Author: M Téllez
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Transitional Times Transitional Body: Expanded
My first order of business for 2020 was to redesign and expand my 2019 short story collection, which started out as a zine and quickly became a 125-count book that sold out by the end of the year. I changed the dimensions, margins, cover color, header fonts, finessed the images to render a bit better […]
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
UPDATE 29 AUG 2020: You can now download the premier volume of this zine in reading or booklet form (15 sheets of paper). On Palm Sunday, I was pleased to present VENUS SATURN SQUARE had become a reality. It will debut in the physical at the Philly leg of Hot Bits queer xxx film festival […]