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"The <a href="/tags/firstresponders/" rel="tag">#FirstResponders</a> - The black men from Pittsburgh who made up <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#America</a>’s original paramedic corps wanted to make <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> and save lives—starting with their own." by Kevin Hazzard<a href="https://magazine.atavist.com/2019/the-first-responders-paramedics-pittsburgh-civil-rights-ems" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="magazine.atavist.com/2019/the-first-responders-paramedics-pittsburgh-civil-rights-ems">https://magazine.atavist.com/2019/the-first-responders-paramedics-pittsburgh-civil-rights-ems</a><a href="/tags/longform/" rel="tag">#longform</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/atavistmagazine/" rel="tag">#atavistmagazine</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#amreading</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/blackfedi/" rel="tag">#BlackFedi</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/blackexcellence/" rel="tag">#BlackExcellence</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/ems/" rel="tag">#EMS</a> <a href="/tags/paramedics/" rel="tag">#paramedics</a>

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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass">https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass</a> Series Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion</a>After the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass

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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/LegacyOfNewts</a>The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>

(Left) The cover of Legacy of Newts, by Owen Tyme.

In the background dawn, as seen from space, above a blue world.

In the foreground is a line drawing of a red spotted newt, in white. The lines of the newt are outlined in black, to help it stand out. The interior of the line drawing has been filled with the image of a spiral galaxy in red, orange and yellow, with a blue color that shades to white at the center, which lines up with the newt's head. The galaxy almost looks like fire.

(Right) The background is a blue and orange nebula, with the following text over it:

“You gotta be real strong, real bright, real quick, or real lucky to survive drawing *attention*. Which are you?”

“I’m quick, Amelia is bright, Marta is strong and all three of us have been lucky, after a fashion: if we didn’t have bad luck, then I suppose we wouldn’t have any luck at all.”

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Chapter 21 of Scarlet Eye: Homecoming is available to read on <a href="/tags/royalroad/" rel="tag">#RoyalRoad</a>: <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye">https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye</a>Oz'gozod works to locate the portion of Masher's brain responsible for spell-casting, while they get into a surprisingly philosophical discussion about the nature of love and hate.<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/witches/" rel="tag">#witches</a> <a href="/tags/demons/" rel="tag">#demons</a> <a href="/tags/vampires/" rel="tag">#vampires</a> <a href="/tags/webseries/" rel="tag">#webseries</a>

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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TrollSong" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/TrollSong</a> Series Ebook omnibus: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/TheWizardsScion</a>Having an abusive assassin for a sister was bad enough, but when Lyra’s older sister, Nicole, becomes obsessed with killing the teenage troll, her life becomes a special kind of nightmare. Will she escape, or become just another victim of the unstoppable woman?<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>

(Left) The cover of Troll Song, by Owen Tyme, Illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

There's a woman in mud spattered white, leather armor crossing a pair of short swords against the neck of a terrified, shirtless dwarf.

The woman has white hair and a darker skin tone on the left side of her face. Her left eye is green and her right eye is blue.

The dwarf's hair and beard are blond.

The background is a green forest, with some flowers among the tall grass.

(Right) The background is a snow-covered forest, with a pair of dark silhouettes in it, one small and the other large, like a giant. The smaller silhouette is of a young woman walking away and the interior is filled with musical symbols, in green, white and two shades of blue. The larger silhouette is a woman wielding two swords and the interior is full of blood spatter. The larger one appears to be chasing the smaller one.

The following text is laid over the scene:

“I can’t die until Lyra takes her last breath! She’ll regret betraying her sisters!”

“There’s no price I won’t pay to see that happen, no pain I won’t endure and I’d sacrifice the whole world to seal her fate!”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TrollSong

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Update: Stalled. where I live is becoming less and less safe by the day. The campaign in my Chuffed is meant to help me move and make it for a time This is urgent, I really need to get to a safe place. Please do all you can! stalled at $102 left to go.<a href="/tags/mutualaid/" rel="tag">#mutualaid</a> <a href="/tags/chuffed/" rel="tag">#Chuffed</a> <a href="/tags/helpfolkslive/" rel="tag">#helpfolkslive</a> <a href="/tags/mutualaidrequest/" rel="tag">#mutualaidrequest</a> <a href="/tags/housingcrisis/" rel="tag">#housingcrisis</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a> <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#Writer</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="https://chuffed.org/project/blessks" rel="nofollow">https://chuffed.org/project/blessks</a>

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Personally I like to edit in new and improved typos with every round of editing 😁 Even grammar has to 'Evolve or Die' in this new fast paced world 😜😂 <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@galacticwriters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@galacticwriters</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@writingbooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@writingbooks</a> <a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@aiop</a><a href="/tags/writingmemes/" rel="tag">#WritingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <a href="/tags/geek/" rel="tag">#Geek</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#Author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthor</a> <a href="/tags/indie/" rel="tag">#Indie</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#Writers</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#WritersOfMastodon</a>

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Shout-out to the typos that make it through three rounds of content edits, copyedits, and two rounds of proofreading. I am inspired by your dedication and tenacity.

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Welcome to the August <a href="/tags/wordweavers/" rel="tag">#WordWeavers</a> questions! Written by @AlyseSteves & I, you’ll find the month’s questions pinned to our profiles on the 1st. All are welcome to join in. Participate with a WIP or an already published book. As always, play the days you want, skip the others. Please use CW as necessary. Looking forward to seeing your answers & meeting new friends. <a href="/tags/amwriting/" rel="tag">#amwriting</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/authors/" rel="tag">#authors</a>

August 2026 #WordWeavers 1. Which of your characters would make the best tour guide, & where would they take us? 2. What's one scene you cut that you still think about? 3. If your protagonist had a signature scent, what would it be? 4. Which supporting character keeps trying to steal the spotlight? 5. What object in your story has more significance than readers realize? 6. If your villain had to spend a day with your hero, what would happen? 7. What part of your world-building came together almost effortlessly? 8. Which character would survive a zombie apocalypse, and why? 9. What's the smallest detail you've researched for a story? 10. Does your writing playlist change depending on the scene you're writing? 11. Which shelved project are you itching to get back to? 12. If your main character had a comfort food, what would it be? 13. What's the most unexpected source of inspiration you've ever had? 14. Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit? 15. What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps? 16.If one of your characters could ask you a question, what would they ask? 17. Which scene made you laugh while writing it? 18. What's your favorite line you've written this year? 19. Which character has changed the most since your first draft? 20. If your story had a tagline, what would it be? 21. What's a trope you enjoy writing, even if it's unpopular? Created by @AlyseSteves@mastodon.social & @BranwenOShea@writing.exchange

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<a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> hello! i'm back to mastodon on a new instance after an extended social media break. looking forward to a fresh start. i like <a href="/tags/flowers/" rel="tag">#flowers</a> <a href="/tags/plants/" rel="tag">#plants</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/repair/" rel="tag">#repair</a> and a bunch of other stuff. i'm hoping to keep my experience on the lighter side this time around, so i'll be following more selectively than before. i will be checking news, politics, etc., here, but probably not wanting it on my feed. see you around <a href="/tags/bloomscrolling/" rel="tag">#bloomscrolling</a> and <a href="/tags/caturday/" rel="tag">#caturday</a>!

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