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This Particular Side of Heaven – quailbellmagazine.com
A Better Woman – quailbellmagazine.com
Girl Gone – soboghoso.org
What Does Being Latino Mean In 2016? – latimes.com
The Woman Who Gave Birth To Me – inkandnebula.com
Mercutio In Drag – issuu.com
When Able Was Born – pandorademise.com
Dryland Issue 9 – dryland.org

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#throwbackthursday at the grave of Dr. John, a voo

#throwbackthursday at the grave of Dr. John, a voodoo witch doctor at the famous Saint Louis Cemetery no. 1
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#famousgraves #voodoo #witchdoctor #drjohn #neworleans

Back in Stock 📚 . Grab your autographed copy of

Back in Stock 📚
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Grab your autographed copy of Medusa from @bnmontclairplace
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You can also order a copy from any bookstore, including @lastbookstorela and other independent bookstores.
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#shopsmall #shopindie #indieauthors #poetry #metoo #medusa #mythology #womenwhowrite

Somebody turned 5 today (officially 😊)

Somebody turned 5 today (officially 😊)

Cover vs Content: poetry edition . Follow me on t

Cover vs Content: poetry edition
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Follow me on tiktok where I talk about books from @barnesandnoble where yours truly works as a bookseller & social media xutie as well as being an author and navigating the highs and lows of that! 😜
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#booktok #bookrecommendations #poetry #amwriting #barnesandnoble

⏰New York Time⏰ . I want to drink 10,000 cups

⏰New York Time⏰
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I want to drink 10,000 cups of coffee and cry myself to sleep
I want to join hands with you until tomorrow and pray to god my soul to keep
Because if I get up from this bed I just know I’ll give everything away
Like New York time I’m drastic and impatient and I’ve cut myself on all the thorns in the garden just to pass the 15 seconds until I’m famous again
split my lip on your memory punch drunk on your kiss
Trippin on the clothes you left scattered on the floor things I can’t bring myself to remove in case you happen my way once more
I want to seek out eternity at the bottom of bowls and prescription bottles and wet searching kisses and tons of cocaine powered white like my bones fickle and full of decay my mouth is a riot of metal and missing broken things because the wine is too sweet I don’t want to forget a thing except here I am
In a velvet prison of rotten memory and
jittering locked and dying
Split my lip on your tongue like
silver rain I’m falling
seeking you out once again
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📸 by Lee Friedlander circa 1963
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#poetry #poem #photography #blackandwhitephotography

✨Living Reflection of a Dream✨ . You gave me

✨Living Reflection of a Dream✨
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You gave me
The religion of your flesh
Now I recognize no other
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Held in your stare
The grip of
your mouth
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To sing these odes to you
Planes of your skin driven
to echo back eternity
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in the beat of your heart a man trapped in the hull of some great beast calling out to god but not for salvation no
but to be tasted by you again
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* title inspired by ‘Tangerine’ by @ledzeppelin 📸 by Julian Vassallo
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#poetry #womenwhowrite #poem #blackandwhitephotography #dailyart #love #erotica

Perks of working in a book store: getting to meet

Perks of working in a book store: getting to meet authors!
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@sarahlangan stopped by our @bnmontclairplace signed a ton of her books, and even autographed one especially for me! ☺️☺️
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Be sure to grab your copy of Good Neighbors, the dark, twisted, tale of childhood trauma, social hierarchies, and how one careless word can wreak havoc on an entire community 👀💦
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#bookstagram #booklover #simonandschuster #booknerd #book #bookaddict #bookstagrammer

Are you guys following me on @tiktok yet? @ bukows

Are you guys following me on @tiktok yet? @ bukowskis_son 😏
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#booktok #bookstagram #writersofinstagram #bookrecommendations

A #newyork #throwback from 2 unprepared California

A #newyork #throwback from 2 unprepared Californians

✨Silence✨ . I want to ache as you ache. Warm m

✨Silence✨
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I want to ache as you ache.
Warm myself with
the heat of your soul.
I am an unearthly presence that
digs at your core.
To be immersed in your earth,
Your silence, your strength.

Tell me.
Give me the safe word.
Give me purchase.
A lover unlike any other.
Oh,
I’m lost in you again.
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#poetry #poetrycommunity #womenwhowrite #photography

A pink-haired #throwback for your Thursday evening

A pink-haired #throwback for your Thursday evening. Missing SF 😢
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#throwbackthursday #pinkhair #sanfrancisco #citylightsbookstore

Wind 🍃 . The wind moves across tired branches,

Wind 🍃
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The wind moves across
tired branches,
aching to run
it’s silken fingers
through your hair.
Let me
kiss the wind and
send my love to you
through the air.
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#poetry #writing #womenwhowrite #lovequotes #poem #wind #nature

