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A journal of creative writing on environmental justice reckoning.press

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Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And I want prospective novella submitters at @reckoningmag.bsky.social to read it too! reckoning.press/submit/novel...
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Novella | Reckoning
[Leer en español] For the first time, Reckoning is open to novella submissions for stand-alone publication! The fiction we publish is mostly, but not exclusively, speculative. We appreciate surreal, l...
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW CALLOUT ALERT! We are seeking Indonesian speculative fiction in Bahasa Indonesia and English for publication in khōréō’s Volume 7 in 2027. The callout is open from now until November 5, 2026, details on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Open call for Indonesian Speculative Fiction in Translation
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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I try to banish it from my brain, these dreams where I am bulbous & beautiful. where I am the butternut & she is the squash bug, burrowed into my bosom, my bowels, the base of my spine. her vine.” Beautiful.
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🍄 C.G. Aubrey🍂 @cgaubrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New Post for @reckoningmag.bsky.social's wonderful Patreon supporters! www.patreon.com/reckoningpre...
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September Update | Reckoning Press
Hello, all! As we approach the turning of another season, we here at Reckoning hope that you are all doing well. Some quick updates from us.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Amazing news, thanks to decades of unrelenting advocacy by the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath Tribes. It’s heartening to see the collaborative nature of the salmon restoration effort reflected in this paper’s authorship, which includes all three Tribes, state & federal agencies, NGOs & private entities.
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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 09/09/2026
My ecological sci-fi horror about fake worms rehabilitating the soil and rich people trying to avoid a poisoned Earth is now up on Phano.
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Wake Me When It’s Better
They’re fixing all of these big problems, aren’t they? Someone must be.
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Actually you know what, let me just
A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Sofia Samatar:
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today's small act of planting radical seeds: printed out zines by @tangledwilderness.bsky.social and @cbmilstein.bsky.social and put them in a few Little Free Libraries while walking a dog!
Stacks of four zines, printed on blue, mint, magenta, and hot pink paper:
Life without law: an introduction to anarchist politics
Don't just do nothing to counter fascism
Mutual fire brigade
Ritual as resistance: 18 stories of defending the sacredMy hand holds a few of the zines in front of a blue little free library
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Author and environmental activist Wendell Berry passed away yesterday. We'd like to honor his work by remembering the poem "The Peace of Wild Things"
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The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me / and I wake in the night at the least sound / in fear of what...
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Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
End of day today!
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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I didn’t realize that August 30 is Grief Awareness Day but this thread is relevant and hopefully resonant. 💚🌿
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Submissions for our annual issue close tomorrow! Our first-ever novella window closes tomorrow! Submissions for our weird flash fiction special issue edited by @andrewkozma.net close Oct 31! Guidelines here: reckoning.press/submit/ reckoning.press/submit/novel... reckoning.press/reckoning-fl...
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Submit | Reckoning
[Leer en Español] We're currently reading for Reckoning 11, which will close to submissions August 31st, 2026. There are never any fees to submit. We pay SFWA-qualifying "professional" rates upon acce...
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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
uhg the feelings 😭
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
....and last for this round, RECKONING Environmental speculative and literary poetry, including this gem by Sophie Fink: reckoning.press/sturgeon-baby/
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Sturgeon Baby | Reckoning
She was old when the triceratops first rammed their horns into the trees that became soil, became ice, became soaring steel and concrete prisons, became ruins, became swamp. Becoming herself had been ...
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Since a NUMBER of people asked, a few follow-up things from my poetry panel earlier today: First, the HUGO SPREADSHEET OF DOOM 2027. This lists multiple works, not just poetry, that fans think deserve consideration for next year's Hugo awards: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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The Hugo Awards (2027)
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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
last call for your weird queer environmental justice novellas! we close at the end of this month. (you can also send us stuff that isn't weird or queer but I'm less likely to be the one to edit it if we do buy it). full guidelines here: reckoning.press/submit/novel...
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
at any rate, pace David Lynch, UK transphobes like all transphobes need to fix their hearts or die [a living death of ideological self-suffocation]. And here is an essay, not by me, and I hope this author is doing Ok but I'm actually pretty concerned. reckoning.press/ghost-of-a-c... /Fin
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Ghost of a Chance: A Trans Girl Tries to Live | Reckoning
I am a ghost. I don’t know if I was born this way, if I died when I was small, or if it happened later . . . . For a long time, those questions were important to me. But ghosts like me have existed in...
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Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@boriscrito.bsky.social and I will be representing @stelliform.press at LACon this weekend. What a time to stand up for Canadian climate SF! For a copy of @tkrex.bsky.social's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES or @syr.bsky.social's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE imported just ahead of the new tariffs, come find me
Print copies of What a Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker and The Wildcraft Drones by T.K. Rex, in my hand, with some Canada goldenrod and my late August garden in the background    Mycology in Spec Fic: Separating Fact From Fiction Friday, August 28, 2026, 4:30 PM, 263B
    Being Latinx and Creative in an English-Speaking Medium  Friday, August 28, 2026, 7:30 PM 256B
    Book Launch: The Fabulist – Nick Mamatas, Bruce McAllister, and Michael J. DeLuca Saturday, August 29, 2026, 9:00 AM San Simeon A
    Autographing: Michael J. DeLuca Saturday, August 29, 2026, 4:30 PM Pedestrian Bridge
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 26/08/2026
I'm excited to share that The Best Science Fiction of the Year: 2025 anthology will be published by Wyrm Publishing in November. Full details on my blog: neil-clarke.com/next-install...
