Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to John Haskell about his new book 'Trying To Be' !! they discuss writing as a process of thinking, & Haskell's fluid writing style. read it ! xraylitmag.com/following-th...

This new @joshuahebburn.bsky.social story rules

Preorders are important because then you forget you preordered and you buy another copy of the book and give the one you get after the one you get surprisingly quickly to your friend.

Reading a short story every day.

Pleased to make Gergley's 50 micros. www.scaffoldlit.com/top-50-micro...

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Scott Myles, After the Mountains, More Mountains, 2004 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133310

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Happy new years to all the people in my phone.

Happy new year! We are open for submissions.

we've got a story by Christian TeBordo ! written as a report on a perspective university donor, it's about a man, among the 400 richest Americans (his father invented prime numbers), who wants to ‘solve the Hundred Years War’ - it's so good xraylitmag.com/from-a-donor...

Found this compressed mid-century short story in an interview with Ken Friedman.

Goodbye to 2025. (Dutch tile now on display at the Holbourne Museum.) (Apologies to those squeamish about things scatological.)

Every time I eat pistachios I feel like a zoo animal who has been given an enrichment toy.

we have a story by MM Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social ! it's about an aging man whose reality starts glitching, switching between ordinary life & a staged reality of actors, props, & cardboard a beautiful story with a beautiful ending - u should read this pronto xraylitmag.com/not-everythi...

I am thinking about my new New Year's resolutions.

Milliners (Workshop of the milliner) https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/31228

Happy holidays to all

Spending Christmas morning alone in the quiet, drinking coffee, reading about Joe Gould.

In Angel’s Care by Paul Klee, 1931 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137617

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Not to spoil it (which doesn’t even really matter) but I think this might be my fave ending I’ve written.

It's time to read @aaronburch.bsky.social's "Home for the Holidays." xraylitmag.com/home-for-the...

Merry Christmas!

good morning from Russell Atkins

We are also thrilled!

Cheers.

François Cointe #1989 rb.gy/5sa97l

You will be haunted by three spirits

we have a story by Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social ! in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone. a great story ! & a great ending xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...

BREAKING NEWS! Shane Kowalski has a story in Harper's Magazine. 🪇🎉 This is from @dieddisappointed.bsky.social's spanking new collection, Are People Out There. Check it out here, or read it at your grocery store soon...

Starting The Instructions.

Quoting the part of the source with literary pizzazz instead of doing my own mediocre literary pizzazz as a little treat for my professor.

very grateful to have three poems up at @havehashad.com today! they’re all after George Oppen’s magisterial Of Being Numerous — many thanks to guest editor Sam Heaps and to Aaron & Crow for all they do to keep HAD HAD 💀

Saw one of these in person and they're actually enormous canvases. Like wall-sized. It makes them hilarious. A giant version you stare at of a thing you aren't supposed to notice.

My story "Have a Martini" from @havehashad is in great company on Tyler Dempsey's (final) annual. tylerdempseywriting.com/best-of-the-...

Cheers

You have to make a choice.

Eleven things I read for the first eleven months of the year and particularly liked. Honorable mention to XRAY subs and Zac Smith's book, which was a re-read.

today we get to publish your and our good pal, Joe Aguilar, and it absolutely rules! “Rain is the grief of the tortoise’s father, and volcanoes are the anger of the tortoise’s mother.” https://www.havehashad.com/obnor

art by roger haus -- say hello to my little friend

Cheers

Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead blew my mind in highschool. Thank you Tom Stoppard and thank you Mr. Shea.

Rafał Olbinski IRRELEVANT QUESTION #rafalolbinski 🇵🇱 b. 1943 #irrelevant #question #dailydoseofart #art #artlovers #artbots #artonbluesky

I'm getting really good at reheating pizza in the frying pan.

Fancy beers cheers

I always reread this the night before Xmas but you could also read this today.

There are two kinds of people: muppets, and people.

I speculated about this (“For all I know, Ivan is on Twitter, pretending to be a pro-Trump housewife in Florida.”) in the last paragraph of my story Moskva, selected by @joshuahebburn.bsky.social and published in Hobart (before The Great Divorce). www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...