not spec, all too real
hi
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fine thanksI learned too well to say I'm ( Read more... )

...maybe makes a post?  Um, hi :)

1) The Bloodchildren anthology is only available till saturday!  It's edited by the wonderful nisi-la, has offerings from all the Butler scholars so far, and offers an amazing diversity of perspectives.  And proceeds go the butler scholarship so! It's all round good.  (Also: it contains several stories that I LOVE!)

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Originally posted by rose_lemberg at Announcing: Stone Telling 9 Lineup
It's materializing late in the year, but it's a hell of an issue. The order is subject to change.


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(Also posted to stonetellingmag, and I'm afraid this doesn't mean I'm back, health continues abysmal and I'm hanging on by fingernails. Apologies to everyone I'm neglecting this year, hopefully next year will be better :( )

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We're thrilled to announce our first two acceptances for Issue 9: "Let me show you you" by ( Read more... )

(from Shira Lipkin’s The Changeling’s Lament:)

When I was little,
I asked my alleged mother,
what’s a girl?

She said
you,
you’re a girl,
and she laced me into dresses
(that I tore off in the school parking lot,
in line for the bus).
Laced me into ballet shoes
that left blisters
and bloodied my feet
until I had calluses.
Which she had filed off,
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It's here it's here the queer issue is here

I hope you guys love this issue as much as we do! I know we say this every time but srsly it's a tremendous issue full of poems that blew us away :)

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Had to share this! And later if I can get over this cold and find a few spoons, I will post buddhistmippo cosplaying tithenai.

(Originally posted at stonetellingmag)
It's very nearly here! Despite my lack of spoons :)  We should have it up by Monday!


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squeee!
With art I love by rose_lemberg and poems I'm sure to love by somany people, and one of my spoonie pomes in there too, Persephone in Grey :)

And I had another bad night, so, that's all from me content-wise today.

What Alexa Seidel says. Only I wouldn't be as temperate about it if it had happened to us at ST.

Here's the thing. It's so pointless to plagiarise spec poetry. For what, the money and glamour? So it'd be easy to think there must be some sort of mistake involved. But no ( Read more... )