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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 20h

Find a protest near you.

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 2d

I swear that Valentina can tell time.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

STORYFEST SATURDAY in Westport, CT! This is likely my final in-person event this year 🖤

at noon, I'll be talking Why I Love Horror with cool horror folk

and then right after at 1pm, talking coming-of-age fiction with awesome authors of many genres

Both in the Trefz Forum. Can't wait!

StoryFest 2025, October 18 in Westport, CT at the Westport Library
Hailey Piper's author photo beside her book A Game in Yellow, art by Caroline Johnson

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 2d

My dad's theory is that we should be giving all the land back to Native Americans. I was like, "Dad, you really need to read The Bird is Gone by @sgj.bsky.social".

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 2d

Right because if you've been gone for several hours, she must think it's been days and she's missed so many meals 😅

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Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social · 2d

step right up folks, get 'em while they're on sale!
www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 5d

I absolutely see why

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 5d

Valentina staring at the front door, waiting for Laird to come home from dialysis.

Head, neck, and fore-paws of a black, brown, and white border collie mix as she stares rather impatiently at the door.

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 5d

Most pumpkin patches "pre-pick" the pumpkin anyway (they cut away and remove all the leaves, vines, and foliage leaving bare pumpkins hanging out in a field). If you go buy one in a store, no one will be the wiser.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 5d

Books also.

Sgt. Hare Apollo @sgthareapollo.bsky.social · 6d

When it comes to music, “If the cover art’s AI, I’m passin’ it by!™”

Share if you agree

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 5d

Luke Honey is a pretty sweet character. Pun very much intended.

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 5d

Nah, I needed a little nudge! But I haven't finished Not a Speck of Light yet 😬

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 5d

Or at least something intentionally stupid.

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

I've been wanting to see Naked Gun.

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

Aww thanks, Greg!

a cartoon skeleton is standing in front of a wall in a room .

Alt: A cartoon skeleton blushing and bringing their bony hands to both sides of their face.

media.tenor.com

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

It's hard to decide which are "favorites" because the whole damn book is outstanding. As you may have guessed, I am rather partial to the Jessica Mace stories but I thought that adding LD50 and Termination Dust may have been too on the nose?

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

William Jackson Harper was perfect as Keith!

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

I'm pretty sure that "Hallucigenia" broke a lot of brains.

Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

I had to do the same. I wasn't ready for his writing the first time I read The Imago Sequence. The second time, everything just gelled perfectly.

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

Life goals ;)

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

Heck yeah, totally true!

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

Well I better get on it then! :)

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

So in Laird's fourth collection, Swift to Chase, my favorite stories are Black Dog, (Little Miss) Queen of Darkness, Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees, and Tomahawk Park Survivors Raffle.
What about you? Obviously, there are no wrong answers :)

Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 12d

So in Laird's third collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, my favorite stories are The Siphon and The Men From Porlock.
What about you? Obviously, there are no wrong answers :)

Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · Sep 12

So in Laird's second collection, Occultation and Other Stories, my favorite stories are Mysterium Tremendum and The Broadsword. What about you? Obviously, there are no wrong answers :)

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Jessica M. @jessicamace.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks! Yeah, it was possibly one of the most important and meaningful things I've ever done in my life.

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