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The Cookout Anthology
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An anthology of speculative fiction from the African Diaspora https://thecookoutanthology.com/
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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 7d
I am ecstatic to share that Bad Medicine will be premiering in Santa Fe Playhouse’s and Native Voices’s 2026 Seasons! I’m looking forward to collaborating with some incredible artists that both these theaters to bring this daring, spooky, and Native AF story to the stage. #Theatersky #SpookySeason
Text over orange backdrop: BAD MEDICINE by P.C. Verrone. Santa Fe Playhouse World Premiere with Native Voices
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 8d
Apples, pears, and cheese.
I think @tco-anthology.bsky.social is having gelatinous cube again.
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ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · 8d
What yall finna have for dinner tonight?
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 9d
Who’s got some cookout lore?

#WritingPrompt #SFF #Blacksky
Image of a fiery grill and text: Cookout recipes. How do we fire up the grill underwater? How about in space? Give us done lore!
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 10d
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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · 14d
Tis the season!

Hey @tco-anthology.bsky.social Cookouteers: what are we pairing with this for a fully nutritional meal?
A black box of Kraft macaroni and cheese but the sauce is green, the noodles are cryptic symbols, the bowl has black tentacles, and it’s called Lovecraft Necroroni and Cheese.
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 13d
@tco-anthology.bsky.social This Back New England cookie doesn't get enough love. Think it'll have a place to shine in the cookout?
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Joe Froggers: The Weight of the Past in a Cookie – Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 15d
Who’s ready to write some delicious flash fiction? Choose your path and write something magical, suspenseful, or hilarious. And don’t forget the buttermilk! ⏲️
#WritingPrompt #SFF #Blacksky
Image of biscuits that reads: The Cookout Writing Prompt #1. Your character burnt the biscuits and the guests will be here any minute. Options: 1. Go back in time and fix it? 2. Make magic biscuits? 3. Move the whole house so it take a longer to get there, buying you some time? 4. Other. Special difficulty: tattletale ghost saw the whole thing. 100 words max.
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 16d
Get them out of the airlock!
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 18d
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 18d
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 19d
Who all is grilling this weekend? 🌭🚀 #SciFiSky #Blacksky
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · Aug 29
Sometimes you want something stronger than lemonade at the cookout. May I suggest Free Range Flower Winery? It's a Black woman owned winery specializing in flower based wine. Rose hip on the left pairs well with blueberries, and marigold tastes of sunshine. #notsponsored
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On a kitchen counter sits a bottle of rose hip wine on the left, and marigold wine on the right
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · Sep 3
This is what happens when you don't clean up! Now we have a dinosaur infestation in the middle of the cookout, and they take forever to clear out!

Should we get the dino spray, or the pest control wand?
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On a kitchen counter is an open jar of honey, with plastic dinosaurs exploring the sweetness.
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · Sep 6
Sometimes your cookout contribution is made of the rarest, bougiest ingredients like diamond stardust. Other times you do your best with gnome garden clippings. @tco-anthology.bsky.social

Where do you stand?
On a stovetop is a pot full of water and vegetable scraps boiling into broth.
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · Aug 27
Check out our co-editor @pcverrone.com’s recs for @otherwiseaward.org!
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Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org · Aug 27
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Thanks to @pcverrone.com, @pat-murphy.bsky.social, and @vajra.me for this set of recommendations for work published 2022-2023 -- more to come in future months!

#fantasy #sciencefiction #sff #scifi #horror #genrefiction
Celebrating work from 2022-2023: Part I « Otherwise Award
Recommendations spotlighting gender-expanding genre fiction from 2022 & 2023, starting with work by Kim Fu, Dominique Dickey, Bogi Takács, Gretchen Felker-Martin, and Anya Johanna DeNiro.
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · Aug 26
@tco-anthology.bsky.social Who spilled the tea? Auntie Robot? Cousin Witch? More importantly, is the tea related to That Secret Recipe?
A clear glass mug lays on its side on a kitchen counter. tea leaves spill from the mug onto the counter.
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · Aug 25
@tco-anthology.bsky.social A worthy documentary:
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How Enslaved Cooks Created Soul Food | Delishtory
YouTube video by PBS Food
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · Aug 22
I tried copying this recipe from Black Girl Baking, but I didn't get the violetish blue like in the photo. What should I have used, mermaid scales, bantha milk, or something else?
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To the left is a stovetop, supporting a baking sheet covered in blueberry drop biscuits. To the right is a counter with a cookbook open to a blueberry drop biscuit recipe, complete with blue dough.
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · Aug 20
A puff of smoke… a mysterious mist… who’s on dish duty?
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · Aug 19
What's going on here? A kitchen seance? A mad scientist's gastronomy experiment?

Share your thoughts with The Cookout. @tco-anthology.bsky.social
A kitchen sink photographed at a Dutch angle, with white smoke billowing up and over. A wooden handle is just visible in the nearest corner.
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · Aug 16
I’m Team Still ever since visiting the alternate dimension where all water is fizzy. 🫧
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · Aug 15
I made rosemary lemonade from Vegan Soul Kitchen. I store the concentrate, and add water on a cup by cup basis depending if I'm in a still of fizzy mood.

Are you on Team Bubbles, Team Still, or are you a switch?
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On a kitchen counter from right to left is the cookbook Vegan Soul Kitchen, a cup of fizzy lemonade, and a container of lemonade concentrate with a ladle in it.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Aug 15
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · Aug 15
Your move, dragon salters…
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · Aug 13
The cookout starts in an hour, and you're out of salt! The only available source is in a dragon horde. What do you do?
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An iridescent violet-blue dragon curls around a jar of pink salt.
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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · Aug 9
There's a spice called "soup perfume" I want to try.
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · Aug 5
Soup Day! The Day for Soup! What ingredient are you adding to the soup? (Please nothing from the fifth or sixth dimensions. Too spicy!) 🥣🦠🪼
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · Aug 7
Free dinner! Hopefully it’s not you… 🎲
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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · Aug 7
@tco-anthology.bsky.social is dabbling in the Dungeonmaster Arts, with the help of rolladie.net ! See if you escape…
A wooden d20 die and a map, with this text: you wake up in a stewpot that has just been set on the fire. Visit Rolladie dot net and meet you fate. Less than 10, you are dinner. 11 thru 17, you escape, but are easy to track because you smell delicious. 18 through 20, you escape, disguise yourself as a guest, and get a free dinner.
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · Aug 6
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