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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The cover is coming along nicely and the draft is off to beta readers! Here's a little sneak-sneak peek of the cover for my next book. 👀 ARC sign-ups coming soon! #WriterSky #AmWriting #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #CosmicHorror #HorrorWriting #ARCreaders #ARC 📚💙

A pastel-hued slit of a bigger picture. A human skull lies on the ground with dried flowers beside it.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The most unique thing about humans? *Our fears.* We worry about things like aliens, supernatural forces, gods, and the effects of our actions through time. Why not explore your fears a little and find some answers? You might be a little less scared afterwards. Maybe. #📖 #A #NA #H #SF #W #BluePit

An excerpt from a short story titled "The Something" by L.C. Fathom. It reads as follows:
There’s something about a human that doesn’t love a silence
Something that flinches encountering the dark spaces
A young human reaching for a teddy bear
A grown human reaching for a lover
An old human reaching for a faith
A lonely human calling into the cosmos for a response saying
“You are not alone”

A skeleton at a table contemplating a skull sitting in front of it. Picture is "Secunda ossium tabula [Human skeleton inspecting a skull and in deep thinking]" from The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1545.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When an all-American conservative man lands in jail for committing a hate crime, he's forced to face his greatest enemy in therapy; himself. But leaving the past behind isn't easy, especially as other convicts of hate crimes start to mysteriously disappear... #📖 #A #NA #SP #SF #P #TR #LGBT #BluePit

An excerpt from the novel "Utopia Paradox" by L.C. Fathom on an orange background with an image of a man sitting in a prison cell. It reads as follows: I got her point and she was right. I didn’t start this and neither did she. You can’t lose what you never had. No one left alive started it, but we were all perpetuating it by resisting change. I relaxed my shoulders, not realizing I’d been feeling so tense. I frowned in thought.
“It’s hard to change. I feel like this isn’t even America anymore! Like I don’t know who I am without what I’ve been told! I knew who I was and what I was supposed to be, what my thoughts and values were, but now… I feel like I don’t know myself at all.”

The cover for Utopia Paradox by L.C. Fathom. It features a multicolored circle contacting two characters, one black silhouette with its hands bound in red chains against a red background and the other a white silhouette with red chains over its eyes against a blue background.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Who decides who you are; you or the people around you... And what if you disagree? #CosmicHorror #WIP #AmWriting #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WriterSky #BookSky

An image of a story titled "Sentient Dysphoria". The clip reads as follows: "This is not your body, not your home, not your face, and certainly not your life. You don’t know who’s it is or when it became yours. But, here you are now, and you can’t find a way to leave.
You’re at a party when you realize you don’t know anyone or even remember what’s being celebrated. You do your best to play along, stay calm. Someone keeps asking you about kids you don’t have and forcing you to come up with convincing lies as answers. It’s exhausting. You have a spouse that you don’t recognize, but everyone greets them with years-long familiarity and acts like it’s perfectly normal when this stranger wraps their arms around you. You start to feel sickened by this. Your spouse knows you well, sees this change, and you both call it a night early."

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Complained to husband that I couldn't find a good summary book of magical principals and history. He turned to me, looked me dead in the eyes, and said "you must write the book", making me break out in a cold sweat. No research writing for me thanks! #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Writing

A classic meme from the r/bald subreddit of two bald men comforting a third who's back is to the camera.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Satan is not an actual, canon person in Christian theology, BUT I couldn't resist indulging in that lore to write a blasphemous little tale... #CosmicHorror #WIP #AmWriting #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WriterSky #BookSky

A screenshot from a Word document titled "The Devil's Deal", a short story. The text is as follows: The Devil’s Deal
“This is ridiculous! You’re asking humans to make an unwitting choice between eternal life and death without any empirical proof to guide their understanding? Leaving an entire species of corrupt beings, that YOU made, alone to discover the wonders of the universe through faith? Do you even hear yourself?!”
God confirmed this, revealing no discomfort at this accusation. “They do not need a guide. The path to life is already written in their very bones and souls. Inescapable and true. A beacon that cannot be unseen.”

