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Lover of all things fantasy 🦄🧚🏼‍♂️🐉 Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
anyway if romance novels are so formulaic how come i just read one where a woman enlists a famous highwayman to get revenge on the puritanical cult that killed her family but the highwayman (who btw can talk to animals) can't play the hero anymore bc he suffers from disabling vertigo
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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 23/09/2026
How can I not want to promote that?! So I hope you'll enjoy "The Grey Earl's Heist: A Romance". Releasing towards the end of 2026, with high heat M/M & M/F romantasy, in a Regency-like world. With capers! And couples falling in love, and healing from trauma, while taking revenge on an evil Duke.
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Paisley Rose @paisley-rose.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh dang, it's Bisexual Visibility Day? (I can't keep track when I am visible to myself every day.) Well, you should definitely preorder GET LUCKY CHARM today, then, because it's got a disaster bi FMC who makes a fool of herself with all people of any gender! books2read.com/getluckycharm
A trope-map for the book Get Lucky Charm by Paisley Rose, featuring the book cover in the centre against a teal gradient background with text and arrows all around it.

The text reads:

Friends to lovers
Naughty pun in the title
A magic necklace that might not be magic
Demon (arrow pointing at a cat on the cover)
The author says it’s funny
He falls first
She kisses a pretty girl
She kisses a pretty guy
She also kisses this guy (arrow pointing at the man on the cover)
Look at them, kissing (arrow pointing to the illustration of them kissing)
They do more than kissing…
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR 🤖🇳🇬🇺🇸🦿✍🏾💨 🏆 Winner of an NAACP Image Award, Locus Award and Libby Award. Finalist for a Hugo, Nebula, Ohio Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Glass Bell Award. It's good to pause and note these things at once. Onward.
Death of the Author and Rusted Robots book covers
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
SURPRISE!! my first uk tour 😭


The

SLANTWISE HISTORIES

UK BOOK TOUR

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17th November | Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, Bath

18th November | Waterstones Trafalgar Square, London


19th November | Waterstones Birmingham

20th November | Topping & Company Booksellers, York

21st November | The Bound, Whitley Bay (Daytime Signing)

