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alanastorm.bsky.social
Alana Storm
@alanastorm.bsky.social
of a certain age; clocky broad; after much consternation, a writer

found in TRANSPlants, Pile Press, Lilac Peril, and PDX

Makes zines

i use this machine to share work and I try to not discourse in public.

https://gliff.org
https://linktr.ee/alanaxstorm
Mapplethorpe Polaroids: Candy Darling
February 16, 2026 at 9:59 PM
And some classic “overbearing yet absent mother made him an f-slur” rhetoric
February 14, 2026 at 7:38 PM
And wow is 1995 already showing up. In the first handful of pages we get some random casual Islamophobia
February 14, 2026 at 7:36 PM
The 1995 Maplethorpe biography showed up from interlibrary loan
February 14, 2026 at 7:34 PM
evolving into some sort of Annie Leibovitz themed pokémon 🤷‍♀️
February 14, 2026 at 4:16 AM
my friend, @erinholographic.bsky.social, does hourly comic day some years which means I get a sweet 2024 - 2026 transition timeline
February 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The chapbook had been a local DIY success in the years before I moved to Portland.
February 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I bounced off this twenty years ago when I realized it was about high school and it felt like the least appropriate thing for a 30-year-old to be reading. Giving it another go.
February 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Remembering Amy: talked a lot about Catherine Wheel, inelegantly set but present boundaries, her excitement at putting me in black lipstick, how angry I got when she talked down on herself, who told me she wasn't my therapist, and how months after I ended things told me she was strictly a lesbian
February 10, 2026 at 6:41 PM
From Vivian Namaste’s Invisible Lives
February 5, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Back on my bullshit
February 5, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Then the Transvestite portraits show up and it's like -- who knows. "Who knows what goes on in the depths of someone's mind", etc.

Just another queer the culture war flattened out and AIDS relegated to the unknowable. 😑
February 4, 2026 at 4:26 AM
I thought I was going to rearrange some bookshelves and instead ended up thinking about Mapplethorpe. The whole Jesse Helms/Perfect Moment thing happened when I was fourteen, and I'm pretty sure Mapplethorpe was the first of the New York City bohemian art fags (complimentary) I became aware of.
February 4, 2026 at 4:22 AM
The covers end up being a weird aesthetic snapshot of Portland's evolving hyper gentrification. The 2005 vs. 2013 covers stand out to me in particular: bike hipster to young dad.
February 2, 2026 at 9:34 PM
poetry brings you to terrible places
January 29, 2026 at 8:30 PM
For both issues of @readeasel.bsky.social I grabbed the PDF along with a physical copy, and the PDF is nice, but it always pales in comparison to the real thing.
January 27, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Full photo set up on the bad website that is a free place to post and distribute photo sets www.instagram.com/p/DT_UEpcEr0...
January 26, 2026 at 9:47 PM
January 26, 2026 at 6:18 PM
January 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
January 26, 2026 at 5:38 PM
January 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
What if Coffee and Cigarettes but Parents and Lost Time. Quiet and awkward (complimentary) and just beautifully shot. Glad they still let Jimmy make movies.
January 26, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Living that WorldCat Pacific Northwest Life.
January 25, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Sifted through a bunch of the poems I've been reading out for the past year or so and collected them into a new chapbook. Holding off on putting the PDFs up until I've moved some stock, but also I'm a pushover if you ask.

gliff.org/posts/zine-i...
January 22, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Funny how quickly the muscle memory came back for all the little button combos you need to swap modes. Lighting was kind of shit and I was mostly sub 1/60th — but photography was (is?) always more about magic than precision for me.
January 18, 2026 at 6:19 PM