Animation cel. 1970s Hanna Barbera cartoon a young, pretty hispanic woman in a beat-up car. A police officer raps on the car’s window and she looks up, petrified. Flat. Vector. Dark skin. High contrast.

Sandbox to Survival: Siblings Caught Between Crime and Redemption

Heli and Eddie Morales navigate the…

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Ann James in Blue Pencils

Oct 9

I Sat in the (Snow) (Cellar) (Sandbox) Rethinking My Plans for (Dinner) (World Domination)

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Scarlet Ibis James 🦩 in Blue Pencils

Sep 30

Fiction | Slice of Long Form | Part III of III

Harlem Bodega Blues: End of Day Rhythms

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Scarlet Ibis James 🦩 in Blue Pencils

Sep 29

This twenty-something year old Black woman, store attendant, is looking from behind the counter and plexiglass screen, into the bodega at an old weathered Black man handing her a lottery ticket.

Fiction | Slice of Long Form | Voices In My Head | Part II of III

Harlem Bodega Blues: Procession

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Scarlet Ibis James 🦩 in Blue Pencils

Sep 27

beautiful twenty-something year old Black woman. Harlem Bodega. Bright big eyes, staring into the camera. Tight on her face. Shelves of the grocery is the background.

Fiction | Slice of Long Form | Voices In My Head | Part I of III

Harlem Bodega Blues: Enter Candice

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Alize Henry in Blue Pencils

Sep 21

Whispers of Melancholy

A Poem of Loneliness

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🌬️Mitch in Blue Pencils

Sep 20

Pretty woman drawing in her scrapbook. She’s in an apocalyptic setting. Behind her, everything is in a state of ruin and collapse. A building is on fire close by. Rubble is everywhere. The husks of abandoned cars rust in the distance.

POST APOCALYPTIC FICTION

Adelyn’s Diary

Beauty in the middle of collapse.

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Scarlet Ibis James 🦩 in Blue Pencils

Aug 14

a Black woman , joyfilled distorted by wavy maze broadcast interference. happy with promise

Beyond the Cut: The Painful Reality of Her Big Chop Experience

Specificity was missing from her…

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🌬️Mitch in Blue Pencils

Aug 11

Short Story | Scifi | Artificial Intelligence

The Last Gardener

On a lost planet, a…

32 responses

🌬️Mitch in Blue Pencils

Aug 6

Picture of an attractive woman writing on an ancient papyrus using a blue pencil.

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Introducing (the) Blue Pencils

An experiment in group editing.

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Blue Pencils

Blue Pencils is a Publication designed to give everyone the opportunity to be an editor. We collectively work on articles as a group and make suggestions to the author. The author chooses from our multiple suggestions to complete their article and they publish the final edit.

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