Hello everyone, It’s sort of shocking to realize that my last post was barely a month ago. March was 80 years long. In case you missed it, you can read my poem A Bird of Flesh and Futures in Cypress Poetry Journal as their first piece. They are quickly building a wonderful little catalogue that … Continue reading Writing in times of crisis
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Queering the (Strange Horizons)
Proud to share my first publication in a pro market! You can read my essay Queering the Cyborg: How the Hybrid Body can Set us Free in Strange Horizons today! You can read my essay Queering the Cyborg: How the Hybrid Body can Set us Free in Strange Horizons today! focusing the figure of the … Continue reading Queering the (Strange Horizons)
What we See in the Ereader
Happy Holidays! As a Channukah gift to me (and everyone else), What We See in the Smoke is now available from the most popular ebook platforms such as Kobo, Kindle, and Nook! Keep an eye out for a much bigger "end of year" update on inkstainedwreck.ca in a few days. Until then, happy holidays!
Library cancellation
As I have stated in other social media (though I forgot to do so here), though, I was scheduled to speak at the Runnymede Branch of the Toronto Public library this evening on October 30th. Two weeks ago I cancelled this event. I cannot in good conscience work with the TPL in the light of … Continue reading Library cancellation
Goodreads
What We See in the Smoke is on Goodreads! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44723851-what-we-see-in-the-smoke I hope you'll consider adding me to your "want to read" shelf for your summer reading list 🙂
Rockets inbound for June!
My publisher has released the first graphic for What We See in the Smoke! Here is a first glimpse of the incredible cover illustrated by Toronto artist Raz Latif Creating this novel has been a fantastic journey for me, and I'm excited to have more news to announce very soon! Though it will be available online earlier, I couldn't be happier … Continue reading Rockets inbound for June!
Dog Food for Dallas
Check out my latest published poem in the UC Review Online
2019 Update
Hello everyone! I hope all have been enjoying 2019 so far. I've come back, after a little bit to much radio silence. exciting things are on the horizon for me. I'll be reading some poetry next friday at the launch of The Trinity Review! Also excited to say that an excerpt from my book, Planet 58, will be … Continue reading 2019 Update
The Sins of Professor X (Part Two)
Hey, did you miss me? Well I missed you! Welcome back to:
TheSins of Charles Xavier! (Part Two)
Let us jump in right where I left off on the good Professor, with…
4. Danger!
So the X-Men’s training room is pretty cool, right? For some reason Xavier saw fit to build a work-out chamber in his school called the Danger Room. It’s basically a room that can make all kinds of robots and hard-light projections so that the X-Men can practice getting shot at and train as a superhero team in a controlled environment.
It also serves as a pretty good backdrop every time Cyclops or Wolverine decide that the only way to solve their emotional issues is LARP violence. The Danger Room is basically the holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation dialed up to 11.
So it really shouldn’t come as any surprise when the danger room…
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The Sins of Professor X (Part One)
Let me roll off some key features of a comic book character and see if you figure out who I’m talking about:
Kindly father figure, symbol of peace and tolerance, wheelchair-bound, teacher, bald, eyebrows like the wings of an eagle, enjoys the letter X, disagrees with his more violent buddy, named a school after himself, and the spitting image of Sir Patrick Stewart. See, at this point, you probably have a pretty clear idea of who I’m talking about. If you don’t… nah, you do (come on, Ben, be confident).
Okay, now I’m going to rattle off a few more key characteristics and see what happens: dead-beat dad, creepy perv, master manipulator, liar, militant extremist, destroyer of worlds, child abuser, slave driver, guy who can walk.
No, I am not describing two entirely different characters. All these characteristics add up to define Professor Charles Xavier, man of peace, founder of…
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