J "Beehouse of Horrors XXL" STONE
@jbstone.bsky.social
Teaching Artist | Spoken Word | Poet | Freelancer | Writer | Critic | EIC at Variety Pack | reads for Split Lip Magazine | Wicca Wannabe | Neurospicy | Adorable Nerdy Weirdo Punk | Words in McNeese Review/Boudin, The Citron Review, Los Angeles Review, etc
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Read "Werewolf Skin" written by @jbstone.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"Marty’s werewolf skin was seen as more of a collective blessing than an ancient curse to many across the state of Idaho."
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"Marty’s werewolf skin was seen as more of a collective blessing than an ancient curse to many across the state of Idaho."
tinyurl.com/2zdb6jah
Werewolf Skin — Ghost Parachute
Marty’s werewolf skin was seen as more of a collective blessing than an ancient curse to many across the state of Idaho. Underneath the ravenous jawline of Styrofoam teeth, the stocky, muscular body o...
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August 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Read "Werewolf Skin" written by @jbstone.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"Marty’s werewolf skin was seen as more of a collective blessing than an ancient curse to many across the state of Idaho."
tinyurl.com/2zdb6jah
"Marty’s werewolf skin was seen as more of a collective blessing than an ancient curse to many across the state of Idaho."
tinyurl.com/2zdb6jah
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So grateful to the wonderful @flashfrog.bsky.social for featuring my micro 'Gorilla gorilla gorilla' today and @mooninabucket.bsky.social for the fantastic artwork!🙏❤️
Thanks also to @smokelong.bsky.social for inspiring this one with a fitness sprint challenge a couple of years ago. ❤️
Thanks also to @smokelong.bsky.social for inspiring this one with a fitness sprint challenge a couple of years ago. ❤️
NEW STORY⚡️🐸
“Gorilla gorilla gorilla” by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is now up!
Art by @mooninabucket.bsky.social
flash-frog.com/2025/04/07/g...
“Gorilla gorilla gorilla” by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is now up!
Art by @mooninabucket.bsky.social
flash-frog.com/2025/04/07/g...
Gorilla gorilla gorilla by Sara Hills
When Gladys the gorilla starts to touch herself, I’m in the gorilla house watching Bernice tongue a peach candy into the ball of her cheek. We’re wearing matching pink coats and handing out gorilla…
flash-frog.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So grateful to the wonderful @flashfrog.bsky.social for featuring my micro 'Gorilla gorilla gorilla' today and @mooninabucket.bsky.social for the fantastic artwork!🙏❤️
Thanks also to @smokelong.bsky.social for inspiring this one with a fitness sprint challenge a couple of years ago. ❤️
Thanks also to @smokelong.bsky.social for inspiring this one with a fitness sprint challenge a couple of years ago. ❤️
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started/going energy in real time
April 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
started/going energy in real time
ICYMI
Learn the two things you need to turn a blank page into the start of a story.
Limited spots
Free to attend
Sponsored by Cultrue
in coordination with @eatoffart.bsky.social
& @varietypack.bsky.social
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Limited spots
Free to attend
Sponsored by Cultrue
in coordination with @eatoffart.bsky.social
& @varietypack.bsky.social
Register Here: cultruelife.org/event/object...
April 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
ICYMI
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ICYMI: May 1st, Our submissions call opens for our third THEMED ISSUE... Issue XII: Voices of the Modern Diaspora!
Get those pieces ready! Detailed guidelines below...
varietypack.net/submissions-2/
Get those pieces ready! Detailed guidelines below...
varietypack.net/submissions-2/
Submission Guidelines
WE ARE STILL CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS! HOWEVER, May 1, 2025 – June 15, 2025…. We’re back baby! We’ll be reading for our 3rd themed issue AND our twelfth issue!… I…
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April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
ICYMI: May 1st, Our submissions call opens for our third THEMED ISSUE... Issue XII: Voices of the Modern Diaspora!
Get those pieces ready! Detailed guidelines below...
varietypack.net/submissions-2/
Get those pieces ready! Detailed guidelines below...
varietypack.net/submissions-2/
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pretty incredible they've spent billions on something that can't answer "why would I want to read what happens next" beyond the fact that they spent billions on it
March 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
pretty incredible they've spent billions on something that can't answer "why would I want to read what happens next" beyond the fact that they spent billions on it
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"Dear Unsayable Word,
I put the shell of my ear against your spleen, waiting for you to take on mass."
—Christine Huang 黃凱琳
I put the shell of my ear against your spleen, waiting for you to take on mass."
—Christine Huang 黃凱琳
Christine Huang 黃凱琳 – ANMLY
anmly.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"Dear Unsayable Word,
I put the shell of my ear against your spleen, waiting for you to take on mass."
—Christine Huang 黃凱琳
I put the shell of my ear against your spleen, waiting for you to take on mass."
—Christine Huang 黃凱琳
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Retweeting. Disclaimer: I don't do verification.
March 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Retweeting. Disclaimer: I don't do verification.
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Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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This is one of those things that, should Dems eventually get back into power, they will treat as business as usual and fine to do if the Republicans don't catch enough hell for it while they're in power. And they'll act like they're too busy cleaning up the R mess to stop doing it.
