Anthony Roberts

I read “Orbital” and “Parable of the Sower” recently and they both felt like a glimmer of hope in this mess of humanity.

I have been a listener for 40 years, a supporter whenever I can, and a public radio wife for 17 years. Public media is a public good.

See, I learned my catechism well.
Learned to offer my cloak and coat, my cheek
again and again as the skin was splayed
from my body.
- Jacqueline Allen Trimble

#poetry #poemoftheday #blackvoices 💙📚

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I’m extremely late to this but what an incredible collection of short stories. Smiles, laughs, and tears all the way through. Masterful. 🙌🏾💙📚🇳🇿#maoristories #childhoodmemories #nativevoices

They float out of their bodies
And light on the ceiling like a moth,
Watching the efforts of everyone around them.

The voices and the images of the living
Fade away.
- Frank Stanford

#poetry #poemoftheday #ilovepoetry 💙📚

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Octavia Butler is a true giant in speculative fiction. 🙌🏾 Watching the ‘drill baby drill’ crowd flaunt and mock climate change makes the company towns in Sower feel all but inevitable.

Thank you Octavia Butler

‘I don't know if the good times will come back again. I only know that we must survive these times.’ Octavia E. Butler

What a novel! I’m terrified that Butler nails how late-stage capitalism will react to climate change and mass unemployment via company towns and debt slavery. All too real. 💙📚❤️🖤

Facts. Pesky old facts.

a man with a beard is lighting a match in his mouth . ALT: a man with a beard is lighting a match in his mouth .

Darkness is your ally!

YouTube video by 123ruffy "Fisherman's Blues" The Waterboys

For I know I will be loosened
From bonds that hold me fast
The chains all hung around me
Will fall away at last
And on that fine and fateful day
I will take thee in my hand
I will ride on the train
I will be the fisherman
With light in my head
And you in my arms ❤️

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I read a much better definition of MILF today - Manuscript I’d Like To Finish.

YouTube video by Alessio Bogani FEAR ON FILM: Landis, Carpenter, Cronenberg! (sub ita)

Landis, Carpenter, Cronenberg, Oh my! Be still, my dark heart. 🖤🎥🦇🐺🪓🧛‍♂️ #horrormasters #horrorfilms #horrorfan #horrorstories
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‘I don’t want no peace. Give me equal rights and justice.’
- Peter Tosh

I believe the women

My latest Short Fiction Treasures column at @strangehorizons.bsky.social !

Man’s best fiend. Love that film. 🖤 #horrormovies #goat

F*ckin’ A. Fina has the sight. 🙌🏾

The HMS Shanghai battles the raging waters of the Cook Strait as something dark and mysterious approaches in the sci-fi adventure story, "The Land of the Long Black Cloud". Subscribe at www.aurealis.com.au

I'm thrilled to have the lead story in this month's edition of Aurealis #182, Australia's Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine. "Land of the Long Black Cloud" is my first story set in Wellington, NZ, albeit 160 years from now. Illustration by Kim Lennard. 💙📚🚀 #scifi

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I'm much better now - no more heaps and piles.

*The Mowing-Devil* (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle A crop circle sighting tinged with Christian morality.

I KNEW IT! Crop circles ARE the work of the devil - and since 1678! Groovy. 🖤🔥 #publicdomain #cropcircles #horrorfan #thedevil publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

I don't think it's an either/or situation.

Best of luck!

Apparently, my partner is in the South Pacific Ocean. Geez, I was hoping she’d make it home for dinner! @waimeamom.bsky.social

I stopped myself today. My pesky mind said, “You have 11 books on your TBR shelf, 4 audio books queued on Libby, plus three TBR novels on your Kindle. READ, YOU LAZY BASTARD, READ!” #booklover #darkfiction 📚💙🖤

“… I made
a photograph of my name:

there was a shadow in a field
& I put my shadow in it. You
can’t hear me, but I’m there.”

- Meg Day

Good stuff. 📚💙🌈 #poemoftheday #poetry #genderqueer

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