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🇵🇷 SpecFic writer. Words in Flame Tree Press’ Achilles, Heartlines Spec #8, The Skull & Laurel #4, Hexagon MYRIAD Lawless, The Scythian Wolf’s This World of Vile Wonder, and elsewhere. Find all my work here: https://cheyrivera.carrd.co
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It gripped me from the first sentence and didn’t let go - an amazing read! ☺️
I really enjoyed it ☺️ Short and memorable!
you’re welcome! Loved your prose and imagery 🐺🖤
THE NINE CRASHES OF FLIGHT LIEUTENANT HILLA QUINN by @trailofleaves.bsky.social in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
SILVER AND SHADOW, SPRUCE AND PINE by @mariahaskins.com in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Imaginative worlds, vulnerable characters, and beautiful prose!
Four short stories I read and loved in FEBRUARY ✨
MAGICAL GIRL: CORPORATE FAILURE by @thelialao.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social
THE SALT AND THE CURE by @rukman.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
For your consideration ☺️
Agreed! I saved so many quotes that I felt I was growing alongside Taran. 😅
It’s a lovely story I wish I had read as a child
That’s wonderful! I wish I had read this series as a child. I am enjoying it very much and I’m excited to see how it ends
I finished this book today and, even though this might not be the most exciting book in the series, I loved following Taran in his quest to know himself. Next up, The High King. 📖
“Life’s a forge!” cried the smith, as Taran, his brow streaming, beat at the strip of metal. “Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You’ll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you’ll scarce know what’s happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal’s worthless till it’s shaped and tempered!”
“I’ve heard men complain of doing woman’s work, and women complain of doing man’s work, but I’ve never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done!”
“Did I ever think a weaver’s shuttle a light burden?” Taran sighed.
“It’s not the shuttle that burdens you,” answered Dwyvach, “but lack of skill, a heavy burden, Wanderer, that only one thing can lift.”
“What secret is that?” Taran cried.
But Dwyvach only smiled. “It is patience, Wanderer.”
A hand holding out a copy of Lloyd Alexander’s book, “Taran Wanderer.”
“Craftsmanship isn’t like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it’s empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains. The heart renews itself, Wanderer, and skill grows all the better for it.”
Nice! I love these! Reading #4 now.
Such a great story! 👏🏻
Thank you!! ☺️
This one means a lot to me
Caribbean historical fantasy, imprisoned gods, and the complex bond between two sisters desperate to protect their home and each other.
“For the Pursuit of the Better” is free to read at @heartlines-spec.com! 🧠 🌊 🪶
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We have Best of American SFF, Best of Canadian SFF, Best of British SFF. I wish so badly that editors take up the task of editing an yearly Best of Latin American SFF as well. It would be great!
Bad bunny holding a football that says “together, we are America.”
Together, we are America.
Well done, Bad Bunny.
So proud to be Puerto Rican 🇵🇷
#BadBunnyBowl 🏈
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I don’t write books with AI.
Any inconsistencies, mistakes, or broken logic are purely from my brain.
Don't practice writing to impress other people. Write to express yourself. Write to make yourself laugh, or to get something awful off your chest. Write something so weird nobody else will enjoy it--but that you enjoy, and you know it, and the page can be your psyche's confidant in that.
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I really enjoyed it! It was very well done ⚔️
I really did! ☺️
I also recently enjoyed reading “The (Mis)Fortunes of Saint Ilia’s School for Gifted Girls” in The Dark magazine.
I was inspired by the unique structure 🕵🏻♀️
THE DEATH OF DEMONS by @brandoncase101.bsky.social in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social
AT THE END OF THE WORLD, MEET ME BY THE VENDING MACHINES by @cjtavares.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com
Will definitely be reading more from these authors. 🙌🏼
Four short stories I read and loved in JANUARY ✨
THE SPACE BETWEEN US by @cornellwriter.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
I MET YOU ON THE TRAIN by
@jrdawson.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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