aegor ray
@aegor-ray.bsky.social
writer. freak. Clarion UCSD ‘26. fiction, poetry & reviews. kiss me???
From the bestselling author of #AHundredYearsWarOnPalestine comes a powerful introduction to Palestine for a new generation of readers. Featuring photography, maps, illustrations and definitions, #Palestine: A Short History by Rashid Khalidi is out now: tinyurl.com/m8h5uezt
me: i wish herman melville could have seen godzilla my sweetheart: well you’re watching it for him
I don’t want main character energy. I don’t want secondary character energy. I want gone character energy. I want “heard he’s writing a novel somewhere in Puerto Rico or New York or Portugal or in a small cabin in the Pyrenees” energy. I want hermit ghost energy.
Have I mentioned how incredibly good and vivid and heartbreaking this book is because if not it is VERY MUCH all those things and other things also. Kindly request all to preorder instantly thank you
kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல்@kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 3w agomy deepest fried friendos, my novel got a starred review from Publisher's Weekly what is even happening in lyf im so ded please preorder it! www.blaft.com/products/a-c... angryrobotbooks.com/books/a-revi... www.publishersweekly.com/9781915998866
This Independence Day, a recommendation: RAM KE NAAM, a 1991 doc about the Hindutva campaign to destroy the Mughal-era Babri Masjid & replace it with a temple to Ram. Months after the film, the mosque was destroyed by mobs on national TV. The fascists who incited this hate crime now rule India.
Ram Ke Naam (In the name of God) - a documentary by Anand Patwardhan (1991)
YouTube video by Kunal Kamra
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Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 3w ago'Happy' independence day to everyone in India who isn't a saffron nazi. And to the twenty active Indians on this site. May this country find its independence from this oligarchic, fascist, casteist, ethnonationalist apartheid regime one day.
TWO CRABS ENTER. ONE CRAB LEAVES. TONIGHT! AT THE BUCKET
an internet friend in high school told me Ægypt would change my life - they were right 💙
Liz Hand@elizabethhand.bsky.social · 3w agofirst day back at hot yoga after 6 weeks at clarion and i feel like silly putty’s older bro. serious putty.
blessed day !!! 🦀💪🏾
Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · 3w agoit's been a minute since I had new flash fiction out—“The Age of Cancer” is up at @lightspeedmagazine.com! And if you haven't read THE TIME MACHINE by HG Wells, don't worry, the story quotes the relevant paragraph www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
Friends! I wrote my first novel! Please buy it! Out October 6th, 2026 Pre order here angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/compendium-o... @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
I first read this in 2000 but it's still a great essay, with links to JC's work for the Boston Review.
Genre Trouble
Why can’t critics take John Crowley seriously?
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it isn't enought to know that in japan they don't do a three act structure. you need to understand what it means that *you* do, that *you* expect that to be the primary mode of storytelling, and why you ask certain questions of certain pieces and not others.
there is, I believe, a lot of discomfort found by people from the u.s. when, for example, magic exists without a system to it. when religion is not separated by clear lines. when ethnicity and belonging are not neatly segregated, but live side by side in a dialectical relationship
And now that I'm back home, it's time to break out the reminder that we are in the midst of a subscription drive to increase staff and contributor pay to celebrate our 20th anniversary issue in October. Subscribe here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way
transsexual community needs to develop a single word shorthand that means like “i understand you are being well intentioned but please do not say that fucking shit to me ever again. also you are okay and you’re good. i promise you’re good. you’re good. it’s okay. you’re good.”
!!!!! congrats to this incredibly talented writer
J. Y. Zhang@jyzh.bsky.social · 4w agokind of crazy but! I won an aurora award!! 🫨
read this brilliance and give yourself something beautiful to relish 🙌🏾🙌🏾
Ravn J. Silver@ravn-j-silver.bsky.social · last mo.My newest story, "As the Tide Loves the Diver, as the Diver Loves the Tide," is out now in Clarkesworld! It was also one of my application stories to thee Clarion Writing Workshop! @clarkesworldmagazine.com clarkesworldmagazine.com