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My husband and I, passing a beer back and forth while we assemble a bookshelf to make our home a little nicer during this shitpocolypse. #AlwaysLookOnTheBrightSideOfLife

Two young men in track suits are doing the Slav squat on a front step while sipping beers.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

ALL THIS to replace human minds which can run on Mountain Dew and Cheetos. #AIsucks #NoAI

$A meme of Shazam flying and saying to a younger hero "Look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power!"$

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Pet peeve #47462: I have a stack of lonely insults in need of targets because I constantly come up with them but have no place to put them because not EVERY book can be a Shakespearian buffet where every character is witty and the dirty jokes abound. #BookSky #WritingSky #WritingCommunity #Writing

The cat Billi from "Billi speaks" standing in front of her word button mat on the floor and pressing "mad" while staring at the camera.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A glimpse from "Anachronism", just one story from my upcoming compilation of short cosmic horror/hope stories! Title TBD as my indecision and perfectionism battle it out. #CosmicHorror #WIP #AmWriting #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WriterSky #BookSky

A screenshot from a Word document that reads "What is this space?
The human mind is missing, looking for, someone who was supposed to take care of them. At its narrowest point, the space looks like a long-lost friend or parent that broke their heart eons ago. At its widest it almost looks like a god, something or someone very powerful. Humans do talk a lot about gods here or a spiritual identity there that guides them through life, but that doesn’t fit into the whole space."

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The sale starts tomorrow! Browse over 280 books (including mine), written by hand-picked indie authors, from free to only 2$! Wanna read about mages, astronauts, or poignant Earth-bound narratives? Then check out the @narratess.com sale at indiebook.sale/p #BookSale 💙📚📣 #IndieAuthor #Free #Art

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

Text: Indie Book Sale

indiebook.sale

Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

11 - 13 April

Banner designed by Arden Powell

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

How your book knows it probably won't make it...

A close-up image of the words "Quicksaving..." from a Bethesda game.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

What if you learned a bit too late that everything you'd been taught about American freedom and supremacy was wrong? Now you find yourself learning the truth, up close and personal, how the "American dream" doesn't die so easily. books2read.com/u/m20jRG #Readersky #Booksky #Scifi #Books #IndieAuthor

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I have been informed that these absolutely nightmare-birthed (pun intended) things are very real and, therefore, CAN hurt us all! Protect yourself, stay away from baby horses. Happy Halloween! 🎃 #Halloween #Horror #TIL

A pictured captioned "This is what newborn foals' hooves look like." The hooves look like they've sprouted clusters of pale, finger-like tentacles.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

My book has 0/5 stars from angry, white, nationalist, Christians. Everyone else seems to really enjoy it though, so give it a read! books2read.com/u/m20jRG #ReadingCommunity #Books #Hopepunk #Booksky #Scifi 📢📚🪐💙

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I'm becoming more and more the second kind after always seeing myself as the first... What does this mean? No idea. I'm scared? Yes. Which are you, one or two? #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #HorrorWriters

A comic with two panels titled "types of artists". The first panel shows Miyazaki (from Studio Ghibli) painting colorful art while looking literally grey and expressionless. The second panel shows Junji Ito (a comic artist) painting a horrifying black-and-white scene of contorted human faces while smiling sweetly.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

My book contains the cure to male loneliness: therapy and making friends in prison! The prison part is optional, but the therapy is highly recommended. Time for an American man's redemption arc. books2read.com/u/m20jRG #ReadingCommunity #Booksky #Books #ScienceFiction #SpecFic #Scifi 📢📚🪐

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I'm so mad. Old authors got to just pull anything out of their asses but now I'm going down five different rabbit holes trying to understand the rotation of the moon, space gardening, how human DNA changes in space, asldffhdsohf!?! #AmWriting #Booksky #WritingCommunity #Scifi #Rant

A two-panel comic showing "Sci-fi art now versus then" with two artists, each at their desks. The modern artist is struggling with realism in their designs. The mid-century artist is smiling as they make much simpler designs saying "Dude I'm an artist not an engineer. It's just magic." Image credit Joey Jazz.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

In case it wasn't obvious, I loved this book 5/5! You will learn more cool bird facts than you know what to do with. It also has lots of updated/corrected information about ornithology. Read if you like birds! #Booksky #BookReview #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #Ornithology #Birds #Science

Book cover for "The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think" by Jennifer Ackerman at https://www.jenniferackermanauthor.com/the-bird-way

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Fairy wren mothers defend against parasitic cuckoo chicks by teaching their own chicks a "password" during incubation. Only her babies will know it and use it to ask for food, making sure only THEY will be fed. #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Ornithology #Birds #Art #Science

The nest of a Splendid Fairy-wren shown at the https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/splendid-fairy-wren/

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Researchers have discovered a GLOBAL "cuckoo warning call" that is recognized across bird species, regions, and used against multiple parasitic-layer bird species! Cuckoos are decidedly unpopular in the bird world. #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Ornithology #Birds

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

African honeyguide birds use a special set of calls to guide humans to a beehive full of honey. The "honey hunter" (human) then shares the harvest. This is the strongest known partnership between humans and a wild animal! #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #Ornithology #Birds #TIL

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

My book "holds a mirror" up to Christian nationalism, showing the suffering of their victims. But, more importantly, it grabs those people who support it, pulls them through the mirror, and says "LOOK, your turn is next". books2read.com/u/m20jRG #Book #ReadingCommunity #Booksky #Scifi 📢📚🪐

