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Sneak Peek: The First Chapter of Sleeping Fairy
Back in 2018, I drafted a retelling of Sleeping Beauty that was never really about castles or curses. It was about MySpace. It was about being twenty-one in the early 2000s—when dial-up whined through your bedroom wall, when your whole life could be demolished in a single public post, when “delete” wasn’t an option because
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My Books – The Song Beneath the Noise
An author’s catalog as orchestra: memoir’s drums, satire’s brass, thriller strings, romance woodwinds, speculative jazz—all carrying one refrain: survival, queerness, resilience. Explore the full lineup on the Amazon Author Page; binge via Kindle Unlimited, including a three-month trial. Different genres, same heartbeat: stories that outsing noise and insist on hope.
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The Parasocial Comfort Blanket: Why SmartLess Owns My Brain
It’s not easy to admit that the most stable relationship in my life right now involves three middle-aged white men who don’t know I exist. And yet, here I am, another hopelessly devoted listener of SmartLess, the podcast where Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes invite celebrity guests, mispronounce each other’s words, interrupt constantly,
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When the Crime Rate Falls, Call in the Troops
Washington, D.C. is enjoying its lowest violent crime levels in over thirty years. The data says so: a 35% drop in 2024, another 26% decline so far in 2025. Homicide is down. Robbery is down. Carjackings are down. The FBI and DOJ dashboards are practically waving at us with little “congratulations, you survived the nineties”
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Florida’s Book Ban Just Banned Fahrenheit 451—Meet the Literary Irony Police
Censorship never starts with flags and alarms. It begins with scare stories, moral panic, and a public so hungry for control that they let the system eat the books one cover-sized bite at a time. Florida’s “parental rights” show was never about rights. It was about rewriting history by force. Thankfully, in Orlando, the script…
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Wanting Without Shame: Cozy-Gothic, Consent-Forward Vampire Love Story. Beau and the Blood out now!
Make tea. Silence your phone. Read the first chapter with the porch light on, then let the house darken around you. Notice how the rooms respond—not with jump scares, but with a quiet leveling when someone says a true thing out loud. Watch two men ask each other for what they need and hear yes…
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When Your AI Won’t Pledge Allegiance
Someday, there might be a museum exhibit about this: The Chatbot That Knew Too Much. And if the MAGA museum curators get their hands on it, the placard will read: “An early example of AI misinformation, quickly corrected by patriotic engineers.” The rest of us will know it for what it was: the only thing…
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From D.C. to Gaza: When Local Control Becomes a Myth in the Name of Order
The lesson here is simple but uncomfortable: local control is only as strong as the willingness of those in power to respect it. Once that respect is gone, the structures that protect autonomy can be dismantled piece by piece until all that’s left is the illusion of choice. From the capital’s federalized police force to…
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Jim Acosta Interviews AI-Generated Shooting Victim, and Journalism Finally Eats Its Own Soul
here’s a point at which “innovative” stops meaning forward-thinking and starts meaning we ran out of shame. We are well past that point. Journalism’s job is to speak to the living, hold the powerful accountable, and honor the dead with accuracy and dignity. This? This is puppeteering the dead for clicks, calling it progress, and…
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BREAKING: Trump Takes Over DC Police in “Law & Order” Miracle — Deploys National Guard for Public Theater
WASHINGTON —History books have a habit of glossing over the quieter coups. The ones without tanks rolling through the streets, without generals at microphones, without gunfire. The coups that happen under the cover of “public safety,” with a smile, a signature, and a TV camera. This week, Donald Trump proved that you can drape a