Filipino writer/poet/product manager. Fanfic enthusiast. NEVER HAVE I EVER: STORIES out from @smallbeerpress. Tweets my own. 🌈✨🍙🇵🇭
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Happy book birthday to this weird kid who clawed its way onto the shore, trembling fingers and all. NEVER HAVE I EVER is out today! ❤️ No eloquence rn, just gratitude. Thank you for supporting these stories. 😊🙏 Sana matuwa kayo sa mga kwento.
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Popping in here to say that my newsletter is alive again. First post just went out—in which I summarize what I've been up to, and why I'm reviving the newsletter. Link below. Signing up is the best way to keep up with my work going forward. 😊
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Signal boosting this collection of comics for Palestine: cartoonistsforpalestine.org/…
Never Have I Ever is part of this fabulous folklore book bundle!
For $5 or more, you'll get the basic bundle of 4 books in .epub format—WORLDWIDE. If you pay at least the bonus price of just $20, you get all 4 of the regular books, plus 8 more books for a total of 12! storybundle.com/folklore
ALT HERE’S THE FULL LIST OF WHAT YOU’LL GET! Chasing Whispers, Eugen Bacon (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas, Carina Bissett, Hilary Dodge and Joshua Viola, eds. (Hex Publishers) Dark Breakers, C. S. E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium Books) The Twice-Drowned Saint, C. S. E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium Books) Dance on Saturday: Stories, Elwin Michael Cotman (Small Beer Press) The Collected Enchantments, Theodora Goss (Mythic Delirium Books) The History of Soul 2065, Barbara Krasnoff (Mythic Delirium Books) Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn, eds. (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Like Smoke, Like Light: Stories, Yukimi Ogawa (Mythic Delirium Books) A Feast of Sorrows, Angela Slatter aka AG Slatter (Prime Books) Blood Mountain: Stories, Brenda S. Tolian (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Never Have I Ever: Stories, Isabel Yap (Small Beer Press)
10 more days to apply for the Clarion Workshop and study speculative short fiction with myself, @crashwong, Nalo Hopkinson, @mdbell79, @jeffreyford8, & @sentencebender this summer! I'll do my best to share what I've learned from 16 years at this work. 😌
clarion.ucsd.edu/how-to-appl…
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It’s my birthday this week and all I want is a ceasefire and a free Palestine. Here’s my fundraising page for the Gaza 5k - I’m running with @jvpliveNY ! Help me reach my goal of $1000 for UNRWA mental health services, which are desperately needed. getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fun… – at Brooklyn, NY
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Good news! Application fee assistance is available for Clarion Workshop applicants who identify as being from an historically marginalized group. Partial assistance available for those who identify as financially marginalized. Please email us at [email protected] to learn more!
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The Israeli military is bombing Rafah, the most densely populated area in the world, while Americans watch the Super Bowl. This is intentional. This is genocide.
We're demanding the world watching the #superbowl turn their eyes to #Rafah. #alleyesongaza #CeasefireNOW
I continue to be sparse these days but if you’re in NYC and want alternative Valentines Day plans, come to KGB Bar on Wednesday! I’ll be reading something occasion-appropriate (and new 😌)
Next Wednesday at our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in NYC, join us with Isabel Yap & Randee Dawn, Feb 14th, 7pm at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @randeedawn @visyap @EllenDatlow
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100 days
Hundred days of losing, suffering, pain, fighting to survive and showing the RAW realities to the whole world.
With no lie, with no filters.
I showed the whole world the meaning of being Palestinian living in Gaza Strip.
I showed you how we love the life and how we love our beloved Gaza.
I showed the reality of the most brutal occupation ever.
No one will bring me back the people I lost and my mental health which actually was destroyed years before this war.
Free Palestine🇵🇸
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Read this sentence. Then reread it. Then ask yourself how anyone is ok with this level of human suffering.
More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago - @Save_GlobalNews
Lifetimes of pain management and medical care will be needed
savethechildren.net/news/gaz…
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Parents of the world.
Today, a father went out to buy his child some biscuits. On his way back, he found his house bombed. His family got killed.
This is the biscuit the father bought. It’s stuffed with date. He tried to put in the hand of his dead child. The child’s name was Firas. I can see it written on the shroud.
Firas loved biscuit stuffed with date.
Earlier this year I read Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage. The opening pages are harrowing, vivid, and hard to get through: detailing a child's amputation, without anesthesia, in a warzone.
I keep thinking about the 1000 children in Gaza who underwent this.
You can read this whole excerpt, and more of the book, online. You can read the whole thing if fiction is a good tool for you to process, understand, empathize, like it is for me. This book is set in a different war, but the horrors are so similar, rendered in grueling detail.