Recent Reading: The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington
In this surrealist novel, full of images from alchemy and astrology and occult lore, two people try to find each other.
Author: Carl Bettis
Carl Bettis is a writer and software engineer. His work has been published in many places, including The Slapdash Hackery Factory, Thorny Locust, Crooked Roads, The Same, and tiny frights. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/caracabe.bsky.social. Mastodon: https://zirk.us/@caracabe. Pronouns: he/him.
Recent reading: William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love, by Philip Hoare
A partial biography of an ongoing life, following Blake’s continuing influence.
My writing process, sometimes
I haven’t been writing a lot of poetry lately, but last night I went to bed determined to write a poem before going to sleep.
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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 21: IWL (In Waking Life)
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 21: “IWL (In Waking Life)” by Carl Bettis
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 11: Waste Not
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 11: “Waste Not” by Carl Bettis
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 5: untitled
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 5: untitled by Carl Bettis
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 3: Career moves
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 3: “Career moves” by Carl Bettis
Humid Light site launches
Welcome to the website for Bedrieger Junction’s Slant of Light writing group! This is where we’ll be posting our writings and art to share with the few souls who stumble across the site. “There is, first, the Literature of Knowledge; and, secondly, the Literature of Power. The function of the first is—to teach; the function…