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Next installment in the Best Science Fiction of the Year series – Neil Clarke
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Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
happy tuesday to all climate fiction writers seeking a metaphorical framework to express the climate catastrophe's resurfacing of long-thought-settled atavistic conflicts, and only to you
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Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII
Some of the weapons have exploded in the intense heat. Blasts have been reported in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, where a bomb-disposal team was dispatched to check a forest threatened...
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
As we approach our August 31st closing date for Reckoning 11, there's been a significant uptick in people attempting to submit via email--which we don't accept. Please, folks, read the guidelines. That's why they're there: reckoning.press/submit/
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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Today on Backlist Lit: a speculative lit mag roundup, featuring backlist gems from @augursociety.bsky.social, @sfpoetry.bsky.social, @reckoningmag.bsky.social, and more! ✨❤️ I hope y’all love these poems & stories as much as I do. backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/s...
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A Dash of Magic: A Speculative Backlist Lit Mag Roundup
Some of you might know that I began my writing journey as a would-be fantasy novelist, so it was only a matter of time before I did another SFF-themed backlist lit mag roundup. These stories and po…
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Callout to @nemerevermore.bsky.social's poem "P-T"
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I highly recommend Kate's book to anyone who wants to learn about the different kinds of work people are doing within the climate movment(s) and find a way to plug in!
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social on lots of things, including the interactions of injustices & how addressing one can address many @kadeeja.blacksky.app on utility justice @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social on land & water protection & check out the people they repost, too. Good luck.
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@publicgrids.org on electrical generation @waiterich.bsky.social on food systems @lissaharris.bsky.social on getting people on board w/burning less stuff @bethsawin.bsky.social on systems change to solve multiple problems @triofrancos.bsky.social on just electrification (ctd.)
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Everyone* loves this chart & its message & while it's a useful counter to "individual responsibility"--especially with the point stressed here about holding systems accountable--I think it's also useful to look at its entourage of meanings: 🧵 *not literally
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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The typesetter seeing this poem for the first time
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
....I love poems that play with form like this.
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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 21/08/2026
I love this poem so much. Often I hate concrete poems because the text becomes beholden to the shape, deforming itself to fit that desired image. But from the first lines, that doesn't happen here. The poem swims on the page like it should, like it was always meant to be there.
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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A new Imagine 2200 story about a self-driving bus, a stranded rider, and the quiet decision of strangers to go out of their way for each other. Sometimes the future we want starts with kindness. Free to read here: grist.org/climate-fict... #ClimateFiction #SolarPunk #Fiction
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It Takes a Full Bus
“Route updated,” the robotic voice for Tortoise chimed.  “Thanks,” Teal responded automatically, even though the Tortoise systems weren’t sentient. She glanced at the AutoRoute screen to confirm that ...
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Very excited to share with you today the final poem from Reckoning X, our tenth anniversary issue: "Sturgeon Baby" by Sophie L. Fink, which is a poem in the shape of a fish! Which is also a beautiful poem in itself; it's about survival and hope for a thriving future reckoning.press/sturgeon-baby/
Sophie Fink's poem "Sturgeon Baby" from Reckoning X, zoomed out so you can see its delightful fish shape. But don't try to read it here; click the link and read it on the web page, please!
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This story has it all: ✔️actual lives are improved ✔️science is corroborated ✔️political leadership is vendicated ✔️climate and environmental joint co-benefits are validated
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New podcast episode! In Jackie Roberti's "New Niches", a woman and some rare birds find refuge together on an offshore wind platform. A favorite from Reckoning 9, shortlisted for ECO25, now hear it read by Aaron Kling in his last performance for us as audio editor: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...
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Podcast Episode 51: New Niches | Reckoning
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Michael: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! It's me, Michael J. DeLuca, your once-and-future host, taking...
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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 14/08/2026
AI SCAMMERS ARE SENDING AUTHORS EMAILS AS ME! Heads up authors, if you receive an email from "me" check the email address. I will never ask for money or offer services. The scammer has used AI to give the email details that may on a first read be convincing. Be wary of any cold contacts you receive.
