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D. Carreira Ching, PhD
@mistahdonald.bsky.social
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Award-winning writer, tenured professor, occasional editor, and avid gamer. I share info on literary agents etc. Querying: Hawaiʻi 2038: The Bitter Rain, 72k, near-future climate fiction/eco-thriller.
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D. Carreira Ching, PhD @mistahdonald.bsky.social · Jul 22
My new short story collection, Blood Work and Other Stories, is now available.

What we carry. What we inherit. What we leave behind.
Seventeen stories of connection and survival in a place caught between what’s sacred and what’s sold.

www.bambooridge.org/bookstore/bl...
Blood Work and Other Stories - Bamboo Ridge Press
What we carry. What we inherit. What we leave behind. Seventeen stories of connection and survival in a place caught between what’s sacred and what’s sold. On the Windward side...
www.bambooridge.org
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ICYMI: here's my interview on HPR about Blood Work

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Making ends meet in Hawaiʻi is the theme of these new short stories
Donald A. Carreira Ching spoke to HPR’s DW Gibson about his new collection of short stories, “Blood Work and Other Stories.”
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October 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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New post + details on Thursday’s big event: www.bambooridge.org/article/the-...
The Bones of Blood Work: "Da Kine but Different" - Bamboo Ridge Press
Donald Carreira Ching shares some backstory behind "Da Kine but Different," one of the pieces in his collection: Blood Work and Other Stories.
www.bambooridge.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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See you soon!
mistahdonald.bsky.social D. Carreira Ching, PhD @mistahdonald.bsky.social · Sep 21
Join me and some of my favorite writers. It’s going to be an amazing event.

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September 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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weekly talk story about @bambooridge.bsky.social's Virtual Pop-Up on Saturday for @mistahdonald.bsky.social and Bitter Over Sweet's book launch on November 7 (@sfwp.bsky.social)...

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Come Hangout with Some Hawaii Writers and Don't Forget to Register For My Book Launch — Melissa Llanes Brownlee
I hope your week is going well and that you have given yourself space and grace (advice I need to take for myself). I have not been writing or submitting because I have been too stressed out to focus ...
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September 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Join me and some of my favorite writers. It’s going to be an amazing event.

RSVP:

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September 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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weekly talk story about @bambooridge.bsky.social Pop-Up hosted by @mistahdonald.bsky.social and @expositionreview.bsky.social's FLASH 405 announcement coming this Friday...

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Online Pop-Up For Blood Work and Keep Your Eyes Peeled For The FLASH 405 Winners — Melissa Llanes Brownlee
I don’t know how everyone is doing out there but I hope you are okay and giving yourself space. Hugs. I wanted to let you know that I was invited to be a part of Bamboo Ridge’s Pop-Up Reading to cele...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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New post up. Shout out to Lorde for inspiring this story.

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August 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Looks like I’m going to AWP!
August 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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"With so much change, what remains? What’s recognizable when nothing is?" In my latest post, I share some of the inspiration behind my short story “What We Forget.”

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#hawaiiliterature #hawaiibooks #hawaiiwriters #localvoices #localliterature #indiepublishing
August 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Mahalo to Don Wallace and everyone at The Hawaiʻi Review of Books for featuring an excerpt from Blood Work. And thank you to Scott Kikkawa for including one of my stories from the collection, "Who you Know," in his latest column of crime.

Check out both here:

hawaiireviewofbooks.com
The Hawaiʻi Review of Books
By, for and about those who read, write and engage with the Islands.
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August 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Submissions for our winter issue are open now through September 30th! Share your best work in any of our five categories:

✏️ Poetry
📸 Flash
📃 Prose
🖼️ Visual Art & Photography
🎨 Mixed-Genre & Mixed-Media
For more info, click link in bio.
August 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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#amquerying Hawaiʻi 2038: The Bitter Rain

72k #climatefiction #clifi #ecothriller #speculative #q

With the world flooded and her own guilt pulling her under, Luca must navigate the storm-ravaged landscape of rural Hawaiʻi, fighting to find her sister and herself.

