It’s been ages since I’ve made my inkjet squirt and honestly that’s on me. www.pointsincase.com/articles/a-p...

New writing out today in @robotbutt.bsky.social on a very important topic: www.robotbutt.com/2025/07/28/g... #writersky

“Anyway, let me get back to my yearning.” Happy Pride! From “Chlorine,” by Jade Song

Woman, 33, bemoans yet another delay in writing of personal essay “How I Found Joy As An Adult”

Trust forever broken.

I swear the “tell us why you’re unsubscribing” options (I’m too poor; I’m too stupid to use this product correctly; jk I didn’t mean to) were written by a middle school girl who grew up to be this person.

Alex Foster considers what draws us to doomsday fantasies (and why we should resist our apocalyptic urges).

Microfiction out today in “101 Words.” This is my first published piece in over a decade, y’all. I don’t think I’ll ever truly get over the feeling of being a fraud when it comes to writing, but it’s nice every now and then to see some of my words on a page. #writersky #microfiction #101words

This is on sale at Michael’s. Whoever figured out that the customer bases for “cozy craft supplies” and “unspeakably filthy monster sex” overlap 100% is a marketing genius.

“Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately”: a dire and defiant poem by @jackiesabbagh.bsky.social #stoptranshate

Trying to cancel the Apple TV subscription I got to watch Severance is harder than escaping the severed floor at Lumen. Jfc

God, this is real.

Karen Russell’s verbs 🤌 “He takes my elbow and gentles me down the planks with such tenderness that I am suddenly very afraid.” #prose #writersky

Safiya Elhillo’s “Ode to Gossips” My mind snagged (in the best way) on “plumes of smoke for husbands” #poetry

I was going to pick some favorite lines of prose from ZZ Packer’s “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” but my favorite lines are actually the whole thing. #writersky #prose

"An Abduction" by Tessa Hadley offers this apt description of a 15-year-old girl: "Jane was listless, her mind a blank with vivid little jets of dissatisfaction firing off in it." #writersky #prose

Another brutal metaphor: "She had to contend with the company board of directors, who were all men, who were all accountants or indistinguishable from them, who were cautious and slow as moles." From "Kat" by Margaret Atwood #writersky

She had lived rooted in this one place and life with this one man like the black sally in the one hedge, as pliant as it is knobbed and gnarled, keeping close to the ground as it invades the darker corners of the meadows. A brutal metaphor in the short story “Sierra Leone” by John McGahern

[Pritchett] avoided endings of stories that were too pat, where there was a detail that made you go, oh that’s what it’s all about! He liked to leave you in a mood where you finish the story yourself. Paul Theroux on V.S. Pritchett

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 20/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 19/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 18/20

These rejection letters definitely arrived with unidentifiable reddish brown stains in the margins

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 17/20

“Bees Were Better” by Naomi Shihab Nye #poetry

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 16/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 15/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 14/20

Can confirm. @mcsweeneys.net Woman Facts www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wom...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 13/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 12/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 11/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 10/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 9/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 8/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 7/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 6/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 5/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

#booksky have we found a better app than Goodreads to log & review what we’re reading, see what friends are reading, etc?

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 4/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

The conglomerate counts as one. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 3/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

Of course the Porno King skips leg day. Loved this piece.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 2/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

According to my notes, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek was a Draper who “wanted to see his threads better so he developed an interest in lens making.”

Ok I’m doing the book thing. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 1/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

Love thinking about different philosophies on art and art making! Personally, I need a balance of tension and comfort in order to create. It’s equal parts doing the dangerous, destabilizing work in the mines and then coming home to refine the ore by the fire. #writerslife #juheakim #cityofnightbirds

When it’s bleak but true!

Tell me what’s more romantic than getting pneumonia together out on the moors. I’ll wait.

We don't publish many pieces about sports, but we have a 🏀 basketball 🏀 poem for you this month! And it's a stunner! The rhythm alone will blow your mind. Presenting Andy Chen's YOU WALK UP TO THE PARK AND THERE’S ONE CHINESE GUY: https://buff.ly/3EFWA2w

This Valentine's Day, we hope you find someone who looks at you the way we look at books 😍