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Trae Hawkins

@traewrites.bsky.social
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SFF writer 💫 traehawkins.blog Editor @anathemamagazine.bsky.social rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social Words in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, etc. #ViableParadise2023 he/him

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Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The hero of hope-punk returns with another banger. Life is hard, you deserve to read this story.
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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 03/09/2026
Hail, sophonts! The pigeon is a proud, majestic dinosaur, but what's it doing with a robot on another planet? Experience today's story, "Pigeons and Robots and Pensive Worlds" by @traewrites.bsky.social, to find out!
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Escape Pod 1061: Pigeons and Robots and Pensive Worlds
We found the pigeon and its robot companion on Planet 44. Picture-perfect, this planet, large enough for our directors to build schools of nepotistic grandeur, their tiny…
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
IT’S UP!! 🪶✨ My story about pigeons and robots and hope is out now!! And in ESCAPE POD, a dream publication of mine 🥹 I love this story so much! Please give it a read/listen! 🫶🏾
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Submissions update! ✨ During our first submission window since relaunch, we’ve received over 200 submissions! The work has been breathtaking—our issue 1 ToC will blow you away! 💜 We’re in our final round of deliberation, so if you submitted & haven’t heard back from us, keep an eye on your inbox! 👀
Anathema Magazine has received over two hundred submissions from talented queer writers, poets, and artists of color from around the world. Thank you! We’re so excited to share our first relaunch issue with you all! If you haven’t heard back from us yet, we’re in the final round of deliberation, so keep an eye on your inbox!
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Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My story, The Lure, is this month's featured free story in The Sunday Morning Transport. www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-lure Discover what secrets wait beneath the surface at the island of Saint Helena: "For hunger, like justice, only waits so long."
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The Lure
August travels with the Sunday Morning Transport include stories by Christopher Campbell, Curtis Chen, Marie Brennan, and Rick Wilber.
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We’re extending our deadline!! Send us your very best—you’ve got ‘til the 31st! 🤩👀
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
READERCON FUNSIES 🤩 If you’re going to be at Readercon (or the general area) on Friday, July 10th @ 3pm, stop by to hang out with Anathema and @othersidespec.bsky.social members!! 💜 It’ll be a chill time to be in community with other queer folks and eat good food! We hope to see you soon!! ✨
Come hang with Anathema and Otherside Magazine at Readercon!! We will be having a chill hangout at 3pm on Friday, July 10th at the hotel restaurant’s porch—or the front entrance couches! Stop by to eat and kiki!
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
anti-capitalist solarpunk future HELL YEAH www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr... @tkrex.bsky.social
The Wildcraft Drones by TK Rex
14 interconnected short stories
Illustrations
Comics
anti-capitalist solarpunk future
(critical) humor, hope & optimism
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
We’re finally open to submissions!! Send us your best! 🎉💜
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nige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 20/06/2026
That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
IT’S ALMOST TIME!! Anathema officially opens to submissions on June 20th! ✨ We cannot wait to begin this journey after a four-year hiatus. Thank you for all of the support!! 🥹 Check our website (link in bio) for submission guidelines. We’re excited to begin reading!! 💜