#questpit
August 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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My new short story collection, Blood Work and Other Stories, is now available.

What we carry. What we inherit. What we leave behind.
Seventeen stories of connection and survival in a place caught between what’s sacred and what’s sold.

www.bambooridge.org/bookstore/bl...
Blood Work and Other Stories - Bamboo Ridge Press
What we carry. What we inherit. What we leave behind. Seventeen stories of connection and survival in a place caught between what’s sacred and what’s sold. On the Windward side...
www.bambooridge.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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A MASTERY OF SELF
݁₊ ⊹ . 📽.ᐟ
an actor is trapped in a nightmare of an identity crises after playing too many roles🖤

-speculative hollywood
-friends to lovers
- eldritch horror or real doppleganger?

#questpit #W #A #H #S #R
A collage of vintage noir images featuring a man in a suit, shattered mirror reflection, puppet strings, surreal eyes, and intense facial expressions. The tone is mysterious and dramatic.
August 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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LADY MACBETH X THE UNWORTHY

trapped in her husbands manor, and surveilled by his monsters, miriam can feel her sanity slipping, falling further into the role of the helpless wife hes always wanted

until a shadow takes a liking to her, and she doesnt tell him

#questpit #w #a #h
a nine image moodboard in black and white tones. from right to left, the images are 1. a woman with black hair, dressed in a white dress, sitting against a brick wall with her knees pulled to her chest 2. black liquid on a white surface 3. a closeup of a lamb with its legs ties together 4. sugar cubes with ants crawling on it 5. a two story black brick manor 6. an x-ray of a skull, the veins black 7. a vial holder lined with six empty, clear glass vials. they are labeled a through f on fading scotch tape 8. a white image with black text in the center, reading "new miriam-exemplary miriam-watched her husband's operation with the empty feeling of nothingness, of numbness and apathy 9. a person covered in black tar, their hands on the ground, pushing themselves upwards
August 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Hostel X No Strings Attached

On their cruise getaway, two women give in to attraction, redefining their friendship—while pranksters fueled by a sadistic online audience exploit passengers for entertainment, sending their cruise into peril.

#QuestPit #A #H #R #H #LGBT #W
August 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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WHEN AMONG CROWS X MALIBU RISING

nona callewart is gone. she plans to stay that way. unfortunately, she never gets her way.

aided by her abandoned diary, her two least favorite people try to find her as she attempts to put the pieces of her life back together

#questpit #w
a nine image moodboard in warm tones, mainly beige, light green and blues. from left to right, the images are 1. a brunette woman in an oversized white coat, leaning against a table with her head resting on her arms 2. a stack of used journals 3. a bus with orange text above the windshield reading "nowhere in particular" on the outside screen 4. an o positive blood bag 5. lyrics from the song 'nettles' by ethel cain, reading "to love me is to suffer me / and i believe that" 6. a map with several multicolored threads ties to thumbtacks 7. a newspaper heading reading MISSING 8. the downtown of a city, with an elevated train track in the center of the road 9. a pale person with black painted nails washing their hands under a faucet
August 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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My Darling Dreadful Thing X The Wicked Deep

When Clover's empathic abilities awaken, a ghostly presence visits her dreams, offering escape from others' emotions. But as kindness turns to obsession, Clover suspects they want to inhabit, not liberate. #QuestPit #Q #YA #DF #H #PR
August 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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TLOU X BIRD BOX

eleven years after an apocalypse, merrick is making the trek across the country to a so-called safe zone. its just her luck she ends up stuck traveling with her former best friend, who also happens to be the cause of the aforementioned apocalypse

#questpit #w
a nine image moodboard in brown and dark yellow tones. from left to right, the images are 1. a pale woman with brown hair and bloody eyes, looking as if she's either angry or about to cry 2. a shipping train in the plains 3. a destroyed city 4. a bomber jacket on the back of a car seat 5. two people, a man and a woman, in a field of flowers 6. the floor of a hotel room, light just barely seeping through the crack in the curtains 7. the side of a hill, with ice and pine trees 8. a light yellow image with black text in the center reading "Andrew Skinner's grateful smile, with the gleam of recognition in his eyes, was enough to light the universe, and Merrick wanted to kick his teeth in." 9. a closeup of a pale man with hazel eyes and glasses' face
August 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Jane Eyre Retelling

