Excited to have my satire, Anarchists Unite, published at Writer’s Resist! www.writersresist.com/2025/12/24/a...

I have a spread sheet for this year, but having this information automatically done for me at next year end would/will be very helpful for anyone else.

When your kid sees a blue character in a tutu dancing to nutcracker music, so you put on the nutcracker, and she spins around the living room until she insists on a wardrobe change, puts on her Elsa dress and her fancy shoes and --- not dance.

I got a drabble published at Fair Field Scribes. <3 www.fairfieldscribes.com/issue-51.html/

Hey look, it's me!

Today in my daughter's slow descent into villainy: I have introduced my daughter to "the Nightmare before Christmas" and she keeps wanting to watch "Santa go in the hole" - ie the part when Santa is shoved in a pipe and sent to Oogie Boogie.

Happy to share I'm helping judge "The Booby Prize" a new and exciting quarterly global flash fiction contest with a first prize of £500 which supports a great cause; Conservation of the Blue-Footed Booby’s theboobyprize.co.uk/home

This Prize Has Teeth (by yours truly) has been published at @factorfourmagazine.com! factorfourmag.com/this-prize-h...

Sharing to enter @augursociety.bsky.social Microfiction contest. #AugurMicros2025

@weirdauntmadge.bsky.social I feel like you might come up with something crazy for this.

Well, another TT story not on the board, but some lovely consolation trophies: 1x Most Original Take 💫 1x Best Title 📖 1x Best Opening Line 🏆

Twisted Tournament - didn't make it on the leaderboard for round one but had some lovely supportive feedback. Did get some sweet trophies, too. 3x Best Prose 🎨 1x Best Last Line 🎭

Someone recommended me a book lately and I told them that it sounded cool but I hadn't been reading much lately. Then I remembered I'm reading stories in contests, beta reading for friends, reading for other projects. I don't know why my brain told me that this wasn't "reading."

How Pinterest sees me ☆character ☆animal ☆lyrics ☆weather

I apparently haven't changed in 13 years.

@weirdauntmadge.bsky.social Feels like a word we'd like for our stuff.

Short Poem of the Day 📝 The Road Home Winter ugly, coyote, that bed-headed bone bag, slinks onto the road as I brake, gently. Pausing, he stares up, grinning me to a full stop. Roger Pfingston

Nova wanted snuggles... or at least my daughter did. And Onyx wanted to help write.... or my chair, not sure which.

Apparently someone made a list of cozy fantasy stories on sale for $0.99. I'm following A.J. Lancaster elsewhere and the first book in their Stariel series is on the list, and I'm a fan of that one. www.cozyupwithfantasy.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Recently getting into audio books. I thought I was always an auditory learning, but I swear I retain audio books less than print. (Though in school I was way more into seminars and lectures than textbooks.) Maybe its because I'm multitasking? Is this just me? Anyone recall audio books better?

Sometimes you're just trying to write and your kitten is "helping" either by attacking your clothes, watching from your shoulder, or chasing the typing sound you make on your keyboard.

On this episode of my daughter is growing up to become a villain: Evil Queen dies in Live Action Snow White and my daughter wants her to come back. 🤷🏼‍♀️

They should make keyboard shaped cat beds.

Recently getting into audio books, but worst part is I can't highlight and save my favorite lines. Just finished this one and was able to jot down one that stood out: "...who's face holds a map's worth of lines."

When you're reading a book and the main character has conflicting duty and desire and acts upon duty and you are certain they will come to regret it.

Got a specific one I was waiting on. 🤣 it was the one I had most hope for since he says if it had been in queue that long it was under consideration. Nope. Or at least, not anymore. The reign of false hope has ended.

After just not making it into the final showdown of the Spring WB, I am feeling quite Disappoofed.

Update on my daughter becoming a villain: We are watching live action Cinderella and she sees a few dresses and asks if she can wear the wicked step-mother's dress. I mean, she's not wrong. It is beautiful.

Guilty.

Ever since @moirariom.bsky.social had retooled my perspective to aiming for high rejections counts, I'm now looking at my email asking "Come on, where is my rejection?" Which is a completely strange way to motivate me to send out more stories.

Free subs are now back open until we hit our cap! 🌈 Submit your best flash fiction or poetry today: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/ OKD is always open for tip jar ($2.50) and expedited ($4.00) subs! Every dollar goes toward paying our contributors and other OKD expenses.

I'm so excited! I get to be an Advanced Reader for "how to Find a Nameless Fae" by AJ Lancaster, and I am a huge fan of their The Stariel Series and I highly recommend it. Now I have to get started on this new stand alone!

Get ready, Twisters, the Tourney starts SOON! 🌪️🌪️🌪️ There’s still time to sign up: twistedtournament.com/register-for...

Watching a kids show with my daughter it has a magical island with unicorns and other species but only humans - from our world - ride the unicorns. The other races work for humans, or are bad guys upset the riders disappeared their island? Feels like imperialistic propaganda to me. But unicorns!🦄😍😆

Had this little guy for a little over a week and I might be a little sleep deprived because of it. But who doesn't want a cute puppy picture on their feed? His name is Onyx.

In furthering the story of my daughter's descent into villainy, we've been watching Beauty and The Beast on repeat for a bit and I just caught her smacking a stick into the ground shouting "kill the beast!"

Looking forward to another @mskinrys.bsky.social word countdown in the coming days.

My daughter is in quiet time, I wish it would turn into a nap but now she said, "Alexa, play stinky butt!" I can't hear it, but my phone tells me Spotify is playing "stinky butt". [Also, a fun note, she has told Alexa she loves her during other quiet times.]

Reading "Tress and the Emerald Sea" [thank you @cassandrapaul.bsky.social I'm wondering why this line is not a popular highlight for its 4th wall breaking correctness. "First though, Tress went to talk to her parents. (Something more people in stories such as this should do.)"

Butterflies Inside Noses brush. Eyelashes flutter. We’re just a breath apart, until our lips reach for each other like flowers to the sun. A kiss. One kiss that releases a thousand chrysalises.

Whirligigs I drink. They twirl from their tree, spiral, fall. Never make it far, take root. The wind leaves them behind. Free to spiral. Maybe one day I’ll stop. I drink.

My local little library had this book and I'm excited because it's a pretty cover and I know I downloaded a sample a while ago to read but never got around to it. If anyone had read it, hype it up for me!

The music starts. The doors open. Anticipation. Anxiety. A flood of emotion. On her - all eyes, and his. His smile catches her, catches her breath. She floats down the aisle.

Persephone: I regret only six, not twelve, pomegranate seeds. I indulge in them during the dark dormant months then disobediently desire their taste while mother celebrates my return in the spring.

Why is the saying “go with the flow?” Horrid advice. You’d go downstream and lose yourself in the sea. Let me struggle like the salmon so I might return home. #30words30days #flow #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

"Oh I love this short story I wrote and now that there is no word count I am thrilled to add to it, it will be easy, and I can send it out right away." Double the word count later, "OK, yeah, that was optimistic of me."

In further adventures of my toddler entering her villain era, today she said, "I take over the world!" She watches PJ masks and one villain say that, but still says something about her that this is what she chooses to repeat. Also, she absolutely loves Green Goblin from Spidey & Amazing friends.

Curious about what kind of stuff you might find in Spell? Well, here we go. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797598... #romancelandia #booksky

It didn't advance any further than making it into the showdown. But I'm still happy with it and how it did.

Ahhhhhh! I'm so excited. Doubt it will go far, but fingers crossed!🤞