Status Update - 2026

First off all the easy stuff: Word count

Grenademan vs the Lich: 18K

Armor of Stone: 36K

The King is Dead: 9.8K

I have also started two new projects: An adaptation of Poetry of Elmer Gantry called "The Women of Gantry" and dusted off and restarted "I Asherah" which is likely to exceed "I, Odysseus" in length covering prehistory; old testament, new testament, the middle ages and "revelations" and the aftermath.   She is a powerful figure and clearly has a lot to say.

The bigger update is once I have a full day "day job" I will contact the artist I've already paid a down payment on "The Queen in Blue" for the kickstarter and will publish there.

Great things are coming.

Amazon Ask a Book

 Amazon is feeding my IP in violation of the TOS I signed when I agreed to publish into an AI that lets people ask LLM about my property in a way I cannot vet; as a result of this decision, all Red Anvil Publshing proprties have since been removed from the Amazon website.  While I had a plan to stop selling anything NEW there; my existing books have also been removed because I will not sell with a company that profits from the theft of my work or the work of anyone else.

Watch this space for new places my works can be sold.

[Poem] Ya Say Ya Are a Rebel

 by Emmit Other

Ya say you are a rebel

yeah yeah yeah

you say ya gonna change the world

ya say you gonna rumble with the man

when the shit goes down

according to their shadow plan

yeah yeah yeah

well honey let me tell you

a thing or two

about what i see

and who it is

you choose to be

You know Zuckerberg is evil

yeah yeah yeah

But you still got ya insta

You still using your whatsap

You even have your facebook

To keep in touch

While Mark still lets you

To coordinate the resistance

They wont see

Cause the algo  hides it 

Lock and key

You aint organizing crap

On the zuckfuck app

yeah yeah yeah

You say you are a patriot

dont you see

they're still using Oracle

In your company

Ellison gets rich

And theil mkes his panopticon

And musk takes Doge 

And makes the government gone

But you're still on X

lalalalal

yeah yeah yeah

These men are gonna fall

That is true

Cause they are all

Sniffing glue

but honey while you buy your book 

On amazon

I can safely say 

the chance is gone

that its gonna come from you.

100 Reeds

A collaborative poem by Swirling Leaf, Take a Breath, Swagtastic and Emmit Other about martial arts, pirates, samurai and Japanese Gods.

The Queen in Blue - The Lost Story

[Poem] Project 14

 by Emmit Other

We All Want to Change the World

Sometimes

Unemployed

Discontinued Disowned Disavowed

Too Old  

Not What You Once Were

So the Poet Donned Black Cloth Robes

And a Facemask

and 14 Arrows Did he Quiver

To Change the World

Ideas for their Own Sake

Long Odds Every One

To see

Maybe

if the World Could

In Fact

Be Changed

[Poem] Ohenton Karihwatehkwen

 by Emmit Other

Words Above All Else

Is what the Mohawk say

For Thanksgiving

And I thought

It was invented by Lincoln

It was not

Witness:

The Mohowk still celebrate this event

A profound gratitude for Mother Earth

And what is provided

Gratitude is where humility and kindness meet

Under the eternal sun

Witness

Ronald Raygun introduced the Turkey Pardon

As a gag with later full pardons

And cute names

Conservatives project

Did you know that a Presidential Pardon implies an admission of guilt?

What is the turkey guilty for?

It isn't.  

But I am sure it is grateful for its life.

Witness:

Of 574 Recognized Tribes in the US today

We have broken our word to every single one of them

Massachusets celebrates indigeneous people's day

But still doesnt recognize besides a footnote

That the Wampanoag and Mohawk

Had traditions years and years before the Puritans

(Never call them fucking Pilgrims)

Aeons before the colonizers

Witness:

The Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda

Asks for five things

-Remove racist fucking mascots

-Remove Racist Italian American Day with Indigenous American Day

-Ensure the best funded schools in the country teach about Native traditions and history

-Protect Native American Heritage with sketchy Hobby Lobby Style grey market bullshit

-Set up a schoolarship for Native American Youth

Domenic Amara and state Rep. Jeffrey Rosario Turco

Love Racist Italian American Day so much

And want to stop this bill

But the other shit 

Is as transparent as Glass

And Beacon Hill

Is a Cess Pit

Gene Weeden-Williams and Billerica, Springfield (High School of Commerce), and Middleborough 

Want to keep their racists mascots

Witness:

G.O.Pee Governal Candidates Mike Kennealy and Brian Shortsleeve

Oppose changing the racist state seal

Witness:

Every year Plymoth celebrates thanksgiving

Straight out of adams Family Values 2

And Standish Investment Group.

Violated tribal sovereigny AGAIN

Bulldozing in trbal land

Every Massachusets state government institution

Celebrates Not Racist Italian Americans Day

But Dukakis made a decision

Arbitrarlily and Randomly

Decades ago

And since then

People like Standish have been weaponizing tribes

That didnt make the cut

Governor Cardboard Healey

Added the bulldozed tribe

As an after thought

-Chappaquiddick Band of Massachusetts

-Chappaquiddick Tribe of the Wampanoag Indian Nation

-Chaubunagungamaug Band of the Nipmuck Nation

-Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People

-Assawompsett-Nemasket Wampanoag

-Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe

-Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe

-Nipmuc Nation (still fighting for federal recognition despite state recognition)

-Natick Nipmuc of Natick

-Nipmuc of Webster and Dudley

-Massachusett Tribe (Ponkapoag band)

Those who can dither and worry about less of the pie for themselves

What are we thankful for?

Why do we celebrate the pardon of the Turkey?

Beacuse the Turkey is our policy on Native Americans

It is a half assed joke thinkly veiled celebration of colonialism

Now pass the massed potatoes

Substack 100

 I have been silenced or censored by

-Instagram

-Twitter

-Bluesky

-Mastadon

-Facebook

-Youtube

But you know who hasnt?

Substack.  It does allow disgusting content there....but it also allows mine.