This is a dream come true! Thank you so much @epistemiclit.bsky.social 🩵

Every time I write a line that I think sounds killer I feel like some sort of magical warlock.

If you or anyone you love has trouble sitting still, read this bite-sized story by @bdcutkomp.bsky.social. "My teachers exchange concerns abt the pacing the rocking the bouncing..Theyve got it all wrong." xraylitmag.com/in-another-life-i-am-a-direct-descendant-of-sharks-by-bethany-cutkomp/fiction

Thank you so much @xraylitmag.bsky.social for giving this story the perfect home! 🦈

I’ve got a micro in @folklorereview.bsky.social’s fantastic Skeletal series! www.folklorereview.com/mico-series-...

Thank you to everyone that joined our first virtual reading! 💚 It was so great to hear from some of our contributors on a deeper level and share some incredible perspectives from different parts of the globe together. We love this community!

This will be a great opportunity to gain a sense of who we are and what our vibes are before we open for Issue No. II subs! Come celebrate our contributors and stick around for our open mic! The link will go live about 15 minutes before on our website thomasonian.com

🪿CNF🪿 Perfect yearning and loving and leaving WHEN REALITY THINS by @bdcutkomp.bsky.social “This may be our last time together before you move to the coast, thousands of miles away from here.” sillygoosepress.com/issue-five/w...

“But what is the opposite of a ghost? A body that wants to be found.” Another trip to the beach in this opposite-of-ghostly tale by @bdcutkomp.bsky.social, Haunter of the Shore Issue 6: #Nostalgia epistemiclit.com/current-issu...

I have a new story out called "Haunter of the Shore" with a magazine that I adore. Thank you so much @epistemiclit.bsky.social for giving this piece a home!

What an honor to be included among such stunning pieces/writers. Thank you for reading and featuring one of my favorite pieces I've ever written, @turnandwork.com, I appreciate it more than you know!

Next up, #Fiction contributors! A nice mix of new and former: Ute Orgassa - @uteorgassa.bsky.social Chris Cottom - @chriscottom.bsky.social Gary Finnegan - www.instagram.com/finnegan6893/ Barbara Reese Yager - www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraya... Bethany Cutkomp - @bdcutkomp.bsky.social Contd —

When my co-editor and I graduated with a BFA in Creative Writing, we both had no idea what we would do with our degrees. Years later, we created a nature literary magazine featuring creatives from around the world, and it is now available to read online. thomasonian.com/read

thomasonian.com/read 🌿

ISSUE ONE IS HERE! Learn a thing or two about our beautiful earth from the minds who pay it the most attention in Thomasonian No. 1! Happy reading!

Today’s the day! FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, my first novel, is officially out! Pre-orders are signed and getting shipped, you can request this at your local shop or library, you can get it off @bookshop.org, you can buy copies at Evening House (sites down atm for maintenance, but soon!)

Reread GOODBYE DAYS by @jeffzentner.bsky.social just to feel something 🥲😭

they say you can’t read in dreams, but last night I navigated Submittable

Had to stay cool and collected while working an author event for @danielkraus.com but internally I was thinking OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD DANIEL KRAUS IS AT MY LIBRARY TO TALK ABOUT HIS ASTONISHING WORK!!!!

So proud and excited to celebrate these creatives in our inaugural issue!

I've got a new nonfiction piece out in @sillygoosepress.bsky.social about true insane encounters my dear friend and I experienced before she moved across the country. Thank you to the editors for publishing this strange sliver of my life! sillygoosepress.com/issue-five/w...

Our biggest issue yet! SGP5 is all honkin’ yours 🪿⭐️🫶🏻 sillygoosepress.com/issue-five

🪿MEET THE CNF GEESE🪿 cc: @romyewing.bsky.social @bdcutkomp.bsky.social

That feeling when you’re reading a library book that’s so good you know you’re going to buy a copy anyway, dammit.

someone pull the fire alarm so we can get out of this timeline

Every time @danielkraus.com posts about the making of Whalefall, it makes me teary-eyed with excitement. If you think I talk a lot about my favorite book, just wait until it appears on the big screen! 🐳

Comments that made me smile, sandwiched among beta reader critiques. This linked short story collection is getting polished slowly but surely.

