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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

carcinogen press zines are at camus books in victoria, bc and at spectator books in oakland, ca. working on getting the books at spectator next, but its very exciting to have them at two other regions besides washington

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

getting pretty close to a finished version of this. one of my favorite things about putting my 2015-2022 writing in chronological order is it becomes really obvious how ridiculously traumatizing 2020-2021 were. The entire shape of how I think changed in those years in a way it's never recovered from

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

second printing of extemophiles just came in!

a stack of books wrapped in plastic, extremophiles by rats alice trujillo

attribution page from the back of extremophiles by rats alice trujillo. indicating that the art is by k.y. steinberg and that this is the second printing, september 2026

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i did get to watch the rats run and jump around union station for two hours last night, which was very life affirming.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I passed through portland twice this weekend but didn't actually manage to be in town at the same time as word virus books was open. i gave my friends a package of books and zines so they can hand them off when they're passing through later today. it's so convoluted, but it's happening.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

just dropped off some books and zines in bookstores in olympia. orca books has all of the carcinogen press stuff now and I'll be back on friday to make sure last word books also has everything. taking a trip this weekend so I'll be passing through portland too to restock things at word virus books

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

extremophiles has sold almost 100 copies in the three months it's existed, which is honestly kind of disturbing to know its out there with so many people now. kind of concerning. anyway, i just ordered a second printing so I can keep distributing this kind of awful thing.

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Unlikely Stories @unlikely-stories.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Unlikely stalwart Rats Alice Trujillo is back, with three poems on convincing yourself you’re biding your time, looking like boiling water, and living without nightmares at www.unlikelystories.org/content/pass... #poetry #litmag #smallpress

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"Passive Observer," "Answer the Question Yourself," and "Dreams"

Passive Observer It swims in through the wallLike a goldfish swimmingInto and out of perceptionAnd unexpectedly lightWhen you try it again toTo lift her little body up(is it really all that you were?)...

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

my goal for next year is to publish at least one book by someone who isn't me, in addition to a ton more zines. send things to carcinogen.press@proton.me if you have anything cool, I'd love to look at them and talk about it.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have two more of my books to make new editions of, that I might be able to manage and finish by the end of this year, mostly depending on how difficult the process for reimagining "Insurrectionary Auto-Vivisection" ends up being. it's okay so far.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

last years version of check engine light beside the new one, which arrived in the mail today. third book from Carcinogen Press. I'm really enjoying the look and feeling of turning my violent little books into actual pocket books. The portability makes them somehow feel more aggressive.

two copies of the book "Check Engine Light" by Rats Alice Trujillo. Sitting side by side on a red surface. On the left is the first edition, on the right is the second edition.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

there's an extremely self indulgent version of this that hypothetically exists, and there is a new and very interesting book this could turn into, if I'm strict enough with the material. I'm enjoying the process/challenge, alongside the pain that comes from remembering all of this.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

doing more work on the second edition + reimagining of this one. the poems as they already exist are built out of the journals i kept for eight years. this time I'm going back to all of that other work and trying to make a version that contextualizes everything in the life i was experiencing.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@ky--steinberg.bsky.social is working on a new painting for this version. I'm so looking forward to how this turns out, and giving this another chance to get into people's hands.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

starting to work on revising and formatting this one for a new edition at the end of the year. this is probably the most painful of all of my books, and has several of my favorite poems I've written. it's the one I've been dreading to return to, and the one I'm most excited to rerelease.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

now that i don't have to worry about this going out of print i can get back to working on my magic novella

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

150 copies of (all godless creatures) by "rare gore"

cardboard box full of neatly stacked copies of the zine (all godless creatures) by "rare gore"

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

just updated the catalog list to include Check Engine Light, since that will be available next week. probably going to get in at least two other other bookstores this month. thought it would be nice to share all the descriptions, since the list is starting to get kind of long (very exciting)

- Body Apocalypse Manifesto (february 2026)
book of poems by Rats Alice Trujillo
140 pages, twelve dollars
cycle of poems about depression, insurgency, psychosis,
magical weapons, and trying to escape from or destroy civilization

- Hematoma (february 2026)
poetry zine by Rats Alice Trujillo
56 pages, six dollars
fifteen poems about life on the other side of psychic collapse
thinking I would have died by now and reckoning with survival

- Black Sparks, Vol. 1 (april 2026)
poetry zine, multiple authors
20 pages, two dollars
three poems by three authors.
loosely themed around survivor's guilt and destabilized concepts of self.

- Tell Me I Shouldn't Be Here (may 2026)
poetry zine by K. Y. Steinberg
28 pages, four dollars
four poems about instability and time dislocation as a jewish tranarchist.
the past and the future full of suffering make everything relative.

