Happy May Day! Here's the German History Museum's collection for 1. Mai. www.dhm.de/sammlung/uns...

I am incredibly honored and excited that my story won the Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize judged by Jemimah Wei. Enormous thanks to @fracturedlit.bsky.social, @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and @jemmawei.bsky.social

Ghosts are like salt for storytelling. Take any plot in any genre and add a ghost to it to make all the flavors pop!

This essay is so right—all the dads in Bridgerton are dead and part of the fantasy is patriarchy without patriarchs.

Elizabeth is so right on about this song and its homage to "St. James Infirmary Blues" and McTell's "Dying Crapshooter's Blues"

This. The dream of the 90s is dead. Cheap rent enables every kind of creative work and nothing else can substitute for it.

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EWS is such a treasure for the writing community in Europe - it's amazing what they've accomplished in just a few years. I loved having the chance to participate in the multilingual salon at Lettrétage and am excited for future events.

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

Just finished this gorgeous, spooky book on the murder ballad genre by @katyhoran.bsky.social and now I understand that when song lyrics talk about going down to the willow garden, that means murder. Also, I want to read basically everything on the recommended further reading list at the end.

"people are never who I decided they were they are like piles of snow brief, mutable" Love this piece by Sophia Tone in @havehashad.com

My kids and I attended this AOC event last night in Berlin. She is very charismatic in person! We were sitting next to some paramedics who were there at the venue's behest just in case of an emergency, not out of any interest in AOC, and they loved this bit about not letting ICE agents use bathrooms

I'm delighted that this odd story about a priest foraging for mushrooms has found a wonderful home on @freeflashfiction.bsky.social! Massive thanks to EIC Ian Rushton for believing in this piece!

Ooh the vanishings and slow-burn eeriness in this story are so good

Very true! Also, Cyndi Lauper has a lot of soul.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

More accurately: I have told the clergy of the episcopal diocese of New Hampshire that we may be entering into that same witness and I've asked them to get their affairs in order, to make sure they have their wills written..."

On this shortest day and longest night, I'm so happy to be part of @necessaryfiction.com's wonderful solstice project, which will be featuring new short pieces of wintry writing from now until new year's:

Love the lingering eeriness of this unsettling Arctic tale by @kplumhoff.bsky.social in Issue 90 of @smokelong.bsky.social:

We’re all being punished because a bunch of unattractive billionaires are mad they can only buy the faux respect of sycophants, and not real cultural influence.

Hey, I do hate my student loan company with the fire of a thousand suns and coincidentally enough have asked for this very novel for Christmas and am greatly looking forward to reading it!

Some really excellent writing and reporting here on the monstrous absurdity of ICE in New Orleans.

Honored & delighted that my story is on the shortlist for the Elsewhere Prize of the wonderful @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Looking for a pièce de résistance for a birthday party or Christmas day? The February 1911 edition of American Homes and Gardens has you covered with Quaint Dessert Dishes like Welshwoman with Cat, banana pigs, and of course the booby bird:

me, after that: whew, really learned my lesson this time, will definitely remember a book next time me, next time: wait where is my book

"...writing a novel is like being lost in the dark woods, and writing a short story is like being set upon by wolves... writing flash is like stepping on fire ants." Erin McGraw, expanding on Flannery O'Connor in @necessaryfiction.com: necessaryfiction.com/interviews/a...

Super excited that my story "La Brea Tar Pits" was nominated for Best Microfiction 2026 -- huge thanks to Gooseberry Pie and Jeff Harvey!

Can't stop thinking about number 33 here.

Awesome piece by the Berlin-based writer Jane Yager in the fabulous new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: "I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad let slip that the pits are still active." gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...