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The Penclaw Press Relaunch

I haven’t blogged in literally months. I wish I could think of a compelling reason that was the case. Did I lose interest? Maybe. Did I let depression get the better of me?

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Magick

Notes Toward a System of 'Punk Magick'

One thing I haven’t talked about much on this blog is my spirituality. I was raised Catholic, but I didn’t stay that way. I bounced around a lot of different religious currents before

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Fiction

The Occult Library Co-Op

“I don’t get it,” said Arkham, as they weaved their way through the shelves. “Libraries don’t usually restrict access. ‘Information belongs to the public’ and all that, right?”

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Poetry Gender

Poem: Busted Seams

I’m brimming and bursting, my seams are busted. My righteous sense of reality is rusted. “Fact or fiction,” a fallacy. There is no ordered truth, objectively.

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Poetry

Poem: A Knight Of Verse

The pen and the sword are weapons both, and whichever I wield, let thie be my oath:

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Poetry

Poem: Dragon of Avalon

Dragon, fire-breating, rage-seething protector.

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Poetry

Poem: Lonely Little Robot

Little robot, rusting alone, resting on the grass, how corroded your chromium has become, how green your copper plating.

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Blog Asexuality

Romance on the Asexual Spectrum

I broke up with my first boyfriend because he wanted to have sex eventually and I didn’t. I was definitely attracted to him. I loved kissing him, holding him, dancing with him, cuddling

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Poetry

Poem: The Wall Bisecting

The Wall, Bisecting

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Poetry

A Smattering Of Poetry

Poetry has been something that I have been interested in ever since school. I love reading it, and I love to write it even more. My style varies wildly. Sometimes I like to

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Blog

A Science-Fiction Writer's Argument Against Futuristic Meritocracy

Whenever I see someone ask the question of “what will we use as money in the future,” I’m always tempted to respond “who says we’ll even have money?” Its not inconceivable to me

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A Non-Exhaustive List of Science Fiction Tropes to Avoid

Ah, science fiction. Whether gritty or corny, dystopian or utopian, it has an ability to entrance like no other genre of speculative fiction. At least most of the time. Well, some of the

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Blog Dnd

A DnD Character Appreciation Post for Vix, The Badass Anime Furry

I’ve had a lot of DnD characters over the years. Some of them have been more self-indulgent than others. Some of them have been simple experiments with the rules, or with classes and

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