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Image: “Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” — Jean Rhys
(via harperperennial)
Library was closed so I detoured to North End Avenue and came across this.
Jun
17th
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BE BOLD: SUPPORT TEATRO VISTA TODAY!
I’ve never asked anyone to donate to an indiegogo campaign before. I’m asking folks to consider to donate to this.
Without Teatro Vista, the world premiere production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity would not have been possible. My newest play (currently titled Rebecca Oaxaca Lays Down a Bunt, though that’s going to change) simply would not exist. TV means a whole hell of a lot to me.
That’s totally not why I’m asking you to consider donating. I’m asking because TV is a remarkable community of some of the most amazing actors I know, and they just so happen to be Latin@. It’s a beautiful company, and they could not deserve your love (financial and otherwise) more.
Help TEATRO VISTA, your premier Equity Latino theater company, put on a stellar inaugural season at our new home, Victory Gardens!
“What’s the difference between a good sex scene and a gratuitous one in films?” (Article: Making Love in the Movies - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com)
I want your 1,200 word or less BDSM erotica by this Thursday!
Heads up, writers!
If you’ve already submitted to this anthology, I will reply to you by September 2013 at the latest. Thank you!
Short Short BDSM Submission Erotica Anthology (title TBA)
Editor: Rachel Kramer Bussel
Publisher: Cleis Press
Deadline: June 20, 2013 (earlier submissions strongly preferred and encouraged)
Please make sure to read and follow these guidelines in order for your work to be considered. Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel is looking for short short stories of 1,200 words or less focused on the theme of BDSM from a submissive perspective. While the word count is short, I want complex stories with a beginning, middle and end, not simply scene snippets. Preference will be given to stories that stand out in theme, tone, plot, language, characters, motivation and erotic action. I will consider stories from a dominant’s perspective if that is the best way to tell the story. The final book of 69 stories will contain an extremely wide variety of characters, POVs (I welcome first, second and third person stories), settings, scenarios, motivations, experience levels, motivations, BDSM practices (which can be combined with other sexual acts), fetishes, couplings, relationships, etc. All genders and sexual orientations welcome. All characters must be over 18; no nonconsensual activity, scat, incest or bestiality. No poetry. Original, unpublished stories only. Stories from authors I have not published before are especially welcome. See my books Please, Sir; Yes, Sir; Please, Ma’am and Yes, Ma’am to get a feel for the types of submissive stories I enjoy. See Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex for examples of 1,200 word or less erotic stories.
How to submit: Send double spaced Times or Times New Roman 12 point black font Word document (.doc or .docx) with pages numbered OR RTF of 1,200 words MAXIMUM to shortsubmissionantho at gmail.com. DO NOT submit multiple versions of your story; submit ONLY your final, complete, edited version of the story. Note that this is a hard maximum. Stories that are not in keeping with the theme of the anthology or are over 1,200 words will not be considered. Indent the first line of each paragraph half an inch and double space (regular double spacing, do not add extra lines between paragraphs or do any other irregular spacing). US grammar (double quotation marks around dialogue, etc.) required. I will consider a maximum of TWO stories per author. Include your legal name (and pseudonym if applicable), mailing address. If you are using a pseudonym, please provide your real name and pseudonym and make it clear which one you’d like to be credited as. You will receive a confirmation within 72 hours. I will get back to you by September 2013.
Payment: $20 and 1 copy of the book on publication in 2014
Deadline: June 20, 2013 (earlier submissions strongly encouraged and preferred)
Two activities made the prohibition list. First, all business affairs would be tabled. Call me self-employed, call me an artist, call me Supreme Allied Commander of My Multi-Hyphenate Life; they all translate to “working all the time.” I would not live that way during this vacation. Second, for 25 days I would avoid all “social media,” including the original online social network: email. I would not read, write, or be notified of any electronic missive. I would not generate any activity whatsoever on any social network whatsoever, including, but not limited to, seeing, reading, downloading, syncing, sending, submitting, posting, pinning, sharing, uploading, updating, commenting, tagging, rating, liking, loving, upvoting, starring, favoriting, bookmarking, plus-oneing, or re-anythinging.
— Baratunde Thurston, “#Unplug: Baratunde Thurston Left The Internet for 25 Days, and You Should Too,” Fast Company
Jun
15th
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The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.
— Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (via queerbetweenthelines)
Daily gratitude: home
I love that it’s 9:34 a.m. and I’m digging in to my anthology reading (July 1 deadlines, I need lots more stories!) and poetry judging with a fresh pot of coffee. I think I did such a good job of convincing myself that “home” meant “place to sleep and throw my belongings on the floor” that I didn’t realize how good it feels to have a table and coffeepot and working SodaStream and TV. The more I’m here, the more I realize what I kept from myself all those pathetic Brooklyn years. Not everything about them was pathetic, certainly, and what i lacked in a home I fulfilled in other ways. I had a glorious city to keep me busy. Now I keep myself busy. It’s different, and this way feels more adult, and isn’t burdened with the twins guilt and fear that accompanied me 24/7 as an active hoarder.
This home keeps me grounded, and means when I travel I’m not doing so to escape something I hate (not just myself) but because I truly want to. Have to wait for my master, aka, my royalty check, to see if I can afford any of the trips I want to take, but I am hoping it works out. After taking my travel writing class I realized that what I need is to travel for fun, simply to explore. I drag the rest of my life into my writing way too much already.
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13th
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Assumptions much, American Greetings?
