Damn.

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Everyone's talking about how Spanberger is ex-cia. Glad we finally have a governor in Virginia who represents the literary community.

Okay, I'm gonna be at the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social table at AWP in Baltimore, so y'all need to find me, hang out, buy books, and make me look cool so Alan doesn't regret sending me!

Gonna think fondly of NYC now when I ride my little free buses in Alexandria

I loved reading this one. You should grab a copy as a gift for someone (or yourself), especially (but not exclusively) if you love animals, the Alleghenies, and short stories with a strong voice!!

I can only write about a place if I have as much antipathy as I do love for it.

What connects people to anything, anyway? Check out our latest blog to dive into all things emotional resonance. 💕 buff.ly/5yydIBZ

Anyone read a good book lately? I need some recs. On my end, I recently really liked Bliss Montage by Ling Ma, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Tokarczuk, Revenge by Ogawa, and Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel.

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A fitting day to start @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social‘s Illinois-based horror novel, The Scald Crow!! 🐦‍⬛ Already the first chapter is starting strong (and spooky) and includes the Fox River!!

Had an idea for a last-minute Halloween costume. Is this anything? #SoRandomHouse

-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/ Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by: Laura Cronk @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @suzyeynon.bsky.social @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social Emma Raimondo

The roulette issue of @ettereview.bsky.social is out! I'm in love with ette's design for this issue and Beth's illustration for "Landlines." Huge thanks to Nora and Beth for including my work. ettereview.com/fall2025/

I only dream when I sleep with socks on. I can only surmise that dreams fall out your feet if you’re not careful.

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I’ll be there!!!! Come find me come find me!

Breaking News: The U.S. will allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining tracts of pristine wilderness in the country. nyti.ms/3WhrQui

I had a great time talking to Tyler about writing, shyness, and the general stuff of life on his fantastic podcast. Here it is! open.spotify.com/episode/5TKR...

Woohoo @litbox.bsky.social had a 4 book sales day! Anything more than 1-2 a day is great for these tough economic times! I sold 2 @joeyhedger.bsky.social books and 2 Zak Salih. 🎉

I have some new very short prose in the always-amazing Milk Candy Review today. For anyone who enjoys a good list.

At Evening House, here in downtown Buffalo, our mission is to connect readers with great literature from small presses, from writers around the world, to cut through the algorithmic noise and get you the books that will electrify + inspire. Come visit us in-person or online at eveninghousebooks.com

Every poll now is something like, "Most Americans dislike the government's handling of ___," and you click on the link, and it's just 51% dislike it, 49% love it.

Stronger pushes for AI in K-12 education seem to go hand-in-hand with teacher mistrust and restrictive curricula.

Technically, since the 2014 hit film I, Frankenstein occurs immediately following the events of the book, it counts as a sequel to ALL Frankenstein adaptations

The feds driving around and terrorizing our neighborhoods like they're playing Grand Theft Auto is now a daily/regular occurrence and I keep wondering how we're supposed to live like this

Celebrating the work of our trans and queer contributors today and every day! Check out a few pieces from our archive we hope stay with you beyond the blog. buff.ly/554vznz

I have a new micro about a random fear in the latest issue of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social Check it out if you wanna but make sure you read all the other amazing writers in the issue. 💙 Link: www.asteralesjournal.com/1-4-musgrove...

Really cool to see LitBox in NPR today!! @ladiwoods.bsky.social

Kids do stupid things. That’s why all our employees are children.

She saw me break her treat in half, I think

Not good, unfortunately

A lot of mighty fine writers are sayin mighty fine things about my gas station story and I'm mighty grateful for it. COUNT THE DUST is out from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social in December, y'all...

Super proud to have new short fiction in the latest @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/terrarium.html

Sit back and enjoy our OCTOBER ISSUE. 🎃 🍂 WORDS by @lynnebeckenstein.bsky.social, Priyanka Champaneri, @monmita.bsky.social, & Mingyu Brian Chan. ART by Jean Shon. PLUS Nicole Zhao interviews @cherrylousy.bsky.social. buff.ly/B6xgDQJ

America’s favorite pastime isn’t baseball, it’s flying while sick

Excited about this new role and to read your work later this month!

✨ Please help us in welcoming our NEW FICTION READERS!! 🌟

Flying into West Palm Beach last night, I was anxious already about the shutdown and unpaid traffic controllers when suddenly our plane couldn’t land and had to redirect to Tampa because the control tower got struck by lightning!!!

Gather round the campfire and let me tell you a scary story about scary stories, at @mrbullbull.bsky.social. Big thanks to @thedrevlow.bsky.social for publishing this, and to *you* for reading it. Happy camping! mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

He heard people wanted flight logs released and tried to pivot

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So far at least, Americans are lukewarm about AI summaries in search results. Relatively few who have seen them think they're extremely or very useful (20%) or have a lot of trust in the information they get from them (6%). New data from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

So excited to have a new story in one of my very favorite magazines today. Super proud of this one, and I hope you all like it.

Tracking the shifts in my short stories (whether they be emotional, plot- or conflict-driven, flashbacks, whatever) and seeing if they align with the classic verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus structure of pop songs. They do, kinda.

You will want to read this for sure. RIP Dad. All of this is true. The events took place last January. And thank you to Bull for publishing this.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but the amount I like or dislike the font does in fact impact how much I like the story.

Start preheating your ovens!!

Ditto

Finally found the tree frogs at Huntley Meadows!