21st November | Topping & Company Booksellers, Edinburgh

ALIX E. HARROW
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
People are complicated! You can harm one community in the past and help a different one in the future! Let’s hold all truths at the same time! bsky.app/profile/shar...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/09/2026
If you would like to contribute to MY campaign: runsignup.com/courtneymilan
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Waymakers Virtual Mileage Challenge
👟 Challenge Overview Throughout September 2026, the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights will host its 6th Annual Waymakers Mileage Challenge to celebrate 20 years of advocating for the right...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
REBUILD needs funding to keep going and I am helping to raise $40,000 by December 31. if you can make a personal donation, please support here: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
Informational flyer for Darkness RISING REBUILD, detailing therapy services for justice-involved people of color, program benefits, contact info, and impact stats, with green and yellow accents and a woman giving a thumbs up.
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Alleanna Harris @alleannaharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s time for a COVER REVEAL! ✨ I had the honor of illustrating Onward, We Marched, writer Erica Martin’s debut picture book with Penguin Kids. Here’s the official summary: “A stunning and lyrical picture book introduction to the Civil Rights Movement from celebrated author Erica Martin… #kidlit
The cover of Onward We Marched, written by Erica Martin and illustrated by Alleanna Harris. People of different ages and backgrounds link arms and sing in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Serafina (she/her) @serafinaofthelost.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wild to finish a book that IMO is a MASTERPIECE, only to get online and read reviews that are like “meh” and “kinda boring”. Shows that you really gotta write for your people and forget everyone else! Haters gonna hate but lovers gonna love 🥰
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
Read the full story:
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 06/09/2026
The "fantasy has to have rules" thinking just... generally bores me. I get where it's coming from! But I am bored. I don't want to read it. I don't want to write it. I want worlds and magic with chaos and surprise and a total absence of reliability. And also people occasionally getting electrocuted.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026
2027! Pre-orders begin in January
Publishers Marketplace
Category: Non-fiction: Politics/Current Affairs
BAD GIRLS By Gabrielle A. Perry
Imprint: Legacy Lit
Deal Report
July 18, 2024
Epidemiologist, political commentator, and founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation Gabrielle A. Perry MPH's BAD GIRLS, an examination of the carceral system as a public health crisis for women that targets and impacts them before, during, and after imprisonment, drawn from research and the author's own experience as an incarcerated woman, to Amina Iro at Legacy Lit, at auction, by Leigh Eisenman at Wolf Literary Services (world).
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COMING 2027
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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you’re wanting to celebrate Bi Visibility Month and Sapphic September, have I got good news for you! Me: bisexual author. My books: Many sapphic tales to choose from, but especially Love in Netherford and These Marvelous Beasts! 🏳️‍🌈
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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
West Africans practiced smallpox inoculation long before Europeans had ever heard of it, and brought the knowledge with them to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade. Historian Elise Mitchell examines how these stories were “forgotten” amid the hardening of racial ideologies in the 19th century
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The world has spent centuries forgetting the African history of immunisation
Historian Dr Elise Mitchell re-examines the early history of smallpox inoculation on both ends of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
Nobody fucking believes Zionists when they say criticism of Israel or opposition to it is antisemitic anymore. They wore that one out. We all can see that massacring every Palestinian in sight & expanding genocide regionally has nothing to do with Judaism. Including many anti Zionist Jews worldwide.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
Y'all, if you never had the chance to support my debut novel, this is it. And gosh, whatever have you been waiting for? It's that hot fire. It got the juice. A young man exiled from New Orleans by Katrina's journey home across the south possessed by the spirit his foster mother gave him as a hex.
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None But the Righteous: A Novel
Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction "[A] profound de...
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 26/08/2026
No matter whether you're intending to publish the piece or not, you gotta stop writing for your Very Worst And Most Horriblest Readers. Are they out there? Yes! Will they read your book? Probably! Do you have to give a shit? You do NOT.
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Serafina (she/her) @serafinaofthelost.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Somehow the library got like six of my holds in on the same day and now I don’t have enough time to read them all before they’re due. So I need help choosing between the one about hot lesbians and the one about… something else. Nevermind. I answered my own question.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“HOW TO LIVE IN THE AGE OF A.I.” ALLLLLL This. 100%!!! 😊❤️
HOW TO LIVE IN THE AGE OF A.I.
READ SLOWLY MAKE UGLY THINGS
DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING
THE FUTURE IS HERE
EAT TOGETHER
GET BORED
AVOID INSTANT
REPLIES
TING TING TING TING!
CALL YOUR GRANDMA
/GRANDPA
FALL IN LOVE
CRY EVERY NOW
& THEN
MEMORISE A POEM TRUST YOUR GUT TAKE YOUR TIME
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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 19/08/2026
late to the party but I hear we're posting about our books? here's me posing a blow-up of my cover for HIGHER MAGIC, aka my favorite object from debut year magic grad school from a 1st-gen pov replete with disability rep, talking skull, irreverent Jane Austen quotes, love, & collective action
Me, hand on hip and smiling giddily at the camera while holding a giant foam sign with the cover of HIGHER MAGIC on it. I'm wearing my grad school union shirt, which reads I like big books & I cannot lie.
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Serafina (she/her) @serafinaofthelost.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just finished Muñeca by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social and OMG it’s everything I want in a gothic romance! It’s sexy, it’s scary, and it reminded me to put on some Aretha Franklin 🤘highly recommend!!
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/08/2026
Prison abolition is a generational project. We're not throwing open the prison doors and calling it a day. We're fundamentally reconstructing society around care and solidarity and replacing prisons with structures built on restorative justice. It's not one bill or one measure.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
There is not 1 solution. There’s 1,000 solutions. 10,000 solutions. My nonprofit is my solution. PREVENTION of women being incarcerated or re-incarcerated is my research-backed solution.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 11/08/2026
I've talked about the Sameer Project before—an excellent life-saving on-the-ground initiative in Gaza. Since April 2024, they've distributed nearly a quarter of a million meals alone (plus water, medical care, and shelter). But funding has dropped so much that they'll have to shut down without help.
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Food & Water x The Sameer Project
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...
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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Friends, one of my most hopeful stories -- really! -- is in this anthology called Eat the Rich, which is open for pre-orders now. I'm so, so happy to see this out in the world. Oh, and in case you're squeamish about cannibalism: so am I! My angle is... very different. bookshop.org/p/books/eat-...
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Eat the Rich: Stories of Carnivorous Anti-Capitalism
If there's a problem in the world-literally any problem-you can bet there's a billionaire behind it somewhere, exacerbating untold suffering for their own personal gain. War, famine, pestilence, and d...
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Serafina (she/her) @serafinaofthelost.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Not even a murder mystery person but I’ve read 2 this year and they were both excellent. Check out A Master of Djinn by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social for the fabulously dressed characters and the world building or the 7 and a half deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton for time-loop shenanigans 🤓
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 06/08/2026
This story you keep hearing about Jews abandoning the Democratic party or moving rightwards in droves? That's a lie. It's right wing propaganda. The data simply doesn't show it. If anything, Jews under 40 in the US are the most progressive generation of Jews *ever*.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Atlanta, some comrades have been working for years on this exhibition about Kathleen Cleaver that opens tomorrow at the Auburn Avenue Research Library. Please help spread the word and visit yourselves. It runs until Jan 4, 2027 so you have time to visit. theworldsshemade.com
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The World(s) She Made
Revolutionary icon, racial justice activist, and former Black Panther Party Communications Secretary Kathleen Neal Cleaver delves into her personal archive.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 29/07/2026
I simply don't think weapons manufacturers should be allowed to profit from genocide or war crimes. And I certainly don't think they should be allowed to lobby lawmakers to go to war to find a use for their weapons.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is a monumental loss and also what an amazing life lived. Rest in power Ms. Saar.
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Serafina (she/her) @serafinaofthelost.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Just finished A Long Time Dead by @samarabreger.bsky.social and OH MY it’s one of the more horny things I’ve read in a WHILE!! And I have no complaints 😍
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JT Cestkowski @jtcestkowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.
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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Bay Area folks! Please mark your calendars for September 10, when I will be doing a Meet the Author event at the Oakland Public Library, 6 to 7:30 p.m. I'm really excited about this event and I hope to see you all there to celebrate Muñeca in my town! oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/69ab4...
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Meet the Author: Cynthia Gómez - Muñeca
Local author Cynthia Gómez describes her work as "feminist, anti-capitalist, queer, Latine horror with dark fantasy streaks in her hair." Her debut story collection The Nightmare Box and Other Stories...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
millionexperiments.com/projects/bttf - I love the work BTTF does. #Map4Youth which I launched on Twitter in 2019 was their first "grant" when they were just starting. It was $2500.
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Black Trans Travel Fund
The Black Trans Travel Fund is a grassroots, Black Trans-led Collective, providing Black transgender women with financial and material resources needed to remove barriers to self-determining and acces...
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/05/2026
Okay so Jane Austen is making me retroactively like a bunch of these characters I originally found annoying by simply surrounding them with actual demons. Well done.
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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!
Text: Am I a boy? Am I a girl? Who knows! But everyone finds me hot and that makes everyone gay

