Hester J. Rook
@hesterjrook
poetry, short fiction & off twitter: find my work on my website
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http://www.hesterjrook.com 02-07-2021 13:05:50
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'Dusk was the best time for collecting bones.' Highly recommend 'The Bone Prophet' by Hester J. Rook, out now in @thefuturefire, about catastrophe and survival and (re)construction. futurefire.net/2021.58/fictio…
#pc688 AEAEA ON THE SEAS by Hester J. Rook, narrated by @DanielleImara. First published in "Making Monsters: A Speculative and Classical Anthology" (pub. @thefuturefire, 2018) Rated PG-13 podcastle.org/2021/07/20/pod…
What a great story. It is beautiful written. So many images of natural beauty throughout. Circe’s beautiful lush garden. Her long life of longing for another like her and yet unlike her. I love it. Thanks Hester J. Rook podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod…
Excited to be shortlisted for the OutWrite DC LGBTQ Literary Festival 2021 chapbook contest in both the fiction AND poetry categories, and thrilled for the winners Mari Ness, still masked @soyernotsawyer and @jasonbcrawford!
Something entirely inappropriate for your Monday morning: a recording of BETWIXT BRIGHT STARS AND ENDLESS VOID: A VOIDJUNK REVIEW (Neon Hemlock Press x @jakebeearts x OutWrite DC LGBTQ Literary Festival Festival) can be watched here: facebook.com/watch/live/?v=… ft. my poem (and voice) "oh honey"
Praise for WHO IS OWED SPRINGTIME by rasha abdulhadi: "...lush and fragrant..." — Hester J. Rook "This collection explores the sincerity and complexity of passions mistimed and out-of-season." —Layla Azmi Goushey, PhD. neonhemlock.com/books/who-is-o…
The January issue of Fireside Fiction I guest-edited is out! Hester J. Rook's 'Sheer in the Sun, They Pass' is up for free to read now (and the whole issue is available for purchase, too!). It's equal parts scary and sensual. I couldn't ask for more in a BDSM ghost story, really.
“The Bone Prophet” by Hester J. Rook in @thefuturefire loosens your anchor in time by drawing from mythology, past and apocalyptic future in this lyrical flash tale of desperation and perseverance. futurefire.net/2021.58/fictio…
🏳️🌈Day 28: Today's offering is sapphic ghosts by Hester J. Rook in Fireside Fiction. "Sheer in the Sun, They Pass." firesidefiction.com/sheer-in-the-s…
Reviewing proofs of V OI D J U N K Issue 3 (this one edited by Marianne Kirby) with the contributors! This horny little zine continues to unnerve and thrill. If you'd like to pre-order a horrifying little creature, you can do so here: neonhemlock.com/books/voidjunk…
Unhallowed: a thread of 31 spooky poems 2. "This Soundless Murk", by Hester J. Rook in @thefuturefire futurefire.net/2020.54/fictio…
'Sheer in the Sun, They Pass' by Hester J. Rook (Fireside Fiction) is such a horny piece of haunted fiction about ghosts it's by far one of my favorite stories I've ever worked on. firesidefiction.com/sheer-in-the-s… 23/24