the stuff of our souls, dried out like cut-rate horse leather in the hateful sun of this fallen city

i had help! what i did not have was time or mental health capacity.

OK fine if I ever run a publishing house, which I will not, you can submit too.

shep is trolling me, i spent 10 years in the publishing game and am now very much out

here's a close-up

if i was running a magazine, which i emphatically am not, stephen would always be welcome

this is why i have the bee shotgun

Yes! Like it’s a good parody and if you know that context it’s funny. Just people on bluesky have been circulating that screenshot for 2 days now as if it was real.

(i got taken in by this myself yesterday)

*slowly backs into the clown sewer*