The Skeleton Priory

Boy do I have some goodies available on kofi at long last lol-- I made a handful of the short stories I've been working on epubs! I've been workin' hard on some scifi hopecore queer stories where the world gets blown up and then something romantic and hopeful happens. You should check out one if you're curious-- eventually I will put them all together as an anthology, but for now I'm just gonna crank out a few short stories a month and see what happens.

Come get y'all juice!

Here I am again! It's been a difficult time for me, basically since the end of October 2025, when my beautiful cat Wynne Genki passed away. Since then, both of my paternal grandparents have also died, and I was in a minor but expensive car crash. I've hit a truly major snag in reuniting with my beloved husband. And I lost a costume contest that I should definitely have placed in. Life is a dumpster and it is truly on fire.

However, it hasn't all been disasters. Just mostly disasters. On Valentine's Day, Alexander and I relaunched our Patreon, featuring two awesome new queer fantasy stories, TOUCH GRASS and TOUCH SCALES. TOUCH GRASS follows Mirza, a man who has fallen from the cyberpunk dystopia he knows and hates into a lush and fantastical world. His guide, Rosaire, is not all that he seems... But on the bright side, he is insanely hot. Will Mirza uncover the truth, or lose his heart in the process?

In TOUCH SCALES, T'la Xiaolu of Spring has a problem. She's stumbled upon a secret kept by none other than Areyu of Summer, a lethal wildcard of a woman who has designs on a dragon so powerful that its awakening portends disaster. Xiaolu braces herself for an attack but gets something else instead--a marriage proposal. Can something bloom between Spring and Summer?

You can read them right here, and subs start at just $1.

Alexander has also opened a Redbubble, so come get your biblically accurate squid stickers (squickers? no, that can't be it...)!

In the meantime, I have two novellas on the way--one that I'm pitching as BUGONIA meets THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, and another one that's really just a vent for my feelings about Coppola's Dracula.

Anyway, if any of that interests you, feel free to check it out!

Until next time.

Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!

It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.

I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?

How many relationships? How much writing?

You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.

Five days until the big reveal! Here's a little preview of what's cooking. We got swords, we got lesbians, we got dragons! And that's just the beginning.

"There will be chaos when the sleeping dragon wakes… Its slumber is already faltering because of her bond to it. If she is my wife, and we go together to see its first moments… much can be learned about its purpose," Xiaolu speculates. "Do you suppose she will try something crueler, if I were to say no?" "I cannot chart the course of a bolt of lightning," Unfurling Blossoms tells her. "That, I believe, is the expertise it would take to predict what the Summer sect's leader will do next. But if there is chaos to come—and there is, my rider, make no mistake—there is no one better suited to weather it with you than Areyu of Summer. And perhaps," the dragon's voice turns sly, "she will accomplish all that, and then be polite enough to die, so you may select a suitor more to your liking."

And I’m sorry if this is how you had to find out he’s on an “apology” tour (denying everything) and promoting a new book that we are all going to very loudly ignore

If you're looking for a good, centralized collection of fundraisers for people and organizations doing on-the-ground work in Minnesota right now, someone on Bluesky put together a great resource hub for things like food support, rent relief, mutual aid, and immigrants' rights centers that I'd really love to see spread around.

And if you're local to the Twin Cities, there's a "Take Action" section with links to ways to get active, as well as some resource guides for legal observers, etc.

Extra info was provided by a local friend I wont name because shit is scary for our Minnesota friends. But here's some valuable orgs and funds that are on the ground helping right now

MN Freedom Fund - bail org for arrested protesters

TCMAP - mutual aid project

Powderhorn Families - direct donation to families in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood so their rent and utilities are paid while they are sheltering in place during ICE deployments

Fe y Justicia - Latine aid organization that is managing rapid response in St Cloud

MN CAIR Minnesota - assisting with representation for Muslims in

Minnesota Minnesota Interfaith Coalition (ICOM) - accompanying people to USCIS appointments and on errands to keep them safe from ICE

MIRAC - THE immigrant rights org in Minnesota, doing a huge amount of rapid response and protest work in the TC

Sip of Silk - Palestinian and Salvadoran coffee house in the university neighborhood doing a direct food and hygiene products drive

Gaza is flooding amidst the false ceasefire. Israel CONTINUES to withhold aid from the people in the strip and CONTINUES to drop bombs on the innocent men, women, and children there.

Gaza is both incredibly dense and incredibly small. The suffering its citizens are going through is unspeakable. Please continue to speak about Palestine, and advocate for the people there.

Sourced:

Al Jazeera.