Eggs and long love.

You really need this today, trust me.

Today's story is "Cross-Attachment" by Mari Harrison. @javajnkie.bsky.social #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles

This month's drabble call is: send us your best weird.

Today's story is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Robert Witmer. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros

A post on Trump’s Truth Social said they’ve “released the first tranche of the UFO/UAP files…” Who’s posting for him? Because there’s no chance Donny used the word tranche.

This is more than just dinner. This is an experience. A revolution, one bite at a time. This is food as you’ve never known it. A meal unlike any other. Truly a taste of things to come! #scifi by @javajnkie.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My Nature: Futures story is out! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New story!

A volunteer talks to a school group by the jellyfish. She explains: octopuses squeeze through any opening larger than their beak. They've escaped tanks & crossed floors to reach others. Just a reminder:we have beak-sized openings all around us.Go on & squeeze through! @claudineliterary.bsky.social

New fiction (set in Hadley, MA) in Hamilton’s philosophy journal, Book XI: www.bookxi.org/issue-xx#/fo...

Wild!

Whoohoo! I can announce that my short story is included! Pick up your copy in August at a bookstore or online retailer near you! Or directly from the publisher ( www.flametreepublishing.com/christmas-ho... )

HusbandI’m going to the store. Can I get you anything? Me: yeah, a fainting goat. They’re super cute. Him: ok, I’ll see what I can do. Me: Two actually. Him: Of course, you don’t want them to get lonely. I take that as passive agreement and am now looking on Craigslist for fainting goats.

I was a finalist! I mean, it’s still a rejection in the end, but I’m still happy. Congrats to the winners and everyone who entered!

#Submissioncall #submissioncalls #writer #Writing #drabbles #ratbaglit #weirdlit

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Today's story is "Convert" by Mari Harrison. @javajnkie.bsky.social #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #luckypenny

#writingcall #submissioncall #submissioncalls March 20th - 23rd.

Convert open.substack.com/pub/ratbagli...

Today's story is "Soleil™" by Mari Harrison. @javajnkie.bsky.social #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #savingdaylight ratbaglit.substack.com/p/soleil

Tenacity is my middle name.

The world is falling apart, but I’m still going to the New Orleans Book Festival next week!

I’m breeding super mice here. This is the no-kill mousetrap in my attic. I caught a few, then the bait started disappearing. I set a camera up to see how. Now the deer mice are mocking me.

Drabbles are fun. Try your hand at a 100 word weird Dear John letter, then submit it to @ratbaglit.bsky.social asap. I didn’t submit this one, so I’ll drop it here as an example.

Congrats to my brilliant daughter, @violanichols.bsky.social , on the release of her latest novel. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Psst.. check out misfit magic: www.zoeticpress.com/an-14-misfit... @zoeticpress.bsky.social

This editing job is due by close of business. Beta is having none of it.

This morning, I told my husband about the dream that made me wake up unnecessarily grumpy. He came home with this.

Cupid has had it with us. open.substack.com/pub/ratbagli...

New poetry and fiction soon in AJN, Book XI journal, and RatBag.

My cat is 100 percent sure I control the weather and he’s mad at me about the snow.

Should be cleaning my house. Instead I’m writing drabbles for @ratbaglit.bsky.social weird fiction themed call, “Saving Daylight.” I wrote two more than I can submit, so I’m posting one here instead of locking it in the vault forever. Enjoy the temporal horror until the sun sets on this one too.

REMINDER 📢 voting for the 2025 Apex Magazine Reader's Choice Awards closes tomorrow at midnight EST! Give your favorite Apex authors and cover artists some love and submit your ballot below ⬇️🗳️ www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Coming this Monday, humans! 🐈‍⬛🔥🐈‍⬛ @sudhab.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social

Ever fall in love with your own words? Cutting a 2k-word story that begged to be microfiction instead. Sad about losing two sentences that sung. I’ll let you know where it lands In the mean time, go check out @claudineliterary.bsky.social for tight, gorgeous fiction. www.claudineliterary.net

Today's story is "Threadbare" by ML Strijdom. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros ratbaglit.substack.com/p/threadbare

Akhil Sharma was unimpressed when he first read “The Sun Also Rises.” Then he began “to experience Hemingway’s language in the way that I think it was intended to be experienced,” he writes. “By the end of the book, I was a different person.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mGib6D

Like short bursts of weird fiction? Check out @ratbaglit.bsky.social

Trump pardoned Ex-Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández 31 days ago. JOH was serving 45yrs for weapons & conspiring to import 400+ tons of cocaine. If you believe the party line that #Maduro’s arrest is abt drugs & not oil or a #distraction from #Epstein files & T’s pedophilia,you may be in a cult.

Hot damn.. yesterday took me 1:07. I shaved off 42 seconds, got a personal best, and don’t know how. I should probably do something requiring real thinking today! Shuffalo, 0m 25s 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

A viroid-like RNA “obelisk” has been discovered across species, including in human microbiomes. They challenge traditional views of viruses and life, encoding proteins called Oblins. The world is amazing. Science is bad-ass. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. www.science.org/content/arti...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

New Writer Spotlight 💡 “There’s an application half-finished on my laptop for an MFA program, but I can’t make myself click submit. Sometimes, being small and still feels like the only intelligent choice.” @javajnkie.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/mariharrison

Finally fully migrating..giving Elon the bird right back!

Old man Winston is happy it’s electric blanket season.

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

I have worked the polls for years & have never seen the kind of turnout for local elections like I did tonight. Amazing! Keep it up America.. Midterms are coming!!