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epitome of incomprehensibility
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...but sometimes one waits until middle_age to arrange sporadically planned words and make them "official."
What I mean: this is the title of the poetry chapbook that I wrote AND that Cactus Press published. Yay! One accomplishment of 2025. That's for the year. As for the term, a chapbook is a short poetry book - a chap off the old block, as a zine is a chopped magazine.
Oh yes, and I'm not excluding anyone from fanfiction, even jokingly: there's no "only." It's just that I focus on fanfiction cooked up from books I read as a teenager, sometimes starring teen characters - as in the piece where Anne_of_Green_Gables hops fictional universes to murder other characters.
But things also got weirdly autobiographical - slightly_autobiographical, at least - amidst goofy weirdnesses. Even when time-hopping Scheherazade confesses her love for Queen Esther, the bit about her crying over a Subway sandwich after the reincarnated Esther's wedding is straight from (also gay from) the sad_romantic sorrows_of_young_e_o_i. (To be honest, I ate the sandwich before the wedding, which I also moved from May to January. Poetic_license.)
I submitted my first draft December last year and did most of the revisions in August. In the summer, personal touches from me and two others prodded things into shape: e.g., the main editor thought a different poem about Queen Esther seemed too abstract, so I added more life. (The_Nostratic_Hypothesis, but it's different now.)
On_writing: it can be both permanent and changing.
Anyway, much credit to Willow for being such a sensitive and flexible editor. And to Devon for cooking up an amazing cover design given rather vague cues. And most of all to dear_red, blather_red, the red_family - you know who you are! - for hosting the ideas and sometimes the early drafts that went into this.
You can get this at https://devongallant.wixsite.com/cactuspresspoetry/chapbook-catalog/fanfiction-is-for-teenage-girls
(Alert, though: if you're a particular person who's sent me music, you miiiight just get this in the mail instead.)
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