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Skunk Cabbage Books

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An indie bookstore and community workshop space in Chicago focused on building our connections to the natural world. linktr.ee/skunkcabbagebooks

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The Vampire Bridget 👩‍🎤 @bridgetgordon.gay · 14/10/2026
here’s me reading the poem featured in the new issue of Milwaukee Avenue Messenger
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you can’t kill us in a way that matters
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They made it! By popular demand, 2027 Slingshot organizers are now in stock. 🌿
Slingshot Organizers in both pocket and desk size are stacked on a wooden desk in front of a green wall and potted plants. Each planner is a different color.
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mike Ditka was a world class shit for brains
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Who knows more about the rewards of inefficient crafting than fiber artists? Priyanka will be joined in conversation by fellow knitting enthusiast Greta Johnsen of WBEZ.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Join us and our neighbors at Firefly Fiber Arts Studio for Maker's Night with a twist!  We'll be welcoming Priyanka Mattoo, the author of How to Be Less Useful: The Joy of Inefficiency.
Priyanka Mattoo's How to Be Less Useful: The Joy of Inefficiency at Firefly Fiber Arts Studio on November 13th @ 6:30. Priyanka will be in discussion with Greta Johnsen. BYO WIP!
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Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👻 Join us Friday for a free, fun evening of spoooooky zine readings to kick off #CZF2026. We'll have an incredible lineup featuring Kyung Na Park, Iris Wright, STEIN, & @peanutbuddarart.bsky.social. Come out to support local artists!! Thanks to @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social for hosting us! 💖
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Hallowzine, a free, all ages night of spooky zine readings, featuring PeanutBuddarArt, Kyung Na Park, Iris Wright, and STEIN. Friday Oct 9, 6:30–8 pm, at Skunk Cabbage Books in Avondale, 2826 N Milwaukee Ave. Presented by Chicago Zine Fest.
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🤍⭐️ ᴀᴀʟɪʏᴀʜ ʟᴀᴄʜᴇʟ'ᴇ ⭐️🤍 @peanutbuddarart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Are you guys ready for the fall festival season? 🎃✨ Come see me @chicagozinefest.bsky.social this Saturday! And stop by @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social the night before for a spooky comic reading :D
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Check the link in our bio for their gift registry.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 4 - 11 is Banned Books Week. Prisons continue to be the largest site of censorship in the country, leaving incarcerated readers without links to their friends, families, and fiction from the outside. Help support incarcerated readers and Midwest Books to Prisoner by donating a book!
A maroon, gold, and blue flyer that reads, "Banned Books Week. October 4-11. Support independent bookstores and readers in prison! This week, when you buy a book from us for someone in prison, your gift will be matched in cash and donated to Midwest Books to Prisoners! Shop in store or on our online wish list!"
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o faquir da dor @tropigotico.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We'll be opening at noon on Friday 10/2 to accommodate our quarterly all staff meeting. See ya then! 💫
A photo of Skunk Cabbage Books' children's section. An off white text box reads in black, "Opening at noon on 10/2".
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Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Join us Friday October 9th for Hallowzine, an all-ages night of spooky zine readings! We'll kick off #CZF2026 with a fun, free event, thanks to our hosts at @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social in Avondale!! 👻
Playful flyer featuring a smiling ghost and the text "Hallowzine, a free, all-ages night of spooky zine readings. Friday October 9th, Skunk Cabbage Books, 2826 N Milwaukee Ave, presented by Chicago Zine Fest".
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us October 21st for our With Feathers book club's discussion of Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian. Braiding her personal story with science, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness of all the life around us.
A hand holds a copy of Forest Euphoria up in front of pink and yellow native roses. The cover shows crows, snakes, and fungus.
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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 24/09/2026
📢 The Injustice Watch judicial election guide is here! We spent months researching all 61 Cook County judges on your ballot this fall so you can make an informed decision about who should remain a judge. buff.ly/jpBxfAa
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Cook County November 2026 Judicial Election Guide
Injustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections.
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joeengleman.bsky.social @joeengleman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Come for The Battle of Lincoln Park, stay for the bureaucratic wisdom from @danielkayhertz.bsky.social: “If you & your friends had to implement and enforce new legislation w/ just a Microsoft 365 subscription, how would you do it?” My latest for @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...
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Fighting for housing after The Battle of Lincoln Park - Chicago Reader
Late last month, Belt Publishing released a new edition of The Battle of Lincoln Park with archival maps and photographs.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What a treat to sell books for @wiscobirder and @extremelyaccuratebirds at @urbanbirdfest this past weekend! Thanks to everyone who came to say hey.
