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Leslie J. Anderson
@lesliejanderson.bsky.social
Writer living beside a cemetery with three good dogs and a Roomba. Never been cool a day in my life. Author: Take This to Space. Writes for CryptoNaturalist.
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I'm cooking chili for lunch with veggies from the farmers market and then I'm sewing little felt mushrooms because we're ROMANTACIZING OUR LIVES TODAY!!!

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It's the best!!

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I make a playlist for each of my projects. They're pretty wildly different from each other. Here's the one I made for Unmothers: open.spotify.com/playlist/7uM...

The Unmothers
The Unmothers

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The first draft is digging the clay out of the riverbank and taking it home. You still have to prep and mold it, fire and sand and glaze and fire. Don't look at a lump of clay and despair that it's not a pot.

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I freaking love when Tik Tok POV influencers lose control of the narrative and their own characters and suddenly Karen is falling in love with That One Guy Ordering Coffee as they prepare to fight God.

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We do indeed.

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I forgot my headphones and I have to share an office today. I am in hell.

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My sister just finished The Unmothers by @lesliejanderson.bsky.social and the text she sent was "This is not a horror book. It is a delightful fantasy."

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Hey is your sister okay? Also thank her for me.

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Not sure why, but I was thinking of this poem today.

Mothman Goes to Therapy
Leslie J. Anderson

Itā€™s hard when no one believes in you
or they do, but they need you
to mean something bigger than what you are ā€“
when they want you to be hidden and not hiding,
a secret but not secretive.

They need me to be part of something bigger
so they can be part of something bigger.
But Iā€™m just me, soft and white.
My eyes red as summer raspberries.
My heart a little flickering flame.

I feel bad sometimes, that I canā€™t be what they need.
I feel guilty that my abs look nothing like the statue.
I wish I was silver and beautiful.
I wish I was powerful and haunting.
I wish I could skulk. Itā€™s probably fun to skulk.

I am trying to meet myself where I am,
huge and fabulous and bumping contentedly
against the lit lamp of this life.
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Leslie J. Anderson
@lesliejanderson.bsky.social
Writer living beside a cemetery with three good dogs and a Roomba. Never been cool a day in my life. Author: Take This to Space. Writes for CryptoNaturalist.
86 followers45 following224 posts