My short story, “One Last Bounty,” is out in Tar Baby Quarterly issue NO. 5: Afrofutures / Dark Matters edited by Sheree Thomas. Which follows Jupiter, on a quest to buy his family’s freedom.
Full issue: tarbaby.com/shop/p/issue-5
#Western #Horror #neoslavenarrative #fiction
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“I don’t think influence is something that flows in only one direction.”
Tite Kubo (@tite_official) drew 'BLEACH' every week for fifteen years, building a 686-chapter story that sold 130 million copies and set the template for countless other series and the modern fighting manga.
For our Issue 38 cover story, he talks about the ending he planned from the very first chapter, how Ichigo’s darkest arc took a toll on his own health, and the influence 'BLEACH' has had on a new generation of manga artists.
Read the full interview now:
hypebeast.com/2026/10/tite-k…
“Jouissance is the strangest glistening, a dark glamour of rapture and disruption. It shines and cuts and leaves its bearer not knowing what to make of herself—or her pleasure.” -Kathryn Bond Stockton
“The only homogenous function of consciousness is found in the ego’s imaginary capture by its specular reflection, and in the function of misrecognition that remains tied to it.” -Jacques Lacan, Écrits
“The imaginary is far from inconsequential; it has powerful effects in the real, and is not simply something that can be dispensed with or ‘overcome'.”
Evans, D. (1996). An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/978020313557…
“The unconscious constantly reveals the ‘failure’ of identity. Because there is no continuity of psychic life, so there is no
stability of sexual identity, no position for women (or for men) which is ever simply achieved.” -Jacqueline Rose (1986)
“But above all [Lacan] introduced the idea of "failure" of the drives, by conceiving of them as a montage in three stages or times, which can also be undone? […] we shall see that this function of failure is central; it is what causes the compulsion to repeat, and it means that the encounter with the object will always fail.” (p. 24)
Couvert, M. (2021). The Baby and the Drive: Lacanian Work with Newborns and Infants (L. Watson, Trans.; 1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/978100313297…
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"On our first night together
I am bruising but nothing
is getting eaten but me.
Love bites of passion"
—Britny Cordera
beestungmag.com/issue28/brui…
🚶🏾♂️: I like the pressure, it makes a diamond
Been motivated by perfect timing
But when you get what you desire
The bar you set gets even higher
Baby, baby, don’t be naive
There’s more to you than what you achieve
So protect your energy
Can’t give it away for free
🚶🏾♂️: all I want to
Do is what was meant to do
Spending the days and nights
Climbing the ladder to nowhere
Get so emotional
Thinkin bout who I used to be…
music.apple.com/us/album/twe…
🚶🏾♂️: all I want to
Do is what was meant to do
Spending the days and nights
Climbing the ladder to nowhere
Get so emotional
Thinkin bout who I used to be…
music.apple.com/us/album/twe…
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"Who knew what it was to be a man in a boy body,
under the blankets, one hand on my p*nis
and another on the back button of the remote control.
The most extreme sport."
—Donnie Moreland
beestungmag.com/issue28/bet-…
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I am hosting a free flash fiction workshop. If you need motivation to write, you just found it.
Register with the link or QR code on the flyer.
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"It is the bygone summer sea
that dissipated the memories
Of the stars
in your auburn eyes"
—Liu Yuniang
beestungmag.com/issue28/nowa…
GARLAND Issue 6 - Uncommon Mythologies is upon us! Thank you to @fifthwheelpress for having me guest edit this spectacular collection of work and thank you to all the contributors 💜💜
fifthwheelpress.com/garland
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"I am a headful of detritus with
a tank
full of gas and no will, survival a Black beauty supply two miles
too far"
—Cai Sherley
beestungmag.com/issue28/afro…
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How exactly did this overlooked album surface, nearly 40 years after its original Indian pressing?
pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-a…
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"I don’t want restraint if it means silence.
I don’t want holiness without heat."
—Darius Phelps
beestungmag.com/issue28/hone…
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🥹 my first academic journal as a writer and editor is officially published, i’m so grateful.



























