Nah, bro, I just don't want to be at the nazi bar I agree that this place would be more fun if more people came over but I'm not willing to hang out at the nazi bar to see them You don't need to overthink it into some social theory

Happy to have a piece in the new issue of @elsewheremag.bsky.social - check out the issue here: elsewheremag.org/issue-29/

So I just booted up my desktop (I know, I know. Im old) and my ms office (and more importantly, word) is just... gone? Ummm... did i miss something? The Worst part? I was editing a long document that I idiotically hadn't saved....

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This is a headline that, even in 2026, I did not expect to read.

This is beautiful and heartbreaking...

"[He] would ask her out, so he offered to drive everyone in the college’s minivan, which he still had the keys to for one more night [...]" 🚐 The house favorite Emily Rinkema (@emilyrinkema.bsky.social) returns to The Bulb Region today with a fun, breathless micro. bulbregion.com/Everyone-Die...

Very grateful to @claudineliterary.bsky.social and @dehardy.bsky.social for publishing this tiny story that sat like a claw in me. www.claudineliterary.com/eirenegentle

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Im beginning to think that this week was designed in a lab specifically to off me.

Delighted to have a new micro in one of my all-time favorite journals today. Give “Tilt” a read over at Wigleaf (@wigleaf.bsky.social) if you can: wigleaf.com/202605tilt.htm 🪙

How many times can one have a mid-life crisis? Asking for a friend.

Lads, I have a piece I love dearly out at Bottle Rocket today. Give it a read if you were ever a horny teenager and you’d like to know how teenagers were horny in a Malaysian girls’ school: www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/seq...

Seeking a Creative Nonfiction Associate Editor (or two)! Associate CNF Editors Wanted! JMWW applications are open until June 14th.

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

This is an awful and beautiful story!

Bears mentioning that everything everyone on this site feared Trump would do to Iran yesterday, Israel is doing to Lebanon today.

This one hit me hard.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

Honored to be in Ruby’s final issue with a micro inspired by my mom rubyliterarypress.com/259-2/issue-...

These are gorgeous, delectable moments.

“I take your hand and we run. I slide my fingers between yours and we run. Like children. We run.” All of the people we pull along with us + 2 by @ccrussell.bsky.social in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-7/ru...

"...and here is where the reporter will sit up straight now and ask if that’s the moment I fell in love with blood,...." My lord, this brilliant piece of writing by @sfreligh.bsky.social 💙💙💙 ghostparachute.com/issue/april-...

HUGE thanks to @theargylelitmag.bsky.social for publishing 3 (!) Of my microfiction pieces in their latest issue! Check them out: www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-7/ru... And let me know which one you like best!

Anytime Trump brings up World War II, someone should ask him which was the correct side.

It has been a bit, but I have a small piece in the new Gyroscope Review. This one is quite important to me and I am glad that it has finally found a home. Check it out: www.gyroscopereview.com/2026/04/spri...

Books should take forever to write. They should torture you your entire life and the things you could have said slightly better should haunt you forever. This is what art is for, transferring the discomfort of being human into something relatable to the other humans

Want a creepy nostalgic story to start off your weekend? Your wish is my command (as long as your wish is this very specific wish for a creepy nostalgic story)

TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops. CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.

The best way to wrap your head around the “it’s all a distraction thing” is Nemik’s 40 atrocities speech from Andor. It’s not “just a distraction”, it’s that each atrocity distracts from all the other atrocities.

Oh she’s phenomenal. This is Sophia Chang.

BRAVO, NEW MEXICO!

Free micro submissions are open at X-R-A-Y, they close fast so submit your #writing today: xray.submittable.com/submit #WritingCommunity

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

One of the things bothering me about how people are responding to the Epstein files is that there are tons of conspiracies being created and spread about what’s in them, rather than people just believing the victims like they could have been doing for years now

Sometimes my state grows a spine...

Are we?

last night, government agents, undercover of the authority of the president, launched chemical attacks against American protestors. I got nothing more pithy than “fuck this,” but fuck this. power to the people.

Not a bad Christmas haul...

Every creative person, across the world, is making these choices right now. We have to fight on so many fronts. Avoid despair.

Im in a recliner with a warm cat purring on my lap. I have never wanted to make myself go work less. If my coffee cup wasn't empty, I might just stay here all day.

Normalize saying "im just really sad and tired of this whole world" when people ask how you are.

You know those albums that (definitely weren't but) feel like they were written for *you?* those albums you wishbyou could force others to listen to? I don't think I will ever get over Little Beast by @lucywainwright.bsky.social - it destroys me in the most wonderful way every time I listen to it.

Every once in awhile, those personal rejections sting harder than the forms.

They’re going to regulate whistles before guns aren’t they?

every author in the class action, please file the claim.