Like a serpent's tongue. Poet Shawn Scott Smith and artist Thomas Riesner kick off Wednesday. #poetry #artwork @oddballmagazine.bsky.social

I've had a new poem just dropped at Oddball Magazine, @oddballmax.bsky.social We Call Them Villians. oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-shaw...

As you fall asleep tonight , perhaps a branch will rattle at your window much like in @poetjohncompton an exclusive 60 minute exit interview. #muckymondays www.luckycreature.com/blog/?p=6076

I know the politics for the reason this app exists but it's pretty unusable. I'll be on the bad corporate apps ..sorry

Let's see who is paying attention. #submit #muckymondays www.luckycreature.com/blog/?p=6060

The world feels awfully daunting sometimes & too large for us to ever all be here in life together but really the majority of us are pretty close in wanting better things for everyone. I just want to create. Create and collaborate with so many of you. Make what makes u whole.

So I started the year going it was time for a change and to get back to creating stuff. Writing called me the most. Here's where I was lucky enough to get acceptance this year. Got some big hitters on the horizon for 2026 and maybe one or two left for this year. Thanks to everyone!

After 76. Catching up with two of the few recurring characters in my little #dystopia. #fiction #flash #writing www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 75 to be home on Christmas #flash #fiction #dystopian www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 74. Let's do some post apocalypse #Christmas stories full of small hopes this December. #fiction #flash #free www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 73. #micro #fiction #flash www.luckycreature.com/blog/

Another Micro Poem published in today's edition of Five Fleas, about bloody fingers. Happy Thanksgiving. fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afte...

Publication Update. Yoshida and the Nekomata in the @thealienbuddha Arcane Magick www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 72. A constant argument. #flash #fiction #dystopian www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 71. An empty hotel. #flash #dystopia #fiction www.luckycreature.com/blog/

24 hours at the Sanctum, a blog post for the love of #pinball #nonfiction www.luckycreature.com/blog/?p=6023

After part 70. No fifty year mortgages here. So dumb #fiction #flash #dystopian www.luckycreature.com/blog/

New micro #poetry out today on Five Fleas. It's a Halloween crime #poem. Thanks to Roberta Beach Jacobson for including it. Free to read it and others here fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/morn...

After 69 Rocks on the Train Tracks #dystopian #flash #poem www.luckycreature.com/blog/

Today's the day. The Highway is out in Toil and Trouble issue 5. There are a few lines in this poem I absolutely adore and happy to have alongside so many other talents. Read for free at the link toilandtroublelitm.wixsite.com/magazine/cop...

Publication Update: my poem Those Days is out now in issue two of GenXine. It's a love letter to my youth, Billy Corgan , and so many things lost to future generations. My poem is on page 19. FREE to read the entire issue here www.jenx67.com/2025/10/genx...

After 68 #fiction #dystopian #flash #free www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 67 #fiction #flash #dystopia #freefiction www.luckycreature.com/blog/

Fridays are good days for #poetry acceptance. Got a lot of variety in the pipeline including short #fiction and a big one that I don't think I'll be able to squee about till next spring. I won't even remember what I wrote then. But it's a publisher I never thought I'd get to write for.

After 66. Rebirth #fiction #flash #dystopia #writing www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 65. At the mall. #fiction #flash #free #dystopian www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 64. There is no television here. #prose #flash #dystopian www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 63: Dearest Susan #letters #writing #flash #fiction #dystopia www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 62. A Castle in The Sky #dystopia #fiction #flash #thesmokies www.luckycreature.com/blog/

Publication Update: wrote some for the #avlzinefest charity zine , Remembering Helene with funds going to Beloved #asheville. You can read my piece here www.luckycreature.com/blog/?p=5945

After 61 alone on an island. #fiction #dystopia #writing www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After part 60. #fiction #flash #mongolia #dystopian www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 59 Oleksander and the Sahara. #fiction #flash #free #dystopia www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 58 , a croissant. Just a croissant. #amwriting #flash #fiction #dystopian www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 57. Checking in on Candle and Bertie. First appearance since After 21. #fiction #flash #dystopian #free www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 56 Houston Tunnels. #fiction #flash #dystopia www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 55 1.2.3 , 1.2.3. #fiction #flash #dystopia www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 54 #fiction #amwriting #flash #free www.luckycreature.com/blog/

Publication Update. Another Hit published by Festival for Poetry. Free to read here. festivalforpoetry.com/2025/08/29/d...

After 53 #fiction #flash #writing #Dystopia www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 52 I Am Not Alone #fiction #flash #writing #free www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 51 a prosperity for all men.. #fiction #flash #dystopian #writing www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After part 50. Ashmit and the tree. #dystopia #fiction #flash #free #writing www.luckycreature.com/blog/

Publication Update: My poem The Directions We Take has been selected for the 2025 #artonthetrails Chapbook. My poem was in response to the work Pivot Points by artist Rebecca Long @RubbishRevival You can see the art at the Beals Preserve in Massachusetts. www.luckycreature.com/blog/?p=5894

After 49 a Monk Called Caine. Even though this is all #fiction and #dystopia futures, there is part of this one that is 100 percent true, and one of my best memories. He was super cool and one of the best drinks I ever purchased in a Saint Louis hotel bar www.luckycreature.com/blog/

For the evening crowd : Publication Update. When You Are Dead published in The Alien Buddha Loves You Too collection released today. www.luckycreature.com/blog/

My poem When You Are Dead is included in this published today by Alien Buddha Press.

After 48 #fiction #flash #poetry #free www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 47, lost cities. #flash #fiction #amwriting #dystopia #life www.luckycreature.com/blog/

After 46, Jack #fiction #flash #amwriting #dystopian #survive www.luckycreature.com/blog/