"The air around him turned into a sunset, an exploding garden, a slow stiffening leak. He fed more food into his mouth, but swallowing was no longer an option. His cheeks expanded and swelled until they touched the walls and filled the room." maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazi...

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“Jackson loathes golf…loathes how it attracts a certain type of white male, the type who gift Niall Ferguson books, are still on Facebook, eye-fuck the babysitter. He hates golf like he hates modern country music with its lyrics about shitty beer, date rape, and…” iselemagazine.com/2024/12/30/s...

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“….I realized the Bros were meeting at a club, one of those preppy social affairs where everyone’s in kakis, polo shirts, braided belts, and salmon-colored sportscoats. I was wearing black cutoffs covered in paint splatter and a Stereolab t-shirt.” 100subtextsmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/issu...

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“I hit PLAY. Seconds later The Psychedelic Furs are blasting out of the TV speakers. I’m rocking my head up and down. Florida is doing his towel-wave dance with his arm and kicking both his legs. All three limbs, growing.” thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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“Too bad you can’t smoke your phone,” Florida says. thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...

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“I am told to enter my PIN. I don’t think I have a PIN, and if I do, I’ve long forgotten it, so I say, yeah no yeah fuck, and the computer says, no problem.” letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...

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“….but swallowing was no longer an option. His cheeks expanded and swelled until they touched the walls and filled the room. Someone was trying to open the door, but this was no longer a possibility.” maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazi...

we all need more napps music.apple.com/us/album/ext...

“I am told to enter my PIN. I don’t think I have a PIN, and if I do, I’ve long forgotten it, so I say, yeah no yeah fuck, and the computer says, no problem.” letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...

the stack:

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“This time in the SPECIAL INSTRUCTION spot, he wrote things such as “allergic to rice,” “left-sided cashews only,” “extra glue,” and “no egg whites no hippies no sadness no lost boys.” He filled the cart with $85 worth of lunch specials and appetizers.” maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazi...

“I pause. I give him an address from six years ago. He says, bingo-bango…Please and Thankyou and then a child in the background screams and a bus drives into an apple cart.” letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...

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“Everyone had beards, designer drugs, pants pulled too high, anti-capitalism slogans slapped onto the side of a pair of Vans or a shirt from H&M. These were dire times…” maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazi...

“I pause and frown. Am I boring my daughter? Or is she lightly amused? I have no idea. I do know that I have too few years left on this earth to waste any of it listening to bloody Beck.” www.wordswelljournal.org/thank-you-lo...

Belfast:

Berlin butterfly bush:

Mildest Men: @shoegazeliterary.bsky.social shoegazeliterary.com/issue-one-lo...

The Empty Library:

“I grab the remote. A minute later, I find Pretty In Pink. “Every seen it?” “Is it about Onk’s friend, Billy the Tongue?” Florida asks. “No. It’s about high school kids and class division.” “Sounds like frog-dog shit.” #PrettyInPink thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...

Bremen:

“The movie starts, but I pass out almost immediately. Before Chris Penn’s classic line about The Police. Before the game of chicken on tractors. Before Kevin Bacon dances through a grain processing facility. Before Lithgow’s change of heart.” thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...

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finds from Pleasant Street Books, in Woodstock VT, plus owner Sonny Saul’s very deep listen via his Quartet:

“Mount Rushmore in the background, every face Ted Nugent.” @shoegazeliterary.bsky.social shoegazeliterary.com/issue-one-lo...

story about the perils of a bookclub, up now at 100subtexts: 100subtextsmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/issu...

excited to share a new story in the premiere issue of @shoegazeliterary.bsky.social heyzine.com/flip-book/c6...

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happy to be sharing a piece in the new @januaryhouselit.bsky.social issue: januaryhouselit.com

new poem in Sunday Mornings By The River’s collection: Capitalism Is A Death Cult

Portland, ME #NoKingsMarch

“The reporter counts from one to six like it’s Sesame Street, one two three four five six, six apples six flying squirrels…six school busses six bowls of soup six flaming tires six broken vertebrate six spinning tops six Sam & Dave singles six Trump Steaks…” dumbopress.com/short-storie...

Alice Notley: 1945-2025

photo:

“…this playlist has been generated from a music platform, Spotify’s Alternative Modern Indie Bollocks Midtempo Blerg…” Roxy snorts. “Or Apple’s Contemporary Modern Rock CockpunchDogshit…” “Dad. Language.” new piece:Thank You, Lorde, at Wordswell Journal: www.wordswelljournal.org/thank-you-lo...

“…she’s stuck growing up in a world where lazy programmers are filling the heads of capitalism’s new digital children with guidelines in which their goal, in predicting stupid-people-needs, is to keep ears and eyeballs glued…” www.wordswelljournal.org/thank-you-lo...

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“…this playlist has been generated from a music platform, Spotify’s Alternative Modern Indie Bollocks Midtempo Blerg…” Roxy snorts. “Or Apple’s Contemporary Modern Rock CockpunchDogshit…” “Dad. Language.” new piece:Thank You, Lorde, at Wordswell Journal: www.wordswelljournal.org/thank-you-lo...

dog pic:

Sundowning by Nathaniel Krenkel The green plate rests in my lap. “Imagine how much this would cost in a restaurant.” Under different circumstances, I’d say something rude—the snarky son—but for now, I remain silent and force another bite of the walnut and raspberry buckwheat pancake. “Susie, your…

Sundowning: januaryhouselit.com/2025/05/29/s...