My Sunday reading is sorted thanks to @mynachang.bsky.social and her September roundup. Honored my story is included as an added bonus to what looks like a stellar list of stories! mynachang.com/2025/09/25/f...

DC peeps! My book launch is October 14th at the extremely awesome Lost City Bookstore in Adams Morgan, with the v brilliant @rvoronacote.bsky.social as my conversation partner! It will be Halloween themed! Please come! www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-peop...

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

The Bearded Bards of BlueSky are back!!!! Join us online for two readings featuring stellar lineups of amazing poets and writers to raise funds for @translifeline.org. Check out the website for details (including zoom registration link): beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Morning walk

The winners of American Short Fiction’s 2025 Insiders Prize — two short fiction pieces and two essays by incarcerated writers. Absolutely worth your time to read! lithub.com/read-the-win...

Had such a great time in Pennsylvania these last few days, hanging at Pocket Books with @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social and H&H Books with @samuelashworth.bsky.social. Got to hug @jamiebeth.bsky.social and a bunch of @barrelhouse.bsky.social friends. 🥰 Now I have to teach today. Wtf.

For anybody who wants to know about the shape of the story, or how I am really always trying to write the opening scene of Boogie Nights

🚨 new Benjamin Niespodziany day! two amazing new shorties!! 🚨 "The magician looks the other way when he removes his first foot. The butcher cooks the bear meat he captured in his pasture. The executioner refuses to remove his mask..." https://www.havehashad.com/vr767

I can’t even fathom the ceiling on the lawsuit Tylenol is going to be able to file. It’s going to make the Dominion voting machine lawsuit look like a speeding ticket.

Veronica Park did these covers! She is AMAZING and you can FEEL the love of birds/nature/mushrooms/all sorts of cool stuff when you look at her portfolio! veronicapark.com

Philly friends come hug me and cheer for me! 🥰

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

this exists it is called thinking

I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.

Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people

it is good for everyone, no matter what your gender is, to have female role models

I have a new story in Craft Literary, “Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk Into the Woods”, about the people & places that haunt us. would be so thrilled for you to read this one 👻 🌲 🤍 www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/19/t...

Our June contest “Illumination” was a bright spot for Flash 405, with @lumchanmfa.bsky.social as our guest judge. Congratulations to our winners: @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, Meg Taylor, @francesgapper.bsky.social, Alice Hatcher, Liana Meffert! Read their flash here: tinyurl.com/Illumination405.

I am so tired of the incessant whining of sore winners who don’t think their unearned gold medals are heavy enough.

ICYMI: I wrote a story about nostalgia and parties and the gorgeous wild unseriousness of this life and how sad and good it all is, and it has (almost) nothing to do with politics at all and I do really hope you read it because I wrote it for you ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/your-life-...

What is the point of being rich if you’re just going to be a coward? The entire draw of wealth is that it’s supposed to free you from having to do things you don’t want to do, not to make you constantly capitulate and ignore decency to grow and protect your hoard like some sort of Swiss Dragon.

Tech isn’t even tech anymore. These people don’t love technology, they don’t breathe it, don’t dream it. They love money. They breathe greed. They dream in green.

"I have fallen in love with the flash community. These writers are some of the most talented, funniest, kindest, supportive people I know. We all raise each other up and commiserate over rejections and push each other to keep getting better." 💯 agree @emilyrinkema.bsky.social !!! #FlashWriters ❤️💙💜

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

Issue 89 with new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in our Master Series, is live! Work by established writers and those new to the form rubbing elbows in this issue. All rare gems by writers from around the globe. So proud of everyone in this issue. www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

I talk a lot of shit for a guy who can’t stop his country from being overtaken by fascism.

I love when companies are like, “Some corporate suits think they can sell you on a brand, but you know better. You’re a maverick. A do-what-you-will rebel who doesn’t simp for big business marketing. So, buy your jeans from people who are just as independent and non-corporate as you. Levi Strauss.”

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

MUCH GRATITUDE TO @jenwithwords.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and all the WONDERFUL EDITORS AT LITERARY NAMJOONING for including "Sticky Notes for a Downcast Soul" in Issue 2 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/sticky-notes-for-a-downcast-soul-by-tracie-adams

Arguing queer people shouldn’t exist, some races are inferior, and women should be subservient is not a valid set of political beliefs. Positively insane that the media, higher education, and the system of law keep entertaining the idea that it is. These people are quantified bigots. On the record.

I just discovered unfrosted Pop Tarts have the same amount of calories as frosted ones, and, y’all, I’m done with this world.

I despise how the state of things makes me withhold my affection and trust to people I would have previously greeted with open arms. I must wonder with every new connection, “Do you support dark, hateful things? Are you one of the millions embracing racism, misogyny, and bigotry like a new dawn?”

🗓️ Today in one sentence for Thursday, September 11, 2025. Day 1695: "Pass some gun laws."

Uhhhh, just heard that Coffin Moon is already being reprinted. One day after pub. THANK YOU ALL, holy shit. bookshop.org/p/books/coff...

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

Literally two of my favorite writers and people. If you can do this, you definitely should.

Tonight!

Sometimes I am deeply and personally offended by the songs my music app recommends based on what it thinks I enjoy.

IT'S OUT TODAY! Ancient family lore. Secrets passed down through generations. A feeling of belonging...or, of not. Heritage and horror, ancestry, things we pass down through our bloodlines. Stories that have deep, foul roots. I'M SO PROUD OF THIS BOOK! GET YOURS: titanbooks.com/72017-roots-...

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Tomorrow.

Friends! Meet us at Rift Wine Bar & Taphouse on Oct 4th at 3 PM for our first ever Desert Grit Reading Series! With readings from: @mdbell79.bsky.social @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @shipraagarwal.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social And me! See you then!

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

Thanks to everyone who joined me for a virtual reading. Such a great group of writers hanging out on a Saturday! @kelkel.bsky.social @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social @barbarabyar.bsky.social @sugarpigblog.bsky.social Tiff Storrs "All and Then None of You" is avaialble now!