LCW Allingham

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Watching hereditary for the 3rd time (first time with my big kid) and I realize this movie is meant to be watched over and over. Brilliant.

That’s awesome!

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i get a few of these every week right now. Sometimes they still make my pauce because they can get such specific details and it's not always a book club, but anyway, if you didn't know before, now you know.
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The people who think open borders is the worse option need to be evaluated for psychopathy

Things the government will protect children from:
- playing on a team with a trans person
- school lunches
- learning history
- drag queens
Things our government doesn’t protect children from:
- school shootings
- sex crimes
- abduction and incarceration by secret police

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

About 24 hours left to submit - I'll close the forms at 8 a.m. Eastern time on Feb 1, give or take an hour.

Apps stand at:
new-to-dpp applications: 56
have-published-with-dpp-before applications: 22

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My son was hanging out in the same room where I was editing and it made me realize that I whisper words I get stuck on when I'm writing so I'm everything will be silent and then I'll whisper "Spiritualist"
"Ham-hock"
"Mr. Delancy"

I’m gonna talk about my cats instead of the horrors for a minute. They’re both the sweetest cats you’ll ever meet but they both need to very carefully hurt me. Luna will gently, lovingly bite me while I snuggle her and Kitty will stretch out on my lap and slowly sink his claws into my legs. wtf?

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What a legend. What a loss. Fuck.

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This is really cool! My short story, “No one Would Even Care” about a neglected girl who moves into a haunted house across the street from her bully is in the MORE MONSTERS NEXT DOOR anthology and I just got my contributors copy. Look at that awesome illustration!

Wow! High praise indeed!

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

🤣

Thank you for contributing your awesomeness to it

Thank you for your brilliant story!

I am so surprised and honored to be on the preliminary list with my editorial partner @rivertheauthor.bsky.social for VAMPIRE HUNTERS: AN INCOMPLETE RECORD OF PERSONAL ACCOUNTS. We had amazing authors to work with on this and I am delighted to see it with other fantastic anthologies of 2025!

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For the snow storm, we’re watching 30 Days of Night.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

There were six or seven agents, trying to harm a man who looks unarmed and still they murdered him in broad daylight. These ICE agents are venal, incompetent, cowardly and this type of execution will keep on happening because they are an unchecked paramilitary force of scared men who crave power.

BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS, TEAR GASSING OBSERVERS AT SCENE YouTube video by MeidasTouch

LIVE NOW on-the-ground in Minneapolis after another person was killed by federal agents.

Money is about to become very bad, so I really appreciate any shares!

If you like:

* Found fiction
* Twisty horror
* Isolated settings
* Queerness
* Humour disguising a deep seriousness
* Voicey POVs

TETK might be for you!

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I want to rage at my Congressmen for doing nothing but posting strongly worded tweets and telling people to vote in 2026 but my congressmen aren't even doing that. This government is an embarrassment and our democratic party are a bunch of whining flaccid little cowards. Stand the Fuck up!

I don’t think it’s worth being angry about people in other countries being rightfully angry at this country.

I think it’s more worthwhile to direct anger at our government and go out and do good in our communities.

This year has been nearly impossible to post about work and writing in, but I am sending a new manuscript off to my agent today and that's pretty cool.

A cartoon from the mid-1960s. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. talks with a reporter, surrounded by the aftermath and detritus of a riot saying "I plan to have another non-violent march tomorrow."

This is what they said about him then. This is what they say about us now. This is who they always have been.

Once I caught Fire Walk with Me on TV programing, and was like WTF is this and then found out it was the film that came after Twin Peaks which I hadn't watched and took comfort in knowing that with context everything made total sense. 😂
Miss you David Lynch, you delightful madman.