DeMisty D. Bellinger

@demisty

Mom of twins, wife of dude, writer of stuff, prof. of uni, PhD. Lives at demistybellinger.com. All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere out now (U-Nebraska Press: Zero Street Fiction: JVNLA () represents me.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· 5d

Me in my Happy House. I'm writing a 4th novel. What's that that you say? Fourth novel? You think I only have one? No, no, only one was published. Two will stay on my hard drive. Shopping one around now. Btw, hubby designed & built my lil house. Should I be concerned with the yellow wallpaper?

Picture of DeMisty in her yellow wallpapered writing space.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· 5d

Garden fresh peppers and cucumbers with capers, figs, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds. The dressing is a missile dressing from The New York Times. Alas, no lettuce.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· 28d

Joan Sebastian Guerrero (via NYT via his FB page) and ICE's horror (via NPR, photo credit Robert F. Bukaty, AP). A beautiful young man with a nearly perfect smile. I keep thinking about these two images, side by side, two different articles. I'm so worried that there'll be no recourse, no justice.

A picture of a very handsome Joan Sebastian Guerrero
via Facebook through New York Times article.

An image of the shooting of Mr. Joan Sebastian Guerrero. There is a large pool of blood on the curb and beside it, someone has written "This is blood" in chalk, all caps.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Jul 13

I wish you could smell this fresh peach cobbler!

A picture of a peach cobbler in a cast iron pan.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Jul 12

Caturday with my murder fluff!

A black cat lounging in front of a white pillow covered with blue starfish.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Jul 5

The couch is growing a tail.

Cat tail sneaking between parts of a couch.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Jul 5

My murder fluff!

Picture of an innocent-looking cat. He's not. He's a murderer of smaller beasts.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Jul 5

Ducks! Duck eggs! These are a friendly poet's pets. He and his wife get to hold the ducks. Lucky couple. Lucky ducks! The ducks like fresh sorrel and praise.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Jul 2

My little murder fluff.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Jun 29

Murder fluff killed again. This time, he tried to consume the whole mouth, then got sick on the ride. No, my house is not messy. It's just 170 years old.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Jun 19

You can find this poem in my collection Peculiar Heritage, available from @masonjarpress.bsky.social, or ordered from your favorite indy bookstore.

June 19, 1865
DeMisty D. Bellinger

emancipation has too many syllables and I don’t have the words for
syllables yet / I haven’t the experience to understand what it could
possibly mean and would be for me / major general has too many
titles and none of them are master / he says free and some of us laugh
/ I step gingerly forward and nothing / for two years major general
granger says, we been free / and I take another step forward and I hear
/ nothing / I walk on and I don’t even hear / a dog / I’m still walking

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Jun 1

Pope Leo on AI:

We must avoid the misconception of equating this type of “intelligence” with that of human beings. These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence. In doing so, they often surpass human intelligence in speed and computational capacity, offering tangible benefits across many fields. Yet this power remains entirely tied to data processing. So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· May 28

Ha! I know what you mean! And yes, I look at my friends' author photos and for a split second, I feel a little jealous. Here's one of my best friends, who is even more gorgeous in real life:

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· May 26

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. My husband, who first got into a real conversation with me because of my Billie Holiday shirt, introduce me to Sonny Rollins' music. Of course I had to marry the man with good music taste! May Mr. Rollins rest in peace.

Album cover of Sonny Rollins' album The Bridge. Rollins is standing with his sax.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· May 6

Getting those summer feels.

Old 7up ad with the tagline "Boys like girls who make Seven-Up 'Floats'." A beautiful and young Black woman pours seven up into a glass of pink ice cream while three handsome Black men smile as they look on, kind of looming behind her. The ad is probably from the early 1960s.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· May 5

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Mar 22

Had a great time typing poems on demand with friends at Bow Market Book Fair in Somarville! As usually when I do these poetry on the fly things, we have a line. A long line. The weather was warm-ish, but got progressively colder.

Loading paper into my 1937 Underwood typewriter.

A picture of the book fair with a line leading out to the street for poetry!

A sample of a poem typed on my old Underwood. It's about tide pools. I think I spelled miracle wrong. I did. I spelled it "mirical." I don't have many miracles.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Feb 23

A story in two pictures:

Black cat, named Al, stepping onto a snowy porch.

Cat paw prints in the snow. The picture shows the cat didn't get very far before he turned around.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Feb 23

This dress, though! Gorgeousness! Image from @nytimes.com "2026 Bafta Film Awards: Looks from the Red Carpet."

Actress Wunmi Mosaku in a vibrant blue dress. She is accompanied by her date.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Feb 13

Thank you, Ilze! I still can't get over the conglomeration of cultures and past atrocities in Julie Iromuanya's A Season of Light.

Cover of A Season of Light, a novel by Julie Iromuanya.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Jan 21

First day of Spring 2026! The USA is an embarrassment and the fascists are at large in MN, IL, and D.C., &etc. but there's learning about writing to be done! We must create! Art now more than ever!

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Dec 12

It's a viola. It's jazz. It's jazz viola! blog.fitchburgstate.edu/fitchbyrds-m...

Me, DeMisty, playing the viola with other musicians. I have greying black hair. I'm getting old. I still have chubby cheeks like a kid, though.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Dec 12

After a hard day of begging and eating and trying to get outside, Alyosius takes a nap.

Black cat, a little chunky, asleep on a sofa.

DeMisty D. Bellinger@demisty· Dec 6

My little artists/writers at the Massachusetts Indy Comics Expo, or MICE, selling their wares at the Youth Artist Table! I love them both so much. And they're not that little. They are teenagers who are taller than me, but really, they will always be little to me!