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New Release: Don’t Let Me Drown – Andy Siege

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Andy Siege has a new queer magical realism romance out (bi male, intersex female): Don’t Let Me Drown. Traumatised by his experiences as a war photographer, Aaron is drowning in guilt and tranquilisers. On a new assignment to document the civil conflict in the African country of Miberia, he is paralysed by the belief that terrible things only happen so that he can capture them on camera. When he meets Mary, a young woman in danger because she is intersex, he’s convinced that if he can just save her, it will redeem him for all the other deaths he’s witnessed. So … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Future Addictions

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: How will people get high in the future? Authors, share your stories about future addiction – the drugs, the methods, the effects, and the ramifications. Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

Drug Mix-Up Creates “Werewolf” Babies in Spain

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Parents in Spain started panicking this summer when 17 children and babies mysteriously came down with hypertrichosis, or “werewolf syndrome,” a condition in which their bodies and faces became covered in a dense layer of hair, according to news reports. “My boy’s forehead, cheeks, arms, legs and hands filled with hair. He had an adult’s eyebrow,” Ángela Selles, the mother of 6-month-old baby Uriel, told the Spanish newspaper El Pais. “It was very scary because we didn’t know what was happening,” Selles said. At first, parents and doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Was it genetic? A metabolic disorder? On … Read more

FOR AUTHORS: Drugs in Fantasy / Sci Fi

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Ben Brock: How about drugs in a fantasy or scifi setting? Should they be different than drugs we are familiar with, or the same – with weird names to make them sound different? Or…? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

Is Testosterone the Wonder Drug of the Future?

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A growing number of “age management” clinics across the country are beginning to seriously market testosterone therapy treatments as a means of combatting the natural side effects of growing older. More often than naught, we associate the transformative aspects of supplemental testosterone injections with transmen in the process of transitioning. But as Dr. Paul Campion explains in a lengthy profile in Fusion, the community of proponents for testosterone as a rejuvenating agent is growing larger. “Testosterone is ridiculously powerful,” Campion says. “I can tell you from experience, the feeling of well-being, of focus, and of masculine energy are massively increased. … Read more