ANATHEMA opens to submissions in two days! After a 4-year hiatus, Anathema is back and ready to bring you outstanding speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by queer artists of color! We are happy to announce that we OPEN to submissions from June 20th to July 20th! Mark your calendars and prepare your best work! We’re proud to announce that we pay our creators a professional SFWA rate! Thinking of submitting? Check out www.anathemamag.com/guidelines for our guidelines!
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
24 HOURS LEFT TO BACK US!! 🗣️✨ Being a part of Anathema’s relaunch has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done—and we’ve still got such a long future ahead of us!! 🥹💜
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I’M OVER THE MOON 🥹 Thanks to everyone who’s donated & shared!! I can’t wait to see what we do in the future 🎉💜
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I met DaVaun for the first time last year, & though it was brief, he impressed upon me the urgency of supporting our fellow marginalized writers. This is so hard to hear 😞 FIYAH has been inspirational to me & has done so much for Black SFF writers. Whatever comes next, I will support loud & proud 💜
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
as always @mccormackwc.bsky.social is killing it
I would like to take every workshop (other than mine because it would be a real evil twin battle of the wills situation, idk): McCormack Writing Center's 2026 Speculative Online Faculty: A.E. Osworth, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Cal Angus, Chana Porter, Gerardo Samano Cordova, H.D. Hunter, Jessica Johns, Jami Nakamura Lin, me, Puloma Ghosh, Rivers Solomon, Ruben Reyes Jr., Silvia Park, Tehlor Kay Meija, and Wendy C. Ortiz. Application deadline June 3rd
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Part Two of our Author Bracket! ✨ In the spirit of celebrating queer/BIPOC authors, we’ve created a bracket of vanguard & contemporary writers! This round, you can vote on which of these contemporary authors you’d pick as your next read. Go to our Instagram to vote or comment your choices below! 💜
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We’re officially in the final stretch! 🤩
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Meet fiction editor Trae Hawkins (he/him). Trae loves all things fantasy and sci-fi-the cozy and the dark, the action-packed and the ruminating! He's been published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Augur Magazine, and he wants to read your most hopeful, optimistic works! #Anathema #SFF #kickstarter
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Oh, look, it’s me!! 🤩
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
My drive home from Charm City Spec was so treacherous and time-consuming due to Baltimore baseball traffic I was too exhausted then to share this pic from Charm City Spec, but here I am with the four other readers — @traewrites.bsky.social, TT Madden, @mahailasmith.ca, and Aina Hunter. A fun night!
Five writers standing in a row before a storefront window facing the street: Trae Hawkins, TT Madden, Mahaila Smith, Aina Hunter, and me. Trae Hawkins is wearing black pants, a blue vertically striped shirt, and a black coat with what appears to be a white wool lining over it all; TT Madden is wearing a white blouse, a black wrap over it with white and purple hearts, and a skirt with an image of Rivendell on the front; Mahaila Smith is wearing a short red skirt, a black top, pink and yellow shoes, and elf ears; Aina Hunter is wearing black pants and a black top, and a faded denim jacket over them; and I'm wearing red pants, a black sweater which depicts a flying saucer lifting up an abductee, and aliens down one arm, as well as shoes with multi-colored paint drips on them. I'm the only one holding a book with its cover visible: 101 Things to Do Before You're Downloaded.
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Come see me if you’re nearby!! ✨💜 So excited to be there!
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Charm City Spec Official @charmcityspec.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Come out this Saturday evening as Trae Hawkins takes the stage at Charm City Spec! He'll be promoting ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, in which his work appears. Signs and Wonders! You really won't want to miss this!
TRAE HAWKINS READS CHARM CITY SPEC
Live at the Bird in Hand Cafe
11 East 33rd Street, in Baltimore
April 11th, 2026, starts at 6pm
ALL ARE WELCOME

