Musings for a Summer's Night
It's almost Litha, or Summer Solstice, here and I'm getting used
LJ Spencer
Writer, pastor, poest, fiber artist, queer, kinky, and all that.
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Work in Progress Sneak Peek: Night Church, Chapter 1
This is the first chapter of the second novel in the Night Church series. It is set in San Francisco in 1981, where Johnathan has become a volunteer at a LGBTQ church's homeless shelter. The new assistant pastor tests his notions of what it means to be a vampire with a vocation and his heart.
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Work in Progress Sneak Peek: The White Queen, Chapter 1
This is the first chapter in the Loba Hot Springs series, which is a spicy paranormal shifter romance. I started writing this because I wanted a trans-sapphic shifter romance, with strong queer characters, and NOT based on Alpha-Omega lore. Enjoy!
The American Cult is Killing Us and Most People Pretend it Doesn't Exist.
The American Cult is Killing Us and Most People Pretend it Doesn't Exist.
The American Dream was never for people like me. It’s a lie that’s kept us in line. Compassion without justice is complicity. Forgiveness without change is surrender. I’m done being polite—it's time to speak the truth: the American Dream is a weapon.
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WIP Sneak Peek: The Uranian Gambit, Chapter 1
This is the first chapter of my new paranormal urban fantasy book "The Uranian Gambit" This is the first book of the Night Church series and still very much an early draft. Hope you enjoy this sneak peek!
World AIDS Day, 1993
World AIDS Day, 1993
All I wanted to do was help
so I made quilt pins
with the help
New Site, who dis?
Sitting in my office in our new (to me) house in Ireland, I looked out
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday
you rose on the third day
but the men didn't believe the women
Holy Saturday
Three Hours Agony
Looking up at me
the women cried
men stared
soldiers stood
watching
If Your View on Immigration Fits in a Tweet, It’s Probably Wrong
If Your View on Immigration Fits in a Tweet, It’s Probably Wrong
It's amazing to me how many people bitch about immigration here in Ireland,
Good Friday
Good Friday
I tell my story
in the hopes that
someone will change
their heart
and maybe
Lent Poetry 43 and Maundy Thursday
Lent Poetry 43 and Maundy Thursday
43
She came through like Water
elemental
like Earth, dark with loam
She is the