The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...
ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia
Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is one of those things that, should Dems eventually get back into power, they will treat as business as usual and fine to do if the Republicans don't catch enough hell for it while they're in power. And they'll act like they're too busy cleaning up the R mess to stop doing it.
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Omar El Akkad on language as a weapon of oppression, the power of negation, and what it means to be a writer in these polarizing times
Omar El Akkad on How the Empire Weaponizes Language to Numb Itself to Genocide - Electric Literature
"One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" explodes the myth of the West’s moral superiority
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Omar El Akkad on language as a weapon of oppression, the power of negation, and what it means to be a writer in these polarizing times
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"Being rich is not a qualification for running the government ... By gutting the NIH, Trump and his allies, many of whom don’t understand the nuances of grant writing and don’t even work in science or medicine, are holding back institutions that have made quantum leaps in both fields."
February 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"Being rich is not a qualification for running the government ... By gutting the NIH, Trump and his allies, many of whom don’t understand the nuances of grant writing and don’t even work in science or medicine, are holding back institutions that have made quantum leaps in both fields."
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Publishers for Palestine Condemns Israel’s Ransacking of East Jerusalem Bookshop and the Arrest of Its Owners
Publishers for Palestine Condemns Israel’s Ransacking of East Jerusalem Bookshop and the Arrest of Its Owners
The Publishers for Palestine coalition condemns the arrest, detention, and persecution of publisher-bookseller Mahmoud Muna and Ahmed Muna and demands their immediate release.
publishersforpalestine.org
February 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Publishers for Palestine Condemns Israel’s Ransacking of East Jerusalem Bookshop and the Arrest of Its Owners
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Gather round children, and let me tell you the tale of how when I was a child, eggs were so cheap we chucked them at cars and houses
February 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Gather round children, and let me tell you the tale of how when I was a child, eggs were so cheap we chucked them at cars and houses
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I got death threats for accurately describing GamerGate. I kept going with my work, despite the fact that I never had access to either the wealth or the elaborate security protocols of a United States Senator.
Gillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.
cassidy changing his tune after what he said on the senate floor is what has upgraded my position from "they are being bribed" or "they are worried about primary challenges" to "they are worried about being murdered"
February 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I got death threats for accurately describing GamerGate. I kept going with my work, despite the fact that I never had access to either the wealth or the elaborate security protocols of a United States Senator.
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Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady in a commercial trying to solve the problem of hate.
February 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady in a commercial trying to solve the problem of hate.
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History says we forgave the executioner.
—Sharif
—Sharif
![Social Skills Training
by Solmaz Sharif
Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. [ran out of space. poem also here: https://tinyurl.com/sharifpoem]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlmttkf54je7ie22kz7oymca/bafkreigd6yv4wvtxd2uwuzf27xbt62mpxep67ljta2edqmjeywqi7zfmhu@jpeg)
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
History says we forgave the executioner.
—Sharif
—Sharif
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Tomorrow is the big day for auditions for those of you who are interested in getting a role in our play performances for festival of shorts #buffalo #buffalony #play #inclusivetheaterofwny #inclusivetheater
February 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Tomorrow is the big day for auditions for those of you who are interested in getting a role in our play performances for festival of shorts #buffalo #buffalony #play #inclusivetheaterofwny #inclusivetheater
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published this story by my bud @russellbrakefield.bsky.social a year ago. if you missed it at the time, you should spend some time with it today/this weekend! if you read it at the time... you should reread! it's a gem.
plus, it's got some pretty cool art from... me! 👨🎨
plus, it's got some pretty cool art from... me! 👨🎨
Weatherball Blue by Russell Brakefield
Spring that year the local news affiliate had erected a hundred-foot tower outside the station, atop of which they stacked a stainless-steel ball fitted with 300-some neon lights. A beacon. A mascot.
ashortstorylong.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
published this story by my bud @russellbrakefield.bsky.social a year ago. if you missed it at the time, you should spend some time with it today/this weekend! if you read it at the time... you should reread! it's a gem.
plus, it's got some pretty cool art from... me! 👨🎨
plus, it's got some pretty cool art from... me! 👨🎨
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Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.
![Hi, my name is [NAME], I'm a constituent in [ZIP CODE]. I'm calling because I saw that [TERRIBLE THING] is happening. I think this is appalling. [PERSONAL STORY, if you have one.] I want you to do everything you can to stop this. I will remember your actions when I cast my next vote. Thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hwmmdl5nok26w3zhmg2d3fvt/bafkreigihtf5o2suhsnecpwijziyhsmxflvzzogbjre2okvstqagg6bw6y@jpeg)
February 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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BIG VOUCH for Nico
you can trust us to the BONE...s
the bones
you can trust us to the BONE...s
the bones
Despite the horrors, I have bills and prescriptions, and I'm staring down the barrel of some dry months. If you're in need of an experienced fiction editor (line and developmental), or sensitivity reader/cultural consultant (Fil-Am, Filipino, trans FtM, and general queer guy experience), hit me up!
February 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
BIG VOUCH for Nico
you can trust us to the BONE...s
the bones
you can trust us to the BONE...s
the bones