The Cookout Anthology

Text over orange backdrop: BAD MEDICINE by P.C. Verrone. Santa Fe Playhouse World Premiere with Native Voices

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

Apples, pears, and cheese.
I think @tco-anthology.bsky.social is having gelatinous cube again.

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!

Who’s got some cookout lore?

#WritingPrompt #SFF #Blacksky

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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.

Tis the season!

Hey @tco-anthology.bsky.social Cookouteers: what are we pairing with this for a fully nutritional meal?

@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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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.

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

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Get them out of the airlock!

Who all is grilling this weekend? 🌭🚀 #SciFiSky #Blacksky

On a kitchen counter sits a bottle of rose hip wine on the left, and marigold wine on the right

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 is an open jar of honey, with plastic dinosaurs exploring the sweetness.

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 stovetop is a pot full of water and vegetable scraps boiling into broth.

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?

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A clear glass mug lays on its side on a kitchen counter. tea leaves spill from the mug onto the counter.

@tco-anthology.bsky.social Who spilled the tea? Auntie Robot? Cousin Witch? More importantly, is the tea related to That Secret Recipe?

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@tco-anthology.bsky.social A worthy documentary:
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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.

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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A puff of smoke… a mysterious mist… who’s on dish duty?

I’m Team Still ever since visiting the alternate dimension where all water is fizzy. 🫧

"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.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

Your move, dragon salters…

There's a spice called "soup perfume" I want to try.

Free dinner! Hopefully it’s not you… 🎲

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It’s uhhhhhh… basil.

Yeah, basil. And powdered crouton
legs.

A beige and purple apron with butterfly and floral prints. The background is a white sheet.

I bought this apron from the same farmer's market stall I got my printed navy apron. The cuts are different, but they look like cousins.

Would you wear coordinating clothes at the cookout? Who will you wear them with?
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Soup Day! The Day for Soup! What ingredient are you adding to the soup? (Please nothing from the fifth or sixth dimensions. Too spicy!) 🥣🦠🪼

A cookbook lays open, showcasing its vegetarian jollof rice recipe. on the opposite page is a Senegalese vendor before a huge pile of jollof rice. Above the book is a bowl of jollof rice made using the recipe.

Look carefully, @tco-anthology.bsky.social, and behold the indent in the jollof rice bowl. What delicious add-ins should it hold? Martian made moringa? Lamb from a lunar lagoon?

A pink Hello Kitty print apron with blue Hello Kitty print ties and pocket.

A blue Hello Kitty print apron with pink Hello Kitty print ties and pocket.

A gift from @agrias-oaks.bsky.social. After I made an outfit for her, she used the leftover fabric to make this reversable apron.

What exchanges happen at your cookout? Auntie's out-of-this-world fried chicken in exchange for Great-Uncle's heavenly (literally) homebrew?
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