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James Mendez Hodes is a Filipino-American writer, game designer, cultural consultant, and martial artist from the greater New York metropolitan area. He earned a bachelor's degree in Religion, with minors in Dance and English Literature, from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania; and a master's degree in Eastern Classics from St. John's Graduate Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You might know him from his ENnie Award-winning work on role-playing games like 7th Sea and Scion, his blog where he makes fun of the children for whom he runs role-playing games, or his translation of Homer's Iliad into rap. His primary party role is tank, secondary support.

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Current Issue
29 Apr 2024

The Lightning Road cuts far across the Cosmos, a streak of dazzling gold amidst the star-studded void.
daily you suppress it and ride the shame / like a surfer rides a monster wave,
somersaulting in continuous turns
two wolves lope / behind the Atlantic
The thing is; I don’t set out to write neurodivergent characters. I write people – fictional people who are drawn from the people around me, the way I experience the world, and my understanding of these experiences. Too bad if other people refuse to afford my experiences as being real or relatable.
Wednesday: Sordidez by E. G. Condé 
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