#strange fire

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I'm lowk scared but here you go

Strange Fire (Ellie/Dina/Abby) WLF AU

Chapter One: Tailspin

Ellie and Dina are newly-recruited WLF. When Ellie jokingly suggests a threesome with the super jacked soldier who gave her a black eye, Dina's jealousy gets the better of her. Obsession and attraction are kind of the same thing, right?

“Are you seriously still mad about that?”

Dina had slept poorly. She wasn’t in the mood to re-hash last night’s argument, and she also wasn’t in the mood to be late for her shift for makeup sex. She disentangled herself from Ellie’s arms, still heavy with sleep. 

Ellie groaned in response. “I was joking, okay?”

“I don’t think you were.” Dina pulled her tank top over her head, finding some sly satisfaction in denying Ellie what she wanted. 

“I was just saying,” Ellie propped herself up on an elbow, hair still greasy from last night, black eye barely a shadow of purple, “that if we were going to have a threesome with someone… If we were, and clearly we’re not, and you know what? You’re the one that brought it up in the first place.”

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it is wrong for the church to include in its corporate worship anything that Christ has not commanded

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The art of strange fire

The art of strange fire

I’m pleased to announce that “Love Thy Neighbour”, my cheeky Eve + Adam + Lilith Torah fanfic short story is forthcoming in Ben Yehuda Press’ Strange Fire: Jewish Voices from the Pandemic anthology, edited by TS Mendola and out later this month. The paperback is available for preorder now, and the ebook should be available soon. Warning: my story is in the SEX section (yes, there’s a sex…

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Read It or Leave It 2021

I decided to take all of the books on my TBR and either read them or leave them next year. So, I’ve been working for at least 3 years now to scale down my physical TBR. I started with almost 100 books on my physical TBR and now at the end of 2020 I’m down to 8. The problem is that most of these are books that have been on my TBR for over a year.

So, in the year of 2021 either I have to read these books and keep going with their series OR decide they aren’t for me and remove them from the TBR shelf. Here are the books.

1. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi-- Legacy of Orisha #1.

2. The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson-- Fire and Thorns #1.

3. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George.

4. Red Sister by Mark Lawrence-- Book of the Ancestor #1.

5. Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan-- Girls of Paper and Fire #1.

6. Strange Fire by Tommy Wallach-- Anchor & Sophia #1.

7. The Young World by Chris Weitz-- The Young World #1.

8. Blood Red Road by Moira Young-- Dust Lands #1.

Only Red Sister has been on the TBR shelf for less than a year. I got it for my birthday in July. But I’m excited to read it so it’ll stay in this group for 2021 anyway.

I still plan on buying books throughout the year and reading new releases, but I’ve been paring down my TBR shelf for so long that this is kind of the last dregs and things I’m not sure I want to read. Giving myself a year to read them feels more than fair.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyOOpQzBEsI&t=2s

oof

[indigoyouths]

indigo girls • strange fire (1987)

[indigogirlslyricsoftheday]

When I let you go, I cursed myself with empty hands. Strong enough to watch you walk, not enough to understand.

Indigo Girls, You Left It Up To Me

[journeyintotheshelves]

Tuesday’s Treats is a weekly blog post dedicated to newly released books that I’m most excited for. (Books are in no particular order.)

All books featured this week will be released: OCT. 3rd (Part 1)

9. The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency: 1): K. Arsenault Rivera (goodreads) (book depository)

As the Hokkaran empire grew, a darkness within their people grew with it, and now their border is falling as demons appear. The nomadic tribes Qorin retreat to save themselves, and it’s up to the Qorin warrior Barsalayaa and warrior empress O-Shizuka to save the fate of the world.

I’ve heard some really mixed reviews about this book, so I’m interested to see what I think once I get to it.

