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MY DARLING CLEMENTINE - AMISTAD - 2027

writer & psychiatrist M.D. (she/her)

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Scottish New Writers Award (Callan Gordon); RLF Reading Round Lector

Rep C. L. Geisler P.S. Literary

Cinema Worms podcast co-host!

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We saw a brilliant film adaptation of Albert Camus' L'ETRANGER (THE STRANGER) ... it was a haunting viewing experience!

Watch/listen to our short review!

SHOUT OUT to the French Film Festival, HAPPENING NOW! CHECK IT OUT!
Me and Lindz looking thoughtfully to the left, me black woman, Lindz with blonde hair and white skin, L'Etranger poster with white man Meaursalt looking up, lettering in red
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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CINEMA WORMS, Ep 42

Our review of BUGONIA!

Lanthimos and his usual cinematographer Robbie Ryan, composer Jerksin Fendrix, production designer James Price, costume designer Jennifer Johnson, along with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons...bring absolute weirdness!
Me a black woman and Lindz a curly blond white person, besides a still of Emma Stone, shaved head covered in cream, CINEMA WORMS Episode 42: Bugonia
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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5) CULTURE - The Seagull - The Glass Menagerie - The French Film Festival - Jali Film Weekender - Fennel Forum: The American Revolution at 250 Share your recent favs?
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Inspired by another post I saw, I decided to highlight things I enjoyed in the last six weeks: 1) BOOKS - The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley - Atomic Habits - L'Etranger/ The Stranger - Forest Euphoria - Flâneuse - Never Enough 2) MUSIC - Club Carter Radio - Rosalia - Hayley Williams - HAIM - The Last Dinner Party - Obongjayar - Sorry, Baby Soundtrack 3) FILMS - Bugonia - I Swear - One Battle After Another - Urchin - The Descent - The Witch - Barbarian - Promised Sky 4) TV - every iteration of Love is Blind
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Inspired by another post I saw, I decided to highlight things I enjoyed in the last six weeks:
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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where I zoom in on me, black woman panic smiling where I zoom in EVEN MORE on me, black woman panic smiling
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I saw a bunch of movies for the first time this Halloween season; The Fog, The Descent, The Witch...

Watch our THE DESCENT breakdown, including my chaos edits!
Bloody hands breaking through forest floor! THE DESCENT episode of Cinema Worms; Me and Lindz in a heart cut out, smiling black woman facing smiling blond white person
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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CINEMA WORMS Ep 41 !!!

1/2 Coen brothers + his queer wife, here with a lesbian Margaret Qualley in "Honey Don't"

and

Ultra-violent superheros a la Kickass in "The Toxic Avenger"
Margaret Qualley in 70's brown flare pants, dakr hair, white, for "Honey Don't" poster, "Toxic Avenger" poster with green monster super hero, various people including Peter Dinklage, white man; me and Lindz in the middle, I am black woman smiling, Lindz is white person smiling with blond curly hair, CINEMA WORMS episode 41
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I wrote a very brief reflection on my time on a writing retreat in Italy, with Writers Mosaic! I am so happy to share it.

What a surreal dream. Please read for some quick thoughts on time pressures, slowing down, and the existential pressures of writing.
Various people, black and white, standing against an old stone wall, backgrounded by cloudy blue skies and green mountainous landscape Writers Mosaic from the royal literary fund, logo
November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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CINEMA WORMS

THE DESCENT (20th anniversary!)

We had a lot of fun with this deep dive into this now-classic, heart-pounding, violent horror film! Nature gals 👯 🧗‍♀️explore a cave system in the middle of nowhere; what could go wrong?

SO MUCH😱

Watch video for bombastic side-eye edits ...
Cinema Worms Episode 40, the Descent, 20th anniversary; a screenshot of blood covered hands emerging from the earth with blueish background, and a side cut out of a heart with me and Lindz smiling at each other over a microphone, me a black woman and Lindz a blond, white person
October 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Later today!

WE DISCUSS THE DESCENT.

