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New Publication: Is Magic School Still Worth It?

“Is Magic School Still Worth It?” is out now! It is available exclusively in print! It is for FREE! Here’s the synopsis: Ezze recently graduated from magic school, but she hasn’t practiced magic at...

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Reprint: “The Mechanical Turk Has a Panic Attack”

My story “The Mechanical Turk Has a Panic Attack” is newly available in audio form, at Escape Pod! Wow!! The story was first published a year ago at Uncharted Magazine, and now you can listen to it,...

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Review: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

EDIT: This post previously misattributed quotes to the Camden mayor, which were in fact made by the Director of the Camden County Board of Commissioners. Negative review time! It’s time for a negative...

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What I’ve Been Reading, September 2023

Got a bit of a grab bag this time around. One long review of The Agony and the Ecstasy, a shorter review of A Fine Balance, and a shortest review of The Hard Tomorrow. Also, after all that, some news...

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New Publication: Stories About Kids Stealing Things

And a new zine publication! It’s a two for one today! First, Stories About Kids Stealing Things is now out on Smashwords! Wow, cool cover! Collected in this book are seven short stories, mostly...

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What I’ve Been Reading, Spooktober 2023

The month of spooktober has passed, but autumn, the season of death, still surrounds us. So today I bring you reviews of the books I read this October. For the past several years this has been a...

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New Edition of “The War on Hormones”, Year in Review, and More!

I’ve got a bunch of little announcements to make so I’m throwing them all together in this post, roughly in descending order of importance. Free Zines! Year in Review Public Domain Day Free Zines! As...

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Public Domain Day 2024: The Silencing and Rediscovery of “Life in the Iron...

Happy Public Domain Day! Today, works from 1928 enter the public domain in the US and many other countries! Most infamously, this is the year that Steamboat Willie, the ur-Mickey Mouse, enters the...

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New Year Comic 2024

New year, new New Year Comic. I started doing these at the start of the decade and will continue doing them till the end of the decade. You can read the first four here. If they seem oblique that’s...

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A New Way to Get Some Old Zines

Wow, it has been a while! Much has happened, but nothing worth posting about by itself, until now: I have an Etsy store!  Going forward, this is where I will be selling zines digitally. Up on the...

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New Comic Zine!

Oh wow it has been a while! I have been hard at work writing short stories and then hard at work editing my novel and so have not had much time to write any book reviews or other posts, but I have...

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Lonely Friends 1: Stupid Parenthetical

>>   If you enjoy this comic and want to read the full thing (with 8 additional pages not available here!), you can buy a digital edition on Itch.io, or a physical edition on Etsy. Thanks for...

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Lonely Friends 2: This Can’t Sustain

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Lonely Friends 3: Like a Pack of Dogs

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Lonely Friends 4: Choke Pear

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Lonely Friends 5: Magda Isn’t Coming Down

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Lonely Friends 6: Just Move In

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Lonely Friends 7: Failed Writer

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Lonely Friends 8: Missing Out

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Lonely Friends 9: Stage (/ˈstɑːʒ/)

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