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Mr. Murray
@merelymurray.bsky.social
Philadelphia English teacher. Interested in discovering new (and new to me) authors.
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I’m also looking for 10-15 volunteers to host seed distribution stations across the city. This involves hanging posters with clips on the bottom (that I’ll give you) & keeping the poster stocked with packets of seeds as people take them.

Volunteer to be a host here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Seed Distribution Poster Hoster Application
We are looking for volunteers to maintain posters that will distribute native plant seeds for free to people living within Philadelphia. You can learn more about this project here! Maintaining a pos...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
That Video Express card takes me back - they had a stoner logic informed organization system, where you’d be thinking “I’m looking for that movie with that guy from Deerhunter” and you got directed to either the Dinero or Walken sections. Great video rental place
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Speaking as someone who’s “represented” by Sen. Fetterman, I think having a candidate’s issues come out this far ahead of the primary is a very good thing.
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
is he sporting a bit of tail?
October 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
So JFK is a communist sympathizer per FL’s Social Studies standards?
October 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I have only heard good things about Bodine from other Philly HS teachers
October 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
That’s an amazing store!
October 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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And if you'd like to read the story "Parasocial" itself, here it is, with gorgeous artwork by Rey Velasquez Sagcal:
Parasocial
A Future Tense Fiction story by Monica Byrne about what goes wrong when a celebrity decides to license his image to a hologram start-up.
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October 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It’s probably available on libby. The heroine is a GP with a specialty practice of monsters. Ghouls, vampires, and some others I don’t remember. Set in London and features classic vampires from early horror
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Different feel entirely but with whimsy and smart strange, have you read Vivian Shaw’s “Strange Practice”?
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Have you read Christopher Moore’s “Fluke”?
October 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Just wanted to mention here that I wrote an ENTIRE BOOK about a future utopian society based on perpetual mass migration. You should read it :)
The Actual Star | monicabyrne
"Wildly ambitious, wildly successful."--Cory Doctorow, author of Radicalized and Walkaway
www.monicabyrne.org
September 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM