I have a new fern, my first heart-leafed fern (Hemionitis arifolia) — and it has its first new fiddlehead since I got it! Amazing that they transform from fluffy and white to dark green with a black rachis. #fernfriday

Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, our pollution powerhouse PECO can’t even commit to a few percentage points of total renewable energy.

“I had nothing for the front page. The next day, I resigned my position.” As a former journalist myself, I found this essay about craft and work by Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social so fascinating. Plus I love reading about writers’ jobs. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...

I know I should probably play it cool but I can’t — I’ve had 10 acceptances this year. My best year ever (& I’ll be 51 soon). I’ve got 5 pieces forthcoming in 4 journals. I’m not ok. I’m bordering on great. And as a Scorpio I’m usually moody or meh. But wow. Today I’m happily agog. And so grateful 🌿

Acceptance post! 🎉🎉 Super excited to say I have 2 micros forthcoming from @templeinacity.bsky.social. If you haven’t checked out the journal lately, their current issue is a knockout. Also, they’re open for submissions until Nov. 15! templeinacity.com

As I always tend to say after very good election results: yes! Yes! Now we have elected the people we want and the work continues: to hold them accountable every day and not let them abuse their power. And it all begins again in a year or two or three and onwards. Also: yay!

Cheney was the worst mix of Kissinger, Russell Vought & Stephen Miller, except he barely hid in the shadows, he was clearly President when Bush Jr was in office. He lied endlessly to keep the machines of war and fossil-fuel extraction grinding and churning out as much death and pollution as possible

💡 ANNOUNCEMENT! 💡 Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions on NOVEMBER 24, 2025! We can't wait to read your incredible previously published work!

Philly! Please vote tomorrow. It’s one of those big ballots and many boxes are yes/no, not just GOP or DNC. Here are some links to help you navigate it. Very important to vote YES to retain all three PA Supreme Court judges, as shown below: www.reclaimphiladelphia.org/blog/2025/10...

In fall even the dying weeds look all lush and sort of regal

Resting post Halloween skull face

I re-read this fantastic book of flash fiction in October and realized it’s been 10 years since it was published. I also recalled hosting Helen for a reading from it ages ago at Tattooed Mom in Philly. Which is all to say —Happy 10-year Book Birthday to @helenmcclory.bsky.social 🎉

On top of today being an amazing celebration of candy excess and people wearing masks for joyous and scary non-fascist reasons, I cast my ballot by mail today and it felt very meh and normal, the way democracy should be.

my kid made this costume this year and my favorite take on a name for it was after it got dark a woman approached us and said no nope I don’t like that and turned around 😄

These pricks flying around in private jets for photo ops or just not showing up for work in Congress needed to have a judge tell them not to starve their own citizens. Vilest scum in the world

Big news: The Citizen just bought storied @phillymag.com Here’s why. Learn more: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/bought-phila...

I know the political news is, by GOP design, hitting people like a firehose each day. But on top of the shutdown, and the impending end of SNAP benefits, and ICE terror in our streets, the DOGE cuts are still happening too, just more quietly than before. Musk and DOGE should live in infamy.

I just read the words “A federal judge has cleared the way for a massive class action lawsuit against OpenAI to proceed” and it made me just smile smile smile.

Gone Lawn is one of those foundational lit mags that’s been around since before I started publishing & consistently puts out interesting work. If you can donate something to keep it viable, now’s the time.

today the smol dog who always looks sad when people say goodbye found a way to look haunted with sadness

today the smol dog who always looks sad when people say goodbye found a way to look haunted with sadness

As June Jordan said, “We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary... At a minimum we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies. We have the power to stop the courtesies and to let the feelings be real.”

goodnight from Philly

I’ve somehow become the sort of person who ends up doing stuff like this? It’s fine I guess

finishing up the hat situation for my Halloween costume

I could say this is a die-hard fan but that would be corny

🚨 Texas just lost — AGAIN — trying to ban books from schools. A federal judge has permanently blocked the READER Act for violating the First Amendment. Here's why this matters 🧵 authorsguild.org/news/ag-vict...

dusk clouds and leaves looking moody

The most self-congratulatory political takes are like I don’t care about (thing), I care about (three other things). Like wow wow you had a three-thing limit and you just stopped caring. Alright

Cheers to the old guy up early holding a No Kings sign first thing in the morning near the art museum. I’d seen him out there before on other mornings. And today he wasn’t alone.

so this happened tonight, my first live experience of Rufus doing this one I’m ded

took this shot of Philly over the weekend and I dig it

Submissions for poetry and prose open tomorrow!

Open: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

leaves and sun doing good stuff

Ask for beef, someone's bound to serve some up... Dear editors minorliteratures.com/2025/10/18/d...

Very happy to discover that audio of the flash fiction reading I co-curated last fall at UPenn’s Kelly Writers House is now online. Here’s the ~4-minute recording of me reading two micros — “Gathering” & “Ghost Story” media.sas.upenn.edu/writershouse...

📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions! We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme! ⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Very happy to discover that audio of the flash fiction reading I co-curated last fall at UPenn’s Kelly Writers House is now online. Here’s the ~4-minute recording of me reading two micros — “Gathering” & “Ghost Story” media.sas.upenn.edu/writershouse...

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

Some ghost stories can freak us out. Some make us wish we were being cuddled by Patrick Swayze. This one does something else! 👻 My “Ghost Story,” first published by Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2023/10/19/g...

if you want to support a nanticoke who makes little magazines this indigenous peoples day, here are the little magazines i make www.ANMLY.org — intl art & lit that's never boring www.beestungmag.com — non-binary, two-spirit, & genderqueer writing www.ALOCASIA.org — a journal of queer planty writing

Congratulations to @wwborders.bsky.social for having now published ten Nobel laureates in their 22-year history as the home for international literature, the latest being László Krasznahorkai. And congratulations to all the translators who translated them.

Long live Gone Lawn! ✨

I’ve heard about this essay, “Who Goes Nazi?”, many times, never read it until today, and it’s not what I expected. harpers.org/archive/1941... And this article about Dorothy Thompson is also worth reading. www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

An editor sent me a proposed edit to a forthcoming prose poem—and it was brilliant. I was so happy they suggested it. Getting the chance to collaborate with thoughtful, talented people is a such a joy.

It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word! THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi

Not sure why but I started thinking about this flash I wrote, “Summer Break,” published years ago by @pitheadchapel.bsky.social in Volume 5, Issue 12. Maybe it’s that 3rd line that stings? pitheadchapel.com/summer-break/

My dystopian flash appears in Writers Resist today. It was written after the election around the question plaguing me: What will it mean to be Black in Tr*ump's America? I hope you'll check it out. www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...

September has been such a fantastic anomaly for me as a writer—one story published and three (!) acceptances. My heart is so full of gratitude. I’ve been working hard and hustling, but I’m still bowled over to get this much support from these journals and editors. 🌼