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thatkeira.bsky.social
Scientist by day. Sometimes i write things at night. https://keiraperkins.com
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A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.

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We’re getting taco bell now. I no longer have the cat, which is sad, but I’m still haunted

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

You know when you’re a little drunk and a one-eyed ginger cat follows you into a bathroom in a house that was built in the 1840s and you’re like “what if it’s magic” and the cat’s like “what if put me down???”

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Damn typo. That’s supposed to say LAUGH not life.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It really is nice to have friends who’ve known and loved your weird soul since you were both children. Sometimes they send you cards because they can imagine your life when they read them

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Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

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One more week for our BIPOC-only short story collection call! We haven't received many submissions yet, and we'd love to read yours. If you've been going back and forth about submitting because you're not sure your book will be a good fit, send it in anyway: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

March submissions open on March 1! We're looking for short stories, flash fiction, or translations by immigrant and diaspora writers that are under 5,000 words. We pay $0.10/word! More details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

One time in college, two middle aged men were walking in the middle of the sidewalk. And I tried to get around them because I had a really long walk to class and they moved sideways right when I tried to cut around them and got shoved into a stone wall. And it ripped my jeans from hip to knee

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Two hours. TWO HOURS I got offline to knit with friends and drink some wine and be a person. And I came back to him dismantling the POST OFFICE

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My friend @janeire.bsky.social edited this anthology in “bikes in space” series Should you check it out? Depends Do you like bicycles? Halloween? Feminism? Stories that are unapologetically and joyfully queer? Yes? Go read it :) microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🎶 And I say he's the one Who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he knows not what it means🎶

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Hey, when we saw "bag of dicks" on the ballot, we voted no. #raygun www.raygunsite.com/collections/...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

I wrote this story when Indiana enacted a near total abortion ban. It came to me be bright, clear & almost fully formed when I was desperately trying explain the dread I felt. Now they’re trying to charge us with murder if we “receive or perform an abortion” www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/30/str...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

We are launching a GoFundMe for our lovely @zzclaybourne.bsky.social. Those of you who attended the Black Men Reading Speculative Fiction 2 know that he was too sick even to read that night—after all the love & work he poured into organizing it! This is to help him as he recovers! gofund.me/8e2a5252

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This may be my favorite alt text I’ve written so far…

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Dammit. I can’t run off to the woods and be a squirrel. My employer just gave me a bonus and raise. And I guess it’s hard for a person to be a squirrel but it sounds nice

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

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