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It’s here - Issue 8: Amberfields is now available online and in print!
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"The seedlings first started growing from your nipples."

We invite you to read "Deadheading," a stunning & poignant flash fiction by
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I’m so tired of the same hell as usual. A fresh hell would actually be invigorating

that’s my emotional support folder of abandoned unfinished stories I might return to & write someday

sexy dame dressed as a shark

french pinup artists were on a different level

the awkward intimacy of finding each other in the google doc editing at the same time & both quietly backing away

cause of death: forgot to get a sweet treat at the grocery store

"When my aunt died, the neighbors knocked on her coffin to complain about the state of her lawn—or rather, lack of lawn."

—Kristin Gustafson :: “Another Dead Aunt Poem”

Indigenous communities in B.C. and California promote cultural burns for disaster mitigation In the heat of the L.A. fires, Jeremiah Louis is reminded of 2021 when fire surrounded the Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB), his home community."In the beginning, I was feeling helpless," he said. In the y...

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This continues. Grateful for everyone’s support. We do have a ways to go still. We have excellent rewards lined up; check em out and see if there’s one that works for you!

This part right here. One man is “tragic” but 100,000 is “business”

I recently started trying to keep plants alive and I didn't realize that eventually I'd have to punish the plants by hacking off the parts that were growing too well. What kind of sick hobby is this

"I think my friends are better at love than I am.
At knowing how to feel good, and how to leave.
How to stay, and how to be loved forever."

—Mekhala

"blunt needles where cuffed jeans of hemlock want kindling. his mouth dead with kentucky

coffeetree in the plaque. we snap balsam in our pockets. you point at an elm & say life’s a beech."

—Liam Strong

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

A black cat comfortably stretched out on her side on a gray comforter on the bed next to the photographer, who is not seen.

She’s great at giving me a reason to wake up but absolutely no motivation to get out of bed

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

“Imagine dragons” I don’t need to. I’ve read dragonology. I’ve felt their scales

I checked with an editor at the NYT Magazine this week and they just… don’t publish poems anymore.

People underestimated the impact of Boyer’s refusal at the time but whew. Powerful refusal.

Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon.

A fake PEOPLE magazine showing that they chose Fox Robin Hood as the sexiest man alive

Holy shit they did it

Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

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Take it from a librarian, the smallest things count! Website traffic, social media likes, newsletter sign-ups - this is vital data, evidence we use to prove that we are needed. And of course, every item you borrow, every resource you use, every program you drop in on ACTIVELY helps us.

i think the pipe organ should be in more places than churches and stadiums. the office pipe organ should play the start of peter gabriel's sledgehammer when your friend steve comes in the door.

Scavengers Reign is one of the most original and beautiful shows I’ve watched in a long time, I hope we’ll get a season 2!!

A national geographic photo of a stream running over some rocks

telling people I'm getting really into streaming but it's just sitting and staring at these all day