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Today I wrote 570 words about a missing baby toe nail. Think it's a kids' story.

Yesterday, I finished book 3 to "Portrait of an Artist As a Young Undiagnosed Autistic Boy" and today wrote a 230 word short called "Bits." Hope to write nothing but shorts the rest of the month.

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Been seeing a lot about authors self censoring before the send out their work to market. I may be old or insensitive, but it seems worse to me than authors who self-reject before sending out to market.

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Frankenstein; The Post Modern Autism Mom In the near future, Victoria Frankenstein has it all - a perfect husband, three perfect daughters, and all the material comforts. But despite this, she feels a void in her life. And then it hits her -...

FYI

I dropped the epub and mobi files of Frankenstein; the Post-Modern Autism Mom in my store.

Check it out here: absurdproject.gumroad.com/l/frankenstein

#autisticcharacters #sciencefiction #absurdist

Tricks & Treats 2022

Continuing to go through old Halloween playlists before sharing 2025.

2022 ended up being much better than 2021, and has a weird Munsters theme that I never caught at the time.

#Halloween #HalloweenMusic #playlist #Spotify

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Is that Blood and Black Lace related to the Bava movie?

Free PDF Mini-Zines and Ebooks: Fiction and Non-Fiction Downloads Here are my foldable mini-zines and ebooks. Feel free to download the PDF files and print them. NOTE ON ZINES: For best results, set printer settings for LANDSCAPE and ACTUAL SIZE. ANOTHER NOTE: Ne…

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I updated my free zines page this morning.

To note, 2 new non fiction zines and larger stories in the new EBOOK section.

Thanks for reading!

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All my noir fantasy, sci-fi, and crime novels, short story collections, and bundles are on sale in my store this week until October 12th!

Use this code U4FNSO5 at check-out and receive 30% off your purchase.

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#Bookstodon #books #scifi #darkfantasy

Today is the 5 year anniversary of The Autistic Innovator. The autism blog named The Autistic Innovator launched October 2, 2020. It became a store 10 months later. Half a decade of my life dedicated to supporting our autistic community. The Autistic Innovator is my ❤️ & soul.

One of my more obscure story collections, THE SEASHELL CONTRACT, is a free ebook from any Amazon platform just for today :-) #booksky

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Influences - Patricia Highsmith

Crime author Patricia Highsmith influences my writing greatly but today I'm going to focus on her Tom Ripley series of books. I recently reread all five of them and deduced that Highsmith may have been autistic.

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How do #actuallyautistic artists deal with being invisible in reference to their art?

You have no friends or family as a psychological or spiritual support?

How do you keep from disappearing completely and pack it in?

my engineer, Rizzo, looking at live shots: “Kris, geez…maybe try using your INDOOR VOICE”

29 years ago today
Everything Sucks is the fifth studio album by American punk rock band the Descendents, released on this day in 1996, featuring the singles I'm the One" and "When I Get Old"

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #descendents #history #punkrockhistory #otd

20% OFF. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Code: AUTAUT20 uk.jkp.com us.jkp.com Behind the text are the following book covers arranged in a grid: - The Neurodiversity Affirmative Child Autism Assessment Handbook by Maeve Kavanagh, Anna Day, Davida Hartman, Tara O'Donnell-Killen, and Jessica K Doyle. - Spectrums edited by Maxfield Sparrow. - Stories of Autistic Joy edited by Laura Kate Dale. - Young, Autistic and ADHD by Sarah Boon. - Autistic and Black by Kala Allen Omeiza. - Can’t Not Won’t by Eliza Fricker. - The Autism-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and the Fourth Trimester by Amiee Grant. - Nobody Nowhere by Donna Williams. - Notes for Neuro Navigators by Jolene Stockman. - My Body’s Power Pack by Sandhya Menon. - The Autistic Guide to Communicating and Connecting by Niamh Garvey. - Lost & Now Found by Kate Laine-Toner and Suzi Payton. - Autism and Masking by Felicity Sedgewick, Laura Hull, and Helen Ellis. - So, I’m Autistic by Sarah O’Brien. - The Young Person’s Guide to Autistic Burnout by Viv Dawes. Illustrated by Josh Dawes. - Queerly Autistic by Erin Ekins. - Could I Really Be Autistic? by Sarah Hendrickx and Jess Hendrickx. - Welcome to AuDHD by Megan Griffith. - The Secret Life of Rose by Jodie and Rose. - What I Want to Talk About by Pete Wharmby.

Jessica Kingsley Publishers is kindly offering a 20% discount across all books on their UK and US websites.

If you're looking to learn more about autism, this is a great time!

Discount Code: AUTAUT20

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#Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #BookSky

Oddly, the stupidest thing trump said out of all the stupidest things yesterday, to me anyway, was how women should tough out their pains or fever while pregnant. Walk it off. If you can’t, take a low dose.

Walk it off and be a man.

The Empire’s cause for autism disappointed me. Totally unoriginal and derivative.

Rating it No Stars.

Maybe it's my ego, but I feel, as an autistic or my practicing Buddhism, I am able to see things many can't.

A new #Asemic piece that just popped out while working on material for this months #newsletter. I try to vary many #patterns so I don’t duplicate and i think I’ve achieved that. Maybe…

#Art #Dada #cartoon #drawing #Illustration #weirdart #absurd
#2dart #experimentalcomix #InkArt

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lol no apology needed.

Here's the link to that one-minute play Pogo-A-Go-Go that was accepted over the summer.

Enjoy!

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Blunt Force Kharma (Section 1) - Ebook In a colonized world ripe for corporate development, Kelly Kharma is a private investigator struggling to make ends meet. Her former police training and disregard for rules sets her apart from the pac...

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The SQINKS campaign is almost over. Back me at the Ebook level + the Ten More Ebooks add-on for $21 in all. And get TWELVE Rudy Rucker ebooks! A year's worth of enlightenment! Pop surrealism on the installment plan! The end is nigh.
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Although much of DR. STRANGELOVE ('63) was tightly scripted, Stanley Kubrick gave Peter Sellers free rein to improvise his roles. Many of the lines delivered by his three characters were Sellers' own creation.

See it tonight at 8pm ET as we salute our Star of the Month.

Screenshot of the profile for a Bluesky account named ‘Autistic Books’. Username @ autisticbook.bsky.social. They have 1 follower, follow 12, and have made 2 posts. Bio states: “Educating the masses and spreading Autism awareness, neurodiversity & more. The books by can be found on Amazon in Kindle format, Paperback & Hardcover. Autistic Book Of lists: a.co/d/4zb597Y Curing The Lie: a.co/d/ch41NPG”

FYI, this account is not me.
Based on their previews, I also highly suspect the autism books they’re promoting are AI - often nonsensical, repetitive, references appear to use real names but with made-up content, e.g. Hull, Mandy, & Petrides discussing quiche…

Tales from the WIP 09142025 With publishing work done early and wanting to work on plays in September, I decided to write a Kharma short story this week. A quicky that has always been in my head. Actually, the closing of the …

Tales From the WIP 09142025

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