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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Transitional Times Transitional Body: a new short story collection
This (25-count zine-now) book follows a few personal (or I suppose artistic) decisions I made after working with outside publishers, wherein I told myself not to forget that writing for myself and my network is what’s most rewarding, both spiritually and financially. It…
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METROPOLARITY’s BAD USER AGREEMENT
BAD USER AGREEMENT, the latest episode of METROPOLARITY‘s Journal of Speculative Vision & Critical Liberation Technologies, is finally here. From conception to publication, this release took a few seasons and is the result of us doing the work according to our capacities and…
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Desire Practice Worksheet
A printable PDF of this worksheet can be downloaded here. For information about VENUS SATURN SQUARE itself, see this post. Firm but loving guidelines for filling out this worksheet: Be real and honest with yourself. No one else needs to read what you…
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