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Bower birds understand artistic perspective and how to make ILLUSIONS with it! They design their bower displays to make their treasures and/or selves appear bigger, heighten color contrast, and give the best perspective. #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Ornithology #Birds #Art

A picture from https://www.bowerbirdproductivity.com/why-the-name-bower-bird.html showing a blue-covered bower made by a male Satin Bowerbird.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The infamous Australian magpies have a *preference* for who they'll attack. Some will ONLY attack cyclists, or mailmen on mopeds, stopping the attack if the person just gets off their vehicle and walks with it. #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Ornithology #Birds #Cycling #Australia

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Humming birds are actually FASTER than peregrine falcons when measuring speed relative to *body size*. The Anna's hummingbird hits a speed of 383 body lengths per second, faster than a cheetah or even a plane. #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Ornithology #Birds

A graph from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192013/Side-humble-hummingbird-flies-faster-fighter-jet.html depicting the speeds of various birds and air vehicles by body length per second instead of miles per hour. The Anna's hummingbird is the fastest at 383 body lengths per second.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

What would America look like if this epidemic of nationalist conservative violence was taken seriously and stopped at the heart of the problem? See it from the perspective of a young man learning to end that violence internally. books2read.com/u/m20jRG #ReadingCommunity #Booksky #Scifi 📢📚🪐

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Sneak peek! My current book in progress is a collection of ~20 short stories/poems so far. The dog dies in one... so I do apologize for that... but there are happy endings too! #WritingCommunity #CosmicHorror #Horror #Scifi #Booksky #WIP

A short passage from a work in progress, as follows:

There’s something about a human that doesn’t love a silence
Something that flinches encountering the dark spaces
A young human reaching for a teddy bear
A grown human reaching for a lover
An old human reaching for a faith
A lonely human calling into the cosmos for a response
“You are not alone”

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Most birds engage in some form of play, even ducks! When a group of ducks get together to sit it's a kind of play called "coordinated loafing" and that is cute as hell. #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Ornithology #Birds #Ducks

A close-up of several readhead ducks sitting together in a patch of sunny grass by the water.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Young ravens PRACTICE to become food-caching masters. Notable examples from researchers: a lump of meat found inside a horse's mane, and putting meat down an unfortunate assistant's plumbers crack while cleaning the ravens' cage. #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Ornithology #Birds

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Chutiya (Costa Rican army ants) will perform free pest-control for any local homes near them by hauling out any insects they find. Just let them in and leave for a few hours! But uh...don't stick around to watch. #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Ornithology #Birds #Entomology

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Today's the day; the sale has begun! 🥳 Go to indiebook.sale to check out hundreds of great books (including mine) either on sale, free, or in big bargain bundles! Cozy reading season is almost here so stock up now! #NarratessSale #IndieAugust #BookSky #BookSale #Readersky #ReadingCommunity

A screenshot of the https://indiebook.sale/ homepage.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A chapter one sneak-peak of my book for the sale tomorrow! 👀 Can prison rehabilitation help a man who thinks he doesn't need it? Yes. But what happens when the bigotry he'd left behind comes knocking to take him back...by force... #Booksky #BookSale #IndieAugust #ReadingCommunity

A screenshot of chapter one from Utopia Paradox by L.C. Fathom, which reads as follows:
“Why do you think you’re in rehab, John?”
I shrugged, trying to come up with an answer that would satisfy her without blowing my cover. “Because the state thinks I need it.”
She frowned. “You signed pre-trial release papers declaring your willingness and preference to undergo rehabilitation. Why did you choose to be in rehabilitation?” I couldn’t answer that, not without giving away that I was just here to cut time off my sentence.
She waited another minute for an answer, but I kept my mouth shut. She finally sat up, sighed, and handed me some of the papers from the table.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Oh thank god you know the full picture of all that, yes, please and thank you for respecting Indigenous peoples! Also, I am picturing this so hard now, I wonder how bigfoot(s) would react:

A comic by Sarah Andersen with four panels depicting two eldritch horrors discussing how humans are no longer afraid of them and now have a fan club for them.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

And the "busy center" of town looks like this 😆

An rooftop-view photo of your typical busy American intersection with gas stations, fast food, and more all cramped together. Below that is a tumbler post thread about how all of America looks like this once you get off the freeway.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

My book was selected to be in @narratess.com indie book sale for August! Thank you, I'm so honored and excited! 😁 The sale stars on the 23rd so be ready to add some paper gold to your TBR pile! Visit here to bookmark the sale page: indiebook.sale #IndieAugust #BookSky #BookSale

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The order that bird species start calling in the morning is mostly determined by eye size. The bigger the peepers, the more sunlight gets in, the more the bird-brain says SCREAMING TIME. #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Ornithology #Birds