Picture: Sailor Uranus/Haruka Tenou winking
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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It's my pleasure to announce that, after a two year tumultuous journey, this anthology is officially set to release into the wild. Kickstarter rewards are being fulfilled as we speak, and you, yes you, can get your hands on a copy now. bookshop.org/p/books/eat-...
Eat the Rich: stories of carnivorous anti-capitalism will release on August 27
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In this edition of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I offer an overview of a good book about the influence of civil rights organizing in Harlem; recommend several articles, podcasts, films, and photo essays; and more… open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
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Prisons, Prose & Protest - #40
Rants, Musings and More
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/07/2026
Hey, Margaret Bates is a graduate student who's doing a study on romance book buying behaviors and would like your input, if you have a chance. forms.office.com/r/b6E8qJV8Tm
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Microsoft Forms
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
People should know that NYPL alone has 100 vacancies and that this doesn't include the 160 vacancies at BPL & QPL. Library workers also need higher pay. Meanwhile the libraries ARE NOT RECEIVING ENOUGH FUNDING. We need @mayor.nyc.gov and the @council.nyc.gov to fund libraries at 0.5% of budget now.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I very much appreciate this statement of solidarity by Muslims for Just Futures about the Prairieland Sentencing. www.muslimsforjustfutures.org/blog/mjfstat...
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Statement on the Prairieland Sentencing  — Muslims for Just Futures
Muslims for Just Futures is horrified by the extreme sentences handed down today in the Prairieland case . These sentences, ranging from 30 to 100 years, are death by incarceration. 
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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My little announcement - I have a new book in 2027, and this is the cover!
cover of THE LADY OF THORNS by Tasha Suri, cathedral arches surrounding the title, covered in flowers and thorns, overlooking a castle against a dark blue sky
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!
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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The last posts 16/ Some Freedom Days held on. One was June 19, called Juneteenth by the 1880s. It’s hard to say exactly why it survived. But former slaves thought the day so important they raised $1000 in 1872 to buy land for their commemoration—Emancipation Park. Img: 1880s Emancipation Park | HPL
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/06/2026
"Why do innocent people flee the police?" Idk, maybe the fact that they kill newborn babies and puppies might have something to do with it. Just saying.
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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026
The NABB found in a 2025 report that there are 14 states without a Black-owned bookstore. Utah is one of them. On Juneteenth, Olivia Nightingale is going opening her bookstore there. Or, the starting version of it. By: Palak Jayswal #BlackskyNews #BlackskyReads www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...
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This woman is on a mission to open a first-of-its-kind bookstore in Utah
Nightingale, an author and editor, stated she will start taking her book mobile out during Utah's Juneteenth festival.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I have a new microfiction about grief & beauty & destruction in Bending Genres. read my story “Dishes” + all of Issue 51 🍽️ 🎨 grateful to @rgvaughan.bsky.social & the @bendinggenres.bsky.social editors ♡ bendinggenres.com/dishes/
Journal: Bending Genres, Issue 51
Title of story: Dishes
Author: Anna Vangala Jones

