Trey

@thatdbetrey.bsky.social

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My goals @ 16: be a Hugo & a Nobel prize winner, an astronaut, & governor of Virginia. @ 65 Settled for writing books on Substack, a PhD in biology, a telescope & a board member. Words @ https://thatdbetrey.substack.com Wait, a Hugo isn't ruled out yet :D

From WIP Fog. Yust meets a rogue. He debates between the conflict of rules of hospitality and the rules about rogues. Honey decides the debate for him.
Serene returns to her apartment in the tunnels after working in the ice dome greenhouses.
Yust refutes the lie Dun is telling about how Barti was found
Opening scened of "Water". Selene here from about the Martian colony vote results from her boyfriend, she's not particularly interested. This WIP has 30k or so words, I started 14 yrs ago and left while I finished to other WIP ("Fog" and "Baptism for the Dead"). I'll return to this some day :)
Scene from WIP "Fog" . Yust and Bran are hiking over to the ocean to forage, they climb a high peak to get a view of their homeland and villages.
From WIP Yust and Pau forage from mushroom. Pau is much better at it
From WIP Fog: Yust's thoughts about the 'plight' his type were put in
Billy and Calvin meet again after a long time apart.
Book cover of Averted Vision by BW Moran. a large eye or lens shaped with a city scape on the bottom and title Averted Vision.
Scene of Yust, after having an argument with his mother, finding Bran near the shore contemplating a decision he just made.
Billy and Calvin watch a movie with Billy's sister Renee. They dislike it tremendously.
Scene from WIP Baptism for the Dead. Calvin and Billy jump a train, go to Denver people other gay people, listen to 'their' song and spend the night at a newfound friends home.
a photo of a Nene in a grassy area taken in Waikaloa Hawaii
Scene from WIP "Baptism for the Dead" where Billy visits Calvin's home for the first time and meets his dogs.
From WIP Baptism for the Dead. Billy and Calvin at a skating rink, their first time together doing so. It feels like a date to Calvin, though it isn't
Scene in WIP "Fog". Ry, Yust and Barti are on a multi-day trek to Bearhome when Ry hears something suspicious.
Calvin's first skating "date" with Billy
From WIP "Fog" Yust, Ry & Barti attend Celfest, Barti for the first time.
(1/2) from WIP Baptism for the Dead. Letters between Calvin and Billy the summer Billy spent away in Wisconsin.
Two Nene geese wading in river at the Wailoa River Recreation area in Hilo Hawaii
Scene from Baptism for the Dead. Billy gives Calvin birthday gifts, a coupon book and an Queen album.
Scene from WIP "Fog" when Yust returns to his nascent family after a month away training to be a Memory.
Scene in WIP "Fog" where Yust and Bran take a trek to the sea to gather seaweed. It inspires Yust to make a fateful decision.
Scene from "Baptism for the Dead" when Calvin goes rollerskating with Billy and his sister, soon after Calvin and Billy meet for the first time.
Scene from WIP "Fog" where Yust meets the rogue for the first time.
Scene from WIP "Fog" the Ravenhome scouting party including Yust and Bran arrives in Heronhaven.
Our dog Hans, half dachshund, half whippet, resting on his living room bed
Scene from "Fog". Village meeting is deciding on who to send on a fact-finding mission about the rogue.
Scene from WIP "Baptism for the Dead" Calvin & Billy exchange gifts. Calvin tears up easily, so finding "cry" was not hard. Chose this scene because it is sweet, but also the gift to Billy foreshadows future events.
Scene in WIP "Fog" where cousins and friends Bran and Yust are announced at the eastfest. Bran's "itenti" and marriage, and Yust's "itenti" and decision to become a Memory.
Sign at Hands Off protest in Hilo Hawaii. 'A'ole 'o Trump he how aloha no Hawaii. translated from Hawaiian is Trump is no friend of Hawaii
Star Wars rebel alliance flag at Hilo Hawaii Hands Off protest
Four bookmarks. three space-themed with quotes from science fiction writers, 1 hawaii themed.
From scene in #WIP "Fog" when Lan's brother Pau tells Yust, Bran and Lan he wishes to become a Care
Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring movie poster.
Scene in WIP "Fog" where Yust meets the rogue while on a gathering outing with his friend Bran.
Scene from Baptism for the dead where billy and Calvin have lunch together on the first day back to school
Scene in WIP Fog where Yust tells his friend & cousin of his decision to become a Memory.
A scene from "Baptism for the Dead" where Billy and Calvin go with Billy's sister to see a tragic romance movie they weren't excited about and regretted seeing.
Scene during East from "Fog" where Yust is confirmed as a new "Memory" and other announcements are made.
Scene, 1976, from "Baptism for the Dead" where Calvin is sleeping over for the first time at Billy's apartment.
Scene in Baptism for the Dead where Billy and Calvin go to their first dinner and movie together.
Health compared to national average in Hawaii. All counties substantially higher than national average
Scene from Baptism for the Dead. Billy and Calvin are playing a game of Risk. Billy saw an analogy of their life with the game.
Scene from "Fog" where Yust is spending time with Ry for the first time and they are watching a game similar to lacrosse that Yust's friend and cousin is playing
Scene from "Baptism for the Dead" where Billy and Calvin are goofing off on the top of a cliff at a reservoir they were camping at.
Scene from "Baptism for the Dead" Where Billy coaxes Calvin to flatten coins on the train tracks.
Scene in "Baptism for the Dead" when Billy coaxes Calvin to jump a train for the first time and they go off to Denver.
Scene from Fog. Yust and Bran are about to head off to another village in Bran's new kaey.
From "Fog" A scene where Yust and Ry are walking with their four year old ward Barti.
Scene from Fog were village is deciding what to do with a rogue who showed up in the village.
Scene from "Baptism for the Dead" after Calvin and Billy meet for the first time and Calvin walks home.
Scene from "Baptism for the Dead" where Billy asks Calvin to go roller skating after they had just met.
Scene from #🪐📚 "FOG" where Yust has been captured by a clan of hairy people who are interrogating him.
Man (my husband) holding up a sign at an anti-Musk protest in front of a Tesla dealer with a sign that quotes Musk's son X and says "You need to go away". Out of the mouth of babes.