Hello US fantasy readers:

My queer urban fantasy ebook is currently $0.99 - but only until Friday!

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I'm pretty sure Kezia comes from a well-intentioned place. And I'm all for good faith engagement with people whose minds have been poisoned against trans people. But this is madness: JK Rowling is a toxic sewer of hate, aligned with fascists, and it's unforgivable for Stonewall to praise her.

We spent bilions training our lenses on the heavens, searching the distant stars for the doom we knew must be coming for us. We burned up oceans of fuel, looking for ways to escape our fragile rock.
By the time the old gods crawled from their hidden #undersea places, it was far too late.

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The #investiture was taking far too long. It was hard to stop tapping the arm of the throne while he waited for them to place the crown on his head.
He estimated he had about ten minutes left until the assembled dignitaries noticed his tail peeking out the bottom of the ceremonial robes.

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In the shadowed #investiture of night,
the crow anoints me with what cannot be seen
A quiet power I hide beneath my skin

No witnesses, but the moon knows,
The proof pulses within my bones
and yet, I rise unchanged

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The surface of the gas giant was a tumult of twisting, chaotic gasses and winds, with tiny, relatively, shifts in the atmosphere, like #seafoam upon waves, but far deadlier.

Dylan continued the survey, but found no interest in it. Unless The Enemy had found a way to hide in the atmosphere?

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Thor in a red furred cloak with long red hair and lightning in the background.

It’s April 16, 2026, and today’s mythology-inspired #vss365 #prompt is #hammer! As in hammer of the gods.

The prompt feels appropriate for today, because it's Thursday; a day of the week named after the Norse god Thor!

Glad you enjoyed it - thanks for reading!

They thought he was mad. Some days he agreed.
But his brain kept coming back to the marks of insects on the trees, and his instincts screamed they were not random shapes, but #letters. A message to humanity.
Their meaning kept eluding him, decade after decade.
He knew time was running out.

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The UK doesn't need more North Sea gas, it needs more renewable energy. Why is the mainstream media so blinking blinkered?

Love this!

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anamchairde
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The trees have been writing to each other
for centuries; roots
threading letters underground,

a slow communication
no time prohibits.

I am learning their patience.

Every season I send you
the same message
in a different colour.

You know what it says.

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On the acceptance of GenAI Joep Schuurkes -5 April 2026 By using GenAl: I accept the models were trained on stolen data. I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. I accept these companies don't have a viable business model. I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world. I accept that I am granting more power to the United States. I accept that all this effort could have been spent elsewhere.

Here you go ❤️

Very evocative - I love the phrase "the skull coughed out what was left of its soul".

She stood at the grave as the witching hour arrived. Surrounded by a salt circle, she began to #sing. The buried bones stirred & the skull coughed out what was left of its soul, rising from the dirt to join in the chorus.
Any question she sung, the spirit would answer.
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He laughs hearing her #sing in the shower. Every note a wrong ‘un. Yet love fills his every cell. He cannot imagine a morning without those strangled notes and murdered tunes.

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"Let's make this traitor #sing like a canary!" the mob boss said.
I'd never been so insulted in all my life. The sounds that man made were far removed from the glorious arpeggios and trills I produce.
If I hadn't been in this cage, I'd have left and refused to return without a full apology.

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As the shuttle began to #bank, she finally allowed herself to relax. They would soon escape the planet of nightmares.
The mountain they'd classified as a volcano began to move. It elongated, morphed into gigantic jaws and punched up through the atmosphere towards them.
It was far from over.

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‘You seem overly excited!’

‘Today’s a big day, all right. I’m headed to the #bank. If everything goes OK, I’ll be able to afford gas for my car.’

‘Costs have skyrocketed, for sure. But taking out a loan for expenses seems a bit drastic.’

‘I know, right? Can you hand me that ski mask?’

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It's hard being a left-handed scribe. No matter how I hold the quill, I manage to smudge the #ink into unrecognisable blobs.
Still, it could be worse. I once accidentally created a new rune that summoned a demon from the pits of hell. You can imagine how much trouble I got in that day.

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Great writing!

An overturned #ink bottle. The stain of our relationship seeping deep into the page, spreading, pooling, intense.

Indelible.

The messy, splodgy mistake of it. The beauty of us.
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I bled #ink and sweat onto every page, cut myself a thousand times on every tweak, every edit, killed the story only to bring it back to new life

And there it was, set up on all platforms waiting for me to hit publish, do that which I dread the most

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#WritingCommunity
#ReaderSky
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The inside cover of a box of Cadbury’s Roses showing the reinstatement of orange creeks and the eviction of the inferior strawberry cremes

The inside of a box of Cadbury’s Roses showing that I have received my allocation of three (3) orange cremes

In important writing-related news, I am pleased to report that Cadbury have reinstated the orange cremes in boxes of Roses, and evicted the decidedly inferior strawberry cremes. I have bought a box for research purposes and will be otherwise occupied for 3-5 hours. Sekian berita.

When I hear the phone #ring, I don't need to see the caller ID. It's him.
I didn't realise the dead could operate mobile technology, but I'm learning nothing is how I always believed.
I answer. Listen to the raspy breath and unintelligible words. Hang up.
We'll do it all again tomorrow.

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This is marvellous!

English isn't my mother tongue, Afrikaans is. Did you know that you, as an English speaker, already understand Afrikaans? Words that have the same meaning and spelling in both languages are called cognates. The #vss365 #prompt for April 1, 2026 is #man

My humble little Australian urban fantasy novel 'Demon in the Network' is taking part in this Fantasy & Paranormal Book Sale for the next couple of weeks:

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.