Roy Graham

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This is just a Tuesday in the Hardcore scene

Mail day! So excited to have a story in this issue. Keep an eye out for when it drops in late February/early March!

texting the group chat: Hey y'all wanna burrow later
the boys: brother let's D I G

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to wake up at 5 am and don 30 lbs of tactical gear you bought off amazon to sit in a chevy tahoe in the parking lot of the elementary school where you kidnapped a five year old kid to intimidate his teachers. good luck soldier

@rkduncan.bsky.social I really dug your hoplite story in beneath ceaseless skies! Must have been a blast (and also a real challenge) to ape the style and tone of those classic greek translations

Happy birthday big dog

ah early days, the wins will come. I've had a lot of success with elves

@themountaingoats.bsky.social are you digging lorwyn limited

Day five of having my street unplowed and the other crewman onboard are starting to look pretty tasty

I liked what Patrick Wyman had to say about this on the Distraction, he talked about how the state governments and the US state of like seven different cultures in loose cohesion makes these kinds of efforts v difficult

guy gouging out another guy’s eyes in a diagram

every morning my darling cat says “hello father may I have breakfast” and if I don’t wake up she goes immediately to

Not now 4 Black Eggs

i'm picturing a big net on the other side. maybe a spiderweb situation

you get it

what do you mean by this cal

instead of planes we should just have really big catapults that fire you to your destination at high speeds. way less carbon emissions that way AND if you hit anything in transit you die instantly

yeeeeeugh

"pick your brain" is obviously a gross expression but I'm not sure what the alternative is. open to suggestions. maybe we get even grosser? "hey I'd love to slurp up some of your thought-juice if you have time this week"

When I was driving cross-country my taillight burned out late at night on a long stretch of New Mexico highway. The guy in the process of closing the nearest auto shop fixed my light and refused payment. I tried to give him the six pack in my trunk but he said “his wife don’t let him drink no more”

A book cover depicting an abstract image of oil pipes. The title reads “Iran+100: Stories from a Century after the Coup.”

If you’re reading for awards right now, I would be honored if you would consider Iran+100, the Comma Press anthology I co-edited with Fereshteh Ahmadi and Leila Elder. It’s full of stories from Iranian writers imagining the future of Iran. The Guardian called it “imaginative, audacious, exciting.”

Boromir from the movie The Fellow ship of the rings thinking out loud about the one ring, with the caption "Perhaps we could give the ring better training."

it says you’re a good folk of the shire

keep complaining about how I actually can’t drink as much orange juice as I want. I’m too busy drinking orange juice

Being an adult is mostly bad (taxes, loss) but there are perks (drink as much orange juice as you want)

my friend and I have started describing reading too much news as "looking into the orb" or "getting orbed" and you can too

Family member said I “know a lot about quests” today

Partway through 2!

Slow Horses absolutely fucks