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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes

@exclamate.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I love when the little fun fact about a Jeopardy contestant is prompted by "So, I heard you practiced for this!"
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elliott, reading: ugh does every chapter have to start with a giant capital letter? Me (excited): That's called a drop cap! E: 😠 well I don't like it!
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICYMI: Come celebrate the launch of Family Night with me & @kplumhoff.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and @exclamate.bsky.social -- Sat., Oct 24 at 1pm ET -- Event registration: aniking.net/launchparty
Image depicts event date information for the remote launch of Family Night by Ani King and features a full color picture of the book cover and black and white photos of Ani and their special guest readers. Event information is below: 

-- Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 1pm Eastern
-- Event Link to be provided after registration

register at https://aniking.net/launchparty

Join Ani King for the launch of their debut flash fiction collection, Family Night: Stories (Mason Jar Press). Preorders are available at https://masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/family-night.

FAMILY NIGHT is by turns a lyrical celebration of queerness and an exploration of family and loss, often through a lens of magical realism. Ani King’s collected flash fiction stories explore relationships and connections: a teen girl attempting to summon her missing mother home with cigarette smoke and yacht rock songs; two sisters disputing how to care for an unhealthy elderly unicorn; a woman accidentally raising two daughters from the bones of her long-dead pet rabbits.

Ani will be joined by emcee and guest reader Katherine Plumhoff, with additional guests Claudia Monpere, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Allison Field Bell, and Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes. Come hang out with us and enjoy conversation, readings, and giveaways as we celebrate Family Night!

-- Please note we are only collecting your email in order to send the calendar invite and event link.

