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Betty
@meathoneys.bsky.social
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Black nb writer and media analyst with a fixation on genre fiction, especially horror and SF. Blog Editor at The Coachella Review. Any pronouns.

Website: https://meathoneys.com/
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adwills.bsky.social
no, you don't understand. That's my emotional support theme I almost always have some version of in my writing.
December 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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jacobgeller.com
As of today, the retail edition of How a Game Lives is available in bookstores, libraries, and online platforms. Ask for it locally! Get it from your favorite bookseller! bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
Jacob Geller in an orange sweater, holding a copy of "How a Game Lives"
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
meathoneys.bsky.social
My review of "Playing Wolf" by Zuzana Říhová for The Coachella Review. #BookSky
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REVIEW: Playing Wolf by Zuzana Říhová
Reviewed by Betty Fall       Zuzana Říhová’s Playing Wolf is an at times elusive yet consistently dread-inducing fairytale that challenges its readers to unravel the chaotic mess of motivations, emot...
thecoachellareview.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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jacobgeller.com
Maybe the most beautiful possible description of what an essay can do, what I feel my job is. Of course it's from Patricia Lockwood.

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Tara overestimated my reading, as people often do. She gestured to one essay: so much information arrayed there. No, I said, look. You can put things in an essay that you yourself do not know. There is a library all around you. You take a book off the shelf, find the fact or the sentence and put it where it fits. It never belonged to you, you never really had it. It comes from the library, it goes back to it. And it waits there for the next one who needs it. Really it's choosing a lifetime of homework, I said. Did they ask you to write about the X-Files? someone piped up. No, I wanted to write about the X-Files.
August 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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khoreo.bsky.social
🚨 Submissions are OPEN! 🚨

We are open to short stories under 5,000 words, translations under 3,500 words, and flash fiction. We offer $0.10/word.

Send in your submissions now!

For more details on submissions, please visit our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
July 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Quick #Juneteenth check. Are you subscribed to @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social? Could you afford the $15.99 for a year of excellent stories to give you joy and fuel?

1) "I can afford $15.99" = click 👇🏻!

2) "I can but I'm too busy to read more" - Buy a gift sub! Go on!

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Black Power fist over burning golden-yellow flame
June 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com
Write for yourself, write for your loves, write for fun, write for distraction, write for satisfaction, write because someone told you that you couldn't, write because someone else told you that you could, write because you read something amazing that inspired you, write just because.
April 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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tulips.gay
my ex-wife and i are still in our twenties

collaborative compilation with Talia Silver.

a poem, a journal entry, a vignette, four pieces of "visual art", two short stories, and one song.

releasing in the evening EST of 2/23.

cover art by alice w.
the cover page for "my ex-wife and i are still in our twenties". it shows two white trans women locking hands via photomashing, face down. 18+.
February 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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ethanmaldridge.bsky.social
I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:
February 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
meathoneys.bsky.social
My review of "They Thought They Buried Us" by NoNieqa Ramos for The Coachella Review from September. #BookSky
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January 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM