Ben Allee
@benallee.bsky.social
Georgia-based writer & media omnivore. Words in Bull, Roi Fainéant, X-R-A-Y. MEDIAC upcoming with Anxiety Press. Full portfolio @ Medium
Twitter: @allee_ben
Medium: @benr.allee
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Ben Allee
@benallee.bsky.social
· Jun 30
MEDIAC is out now w/ @anxietypress.bsky.social
🔗⬇️
15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked:
- Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw
- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
- Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko
And other arty thrills.
#booklaunch
🔗⬇️
15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked:
- Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw
- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
- Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko
And other arty thrills.
#booklaunch
Little post-launch update to help me decompress, more than anything. #booklaunch #indiepub #writinglife
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Mediac: The View, Post-Launch
Thoughts on how the whole thing went — the good, the bad, and the ugly
medium.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Little post-launch update to help me decompress, more than anything. #booklaunch #indiepub #writinglife
medium.com/@benr.allee/...
medium.com/@benr.allee/...
Crazy turnout for the Mediac #booklaunch party yesterday! Delightful (& unsettling) readings from satirical food review maverick @nershwood.bsky.social and fantasy phenom Thomas (T.M.) May.
Thanks to everyone for getting this @anxietypress.bsky.social joint out into the ether.
Thanks to everyone for getting this @anxietypress.bsky.social joint out into the ether.
July 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Crazy turnout for the Mediac #booklaunch party yesterday! Delightful (& unsettling) readings from satirical food review maverick @nershwood.bsky.social and fantasy phenom Thomas (T.M.) May.
Thanks to everyone for getting this @anxietypress.bsky.social joint out into the ether.
Thanks to everyone for getting this @anxietypress.bsky.social joint out into the ether.
July 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Was going back through stuff from the last few months this morning and I'm still pretty jazzed about this gross #shortstory and the folks at RJ for running with it.
Best read after 11a.m. And wash your hands after.
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a...
Best read after 11a.m. And wash your hands after.
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a...
April 14, 2025: Fiction by Benjamin Ray Allee
His stream has fizzled out now, leaving him nothing to do but shake himself dry and head out for yet another glass of Morgan on the rocks. But instead, he stays, unzipped and leering at the shelf, …
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Was going back through stuff from the last few months this morning and I'm still pretty jazzed about this gross #shortstory and the folks at RJ for running with it.
Best read after 11a.m. And wash your hands after.
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a...
Best read after 11a.m. And wash your hands after.
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a...
Exceedingly proud of this well-curated recently played lineup.
July 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Exceedingly proud of this well-curated recently played lineup.
No luck breaking top 10 in the contemporary fiction category, but Mediac has taken its rightful place *above* Kazuo Ishiguro and Krasznahorkai on the coveted Kindle Absurdism charts.
'Bout dang time.
Feels pretty breezy up here.
'Bout dang time.
Feels pretty breezy up here.
July 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
No luck breaking top 10 in the contemporary fiction category, but Mediac has taken its rightful place *above* Kazuo Ishiguro and Krasznahorkai on the coveted Kindle Absurdism charts.
'Bout dang time.
Feels pretty breezy up here.
'Bout dang time.
Feels pretty breezy up here.
Just shy of the top 10 new releases in its category.
Let's get this thing to the top-a-da charts, eh?
Let's get this thing to the top-a-da charts, eh?
July 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Just shy of the top 10 new releases in its category.
Let's get this thing to the top-a-da charts, eh?
Let's get this thing to the top-a-da charts, eh?
MEDIAC is out now w/ @anxietypress.bsky.social
🔗⬇️
15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked:
- Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw
- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
- Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko
And other arty thrills.
#booklaunch
🔗⬇️
15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked:
- Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw
- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
- Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko
And other arty thrills.
#booklaunch
June 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
MEDIAC is out now w/ @anxietypress.bsky.social
🔗⬇️
15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked:
- Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw
- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
- Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko
And other arty thrills.
#booklaunch
🔗⬇️
15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked:
- Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw
- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
- Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko
And other arty thrills.
#booklaunch
June 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Book launch party coming up! To celebrate the publication of Mediac from @thinsliceofanxiety, join myself and friends at Buvez on Thursday, 7/17 from 7-9pm. We’ll have readings from local writers and copies of Mediac (& more!) for sale. Free & open to the public (1/3)
#indiepublishing #booksky
#indiepublishing #booksky
June 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Book launch party coming up! To celebrate the publication of Mediac from @thinsliceofanxiety, join myself and friends at Buvez on Thursday, 7/17 from 7-9pm. We’ll have readings from local writers and copies of Mediac (& more!) for sale. Free & open to the public (1/3)
#indiepublishing #booksky
#indiepublishing #booksky
Updates on Mediac's upcoming launch! Including a breakdown of the last couple months, how/when to order a copy, and details on reading & launch events in July
medium.com/p/mediac-sho...
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Mediac: Short Story Collection Nearing Launch!
My debut short story collection, Mediac, is nearing publication! Here’s more about the process thus far and upcoming dates.
medium.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Updates on Mediac's upcoming launch! Including a breakdown of the last couple months, how/when to order a copy, and details on reading & launch events in July
medium.com/p/mediac-sho...
medium.com/p/mediac-sho...
A few of the MEDIACs in my upcoming collection from @anxietypress.bsky.social:
- A Brutalist architect’s most dedicated fan
- An ad-man desperate for approval
- A horror writer who just lost his muse
- A photographer who shoots more than he can handle
- A very, very talented young painter
- A Brutalist architect’s most dedicated fan
- An ad-man desperate for approval
- A horror writer who just lost his muse
- A photographer who shoots more than he can handle
- A very, very talented young painter
June 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A few of the MEDIACs in my upcoming collection from @anxietypress.bsky.social:
- A Brutalist architect’s most dedicated fan
- An ad-man desperate for approval
- A horror writer who just lost his muse
- A photographer who shoots more than he can handle
- A very, very talented young painter
- A Brutalist architect’s most dedicated fan
- An ad-man desperate for approval
- A horror writer who just lost his muse
- A photographer who shoots more than he can handle
- A very, very talented young painter
Keep your eyes open, folks--a new book of short stories titled MEDIAC is trying to sneak onto your bookshelf and e-reader, and you're the only one who can stop it. Raise awareness to prevent unwanted intrusions of well-curated catalogues around the world.
@anxietypress.bsky.social
#booksky
@anxietypress.bsky.social
#booksky
June 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Keep your eyes open, folks--a new book of short stories titled MEDIAC is trying to sneak onto your bookshelf and e-reader, and you're the only one who can stop it. Raise awareness to prevent unwanted intrusions of well-curated catalogues around the world.
@anxietypress.bsky.social
#booksky
@anxietypress.bsky.social
#booksky
Some images just floor you, speaking words across time and space you never thought you'd hear.
Nanjing University, Gulou Campus, by Caitriana Nicholson, via Wikipedia.
Nanjing University, Gulou Campus, by Caitriana Nicholson, via Wikipedia.
May 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Some images just floor you, speaking words across time and space you never thought you'd hear.
Nanjing University, Gulou Campus, by Caitriana Nicholson, via Wikipedia.
Nanjing University, Gulou Campus, by Caitriana Nicholson, via Wikipedia.
Athens's transportation grant woes culminate in a grisly end. Quotes from one commissioner calling proposed infrastructure improvements a deal with the devil in October, only to complain about losing the grant in May...
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athenspoliticsnerd.com/how-acc-gov-...
How ACC gov lost a $25 million grant for north Athens | Athens Politics Nerd
The Athens-Clarke County Transportation and Public Works Department is reporting that the plan the ACC Commission approved in November to redesign North
athenspoliticsnerd.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Athens's transportation grant woes culminate in a grisly end. Quotes from one commissioner calling proposed infrastructure improvements a deal with the devil in October, only to complain about losing the grant in May...
athenspoliticsnerd.com/how-acc-gov-...
athenspoliticsnerd.com/how-acc-gov-...
New review of Athens-favorite Jordan Rothacker's latest novel (by way of @spaceboybooks.bsky.social ). Beware of projectile squash.
compulsivereader.com/2025/05/13/a...
compulsivereader.com/2025/05/13/a...
compulsivereader.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New review of Athens-favorite Jordan Rothacker's latest novel (by way of @spaceboybooks.bsky.social ). Beware of projectile squash.
compulsivereader.com/2025/05/13/a...
compulsivereader.com/2025/05/13/a...
Reposted by Ben Allee
Editors washing hands. Submissions dying for our sins. Submittable collecting taxes.
April 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Editors washing hands. Submissions dying for our sins. Submittable collecting taxes.
Thrilled to announce I recently swapped to gluten-free toothpaste. Makes all the difference in the world.
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thrilled to announce I recently swapped to gluten-free toothpaste. Makes all the difference in the world.
I was inspired to write this story while in a brewery bathroom, staring at the drink shelf and event poster above the urinal, wondering what was stopping me from unscrewing everything.
This is basically what would have happened if I had
This is basically what would have happened if I had
April 14, 2025: Fiction by Benjamin Ray Allee
His stream has fizzled out now, leaving him nothing to do but shake himself dry and head out for yet another glass of Morgan on the rocks. But instead, he stays, unzipped and leering at the shelf, …
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I was inspired to write this story while in a brewery bathroom, staring at the drink shelf and event poster above the urinal, wondering what was stopping me from unscrewing everything.
This is basically what would have happened if I had
This is basically what would have happened if I had
Something special for the sleazeballs--new fiction out today in Revolution John 🔧
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a...
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a...
April 14, 2025: Fiction by Benjamin Ray Allee
His stream has fizzled out now, leaving him nothing to do but shake himself dry and head out for yet another glass of Morgan on the rocks. But instead, he stays, unzipped and leering at the shelf, …
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Something special for the sleazeballs--new fiction out today in Revolution John 🔧
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a...
revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a...
Relatable
we have a story by Jace Einfeldt @meinjace.bsky.social !! ‘Crying From the Dust’ is about a boy who hit his brother in the head with a tee ball bat. Cain & Abel vibes – read this story !
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xraylitmag.com/crying-from-...
CRYING FROM THE DUST by Jace Einfeldt
A week after my baptism, I hit my little brother in the head with a tee-ball bat and sent my whole family into a frenzy on a Saturday afternoon in mid-March and got locked out of the family car and to...
xraylitmag.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Relatable
Reposted by Ben Allee
It's foggy outside this morning, so here's a picture of my favorite tree in my yard. 🌳
April 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It's foggy outside this morning, so here's a picture of my favorite tree in my yard. 🌳
It's an ugly word, but does it have to be? 'Sprawl' is inevitable and necessary, and conversations need to be centered on how to improve upon the process, not how stop it.
At least that's what this guy's saying.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...
At least that's what this guy's saying.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...
America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's an ugly word, but does it have to be? 'Sprawl' is inevitable and necessary, and conversations need to be centered on how to improve upon the process, not how stop it.
At least that's what this guy's saying.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...
At least that's what this guy's saying.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...