me christmas shopping for my friends: searches "vintage worm" on etsy

Very excited for this new issue of @factorfourmagazine.com. I've got a little #scifi #flashfiction in it called "Things I Don't Tell My Sister" Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social Check it out here:

help the horrors are really getting me down today

I love a good find at my local used bookstore and I love even more when there’s a hidden treasure inside

love Andrea Krause's bio today almost as much as her #smallpoemsunday poem itself! https://www.havehashad.com/w5mk8

"you might realize, rolling the fibers between your thirty-five-year-old fingers, how lucky you were to have a mother open to such friendships" Love the way this piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social shifts about in time. Rich, layered writing.

[Enter Ghost.]

Who wore it better?

Because people think you're a bitch if you don't. See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.

just finished my 2x speed listen to Frankenstein (don’t worry it’s not my first time) ahead of the movie tonight and I’m so excited

"The woman who used to be me folds clothes in silence and puts clean plates in cabinets." Don't miss @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's quiet, plasmatic ghost story, "Tethered" in this issue! I really, really love this one.

Cuyler is one of the funniest writers I know!

okay yes I am really vibing with Daniel Caesar’s new album—great for dicing onions to on a fall day

I have some new very short prose in the always-amazing Milk Candy Review today. For anyone who enjoys a good list.

This is a lovely, poignant flash. @sarlynh.bsky.social

This story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @yourimpossiblevoice.com is radiantly beautiful (and sad and true and heartbroken, but still beautiful). I feel awash in a melancholy nostalgia for someone else's past. That's quite a feat. (And I'm not presuming it's the author's past, I mean the narrator's).

I'm afraid I can't help myself with a weepy coming-of-age girlhood lament from time to time <3 Huge thank you to Keith and Your Impossible Voice for giving this one a home!

"did i really see the trail, the way the sky hinged into cloudmist?" such beautiful work @jillkitchen.bsky.social !

too excited about the boxelder bug costume I'm making out of cardboard to wear to my office's halloween potluck (they've infiltrated the lobby--the boxelders, that is)

co-workers are saying I’m giving shaggy today and I’m taking it as a compliment

“the fibers might remind you of worms, your first playmates as a child, and the time you ate three of them” @sarlynh.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...

It’s a minor thrill and a great annoyance to be kept awake thinking about revisions

“It also makes me wanna cry—but in a fun way” - me after two glasses of wine

This beautiful story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social hit me right in my emotional core. Highly recommend!

Excited to share my newest piece in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Issue 36: "Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?" Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including my work alongside that of so many other remarkable writers! gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...

My mom strictly enforced handmade cards for any and every occasion and I can’t escape it

Hi! Why not read this story of mine? If you feel like it, you know. Published in @trampset.bsky.social in February. Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces trampset.org/margaret-mul...

So excited to have a new story in one of my very favorite magazines today. Super proud of this one, and I hope you all like it.

"I’m so aware of it now, that little ball of poisonous tissue." I can tell this one is going to stick with me for quite a while. Fantastic, horrifying work @jaimegill.bsky.social!

"Eight squirts of popcorn butter bled through thin paper bags" Love this perfect coming-of-age story by my talented friend @ashdoeswords.bsky.social! Dripping with nostalgia bleeding through thin paper bags <3

ONE ART is pleased to announce IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems, Guest Edited by Julia Caroline Knowlton! oneartpoetry.com/2025/10/06/i...

This piece is such a sensory experience and I loved every bit of it. I don't know how you pack so much into your micros, Ash! (I know I'm so late on sharing this one, but I've been thinking of it since I first read it)

The language in this story, like all of Mizuki's writing, truly sings. It carries it's own melody, and I feel you can hear it even in the title.

you're driving on a sparse midwestern highway at 7 am to an office in an out-of-town industrial area in your 2006 corolla with rusted wheel wells, fog settling across browning september fields, and you're singing along to you don't know you're beautiful on the radio and you're 31 years old and—

PAUL ÉLUARD (1895-1952) Translated by William Carlos Williams

In such incredible company with this stunning piece that I can't believe I've only now read!

@sarlynh.bsky.social's "Ten Seconds" trampset.org/ten-seconds-...

Incredibly honored and grateful to the entire team at trampset for my first-ever Best of the Net nomination! <3

Not sure if I'll watch The Sting, Butch Cassidy, Gatsby, The Way We Were, or All the President's Men tonight <3

I've pulled away from traditional dialogue in a lot of my recent work, but the characters in my current project are CHATTY my god

@eleanorlennox.bsky.social's prose is always so effortless and this story in particular is SUCH lush, beautiful work.

my office bestie is off today and I just told an entire anecdote to my other two coworkers, realizing half-way through that they were both wearing headphones and couldn't hear me, but I finished the story anywayyyy, so yeah I miss her lol

I read @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social's piece "Invisible Measures" in @frazzledlit.bsky.social yesterday morning, and here it is 24 hours later and I'm still thinking about it! I think I will be for a long time. Seriously stunning, like poetry all the way through. www.frazzledlit.com/p/invisible-...

Got second place at book-themed trivia tonight and our team name was “reader? I hardly know her!”

writing feels extra hard today :'(

Today I'm thinking about recommendation letters, anxious sweat, burnt-tasting breakroom coffee, tubing down a river, browned-butter oatmeal cookies with spiced cream-cheese frosting, asking for help, two long braids, Ultra Fantasy Ruby Red Monster Energy, wispy clouds like spider webs, and museums.

Once in a college linguistics class, we grouped up randomly in threes for an exercise and the prof told us that whoever’s birthday came earliest in the year would record each group’s answers, and all three of us had the same birthday istg—I still think about this—how!

Not quite as hand-shaking as a usual call, but a bit of Pavlovian heart racing for this one! Happy birthday, HAD <3

I'm in the midst of my second cold of the summer and I just think that's really rude