Allyson Shaw

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TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE

--on silencing and generative AI-- An English teacher in one of my high schools would say ‘if you can’t spell a word, it’s not yours to use.’ She made us stand at the board and write out words like bourgeoisie. The atmosphere in that room was very Lord

Inside the Hollow Hill

Ossuaries I have known--a series Part I of The Tomb of the Eagles The tomb's presence in the landscape is a dark passage into the earth. Framed by undulatiing stone masonry upholstered with grass, it is a living body. Seabirds nest on the cliffs below where the North

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Migration is Life: A Round-up for April 🐦‍⬛

In this missive: * News: Renowned true crime writer Carol Ann Lee has a witchy round-up on Bookshop.org and Ashes & Stones is in the mix. * Musing On: Migration is Life: why I switched my blog hosting platform from Substack to Ghost * Reading: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld * Listening

A Strange Splendour 🌆

Revisiting Los Angeles via a 23 year old web zine: What was I writing about 23 years ago? I was waxing lyrical about the high camp of a vanishing downtown Los Angeles. I published these essays in an online zine M and I edited called Die Cast Garden. I coded