Graphic over a dark forest background. A white text box reads: “AI SCAMMERS ARE CONTACTING AUTHORS AS ME. I got an email from an author this morning, forwarding a scam email from ‘me’ to this author. It is very rare for me to cold contact or solicit work from authors. I have done it in the past when Stelliform was very new, but now I rarely take this approach. I do not ask authors for money or offer services. Most of my communications come from smiddleton@stelliform.press, stelliformpress@gmail.com or stelliform.publicity@gmail.com. If you receive an email that you’re not sure about, please send it to query@stelliform.press.” The Stelliform Press logo appears below. A red arrow says, “Read the scam email.”Graphic showing a scam email over a dark forest background, with identifying details obscured. The sender impersonates Selena Middleton, Editor in Chief at Stelliform Press, but uses the false address “[selena.stelliformpress@gmail.com](mailto:selena.stelliformpress@gmail.com),” highlighted by a red arrow reading “not my email address!” The message praises an author’s novel using specific character, plot, climate-crisis, Indigenous-knowledge and series details, then asks about current projects and literary representation and invites further conversation. It is signed “Selena Middleton, Editor in Chief, Stelliform Press.” The Stelliform Press logo appears below.
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The next-to-last piece from Reckoning X is "Our Earth, Our Future", a mixed-media collage illustration by Oladosu Michael Emerald: reckoning.press/our-earth-ou...
"Our Earth, Our Future", art by Oladosu Michael Emerald: A thin Black man in a broad-brimmed hat, wearing a shirt made of flowers and holding the earth, Africa-forward, in his hands, leans against a wall composed entirely of newspaper headlines about humanity's relationship with the earth.
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The next-to-last piece from Reckoning X is "Our Earth, Our Future", a mixed-media collage illustration by Oladosu Michael Emerald: reckoning.press/our-earth-ou...
"Our Earth, Our Future", art by Oladosu Michael Emerald: A thin Black man in a broad-brimmed hat, wearing a shirt made of flowers and holding the earth, Africa-forward, in his hands, leans against a wall composed entirely of newspaper headlines about humanity's relationship with the earth.
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
An FFer Giveaway is live on our Patreon! I'm doing 3 draws (including 1 for free-tier members) and you could win your choice of prizes. We've got books by FFers and anthologies and magazine issues containing FFers up for grabs! Plus check out a ton of great stories! www.patreon.com/fusionfragme...
The Drowned Man's Daughter - C.J. Lavigne
The House of Illusionists - Vanessa Fogg
Twin Tides - Hien Nguyen
Uncertain Sons - Thomas HaA Chorus, Divergent - ed. C.G. Aubrey
Enter Here - eds. C.J. Subko & M. Stevenson
Small Wonders - Aug-Dec 2025 issues
Radon Journal Patreon Membership
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Jeané D. Ridges @jdridges.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@reckoningmag.bsky.social (*pssst* have real pruhtty issue paperbacks available) @radonjournal.bsky.social
Spread of Reckoning issues: A Chorus, Divergent (psychedlic cover art with a rainbowy neurodiversity moth by Abi Stevens), X (Swoosh of a tail, tendrils, mushrooms bending upward, and cloud-like, curly wisps on cover, "Circle of Life," by Mónica Robles Corzo in view), & It Was Paradise (Peek of horns and an eye of Mónica Robles Corzo's "War Monster Glyph" on cover)
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Íde “of March” Hennessy @ideofmarch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
🐙🎹This includes my @reckoningmag.bsky.social story "The Piano Player Has Eight Arms," plus SO MANY MORE stories I can't wait to read! 30% off pre-orders is a great deal! 🤯 #newbooks #scifibooks #horrorbooks #clifi #speclit #ecohorror
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New from Reckoning X, our 10th anniversary issue, "When the Earth Answers", a post-apocalyptic resurgence poem by Gloria Ogo: "Some of us still dreamed in fossil fuel, woke sweating from the noise of combustion. But even then, the bees returned" reckoning.press/when-the-ear...
Cover art for Reckoning X by Mónica Robles Corzo, featuring a fish, a human, a snake, some mushrooms, and the tail of a fox in a semicircle surrounded by curlicues representing communication, with a big black X in the middle, against a white background.
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our patreon went slightly up instead of slightly down this month for the first time in awhile! Thank you very much, new supporters!
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🍄 C.G. Aubrey🍂 @cgaubrey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@reckoningmag.bsky.social friends! We will be closing to regular submissions on 31 August. Until then, send us your creative writing on environmental justice! (and don't forget "environmental justice" isn't just environmental+justice) :D reckoning.press/submit/
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Submit | Reckoning
[Leer en Español] We're currently reading for Reckoning 11, which will close to submissions August 31st, 2026. There are never any fees to submit. We pay SFWA-qualifying "professional" rates upon acce...
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🍄 C.G. Aubrey🍂 @cgaubrey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@reckoningmag.bsky.social will remain open for our special flash fiction issue until 31 October 2026. reckoning.press/reckoning-fl...
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Reckoning Flash Fiction Call – Reckoning Gets Weird | Reckoning
For Reckoning’s next special issue, we are asking for environmental justice flash fiction of 1000 words or less. While we'll take 1-1200 words, we strongly prefer things in the 500-1000 range. Outside...
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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 05/08/2026
"The stinkbug, the newborn cicada, spiderkind’s Magellan, all sunk into a concrete grave, smeared into memory"
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