Author: M Téllez


  • Monk Reviews ARKDUST by Alex Smith
    Monk Reviews ARKDUST by Alex Smith

    ARKDUST. What can I say? I’ve watched local legend Alex Smith perform his short stories for years now, and his tales always always always make me giddy with amazement and emotion. I love the mixing of mundane details with fantastic element, his penchant for perspective jumping and simultaneous layer weaving, his exacting captures of the…


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  • Call for Smut: Venus Saturn Square returns
    Call for Smut: Venus Saturn Square returns

    UPDATE 17 MAY 2020: Nobody’s been asking but the second issue of this zine is on indefinite hold, due to my lack of capacity thru this pandemic. Will pick it up when the time is right. Reach out to me with any questions you may have. CALL FOR SMUT: Slow-moving /venus saturn sqaure/ zine returns.…


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  • Monk Reviews The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
    Monk Reviews The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

    The History of White People is written by Black historian and author, Nell Irvin Painter. I haven’t read a ton of history books for fun, but this one was a ~very~ smooth read. Physically, it’s one of these floppy pulp paperback books with pleasing wop-wobble heft. There’s a chapter titled \White Slavery as Beauty Ideal\,…


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  • Heavy Prosthetic
    Heavy Prosthetic

    Note: This is a smut story. And “hir” is prounced like “here” There was a strange wind-blown circuit. We were driving big machines and stopped into a weird, long motel. More like a town center, styled after some ole fantasy border town community BUT ALL THE SETTLERS WERE GONE. I met a heavy-prosthetic girl, a…


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  • A CROSS THRU
    A CROSS THRU

    The child went missing. The man who took her insists she’s old enough. He tells her she’s old enough, more than other children her age. The child has been lonely. She wants to feel she’s old enough. She is not old enough.           There is a monstrous gulf between a girl child and safety. I used…


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  • The fate of All That’s Left zine
    The fate of All That’s Left zine

    As the web master/low-key archivist of mine and METROPOLARITY‘s efforts over the years, I recently realized that there was little mention or even an image of my old All That’s Left zine series here. Although ATL is a featured category of my writing and likewise a persistant feature of my draft stories pile, would you…


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  • Monk Reviews Old Futures: Speculative Fiction & Queer Possibility by Alexis Lothian
    Monk Reviews Old Futures: Speculative Fiction & Queer Possibility by Alexis Lothian

    This review was originally posted direct to my Instagram in May of 2019, so I will keep all the markup from that original here. I came across this book in @pennbookcenter* >> Alexis Lothian’s OLD FUTURES: Speculative Fiction & Queer Possibility. Very much an academic’s book, yet well worth reading if you have the wherewithall…


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  • Under Empire: A fleeting inquisition of Artificial Intelligence
    Under Empire: A fleeting inquisition of Artificial Intelligence

    The following is a slightly different version of an essay that appeared in CLOG Magazine’s 2018 Artificial Intelligence issue. Can you think of a narrative where “artificial intelligence” is not depicted as subservient to the functions of human empire? As something beyond a labor class necessitated by Western capitalist possibility? AI is a hallmark fixture…


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  • VENUS SATURN SQUARE smut zine, a physical reality
    VENUS SATURN SQUARE smut zine, a physical reality

    Is it possible to write yourself out of a blocked situation and into your own fantasies? VENUS SATURN SQUARE took corporeal form on Palm Sunday 2019. It debuted IRL at the Philly leg of Hot Bits queer xxx film festival on April 26th & 27th at Lightbox Film Center, and later had its own noteworthy…


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  • Monk’s Dream
    Monk’s Dream

    WHEN THE LIGHTS WON’T COME ON THE ENDLESS STREAM STOPS THE FEED ADDICTION— THERE WAS A SOLAR FLARE? YO THE ALEXA JAWN GOT CO-OPTED BY HACKERS AND THEN SELF-DESTRUCTED THE INTERNET! THE SERVER FARMS ARE BURNING! THE BACKUPS ARE FAILING! CASH WON’T EVEN COME OUT THE MACHINES RIGHT NOW EVERYONE’S STARING THEIR NEIGHBORS IN THE…


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  • Real Work You Deserve
    Real Work You Deserve

    When you wake up in the afternoon cause you couldn’t get up any earlier cause your whole body stiff and saturated with toxin exposure and mucous and rash and film and grime and you’re pushing it on the last of your meds and you hate dealing with the supplier and you know there’s gotta be…


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  • CLOG Magazine & Transcendent 3
    CLOG Magazine & Transcendent 3

    I finally got my hands on two late 2018 releases not of my own self-publishing: CLOG magazine’s artificial intelligence themed issue and Lethe Press’s best trans SFF of 2017 collection, Transcendent 3. Transcendent 3 follows in Transcendent 2’s footsteps with a nicely sized collection of short sci-fi/fantasy stories by trans authors. The Transcendent series reprints…


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