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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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Writing In General And The Short Story In Particular by Lawrence Rust Hills
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There's a point in the afterword in which the author says "Composed at different times, the passages seem to overlap, often to even contradict, repeat the same examples, sometimes to make one point, sometimes another that's just faintly different." H ...more
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Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
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Somehow, neither the synopsis nor the introductory essay prepared me for what was in the book. Ironically, this had little to do with the level of gore/torture (which I was expecting to be much worse, honestly) and more the plot (if you can even call ...more
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In Search of the Great Canadian Shark by Chris Harvey-Clark
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Wired to Feel by Sarah Bergenfield
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The Vampire and His Pleasant Companions, Vol. 1 by Marimo Ragawa
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Never Whistle at Night by Shane Hawk
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Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm
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Searching for Normal by Sami Timimi
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I picked up this book based entirely on the title and did not read the blurb to find out what was actually the focus of the book. I think that's a good thing in this case, because if I had I don't think I would have read it. When I saw the "cult of o ...more
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Healing Autistic Burnout by Sharon Kaye O'Connor
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The subtitle of this book is far more important than the actual title. I was hoping there would be more emphasis around helping recover from burnout, but the focus of the book is far more on self-acceptance and making time in the day to be yourself. ...more
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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

Hugh Laurie
“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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Jeffrey A. Carver
“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.”
Jeffrey A. Carver, Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

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