KL Forslund
@klforslund.com
I write words. Some of them are good.
Sci-fantasy tales with Norsey bits and whatever I post on my blog.
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Rainbows are cool. Fascists are not.
Don’t give our jobs to a robot.
Sci-fantasy tales with Norsey bits and whatever I post on my blog.
Https://klforslund.com
Rainbows are cool. Fascists are not.
Don’t give our jobs to a robot.
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KL Forslund
@klforslund.com
· Feb 15
Sanctuary
Every librarian hopes to provide a safe place for learning and community, but my guide wolf might have other ideas while there’s Nazis...
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Ever see that story prompt about somebody being chased into a library and asking for sanctuary?
yeah me too. And I happened to be working on something with blind librarian Alyssa Leeds and her guide wolf, Fenrisulfr.
So here's how it went down in a timely tale.
www.klforslund.com/post/sanctuary
yeah me too. And I happened to be working on something with blind librarian Alyssa Leeds and her guide wolf, Fenrisulfr.
So here's how it went down in a timely tale.
www.klforslund.com/post/sanctuary
3205 words. At this point, I am tweaking, refining. Always feels like more description is needed, and worse, exposition. I've resisted the urge for the latter.
We'll see how it goes until it hits the blog on thursday. How Alex Rune got an eight-legged horsey that's afraid of snakes.
hmmm.
We'll see how it goes until it hits the blog on thursday. How Alex Rune got an eight-legged horsey that's afraid of snakes.
hmmm.
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
3205 words. At this point, I am tweaking, refining. Always feels like more description is needed, and worse, exposition. I've resisted the urge for the latter.
We'll see how it goes until it hits the blog on thursday. How Alex Rune got an eight-legged horsey that's afraid of snakes.
hmmm.
We'll see how it goes until it hits the blog on thursday. How Alex Rune got an eight-legged horsey that's afraid of snakes.
hmmm.
Hanging out in the hallway with the wife and bird. Tornado warning until another half hour.
I hear there was a touchdown about 13 miles away.
We had loud, minutes long thunder anout half and hour before.
Right now we get bouts of pouring rain and stillness
I hear there was a touchdown about 13 miles away.
We had loud, minutes long thunder anout half and hour before.
Right now we get bouts of pouring rain and stillness
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hanging out in the hallway with the wife and bird. Tornado warning until another half hour.
I hear there was a touchdown about 13 miles away.
We had loud, minutes long thunder anout half and hour before.
Right now we get bouts of pouring rain and stillness
I hear there was a touchdown about 13 miles away.
We had loud, minutes long thunder anout half and hour before.
Right now we get bouts of pouring rain and stillness
Leverage : redemption.
I like hardison. I want more hardison.
It makes me sad that we only get 1-2 eps with him, and tiny snippets.
But also glad that if they couldn’t get him for the whole seasons, they got us those bits
I like hardison. I want more hardison.
It makes me sad that we only get 1-2 eps with him, and tiny snippets.
But also glad that if they couldn’t get him for the whole seasons, they got us those bits
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Leverage : redemption.
I like hardison. I want more hardison.
It makes me sad that we only get 1-2 eps with him, and tiny snippets.
But also glad that if they couldn’t get him for the whole seasons, they got us those bits
I like hardison. I want more hardison.
It makes me sad that we only get 1-2 eps with him, and tiny snippets.
But also glad that if they couldn’t get him for the whole seasons, they got us those bits
A sabacc friend is making a new dice game based on his own culture.
I’m helping.
The concept is chinese hoo-how-hey or fish/prawn/crab. Apparently its the same but named different in a few asian cultures.
These have star wars critters and droids instead.
Just fun project for a friend
I’m helping.
The concept is chinese hoo-how-hey or fish/prawn/crab. Apparently its the same but named different in a few asian cultures.
These have star wars critters and droids instead.
Just fun project for a friend
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A sabacc friend is making a new dice game based on his own culture.
I’m helping.
The concept is chinese hoo-how-hey or fish/prawn/crab. Apparently its the same but named different in a few asian cultures.
These have star wars critters and droids instead.
Just fun project for a friend
I’m helping.
The concept is chinese hoo-how-hey or fish/prawn/crab. Apparently its the same but named different in a few asian cultures.
These have star wars critters and droids instead.
