JPK_elmediat, to art
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Monochrome Madness ~ lentil medicines

The Chinese character for this century is lentil medicines. These are etymology drugs. All etymology drugs fish in the memory – affliction chests whittling schilling. Only one bastion remains engraved.

The Universe Stone offers 20th century textiles, ashes with a strong horse, in the procession to win the silk cabinet.

A weapon of religious herbs,

Sea of religious herbs –

the Skin Key Pretzel

slipknot dew baulk

Conspiracy trees spoiled glass motorcycles, like the tallow azure lines form a hundred coffin books, they are xanthous grass in the garden of corners and feathers.

https://asemictarot.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/monochrome-monday-madness-lentil-medicines/

JPK_elmediat, to art
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The stalker rides

the Locum Coach –

caught in the undertow

it seeks the portal of the soul

The Light of the Dragon Palace descends to the Secret River –

#Art #DigitalArt #Photography, #Eldritch #EldritchFriday #ExistentialFriday #Phantasmagoria #Poetry #ProsePoetry #Surreal #SpeculativePoetry #WeirdFiction #WeirdPoetry #WeirdTales

https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/it-seeks-the-portal-of-the-soul/

JPK_elmediat, to DigitalArt
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Eye of Gy’jelko’0~KA

The Miskatonic Folklore and Metaphysics Department team discovered the Hex Sign on the barn at Keziah Mason’s abandoned farm.

I found the right answer to the wrong question
and it became stone.

I found the right answer to an unasked question
and it turned to bone.

https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/eye-of-gyjelko0ka/

JPK_elmediat, (edited ) to poetry
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Shanmonster, to poetry
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I do believe my short poem “How the Blubber Boy Came to Be” is eligible to be nominated for the Rhysling Award. Wanna do me a solid and give me the nom? https://thedeadlands.com/issue-31/blubber-boy/ @indigenousauthors

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A few of my pieces are eligible for the Aurora Awards through the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. If you are a member, please go check ‘em out. I have three short stories, one poem, and a book review pending. I’ll include links to the various bits in the comments for those of you who aren’t members, because you might like reading them, too. https://www.csffa.ca/members-home/eligibility/ @indigenousauthors

Shanmonster, to indigenousauthors
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https://www.kinsmanquarterly.org/iridescence-award Submissions are open for short stories and poetry by BIPOC authors for Kinsman Quarterly’s Iridescence Award. Themes should include the supernatural, extraterrestrial, or the paranormal. Prizes include publication in the Iridescence anthology with cash awards up to $500 USD. No fee required. Deadline has been extended to January 31, 2024. @indigenousauthors

bogiperson, to sciencefiction
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BIG news -

I'm relaunching my daily story / poem recommendations (formerly on Twitter) as a Buttondown newsletter!

Pay what you want - including free, but paid backers get a longer update for weekends + other bonuses!

Check it out - reposts much appreciated:

https://buttondown.email/bogiperson

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maxrjovbi, to poetry

Ecliptic Joy

So close to death is the sorrow of love
—the ecliptic joy,
that I can feel its
long fingertips,
its sharp, venom-dipped nails
reach behind, right behind,
my inward-turned eyes:
they no longer see what I've always felt
they've seen,
they see man as you saw him—
in everyone else.







@poetry
@writing

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Moon

https://invidious.fi/watch?v=3i_Y9F4X1fs

maxrjovbi, to 13thFloor
maxrjovbi, to 13thFloor

Here

Walking past thousands of openings in the ether, long reddish cracks in a seemingly invisible wall, as they would appear to the trained eye, we were truly happy. Lyanna held my hand—something she usually didn't do for some unknown, inexplicable reason. I, on the other hand, was a romantic fool; hence, I loved holding her hand, showing her, and the whole fucking world, that I belonged to her. That I was her grangent, and nobody else's…

Spree
5









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https://write.as/maxrjovbi/here

maxrjovbi, to 13thFloor

Freedom

We always found ourselves in Magdalena, a quaint, abandoned town nestled far in the western reaches, Lya and I, as we ventured into the Spree. I didn’t know why. And I had never really thought about it. Until now. Something had changed. An unfamiliarity settled in, akin to a glitch in the synaptic code—subtle yet present, behind the scenes—rendering the details of our surroundings more vivid; the once-dimmed sun now brighter, the pale blue sky intensifying, and the weight of the prairie dust seeming to lift…