Text of story: “Louisa, my coworker, keeps telling me about this studio where you decorate dishes before standing on the rooftop to fling them at the ground—she says it’s therapeutic. Better than actual therapy. You wouldn’t be the only widow there, she assures me, lots of widows. She explains it’s nice because you get the soothing, artistic activity first and then there is the destruction. The ability to shatter into oblivion the beauty you’ve just created. Before anyone else can take it from you or ruin it. It sounds strange but I’d try almost anything at this point. I insist on going alone. The ceramic pieces are premade. We spend the first visit painting them and then they get glazed and fired in the kiln. We return a week later to admire our finished products before heading up several flights of stairs to the roof and throwing them as hard as we can at the vacant lot below. There’s not a lot of socializing that happens. I paint my teacup periwinkle and white while I lie to the old woman next to me about my husband by pretending he’s at home and still alive. “Does he question why you come here?” she asks. “My kids don’t get it. It’s good for my anger but they don’t understand what I’m so angry about. Neither do I,” she admits, “but I know I am and this helps.” I don’t tell him I’m here, I say. I like being able to tell her some truth. The day the dishes are ready, we don’t speak a word to each other or anyone else. Just indulge in the violence together and alone. I don’t notice anyone else’s debris but my own. I only see tiny periwinkle and white fragments sparkling on the pavement like millions of stars in distant galaxies.”
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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 04/06/2026
Authors with multiple books under their belt: Comparing your first book to your most recent release, how have you improved? Then compliment your first book. #WritingCommunity #Authors #WritingQ
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Serafina (she/her) @serafinaofthelost.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Me chasing down underwater creatures in ACNH
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