Just fun project for a friend
social media isn't a news service, per se. I pop in and see MGT maybe quit, and Zohran might be standing next to a beaming Trump and zero actual news story on WTF made those two snippets allegedly happen or even confirm if they did.
Just the nature of post-fed machine and seeing part of a timeline
Just the nature of post-fed machine and seeing part of a timeline
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
social media isn't a news service, per se. I pop in and see MGT maybe quit, and Zohran might be standing next to a beaming Trump and zero actual news story on WTF made those two snippets allegedly happen or even confirm if they did.
Just the nature of post-fed machine and seeing part of a timeline
Just the nature of post-fed machine and seeing part of a timeline
I’ve got the video of my reading at this year’s Steampunk November poetry slam.
I was a judge, so this is just for fun.
The Last Train to Yesterday
I was a judge, so this is just for fun.
The Last Train to Yesterday
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I’ve got the video of my reading at this year’s Steampunk November poetry slam.
I was a judge, so this is just for fun.
The Last Train to Yesterday
I was a judge, so this is just for fun.
The Last Train to Yesterday
2651 words in a story I need for next week. from scratch first draft. about two and a half hours.
a tale of a man with one eye and an eight legged horse. No desert.
I can get this polished and ready, then I need to get onto the piece I need by end of year.
a tale of a man with one eye and an eight legged horse. No desert.
I can get this polished and ready, then I need to get onto the piece I need by end of year.
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
2651 words in a story I need for next week. from scratch first draft. about two and a half hours.
a tale of a man with one eye and an eight legged horse. No desert.
I can get this polished and ready, then I need to get onto the piece I need by end of year.
a tale of a man with one eye and an eight legged horse. No desert.
I can get this polished and ready, then I need to get onto the piece I need by end of year.
If the justice system cannot convict a man who incited insurrection about an election he lost, while also being a suspect in a sex trafficing ring and that suspect is able to win the next election and subvert said system, then the system is broken and is due no respect to its process.
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If the justice system cannot convict a man who incited insurrection about an election he lost, while also being a suspect in a sex trafficing ring and that suspect is able to win the next election and subvert said system, then the system is broken and is due no respect to its process.
Reposted by KL Forslund
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
What will smith did to chris rock was wrong, but also appropriate when a man speaks foully to or about a woman.
Trump shoulda been knocked on his ass
Trump shoulda been knocked on his ass
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
What will smith did to chris rock was wrong, but also appropriate when a man speaks foully to or about a woman.
Trump shoulda been knocked on his ass
Trump shoulda been knocked on his ass
The wife has found a rescue dog and applied for adoption. She’s all the way in Driftwood, tx. She’s furry and has big upsticky ears.
Cross your paws that we get good news.
Cross your paws that we get good news.
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The wife has found a rescue dog and applied for adoption. She’s all the way in Driftwood, tx. She’s furry and has big upsticky ears.
Cross your paws that we get good news.
Cross your paws that we get good news.
Had a good time at Steampunk November.
A bit warm though.
Saw friends we only see at this show. Made new ones.
A weekend well spent.
A bit warm though.
Saw friends we only see at this show. Made new ones.
A weekend well spent.
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Had a good time at Steampunk November.
A bit warm though.
Saw friends we only see at this show. Made new ones.
A weekend well spent.
A bit warm though.
Saw friends we only see at this show. Made new ones.
A weekend well spent.
A rock flew up and hit hard. Got tiny glass shards on my dash.
Not a good start to our trip
Not a good start to our trip
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A rock flew up and hit hard. Got tiny glass shards on my dash.
Not a good start to our trip
Not a good start to our trip
If someone is not old enough to vote, they are not old enough to have sex with.
Hell, they literally cannot vote to set the age of consent.
Hell, they literally cannot vote to set the age of consent.
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If someone is not old enough to vote, they are not old enough to have sex with.
Hell, they literally cannot vote to set the age of consent.
Hell, they literally cannot vote to set the age of consent.
two poems transcribed to my Book of Only Poems
one I wrote last year called "Do You Not See"
and this year's "The Last Train to Yesterday"
both chockful of metaphor that I hope is obvious :)
one I wrote last year called "Do You Not See"
and this year's "The Last Train to Yesterday"
both chockful of metaphor that I hope is obvious :)
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
two poems transcribed to my Book of Only Poems
one I wrote last year called "Do You Not See"
and this year's "The Last Train to Yesterday"
both chockful of metaphor that I hope is obvious :)
one I wrote last year called "Do You Not See"
and this year's "The Last Train to Yesterday"
both chockful of metaphor that I hope is obvious :)
Despite growing up in Minnesota,
I only saw an aurora once, while biking fifteen miles on country roads at midnight to get home from my summer dishwashing job.