Interview with La Sad Grrrl . Listen in to the lat

Interview with La Sad Grrrl
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Listen in to the latest @completelyuselesspodcast where yours truly is interviewed by the hilarious @uselessfrank and @badjokepablo while we discuss serial killers, the difference between erotica and pornography, whether I think Bigfoot exists, and the best Instagram to follow for all your shitposting needs (spoiler alert: it’s mine).
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You can listen to the show on all the main platforms @spotify @applemusic @stitcherpodcasts and video will be up on YouTube soon 😌
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#podcast #interview #sadgrrrl #nataliesierra #completelyuseless #writerslife

What we measure with the passage of time is our ow

What we measure with
the passage of time is
our own decay

You walk around with my heart
trapped in

a plastic box

What more
do you want
from me?
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#poetry #poem #collageart #blackandwhite #photography #photographylovers

Ｍｅｄｕｓａ 🐍 . In this feminist retell

Ｍｅｄｕｓａ 🐍
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In this feminist retelling of the ancient myth, reminiscent of works by Margaret Atwood and Sylvia Plath, local author Natalie Sierra seeks to modernize the tale of Medusa, and give voice to all survivors of oppression.
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Available now at @dstlarts @barnesandnoble and wherever books are sold.
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#poetry #writing #barnesandnoble #feminist #bn #medusa #greekmythology #margaretatwood #sylviaplath #petescottbnvp

With my grief I pulled rain from the sky and dre

With my grief I
pulled rain from the sky and
drenched the earth
with goodbyes.
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#poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #blackandwhitephotography

*New Short* . Working on a new short story 🤩 .

*New Short*
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Working on a new short story 🤩
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A young man without memory is being chased through the wilderness, under a night sky that never seems to end, by three gun-toting lunatics and a pack of ferocious dogs 😳
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Currently listening to @thisisowleyes EP introduced to me by my friend @dalileonardo
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Writer friends, do you listen to music when you’re writing? What do you listen to?
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#horror #womenwhowritehorror #horrorcommunity #writer #writersofinstagram #writing

🔥You Are So Wicked, You Know That, Right?🔥 .

🔥You Are So Wicked, You Know That, Right?🔥
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Fatal flaw
this endless flow
of ceaseless love
that churns for you.
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Gravitational might
recedes from the earth;
birds take flight
sensing catastrophe.
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My heart beats harder,
pushing against the boundaries of
flesh created by some lonely god
whose judgements I must now receive.
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This ache, this madness,
this terrible devotion
circumnavigates my body,
the earth, pulled by the moon
and tides
rides throughout my soul.
Take it easy, please,
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take it easy.
You know I’m willing to
risk it all for you.
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#poetry #poem #wordporn #portraitphotography #womenwhowrite #art

“The earth trembles and shakes; with each tilt o

“The earth trembles and shakes; with each tilt of the axis, a new possibility is born.”- - Charlie, Forever and Ever.
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Stephen King said, “an opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.”
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With Charlie, the first line I actually wrote was “to you,” and the last one I wrote was “the earth trembles...”
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Why? Because I hadn’t quite established Charlie’s voice yet. I needed a way in to the character, and the “to you” was the way in.
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Charlie is romantic, artistic, and generous, and what better way to understand her than to give her the chance to say all she needs to say to the one person she loves the most?
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Once I did that, “Charlie” poured out of me. Don’t get me wrong, writing is still an intense labor; Charlie took almost an entire year of serious writing to before I finished it. And right before I sent it off to the first reader, I added that first line in the story. Fitting, once you understand. Things don’t really end, they just begin again.
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#amwriting #womenwhowrite #novelwriting #fiction #fictionwriter

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"- Marilyn Monroe

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"- Marilyn Monroe
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I was going to start a new book tonight but I got my manuscript back from my publisher @machetebooks So I’ll be spending the next day or so reading it before signing off the the last version of ‘Charlie, Forever and Ever’.
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‘Charlie, Forever and Ever’ is a lush, dreamy, sometimes hellish journey of one woman’s life in New York during the early 1990’s as she loses her grip on reality, all while working for one of the largest technology companies in the world, and being pursued by a sexually deviant socialite and her handsome, yet obsessive son.
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I’ve included some slides of films that hopefully convey the aesthetic of the story, including Donnie Darko, Eyes Wide Shut, and A Beautiful Mind.
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The last slide is of Marilyn Monroe, who, like Charlie, is a tragic character in the center of her own life, being crushed through a machine whose only purpose is to squeeze every last morsel of talent, love, and generosity before being discarded.
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In many ways, Charlie mirrors Marilyn: loving, generous, talented artists who only see what they want to see in the people around them, to their detriment. However, they always remain hopeful and kind, wishing only be loved as fiercely as they do.
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‘Charlie, Forever and Ever’ will be released January 23rd, 2021.
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“The earth trembles and shakes; with each tilt of the axis, a new possibility is born.”- Charlie Wood.
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#amwritingfiction #womenwhowrite #sciencefiction #fictionbooks #bookstagram #marilynmonroe #donniedarko #eyeswideshut #abeautifulmind

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