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  • Desire Hope Despair Tee

    After years of reprint requests and stories of shirts worn to tatters, lost to lovers, and other trials of time, I re-released the beloved DESIRE HOPE DESPAIR tee as a limited time pre-order…

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  • Stickers for Cyborgs

    lineup 01 – DESIRE HOPE DESPAIR 2024 (holo) 02 – HEAVILY CYBORG 2.0 03 – MY OTHER BODY IS IN THE SHOP (black on white) 04 – MY OTHER BODY IS IN THE SHOP (white on clear) 05 – THRESHOLD 06 – MEAN…

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  • A book sits over top a pile of paper copies, drafts of the book.

    Cyborg Memoirs 2012~2019: An exercise in printing cyberspace

    it started as a “tumblr archive zine” and then… I published another book. something that began as a tumblr archive zine this is a tome about anger and angst what started as a 2023 transiting mars in gemini x venus in leo reflection…

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  • A screencap of my cyborgmemoirs.com website in 2002

    Cyborg Memoirs Revival

    Greetings my beloved denizen readers of the net, In the social media time sphere, it’s been a million years since you last heard from me here, but in regular ole human being time, I’ve been lining up a roster of projects for completion.…

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  • a screencap of Speculative Writing workshop with M. Téllez

    “Speculative Writing” with Blue Stoop

    Back in February 21st of 2022 this year, I did a one-hour workshop for Blue Stoop, an interesting Philadelphia literary organization that has been growing consistent in soliciting the local authorship (if u will) to participate in doing paid workshops for their audience.…

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  • A cyborg’s Recap Leaving Jupiter in Aquarius

    What you’re reading is a port from my subscription services, patreon, and substack where i crosspost the free content. I post at a frequency between monthly and seasonally lately, and not all of it is posted here by a long shot, so I…

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  • Desire Practice for Cyborgs workshop title card for Common Field's 2021 Sustaining Futures convention

    “Desire Practice for Cyborgs” with Common Field 2021

    [There was once a Vimeo video here, which was deleted when Common Field shut itself down. If I can retrieve the video, it will return. -3/2/25] For those who can’t get enough of my Desire Practice offering, here’s a recording of the one…

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  • Cyborg Memoirs Fan Club is Here

    “Sci-fi magic smut survivor memoir.”“Desire Hope Despair.”“Not everybody is good at their body.”“You must forge yourself into a weapon.”“There will be no new colony.” Cyborg Memoirs first existed as the personal website of me, Magus Monk bka M. Téllez fka number18, back on…

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  • Here Comes The Fall ’21 ☿ Intensive

    Announcing the 2021 FALL MERCURY INTENSIVEOCT 4 – NOV 10, Mondays & Wednesdays, 7-9pm ESTapplications close friday, oct 1, 10pm EST Storytelling critique focused. Sci-fi, fantasy, magic, smut welcome. De-centering MFAs, career path academics, or those currently connected to/embedded in institutional resources. Priority…

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  • Recap on a Mercury Monastery

    By all expressed accounts, the Mercury Intensive, my free, impromptu, experimental June-long writing and storytelling workshop, went well. If you recall, I decided I would run my own workshop after getting yet another rejection from a genre writing workshop I had been hoping…

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  • A close-up of a notebook cover and 2 stickers on a wood table. The sticker says I'M NOT MAD I'M FROM PHILLY.

    MERCURY INTENSIVE FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP

    Seeking participants for a first-time DIY Philly fiction writers workshop series, intensive for the month of June 2021, facilitated by M. Téllez (aka me, check the About if you need more info). If you are interested in participating, READ THIS PAGE and fill…

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  • Service Appreciation

    An old fashioned internet shrine for service expressed through disposable items, mostly bags. @serviceappreciation After tagging a handful of posts with #serviceappreciation on my personal Instagram a couple years ago, I wound up creating a hobby account @serviceappreciation, where every post is a…

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