it was a weird winter

Sorry if all my drum banging about the stories I published last week have been annoying, but 🥁🥁🥁 I’ve got a new longer story publishing this weekend at @doricliterary.bsky.social that I’m very excited about! It’s a revised & rejuvenated reprint of a piece I really love. Can’t wait to share it soon

ICYMI: My micro, “This Kind of Freedom,” about a young woman suffering from long Covid and remembering a harsh experience during the pandemic, is one of two pieces I’m honored to have in the new issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/two-micro-fi...

ICYMI: My micro, “This Kind of Freedom,” about a young woman suffering from long Covid and remembering a harsh experience during the pandemic, is one of two pieces I’m honored to have in the new issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/two-micro-fi...

I think this is the 2nd time this scam or bot or whatever — the “Glasgow Book Club” — has emailed me, but this time they didn’t even bother to fill in the blanks of their template targeting email. 🤡

AHEM WRITERS now we have your attention a friendly reminder subs are open for our spring issue but only until March 1. All writers of any (or no) experience welcome, except AI which doesn’t write anyway. Flash micro poetry letters and art. You can even mix and match templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

We're working on exciting new fiction for March 1 but can't stop savoring this beauty from @bmerklee.bsky.social. You can't live 119 years and not have secrets! doric-literary.com/2026/02/01/m...

A Philly before and after

I published three(!) stories this week. ✨🎉🌼 Many thanks to editors @vallielynnwatson.bsky.social & @eireneeleni.bsky.social. “Bathtub Divorce-Tears Gin”: www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ba... Two micros: templeinacity.com/two-micro-fi...

the Jersey Short

blizzard beginnings

"It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money... Whatever is popular now—that’s all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I’m doing and why." - Nina Simone

poor little squirrelly hiding from today’s cold rain

I published three(!) stories this week. ✨🎉🌼 Many thanks to editors @vallielynnwatson.bsky.social & @eireneeleni.bsky.social. “Bathtub Divorce-Tears Gin”: www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ba... Two micros: templeinacity.com/two-micro-fi...

“A few ladies wept and threw themselves on the ground as the mother was carried from the house, as though it were a religious event.” This Molotov Cocktail flash by @meredithbak.bsky.social has such a world and an ending that hits so hard. themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/vol-1...

so glad to have made it to the day when these hunks of ice in the streets have been reduced to dribbles on the asphalt, he says, then sees a blizzard warning on his phone

Catch and release in two biting, brilliant micros by @mattjakubowski.bsky.social templeinacity.com/two-micro-fi...

"those who [...] walk backwards slowly each morning to the elevator the chair and desk to present face present teeth present the daily stagecraft of the unspoken echoing within" Wonderful word-smithery from @mattjakubowski.bsky.social - two richly creative micros

This morning I jogged for the first time in like two months. It was brutal. I was a wheezing sweaty mess. But at the end, as I walked and caught my breath, the endorphins kicked in and I wrote a new story the minute I got inside my apartment.

The second time, I read these aloud--they're so good.

Who's bringing some fresh writing to me at AWP on March 4th? Pitch me, hand me your work irl (put your name and email on it, please) and read it for the crowd, if you'd like! I'll be making Issue 23 this summer from your paper submissions! Register for freeee: Stanchionzine.com/awp

It’s not easy to hustle writing & submitting while working & parenting (& still hoping to publish a book some day!) so weeks like this — with 3 stories published — are a gift. Makes me grateful for all the brilliant people worldwide who make the flash & micro community so vibrant & relevant

The deadline to file an Anthropic claim is fast approaching. Here’s everything you need to know before the March 30 cutoff:

I have 2 micros in the fantastic new “Resurgence” issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social. Heartfelt thanks to editor @eireneeleni.bsky.social I’m so happy to be a part of this ✨ templeinacity.com/two-micro-fi...

Two @mattjakubowski.bsky.social micros here. The first will leak the breath slowly out your body. The second will bring it back. templeinacity.com/two-micro-fi...

We stole a fancy lunch and saw the sky not wondering at all if a thing like Tuesday was happening…. Two great micros from @mattjakubowski.bsky.social @templeinacity.bsky.social 👇🏽

TWO, not one, micros from Matt in here. Lucky us, lucky you too if you read them.

So so much to love in this issue. It’s a knockout ✨

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free General Short Stories feat. @willowswept.com @theforge.bsky.social @genrepunkmag.bsky.social @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Here’s one for all the happy-sad divorced folks out there. A micro called “Bathtub Divorce-Tears Gin” in the latest issue of Boudin/McNeese Review. Thanks to the editors for adding me to the heavy-hitter list of contributors 🥂 www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ba...

hope this dude stay scared and name names

Korean citizens have been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for defending democracy against martial law. Since Trump foams at his mouth for the Nobel, it humors me to picture a fictional matchup between 'The people who eat authoritarian presidents for breakfast' vs 'The menu item on that breakfast'

Between South Korea’s ex-President being sentenced to life in prison for leading an insurrection, and former British royalty being arrested for misconduct related to the Epstein files, it really makes me wonder just how long it’ll take until we have a real justice system in America again.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Honored to see my story among these 10 brilliant micros in the latest issue of Boudin/McNeese Review. Congrats to everyone featured @ many thanks to editor @vallielynnwatson.bsky.social www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ma...

“I still don’t know which taste better, the tears from crying or from laughing.”

“I’m on my ass naked in three inches of bathwater in my divorce apartment.” Thrilled to have my first story of 2026 in the Mardi Gras microfiction issue of Boudin/McNeese Review! A tiny tale about tears and the particular sadness of watermelon shampoo. www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ba...

the sky last night

So excited my new micro — “Bathtub Divorce-Tears Gin” — is in the Mardi Gras Microfiction issue of Boudin Journal! Huge thanks to editor @vallielynnwatson.bsky.social for including me in this issue, which is chock-full of amazing writers www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ba...

When I lived in Iowa in the mid-‘80s, me and my 6th grade friends had a breakdancing group and did demos for the whole school. Good times, even better fashion 🙂

New call for submissions from @barrelhouse.bsky.social: The Aftermath. We're looking for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art about what happens AFTER the big story is over and life goes back to "normal" (or whatever counts as "normal"). More details here:

You have a full hour before the Friends at the Table marathon stream begins to LUXURIATE IN ALL NEW QUEER WRITING ABOUT PLANTS Go read the new issue @sarahclark.bsky.social just dropped and tell your friends!

such a good one

Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry between February 1 and March 15 for our Spring 2026 issue and beyond. Submissions welcome from #poets everywhere. Full details can be found at the link: phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-spr... #callforsubmissions

Based on what I know it’s likely I’ll have 4 short stories published in the next few weeks, which is an awesome and rare coincidence for me. So I’m going to apologize in advance for the equally likely uptick in my social posts as the stories become available online!

Issue 22 is officially here! We'll share highlights from these prose pieces and poems in the coming days. Check out the whole issue here: variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

Based on what I know it’s likely I’ll have 4 short stories published in the next few weeks, which is an awesome and rare coincidence for me. So I’m going to apologize in advance for the equally likely uptick in my social posts as the stories become available online!

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

West Philly sunset, first day above freezing in quite a while

Being in a country illegally isn’t a huge crime, it’s a paperwork issue. That’s it. Paperwork. If you don’t like immigrants being here illegally get up and go help people with their paperwork. Help them get lawyers. Keep them safe until their paperwork is ready. Otherwise stfu.