Zig Zag Claybourne

A black typing stand lit dramatically AF witha picture of Gowron peeking from the bottom of a white square; text reads "Marked safe from Dishonor today" in the style of Facebook safety notices.

My typing stand, reminding me that doing the thing is good and moves the draft closer to completion, bringing honor to my House.

Sisko salud.

Target presents a hail Mary to try to get its Tarjay back, press release likely coming soon: "At Target we know it's rough in these streets, so..."

"Whenever I feel like givin' up..."

A roundabout conversation has me thinking about the publishing industry and all the little burrs that snag it together. Even something as simple as receiving an honest "well done" minus genital lint raising its head. I'm thinking about a time at World Fantasy.

Reminder.

Black Summers A triumphant, cross-generational exploration of Black joy and resilience. Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days o...

I'm very proud of the essay I contributed to this. I hope people are pre-ordering.

Outstanding!

A Shadow Full of Stars: A Mind-Bending Fantasy Novel The TWILIGHT ZONE meets ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST when a musician is offered a "life transplant" to cure his depression.

"All Eddie Logan had to do was take a step."

That's the opening line of my novel, A SHADOW FULL OF STARS. Which, in case you somehow haven't heard me mention it already, I'm running a Kickstarter to help fund the book's publication. I hope you can check it out!

kck.st/4rTZyne

WE'LL ALLOW IT!

A lot of y'all are too legit to quit and it shows.

Salud.

Thank you for seeing some worth in it!

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

Spacefunk! | MVmedia, LLC Space is the Place! Fifty stories and poems by some of the best African/African Diaspora authors and poets from around the world. In Spacefunk you'll experience amazing stories of action, adventure, h...

It was down to the wire, but I managed to read the Spacefunk anthology for the month of February. This is a CHONK of an anthology with SO MANY stories with really quite a lot of diversity, so OF COURSE I had favorites, so here are my top five:

This story was originally printed by @blazeward.bsky.social in the Boundary Shock quaterlies, then reprinted last year by @miltonmvmedia.bsky.social for the SPACEFUNK anthology. It's a take on 1st contact I hadn't seen yet, plus tardigrades never get enough love as far as I'm concerned, so...

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It's no justice to a ghost to haunt their killer when they would rather have simply enjoyed another breath.

Y'all, this wip I'm writing. I am flooping in love with this book! It's got all my usual peccadillos but you know I love me some peccadillos. The Khumalos are going out in the only ways possible for them: smoov and cool.

On Fridays we hope some vital protected part of you is doing okay.

Cover to Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu translated by Aliyu Kamal, a figure peering outside through a backlit window.

Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu translated by Aliyu Kamal #Nigeria

"Utterly addictive." – Nnedi Okorafor

➡️ storybundle.com/translation 📲

Remember this, my writing brethren: if you get an email from someone representing a book club or whatnot that's so effusively written you have to pull them out of your ass in order to respond, it ain't real. Immediately block and delete. Live your life. Write your words. Then write some more.

Whoosh right past the face.

The worst my Trans sisters & brothers have done to me is overfeed me at restaurants. Then hugged me like they meant it. Which they did, & I did too.

Worst from people with flag lapel pins & no sense of self? Nothing but pain.

People with actual souls are tired of being hunted by dessicated demons.

Not even a good one either. A stale Frito if they think it'll elevate their pathetic azzes.

Exactly. It's never about community with them, even among their own hate cliques. They exist for pain.

What do we say to POS souls? No.

This is a post abt the Kansas legislature

The people unwanted by society are making the rules for society, & that's backwards as hell. Would any decent person want Mike Johnson in their living room? Peter Thiel anywhere at the bbq? Even consider trusting Stevie Miller to watch your dog?

I don't have a lot of money but y'all gon keep putting the good wordy stuff out there. I see how it's gonna be.

*throws wallet to the ground. the next writer to release a damn good book takes what's in there*

Gif of Andre 3000 saying "All right" multiple times from the Outkast song 'Hey Ya' Alt: Gif of Andre 3000 saying "All right" multiple times from the Outkast song 'Hey Ya'

There are 2 wolves inside me. One can say "All right" without internal followup.

The other, in my head

Microsoft was doing its usual "Hey, can I phuck with your flow?" thing as I tried to access the wip document. I said, "I swear to muthafphucking gohd if you don't open this file" -- and it worked.

I am available for IT jobs.

Just a word: Elon Musk stole all our personal data, downloaded it to a flash, and walked away. Anybody working on that?