@almunsonauthor.bsky.social
#SFF & #horror writer. VLO Choctaw. #Neurodivergent. #Aro/ace. Librarian. Physics major. Archer. Photographer. Upcoming publications with MetaStellar and The Brothers Uber. See https://www.almunson.com for all publications.
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshimaβkilling members of my family.
06.08.2025 17:20 β π 18864 π 4739 π¬ 450 π 157As a kid, Bridge to Terabithia was my favorite. It was the first time I'd read a book that honestly and accurately portrayed being in middle school.
As an adult, Frankenstein, Watership Down, Moby Dick, and Pet Sematary all rank pretty high.
Organizations you can donate to:
Doctors Without Borders: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/our-r...
UNICEF: www.unicef.org/emergencies/...
World Central Kitchen: wck.org/news/gaza-qu...
And contact your representatives to tell them to stop supplying funds and bombs to the IDF.
Palestinian flag with "PalΚstin yuka issΚchi" written on it.
"Free Palestine" in Choctaw (Chahta). Palestinians have repeatedly shown up for Native American tribes. We have been displaced from our homes by force. So have they. We have been relegated to barren land. So have they. We have been massacred. So have they.
#FreePalestine #EndGenocide
Happy to announce my horror story, "We Told You of the One Who Lives in the Mound," is now available on the latest episode of PseudoPod! It's narrated by Samantha Loney and begins at 29:23 in the audio. And thank you, Alasdair, for your kind words about the story. π
#podcast #horror
rate than any other racial group. And the kind of rhetoric that allows White men to kidnap and kill Native women and girls while the feds refuse to even look for them. I am so sick of this shit! So, if you think I'm being "too political" right now, keep it to yourself and check your privilege.
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with a grenade, sic dogs on people, blast people with water in subzero temperatures, and trap people on a bridge before tear-gassing and shooting rubber bullets at them causing them to jump off the bridge to escape. This is the kind of rhetoric that empowers police to kill Natives at a higher
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calling us all "cannibals," or Jesse Walters (Watters? Waters? I don't care enough to look up his name) blaming the lack of water to put out wildfires in LA on tribes several hundred miles away. This is the kind of rhetoric that empowered the police at Standing Rock to blow off a girl's arm
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Ann Coulter's call for genocide was much worse than being called "something else" in polls categorized by race, or "Indigenous creatures" as that ABC anchor called us, or Rick Santorum saying that we had "no culture" until Europeans brought theirs, or Candice Owens
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Bonfire ablaze
Bonfire ablaze, backlighting person in silhouette with a smartphone.
Bonfire glowing and burning out.
Clash of light with bonfire and fireworks in background. Silhouettes of people in foreground. One man holds up a smartphone, recording the scene.
In addition to #writing, I also do #photography. These are #photos from the Lighting of the Bonfires in St. James Parish. Every Christmas Eve, these #bonfires line the levee along the Mississippi River to guide Papa Noel. It's basically a parish-wide block party with food, music, and fireworks.
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One of my favorite songs by my favorite band that feels appropriate today.
#NoKings
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Sometimes, I look at this gif to cheer me up. π₯Ή
#Asexual #Demisexual #AcePride #PrideMonth
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#Asexual
Your School House Rock moment......
06.05.2025 12:29 β π 51496 π 10835 π¬ 612 π 320
Since some people were having trouble finding it, here is a link to my sci-fi/horror story, "What Mel Knows," which was published in the October 2023 issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly.
cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/what...
I work with international students. They jump through so many hoops to get into American colleges, get the visas to attend, and secure housing, transportation, and student employment so they can afford to eat. This is a cruel violation of their rights.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
I'm happy to announce my short story, "My Grandfather's Bow," will appear in the anthology "Once Upon a Moonless Night: Tales of Betrayal, Revenge, and Redemption" published by The Brothers Uber. Release date is later this year. Exact date TBD. See my announcement here: www.almunson.com/news/
19.03.2025 02:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine
You mean to tell me there's a sign that will make racists and transphobes go a hundred miles away? Where can I buy one?
23.02.2025 04:06 β π 375 π 7 π¬ 6 π 0
I'm happy to announce my narrative horror poem, "The Songstress," will be included in MetaStellar's Year Four anthology with an expected release date in June! You can read the poem here: www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
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My horror story, "The Wager," is being reprinted in MetaStellar today. This story was originally published in the anthology Seers and Sibyls by @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social in 2023.
Here is the link: www.metastellar.com/fiction/the-...