It was greenish and wavy and on my left.
I only saw an aurora once, while biking fifteen miles on country roads at midnight to get home from my summer dishwashing job.
It was greenish and wavy and on my left.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Despite growing up in Minnesota,
I only saw an aurora once, while biking fifteen miles on country roads at midnight to get home from my summer dishwashing job.
It was greenish and wavy and on my left.
I only saw an aurora once, while biking fifteen miles on country roads at midnight to get home from my summer dishwashing job.
It was greenish and wavy and on my left.
I think I got the poem finished. I'll need to transcribe it into my fancy book of poems tonight or tomorrow.
It looks cooler when I read from the fancy book (just a journal with a knotwork cover)
It looks cooler when I read from the fancy book (just a journal with a knotwork cover)
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I think I got the poem finished. I'll need to transcribe it into my fancy book of poems tonight or tomorrow.
It looks cooler when I read from the fancy book (just a journal with a knotwork cover)
It looks cooler when I read from the fancy book (just a journal with a knotwork cover)
I've got the day off, so I'm working on this year's poem for Steampunk November's Steamdog Poetry slam.
Schedule permitting, I'll be a judge since I won last year. But most of the judges read to warm up the room.
Anywho, the poem is coming along, I just need it to fire on all cylinders.
Schedule permitting, I'll be a judge since I won last year. But most of the judges read to warm up the room.
Anywho, the poem is coming along, I just need it to fire on all cylinders.
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I've got the day off, so I'm working on this year's poem for Steampunk November's Steamdog Poetry slam.
Schedule permitting, I'll be a judge since I won last year. But most of the judges read to warm up the room.
Anywho, the poem is coming along, I just need it to fire on all cylinders.
Schedule permitting, I'll be a judge since I won last year. But most of the judges read to warm up the room.
Anywho, the poem is coming along, I just need it to fire on all cylinders.
Reposted by KL Forslund
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
Left TRF early. Hot, tired. We’d seen the stuff.
Found a gift for the wife.
Ate sausage on a stick.
Watched Sound and Fury.
Mission accomplished
Found a gift for the wife.
Ate sausage on a stick.
Watched Sound and Fury.
Mission accomplished
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Left TRF early. Hot, tired. We’d seen the stuff.
Found a gift for the wife.
Ate sausage on a stick.
Watched Sound and Fury.
Mission accomplished
Found a gift for the wife.
Ate sausage on a stick.
Watched Sound and Fury.
Mission accomplished
Reposted by KL Forslund
It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing this one because it’s very timely, helped me land an agent, was a Stoker nominee, was published in France and Italy, and it’s 30% off!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing this one because it’s very timely, helped me land an agent, was a Stoker nominee, was published in France and Italy, and it’s 30% off!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
Publicly traded companies have a duty to maximize shareholder value per the law.
Why would tesla pay more to the guy who’s actions lowered share price and sales.
Fire that guy.
Why would tesla pay more to the guy who’s actions lowered share price and sales.
Fire that guy.
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Publicly traded companies have a duty to maximize shareholder value per the law.
Why would tesla pay more to the guy who’s actions lowered share price and sales.
Fire that guy.
Why would tesla pay more to the guy who’s actions lowered share price and sales.
Fire that guy.
Reposted by KL Forslund
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
Reposted by KL Forslund
VOICEOVER: in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet entirely opposite, groups: the police, who are afraid of sandwiches, and sandwich wielders, armed with food consisting of two pieces of bread filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables. these are their stories.
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
VOICEOVER: in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet entirely opposite, groups: the police, who are afraid of sandwiches, and sandwich wielders, armed with food consisting of two pieces of bread filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables. these are their stories.
+1400 words.
Not bad for about an hour and a half of writing.
Not bad for about an hour and a half of writing.
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
+1400 words.
Not bad for about an hour and a half of writing.
Not bad for about an hour and a half of writing.