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Author Romie Stott, who is the same person as filmmaker and musician Romie Faienza. Poetry editor at Strange Horizons. Texan in Massachusetts. Capisco italiano un po. ⚥ Sign up for my mailing list at romiesays.kit.com.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · Jul 31

You should trust Gillian, who is brilliant.

You can order the book in many places, including through the Strange Horizons affiliate link: bookshop.org/a/114270/978...

Gillian Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · Jul 31

I got “Nothing in the Basement” by @romiesays.bsky.social at Readercon. I sped through it and can’t stop thinking about it. Absolute banger of a haunted house story. 🏚️ #amreading #horror

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jun 23

My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago.

Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago

Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 22h

I am a fan of and contributor to this kickstarter (although I can't take credit for commissioning this specific very fun poem). It's a fun chapbook! You should prepurchase!

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 1d

KICKSTARTER UPDATE: 19 days to go and we’ve hit $1000 thanks to someone picking the “i will write a poem about your favourite superhero” reward. So here’s a poem I wrote about superheroes. If you want to help me make this book visit www.tinyurl.com/choosing-sides. #romspaceknight #speculativepoetry

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 23h

Anecdatally, I know some, but we all got divorces. Seems like you can be a working mom as long as you don't have to wife on top of it.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking it happened in Jason and the Argonauts, but I guess that was harpies.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 1d

*I'm* disappointed because when *I* saw the news about the Nobel Peace Prize, *I* thought it was going to the SF writer Carmen Maria Machado, and I was very proud of her. I'm still very proud of her. Read her stuff. Here's a small part of it.
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Carmen Maria Machado

<a href="http://carmenmariamachado.com/">Carmen Maria Machado</a>'s debut short story collection, <cite>Her Body and Other Parties</cite>, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October 2017. Her ficti...

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite poem I've read in a bit?

skelly @iid.bsky.social · 1d

fascinating subheader choices on the dismemberment article wiki editors

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, I hadn't heard about that.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 1d

It's surprisingly satisfying to think "not only am I not stupid enough to do that, but even if I was, I couldn't!" One of my favorite underrated feelings.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 1d

But in a more Taylor-Swifty cadence, I have a great love of this lyric from "Many a New Day" in Oklahoma (lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II):

Never have I wandered through the rye
Wondering where has some guy gone
Many a new day will dawn before I do

The way the lyric and the music go together!

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

There are several books I read as a teen, including The Firm and Rising Sun, where I can't tell whether they were meh, or whether I simply had no frame of reference.

Still feel annoyed by Othello and The Scarlet Letter for similar reasons. (but Beloved and Crime and Punishment were relatable.)

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing in the Basement is now available on Kindle (and Kindle Unlimited)! But somehow it has been misfiled as for ages 12-18. (Working on fixing this.) I don't think it would be traumatizing for someone that age, but I don't think it would make much sense to them.

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Nothing in the Basement

Nothing in the Basement [Stott, Romie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nothing in the Basement

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

I find Isaiah 54 useful when arguing with Christian pro-natalists. One could say God's speaking metaphorically about Israel, but he's literally saying childless women are his favorites and he will destroy anybody who assembles against them. Some real good lines.

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

Bible Gateway passage: Isaiah 54 - New King James Version

A Perpetual Covenant of Peace - “Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate Than th...

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

Toddlers are standing in front of two doors. One of them eats only protein and one of them refuses to eat any protein. You solve this by asking one toddler to make a meal for the other toddler. Now the kitchen is messy and you have other concerns.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to be normie and say it's correct that Bob Dylan is the only lyricist who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Much love to Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple, and Colin Meloy.

Lyrics from the beginning of "Visions of Johanna" by Bob Dylan.
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks
When you're tryin' to be so quiet
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

Ignore me if you are making a different point, but if you're looking for recs, @zinrock.bsky.social is an outstanding freelance developmental editor.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

as I understand it, enough people kept claiming to be them that it wasn't a useful identifier anymore

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 2d

yes this timeline is a rough route. yes there are waves of strife. but behind it all lies the inertia of all things which prompted fish to trot out of the ocean and humans to gather in commune. we are driven to fill the nothing with ourselves, with LOVE. its the unconquerable wind behind our sails

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

That looks cool! Where did you get it?

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

Also, we already do this? I get a deduction for my dependents AND a child tax credit, and it's essentially just recognizing that my one-person income is feeding three people. Not particularly controversial. We don't need a third tax mechanism to do the same thing that's already happening.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 3d

They are closer. The out-of-control monkeys are closer. I can't stop them.

(Hypothetically, I can't stop them. I have never attempted to stop them. It would be contrary to my management ethic.)

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 6d

IT'S COMING! They're coming. The monkeys! At halloweeeeeeeen

Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · 6d

It's here! It's here! The TOC for Issue 5 of Die Laughing is HERE!

We could not be more excited to bring you these 6 hilarifying tales, available as a PDF download 10/31/25, with stories posting for free every week after! Join us for stories so funny they'll kill you! #horrorsky
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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 4d

I love this topic.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 5d

I have a love for both, but although one must watch a lot of Xena to get the experience of Xena, if you watch just the opening credits of Cleopatra 2525 a few times, it counts as having watched the whole show.

🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 6d

IT'S COMING! They're coming. The monkeys! At halloweeeeeeeen

Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · 6d

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 7d

Always happy to consult if you run against something particularly intractable.

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 8d

really important that we find ways to neuter the supreme court and unwind the trump admin's cruel practices, least of which so i can annoyingly say "all their efforts were for kavanaught"

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9d

An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.

These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.

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