- Extremophiles (june 2026)
porn / horror novel by Rats Alice Trujillo
322 pages, twenty dollars
transgender sex and ultra violence at the end of human existence.
grief and futility infect the ways we can connect with each other.

- (all godless creatures) (july 2026)
fiction zine by "rare gore"
40 pages, five dollars
fucked up queer teenagers in rural ohio. violence, self-denial, marginality.
two teenage boys on a hunting trip, getting briefly outside of a world that hates them.

- Facing Being Obliterated (july 2026)
poetry zine by Rats Alice Trujillo
16 pages, three dollars
a short lyric essay about anger, despire, and eroticism.
resisting fascism needs me aggressive. there is something tonic in submission.

- Black Sparks, Vol. 2 (july 2026)
poetry/fiction zine, multiple authors
32 pages, three dollars
three authors. two poems and one short story.
loosely themed around trans fear and displacement.
the conflation of desires for safety and obliteration.

- Other People's Blood (july 2026)
32 pages, five dollars
ten poems about two months hurting others and being hurt, finding and losing love,
and the death of a friend. the experiences bleed onto each other and cannot be
separated.

- Check Engine Light (august 2026)
novella by Rats Alice Trujillo
224 pages, sixteen dollars
a story about being queer, depressed, poor, and young. part surreal horror,
part memoir of working at jimmy johns. the dread of crushing indifference.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

just sent the new edition of Check Engine Light in to the printers. I'll probably have them in hand at the end of the month.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

rare's zine (all godless creatures) has been selling ten copies per week every week since i started printing it. that means im going to spend the next few days making 150 copies, so hopefully that will last a while.

a stack of unbound booklets sitting on top of a wicker basket. the booklet on top has the cover to (all godless creatures) by "rare gore"

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've been inching this new edition along and slowly editing it, and then i saw that the first edition got one nice review on storygraph and that motivated me to get the new edition all finished this week. so thank you whoever it was for that.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

once again this art is a painting by @ky--steinberg.bsky.social called Dust. I love the textures in it and how nice they look in the back cover detail.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

getting extremely close to republishing my first novella. cover redesign is basically done, just need to do another formatting pass and it should be ready to send for printing at the end of the month. this is the one about being 22 queer insane and alone in a new city, also the world is ending.

cover art for the novella "Check Engine Light" by Rats Alice Trujillo. text on the back cover says "You keep getting sick. It's making your girlfriend sick, too. Food is expensive and it's making you scared. Everything now is making you scared. You're both going crazy and can't explain. You've never been so alone as this." front cover art depicts a blurry humanoid figure standing in front of a hazy mirror. the painting is primarily yellow and brown

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the making of this thing is making me a little crazy, which exactly what it's designed to do

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the new thing I'm writing is in the triangle of leonorra carringtons little novel the stone door, the movie primer, and the framework of oracle books. it's taking the most planning per word I've needed to do so far because the whole thing is a many sided puzzle that i need to design before writing

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

and I wasn't thinking about it as much until now when I'm starting to mail them just how violent of an act it is to take this really horrible, present, and alive collection we made together and put those physical copies of it into random unknown people's lives.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

starting this week I'm mailing out a hundred copies of black sparks 2 to semi-random bookstores around the US with the hopes that some of them will either buy more zines from me or just put them on a free shelf or something.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

can't get these from the left bank website because they don't have isbns, but you can message me and I'll figure out mailing them

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

this one is doing so good. sold twenty copies in the one-ish weeks that it's existed. I'm sending copies of black sparks 2 to a bunch of bookstores this week, and then working on getting the newer zines into the other bookstores we have carcinogen stuff already stocked with

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

did a reprint and redesign of another of my zines from last year. this one is called Other People's Blood. got it done in time for the @seattlezinefest.org on sunday, and then I'm going to start sending them and all the others to other book stores in the next few weeks.

a stack of zines on a desk. "Other People's Blood" by Rats Alice Trujillo. The cover art depicts the silhouette of a beheaded animal laying on top of a bed, and the shadow of a person standing over it

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

they'll be at left bank, at @seattlezinefest.org this sunday, and I'll be mailing them to tons of bookstores in the next few weeks. so hopefully they'll end up everywhere

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@ky--steinberg.bsky.social also did the art for this. this zine feels really special to put together and release. the pieces fit together into this abstract continuity of a trans nightmare and desire to escape and/or survive. doing the last read-through to edit it made me feel slightly nauseous

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

just finished printing and assembling volume 2 of black sparks. this one has three pieces, one of my poems, one from @ky--steinberg.bsky.social and a story from "rare gore", whose zine I just released earlier in the week.

a pile of zines on a black surface. Black Sparks Volume 2. The art is black snd white, depicting a silhouetted person with an abstract symbol embedded in their chest, that is causing them to deteriorate and cough out pieces of their body..

