Kaia Ball (They/Them)

Turn Your Lit Mag Rejections into ‘Wins’ This Year How Reneé Bibby’s “Rejection Competition” Takes Away the Sting

I'm always singing the praises of the Rejection Competition!

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#ziwe guests think they're afraid of ziwe.

but they're afraid of themselves.

This isn't deep, it's just literal. They're afraid of what will come out of their own mouths. They are afraid of looking into the mirror Ziwe holds up.

anyways anyone else a vince staples stan now

oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes

I almost always have a scene early in the book where bunch of people sit around a table and talk about what the plot actually is. Caught myself at it again tonight and moved it to a church instead so it would do triple duty as worldbuilding and add conflict. Every scene does 3 things or out it goes

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So honored!!! Thank you @enbylife.bsky.social for the nomination!!

As someone currently writing a pilot that involves investigative journalism work, it is dispiriting to see how boring a show about an actual conspiracy would be.

the somatic sensation is like missing a step on a staircase

everytime i turn up the volume on my ASL homework I feel myself falling further from the warm embrace of god

Rettel Set Go Build as many words as possible within 60 seconds.

Rettel Set Go #512 🏁
📖 6 words
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Rettel Search Get 5 attempts to find today's word.

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Connections
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yeah that sounds like chitown

"They cast aspersions on the throwing of lots, and yet they perform baseless augury of their own"
-a wizard watching dudes play fanduel

if you like eating wafers
and the blood of the lamb
I'm not much for the sinners
I glory the great I Am

pina colada song update where the couple rendevousz's via christian mingle posts

entirely wrong lesson from the video but unfortunately i cannot stop saying "when the fajitas come out sizzling" to my compatriots. my marriage is falling apart. but the fajitas are fire

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

as somebody who works at a community center, this 100%

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tricky one

Stoning Our Neighbors to Death Makes the Corn Grow High, and Elitist Liberals Should Stop Attacking This Traditional Value Since Biblical times, stoning people to death has been a horrible punishment reserved for the worst criminals. But now, in PC liberal America, the ...

"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."

tryna bump my duotrigordle.com ranking. think i miiight be able to shave off a guess next time

Connections
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I practiced with a Connections archive this weekend and now the thrill has been entirely lost to me. learn the dangers of over sharpening your blade. learn sooner than i did

worst part of working at a nonprofit is all the whimsical, misleading names. "Director of Individual Gifts" "Chief Party Officer"

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LMAO WE DID IT GAYS

my adolescent heart just raced. i feel 14 again. the fuck happened

Ep 5 of ALPHANUMERIC, Haunting Hollers, is out now!

I love love love being the lead editor of ALPHANUMERIC & collating the work of incredible authors, and helping to bring that work to a podcatcher near you!

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