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Waks Saavedra (he/they |@makapatag) is a writer and game designer with a background in Philosophy and Southeast Asian histories

the ENNIE award-winning

collective undertakings

internet-savvy old lady who sells roadkill skeletons online—after doing a little ritual to put their spirits to rest

long after greed has had its day

Up:Rising: A Collection of Rebellious Imaginings from Authors with Lived Experience of Mental Health & Addictions goblins Waks Saavedra (he/they |@makapatag) isUp: Rising is an unapologetic chorus of Mad voices that refuse to conform or cower in the shadows. Featuring both new and established writers, this diverse collection of rebellious short stories and poems shatters stereotypes of mental health and addiction in a miasma of razor shards as glitteringly beautiful as they are piercing. In these pages, the self is dissolved and re made; reality is pulled from its moorings and turned inside out; and the