“Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist."
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.”

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls

There Goes the Neighborhood Even though it is only June the temperature has soared to an unrelenting 90+ degrees.

My new piece is a short, not at all sweet essay about the MAGA 'Murica vibe. #booksky

open.substack.com/pub/persepho...

What We Can Expect — The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025

Now entering step 5 of the authoritarian playbook.

www.authoritarianplaybook2025.org/what-we-can-...

LA has entered the chat. Fuck. Yes.

Such a haul! We're visiting Seattle and I've raided a couple of used book stores, as I do. Can you believe I got all of these for like $29 (plus tax, of course)? I've read a couple of these already, but they're due for a re-read (and to recommend to my kiddos). Score!

#booksky

On Aging A Snarky Non-Fiction Essay

Here's my snarky little rant about aging.

open.substack.com/pub/persepho...

About to finish this one. Luckily it's a trilogy so I'm all set for a few days. 😎

#indiebookstoreday
This is what I'm reading. It's a trilogy so I'm set for a few days. 😎 What are you reading?

Scenes from our dystopia:
This weekend I went to a writer's conference. One of the sessions was on writing dystopian fiction. One of the presenters couldn't come because she is from another country and was concerned about being detained at the border due to her visa type. The irony is not lost.

Thank you @booker.senate.gov
#resist

The Dress - Persephone Fletcher Cozumel, 1990My mom and I had stopped to admire an open air booth full of beautiful Mexican dresses, their colorful flounces and frills gently swaying in the Caribbean breeze, dust particles from the ...

The piece that I wrote (The Dress) published today in Humans of the World Blog!
#essay

www.howblog.org/post/the-dre...

Fuck Putin. Fuck Trump.

Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.

The video from the town hall in Idaho is exactly what we’ve warned everyone about. Imagine being a grown man, so threatened by our rights that you openly mock and have her dragged out, violently while everyone stays seated. Oh, wait. They elected one just like him. Is this the great part yet?

This is happening, people. This is not a drill.

Feel better, lil guy?

My neighbors down the hill are flying a Canadian flag and I am 100% here for that. #resist

This whole attempted renaming of the Gulf of Mexico situation reeks of post-9/11 asshats trying to rename french fries "freedom fries." 🙄 #resist

A quarter of US shoppers have dumped favorite stores over political stances A new poll also found that four in 10 Americans have shifted spending to align with moral views in recent months

It's small, but this is something I can do (and am doing). We are not powerless. Money talks, and in this case, it's loud and clear. #resist

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Your outrage is more than justified, real world problems notwithstanding. I don't know how it was possible to make a book as shocking and lascivious as My Sweet Audrina somehow BORING in the sequel, but Neiderman miraculously managed it.

The Ghost of Us, Chapter 1 Excerpt From my Novel

Come to my Substack for the first chapter of my novel, 'The Ghost of Us,' stay for the Venomous Pandemic Rants and bizarre poetry. #booksky

persephonefletcher.substack.com/p/the-ghost-...

So many of us wearing black today. I see you, friends.