Who needs a book rec to head into the weekend? 🙋‍♀️ Assistant Fiction Editor @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social recommends BOXCUTTERS by John Chrostek. "There’s a story in here about an artist who lives in a glass house and the ending will stay in my brain forever!"

Aaaaand we're officially back! And even better: we're open for submissions.✨ We can't wait to dive back into your work!

I’m so honored to have my first flash story in AGES featured in the summer issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social ☀️🥀 If you’re in the mood for some motherhood grotesquerie, give her a whirl ❤️ www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

I was watching the 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy’s The Group last night and couldn’t figure out why the actor playing Libby looked so familiar, and then it hit me: she’s Lucille Bluth!

This story in particular is a great resource to read, bookmark, and share with your networks outside of Bluesky. Let's make Lex's dream come true by clicking through and sharing widely! www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-ra...

Okay I know we’ve largely agreed that talking about dreams can get a little boring but I have a question for you all: what is the architecture of your dreams like? Do you dream buildings that are realistic and logically designed or do you dream buildings that are all surprises and confusion?

I’m so honored to have my first flash story in AGES featured in the summer issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social ☀️🥀 If you’re in the mood for some motherhood grotesquerie, give her a whirl ❤️ www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Summer 2025 is here. We have 12 amazing pieces for you to read, share, and enjoy! https:/www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twentyfour

This cover has been my song of the summer and dare I say it’s better than the original 👀 youtu.be/UqYRIOjy8MM?...

reposting this today because I have no marketing budget, because I'm publishing this with a tiny press run by a friend, because I put my whole heart into this book like I did with Boxcutters and I'm proud as fuck and this year has been one long painful but fruitful lesson in perseverance and risk

"... I use our second-best dinner set instead and put my mother on his left with his mother’s urn on the right" Weird & wonderful collaboration @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...

Hi! I've been offering one hour Zoom writing coaching sessions, and it's been going really well! I think I've been helping people, which makes me feel good. Hit me up in my DMs for some writing therapy and for more details!

From "Refaat Writes Back" newsletter, here: refaatwritesback.beehiiv.com/p/if-i-must-...

Normally I would text this thought to my brother but as he is hiking right now, I’ll share it with you: the illustration on the cover of this album by The Fixx reminds me of the stretchy-arms guy from the og Super Nintendo Street Fighter

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

“What I mean // is we should be kissing even now.” So pleased to have this new poem published in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social

6 days left to apply!

You’re in for a treat when the story starts, “No one at Sunny Wonders Amusement Park was more downtrodden about owner Barry Victor’s death than the twenty-seven mannequins of his likeness that stood like sentries across the sweltering, dilapidated grounds of his life’s work.” 🎡🎢🎟️ @johnchrostek.com

One of my special interests is wellness grifts and every single instagram ad right now is “you’re not UGLY, you just have high cortisol—and here’s an untested drink powder that can solve the problem that is that unfortunate face of yours”

"You're thirty-two and ache for motherhood, hike back to the lakeshore. If you wade into the water, you must remain." "Time Only Looks Human" by @ljensenlampe.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝

A bunch of years ago, before I knew anything about poetry, I wrote this poem on the porch of an old farmhouse in central Virginia. I've learned a lot since then about form and diction and <poetry stuff>. But I still love this little rough thing. It was so honest.

The preorder link is up for my novella, Terrestrial! Also! Malarkey has a discount code right now on all their titles in preorder: 15% off with the code PREORDER

Twice last night, I woke up on my stomach with one arm so completely asleep that moving it felt like touching the arm of a stranger. Twice!!! What does it mean?? Ominous

As Trump closes LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline, here’s where you can still find help www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/16/a...

It’s here, it’s here! It’s been well over a year since I had published work to share, and I’m so grateful to be amongst the ranks of @bulbculture.bsky.social writers 🥰

It’s here, it’s here! It’s been well over a year since I had published work to share, and I’m so grateful to be amongst the ranks of @bulbculture.bsky.social writers 🥰

Do some zooming to see the funniest thing I saw on my walk yesterday evening (or check the alt text to see what’s so funny)

I’m so so happy that @bulbculture.bsky.social is giving this story a second home 🥹 if you like late night radio, weird callers, and unlikely connections, you just might enjoy this one!

Sean and I went away for one night and Mia is here to ensure that it never happens again

Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from trans writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on July 15th, 2025. www.sundresspublications.com/submit#trans...

So happy to be in The Disappointed Housewife today, if you like weird, this one's for you! "When Amanda Corin arrived at Mommy & Me Yoga, everyone could see that her new baby had turned into a glass of wine..." #FlashLit #FlashFiction #Writer #AmWriting

My mom just sent me the photos my grandparents took when I sent them my Flat Stanley in 2001 and I have now claimed dibs in the event that my nieces ever get to do the same project and also if any of you have Flat Stanley photos or memories, please share them here!!!

I'm thrilled to have this CNF flash appear in the wonderful @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. My father died in April, so it's especially meaningful to have this out now. Many thanks @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @brttnyblm.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/we-drive-the...

What are your favorite books about time? Fiction, nonfiction, poetry—not just things that are very explicitly about time, but that come to mind for YOU when you think about time. In other words, take this as literally or otherwise as you want!

Honoured to find TWO (2) of my pieces on the @wigleaf.bsky.social longlist. Massive thanks @samanito.bsky.social and @laughingyeti.bsky.social 🙏🏾 epistemiclit.com/past-issues/... Thank you @epistemiclit.bsky.social 🧡 centaurlit.com/trolley-rock... Thank you @centaurlit.bsky.social 🧡

hell yeah (first ARCS are in)

I love this magazine so much and I’m so excited to be taking on this new role and working even more closely with the incredible team behind @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 💖

ICYMI: @malarkeybooks.bsky.social is trying to move product to prep for upcoming books, so you can pick up my new collection BOXCUTTERS alongside a host of incredible books of fiction and poetry at the Malarkey Shop with a 20% discount using the code SELLOUT at: malarkeybooks.com/store

I love this magazine so much and I’m so excited to be taking on this new role and working even more closely with the incredible team behind @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 💖

Things my cat has spent collective hours kicking around the house: -crumpled post-it notes -plastic bottle caps -dried noodles (both penne and macaroni) Things my cat stares at from a distance in some combination of disdain and fear: -most of the toys I’ve intentionally purchased for her

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.

Ideally, a country should be led by a person that understands that other people are real.

My grandparents recently moved into assisted living which means all of their belongings have been sorted through. My dad was reading my grandma’s travel journals and just sent over this excerpt about my brother and I circa 1997 and I love it 😂

Vital resources for trans youth, adults, and their loved ones in the wake of SCOTUS' decision in 'U.S. v. Skrmetti.'

“Harriet had no idea who could be lounging on their brown and soggy lawn and said so to her husband.“ I loved this story the first time I read it and even more upon its publication! You can’t quite guess what’s coming, and the delivery is so eerie and satisfying!

ICYMI: Check out @joshdenslow.bsky.social's unsettling exploration of marriage and family from our May issue! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e

Worth the read and absolutely horrifying. The focus is the negative impact of ChatGPT on individuals who are more vulnerable to breaks with reality, but I can’t stop thinking about tweens and teens interacting with this shit.

It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.