Announcing: The Kismet Magazine BOOK CLUB! We'll be kicking off with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi for February. The club will meet on Discord on 2/22 The syllabus for the entire year is already posted on Discord.👀
Join our Discord: discord.gg/ZSSevu9hea
Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.
Lyrics from the song "Last Time We Never Meet Again" by Sarah Kinsley: "I hope you get Everything you wanted I hope the universe bends down to offer itself to you"
Lyrics from the song "Last Time We Never Meet Again" by Sarah Kinsley: "But for myself I hope I hear your name And I feel absolutely nothing Let me be free of you"
If no one else has got me, at least Sarah Kinsley's got me.
The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.
This is relevant again!
Poop! I waited too long.
Thinking about moving, but tell me why my apartment needs to know if I'm going to renew/vacate by Feb. 1 when my lease isn't up until July?
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Screenshot of diary entry that reads: "Dr. Smith came thru this a.m. I asked him if I "grunted" each time he came thru, where would he move me. He said, 'move you--Why, I'd just give you a dose of Castor Oil every time you complain.'"
Screenshot of diary entry that reads: "Dr. Smith came thru this a.m. asked if I was good. I told him I was trying to be. He said, Oh! You couldn't be, and pinched my toe."
Screenshot of diary entry that reads: "Friday, June 28, 1929 Feel pretty good. Dr. Smith came thru this a.m. Thumped my tummy & tickled my ribs."
Screenshot of diary entry that reads: "Friday, July 19, 1929 Feel pretty good. Dr. Smith came thru this a.m. Have a blister on my left little toe. He said looked like a corn. Dr. Stewart came thru this p.m. My! How he tickled my feet. Miss Godfrey borrowed my flash light for the night."
Screenshot of diary entry that reads: "Tuesday, May 28, 1929 Feel pretty good. My legs are a bit sore from getting on & off the bed. Dr. Smith came thru this a.m. said he would tie me in bed."
Screenshot of diary entry that reads: "Thursday, May 30, 1929 Feel pretty good. Have the cramps a bit. Dr. Smith came thru this a.m. A young fellow was with him, here to qualify as an intern. I told Dr. Smith I didn't want to get Mrs. Wilson's disease. I was afraid of her. He said he would put me in the bed with her."
Screenshot of diary entry that reads: "Monday, June 3, 1929 I feel pretty good. Dr. Smith came thru this a.m. Just pinched my "toe." Had a new patient."
Screenshot of diary entry that reads: "Dr Smith came thru this a.m., tickled me in the ribs, asked me how I was. I told him I felt like moving. He just nodded his head and didn't say more."
Last week I transcribed the diary that my great-grandmother kept in 1929 while at a sanatorium for TB (which she'd succumb to 3 years later at age 31). Very insightful and informative, hopefully inspiring for my own writing.
But, uh, wtf Dr. Smith...
Read books, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts and plays and lift up those artists who are doing the things that make you happy, because it will help, then, make other people happy too, and fill the internet with things other than just that guy and what he’s doing
A lot of books (mostly audiobooks) and some of my favorites this year!
One day I know there will be someone who loves me so dang much and it's going to be AWESOME.
And even if that someone ends up being me, all the better.
Haha, I'm sure he is, but I won't go that far. I'll just try to get over it!
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Ha, if only I knew! I'd have sent him a letter by now if I did (This was an out-of-state infatuation, so many layers to my disappointment)
I don't know. He'll just say things and not follow through. Like, he said he'd write me a letter. That was over 2 months ago. A letter never came.
Just read: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
"always has been" astronauts meme where the astronaut looking at earth is saying "Wait, all art is political?" and the one with the gun is saying (as usual) "always has been"
Are we doing memes over here?
Hello Earthlings!
We could not be more excited to announce that Vol. 001 includes a Kismet Magazine exclusive interview with Premee Mohamed!
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mental health break? you bet it did
A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now.
I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.
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Tired by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two— And see what worms are eating At the rind.
So I'm part of a team in Bloomington trying to launch a zine called Kismet, specializing in speculative fiction, including sci-fi, horror, and fantasy! Submissions are now open to anyone, everywhere. You can email pieces to thekismetmag@gmail.com Feel free to share!