Fantasy, LGBTQIA+; Tor Books, Paperback (US)

10. 27 Hours (The Nightside Saga: 1): Tristina Wright (goodreads) (book depository)

27 Hours follows a group of teens as war begins when chimeras start to attack colonies on the moon Sahara.

At first I was really excited about this book because of the great diversity and action, but I did read a review that shed some light on a few problematic aspects of it regarding imperialism that I found really interesting, so it should be interesting to read it through that lens now.

YA Science Fiction, LGBTQIA+; Entangled: Teen, Hardcover (US)

11. Strange Fire (Anchor & Sophia: 1): Tommy Wallach (goodreads) (book depository)

Tommy Wallach’s latest novel, Strange Fire, is an ambitious and different dystopian that I’ve ever seen before. The first generation of man was plagued by greed of various kinds, and it is said that the Lord sent his Daughter to rid the world of the sinners. Now, there is the Descendancy: a new civilization that was founded on the belief that the past can never be repeated. But there is a community that’s trying to rediscover the technology of old, and this seemingly small revolt sparks a holy war and will change the fate of all humanity.

This book grabbed me the moment I found out that it’s for fans of City of Ember (which was one of my favorite books growing up), and I cannot cannot wait to read this one.

YA Dystopian; Simon & Schuster, Hardcover (US)

12. The Last Namsara (Iskari: 1): Kristen Ciccarelli (goodreads) (book depository)

Asha, the princess of Firgaard, has grown up listening to the legends of the Namsara and the Iskari, the light and dark of of her land. But all legends have a seed of truth to them which Asha learns once she becomes a feared dragon slayer and, in turn, becomes the next Iskari. Even though she can kill a dragon, she can’t free herself from her arranged marriage to a cruel commandant. But when she’s offered a chance at freedom in exchange for the head of the most powerful dragon in the land, she leaps at the chance. But as she journeys on her quest with the help of a secret friend, she learns a lot more about herself, love, and the truth about the Iskari.

YA Fantasy; HarperTeen/Hardcover (US)

13. Mis(h)adra: Iasmin Oma Ata (goodreads) (book depository)

Nothing seems to be going right for Isaac: his doctor’s won’t listen that his medication doesn’t work, his schoolwork is overwhelming, his family doesn’t take his condition seriously, and his social life has fallen to the wayside. Mis(h)adra is an own voices novel about an Arab-American college student with epilepsy as he tries to live his day to day life.

Contemporary Fiction, Graphic Novel; Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster , Hardcover (US)

14. From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars (goodreads) (book depository)

A collection of stories from 40 authors about Star Wars — aka: one of my favorite movie series ever — is just what my nerd heart has been waiting for.

Science Fiction, Short Story Anthology; Del Rey/Random House, Hardcover (US)

15. The Wizards of Once (The Wizards of Once: 1): Cressida Cowell (goodreads) (book depository)

For as long as anyone can remember, Wizards and Warriors have been on opposing sides: Wizards with their magic and Warriors without. But Xar, son of the King of Wizards, can’t access the magic he’s supposed to have, and Wish, daughter of the Warrior Queen, has a magical object that she shouldn’t have. When they meet in the dangerous wildwood, both searching for a witch to help them, Xar and Wish find themselves thrown together on a path that may just change both of their lives — and their worlds — forever.

Middle Grade Fantasy; Little, Brown/Hachette, Hardcover (US)

16. Top Ten: Katie Cotugno (goodreads) (book depository)

Ryan and Gabby were the unlikeliest of friends, and definitely the unlikeliest of lovers, but over the course of their 4 years of high school, that’s exactly what happened. Now, as their graduation looms nearer, they reflect on their years of friendship and love in the one way they know how — in a top ten list.

YA Contemporary Fiction, Romance; Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, Hardcover (US)

17. William Shakespeare’s The Force Doth Awaken: Ian Doescher (goodreads) (book depository)

This combines my two loves: Star Wars and Shakespeare. Need I saw more?

Science Fiction, Classic Retelling; Quirk Books, Hardcover (US)