Happiness is:
Someone discovering the world of the Huntsmen through a short story (“Answering the Call,” published in Sunday Morning Transport) and commenting that they want more of that world – and me being able to say, “hey, the first book is already out!“
And 30 seconds later, they report they’ve bought it.
#WritingWonders 5/14: MC POV: Have you ever broke someone’s heart?
Ari: Yeah. I know I didn’t have a choice really. They were gonna rip us apart anyway. But when I think of all the times she told me she only felt alive when we hold hands, when we kiss…
If I tried to find her the morning they came for us, then we’d both be processed, that’s what Behrvon says, but I keep thinking about what she must have thought…
(Puts closed fist over her mouth, eyes glistening)
…shit…oh shit…
#WritingWonders 5.14 — Have you ever broken anyone's heart?
Well, not yet. It has mostly been the other way around. My whole novel I’m madly in love with Detective Delicious, as I call him. But my #writer set a short story two years later and I’ve definitely had by head turned by an international jewel thief I met at a party. He might be even more delicious than my detective. It’s probably not a good sign that said #author was listening to JP Saxe’s ‘A Little Bit Yours’ on repeat as she wrote…
---Cross-timed Lovers---
She loved him, and he loved her.
They were almost perfect for each other: the precise way in which she occupied the space between his arms, the impeccable match of their tongues intertwined. Alas, almost is not perfect, and they lived in different timelines.
Heartbreak: just one of the many dangers of time travel.
"The inquisition has arrived. Bring in the children for questioning!"
In Florida, a public school teacher of 10 year old kids is under investigation because she showed a cartoon movie to the pupils.
The movie is about science and exploring, but in the movie one of the characters is gay, and now the teacher has been reported to the state for violating the "Don't say gay" laws introduced under republican governor Ron DeSantis.
#Florida #uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/14/florida-teacher-disney-film-strange-world
I’m speaking with not one, but FIVE therapists who specialize in immigration depression. Genuinely did not know that was a thing until this week. I also feel like I’m losing my mind slowly, by losing my other languages; living in an insular superpower where I hear literally nothing about the rest of the world unless I really, really try, doesn’t help either.
The racist incident I recently faced definitely accelerated all of this.. stuff. It has not been a good week.
Laura Anne Gilman
Alexander Corby 🇵🇷
Daryn Wilde
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦
Randahl Fink
kim_harding ✅
Mythology Monday ✨
Kevin RRW 
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
Adrianna Tan