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villain protagonist, local god

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AUTHOR, WHICH MEANS I WRITE BOOKS *//* http://derekdesanges.wordpress.com/books *//* ABSOLUTELY NO ONE IS ABOUT TO BE MURDERED *//* ko-fi.com/derekdesanges *//* GIVE ME MONEY FOR NO REASON
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yes i am doing this again: Shit I’ve Published

shit published by not me

when someone speaks your language (excerpt) in Erato: Flash Fiction (as Derek Des Anges) 

inkmanship in Cunning Linguists (as Melissa Snowdon)

the nighthouse keeper in funemployment spring issue 1 (as Derek Des Anges) (a digital version is also available from their shop)

complicit in nonbinary review #29 (as Derek Des Anges) (a limited numer print run is also available from their shop)

A Change of Clothes in PodCastle 799 (as Derek Des Anges) FREE to read OR listen to online, narrated by Isaac Harwood

novels by me

romance/erotica novels by me

novellas by me

individual short stories published by me

the forty-hour train murder (as Derek Des Anges) THIS STORY IS FREE/PAY WHAT YOU CHOOSE

b-sides (as Derek Des Anges: this is a collection of 4 stories)

individual short erotica/romance stories published by me

individual short [gay] porn/sexual horror stories published by me

poetry collections/anthologies published by me

non fiction published by me

comics

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The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.

Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.

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Daybreak. 36° F, feels like 29 ° F. 6:19, 6:55, 7:09, 7:16 am. December 4, 2022. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. (@dkct25