Luna's rearview mirror reflects a shattered life but Thornfield Hotel offers a fresh start. As concierge, she's swept into a world of secrets, seduction & murder with the enigmatic E Rochester at its center & her heart & survival in the crosshairs. #QuestPit #A #H #RF #DR #LF #Q
August 6, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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We Leave the Elves is a short story following a man certifiably brings people together for his special brand of charisma. Just not in the way he would hope. An #urbanfantasy delight with a twist on the elven race. It's out now! And I hope you enjoy.

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March 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?

Experience a vision of #hope, growth, and transformation, on a mindful tarot-themed odyssey across the former US

Clan of the Cave Bear meets A Psalm for the Wild-Built in this adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse
#QuestPit #Q #S #A
a Hermit tarot card of an illuminated figure holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk a Priestess Tarot card with a figure meditating on a large stone in the woods
August 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #YouDeservepIt 📖 💙📚 #Q #R

Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender
Comp Board I Am Chosen by Dawn Berkoski PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom, or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy, Bartender COMP TITLES Interview With The Vampire A Blue Bloods Novel Yakuza I Am Chosen By Dawn Berkoski 77,000 M/M Paranormal Romance Dark and a little spicy meets silly-sweet Think: Blue Bloods (minus the angels and school) x Interview With The Vampire (add more humor) x Japanese Yakuza (cracking skulls in London) Tropes * Forbidden Love * Fish Out of Water * Forced Proximity * Dark Secrets * Unequal Power Structure * High Action Chase Scenes * Emotional Growth Arcs + Satisfying End Quotes "He was leaving. He was leaving New York for good. But instead of freedom, he wondered if he was headed toward greater danger." ~Jason Allard (Protagonist) "Now that he has chosen you, Alexander has all but forsaken our protection!" ~Tristan De La Salle (Thwarted Lover) "Alexander and I have unfinished business." -Shigekazu (Japanese Business Rival) MAIN CHARACTERS Alexander Grant Jason Allard CEO of M-Corp Bartender Control Issues Anxiety/Clingy Likes: Likes: Power + Money. Video Games +Pizza Several photos are shown in this Moodboard for I Am Chosen, a paranormal romance written by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. Photography, except the man, by Dawn Berkoski Photo by Dawn Berkoski of a car speeding past a cemetery.View is from the driver’s perspective, looking out the side window.
January 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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A twist on Roman Holiday with a touch of Midsommar set in a reimagined Babylon.

🧞‍♀️ Goddess trapped in a human body
🥐 Cinnamon roll boy who takes pity on her
🐠 Fish out of water story
🤺 Sisters getting revenge on each other
🍷 Creepy, mysterious cult
🏺 Ancient Babylon vibes
#questpit #Q #A #F #RF
A collage of figs, a mule on a dirt road, a goddess in a river, and sand, with the text "AGENT'S GUIDE, THE UNMAKING OF A MUSE, 109,000 words, Adult Romantasy" A background of sand with an illustration of a mesopotamian goddess and a lion, with the text: "THE UNMAKING OF A MUSE, Roman Holiday x Midsommar in ancient Babylon. Lali, a spoiled muse, persuades an innocent butcher to help her take down a human cult that's blocking her muse magic and brainwashing her sister into giving up eternal life — but when Lali starts falling for the earth-born butcher, it’s the first sign she's been brainwashed." Sand as a background with mesopotamian illustrations and text that says: "FIRST LINES, It’s tedious work, trying to inspire genius in mortals. It always has been. Even decades ago, long before this recent sun cycle, when they began to resist the muses’ influence." A background of sand, with images of books overlayed - Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan, Circe by Madeline Miller, Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor, and A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher, with the text "Comp Titles" above them and cuneiform letters below.
August 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM