From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World. Get it here: bit.ly/saeedalive #poem #books #writing

Screaming at the state of the world? Good, actually. Screaming at me, the woman who gave birth to you? A tired mother? Bem, a carta é fofa.

"Just take a few days for yourself." Yeah, sure! Find me someone willing to meet my toddler's stringent shit-related demands: endure mid-strain eye contact, stage a photoshoot for the recent evacuation, & yell, "BYE, POOP! YOU'RE GOING TO YOUR POOP FAMILY!" as you flush. Should be easy! For the ART!

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

My @welkinprize.bsky.social story is up today!! I hope you take a bite ☺️ Huge thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for this wonderful experience!!!

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova was so delightfully bizarre and devastating.

modern shirley jackson includes an email reminder

NEW POEM ALERT! got a couple new ones in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social. Here's the lamp-iest one :)

It’s the best time of the year! Welcome to autumn, fsckheads! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

"Vacation arguments are real arguments with wings; they reveal a bird’s-eye-view of yourself, a perspective you’d never seen before and swore didn’t exist." A perfect & eerie end-of-summer story!!!

Through "managed decay" and a master plan, this piece shows how Highgate Cemetery maintains its mystique, embodying the fragile interplay between history, nature, and our need to memorialize. By @ohhiralphjones.bsky.social in @longreads.com

Writing the first draft of a novel is brutal. But nothing compares to your sweet six-year-old daughter looking you in the eyes and saying, "When I'm a grown-up, I don't want to write. I want to be FREE."

"Listen here, my good bitch. Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI."

Excited to have a short story in The Sandy River Review!

"How can suffering and compassion coexist in the same environment?" Rümeysa Öztürk's essay about life inside an ICE women's prison is devastating; her empathy is astounding. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r....

Israel hasn't stopped gunning down the Palestinians they're starving, as those Palestinians try to feed themselves There is nothing wrong with continuing to say it: these are war crimes, this is genocide, this is murder. It must be stopped, and those perpetrating the crimes must be held accountable

new saddest six word story just dropped

Read, reread "The Other Things We Swallow" by Natalia Martinez in @ninthletter.bsky.social ninthletter.com/2025/02/28/n...

nothing like defending the free market of ideas by saying your newspaper will publish the same idea, every day

among the many wild things about this, gonna safely assume RFK doesn’t know how high suicide and depression rates are for actual farmers (bc of industrial agriculture companies making their livelihoods impossible)

Everything about this story is fascinating, but nothing beats the detail about a kid asking @lpandell.bsky.social if she has pepperoni.

It turns out that logging into Submittable to check your submissions every 15 minutes doesn't move anything from "received" to "in-progress." Who knew?!

Loved reading this bizarre short by Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind in Copper Nickel. A fun read for anyone who enjoyed "Like Mother Used to Make" by Shirley Jackson. copper-nickel.org/the-new-face/

I read "Evangelina Concepcion" by Ani Sison Cooney recently, and it brought me to tears. The story is set in LA and is so sad and beautiful and relevant; it begs us to consider whose stories we tell during a tragedy and whose we ignore. www.likewisefiction.com/episodes/eva...

Kicking off the year with some reading, and this fantastically weird and creepy short story by Karris Rae in @xraylitmag.bsky.social is just what I needed. xraylitmag.com/dear-phone-m...

If you're in the mood for a little mischief this Christmas Eve, I wrote a story about rich moms & elf on the shelf. Happy holidays!

I've been focusing on fiction this year. Here's a little short story I wrote for fun. Hope it brings some laughs this holiday season! www.madisonmedeiros.com/blog/2024/12...

You guys @erinlyndalmartin.bsky.social is a genius, and this is so brilliant and also a great damn poem? Working on so many levels over at @electriclit.bsky.social

I read "You Are What You Eat" by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social earlier this year and keep coming back. Enjoy this great micro in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. fracturedlit.com/you-are-what...

Today's short story, "Elsinore," comes from @nualaoconnor.bsky.social in the @stingingfly.bsky.social. A mischievous parrot reopens a world of possibilities. stingingfly.org/2024/11/08/e...

It's not Natal in Portugal without bacalhau.

"What if a perpetual life with ghosts can radically alter the life of the living?" Mandatory ghost-related reading by @murmurshewrote.bsky.social lithub.com/seeing-life-...

"Perhaps a grief counselor could explain the physics behind the recent change in the weight of air in our apartment." @andreabishop.bsky.social makes grief palpable in this gorgeous short. mastersreview.com/new-voices-q...

Enjoy this nightmare (monster story) nestled inside a nightmare (story of an interview gone wrong). My latest short story, published by Puerto del Sol: www.puertodelsol.org/single-post/...

An incredible micro to start the week. Such a clever & impactful format. "Après L'Ondée by Brooke Middlebrook in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...

One of the hardest things about being a parent is how in the US guns are more available than street signs, churches, kindness. And I didn’t realize quite how much tension I was holding sending my kids into a world like this—& the close encounters to gun violence I still carry—until I read this poem.

I wrote about Joe Rogan, the faux intimacy of the audio medium, and the power that’s had in politics since the advent of radio for @fastcompany.com. We worship celebrity but we (think we) know and trust podcasters/radio hosts. Trump leveraged that trust… www.fastcompany.com/91230146/dem...

First post here. Breaking in the feed with this gorgeous micro by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social that I can't stop reading. fracturedlit.com/yellow-straw...