Lindz has seen it a bunch, I just saw it for the first time. I was horrified.
Cinema Worms Episode 40, the Descent, 20th anniversary; a screenshot of blood covered hands emerging from the earth with blueish background, and a side cut out of a heart with me and Lindz smiling at each other over a microphone, me a black woman and Lindz a blond, white person
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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CINEMA WORMS

Episode 39

REGRETTING YOU and ROOFMAN!

Hear what we have to say about Colleen Hoover's latest film adaptation and a bizarre real-life crime story turned tragi-comedy!
ME and Lindz in the middle under Cinema Worms, Episode 39 title, me a medium toned black skin woman smiling, Lindz a curly blond white person, posters for Regretting You (light teal, young white couple kissing and white adults on either side) and Roofman (channing tatum white man in sunglasses holding a big grey beaar, various toy r us employees around them in blue uniform, including peter dinklage and kirsten dunst) on either side of us
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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📣 CINEMA WORMS Episode 38 📣

We discuss two sad white boys....but for real, these are two great films!

🎥 We discuss URCHIN and I SWEAR! 🎥

(As usual, 20 min, we get down to business)
CINEMA WORMS Episode #38: Urchin/ I Swear; Poster for Urchin, white man with dark hair twirling against blue-green cloudy sky: Poster for I swear, with white man facing camera multiple times in different poses; Me and Lindz in the middle, I am a black woman smiling, Lindz is a white person with curly blond hair smiling
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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WATCH / LISTEN to Lindz and I argue about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER!!!

I need other people's thoughts...
random screen grab of video, Lindz white blond person, me a black woman with twisted expression, both cuties in glasses, background of books
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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CINEMA WORMS 🎃 HALLOWEEN ERA!! 🎃

In episode 37, we review two eery films:

DEAD OF WINTER
&
NOSFERATU (1922) X RADIOHEAD
October 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!
Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency
October 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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University of Edinburgh Alumni Profiles – September 2025

*It's me!!*
pictures of eight alumni
October 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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🎥 CINEMA WORMS 🎥

Baes argue about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER !!!
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER poster, light skinned black girl running with gun, leonardo dicaprio white man with handlebar moustache
October 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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OUT LATER TODAY :

CINEMA WORMS takes on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
CINEMA WORMS EPISODE 36 ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER; me black woman with glasses smiling and Lindz white person with blond hair glasses covering their mouth gorgeous Regina Hall, glowing black woman, here just because
October 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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DEEP DIVE INTO "THE LONG WALK"!

On CINEMA WORMS this week, listen to Lindz rave about a favorite, formative Stephen King book, now turned into a film LINDZ IS OBSESSED WITH
Lindz and I staring at the camera, I am shocked and Lindz is smirking at the camera; I am a black woman with straightened hair and Lindz is a white, blond person with curly hair; we both have big cute glasses
September 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Excited to discuss this film on CINEMA WORMS!

WE STRANGERS
dir: Anu Valia
starring: Kirby Howell Baptiste
A We Strangers film poster, with black woman's floating head, many times over. Depicting Kirby Howell-Baptiste
September 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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You can tell a lot about Lindz and I from our expressions!

Thumbnails for our next episode; hint hint, it's about "The Long Walk"!
Black woman with straightened hair, medium brown skin, floral dress shirt and glasses, surprised expression; cutie blond white person with curly blond hair, circular glasses, funny/smirk expression
September 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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HOT MILK

and

WHIPLASH

*short episodes, movie reviews, great fun!*
Cinema Worms in center, episode #29 (incorrect, episode 34), with me black woman and Lindz white blond person both smiling; Hot Milk poster on left, Whiplash poster on right
September 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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This week on CINEMA WORMS ....

THE ROSES

and

CAUGHT STEALING

🎥 16 minutes of movie chatty fun!!! 📽️
September 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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We have an episode this week that includes a discussion of EDDINGTON; so relevant to current politics.

Let us know your thoughts on this film!

We were in disagreement, sort of?
Posters for Eenie Meanie and Eddington, with me black woman with Lindz, white blond person, smiling between the posters, with CINEMA WORMS episode #32 written across our faces
September 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM