@pennywalker.bsky.social
Fiction writer, news editor, TV binger, overthinker. Rock chalk, forks up. Aka auntpeso. She/her. Work in Ninth Letter and the Sine Qua Non. Lots of photos of books and my grandkids on IG @auntpeso.
A stack of books: “Exercises in Style” by Raymond Queneau, “The Golem of Brooklyn” by Adam Mansbach, “This Inevitable Ruin” (Dungeon Cralwer Carl No. 7) by Matt Dinniman and “The World We Make” by N.K. Jemisin.
The September book stack — delayed until I could get the physical copy of “This Inevitable Ruin” from the library. (I read the ebook last month but wanted to show off how huge that book is in the photo.)
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This organ piece — the slowest and longest music piece ever — is being performed for 639 years in Halberstadt, Germany. (It began in 2001.)
It is a real thing, and yet I am absolutely convinced it's something from a @jasperfforde.bsky.social novel.
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Probably true of very many endeavors …
14.09.2025 16:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A stack of books: “The Eye of the Bedlam Bride” by Matt Dinniman, “Boy Swallows Universe” by Trent Dalton, “The City We Became” by N.K. Jemisin and “Into the Goblin Market” by Vikki VanSickle.
August book stack! Not many titles this month, but so many pages — 812 in that top book alone.
02.09.2025 00:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I clicked on one cold-brew-tea ad on Instagram and am now getting a bunch of different tea companies in my feed.
Not mad about it.
A stack of books sits on a bed: “Malibu Rising” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, “This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch” by Tabitha Carvan, “Auē” by Becky Manawatu, “Upright Women Wanted” by Sarah Gailey, “Scream Queen” by Jeremy Griffin, “A Restless Truth” by Freya Marske, and “The Wishing Game” by Meg Shaffer.
The book “Scream Queen” by Jeremy Griffin.
The book “Auē” by Becky Manawatu.
The July book stack. See photos 2 and 3 for my favorites.
02.08.2025 21:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How you can tell it’s still summer break/summer session: You go to the Panda Express on the edge of ASU’s Tempe campus in the noon hour and there are only two people in line in front of you.
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My latest piece is out! “Badland,” in the inaugural issue of Sine Qua Non.
It is under 300 words — lit for the time-pressed. Would appreciate it if you gave it a read.
CW: Sexual assault.
(My story is on page 96, or 119/129 in the little flipper bar.)
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A stack of books: “Quiéreme” by Juliana Delgado Lopera, “This Thing Between Us” by Gus Moreno, “Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon” by Annie Mare, “The Shambling Guide to New York City” by Mur Lafferty, and “The Butcher’s Masquerade” by Matt Dinniman.
June book stack.
Still really, really enjoying Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Only two more to go!
You're reading this on a digital device.
Lots of people — way more than you might think — don't have that ability. They might lack the internet, a computer, the know-how to utilize it, or all three.
This @arizonastateuni.bsky.social project is working to change that.
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A sign reads: Stevie said, “Don’t be a lady; be a legend.”
21.06.2025 05:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Books in a nook in a dark gray wall: “The Gate of the Feral Gods” (Dungeon Crawler Carl No. 4) by Matt Dinniman, The Keeper of Lost Things” by Ruth Hogan,” “Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts” by Rebecca Hall (illustrated by Hugo Martínez), “The Sentence” by Louise Erdich, “1,000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused and Productive All Year Round” by Jami Attenberg, and “Conjure Women” by Afia Atakora.
The May book stack.
09.06.2025 03:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Curious if you're using Word docs for that, or how you organize/wrangle all the different files ...
29.05.2025 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hey, worldbuilders: @arizonastateuni.bsky.social researchers have put together a guidebook that blends biology with fantasy to help creators build more believable fictional worlds and answer questions like: Just how much food would a 5,000-pound dragon need to survive?
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A glass full of bright orange juice sits on a counter.
Stepped away from the doomscrolling to juice the last of the oranges from our tree. (There’s more in the fridge.)
You know spring in the desert is at its end when the oranges are all gone.
A stack of books: “The Night Guest” by Hildur Knútsdóttir, “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt, “Dungeon Crawler Carl” by Matt Dinniman, “Carl’s Doomsday Scenario” by Matt Dinniman, and “The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook” by Matt Dinniman.
The April book stack — all read in the final two weeks of the month. (Three cheers for breaking the reading slump!)
05.05.2025 01:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sometimes day-old pho is exactly what the doctor ordered.
12.04.2025 20:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you've got "from left" in your caption, I promise you don't need "to right." There's nowhere else to go.
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Light from a church window illuminates dusty ancient murals of various figures.
#bucharest
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A window set into a deep wall shows buildings with red tile roofs.
Dracula sure had a nice view. (Though of course, he would’ve only had the night view.)
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A rigatoni ragu dish in a bowl whose wide lip is full of holes of various sizes, from tiny to dime-size.
A rather tricky bowl to deal with after not having slept in 27 hours.
(I managed to get only the tiniest bit of that sauce on the pale tablecloth, though!)
A hand holds a stack of books: “Babel” by R.F. Kuang, “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead and “More Enduring for Having Been Broken” by Gwendolyn Paradice.
February book stack — smaller this month as I find my pace slowing down.
My favorite from the month? The one on the top of the stack: “More Enduring for Having Been Broken” by Gwendolyn Paradice, one of the titles in last month’s subscription box from @blacklawrence.bsky.social.
"How I view it is that every dollar spent on development and diplomacy is $10 we don’t have to spend on defense."
— Glen Goodman, interim executive director of ASU’s International Development Initiative.
via @sbordow.bsky.social
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Congratulations, NAU!
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A stack of books: “When Women Were Dragons” by Kelly Barnhill, “The Warehouse” by Rob Hart, “Land of Milk and Honey” by C. Pam Zhang, “The Lies of the Ajungo” by Moses Ose Utomi, and “To Shape a Dragon’s Breath” by Moniquill Blackgoose.
The apropos January book stack. They dealt with oppression and resistance, the lies/manipulation that the greedy and power-hungry will wreak to grab a few more bucks, the cost of our actions on the Earth and on the marginalized, and how we shouldn’t believe everything we’re told by those in charge.
08.02.2025 05:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The audacity of at-channeling on every single post.
07.02.2025 22:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the last two weeks, the group has built 1,150 air filters using $30,000 in supplies and 1,000 MERV13 furnace filters donated by 3M, and raised almost $10,000 from the public through a campaign on its website.
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I'm picking up progressives for the first time in a few weeks, and I'm nervous about the adjustment period.
28.01.2025 23:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Also, I love this photo because my sweet grandpup Mavis is in the corner — the photo is from this summer when she, my stepdaughter and the grandkids lived with us for a few months.
I should note, too, that the books are all fine. The water never reached as high as the bottom shelves.
Aqua-colored bookshelves line two walls of a small room, with a black recliner in the foreground covered in a blanket and pillow. A sweet dog sits on a blanket in the corner and looks at the camera.
Half of our house flooded while we were out of town in December, and the contents of those rooms are in storage while the (still underway) repairs happen.
I stumbled across this photo today while looking for something else — the library was one of the affected rooms, and sigh, how I miss it.
