Ann LeBlanc

OLEANDER GRIP by frog industrial concern The Frog K prose omnibus - all my fiction that'll fit in one place.

Oleander Grip.

It feels lightyears ahead of mainstream SF&F. Incredibly weird, visceral, and unknowable. Unsettling in a subtly maximalist way. Indigenous author.

It's me writing I SAW THE TV GLOW! Transfemme MC! Video games! Urban legends! SCP vibes!

This worm/voice/knife poem by Callie Jennings is my favorite poem i've read this year:

This is gorgeous!! Very nice looking mouldings!

There is so much good stuff in here!! May I particularly recommend:

Redundancies & Potentials
The Cosmic Color
The Transitive Properties of Cheese
All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From
anthologies Embodied Exegesis, Luminescent Machinations, & the We're Here annuals

Painting of a woman descending digital stairs that originate from a mind, with psychedelic elements like robot dinosaurs and matrix-y lines of code around her.

I got to do an endpaper for the Broken Binding edition of Ken Liu's All that We See or Seem. And I got to paint little robot dinos in it!! Thanks to Petrik Leo for the super fun project 😁

Escape Pod 994: Magical Girl Antifa War Machine XYLIA We were at the bottom of a hole, a new construction site that went deep into the bedrock. I was the first to touch the artifact, a thing that didn’t quite have shape or color. I grabbed it.

An excellent and cathartic story about fighting back against facism that balances fun tropes and a strong voice with dark subject matter - Magical Girl Antifa War Machine by @esther-alter.bsky.social

escapepod.org/2025/05/22/e...

This is probably controversial, but IMO, Dhalgren is a foundational text for cyberpunk.

When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain, Google Keeps Feeding Me Distressingly Hot Factoids About Hermaphroditic Earthworm Sex by Callie Jennings VOICEMAIL POEMS · "When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain…" by Callie Jennings Until I thought to check, I thought I knew:worms emerge from dirt to taron the ...

Do you (like me) have strong feelings about worms and/or your voice (knife voice)?🪱🔪

You should read this incredible poem by @aporianautics.bsky.social

I've been rotating it in my mind all week.

This book is SO good; you might go mad reading just one more page, just one more page, until you get to the end and you find something ancient has taken up residence within you.

My last poem released today is called "writing letters in our sleep" inspired by a recurring dream I have of meeting my father as a trans woman after so many years of him being in prison, and the dream letters we send to introduce ourselves
#queer #poetry
twistedtonguepress.com/poetry/writi...

Happy birthday!! I hope you have a wonderful day!

a bowl full of potatos i dug out of my garden

last potato harvest of the season

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Absolute banger, one of my favourite books I've read this year

Thank you!!!

Thank you!!!

I'm thrilled to see EMBODIED EXEGESIS included in this amazing list of transfem literature! This is some incredible company to be in!!!

“Alter shapes a defi­ant tale full of energy, sensuality, and drive, and leaves readers to be moved and shaken by the power of the story, which is intense and wonder­ful.”

Yes yes ok thank you this is what I wanted Magical Girl Antifa War Machine to do

#shortstories #amreading

And Palimrya's story in Embodied Exegesis ("A Canyon of Blood for the Normalest Man Alive") is absolutely the moistest thing I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

It's so moist it horsehoes around to being sharp, and then back to moist again. I don't need moisturizer anymore after reading it.

There were several stories in Bound in Flesh (ed. Lor Gislason) that made me squirm with how moist they were. (also just a really good anthology overall, highly recommend)

Yay! Thank you!!!!

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Broadway Community does really good work feeding people in NYC

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this story infected me in the best way (don't inoculate yourself against this story; i want you to read it; let it seep into you, let it breach the blood-brain barrier)

there's a schismatic order of monks out in the berkshires who eat only fruit that has touched the heavens.

I once met their abbot, who in his later days had to be held to the earth with weighted ropes. his own followers killed him by cutting him loose after he asserted the fruit of eden was a prune

photo of a hand holding an apple

photo of an apple in the sky

photo of an apple very high in the sky

my guilty autumn pleasure is to visit the local orchard and inject helium into all the trees

This is an abandonment of the most vulnerable trans youth, for whom Fenway Health was often a provider of last resort, and signals Fenway’s willingness to abandon all trans patients.

They must be pressured over this capitulation. We need your help - reach out, call, demand answers!

If you're cis, please actually call them. I can't articulate how bad this news is.

Nameless Woman an anthology of fiction by trans women of color ed. Ellyn Peña Jamie Berrout and Venus Selenite

I've spent time with family, gone on a beautiful canal walk, and eaten delicious ramen already today - time to round it out with one of the most important transfemme shortform anthologies ever published 🩷

This paperback is one of the coolest rare copies I've worked with.

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