Please help my friend's friend

A friend of a friend is in dire straits with her health, and is in an abusive environment. She is trying to move out on her own while she still has her health, but cannot do so without assistance. Please read:

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Please consider donating. I have been in situations like this, and without the grace of strangers, would not be in a better place today. Please help Domina move forward with her life.










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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Needs Our Help

UPDATE: Genesis still needs our help. Gen almost died in the ICU last month, and is back to around 0 in funds because the medical expenses are so exorbitant. Please donate at the new campaign: www.gofundme.com/w6ste-genesis…


Industrial music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge was recently diagnosed with leukemia.

Gen is broke and behind on rent and struggling to afford the treatments they need to survive.

If you know your music history, you know what a travesty this is.  

If you don't, I will only tell you that this is an incredible person who has changed my life, and who I was lucky enough to meet a couple of times.  Gen showed me the utmost grace and kindness, and has lived a life of unparalleled courage and integrity.  

If you can donate, please do: www.gofundme.com/genesis-breye…

If you cannot, please re-share this campaign.  I appreciate anything you can do.



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RIP Tanith Lee

Most of you probably aren't familiar with Tanith Lee, which is truly a crime. She is positively one of the most wonderful authors in the entire world, an unrecognized genius, whose words are gems and whose sentences are goldmines. She is a shining star in my sky, and a few days ago, she died.

I made a pendant for her about a year ago, inspired by her novel The Birthgrave. I wanted to mail it to her, but never heard back. She fought several hard battles with cancer, which I assume is the monster that slayed her in the end. I never got to say "thank you" to her for her amazing work.

But she's still a shining star in my sky, and will be forever.

If you haven't read any of her books, I urge you to do so. I don't know what inspires me more, her exquisite prose poetry or her persistent refrain of rebellion and the search for authenticity and individuality. I hope that someday she gains the recognition she deserved in her lifetime, and that her spirit lives on somewhere as magickal as the worlds she put on the page.



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I wrote a book!

This isn't your typical go-on-a-magic-quest-and-fight-dragons fantasy. It's a gritty drama with a fantasy backdrop where everything is just a shade off of familiar. It's a story about violent, compromised people struggling to live and love in a world entrenched in moral ambiguity and spiritual emptiness. Here is the short summary:

Talystasia stands divided.  An ancient wall runs down the city’s center, and for centuries, the Lorens and Telyras have vied for dominance.  But their endless feud is not the only schism that runs through these pages.  Here, loyalties are fractured and hearts and minds are also divided.  Will Andreas Telyra and Roselia Loren triumph on the war grounds within, or will they succumb to the cycle of violence and spiral even deeper into the dark?

Download it!

On Smashwords.
Or Amazon.com.



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If you want something that's posted here and isn't posted there and know you'll buy it within 24 hours, I will post it there for you if that's how you prefer to check out. Just let me know.


K.




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