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

just finished making 50 copies of this short essay from last year. erotic poem? its about extinction, sadomasochism, submission, and mass culpability. kind of a proof of concept for my novel that I started writing immediately after

several copies of the zine "Facing Being Obliterated" by Rats Alice Trujillo, the cover is an abstract photo collage and they are sitting on top of a laptop that is covered in stickers.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

this is my second book of poems, and the first thing I published as carcinogen press. body apocalypse manifesto is a set of poems about insurrectionary psychosis and pain as an alchemical surface. I'm very very proud of this one. the art is by jonatan florez. leftbankbooks.com/bookDetails....

front cover of "Body Apocalypse Manifesto" by Rats Alice Trujillo. Cover art depicts a naked torso with a wound across the ribs. Locusts are crawling out of the wound.

Back Cover of "Body Apocalypse Manifesto" by Rats Alice Trujillo. Artwork depicts a naked torso and arm with a locust crawling upward. There is a poem in the foreground.

"Manifesto for
A body in the world
And there is illness in both
As all this world is built of mind
And these lines are my symptoms of living
Apocalypse is the externalization of body collapse
These symptoms are the world as drawn into myself
Fatigue and frustration, and meaningless violence reflects
Attacking the world to find a method to leave behind this body
Attacking this body to trace a line that goes out of the world
This insurgency is nonlinear, as real cruelty is too coherent
These deserts of irreality, and hungry false abstraction
There has to be a way to get out of this world
Such as this body is a limited means to be
The world is a body filled with organs
And passage of time is a cancer
To kill from inside the being
A body in the world

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

finished writing the second of eleven sections for my magic book. right now I'm calling it self immolation. i was calling it angel system. I finally learned how to pronounce goëtia yesterday.

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K. Y. Steinberg @ky--steinberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This one is actually a homage to a previous painting I did and gifted to Rats about 5 years ago, Two Lovers (acrylic on canvas). It was back when my art style was a bit more abstract.

Two figures holding each other in a room, seemingly made of different lumps of clay. Their heads are fading into the air as if made of smoke. There is a wound open in the walls ahead of them, and you can make out the outline of a city street. There is a door to the left made out of similar clay.

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K. Y. Steinberg @ky--steinberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Vesuvius, acrylic and ink on canvas board. This painting is on the back cover of @txikiena.bsky.social 's Extremophiles.

Two fem figures, white as marble, holding each other in an abandoned train station. The edge of the platforms are instead replaced by dirty and aged walls, silvery black bramble vines hanging off the edge of the ceiling onto them. The two women are surrounded by puddles collected by the broken floor tiles of the station, reflecting a brilliant, cascading wall of sunlight. There is nothing beyond the light. The two are facing this light and comforting one another.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

just finished making 50 copies of the new carcinogen press zine, (all godless creatures) by "rare gore". these will be at left bank and @seattlezinefest.org next weekend, and once I finish the other three zines I'm working on I'll start sending them to some other bookstores too.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

here's my newest book on the erotica shelf at left bank. it's called Extemophiles and it's about losing and regaining your sense of self at the end of the world. It's also super violent porn. A trans woman kills a cop with a hammer on page 1. you can get it here... leftbankbooks.com/bookDetails....

"Extremophiles" by Rats Alice Trujillo, on a shelf labeled "Erotica", next to a book titled "Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest"

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

my next fiction project is going to be about magic. something obscure and deeply anti social. something about the writing of extemophiles and the currents of my life these past two years have made me feel too much like a positive member of society. the new thing is about destruction and escape.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's not final until I'm ready to start printing it, but my favorite title for the poems book so far is "Year of Knives//Writing After Overdose"

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm waiting a little longer than usual to publish my next book because Im focusing on getting the press set up and releasing versions of my older books that I'm happy with printing in longer runs. right now I have one poetry book finished, halfway through writing the next and Im working on a novella

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

poem from the back of this book, that gives a little peek inside

poem from the back of this book, "Check Engine Light" by rats alice trujillo

"You keep getting sick
It makes your girlfriend sick, too

Food is expensive and it's making you scared
Everything now is making you scared

You're both going crazy and can't explain
You've never been so alone as this"

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

ok its here. now it's time to make 600 zines before next sunday

screen shot of an email from ebay, showing that my long arm stapler has arrived

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

basically all of the art for my books and zines is paintings by my partner @ky--steinberg.bsky.social it makes wonderful and sickening art and writes incredible poems. it's zine called "Tell Me I Shouldn't Be Here" is the second thing we published with carcinogen press. please go follow it.

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rats alice trujillo @txikiena.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm really impatiently waiting for a new long arm stapler to come in the mail because my old one broke. I'm trying to release four more zines for carcinogen before the end of the month, mostly all formatted and finished, but I really want to start assembling them and I can't yet.

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