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Chloe N. Clark

@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social

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Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Patterns of Orbit Escaping the Body, & more Every Galaxy a Circle forthcoming Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social www.chloenclark.com Cover image: raspberry danishes Profile photo: a river heron

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 21d

I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread

The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark.

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Micah Nemerever @nemerevermore.bsky.social · 16m

word of mouth saved my book, fr, it is the best friend of midlist authors who don't get much of a marketing budget

Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 2h

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

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Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social · 8h

Little update. Mostly been off bsky coz I've had some complications involving fevers, bleeding. It's been a rough six weeks, physically, mentally, emotionally. Would have liked to have rested but I gotta pay for the hospital bills and various tests and medications. Anything you can spare will help.

Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social · May 23

Hi all; I'm going to undergo a significant procedure later this year (sorry, would rather not disclose) and my husband's health insurance doesn't cover it. We're going to need funds for the care during and after. Any help would be much appreciated:

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Medical and Post-Hospital Care for Vida Cruz-Borja

Hello, I am Vida Cruz-Borja, author of the Cirilo F. Bautista Award-winning Song of the Mango and Other New Myths and the IGNYTE Award-winning essay “We are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protag...

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1h

If it's a Tuesday, some great books are being published. Buy or borrow a good book today.

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 1h

This made me smile - lots! What a lovely story.

Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 2h

soooo excited to have a story in the new issue of swamp pink out today! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/the...

The Mattress – swamp pink

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 1h

Today makes a month since the release of AUDITION FOR THE FOX! Huge thank you to all of the wonderful readers who've spent some time with Nesi and the Fox, and thank you to the reviewers and book media for covering it!

Please remember: reviews are helpful for the algorithm, and I love you all <3

AUDITION FOR THE FOX with a quote from NK Jemisin

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

Hi, it’s me, an author and librarian-in-progress, here to tell you, yes, YOU, that every form of reading is valid. Ebooks, audiobooks, physical books, graphic novels, romance, old pulp books, the back of the cereal box, whatever. If it gets narrative to your brain, that’s good.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 1h

Same and it's awful. Sending good job finding vibes your way!

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 15h

NEW — Chance the Rapper decked out a CTA train with his starry album art and rode with passengers to the South Side.

Later that night, he brought his “And We Back” tour to Northerly Island.

He even displayed a message on stage that got lots of attention: “f—ck ICE.”

thetriibe.com/2025/10/chic...

Chicago got the full experience as Chance the Rapper brought ‘Star Line’ to life • The TRiiBE

With a decorated Red Line, surprise guests, and a Northerly Island show, Chance’s comeback was a city-wide celebration.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 12h

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
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A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 14h

1) Do you follow me and
2) would you like to win these DVDs? I'm doing a drawing for them on Halloween that you can enter on 10/15

If you want to try and win them, check out the post(s) for the details/info ⬇️

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Dvds of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Fright Night, Poltergeist, The Frighteners, American Psycho

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 15h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 15h

The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 15h

It looks like they're doing magic:

Am after stands in shallow water next to two whirlpools

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 16h

Short story collections should be way more popular and marketed better for the short-attention present.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19h

Along with writer Ling Ma and Chicago Public Library star Stephen Sposato, I’m to be one of the three judges of the 2025 Story Prize, and I’m super thrilled about this (plus honored).

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 16h

It is good and useful to distinguish between "this piece is not to my taste" and "this piece is badly written", and likewise to distinguish between "this piece is my catnip" and "this piece is well-written"

Corollary: Let people like what they like.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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matchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · 7d

"I handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry."

New CNF: "Departures" by Dina L. Relles aka @dinalrelles.bsky.social

www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/de...

Departures | matchbook

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, mood and itch-scratching is a big factor! Ones I'm liking but not getting into will sometimes be put aside for when they're "right."

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 17h

Wrote about my biggest childhood fear for @gnofhorror.com! Plus: the all-too-permeable barrier of the human body, the beautiful dawn of air fryers, the rudest thing I’ve done with a shoe, and why I don’t want to get in that hot tub with you.

Kristina Ten: Childhood Fears: Fire Burn And Cauldron Bubble - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Kristina Ten shares how a childhood burn incident fuels her fascination with water and bodily vulnerability. Get her book today!

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 16h

It's also okay to not finish a book you're not enjoying even if it's a classic/ well reviewed/ whatever

Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 16h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 16h

Squash and lentils with a charred scallion dressing plus salad with sourdough croutons. Croutons courtesy of Mr. Doughseph Gordon Leavenitt's latest loaf.

A plate with the lentils and salad on it

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 16h

they should pay me more money to talk about books

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 17h

When I taught I was always there a couple minutes early but i'd start two minutes late because the campus was ridiculously large and I'd always have students a minute or two late. Seemed less disruptive to just wait a little bit.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 1d

My book is coming out in January. if you're interested in pitching a review of it or an interview with me, I'd be delighted and grateful 🥺 it's speculative short stories. There's monsters, outer space, and pie!

This beauty thinks you'd like it:

A gorgeous alligator swims through water

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