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Utter Fabrication: Historical Accounts of Unusual Buildings and Structures
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  • May 2026 Writing Prompts

    It’s May 1st, so it’s time for the May 2026 writing prompts! This month, as always, we start off our list with the official MerMay 2026 prompts. There are a few this year that are geared very much toward an art style, but I think they’re still viable as writing prompts. The second column is

  • “Strange Bedfellows” and “Texts from Upstate” in Chimerical Remembrance

    The pairing of “Strange Bedfellows” and “Texts from Upstate” in Chimerical Remembrance may seem a little odd. “Strange Bedfellows” is a rare non-speculative flash fiction piece from me, while “Texts from Upstate” is absolutely speculative flash. What they do have in common is queer women protagonists, some mystery, and a bit of humor. “Strange Bedfellows” takes

  • “Tote Tante” and “Meat!” in Weathering Youth

    Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “Tote Tante” and “Meat!”

  • Review of Dream the Deep by Clara Ward

    I thoroughly loved Clara Ward’s Be the Sea, so I was excited to read their novella, Dream the Deep (Atthis Arts, 2026). Set on a near-future Earth that the wealthy and privileged have fled, it takes place over a few days and features a number of people who are being left behind. Ren is a non-binary

  • Fun for Friday: DCO Instagram Prompts Dump

    It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! There’s some fun to be had here with interpreting specific words in a variety of ways! Write a piece about sweets that embolden the eater. Write a piece in which astrology plays an important role. Write a piece about an event that requires

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