtful platform for people who are rarely represented well. Please support their work!
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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
All right, I’ve kept quiet for a bit because of real life crap, but come on guys. Our KS is moving at a snail's pace, and we can do better. And I’m not just saying this because I’m the marketing director of @khoreo.bsky.social, or because khōréō is my ride or die fam (which they are, ALWAYS)
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B. Zelkovich is peering out of their cave @bzelkovich.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
As is tradition, I am behind on my #StoryADay reading. Pls accept Day 7.1: "The Moon's Forests Burn All Your Life" by brandon brown in @khoreo.bsky.social. The last three lines absolutely wrecked me. Literal jaw drop and gasp. A stunning ending. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...
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The Moon's Forests Burn All Your Life
The smoker will run out of cigarettes today. She first appeared on the news on my sixteenth birthday, about a week ago—her and her pile of ashes. They show the same establishing shot of her every morn...
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Simpsons meme with Hans Moleman on a pay phone saying “I need the biggest metaphor you have.” Followed by “No, that’s too big.”
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"The smoker will run out of cigarettes today." ICYMI: Contributor and Flash Reader @cedarchromatic.bsky.social has a story out in khōréō magazine! 🌙 👏 buff.ly/llHLoMG
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The SCP Foundation 🏳️‍⚧️ @scpwiki.com · 21/06/2026
in case you forgot that it's pride month here's your reminder that like most of this account and a very good chunk of the scp wiki exists because of weird trans women. thank you weird trans women
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/06/2026
I don't think you have to be good at Marathon or extraction shooters to enjoy Marathon, but you do need to be able to enjoy losing
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
my god, do yourself a favor and read @seantcollins.com on the finale of the original run of TWIN PEAKS. popheist.com/twin-peaks-s...
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'Twin Peaks' Season 2 Finale: "Beyond Life and Death"
For David Lynch, the 'Twin Peaks' finale marks his full-on entrée into elliptical storytelling and supernaturally tinged surrealism.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. 

Magic!

Goodnight.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Reminder that I'm open to pitches for @crossplayblog.bsky.social. Got something to say about kids, parenting, games, technology? You'll be paid and I'm happy to work with first time writers, so don't be scared! (I'm especially interested in stories from moms.) Reach out to patrick@crossplay.news
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Honored that the Ignyte judges chose "Uncertain Sons" as a finalist in the novelette category w/these wonderful stories. And because of the Ignytes, @undertow.bsky.social has made the story free-to-read online again. If you missed it, it's here. Thanks again! undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I’ve been meaning to get my hands on this book and maybe review it—there’s such a tremendous vibe about it 😤
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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Marathon is free to play this week. It is the best video game I have played this decade. I know people who have never seriously played an FPS who have cleared Compiler multiple times; it really is not as intimidating as it maybe sounds, it just helps a lot to have friends. Join us on Tau Ceti IV!
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brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The AYN Thor has wormed its way into my brain. What if I could finally play the second Picross 3D again? Or the first one, for the first time? Or Smash Bros. 3DS for some reason? I don’t need this, but I…I do maybe need it
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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
New post alert. The University Will Never Love You indigiqueerconfidential.ghost.io/the-universi...
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The University Will Never Love You
After twenty years in higher education, I know the university will protect itself over its people. Rather than explain the value of the university, we have to refuse the language of the market and def...
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Eric Horwitz @ericsandwich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It's hard to not read this story through the lens of the US's current siege on Cuba. Harrowing work by @kjy1066.bsky.social
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Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🌋 🌞 🎶 SUMMER 2016 🎶 🌞🌋 🐟 📚 🚂 THE MARIELDA INTERLUDE BEGAN 🚂 📚 🐟 🌋 🌞 🎶 SUMMER 2026 🎶 🌞🌋 🐟 📚 🚂 TENTH ANNIVERSARY 🚂 📚 🐟
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
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