Within a mile of my house in dense, urban, Cambridge, MA, I've seen:

Coyote (last night)
Red-tailed hawk
Woodchuck
Raccoon (staring at my cat, licking his lips, through a third-floor window)
Turkey

I'm mildly stunned by how many of those movies I saw in the theater. I was dating someone who was a drama nut at the time and took me out to see every next big thing.

You do can write awesome sex and get your works banned, shadowbanned or outright deleted by Amazon, Patreon, and Stripe!

You are the wind beneath my wings.

All of these people who can't afford to buy books need an introduction to the public library and @gutenberg.org , which will give you more books than you can possibly read for free.

Now I'm glad I haven't read them. Carry on.

Blocking people after you've been rude to them is like a small child putting a fluffy blanket over their head and figuring that no one can find them.

Dissociation is a bitch.

What do you expect from one of the two countries on the planet that doesn't use the metric system?

Thank you for this insight, and another small but important boost to my continuing to write stories where the characters, uh, engage erotically.

When I was in CS grad school ('90's), researchers were told that AI had been around the corner for so long that if they didn't rename whatever they had right then to AI, they'd never get funded.

Sell them on ebay and donate the money.

I own the complete original run of Sandman. The first issue is signed. I haven't burned them yet, mostly because carrying them down to the back yard would be rough on my back. Also, the city might object to random fires. But you better believe I've thought of it.

Night's Master by Tanith Lee turned me out.