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Beloved of Colel Cab and Baby Daiyu

Posted onOctober 14, 2023October 14, 2023Leave a comment

Hello dearest reader. Today I give you a little slipstream love story from the Daiyuverse my ongoing Patreon fiction project. This is a little standalone about our heroine Daiyu and her first girlfriend. Enjoy! Beloved of Colel Cab and of Baby Daiyu  By  Shannon Barber  Read More …

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Eileen, Eileen, Eileen

Posted onSeptember 15, 2023September 15, 2023Leave a comment

Story inspired by this 2Pac song. Lyric video below. Originally written in 2017 for an anthology I was booted out of because the publisher was offended by it. This is the short version the long version is lost to the bowels of the internets I Read More …

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Author spotlight Gabino Iglesias

Posted onJuly 28, 2023July 28, 2023Leave a comment

AKA this motherfucker right here. Hello friend! Below find a reprint of a fave book from Gabino and you can listen to me review his latest while you read. WOW what service! Okay my babes. Buckle in cause I’m about to go in on the Read More …

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Writing Prompt Fiction Experimental Horror

Posted onJuly 22, 2023July 22, 2023Leave a comment

working title: Hunter or Hunted This was written after this tweet by beloved Paula D Ashe. Sometimes I see friends say things and ask if I can have or borrow the phrase and if they consent I tuck it away and most of the time Read More …

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The Awakening of Naram-Sin Pt. 2

Posted onJuly 8, 2023July 8, 2023Leave a comment

To Live. Before we get started. This piece is the continuation of this one. I was inspired very much by Will Ramos’ cover of Chokehold by Sleep Token. So if you didn’t catch it read story 1 first I also included the last paragraph from Read More …

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How To Be a Writer in Five Minutes!

Posted onMay 16, 2023May 16, 2023Leave a comment

Write that Shit: Lesson 1. Hello and welcome to lesson one. In this lesson we’re going to learn to write fiction because we’renosy and have questions. The purpose of these exercises is to essentially learn a new method ofstimulating our creativity and making something. You Read More …

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The Swans of Lakeside Arms

Posted onApril 21, 2023April 21, 2023Leave a comment

Nobody really knows how or why a bevy of swans was settled behind a once grand victim of slow decay and failed gentrification called the Lakeside Arms Apartments. There was no lake but there was an ugly little pond that bred more mosquitoes and other Read More …

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My Hood – Reprint for Black History Month

Posted onFebruary 8, 2023February 8, 2023Leave a comment

Fabulist fiction, content notes snakes and animals, violence. Originally published in Animal: A literary Magazine. Pushcart nominated. There are rules in our neighborhood. No dealing in the open, no purse snatching, no rape, no gang work in the neighborhood. Other neighborhoods knew, it was rare Read More …

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Smut reprint. Call me Humbert

Posted onDecember 17, 2022December 17, 2022Leave a comment

CW: this story is about gender fuckery and fucking your way to gender euphoria one problematic literary costume at a time. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK THIS IS VERY EXPLICIT and here take some theme music. Piece originally in print circla 2014 I think Her Read More …

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CNF reprint original title- The Mother Fucker Who Will.

Posted onDecember 15, 2022December 15, 2022Leave a comment

Alt title: “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.” ― Malcom X. Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam. -Klingon proverb  I have always loved the bad guys. Darth Vader, Klingons, the biker gang who lived across the street from us when I Read More …

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