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Nothing like being pushed from saying "I don't want to do X" to "I can't do X, I'm disabled" ... then STILL being pressured into doing it to really ruin your day. Guys, for the love of all that's holy, for all of eternity, "no" means no without any explanation owed. #Disabled #Disability #Ableism

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Engineers use turkey vultures to find leaks in natural gas lines by adding a that (sulfurous) rotten egg smell which mimics carrion. The gathering of vultures lets them know where and how bad a leak is. Birds CAN smell! #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Ornithology #Birds

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Another review received! 🥳 #Booksky #WriterSky #Booksky🪐📚 #BookReview #Scifi #SWSale2025 #Smashwords www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

A four-star book review from GoodReads, as follows: "I received a copy from voraciousreaders only. An enlightening and thought provoking book, with a lot of views of inbred prejudice within society. At times can feel a bit preachy, but true history and the chance of retribution and understanding.

Well written in a way, you shouldn’t like the main character, but then you see how the new knowledge can change a person even if they don’t believe it."

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Ok. Wow. Was not expecting to add BIRDS to my "animals capable of engaging in slavery" list today. 😐 Beware the Australian white-winged chough. #DamnNatureYouScary #Booksky #Nature #NatureWriting #NatureBooks #TIL #Australia #Ornithology #Birds

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Here are the GOOD things my book predicted. Just the protests are going so far, but that's where it all starts! America has finally reached a malleable turning point, we can do this. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... #ReadingCommunity #Booksky #Scifi #Books #Litsky #USDemocracy #Sheshed

A bingo card titled "hey my book predicted America's future, hopefully!". The bingo squares are labeled as follows: National human rights protests, LGBTQ+ rights protected, Indigenous land reparations, Complete prison reform, Honest American history education, An overdue constitutional convention, Financial reparations for African Americans, Free college, and Zero tolerance laws for SA.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I wrote my book before the 2024 election. I am disappointed in how much of it has happened already, so I made a bingo card to make it hopefully funny instead. I'll make another with the GOOD things that happen next. Good will prevail. #ReadingCommunity #Booksky #Scifi #Books #Litsky #USDemocracy

An American flag themed/colored bingo card with the following squares: Masked American terrorists, Measles outbreak, Political assassinations, Kidnapping for slave labor, Forced labor camps, Military AI, Blaming immigrants for XYZ, Secret civilian surveillance, and Christian nationalist gaslighting.

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

He committed a hate crime under the newly reformed, liberal-egalitarian, American judicial system. Now he's in jail for "societal rehabilitation" via therapy. But is he really there to improve...or to be forgotten? Summer sale link: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... #BluePit📖 #A #NA #P #SF #SP

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

He committed a hate crime under the overhauled, egalitarian, American judicial system. Now he's in jail for "societal rehabilitation" and therapy. But is he really there to improve...or to be forgotten? #ReadingCommunity #BookishCommunity #Booksky #Queersky #Blacksky #Sheshed #Momsky #Scifi

An image of the cover for the book Utopia Paradox on a blue background with an orange text bubble next to it which reads as follows: “Well written, thought-provoking, and while a work of fiction is perhaps a deep reflection of society today.” - Myra McCulloch
“I first got to read this as an ARC reader and I thought the whole book was fantastic. I thought the premise of the book where an objectively better America is someone's dystopia was a very original concept. Seeing the character work through this world and have his own opinions, values and beliefs challenged every step of the way was a very eye opening experience.” - MrBBQSmith
“Great view inside of the conservative mind and how learning the process of critical thinking can help in unexpected ways. Once I got into the middle of the book I was not able to put it down, to the point when I was reading on the bus and missed my stop. I did not see the ending coming but it hit me in the feels.” – Rachel B.
“An amazing look into an angry conservative man's soul -- and how therapy helps him become kind and caring, and changes his world view.” - David R. Yale

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It's kinda hard to be nice to yourself when you're in prison... Because you should be... Because you committed a hate crime... Because the FL wouldn't date you and your mom died recently and the stress got to you... www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... #A #SF #LGBT #P #UnhingedPit #WritingCommunity

The cat in the hat with a baseball hat meme. A child sits on the ground happily while the cat in the hat sneaks up behind him with a bat. The child is labeled "main character" and "I hate you and me and everyone". The cat in the hat is labeled "therapist" and "blame won't help you feel better".

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L.C. Fathom (author) @lcfathom.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

A man's odyssey righting his wrongs, facing his inner demons, seeking truth, and confronting the ghosts of America's past. Betrayal, prison, therapy, unlikely friends, and terrorists; he'll face them all. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... #ReadingCommunity #BookishCommunity #Booksky #Scifi #Sheshed

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