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Littered pages
If you’re just joining us, here are the first two eps: Episode 1: "I wake up."Episode 2: "The hundreds" And now, today’s episode … Pem and I go down one of the hundreds of paths, and the wooded canopy forms quick. A wind whips
Teresa Van Santana
Writer. Rambler. Secretist. Nonbinary transfemme. They/them. https://www.patreon.com/tvs
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April Effing Fools
I detest April Fools Day. Maybe it’s because I was bullied as a kid. Maybe I just don’t like pranks. But it seems to me to be a lowkey The Purge-style day where unbridled assholery is celebrated. Admittedly, it has gotten milder over the years and seems to
gaucho
The hundreds
If you’re just joining us, check out the first ep here: Episode 1: "I wake up." And now for today’s episode, “The hundreds” … Yep. That’s a mattress. At the bottom of this huge tree with boards nailed to it, a little house in its branches.
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On Earning
Before we jump into today’s newsie, please take a moment to read about this fundraiser for transfolks in Texas, and donate if you are able: Support transpeople now! There is a lot of horrible, regressive legislation being passed with an explicit anti-trans focus, so please join in countering that!
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What Should I Write?
I wasn’t gonna start this Sound Off! subzine (where I ask y’all thangs and you tell me what’s whut) until April, but I kina need an answer before then, so here we go! So, the inaugural question is this …. What should I write for this cli-fi contest?
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An Introduction to Other Worlds—Part 2
Last time I gave ya a look at Gaucho and Hogwash. Today, we’re kicking it up to five serials in total with: An Axe +2 Grind exploits of an adventuring company known as the Band of Brutal Beneficence The Party Meets the Noob Immaxuelle Import found it hard to
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Fiction as Gray Literature
Dafuq’s ‘gray literature?’ you ask. Gray-t question, You! <you roll your eyes, click unsubscribe> So gray literature is basically self-publishing for non-fiction. It’s usually thought of as technical or reporting kinds of documents, like annual reports, white papers, certain kinds of research and so on. Stuff
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T-Rex March 2022
‘Sup y’all. So imma break my recommendations out into this, their own subzine, T-Rex. Looking to do this at roughly the middle of each month. Let’s get into it, shall we … Movies Y’all. I’m alone while being an Xer on Letterboxd. Ya gotta look me up
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An Introduction to Other Worlds—Part 1
So I’ve been giving y’all an exploration of the Living City of Azza-Jono. Now let’s have a look at some of my other worldsets. The first two are connected, though I haven’t really stated how yet—and we’ll leave it that way for awhile longer.
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On Needing to Write & What Is Owed
So there’s needing to write and then there’s needing to write. I need to write because it is part of my life’s work, part of my expression of being here, and hopefully something useful comes of that. I’m fortunate enough to have a myriad of skills
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The Caverns
The contents of the caverns are vast and sprawling, yet there is a filing method, an organization. As you peruse the pages, you go deeper inside the caverns, and the mental sounds become songs that turn to memories—your memories of my memories, of stories that haven’t happened or
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Half Off at Kraft & Schnell Collectibles!
As I mentioned back in the Roommates ish (which you can read here), not everyone in the Living City is a sex lich or a politician or daeva assassin or whatever. A lot of folks are just folks. So here we have a collection of very short shorts about the