Hi, I'm an as-of-yet unpublished YA author and high school math teacher who just joined Mastodon. I'm looking out for suggestions of who to follow in the writing/teaching community!
Is there anything that makes you invincible? Can you coat yourself in kevlar? Some new invention of polymer chemistry? Ballistic panels and stab protection. Blunt force resistance and polycarbonate shields. You try to be normal. You enter the world in riot gear. Defensive. Fragile. Scared...
#EndlessNight (2022, Belgium, on Netflix) also reminds me in a way of #Flatliners: a group of friends break a medical taboo of "forbidden knowledge" and chaos ensues. Is this a horror subgenre and does it have a name? Or is it all just a variation on the Prometheus & Genesis stories?
Bernardine Evaristo picks Fire Rush, Damon Galgut goes for Winnie and Nelson, while Anna Katharina Schaffner opts for Coffee and Cigarettes. Some excellent choices in @thetls#books of the year.
'Every decision in favour of a sentence is a decision against countless other sentences. Every decision in favour of a story passes up countless other stories. One word destroys another word. Writing means obliterating.'
Judith Hermann examines the paths not taken in We Would Have Told Each Other Everything, translated by @Katyderbyshire in Granta 165., due 23 November.
One of those 'WOW!' moments. One of my haiku has just been published in the Autumn 2023 edition of 'The Wales Haiku Journal'. (cf p 53). The whole magazine can be read and downloaded for free via this link: 👇🏽