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Slide 1: in a fun, witchy font: Magic & Mystery, Amazon Original Stories; Slide 2-5: Fantasy Authors Turn to Crime, Curated by John Joseph Adams: Lists authors Travis Baldree, Sarah Beth Durst, Heather Fawcett, Scott Lynch, Tananarive Due, J.M. Miro, and Robert Jackson Bennet. Slide 6: Small renderings of all seven book covers; Slide 7: a magical cat face with paw prints to the left and right, with the words "The Game is Afoot / July 28".

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Poetry

Poetry

There Is Blood Coming Through the Ceiling of My House

not a metaphor for social decay,
or the collapse of the modern family,
or the domestic transformed to dread

Poetry

Sweet Certainty

a beast of shadow and swirling smoke
moon-stalker and mist-bane
all curling claws and clenched teeth
followed me through the night

Poetry

Shapeshifting Recovery Staff

Your clients are—more often than not—
helpless, a stack of unsorted organs
kept pulsating by the will locked inside

Poetry

A Bargain Made in the Monster’s Shadow

They say a mountain vista looks loveliest in the golden hour, and
lunar landscapes most fully reveal themselves in quarter moons;
light and dark embrace to lift each other.

Poetry

Good Morning, Wolf—

Your mouth is a red door           of blossoming velvet. I knock three times, your belly skinned, an open tender thing. I peel back fur; your insides flower                 wet against my touch.

Poetry

consumed

my lover has peculiar tastes;
her cravings are unnatural.
she apologises for her appetite

Poetry

graveyard of butterflies

in my vision, I taste happiness. I watch the sun’s dance & listen to the music of laughter. I run through a garden & somehow, I am a child again, trying to catch butterflies but they keep slipping through my fingers; like happiness, like love, like everything else I chase.

Poetry

Zooming Past Shotgun Houses

I captured the sorrow you sent me
like a star
it burned my palm
when it promised to nourish

Poetry

when i die

when i die i like
to think about the life
i lived. i like to be
alive again every time

Poetry

At the Sight of My Grave, I Stumble

First,
There is the procession of the snakes.
A wave of speckled heads with their thrilling patterns,
the tangle of their bodies as they weave

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