A photo of the Nature Museum from the pond. Dexter Patterson, the WiscoBirder, sits at a table showing off his field guide, Birds of the Great Lake. Dexter signs copies of his book. The Extremely Accurate Birds podcast boys, Tommy Siegel and Billy Libby, perform a song about if Bruce Springsteen really wanted to see an Indigo Bunting.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This weekend is The Urban Birding Festival and we'll be there! Here's where to find us. Our storefront will be open for normal shopping hours.
A half tone vintage map of Chicago's geology fills the background. Over top is a light blue text banner reading, "Skunk Cabbage Books at the Urban Birding Festival, Sept. 18 - 20". Inset is a photo of a white non-binary person wearing a mask and a Skunk Cabbage Books ballcap with a pigeon sitting on their shoulder at last year's Urban Birding Festival. A halftone map of Chicago's geology fills the background. A blue text bar with an inset photo of Dexter Patterson's Birds of the Great Lakes reads in black, "Friday: Bird Joy for All with Dexter Patterson." A second banner with an inset photo of the cover of Extremely Accurate Birds by Tommy Siegel reads in black, "Saturday: Extremely Accurate Bird Songs with Tommy Siegel and Billy Libby". A photo of a diorama at the Nature Museum of a taxidermied deer looking up at a fake oak tree. Blue text boxes read, "Saturday + Sunday: Fest HQ @ Notebaert Nature Museum. 10 am - 4 pm."
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 17/09/2026
Bookstores Sound Alarm Over Trump’s Anti-Terrorism Memo
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Bookstores Sound Alarm Over Trump’s Anti-Terrorism Memo
In a letter to the American Booksellers Association, eight left-wing, mission-driven bookstores argue that the broad definition of domestic terrorism contained in a 2025 national security presidential...
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A hugely clarifying read.
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm not going to reveal the Madison maps cover (June '27!) until Chicago bluesky pays more respect
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Chicago in 50 Maps
By Daniel Block & Andrea Craft April 6, 2027 This is a pre-order. Copies will ship in April 2027. Creative, colorful, original new maps of Chicago from local cartographers. For Chicagoans new and ...
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And if you're headed to @smallpressexpo.bsky.social in Bethesda this weekend, say hey and buy comics from our booksellers who will be tabling there this weekend!
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This weekend is Printer's Row Lit Fest and we're making our inaugural appearance! We'll be at Polk and Dearborn with staff picks, deep cuts, and Skunk Cabbage merch from 10-6 on Saturday and Sunday. Our storefront will be closed through the weekend so come out and find us in the wild!
A vintage map of Chicago's lakefront fills the background with Skunk Cabbage Books's logo and the Printers Row Lit Fest logo in the foreground. A vintage map of Chicago's lakefront fills the background. Two taupe text boxes with black text read, "Sept 12 + 13. 10 am - 6 pm. Dearborn + Polk. Storefront closed!"A map of Printers Row Lit Fest. A table at the corner of Dearborn and Polk is circled in orange. Orange text reads, "find us on polk!"
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We have some new fall merch joining the line up, just in time for cozying up around a campfire. Get one of our new enameled mugs in store or at our table at Printer's Row Lit Fest and The Urban Birding Festival this month. We even road tested them for you. 🏕️
A forest green enameled camp mug with the Skunk Cabbage Books logo in white sits on the arm of an Adirondack chair on an island looking into the Gulf of Maine. A forest green enameled mug with the Skunk Cabbage Books logo in white sits on the arm of an Adirondack chair. The sun sets in the background.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On searching Himalayan habitats for the elusive snow leopard. lithub.com/searching-fo...
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Searching For the Elusive Snow Leopard Deep in the Himalayas
The Himalaya, India, January 2008 At minus sixteen degrees Celsius, it was warm for a winter’s day in the Himalaya. I was in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh, a huge gorge that cuts deep into t…
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Every time I see a media outlet cite or feature Rahm Emanuel normalization, I'm gonna remind you all that Emanuel oversaw the cover up of the state murder of a child and then fled Chicago.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Kitchen Curse collects short stories from Eka Kurniawan, originally published across many Indonesian literary magazines, and pulls them together in a single volume with help from several translators. His stories range from the surreal to to the political but all carry his dark wit.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Aya is a slice of life comic series written by Marguerite Abouet, illustrated by Clément Oubrerie, and translated from the French by Helge Dascher. The series follows independent Aya, her easy going friends, and the nosy adults in their lives in 1970s Cote d'Ivoire.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Airplane Mode is our bimonthly subscription for literature in translation. Every other month, get two titles in translation for 15% off and read around the world with us! In September, we're going to Cote d'Ivoire and Indonesia.
A photo of Aya: Life In Yop City sitting on top of Cote d'Ivoire's representation on a loose world map painted on a park playground. A photo of Kitchen Curse sitting on top of Indonesia's representation on a loose world map painted on a park playground. Aya and Kitchen Curse sit nestled together in a bed of clover in the park.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
August is Women in Translation month. Here's a sample of what's on our front table. 🌞
A stack of paperbacks sits on a wooden table surrounded by house plants. The titles include The Witch by Marie Ndiaye, Event Horizon by Balsam Karam, They by Helle Helle, Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Monica Ojeda, Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson, Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Conde, and My Men by Victoria Kielland.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
FYI! We'll be closed on Tuesday, August 25th. Apologies for the inconvenience. Come see us this weekend, otherwise we'll see ya Wednesday.
