WITCHES IN COLD MOUNTAIN HALLS in @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Skull & Laurel came from playing God of War and listening to In the Hall of the Mountain King (here's a version I like: youtu.be/zpUWXz9ptcc). Then I opened a thesaurus, a rhyming dictionary, and etymonline and just followed the sounds

Path to publication for MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY: brainstorming -> outline -> first draft

First sent on submission Sept. '23, and picked up 11 rejections before selling. Read the final product in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social !

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I responded with this:

Write to your Senators, they said. Well I did, and @schiff.senate.gov basically told me Israel is justified doing whatever it wants and we must continue to support that

you want weird? I'LL GIVE YOU WEIRD

WITCHES IN COLD MOUNTAIN HALLS in @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Skull & Laurel: "a weird epic poem that is too busy kicking ass to concern itself with genre boundaries or traditional punctuation"
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oh no they used my story about killer robots to train their new robots, sorry everyone

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