The image is a pair of cupped hands in front of a woodland floor. Floating above the hands is a ball of concentrated eco-plasma or some other spherical energy manifestation.
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Y’all! After our first 24 hours, we’re at $980! Just $20 away from 20% of our goal to pay qtpoc writers a professional rate for their work over the next year. THANK YOU! Can we hit $1000? Back us today to help us support timeless spec 🐉
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I’m so so happy to be a part of relaunching this magazine, which is so important for queer writers of color 💜 Please support if you can, whether by backing the campaign or sharing!!
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Elsie Raymond @elsieraymond.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I just backed Anathema: Spec from the Margins on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...
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Anathema: Spec from the Margins
Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!
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Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
There's has been a lot of discourse lately about reviews, especially for older and indie titles. NEW YEAR, NEW YOU, released in 2024, got lovely coverage from indie & mainstream reviewers alike. I wanted to highlight them again w/ a big THANK YOU 🧵 (and we're still happy to give out review copies!)
The title "NEW YEAR, NEW YOU: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention" across the top, with the cover in the middle of the title.

Below are several endorsement quotes, as well as an image of an astronaut and octopus tentacles entering from either side against a backdrop of stars.

“I read the whole thing twice... meticulously crafted.” 
–Myna Chang, Microverse 

“Delightful, thought-provoking, and multi-faceted...”
–Naseem Jamnia

“Intense and beguiling...”
–Sherwood Smith

“Nuanced...”
–Locus Magazine

“Complex and experimental...”
–SF Book Reviews
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Amina Kayani (Managing & Fiction Editor) Liza Wemakor (Managing & Nonfiction Editor) Chloe Colbert (Fiction Editor) Trae Hawkins (Fiction Editor) And last but not least: Christian Ivey (Art Editor) Learn more about us on our updated Editors page: www.anathemamag.com/our-team
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Editors — Anathema: Spec from the Margins
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Fundraiser Announcement! Next Wednesday April 1st, Anathema will launch a Kickstarter Campaign to raise funds for one or more years of operation. We plan to offer a few incentives (merch, services, subscriptions) to people who support the campaign. Stay tuned! Our Editors are [drumroll]... (1/2)
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Two updates about Anathema Mag: 1.) We have a new IG page! Please give us a follow for more visually-inclined updates: tinyurl.com/4jyrr8ty 2.) We have a fundraiser announcement coming soon 👀 — check back with us this Sunday (March 22nd) for more details!
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
THE COOKOUT KICKSTARTER IS FUNDED!!! Thanks to all our backers for their support! But the party’s not over yet! We’ve got some fantastic stretch goals we’d love to hit, so let’s keep the momentum going! kickstarter.com/projects/androidpress/the-cookout-a-speculative-fiction-anthology
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The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology
Sci-fi, fantasy, & horror stories by Black authors, centering traditions of “the cookout” — the joy, the drama, and the delicious food.
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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall. Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber. High drama and high CAMP! Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops! BACK THE BOOK TODAY! #booksky bit.ly/3OIVfNs
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The Fall of the House of Valenziaga: A Special Edition Novel
It’s Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets The Chronicles of Amber in this queer post-apocalyptic science-fantasy extravaganza!
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Katie Abdou @kaitlynabdou.com · 03/02/2026
I haven't posted on here much, but I would really love some help boosting this video! I forgot to say it in the video, but please don't forget to add A PRINCE AMONG PIRATES On Goodreads! linktr.ee/kaitlynabdou
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Elsie Raymond @elsieraymond.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Everyone stop what you're doing and go read this good for her, unhinged feminist rage story by @apottern.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social It is 🔥 havenspec.com/fiction/boot...
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Bootcut, Haven Spec Magazine
"Bootcut" by Allison Pottern
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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Story day! I’m delighted to share ‘Dispersal,’ a flash piece about the end of a marriage… and the beginning of something stranger. Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
So happy my story stood out!! 🥹💜
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Timely and transcendent. I've had a marvelous time recently with ECO24, collecting some of the finest ecofiction of the last year. A chance to reflect on the anxieties of a changing world, and to consider possibilities for transformation and alternative paths. A critical collection for our time!!
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION ed. by Marissa van Uden held up before a viburnum lush with autumn foliage.
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Go read this ASAP! It’s so so so beautiful and heartfelt and ambitious 💫 It’s one of those stories you’ll keep thinking about for days after finishing!
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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
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Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted
“This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It’s been two weeks and I’m still floating 🌱🩷 Tin House was everything I wanted it to be and more! It’s rare to be in the company of such talented, thoughtful, and wonderfully nerdy people 🥹 Thanks to everyone who read/listened to my stories with such care!! 🫶🏽
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼 ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤 Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
"ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION. OUT NOW. www.apexbookcompany.com"
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉 Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
Lofty Pigeon Books presents: Louis Evans and Kay Vaindal launch ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Tuesday, November 18, 6:30-8pm. 743 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
If you’re in the NYC area, go show some love!! Honored to have a story in the anthology with such talented people 💚💚💚
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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/
The Indie Ink Awards category "Writing the Future we need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author", with book covers displaye. Sordidez by E.G. Conde is highlighted as a winner, with a cover that features a pale woman amid leaves in a watercolor bleed of red and blue at the edges.
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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
this was such a lovely story--the structure, pacing, and prose are so tight. it doesn't shy away from the reality of war and rebellion but it has such a tender core of compassion to it
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮 @marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿 Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
Cover art featuring a large, extraterrestrial pink hibiscus. Text reads in geometric font: "The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. ECO24. Edited By Marissa van Uden"
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
HOW BEAUTIFUL is this cover?! So excited to be in this anthology!!🌷
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Forgot to post on here about Worldcon 2025!! Had a phenomenal time catching up with friends and making lots of new ones 💫 I left Seattle with a full heart and memories I’ll keep close forever 🥹💜💜
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Christine Hanolsy (she/her) @christinehanolsy.com · 19/08/2025
Please go read this gorgeous story by @traewrites.bsky.social. I can feel the cold in my bones and the push and pull of grief. It is a story about memory and loneliness and becoming, perhaps, un-lonely, in time.
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Forgotten by Trae Hawkins
And though you are aware of your mind’s steady emptying, you recognize that you have come this far, to this land so cold and unforgiving, to support a life you detest. You recognize that, like the For...
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Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I’m glad you enjoyed it! 💜💜
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Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Looking forward to this new story by @traewrites.bsky.social Hawkins.
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