A zoomed in scan from a historic Chicago geological survey map in earthy greens and yellows with the blue of the lake. A white circle reads in black, "Skunk Cabbage Books will be Closed Tuesday, August 25th."
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/08/2026
Gary Indiana hasn't had power for almost two weeks
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‘I can’t take it’: Thousands of Gary residents go over a week without power after deadly storms
Residents in Gary, Indiana and surrounding areas are struggling to stay cool, fed and connected after storms cause prolonged power outages.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 17/08/2026
Protecting mature trees from storms and disease can reduce Chicago deaths, study finds
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Protecting mature trees from storms and disease can reduce Chicago deaths, study finds
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
With Feathers is our nature themed book club that meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month. In September, we're reading Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo. We'll meet September 16th to discuss. 🍄 🌿
A paperback copy of Pedro the Vast sits in a bed of cone flowers and roses. The cover features a silhouette of a man over a psychedelic mushroom spore print.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It's hot. It's muggy. Here are some novels to match the weather.
A stack of books on a wooden table top, surrounded with green houseplants.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We'll be closed the weekend of Sept 12 and 13th because half our team will be at Printers Row Lit Fest and the other half are tabling at SPX! Drop by and support their work if you're in Bethesda that weekend.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Come find us popping up in the wild in September! We'll share more details in the coming weeks, but we're making our debut at Printers Row Lit Fest on September 12 + 13th and then popping up onsite for the Urban Birding Festival the following weekend. Find us at the Nature Museum!
A vintage waterway map of Illinois and the southern tip of Lake Michigan fills the background. A light blue text box reads in white text, "Skunk Cabbage In the Wild! Sept. 12 + 13: Printers Row Lit Fest. Sept. 18 - 20: The Urban Birding Festival."
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Simpsons bus driver "don't make me tap the sign" meme. In the second panel the driver points to a sign that reads "The boy wizard author is a ghoul. Pick something else."
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
this. stop. direct harm and directly used to bully and also influence political decisions.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Log off, touch grass, read handmade pubs. Here's some of the artists currently vending their zines with us. We're currently at capacity for new zine vendors but our consignment application is always available on our website or if you shoot us an email and we'll get you on our waitlist.
A photo of handmade publications, including color zines, mini zines, risograph magazines, and self published pamphlets. They are spread out across a vintage rug. A photo of handmade publications, including color zines, mini zines, risograph magazines, and self published pamphlets. They are spread out across a vintage rug.
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Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🛥️ 💥 🫍
Michael Madsen (rip) as bud in kill bill vol 1an2 saying Those orcas deserve their revenge
And those yachts deserve to die
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Here's a lil sample of what's on our staff picks shelf right now. 📚️ + Daughter of the Mountains by Fatimah Asghar + Forest Euphoria (now in paperback!) by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian + Score by Kennedy Ryan + Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle + Helm by Sarah Hall + Restless by Joseph Kai
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We are adjusting our hours starting August 1st! Our new regular hours are: Mondays: Closed Tuesdays + Wednesdays: 11 - 6 Thursdays + Fridays: 11 - 7 Saturdays + Sundays: 10 - 6 Come see us soon 🍄
A blue gridded background with dark purple text boxes. White text reads, "Regular Hours. Monday: Closed, Tues-Weds: 11 - 6, Thurs-Fri: 11-7, Sat + Sun: 10-6". Illustrations of mushrooms from vintage field guides decorate the edges of the graphic.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The @chicagoreader.com is and has been consistently excellent. I really hope that they get the resources they need to continue for 50 more years. Why are rich progressives not funding local independent media? This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
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The Cook County jail’s new $7 million visitation center
Cook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itself
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-sho...
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You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever
From Playstation Games to ebooks and family photos, corporations are replacing ownership with temporary access. But we don’t have to accept that.
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is a compulsively readable portrait of our best neighbors, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come. 🚣
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Join our With Feathers book club on August 19th at 6:00 to discuss Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🌲🇵🇸 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Heard it said once that the percent of energy lost to heat from computing comparatively is kind of like if you were detonating nuclear bombs to power your house. Obviously trying to create a human mind-like computer program could never exist with this extreme energy disparity. And what do you know
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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
16 year old Egg is sent to his grandfather's farm in Kentucky for the summer, where he discovers a strange, maybe back from extinction? bird. Through his new relationships with out-of-town scientists, the Kentucky locals, and hisgrandfather, Egg navigates family estrangement and cultural inheritance
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