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Teaching, writing, paddling, familying: what it's all about.

Joined September 2013
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Teo and 1K refugees crash on Planet Liberty, which is 100% private property. Desperate to escape Liberty’s poverty, Diana joins landowners’ conquest of the refugees but is betrayed. Isobel’s mistake cost everything and drove her to the refugees! LEGUIN + BUTLER #Pitmad #SF #YA
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Student: “Mr. Berger, is kissing gross when you get older?” Me: “Nah, it’s still pretty good.”
Turns out cat toe beans will operate a touch screen. I now have an out for any embarrassing social media posts!
Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle
Thinking seriously about writing a memoir. Transition from retrograde men’s group to a real spiritually via a realized roommate. It happened to me. #writing
DUSTBORN x MAD MAX Running illicit goods for vile gangs is no joyride. Family's everything, so when Momma’s kidnapped, Lee swaps wrenches for weapons. A hunky medic lends a hand and captures her heart but saving him from execution means sacrificing Momma’s ransom. #SFFpit #YA #SF
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Teo is a refugee from Earth heading to a new planet. Instead his ship breaks down over a planet divided completely into private property. When his hidden colony is discovered, Teo and friends have fight for the right to live out of bondage. LEGUIN + BUTLER #SFFpit #SF #YA #DS
DARKEST MINDS X TV’s REVOLUTION In a dystopian caste society, Mazz (16) lives between social classes. He must overcome insecurities to tame his backfiring powers. When a cabal attacks, he learns that friendship transcends caste, powers, and self-doubt. #SFFpit #YA #SF #DS #SH
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READY PLAYER ONE X REVOLUTION The masses live in a digital utopia while their bodies starve, kept alive and complacent by nano-bots and AI implants. Mazz’s AI glitches, meaning no more utopia. Now he can bend reality but can he keep his new powers? #SFFpit #YA #SF #DS #ND #SH
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FEMINIST SNOW QUEEN None of the stories can do her justice—not the nursery rhymes, the children’s songs, the barside jokes, or the scary tales whispered at night. But here’s another story, regardless. Let’s call it my story. Our story. #SFFpit #A #LF #HF #MYF #LGBT
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When people go missing and spirits grow restless, it helps to have professionals on your side. Unfortunately, this group of ghost hunting dumbasses is the best we’ve got. Scooby-doo X supernatural #SFFpit #horror #comedy #adult #uf
Teo and 1K Earth refugees are marooned on PLANET LIBERTY, which is already divided 100% into private property. Teo & friends start a secret town, but when they are discovered, it’s a fight for freedom on an alien planet. LEGUIN + BUTLER #SFFpit #SF #YA #DS
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WILDER GIRLS + SURVIVOR In an act of self defense, 18 yo Natalie has ruined her bright future with a homicide conviction. Now, she'd do anything to get that back, even sign up for a deadly reality show where her chances of survival are slim-to-none. #SFFpit #SFT #YA #LGBT #OWN
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THE ARTIFICIAL FOX A quick-fingered scavenger is hunted by the patriarchal A.I who governs her world when she learns it rewrote human history She must outwit its cold, digital brain to reclaim her old life, but exposing the truth risks unravelling society's terse peace #SFFpit
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What happens when refugees from Earth abandon their space ship on a planet divided into private property? Teo and friends must survive the dangerous alien land and fight for their cooperative settlement. Freedom, young love, and happiness at stake. LEGUIN + BUTLER #SFFpit #SF #YA
What happens when refugees from Earth abandon their space ship on a planet divided into private property? Young Teo and friends must survive the dangerous alien land and fight for their cooperative settlement. Freedom, love, and happiness at stake. LEGUIN + BUTLER #SFFpit #SF #YA
TANGLED x FIREFLY. A dying energy healer hitches a ride from a down-on-his luck medic to a planet where no one really dies. In this galaxy, trust is in short supply, but when they uncover a terrifying weapon, they’ll have to team up to survive. #SFFPit #A #SF #SFR #SFY
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