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alexander shay

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alexander (they/them) is an audhd, queer/trans writer and the project lead of YEGWrites Press. Their fiction explores darker themes and characters from an empathetic standpoint, while their poetry and non-fiction mainly focuses on the intersectionality of their identities and lived experience. They won the 2021 Dr. MacEwan Literary Arts Scholarship and the 2023 Sharon L. Henderson Award for Young and Emerging Writers, and have published in The Bolo Tie Collective (IV-VII), Lida Literary Vol. 1, Capital City Press (2 & 5), and YEGWrites Vol. 1, with Vol. 2 forthcoming.

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the psychopath circle: the characters

The Psychopath Circle is, in basic terms, all my psychopath characters grouped together. The idea being similar to a doodle Q&A, but in written response, which can be directed at any one character, multiple, or the group as a whole. This wiki post is the home base of the PC, of sorts, where you can […]
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“There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.”
Rob Stewart, Sharkwater

“When straight-identified women have sex with women, the broader culture waits in anticipation for them to return to what is likely their natural, heterosexual state; when straight-identified men have sex with men, the culture waits in anticipation for them to admit that they are gay.”
Jane Ward, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men

Cormac McCarthy
“Do you think I lie to you?
No.
But you think I might lie to you about dying.
Yes.
Okay. I might. But we're not dying.
Okay.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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“He flapped his mouth some more, and then shook himself awake, came to a decision, and starting sneaking huge, theatrical looks around the restaurant, as a way of telling all the other lunchers that I Am Now Going To Give This Man An Important Piece of Paper.”
Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
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“There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.”
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