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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This applique banner was one of the most impressive things at No Kings today in Petaluma, CA.

Applique Banner, red and gold fabric letters reading NO King on a textured cream colored background. The O in NO has a crown outlined in stitching.

More detail of the NO, with the dotted beige crown and the red and gold print letters.

Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

My column this week contains a review of the horror film WEAPONS. And by "contained," I mean that's all it is--the review.

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WWWednesday: November 19, 2025 | Fantasy Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction Book and Audiobook Reviews

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

At least now it rhymes with "Moses."

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Your Pacific Standard Time crow.

A crow perches on the peak of a roof. Its head is turned to look right. The sky behind it is unbroken blue.

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

A pair of cheerful images this morning.

Against a pale green blurred background, a raven perches on a brown fence post. Its body faces the camera and its head is curved to viewer's left. The ruffling of feathers on breast and head can be seen. Very glossy.

A green-backed hummingbird hovers, drinking from a long, tubular purple flower, one of a cluster of them. Lavender colored flowers show lower left, in-focus leaves surround the bird and the blossom cluster.

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Something tranquil this morning.

At dawn, against a backdrop of dark evergreen trees, a doe stands facing the camera. The grass under her feet is pale green.

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Two rejections in the past two weeks, but 2 different indie bookstores want some of my books on consignment, so that's good.

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I love the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference every year, but this year the synergy of the Speculative Fiction workshop was off the charts! A great workshop leader, great writers, and generous, committed readers. #MCWC2025

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Another Mendocino memory; the mouth of Big River.

Against a blue and white sky (thin clouds) three poles in the beach stand march away from the viewer, left to right. Beyond the farthest you can see light surf as Big River reaches the ocean, and beyond that, two tree-covered hills.

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This year's Noyo Review is out, with my story as well as lots of other excellent prose and poetry.

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Noyo Review – The Literary Journal of the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This is from January, 2025, but it felt like a "crow family" morning.

Four crows perch in a bare-branched winter tree, against a dark blue sky.

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

My credit card's security algorithm is so funny! "We'll let that BIG charge for the round-trip train ride slide by, but this under-$100 trip insurance charge... this looks sketch."

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This hardcover is now in my hands. In addition to donating a story I bought a copy because duh. This is an amazing outpouring of love and support by some great storytellers. Eager to dig in!

(Image: Hardcover book: Appalachian Strong in white text at the top. A rising sun casts orange rays across forested hills. At left, one valley is shrouded in fog. Lower left a bit of white-water river shows. Text at bottom: A Charity Anthology for Hurricane Relief Survivors.)

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Great blue heron, male, in mating plumage. Yesterday, Bodega Bay, California.

A male great blue heron perches in the canopy of a tree. The bird is in mating plumage, and a frilly white feather "beard" dangles from its throat. Who says beards aren't sexy?

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I visited @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social yesterday to pre-order @charliejane.bsky.social 's latest, and pick up WEARING THE LION. On the way out I was mugged by a cheerful golden retriever for my dog treats.

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Chris M. Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

😞🎯💯🤬

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

@charliejane.bsky.social, I'd like to discuss naming a writer's conference scholarship after you.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 01/07/2025

I just finished reading The Drowned Man's Daughter and it is brilliant. Sharp prose, immediate immersion (pun intended) in a strange future, fully realized complex community dynamics. Pre-order to support a longrunning Canadian independent press, and C.J., and as a favour to me personally, thanks.

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I sent out a story this morning.

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I took this last year at the Mendocino, CA Botanical Garden. At first I thought I was tracking a slow hummingbird! No such oxymoron; it's a sphinx moth.

A sphinx moth rests on a spike of blue lupin, its wings open. The wings have black and white bands, with red and black on the back or bottom. The body is thick and the moth is about the size of a hummingbird. Blurred in background, a solid wooden fence and green shrubbery.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 28/06/2025

“It’s a safe space to be yourself regardless of who that is. I don’t understand why people want to smother that.” From 2022: Drag Queen Story Hour? Over 150 people crowded into a West Texas cafe for this small town's first such event.

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West Texas Town Comes Out for Drag Queens

Despite the presence of anti-LGBTQ+ protesters, over 150 people attended the first story time event in Wolfforth, a small suburb of Lubbock.

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The installation is called Habitat, representing community as the heart of things. Solar panels collect energy to power the lights which come on after sunset. Sebastopol, CA.

An installation shaped like a human heart stands in an empty lot directly in front of a redwood tree. The body of the heart is made up of tiny houses in rusted metal, with chrome tubes representing veins and arteries. The bottom of the sculpture glows with red light from within.

The same sculpture, in close up. It is lit from within by purple light. The chrome veins form a contrast. A light pole, power pole and the tree are visible to the right. It's twilight.

Even closer shot; lit with yellow. Branches of the redwood are visible top right.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"Some of the tourists and locals who stopped by the statue between downpours Wednesday afternoon expressed surprise that it was allowed to be placed where it was. And they expressed reservations about weighing in on it publicly." Man, that's a depressing last sentence. gift link

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Eight-foot-tall ‘Dictator Approved’ sculpture appears on National Mall

Did the mystery poop artist strike again? Signs point to yes.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My review of @angelaslatter.bsky.social 's THE CRIMSON ROAD is up at Fantasy Literature. I just started ALL THE MURMURING BONES--delighted that it's set in the same world! fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-...

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The Crimson Road: A treat of a magical vampire-hunter-quest book | Fantasy Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction Book and Audiobook Reviews

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A couple of signs from the No Kings event I participated in. 2000+ people.

Protester, a woman with curly silvery hair, black cap and black glasses, holds up a sign reading, "Only butterflies should be monarchs." The sign is studded with artificial monarch butterflies.

Two protestors. (L) sign reads, "Burger Kings Only." Sign on right reads, "There's money for a parade? Then there's money for MediCaid!'

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I saw SINNERS last night. Whoa. What a movie!

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Marion Deeds @mariondeeds.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Where is the "No Kings, only Drag Queens" T-shirt we all need?

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