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First Page Contest #6: Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Judged by Agent Lydia Caudill of Andrea Hurst Literary FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! First Page Contest #6 of this year is for writers of  Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy .  If you write in this age category, keep reading and submit your work!  This free...

New FREE contest for writers of Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy — tinyurl.com/wdwcontest6 — Judged by Agent Lydia Caudill of Andrea Hurst Literary Management, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
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#questpit

Anona flees into the woods after her stepmother hires a man to kill her. But the forest she runs into is older than law and hungrier than grief – and within its depths, she flees not into safety, but legend.
#slewfoot #nettleandbone #snowwhiteretelling #fantasy #horror #booksky

A collage of ocean, coastal academic images with droplets of fantasy and mystery.

BENEATH THE WHISPERING COVE is a gothic coastal fantasy about a young woman’s quest to uncover a missing book of folktales and secure her research funding.

The misty water-logged mystery of A STUDY IN DROWNING with the folkloric richness of A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE

#questpit #YA #F

Scrolling through the #questpit posts and daaang I really want to read all these books. Good luck everyone!! I hope all of us get some agent interest!! 🩷

HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH
Journals of a Familiar
Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape.
#questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT

I’m here for the dad jokes. This sounds hilarious!!

Coming soon to a literary agent’s inbox near you: BLACKBIRD, a gothic horror set in the liminal years of 1700s Appalachia. Creep into the hills where the old gods wear the faces of those who vanished and the land itself craves the heartbeat of its keeper. #questpit #horror #fantasy #appalachia

He's a rich, ruthless, sassy wolf shifter who cooks and kills, and when he's not organizing crime he likes to torch his girl's enemies so he can turn their ashes into diamonds for her to wear.

Even though it's her job to put him in prison.

#q #a #dr #pr #questpit

BLACKBIRD: An Appalachian Folk Horror, combines Cherokee and Celtic folklore, Appalachian superstition, and early American history. Anona Clacher fights to keep her family together against a land that only loves you if you bleed for it. #questpit #horror #romance #fantasy #duology #querying

Home Missouri needs you. Join the movement.

I’m the Executive Director of Blue Missouri — a grassroots org designed to help nominees on the ballot in the reddest and most rural districts. We don’t give “endorsements.” We give money.

We fund down ballot Dems — we are the only organization regularly funding rural candidates. bluemissouri.org

THE MEMES OF PRODUCTION OMG 😭😭😭😭 lmao

So you’re saying there’s a *chance*

This weekend is Imbolc (halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox). Make a bonfire, bake some bread, and say a little prayer for the coming of spring 🌸

Does anyone know a good alternative to Google for a search app? #protest #endoligarchy #technocrat

💯 this. What have democrats been doing since Election Day to prepare for what we all knew was coming? What happened to Obama saying we shouldn’t just wag our fingers if they cross the line? What are we paying these people for?

God forbid unwanted pregnancies are prevented a war zone 😓

I read Beloved last year for the first time since high school and it blew me away. Morrison’s prose is so beautiful and rich you can almost chew on it. 10/10

Registered!

Blue Missouri monthly meeting graphic featuring Jess Piper, Blue Mo ED, Missouri Minority Whip Ashley Aune, and On Democracy host Fred Wellman. Meeting will be held at 6pm Central on January 23. Registration link in the post.

We can be very effective when we take action at the local level.

I am Executive Director of Blue Missouri -- we support down-ballot Dem candidates in MO. Join us for our meeting with MO Minority Whip Ashely Aune and "On Democracy" host Fred Wellman.

Register Here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Trump administration full of abusers sends a message that violence against women is acceptable  • Missouri Independent Missouri Republicans once got rid of a governor over sexual assault. Now they support all the president's abusive men.

. @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social writes in an opinion piece this mornimg that Missouri Republicans once got rid of a governor over alleged sexual assault. Now they support "all the president’s abusive men." #moleg #MOSen #mogov

Are we not satisfied with this feast
Of air, of panem
Now they say eat the cake
Devour the circuses
And aren’t we the fools
For thinking they knew how to bake
All along?

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They fed us breadcrumbs
Mama was cooking
Kept us hungry for more
Always scraping
Scrolling

Now the kitchen is closed
And there is no meal
Only dry breadcrumbs
Blown away in the wind

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Pope Francis calls Trump’s deportation plans a ‘disgrace,’ highlighting how they punish the most vulnerable instead of addressing root causes. This isn’t about justice—it’s a scapegoating tactic to rally support. True leadership would focus on humane, systemic immigration reform.

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Downloaded: Tome, Storygraph, The Great Courses, Fit with Coco.
2025, a year with less support for oligarchy and more focus on personal growth and intellectual pursuit!
#booksky #fitness #2025resolutions #eattherich

Definitely not if it gets bought by meta

TikTok is officially down. I guess now I can finally refocus on being present and creating and writing like I’m in fucking 2009 or something wut

Every time I walk into target and smell the promise of spring gardening essentials I am again convinced I will somehow become a green goddess this year and not kill every single thing I plant

Now that TikTok is going dark, maybe we can go back to Vine

Does anyone else feel like today was democracy’s version of Crescent City 3?