Mrs Fringe

People just get weirder and weirder.

Had he read it?

It's true: I haven't said anything about this for days and days. But in the midst of this Ic3-y season, you might find a ray of something different, maybe hope, herein. Soon, soon! ❤️

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behold!

Virgo: This is the week to follow your dreams. When the clown beckons, go with him to the stream of blood. Your second grade teacher is waiting to roughly bathe you until you dissolve and become mist.

I definitely feel I know it when I see it, but there have been many times where I've seen a mss the writer was certain was lit fic, but it wasn't, imo. I most appreciated her work to define the conventions (bc there ARE), without dissing lit fic or other genres.

Well worth the read, imo

And we've gone pre-order live on Amazon, that might be the fastest one yet

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As a used bookseller, this is maddening because every damn day I see appetite for strange books, old books, indie books, forgotten books. Readers are there. They love to explore the store & buy things they've never heard of.

Publishing's biggest problem is that they've forgotten how to sell books.

a woman in a green dress is holding an umbrella in front of a building Alt: a woman in a green dress is holding an umbrella in front of a building

Wait, it's today?

Couldn't love this more.

Nobody hates LitFic more than people who don't read it.

There are knitters who have huge stashes, I am not one of them, and 😭💔

Trump’s Tariffs Are Destroying Something You’d Never Expect Not even your favorite sweater is safe from the trade war.

The one fucking part of my life that has offered some peace recently. 😭
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Muddy ground along edge of the Loch in Central Park, bright green duckweed covering the water, bottom of tree branches upper right with a lost, somewhat battered yellow rubber duck in the mud under the tree

The Pool at Central Park, ringed by trees with reflection of willow tree leaves and branches seen in the water

I’ve been having trouble getting myself to face the outside world, but this morning I got to the park.

💜, thank you.
(sorry for the broken reply, my brain is definitely not working correctly and I hit send halfway through)

It is a unique pain, and I definitely know that hole punched feeling. Sending

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FYI.

Thank you. Hard days, for sure.

Thank you.

I definitely need a burrito break

I started rewatching on HBO max a couple of weeks ago. It's my comfort show, and my husband passed away 4 weeks ago. Feels like a damned attack for them to remove it and have it be NOWHERE else. 😭

Def makes it harder, I had no idea on the genetics bc I didn't know my bio mother.

A friend and I were talking recently about the impression we had of menopause when we were young, the whisper fragments we heard terrified us, and now we're like...wtf? menopause is the best thing to have happened!

Thank you.

couldn't hurt--maybe howl at the moon and burn some sage while performing the sacrifice

I'm pretty sure it's just genetics, sorry.

you mean I'm supposed to move? do things? 😭