R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies
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R. L. Barr of Scattered Green Galaxies
@scatteredgreen.bsky.social
HS English Teacher, Author of Spine https://booklife.com/project/spine-2422

Seeking Literary Agents for two new novels:

Stage Six Does Not Exist -Literary Women's fiction about the land mines of teaching
Maeve Messiah SF -a female ship captain/god
June 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This…
May 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Garbage in, oversight?, editing?, still garbage out, public’s consumes garbage, public believes garbage, public reposts garbage, public acts on & makes important decisions/emotionally responds to garbage info=trash 🌎.

All because people didn’t want to learn to research, write, & punctuate properly.
February 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Whatever you do, don’t let them take your books.”

“All things flow from Source.”
—Spine Manual

Free book for librarians in the 10yr anniversary of Spine! (2/7-2/11)

The Spine, an order of librarians, emerge from their self-imposed hiding to fix the world.

#librarians #libraries
February 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Happy 2025, Molly. From Leela AKA Lilu Dallas Multipass.
January 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
#P2Ppit

The sun set. Slow darkness descends on this tiny corner of the world. Two souls suspended in mid-air over the river, stone and steel, wood and wire holding them in place, halfway between a humble memorial and a parking lot, against sacred nature and mundane utility.

Stage 6 Does Not Exist
January 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
STAGE 6 DOES NOT EXIST would be the resultant progeny if the movie Steel Magnolias and the show Abbott Elementary immaculately conceived while reading Catcher in the Rye with Brene Brown as their midwife & spiritual guide quoting the late great poet and GMU professor, Mark Craver. #Q #A #BluePit 📖
January 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Maeve Code:
There are no small deeds.
Be nice first.
But, when needed—the fangs.

The Archivist’s Lament:
The past millennia, all I have given to the ages is to me—the blade of loss—but
reposting is your resurrection- still, Nera, I miss you.

MaeveMessiah
#Spaceopera #Bluepit #Q #SF📖
January 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We trusted the Captain.

We'd have run straight into that Riven ship if she’d asked us.
No question.
Followed her into that void that she made us stare into on our first day. No small deeds. That’s what service is.
-Security Officer, Zace Nyin on The Riven Incursion
#SF #Q #Bluepit 📖 Space Opera
January 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Teacher, Mayzie Coates never needed anyone, until a student’s suicide shakes her foundations. In her room. His 5 final words scrawled on her board. From her lessons. All she has is her bff Olivia, fiercely, aggressively in her corner.

Stage 6 Does Not Exist.

#BluePit #A #Q📖
January 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
World, Meet Leela Lilu Dallas Multipass AKA…Nosfuratu
January 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My poem-a-day habit sometimes yields.
December 17, 2024 at 2:19 AM
3 11th grade English exams in Va. beats the 💚 of reading #TestPrepBurnout=Real

“Some students have seen too much; they come in those double doors deadbolted against letting anyone or anything in and when we try to teach them, say, Oxford comma use, it seems absurd in the face of such hell.” S6DNE
December 16, 2024 at 5:44 PM
When life’s a bitch, call one.

Teacher, Mayzie Coates never needed anyone, until a student’s suicide shakes her foundations. In her room. His 5 final words scrawled on her board. From her lessons.

All she has is Olivia, fiercely, aggressively in her corner. Stage 6 Does Not Exist #Holipit #A #Q
December 15, 2024 at 9:39 PM
We trusted the Captain.

We'd have run straight into that Riven ship if she’d asked us.

No question.

Followed her into that void that she made us stare into on our first day. No small deeds. That’s what service is.

-Security Officer, Zace Nyin on The Riven Incursion
#A #Holipit #Finished
December 15, 2024 at 9:05 PM
The Maeve Code:
There are no small deeds.
Be nice first.
But, when needed—the fangs.

The Archivist’s Lament:
The past millennia, all I have given to the ages is to me—the blade of loss—but
reposting is your resurrection.

Still, Nera, I miss you.

#MaeveMessiah
#Spaceopera #Holipit #Q #L #A
December 15, 2024 at 8:44 PM

A student tragedy
+
His final words on her classroom board:

Stage 6 Does Not Exist

=

A police investigation
A school board hearing
A heartsick teacher weighs the measure of her own life.

From the gravity of human misery comes an irresistible tide.

Stage 6 Does Not Exist
#Q #A #L #Holipit
December 15, 2024 at 8:18 PM
..back in her technicolor be-postered classroom, in her lopsided office chair, Mayzie stares at an empty room- yellow post it pad on one desk, two crumpled gum wrappers, abandoned pencil. She notes these things, but her brain cannot force her body to do anything about it. It’s all abstraction. #Q #A
December 10, 2024 at 12:56 AM
The sun set. Slow darkness descended on this tiny corner of the world. Two souls suspended in mid-air over the river, stone and steel and wire holding them in place, halfway between a humble memorial and a parking lot, against sacred nature and mundane utility. #Q #A #CheerPit Stage 6 Does Not Exist
December 10, 2024 at 12:28 AM
If anyone cares when I’m gone, that’s the memorial I want. Simple, honest. A refuge in all the chaos-not some phallic monument presiding over a swamp, some pretentious White House that, in every Roman column, screams plantation but trees and trails- honoring something bigger than me. #Cheerpit #A #Q
December 10, 2024 at 12:19 AM
STAGE 6 DOES NOT EXIST would be the resultant progeny if the movie Steel Magnolias and the show Abbott Elementary immaculately conceived while reading Catcher in the Rye with Brent Brown as their spiritual guide quoting the late great poet and GMU professor, Mark Craver. #Q #A #CheerPit
December 9, 2024 at 11:56 PM
STAGE 6 DOES NOT EXIST #Cheerpit #A #Q
December 9, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Teacher Mazie Coates, when not dealing with life altering grief, police inquiries, & the silence of her coworkers, would be hosting student debates in her classroom on criminal intent or lack thereof in the ❄️ song: "Baby it's Cold Outside" with her students. STAGE 6 DOES NOT EXIST #Cheerpit #A #Q
December 9, 2024 at 10:53 PM
When teacher Mayzie Coates discovers a student tragedy in her classroom, the school board & police want answers that she doesn't have, and it'll take every ounce of irreverence from her best friend, Olivia, to save Mayzie from the gravity of human misery and its irresistible tide. #Cheerpit #A #Q
December 9, 2024 at 10:45 PM
November 28, 2024 at 7:15 PM