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marycwilliams.bsky.social
@marycwilliams.bsky.social
writer getting ready to query a novel-in-stories. bread loaf '23. adroit journal, harvard review, tin house, craft & others: linktr.ee/marycwilliams
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Black Mirror x Rejection

Character-driven with light speculative elements, this novel-in-stories spans 10 connected tales with fresh takes on the daily dystopias of modern American life. At its center is a mysterious red book that changes the life of everyone who encounters it.

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q
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They just killed him in Beit Hanoun. Do you see the cans of food around him?
He was trying to get food for him family.
He was trying to survive and save others.
April 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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AJ EXCLUSIVE: Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit has obtained exclusive images of the remains of the weaponry used by Israel in the bombing of the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City on Sunday.

Read more: aje.io/u3a5qt
May 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Ward Khalil emerged from the blaze alive, but her mother and two of her siblings were killed in Monday’s attack.
Silhouetted by fire, 6-year-old girl survives Israeli attack in Gaza
Ward Khalil emerged from the blaze alive, but her mother and two of her siblings were killed in Monday’s attack.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Pretend I am your mother. Pretend you love me the way you did when you were small, and the world was big, and you could still feel, in some deep primordial way, that not so long ago, my body created your soul."
Pretend by Mary Williams - CRAFT
Pretend I am your mother. Pretend you love me the way you did when you were small, and the world was big, and you could still feel, in some deep primordial way, that not so long ago, my body…
www.craftliterary.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Let this be known:

Detaining & attempting to deport Mahmoud Khalil & threatening that i’d be first of many were all timed to occur a week before Israel’s cruel attack on Gaza this night
It is an aggressive message to those on campuses and elsewhere who may want to protest the new cycle of genocide.
March 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Letting *The Magic of Now*'s first line do the pitching for me:

"Gyla discovers the goat containing her sister’s soul during a nightly walk around her farm."

#BluePit📖 #OS #A #SF
January 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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This collection is SO SO GOOD!! Each story is absolutely stunning on its own, and the connections that build between them are SO SATISFYING!

Agents get ready :-)
Black Mirror x Rejection

Character-driven with light speculative elements, this novel-in-stories spans 10 connected tales with fresh takes on the daily dystopias of modern American life. At its center is a mysterious red book that changes the life of everyone who encounters it.

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q
January 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Black Mirror x Rejection

Character-driven with light speculative elements, this novel-in-stories spans 10 connected tales with fresh takes on the daily dystopias of modern American life. At its center is a mysterious red book that changes the life of everyone who encounters it.

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q
January 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I wrote a short story about your boyfriend (yes, yours), and everyone can read it in The Adroit Journal!

theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty/...
Issue Fifty: Mary Williams - The Adroit Journal
Mary Williams writes fiction and essays. Her work has appeared in Tin House and Harvard Review, among others, and her novel was a finalist in the 2020 WLT Manuscript Contest. In 2023, she attended the...
theadroitjournal.org
January 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"They're crawling all over South Florida, the worst people on Earth, enjoying the sun and the sea, unkillable."

jewishcurrents.org/death-to-dic...
DEATH TO DICTATORS
“They’re crawling all over South Florida, the worst people on Earth, enjoying the sun and the sea, unkillable.”
jewishcurrents.org
November 19, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
November 13, 2024 at 9:38 PM