Mark McElroy

@markmcelroy.bsky.social

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Note maker (Capacities, Obsidian). Author of a dozen trad and #indie books, including Parallel Lines (a gay sci-fi romcom). Lots more at markmcelroy.com.

A table laid with rainbow cake and pride donuts set up in a church sanctuary in Mississippi.
A quote from John Scalzi's OLD MAN'S WAR: "If you could go back, why would you make the same choices? You already lived that life."
Sunny view of the pleasant little -- and I do mean little! -- town of Kitaa, Greenland. Rocky hills, wandering unpaved pathways, blue streams, tiny grocery and general goods stores, all beneath a sterling blue sky. In the photo, tourists wander the hills like ants on mounds.
A happy dog, with a blue plastic football, in a winter yard.
Mark, his hair plastered to his skull by sea water, smiling. He looks remarkably slender in a wet suit, but that's the miracle of tight black fabric. Also: is he wearing any pants? We can't see, but his big grin suggests he may be up to *something*.
A living coral reef.
A humpback whale leaps out of the water, spinning in the air.
Mark and Clyde, at the railing of a ship, with the blue waters of the Pacific behind them.
Two Black homeowners rush out of a house in horror. The magazine caption reads, "Carbon monoxide is invisible and dangerous -- as is Satan."
Using special photographic effects, Mark plays chess with himself.
Clyde, drinking a "Blue Hawaiian" cocktail in a balloon glass, garnished with pineapple.
Clyde enjoys a rice cracker snack.
Clyde, sitting in the mostly empty Crow's Nest on a Holland America ship, just before sunrise. You can see our coffee mugs, my Kindle book, and his iPad.
The cover of the book Absolution, depicting a stylized large alligator.
The cover of the book called We Used to Live Here. It features a cold, white sky, the limbs of dead trees, and an image of a green and white house that has been sliced into six wide ribbons and offset slightly, indicating something is very wrong
The colored lights of the San Diego Shoreline.
The cover of “Call Me by Your Name,” featuring Armie Hammer as Oliver and Timothee Chalamet as Elio
Mark, mugging for the camera and having a beer at Werewolf Pub.
Aerial view of San Diego, with clouds in a blue sky above the sprawl of the beautiful city, framed in an airplane window.
Aerial view of Salt Lake City, with blighted mountains in the background and dry, brown expanses in the foreground.