Author: M Téllez
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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 COME OUT THE MACHINES RIGHT NOW EVERYONE’S STARING THEIR NEIGHBORS IN THE…
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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 you hate dealing with the supplier and you know there’s gotta be…
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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 collection of short sci-fi/fantasy stories by trans authors. The Transcendent series reprints…
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What Color Is Blue
Yours truly appears as a character in a scene from
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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 contains four stories, two that were published in 2017, and two that…
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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 desires, rather than some production minded shit. It was also originally intended…
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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 enter here unless you want them to. Write down your answers. This…
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VENUS SATURN SQUARE call for submissions
Calendar Dates First Drafts Due• November 16th [Friday]• send to magusmonk @ protonmail . com• don’t worry about word count Prompts & WorksheetsDesire Practice [PDF | text] Anticipated Release & Reading Soiree• Winter A Venus Saturn square? This aspect sometimes means unhealthy sensuality. They are hard, and do not know how to express their emotions.…
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Discipline Welcomes Beauty ~ A Cleaning & Organizing Grimoire ~ Audio Edition
Please enjoy this audio work in its entirety as read from the original zine, available for purchase here. Sonic ambiance provided by Pauline Darkstar. Discipline Welcomes Beauty by M Téllez A bitch’s/witch’s grimoire. Discipline, cleaning, and organizing are things I’ve developed a reputation for, and this zine meditates on the principles behind my habits. Appreciated…
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SEXINESS: Rituals, Revisions, and Reconstructions
Find a 2016 time capsule of yours truly in Discipline Press’s latest release. This book is 100% something I would be going to the South Street Tower Records every day after school to look at, and I’m winking at my 13 year old self as a contributor in it. So many beautiful essays in there,…
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Discipline Welcomes Beauty ~ A Cleaning & Organizing Grimoire
This feels appropriate for spring & the start of the zodiac year. A long-awaited grimoire regarding cleaning and organizing, something I seem to be known for/something I do for myself and also feel conflicted about. I used to be a very messy child. You couldn’t see the floor in my room, and I would dash…
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Meanwhile, Elsewhere & Transcendent 2
In 2017 I had two stories published in these two trans SFF anthologies. These were my first experiences outside of self-publishing, having stories published under contract in exchange for a dollar amount. Topside Press’s anthology got HEAT DEATH OF WESTERN HUMAN ARROGANCE and Lethe Press’s anthology got ABOUT A WOMAN AND A KID. Neither story…