-- This event will also be recorded.
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
FAMILY NIGHT comes out in one month!!! Early feedback from one of my all time favorite writers and people in general, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social: (full text in the alt text, too)
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“ “Mercurial and mellifluous, ecstatic and ephemeral, FAMILY NIGHT will carry you in the backseat of a 1976 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, through the labyrinth of the Minotaur, on the wings of a wasp-mother, through town on a porch pontoon as Ani King unravels, unveils, unfolds the lives of the liminal, the tangible and intangible who find themselves in the in between spaces, on the edges, and in the seams.” --Melissa Llanes Brownlee, author of Bitter Over Sweet and Hard Skin”
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not to brag, but I just took a nap with my head on my mom's lap while she scratched my head. 😎
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's gonna be a party!!!
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
People should do whatever they want, but I do think we will regret sheer skirts and opaque tops.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Me, with 2 books to fold, 3.5 hats to knit, one Hail Mary sweater to finish, 50 prints to design...and print, and a large scale art project I want to do: Man, I gotta learn nålbinding.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I told her, "Well you are a belle." And winked at her. She was like, "Yeah I know, I'm loud." And I yelled across the table, "I'm hitting on you!!!" Her face: 🤨😐😮😊
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I had book club today, and one of my friends is so beautiful but her MOTHER told her she wasn't as a kid so I am righting the world by flirting with her constantly. Anyway today she said as ankid she was loud and people would tell her mother "You're so quiet but your daughter is a bell."
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have listened to Lost Weekend as god intended in a hotel queen with Kenny to my right and Elliott in the bed to my left between 2:40 and 3:33 am because I couldn't sleep. It is a masterpiece.
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
ONLINE: "Reject all cookies" OFFLINE: "Accept all cookies"
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Honestly embarrassing how many times I've whipped open my phone, pressed listen, and then realized I can't Shazam a bird sound and I should have opened the Merlin app.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Cried so much today I am considering contacting my ex* *listening to Brand New on my iPod in my car
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I know leprosy is a real disease but boy it didn't feel like it.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New poem up at Zócalo! It's about my dad killing himself. I am very proud of it. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/elizabeth-de...
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Sonnet After Suicide by Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes | Poetry
It felt like he got away with everything. / Prodigal son, prodigal father, chances / dealt like cards, reshuffled, re-dealt. / He took a chance on himself but his body
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Last night, one of Elliott's friends smiled at me and said, "You're like a mom to everyone!" So I guess I have succeeded afterall.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Okay iambic pentameter
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Just putting it out there if we get another world-wide pandemic in July of 2027 I will actually lose my mind.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
ACES, which I am also attending, has usually a dozen or so vendors, 40 panels, and about 500 attendees. AWP has like 700 vendors, hundreds upon hundreds of panels and readings and off-site events. Which is not to dunk on ACES. Just to say get access to so much more at AWP.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
For comparison: AWP day of registration fee for non-members: $435 ACES Copyediting Conference day of registration fee for non members: $775 The ATP Conference registration fee for non-members: $1,455 My own jobs Conference registration fee for non-members: $2,300
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Your new coworker.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Also sorry, people also seem to not know how CONFERENCES work either. Like AWP is the cheapest conference that I or my coworkers attend and it's ALSO THE LARGEST.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Also they break even on the conference WITH SPONSORSHIP because they are a NONPROFIT. They are not hoarding wealth like some people believe.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Which to be clear is not to say AWP is perfectly functional but, in general, there's like 4 to 5 conference staff at any given time and they simply don't have the bandwidth to be as devious as you think.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Ah my favorite time of the year: people talking about AWP critically with great confidence despite having zero idea how AWP or nonprofits in general work.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
536,479,200 seconds = 8,941,320 minutes = 148,920 hours = 6,209 days = 886 weeks = 204 months = 17 YEARS with one perfect, precious Kenny Lakes
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is like a cover band spending "under $500" to record your favorite album. Is it completely repulsive? No, but that's because of the source material's greatness, not the damn cover band.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
And this movie? It was the first hand-drawn, non-English language animated film to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. It's generally regarded as one of the best animated films of all time.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but this wasn't made with "under $500." It was made by fully stealing every single thing, including every angle, every motion, from actual real movie born from the brilliance of Hayao Miyazaki and, on top of that, that was *hand drawn.*
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/01/2026
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Wow, art imitates life.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Gaeta the cat is really appreciating this rodent-heavy run this morning at @gamesdonequick.com !!!
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Very late update: didn't know she came back. Sobbed!!!!!
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Somehow made it my whole life without knowing the plot to Wicked, and I still have no idea what happens in the second act but I wept through fhe first one and am about to watch the second so here we go.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I told Elliott I loved her, and she said, "And I love you too! And why wouldn't i?"
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Kenny drew this Rosalina for Elliott, and I said she looked like "90s girl draws Rosalina in her composition notebook."
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
My brother's friend died 2 weeks ago. B's birthday party was Saturday after & I gave him a wood carving kit. He texted me earlier this week the little bear he carved. I'm sure he used it to distract himself from being so sad & sometimes I feel like maybe I am a useful sister that actually can help.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Nothing has surprised me more than raising my child without any explicit religion & her almost immediately making one up herself. Like tell me why we saw a pick up truck & she started bowing her head with her hands clasped because she was "praying to Grandpa Bob" because he "had a pick up truck."
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I feel like the jelly selection at my local grocery stores has significantly decreased.
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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 03/09/2025
Say hello to our GDQueer mascot, Byte!! 🥰🏳️‍🌈 Byte is a goofy ahhh cybernetic stegosaur who loves to stay up late for Awful/Silly block!! #GDQueer
GDQueer mascot reveal of Byte the cybernetic stegosaurprofile of Byte the cybernetic stegosaur with rainbow spines

shows Byte in various poses and spine variants along with a bracelet depicting all of the GDQ mascots
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Kenny just asked if I wanted to add regular cider to my sparkling cider to make a "virgin mimosa."
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
If I were terrible, I'd be like, "Cat distribution system? How about we have such an overpopulated feral cat population that cats are suffering outdoors in abundance." (If you find a cat and you love it, what a marvel and joy.)
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I am so sick and tired of people trying to neutralize GenAI by saying, "It's a tool," as if that absolves it of harm that was used to create it and the harm it is perpetuating. ESPECIALLY if they compare it to a CALCULATOR.
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Kiss 👏 kiss 👏 kiss 👏
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Idk maybe I should start lying and see how far that gets me
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Dana Diehl @danadiehl.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Check out this very fun story by @exclamate.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
It's about long-form improv and kissing was inspired, in part, by episode 60 of @pftompkins.bsky.social Spontaneanation (RIP) where Jon Hamm is the guest & @thejvclubpodcast.bsky.social ends up kissing him. sillygoosepress.com/issue-five/y...
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Yes, And — SillyGoosePress
The first time we kissed, there was a single gasp before the room roared itself into applause.  The scene had been building to said kiss all night. When someone yelled “lip gloss” as a...
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Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Ya girl has a SHORT STORY out today in @sillygoosepress.bsky.social.
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Yes, And — SillyGoosePress
The first time we kissed, there was a single gasp before the room roared itself into applause.  The scene had been building to said kiss all night. When someone yelled “lip gloss” as a...
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