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Dale Stromberg
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Castigator of texts and poor devil of letters. Debut high fantasy novel Mæj pub’d 2024 by @traumbooks.bsky.social. My paperbricks: https://mybook.to/strombergish Quiet immigrant. Oya-baka. Regular fugly. S-class awkward. He/him.
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Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social · Nov 14
I’ve picked up some new followers, so let me introduce myself.

I’m mostly boring; the most interesting thing about me is I PUBLISHED A NOVEL just last month. You might like to read it.

traumbooks.com/maej/

MAEJ is a high fantasy brick. Cover by Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social :

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The cover of MAEJ, a high fantasy novel. The cover art looks like it has been carved or sculpted. In the upper left, a whirlybug flies over a tentslum. In the upper right, a gryphon sits regally. The bottom half shows a frieze of five women. In the centre, two lines of text: Dale Stromberg, MAEJ. Copyright © 2024 by Rachel A. Rosen, designer extraordinaire and author of the Sleep of Reason series.
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AHMAD-JOHAR 13🕊𓂆 @ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · 11h
I NO LONGER RECOGNIZE MYSELF…
The person I once was is buried beneath the ruins of these endless nights.
My heart carries more pain than it can bear.💔

Every breath I take feels borrowed,
and every sunrise reminds me that I survived…
but I’m not truly alive.

✨ PLEASE STAND WITH US.
✨ BE OUR VOICE.🕊
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Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social · 9h
“Priscila just wanted to be held, not by him but by a world kinder than this one, a world she didn’t need to forgive constantly…”

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Winter Short Story Award 1st Place: “Tell Me Who You Walk With” by Gabriella Navas - The Masters Review
"Tell Me Who You Walk With” is revelatory fiction, a complex story that constellates what we owe each other, our families, ourselves. The author has an uncanny, almost preternatural ability to render ...
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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 10h
FFF Competition Thirty
flash fiction 100/300 Words
1 W £165.00
2 HC £77.00
3 SL £66.00
Judge: Nish X. Hegde
@nishxhegde.bsky.social

£4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe
£2.95 fee per entry via BACS -
ends 23/10/25

#writingcompetitions #flashfiction

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 1d
"It is very rare for horror stories to make me feel actual horror and revulsion but [Lupus in Fabula] nailed it!"
-Cassandra on Goodreads

Ready to experience the horror and revulsion for yourself? Snag the book here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lupu...
Lupus in Fabula paperback | Cursed Morsels Press
Lupus In Fabula collects thirteen stories about the interplay of lust, violence, yearning, and grief; about becoming a monster and loving monsters; about transformation; about strange occurrences in s...
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 23h
Help fund the translation of these books!!!
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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 1d
The translations we're hoping to fund for a Black small press are:
- A story about a Black trans woman in South Africa.
- A story about a Black woman in Zimbabwe who deals with the corruption of the men around her.
- A story about three Black men in Tanzania who must grapple with masculinity.
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3345, 67%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...
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Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks @tuckerlieberman.com !
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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 1d
Like this stunning #HighFantasy ICYMI —
⚡ Mæj by @stromberg.bsky.social
📚 Indie press @traumbooks.bsky.social
US readers: @bookshop.org (or ask your local indie bookstore)
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Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social · 1d
“I realized, while the dirty kid licked the ice cream off his fingers, how little other people mattered to me, how natural these sad lives seemed.”

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The Dirty Kid - Electric Literature
Click to purchase the Kindle edition The Dirty Kid by Mariana Enriquez, recommended by McSweeney’s Translated by Joel Streicker 1 My family thinks I’m crazy because I choose to live in the family hous...
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 2d
it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

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behold!
Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”
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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 1d
I truly believe articles like this are part of a deliberate effort not just to frame climate change as primarily a matter of individual consumer responsibility, but to encourage the public to blame disabled ppl specifically & view assistive tech as an extravagance humanity can’t afford, while (1/2)
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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 1d
As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.
Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds
Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.
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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 1d
This is of niche industry interest, but here goes:

The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%.

Why does this matter?
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Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social · 1d
I see so much political discourse which takes the form of pointing out rightwing hypocrisy… as if "ha! caught you doing a hypocrisy!" somehow wins the debate…?

Like, "now that we've pointed out your hypocrisy, I'm sure you'll go off and fix that yeah?"
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Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social · 1d
“I really don't think the MFA is [a] homogenizing influence … In my experience, as someone who was writing sci-fi stories in an MFA, creative writing departments do much more to honor individual vision and creativity than the publishing industry does.”

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The literary short story is an empty formal exercise
In my MFA workshop, one semester we read the stories from Best American Short Stories, and I remember thinking that even the worst stories had a certain density of language that I admired and felt was...
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Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social · 1d
On Oct. 7, 2006, Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated in her apartment building in Moscow. 19 years ago today. At least one of the men who planned her murder, a former police officer, has since been pardoned for going to kill again in Ukraine.

Also today, Putin turns 73.
Archive photo from Novaya Gazeta, her newspaper, of Politkovskaya sitting at her desk with a pen. She is pictured from below, with a stack of papers in front of her.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d
1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.
How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens
Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.
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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 2d
As a retired US Navy vet, if you are ordered to invade US homes, break their doors, zip-tie kids? - and you do that? YOu should read up on Neuremberg because those are NOT lawful orders, and you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. Your families shoulid be ashamed of you. Stand the fuck up.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d
we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d
UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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AHMAD-JOHAR 13🕊𓂆 @ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · 4d
I have reached a moment where I wonder how I am still alive…
How does my body still breathe and my heart keep beating?
How can I walk, sleep, and speak amidst this devastation?

Nothing around me resembles human life at all—indeed, even animals live better than us.

PLEASE DONATE AND BE OUR VOICE.🙏🏻🕊
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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d
Those of you who know me IRL know that I'm constantly spouting off book recommendations. Picking a top three is a challenge. Nevertheless, Shepherd asked and I delivered:
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Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social · 3d
“It’s obvious that there are not only fascists, but essentially national socialists, in the administration. You just have to listen to Stephen Miller’s comments at the Charlie Kirk memorial. That is a Nazi speech, right?”

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The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
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C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 3d
Alt text for the image: it is the front page of the Sunday Express with the headline: "TORY 'ICE' FORCE WOULD DEPORT 150,000 A YEAR." The number is in red to highlight it.

The subheading is "Bold plan to tackle migrants based on US agency".

Seriously the Tories can fuck off
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d
Yet again, a distant but heartfelt cheer can be heard from Lib Dem activists in Blue Wall seats.
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Shey💖 @illegalbussy.bsky.social · 3d
HELP A IMMIGRANT TODAY ⬇️
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Shey💖 @illegalbussy.bsky.social · Aug 27
Help a homeless black artist start back up my small resin business since my health has gone downhill❤️‍🩹. Been surviving off my art & SW 😢 #Mutualaid #trans #lgbtq #promosky #Ice #bluesky #trending #blm #artist #art #artsky #resist #smallbusiness #blackowned #blue #follow

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d
The administration has determined that if you describe this accurately for what it is, you are also an enemy of the state
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CNN @cnn.com · 4d
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
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