Really grateful to have my debut short story collection on Quill and Quire's Best Books of the Year list. ❤️

Today's ICYMI story from SmokeLong Issue 85 is "Family Night" by Ani King, which was the winner of the SmokeLong Summer Fiction Contest 2024. Read or listen to the author's audio here: www.smokelong.com/stories/fami... @aniking.bsky.social

⭐THE FINALISTS OF THE SMOKELONG GRAND MICRO CONTEST⭐ These six micros will appear in the December issue of SmokeLong alongside four stories chosen from 3000 submissions in the general queue. Congratulations to everyone on this list; you’ve done something remarkable. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Current read: Station Eleven Current write: second draft edits to my still unnamed novel. Titles are hard.