Not to be sappy on main, but communication in a new relationship is truly a godsend and does so much to calm down my little anxious brain.

I wrote my first horny flash fiction of the year. We’re so back.

very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House! www.thedollhouse.studio

I’m going to AWP just to vibe.

Ada Limón.

one of my standing complaints is every february 1st a lot of you are like read Black writers! and then name the same five people to read. Some writers who could use your pre-orders: The Great Wherever by @shanders.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Let’s all try to make February a little bit gentler and easier than January was.

It's quite nice to have my first publication of the year get such a gorgeous cover! I'm delighted.

TFW you want to write a short story and you know it from start to finish, but you might not be smart or skilled enough to pull off its mechanics and goals.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

#ICMI: @strangehorizons.bsky.social is Open for #fiction submissions for the next 46-ish hours. Go forth and SUBMIT SOMETHING asap! strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

I completed a short story for the first time in nine months and a writer I hugely admire has said it is one of her new favorites. I think I might be getting a little writing groove back. ☺️

I have had this strange imagery in my head since April that I want so badly to coalesce into a proper story, but it remains a surreal, subterranean knot.

let's try this social media thing again

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. I'm genuinely surprised no one I follow has mentioned this one. It's my go-to record to spin when I get home from work.

This is probably only me and my brand of deafness, but I find podcasts to be much more accessible when they're in a video format as well. I can lipread speakers. I can turn on captions. I've had more access to information and dialogues and thoughts when I'm able to see how the conversation goes.

Happy holidays, I just got told my credit score could only get better if I got a mortgage. 🤡

It's strange to be writing in the midst of so much emotion/grief/exhaustion, but the ideas must be given space and realized.

Reposting one of my favorite stories I've written, both to celebrate the redesign of @therumpus.net and to remind Deaf folks that Dinner Table Syndrome is an experience more shared than we know, especially around the holidays:

bless the friends who read 18 paragraph-length texts about your chance meeting with your very first partner

I will never cease to be surprised at how much of themselves people put on the internet.

I cannot stress how important it is that we make “bitch, do something yourself” a language-embedded meme on the level of “kim there’s people that are dying”

This. This is why printed books are still so important.

Perhaps as a way of burying my head in the sand, I've decided to start learning French; it's actually startling how much American Sign Language borrows from French syntax and structure. Mais oui.

I really, really loved this one. @anniejowrites.bsky.social is always so good, but this really touched me. "They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."

I see the book piracy discourse is going around again and all I can say is I know more than one writer producing acclaimed work that is considering jacking it in or reducing the amount they write because they don't make to justify it vs a job job. It's not only piracy, but piracy is costing us art.

Uh, y'all need to read this. And it damn well better get that Pushcart they just nominated it for.

This is the only story I've published during a very difficult year; to have something published is validating, but to have it singled out for awards consideration is truly special. I'm very grateful. H/t to @rrrubenstein.bsky.social, especially, for being extraordinary through all this.

Of course I decided to start pitching magazines again in the midst of the most anxious timeline.

fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, @lmanusos.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, & @angelaliu.bsky.social ⚡🦇 don't want to subscribe to my free tiny letter? weird choice! but you should still read these stories, so here's the link:

One day the US will have to face the shame and horror of what has happened here: that a cabal of wealthy people have elevated a monster into the most powerful person in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

This was joyous. Just a mad ray of sunshine in an otherwise desolate landscape

Sara Nović's fourth book, MOTHER TONGUE, is now available to preorder via Bookshop! You know what to do! (Seriously, if you're a fan of my writing, you are, by default, a fan of hers. Sara has had an immeasurable impact on my writing. I'm in awe of her brilliance every single day.)

As a Deaf person who hesitated to move to Philly, I honestly wish that someone had told me how many folks knew some level of ASL; I would have JETTED myself over here so fast. The community and engagement I've found here is incredible, truly second to none.

After almost three weeks of my books in boxes, I FINALLY have a bookshelf!!

My Halloween celebration is reading Kelly Link, with the lights down low, while the Twin Peaks soundtrack plays on the record player.

Saying this yet again because I’m so tired of ppl justifying this: ghosting ppl is one of the most cruel, anti-communal things you can do. I don’t expect you to stay close to ppl who aren’t good for you. I am expecting you to have the decency to say “I have to step away, and here’s why.”

I hung one of my favorite publications in my new apartment today, y’all. 😃

Holy crap, everyone: new Maile Chapman novel in 2026, her first in 15 years. So freaking excited. Love that cover, too:

Also, don't miss Vajra's incredibly powerful acceptance speech (fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable): youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...

I made it through. I feel so valued and validated as a writer, y’all.

My first in-person reading (in six years!) is tonight. Fingers crossed I make it through intact.

Since it’s my favorite month and almost Halloween, I’m going to share some favorite spooky pieces of mine from years past (and a separate thread of other ppl’s work!). First up: my horror essay, from 2018 at @electricliterature.com, forever relevant: electricliterature.com/horror-lives...