One of the cooler places for fiction.

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Over at Chirp:

Novel

Plural. Because: two is always better. And, both of these are doorstoppers, too. Doorstoppers I didn’t want to go over, whose labyrinths I’m still plunging through, faster and faster:

Poetry

It came out in 2020, but I only read it in January or so of 2021. Stuck with me all year. And I’ll probably be reading it again. Which is to say: I agree with the Pulitzer committee:

Fight Scene

A new category, but this scene warrants it:

For all of the rest of November:

Such an honor. So great to share a ballot with such good works, such great writers (and, couldn’t fit into this screengrab, but I’m also in Tiny Nightmares, which made the anthology ballot)

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https://www.ladiesofthefright.com/blog/2021/5/10/mondays-are-for-meat

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/plots-of-nineteen-eighties-movies-if-their-protagonists-had-been-people-of-color?

https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-takes-steps-restore-tribal-homelands-empower-tribal-governments?bbeml=tp-pck9Q6QNPEiuBt3JmyTokQ.j99aVdSc9J0mr_qnnXtFrzw.rjEmfyN2NVEeTturveXAKRg.lOA4YBV…

Was honored just to be considered alongside such fine writers, such solid books. Floored to have lucked out in both categories:

GM announces electric Chevy Silverado pickup that can go 400 miles on a single charge – CNN

Deb Haaland creates unit to investigate killings and disappearances of Indigenous people – CNN

https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/creepy-things-kids-have-said-about-past-lives

https://www.buzzfeed.com/fabianabuontempo/creepy-most-unexplainable-true-stories

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88awpx/scientists-discover-huge-and-m…