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Hi, Bluesky! It's me! I have some a little prose in Literary Mama! It's a short, go read it! I love writing these short (impressionistic?) pieces, and I'm so thrilled this one has found a home. ♥️

Read this chillingly beautiful story by @pollyf.bsky.social ❄️❤️🎶

"He is on fire, lit from the inside, his face blotchy-red and his hair sweat-soaked as he shrieks. He is a spark let loose, a wildfire raging." From Kristen-Paige Madonia's story "Eleven Heartbeats Long" out today in @literarymama.bsky.social literarymama.com/articles/dep...

"Baby, don’t you know, the only reason I go to weekday mass is to hear the children sing?" From Polly Farquhar's piece "Tuesday Morning (Ordinary Time)" New issue & new fiction out today @literarymama.bsky.social! literarymama.com/articles/dep...

It’s such a good issue!! 😍

Congratulations to our Pushcart nominees! For links to their work, visit our below blog post! @susanperabo.bsky.social, @sagetyrtle.bsky.social, Jill Finnessy, Julie Pfeiffer, Francine Diodati, and Caedra Scott-Flaherty!

I call this series “That time I shrieked in the bookstore.”

BEST MAIL DAY EVER. Pushcart Prize L will be released on 12/2 if you want to pick up a copy. (Seriously, is this real life?)

"I’m on my feet before I can stop myself, the sorrow shifting instantly to rage. I overturn my chair and face the shouting parent. I yell, 'Hey!' Just a single bark, but the volume is surprising." from Kristen Moraine's story, "Left Field," in our Sept/Oct issue:

I never imagined I’d see the day that I could say I’ve won a Pushcart Prize. Enormous thanks to @storyquarterly.bsky.social for their amazing support and championing of this story 🤩

The amazing Maggie Smith is on the fiftieth episode of This Mama Is Lit! 😍 Check it out!

Huge congrats to @susanperabo.bsky.social and Edith-Nicole Cameron on the nomination of their stunning stories! 👏👏

Our Best of the Net nominees for poetry! Caedra Scott-Flaherty @katehasthoughts.bsky.social Sally Anderson Boström Nicole Desjardins Gowdy Claudia Kessel Chantelle Lynn

Our Best of the Net nominees for creative nonfiction: Laura Mullen and Jill Finnessy! literarymama.com/articles/dep... literarymama.com/articles/dep...

"As Cam rounds the bases and makes it home, I tell myself over and over: he’s okay, he’s okay, he’ll be okay." Read "Left Field," a beautiful story by Kristen Moraine, in the Sept/Oct issue of @literarymama.bsky.social literarymama.com/articles/dep...

The stunning September/October issue of @literarymama.bsky.social is out today. Senior Editor @rudribhattpatel.bsky.social suggests we “read and reflect on what these mother-writers are all showing us: different ways to carry hope for our children.” ❤️ literarymama.com/issues/septe...

Bread Loaf is everything I hoped and more ❤️

Cute chonks on some milkweed

Want more weirdness? I have some! "Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was strong. Passionate. Because he was too big for the car, too big for the house, too big for an office job. Mom married Hurricane Gerald because she loved the lazy swirl of his clouds..." literarymama.com/articles/dep...

"Now she wanted that son even more than she had months ago. And she remained convinced he could prevail... his heart was strong, the doctor had said. The heart of a sekitori, the top-level wrestlers who possess the strength and endurance to win." Read a moving piece by @notsureaboutthat.bsky.social

"Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was powerful. He can protect us, she said, scrubbing a pot in the sink. I said, I can protect you, and she laughed until she cried and had to redo her mascara before Hurricane Gerald came home." Read the haunting "Fighting Wind" by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social

IT'S HERE! This is such an amazing issue! 🥰

So excited to receive this beauty in the mail today, and so honored to be named runner-up in Meridian’s 2025 Short Prose Prize. 😍 Visit readmeridian.org to read this gorgeous issue

12 is out of town visiting relatives. They went to an aquarium yesterday, where she took this amazingly hilarious pic (of a what? I don’t know). Now she uses it to express her disapproval

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Post-vet pup cup. Adorbs pic by 12

OMG 🤬

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

We interrupt the American house of horrors to remind you thay June is DeafBlind awareness month. Here are some of my recommendations of writing by DeafBlind folks for your #DeafShelf! cc @snarkbat.bsky.social @habengirma.bsky.social

Just fantastic storytelling, too. Loved this book

Me: [distraught that Costco has discontinued my favorite non-dairy milk] 12: “Soy for your loss.” This kid 😂

"My fantasy of subverting the patriarchy by raising a tender and empathic young man would be more difficult to realize than I thought. If he didn’t give, would he just take and take?" from "Better Off," a story by Claire Fantus, in our May/June issue

"I am cheek-to-cheek now with Ari gazing at this insect: we are like new mothers, paralyzed by the awe and terror of this adorable but feeble thing, now our responsibility." Read "Better Off" by Claire Fantus in the May/June issue of @literarymama.bsky.social literarymama.com/articles/dep...

"Theirs could ignite harmonicas both in and out, making music in layers. One breath could extinguish a candle with a wish; another could feed the campfire." Frm "Breath" by Jessica Claire Haney. May/June @literarymama.bsky.social literarymama.com/articles/dep...

The May/June issue of @literarymama.bsky.social is out today, and it is SO GOOD. 😍 I’m especially proud of the two gorgeous pieces of fiction [high-fives @elizajaneconway.bsky.social]. Go read it! literarymama.com/issues/may-j...

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them: I'll see you in court me, breaking their glasses: no you won't

Solid, actionable writing advice

Beware a lurking floof in the night

Eeeps! Guess who’s going to Bread Loaf! 🍞🤯🎉

"If a sleepover invitation occurs in the first act, in the second act, the mother will be summoned from sleep by a phone call at 2 a.m."

Ooooh! This sounds very cool

Can’t believe this book sat quietly on my shelf for 2 yrs while I went about my life having NO IDEA. It’s the most profound (and, despite the horrific subject matter, hilarious) coming-of-age story. Louisa Luna nails the voice and portrays Doreen’s vulnerability and rebellion so beautifully. READ IT

Remove a letter, ruin a movie Little Omen

I do not know how it is so hard to learn that the only way to deal with Trump is to push back against him. It's like every institution in America has to relearn this lesson every week.

The alternative to naloxone (Narcan) for a fentanyl overdose outside a healthcare facility - where almost all of them in this country occur - is death. Dead people don’t recover. Fentanyl overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-44. Every single fentanyl overdose death is preventable.

Be you. ❤️

I'm doing an independent study project this semester that's focused on submitter and editor perspectives on literary magazines. If you submit work to literary magazines and have a few minutes, I'd be so grateful if you would fill out my survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

12: “He’s a mess to society.” That’s what we’re saying now 😂