Got up to work on my novel at 5AM for the second day. Day three tomorrow. Hadn't touched it much since November. Maybe it's silly and I am a little tired, but in the black quiet of the morning—before work and being a partner and being a friend and remembering the horrors—it all feels so possible.

A lot of my fave short stories are three small true stories dressed up in a trenchcoat.

First Mets win in the Mayor Mamdani Era

"Eli is at the bar because his partner Dylan is in another man’s bed. He orders a dirty martini from the bartender, tells her to add triple the normal amount of olive juice." Contributor & Former Contributing Editor @livesinpages.bsky.social's flash is in Grist Journal: t.co/QbW8rFo3wO

No one in this grocery store knows I'm listening to Hilary Duff's comeback album

I wrote about cover letters! The world's most boring topic! But people ask me about this all the time so I decided to distill what I know into a post over on the Split Lip Magazine blog. I hope it's helpful—especially if you are new to submitting! 💙

Another banger from @livesinpages.bsky.social — I can taste the olive juice 🍸🍸🍸

“These couples exist in group chats and email threads with an extended universe of metamours. Their Google calendars burn rainbow bright with dates, weekend trips, birthdays, anniversaries all blocked out…” @livesinpages.bsky.social | Grist gristjournal.com/2026/03/make...

Thrilled to have a new flash in Grist! gristjournal.com/2026/03/make...

We are 3 weeks away from our annual DC conference-- an affordable, fun, productive day full of practical advice on writing and a chance to meet lots of small press authors and editors

listen up readers, my first short story collection is coming out and look at this cover (and lol I like the spine so much I had to include it)

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

Thrilled to have a new flash in Grist! gristjournal.com/2026/03/make...

I'm reading something right now that claims Jesus was probably mid in terms of attractiveness and I love that idea...

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

Feel like I should be arrested for this blue raspberry sour I ordered tonight while celebrating the Irish

Here's how May December can still win Best Picture

one of my most firmly held beliefs is that apartments should have rent ceilings. like a studio in nyc shouldn't be allowed to go over $1600, a 1br shouldn't go over $2200, etc. no matter how shiny the cabinet pulls are.

It was a 2025 goal of mine to send new work to @aaronburch.bsky.social for Short Story, Long and I'm so happy he liked "Home is a Relative Term" enough to give it a, well, home! It's a story of suburban existentialism, queer panic, and a desire for connection. open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...

The Split Lip FAM is PROLIFIC. Check out the great news from @sean-carlson.bsky.social @the-big-quiet.bsky.social @kathyfish.bsky.social @bettysueblue.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social @ilanaslightly.bsky.social @arahko.bsky.social @ritamookerjee.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social & more!

tired: arguing about genre labels wired: just make your writing better

Cute pharmacy tech asked if I had bad allergies after I bought nasal decongestants and Zyrtec and now I feel vulnerable.

Nothing says romance like uploading a certificate of domestic partnership to your HR's Life Events portal.

Divas, I may have fallen victim to the post-AWP cold/plague/critical hit to my immune system smh

I guess it's a little too long for a short story but calling it a novelette feels gay

It's actually Stevie B's "Spring Love" temperatures outside. Wow, I love being alive!

I'm about to be previously unthinkable levels of outside

Godbless the Dunkin in Baltimore Penn Station. A kind of just okay bagel can be so healing at the end of AWP.

Hey, IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE is a finalist for the Foreword Indie awards. To me, this is good www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...

Former contributing editor Chris Gonzalez side by side with EIC @maureenlangloss.bsky.social!! We smile to see the smiles 😊

Started #AWP26 with breakfast and coffee @redemmas.org, where they @livesinpages.bsky.social’s book was on display.

Finally back where I belong: the Penn Station Amtrak lounge 😌

I was a closeted teen watching America's Next Top Model, like, "Mmm, she's not very editorial."

New call for submissions from @barrelhouse.bsky.social: The Aftermath. We're looking for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art about what happens AFTER the big story is over and life goes back to "normal" (or whatever counts as "normal"). More details here:

The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act

have cleared the rest of my life for my Olympic ice dance feelings, so thanks for not expecting anything from me ever again

Lady Gaga was there for my uncle who asked my mother why she never talks about our "Italian side"

Who will write the great Daddy Yankee novel?

I cried during the Bad Bunny halftime show lmao

This is your last chance to sign up for @livesinpages.bsky.social's virtual workshop that will be taking place TOMORROW at 6pm EST! buff.ly/j6SSKPe Get I'M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT here: bit.ly/2QnxGvt @susanschulman.bsky.social

My favorite thing about department store slop is when the men's clothing is in the corner of the lower level and there are only 4 different shirts all either blue or green.

@aaronburch.bsky.social you inspired me to pick up Best American SS 2025 and start my mornings with one story and holy shit, you probably got to it already, but Isabelle Fang's "Gray, Cotton, White Lace Edges" was a total banger!

Next Monday at 6pm EST, @livesinpages.bsky.social will be leading his virtual workshop, hosted by Variety Pack! Register here: buff.ly/VdZKmBO Get I'M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT here: buff.ly/LB9CJRg @susanschulman.bsky.social

Got stressed at work so I walked away from my laptop to make a small batch of hummus.

I wrote about Dan open.substack.com/pub/tommcall...

being a writer is amazing because one hour you can have a spiraling existential crisis and the next you can write 500 words like nothing happened 🙃

It's so cold I started drinking hot coffee again.

We're closing ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a story 😍 Former contributing editor and contributor @livesinpages.bsky.social published one in Short Story, Long about what it means to go home💕 Find it here: buff.ly/YDZe7WT

Mood in minneapolis right now