My son, Indy, is doing another epic fundraising walk for Ukrainian refugees via @ukforunhcr.bsky.social. He is walking the 102-mile Cotswold Way in the depths of winter, photographing the Ukrainian flag in the changing landscape as he goes. He's already begun & will post updates regularly.

Okay, might as well get this started. It's January 1, which means, as I'm sure you all know, that there's a whole new bunch of characters who have entered the public domain. This time around, it's characters created in 1930. The following is a list of pulp & pulpy characters now in the p.d. 1/

if you send a micro submission to [email protected] by 11pm eastern today 12/31, i’ll send you a response before the new year. @identitytheory.bsky.social guidelines here: www.identitytheory.com/about/micro-...

Excited to start the new year with a CNF flash in the latest issue of the wonderful Prime Number Magazine. Happy 2026, friends.♥️ www.press53.com/issue-281-fl...

GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social + our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!

If you’re a flash writer, please come join @smokelong.bsky.social’s The Village With All The Flash Writers. And make sure you read the inimitable Zach Doss’s story on which the name of this new community is based. I’ll link it in the thread.

OKD is open again for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

A key to conquering my teacher scaries is celebrating the days I still have. Four day weekend!!

Well that's me weeping then So lovely

Some of you have lost the true meaning of Christmas: Destroying your closest friends and family at trivia games.

And here's my Christmas tree. May we all find whatever gives us solace and helps us move ahead.

I honestly think Santa handled himself very well here 😆

This is truly lovely.

The hooman babies are home from college and one of them made a gingerbread AT-AT. 🤗✨🍪🎄

I refuse to go back to the store for one more @!&$*# thing, so we’re getting creative with the wrapping

happy holidays everyone

what rough grinch slouches towards Whoville

"Where work injuries are common and medical care is stretched far too thin, where centuries of extractive industries have taken out timber and coal and left behind broken infrastructures and folks of limited means, these companies found one more lucrative thing to harvest: our pain." -B. Kingsolver

a love that dares rip / open the chest to see what goes on singing. Dean Young

For those of you with pets and who observe, may I suggest my accidental stroke of brilliance, the Out of Reach Deconstructed Advent Wreath. Gaudete!

Love coming home from a meeting to see this. 😻

I’m hanging out with the gorgeous new issue of Harvard Review this morning! Love this lit mag!

🧶: #smallpoemsunday (cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social)

You want to know what evil is? This.

Our Fall 2025 issue holds remarkable voices, and we want to bring readers a little closer to the people behind them. We have begun featuring interviews with our contributors, including Angela Townsend, whose piece “Write Until You Pray” appears in the issue. Find it at: www.broadripplereview.com

Or, as @caseystegman.com notes, THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy

I mean I know things are bad, Speedway, but I don't know if we're at the point of a post-conflagration bartering system

About as spicy as I get is upending my cinnamon diffuser while getting the consonant blend chart out from under a bunch of books. My lips are literally tingling FROM THE AIR

With coffee, milk of your choice, Monin sugar free dark chocolate syrup and a miniscule dash of real peppermint extract, you too can support unionization this holiday season. :)

Han's getting the recognition they deserve in Peroty 😆😆😆

I had the good fortune of being in the room for this conversation between the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and my equally brilliant colleague Prof Matthew D. Morrison. Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...

The good news: I put a lot of thought and effort into your gift. The bad news: It will look like it was wrapped by an angry toddler.

♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”

Someone out there directing photoshoots for poets: now sip this slightly off milk, and whatever you do, don’t look directly at the camera

I want to make ponche navideno for the entire middle school, and I have no idea how and no time, but I have learned you just have to FAAFO the creative teaching stuff you want to happen.

Things I did today instead of doomscrolling 1. Travelled home 2. Napped 3. Read a book (on a Ruth Rendell kick atm) 4. Chatted to a stranger about wassailing 5. Did laundry

It took three days but thr Tiger is OUT!

Your Monday Mocha.❤️🐶❄️

True story: the seventh grader squints out the window and grumbles, "That sun is brighter than my future"

I've learned I am a dead on rule follower until the rule is stupid.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

my daughter announced, with great confidence, that the lit menorah in the city plaza was for people who celebrate harmonica

really went dark for the sequel

My son wants to know how Macy's calculates how many black bears fit into the Smokey the Bear balloon. "Like... is it *emulsified* black bears??"

Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem

*small embarrassed voice* A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s. doi.org/10.1093/libr...

While baking tomorrow's pumpkin pie, I only had to take the label out of the recycling three times to check the recipe, a new personal best.

I prepped the entirety of the Thanksgiving Day meal today with a dull knife. Witness me.

I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change. Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social! www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

I've got 5 #WritingWorkshops coming up - Child POV, True Stories, Micros, Horror Without Blood, and Lyrical Sentences -- sound like fun? Find out more here: tyrtle.com/writing-work... #WritingCommunity #Writing #SpeculativeFiction #FlashFic #FlashLit #MicroFiction #POV