I'm wearing a blazer. Happy Valentine's Day 💙 🍻

Happy Valentine's Day from Mabel 💙 🐕

Once again searching under my couch cushions for good news just in case it fell out of my pockets.

I've got a new story out in @variantlit.bsky.social called "The Gunshine State." It's kinda about hating your hometown from someone who kinda hates his hometown and kinda also loves it. Thanks so much to the editors for giving it a home!!! variantlit.com/the-gunshine...

Saw some more ducks today 🦆

Issue 22 is officially here! We'll share highlights from these prose pieces and poems in the coming days. Check out the whole issue here: variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

Thanks to @rgvaughan.bsky.social, @amymarques.bsky.social, and the entire Bending Genres gang for publishing this new story in their new issue. Thanks, too, to @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the prompt and the early eyes. Honored to be alongside so many great writers! 'https://bendinggenres.com/peck/

Mabel is relaxing by the fire this morning 💙 🐕

Stressed. Drank 4 Frescas today without realizing it. Stresscas.

Mabel watching some ducks 🐕 🦆

AI is trash. Sports betting sucks. But all our stuff is 40% off today.

I could not be happier about where this story ended up. Thank you @wigleaf.bsky.social for believing in "Things That Happened at or around My Cousin Kelly's Funeral, in No Particular Order." Started at @smokelong.bsky.social, of course... wigleaf.com

A literary super bowl can last anywhere from 2 to 6 months.

One day flash sale. Code FLASHY gets you 40% off anything we have at malarkeybooks.com/store

Not going to AWP this year. But if you're driving through Iowa on your way, stop by. I'll bake cookies.

Mabel wishing you a happy Saturday 💙🐕

My hair is extra high today 🍻 💙

Mocha & I are spending our morning with the latest beautiful issue of the Blue Earth Review. I’m so happy it includes my CNF flash “Good and Plenty.”💚🐶📚

Received seven bookstore returns today, six copies of Backmask and one copy of It Came from the Swamp. All in good shape and now all on sale for just $13. malarkeybooks.com/store/returns

Kind of a long, depressing day. But here's a picture of my dog wearing a hat (Excuse my messy hair) 🐕 💙

BURN by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social is out today from CJ Press! Grab an ebook or paperback and take the ride--it's a novel you won't soon forget: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/burn.html

Thinking about how, while at community college, I worked as a dishwasher, and one day my boss told me not to wear bleach-stained clothes, so for my remaining time there I wore cheap, thrifted suits.

Feeling sad about *points to everything*? Me too! Read my sad essay! I wrote about The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs for the lead up to March ‘90s Sadness. ✨🖤 [B-Side bonus content: The Feeling Wheel of OOPS-ALL-SADNESS.]

New story up on X-R-A-Y! It's about a stoned slacker who owes a muscular woman money

Not much writing today, but I did build a miniature music store 💙🎼

The February 2026 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/yz54jnyb

Mabel wore her new boots on today's morning walk 🐕 💙

Understand that we’re not for everyone and not everyone can buy books and especially that no one can buy every book—but, we have a lot of expenses coming up rapidly and every bit of support, from big to small, helps: malarkeybooks.com/support

The cherry cheese windmill cookies I made 🍪

Baking some cookies 🍪

Taking my story on a field trip today by writing at local coffee shop.

I'm wearing a jacket 🍻 💙

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If you haven't yet, read this amazing piece by @djpoissant.bsky.social in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social 💙

If I'm reading something, and it's really good, I'll read it aloud to my dog.

Thrilled have a 500-word story up today at The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social . This story started as an idea for an ending that I texted myself and carried around on a phone for years. Finishing was just a matter of finding a beginning: www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/heart/

Mabel watching the deer 🦌 🐕 💙

My writing process is like that trick where you yank a tablecloth off a table really fast except I'm trying to break all the dishes on top.

It's so cold at the office, I'm wearing mittens while writing my silly stories.

YES WE ARE DOING THIS AGAIN, but this time, it's for our brand new Multigenre + Chapbook team: our MG/C editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social, is looking for readers to join their 2026 MG/C reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED! More details forthcoming on the app, which will be available on Fri Jan 30!

GOOD NEWS. My novel--a retelling of Hansel & Gretel in which the parents are addicted to opioids--originally titled Abandon & now titled A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR, will be published by Cornerstone Press (Univ. of Wisconsin) in February 2028.

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YO! I've noticed a few folks have recently subscribed to my Substack. I haven't used Substack to post in like 3 years! My new newsletter will be sent through Beehiiv, which is ALSO where I will be hosting my new author site. If you are interested in signing up, please do so through HERE!

Very proud and excited to share a new story in X-R-A-Y today This piece started out as a riff about Bono going into the crowd at Live Aid and ended up as a meditation on the asymmetrical love between parents and children thanks to @joshuahebburn.bsky.social for the keen and perceptive edits!

Mabel woke up from her morning nap to say she's proud of you 🐕 💙

My partner has started doing this thing where she tells me a dumb joke before we leave for work. Today's was: What kind of dog doesn't bark? A hush puppy.

Arcade bar Will 🍸

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I have no idea what the response to this will be, but I have a three-part experimental / hybrid published today is FRiGG Magazine I would love for you to read. Fabulous issue, including flashes from @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross! 💙 friggmagazine.com