“My gaze trails upward, taking in your bandaged scrapes and gold star stickers. I’m surprised you aren’t busy hogging the swing set with your light-up-sneakers posse.” Time Machine, anyone? SO good. Read @bdcutkomp.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social ❤️❤️

"there was just time enough for you to marvel at how something as tiny and weightless as a single word could land with such impact, but then the shockwave blasted you into the exosphere, where you hung by ice-numbed fingertips on the dark curve of space" ADORED this @bdiggswrites.bsky.social piece

"On and on it went, Zara swishing through laps for days, years, so long her fingers wrinkled, her arms tired. She begged for a pool noodle, a life jacket, a float board." The transition from childlike fun to future struggles was done seamlessly, @kellypedro.bsky.social

"He spills the thirsts that we have been hoarding. He lights the spaces between us. We feed on his wonder and he recycles our rapturous gazes into an ambient light." This story by @catherineobrien.bsky.social is so darling!

"Paul watches - confused as I pull the jellyfish from the tank, nervous as I pull the long and trailing tendrils from the water, as they become one with my curling hair, until I am a gorgon with flailing tentacles of venom." LOVEEE this surreal banger by @fionamckay.bsky.social

"...for him waking, for the first gasp of acknowledged breath in the morning, for the spill of cigarette smoke that blends with an unpolished sunset..." This piece by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social had me immersed in beautiful imagery.

"To me, the stippled mucosa telescoping into view is like veined marble, unknowable beauty." STUNNING micro by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

"Here, I worked hard to forget my roots, though my skin became darker daily, an inheritance skin deep." Gorgeous, gorgeous micro by @ninamiller.bsky.social

"We are cortisol-flushed, animal eyes alert. We are ready. We never forget the rules." Goosebumps. That is what @kelliborges2.bsky.social gave me in this piece.

"The corners of reality fold inward like the cheeks of someone sucking on a lemon." This is INCREDIBLE, devastating and comforting all at once, @willmusgrove.bsky.social

Thank you so much to all our FlashFlood and Write-in editors for all their hard work. You can see their lovely faces here: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/the-editor...

I have a brand new flash story out in FlashFlood called "Time Machine." It's about a kid whose playground dirt contraption is actually able to see into the future.

'You sit crisscross in the weeds, watching me push stone buttons and turn twig dials. At first glance, you’re still folding knots into clover stems. Only when I scrunch my eyes shut and sift through a subsequent plane of existence does your fate unfold.' Great flash by Bethany Cutkomp. #nffd2025

Submissions for Issue I are now closed. Thank you for trusting us with your work! We will now bring any remaining submissions to the lab to study and send out final responses soon. Keep an eye out for Issue I releasing later this summer. It's going to be a good one!

'What reels us back is your voice, soft and hoarse through gaps in your baby teeth.' Utterly gorgeous timeslip story from @bdcutkomp.bsky.social in yesterdays Flash Flood flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/time...

trying to find a silver lining and most days it's the journalists and writers consistently staying so unshakeably engaged with this hellscape to provide the rest of us with tempered, thoughtful, honest, and comprehensive accounts.

How can one world hold so much incomprehensible beauty and absolute, shallow hatred at the same time?

the goal is to write a sentence as pleasing as a diagonally cut sandwich. and then to write another.

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

Someone's been hiding pride/equality children books under our bookshelves, so this year our staff made EVERY display in the building pride-related. We've never had so much color in here!

This tactic of dismembering books is, as Maris says, deeply disingenuous. It's also conspiracy-theory thinking. The books they're trying to ban are widely and thoroughly discussed by professional librarians and educators who've read the whole damn book. No one is "uncovering" any secrets here.

Why would you want A.I. to write your book for you? Let the SUN illuminate the words that you could not find. REACHING FOR SOMETHING IN THE DISTANCE-

dystopian novels did not prepare me for the amount of stupidity at the end of the world