Spree
4









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https://write.as/maxrjovbi/freedom

maxrjovbi, to 13thFloor

In the Spree

Breakfast. I always got my breakfast at Pushkin's. It didn't matter how early, how late, how tired, or how stoned I was—the coffee shop next to our apartment building had become my steady waterhole. The gent that owned it, Greg Pushkin—a middle-aged Russian immigrant from the Cuban colonies in the Atlantic—was a good friend, or rather, he'd become one, because I would always pay him straight up, with either creds or dope…

Spree
3









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https://write.as/maxrjovbi/in-the-spree

maxrjovbi, to 13thFloor

For God's sake

Lyanna was sound asleep. I looked at her. My eyes touched her silky smooth skin, lingered there for a while, then regressed, slowly, back into a semi-dark, blueish abysmal world of nightly dread and anguish—the buzzing strobe-light from the handheld projected screen faintly mirrored my pale, unshaven face on the wall…

Spree
2









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https://write.as/maxrjovbi/for-gods-sake

maxrjovbi, to 13thFloor

Gypsies, finks and outcasts

It never stopped raining. It never ever stopped raining. Hence, the crimson red always washed away. Good, or bad? I didn't know. I didn't wanna know.
"Inexplicably dead, this man is, isn't he?" I thought, and turned to Lya to get her beautiful but sad-looking face remapped in the kibershop window in front of us…

Spree
1









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https://write.as/maxrjovbi/gypsies-finks-and-outcasts

maxrjovbi, to 13thFloor

Lyanna

During the hourly wake of the city's mourners,
I escaped
to where none of us dared venture,
with the veiled chameleon's long shadow
over my shoulder,
I escaped
to where no other nectar but yours—the XY-code's,
was harvested by the drones,
no other sound but the cyber-wind's
was silenced
by the hum of your ill-fated circuitry:
Lyanna—my cherished code and rhythm,
I have now finally understood
that I no longer need to recreate you
to leave a fresh imprint
behind
at the scene of the digital caper—
you are my truest reality
as I once was your most
fraudulent.







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⚧♂

https://write.as/maxrjovbi/lyanna

maxrjovbi, to scifi

Spree

Step into the dystopian future of Spree, a genre-blending novella that throws all the storytelling rules out the window. Think sci-fi, cyberpunk, and then some—it's a wild journey that keeps morphing with every tweak and cut. This isn't your typical tale; it's a live experiment, guiding you through an unpredictable mental maze where the lines between reality and fiction, sanity and madness, are constantly getting smudged. Just like the portrayed instability, this adventure will leave you contemplating the dynamic nature of stories and the worlds they conjure, especially when they vanish.







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https://write.as/maxrjovbi/spree

maxrjovbi, to scifi

Here, you can feel my presence
in the doubts
that overcome you,
when these words
in this moment
cast a new hermeneutic veil
over the world
and all its underlying metaphors,
so that you, later in life,
can find your way home,
all by yourself
and without doubt,
in my absence.


© 2023 Max R. J. Ovbi.

#maxrjovbi
#poet #writer
#poem #freeverse #spokenword
#speculativefiction #speculativepoetry #speculativewriting
#scificommunity #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
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https://maxrjovbi.bandcamp.com/track/here-you-can-feel-my-presence

maxrjovbi, to scifi

Here, you breathe me out
as I breathe you in—
your unappeasable memory
of me,
making my last attempt to flee
this lost but not shunned
empery
of thought,
will show whether I can hold
this breath
for more than one lifetime
or not.


© 2023 Max R. J. Ovbi.






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@writing

https://soundcloud.com/maxrjovbi/here-you-breathe-me-out?si=73151ab7891145cea2a1a459a0948202&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

maxrjovbi, to scifi
maxrjovbi, to scifi
maxrjovbi, to scifi
maxrjovbi, to scifi

Here, we face death together
and forget,
for a brief wonderful moment,
that we’ve both actually lived
a life
in absolute solitude—forced into exile
from our innate longing
to become one with each other
and come home,
finally,
to the unknown source
of our shared origin.


© 2023 Max R. J. Ovbi.






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@poetry
@writing

https://soundcloud.com/maxrjovbi/here-we-face-death-together?in=maxrjovbi/sets/here&si=3a058a5b31fe4ce0b2683704cc7dd098&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

maxrjovbi, to scifi
maxrjovbi, to scifi
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