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Announcements of new releases, events, collaboration works, interviews, etc. Updates, works in progress, and other commentaries in newsletter.
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“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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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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Bookmarked
“This pandemic blows.” I’ve been saying this as a sign off or greeting in many of my short communications lately. Well—lemme get to the news part of this: All orders of my short story collection Transitional Times Transitional Body will now come with…
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Key Concepts of Message Perception + Futurism & Languages of Manipulation
In the summer of 2020 I put together two zines (PDFs & audio below) concerned with discerning propaganda and strengthening media literacy skills ~ how to call bullshit and pick apart media messages by peeping how and why they’re made, in other words.…
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Trans Times in the Broad Street Review
The city is changing: new faces, apartments, businesses. These changes are often framed as progress or advancement. But what about what’s left behind? What happens to those who can’t afford the tickets to the future? In the COVID era, remote lifestyles radically alter…
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The Floating World: Ghosts of Mars
madam data presents The Floating World, a podcast of experimental sound and storytelling. Music in the sense of vacuum cleaners and power lines, a pulsating mechanical unconsciousness. It is sound to listen to while driving, walking through the city or taking the subway,…
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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,…
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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…
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