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Chapter Fourteen: Adapted Curve Corrals (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday(ish) (professional demands are causing sliding deadlines right now). If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

After the encounter with Mrs. Brecker before school, the rest of Clay's first morning...

Fundraiser: Get Self-Advocates to #TASH2014

If you're looking for Imaginary Friends, I will have Ch. 14 up later today. For now:

Kerima Cevik has partnered with The Ollibean Foundation to help raise money for self-advocates and disabled scholars who have been accepted to present at the TASH disability rights conference on Dec. 3-5. This is an important conference of disabled presenters to be able to attend, because TASH has stated that they wish to emphasize the voices of disabled people and that they are committed to disability rights,...

#CFP Typed Words, Loud Voices

CFP - PLEASE FORWARD VIRALLY:

Typed Words, Loud Voices
Calling people who type to talk always or sometimes:
The Oct 1 deadline is coming up. We have had some absolutely breathtaking submissions so far and this is going to be a pivotal, glorious book, a book that changes lives! If you are planning to submit but need a little more time, please let us know as soon as you can at typedwordsbook@gmail.com so we can make plans to include as many typed loud voices as possible. 
http://typedwordsloud...

Chapter Thirteen: Motherhood As Disaster Management (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday. If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

Clay's first day of second grade did not start off any better than his first day of first grade had. While he did not have a meltdown and refuse to get dr...

Chapter Twelve: Something About Moses And Something About Jesus (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday. If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

Clay sat on a stool watching his grandfather get dressed for church. He was in a suit coat and tie himself, despite his having brought a polo shirt for ch...

Chapter Eleven: Bill Watterson Knows Things And He's Trying To Warn Us (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday. If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, check out the Books page for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

Clay tried to have a good time at Patrick's house, but it was not easy. Patrick's mother was doing the same thing she always did, meddling in the boys' pl...

One More Thing (A Waking Narrative)

There's a thing that I have been working on while I was coming to terms with myself. It's happened in fits and starts and pieces have worked their way into my other work, both in poetry and in my fiction, while I have been holding this back and working it.

I'm done working it now. This is a piece of fiction, and it is exactly the total amount of words that I have for this topic right now, so I am not taking questions. I'm  just sharing.

It's called "A Waking Narrative," and it is available...

Mirror Project Is Officially Available As A #Paperback #Book

My new shipment of paperbacks came in today.
Image is of them stacked on my kitchen table.Would you take a look at this?

My copies of Mirror Project came in just before the holiday delivery delay. And there are some extra copies of Nothing is Right, too.

If you'd like to buy either book directly from me, you can use the Paypal buttons in this post and on the Books page to purchase them. There is a place in the checkout form to request a dedication if you wish. Otherwise, the books will be signed...

Autism and Race

Lydia Brown, the blogger at Autistic Hoya and one of the most active activists and speakers in our community, is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to support the first neurodiversity-positive scholarly anthology on autism and race. Please take a moment to click through and, if you can, to support her campaign. This is a very important project, on par with Loud Hands or the Criptiques anthology in its ambition, and it is very unlikely to happen unless she manages to raise the necessary f...

Chapter Nine: What Will The Neighbors Think? (Imaginary Friends)

Imaginary Friends is a serial novel. New chapters go up every Friday. If you're new to it, you can catch up by starting from the Introduction or the first chapter.

If you're impatient to read more about Clay Dillon, click on "Books" above for ordering information for Nothing is Right, the prequel to this story.

Content: Child abuse, physical and verbal. Ableist language. R-word.

Clay paced in his room. He had the space for it, since his LEGO collection was still gone and his mothe...