The special prosecutor being questionably removed from the case and then the guy who took over not being able to find anybody to take the case and then just deciding to drop it feels like a different thing than "a judge dismissed the last Trump election interference case" but who am I to say?

This feels like a spiritual successor (or predecessor, in terms of age of the characters) to Hempel's In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried. Beautiful storytelling here. Heart-stretching and full of guilt and sorrow and love. @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/flash/1125/c...

Read my friend's perfect story. You will regret it but you also won't.

Listening to @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social drink wine on CPR and I'm just so happy for him. Dude is just living the absolute peak. I don't drink wine but I just love listening to him and this other nerd love their lives so fully.

This is amazing.

I'd like to read some joyful short stories. Any recommendations? Link appreciated if published online.

This is one of my favorites stories I've written. Come for my Winnie the Pooh modern update, stay for whatever other hilarity is in here. open.substack.com/pub/eggplant...

I think the word thrum is only used by creative writers. I've never seen it in any other context.

I'm finally gonna say it. Ned Stark deserved to lose his head just for the way he said "they have no ships, Robert" at their fancy King picnic. There. I said it. I'm glad he's dead.

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...

No freaking way. Octavia E Butler forecasting 2032 in 1998. Check the second to last line. This is nuts. Utterly eerie stuff.

Good news, fans of art, the apocalypse is almost here, and you can be a part of it! (Apparently real job that LinkedIn recommended to me)

The contest that started it all (for me) is back! Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 20th annual Short Story Challenge on January 23rd. Learn more at NYCmidnight.com/ssc

The calendar invite just says "not the second to last step in a Bond villain plot, we swear!" www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...

My seventh grader today was relating that in his ELA argumentative writing unit they aren't supposed to be writing about "facts that can't be debated." I tried not to shatter his worldview. It's very sweet that he still thinks those exist. What a good, stable existence that must be.

This is all I've got for you today. I'm trying, Jennifer.

@pablo.show can you find out about this hat?

I haven't watched Downton Abbey since the beginning of the second or maybe third season, but did the massive jumps in time just slow way down? Because they should be in like the 90s by now otherwise right? Does lady Mary listen to Garbage? Probably, right?

It's interesting to watch brands lean so hard into AI as a selling point despite 1. The overwhelming disgust most people I know have for AI and 2. The usually meaningless (and often useless) distinction between what we used to just call an algorithm or programming but now insist on calling AI.

The truest thing I've ever read.

I've left @espn.com for my beloved Sun Devils. Now radio will carry me home. Like the old days.

You spend all off-season waiting for this and then @espn.com just fumbles the second half of... Being a television broadcasting company

@espn.com you gonna fix the picture in the ASU game that's the only reason we all paid you for or...?

Got my mom to listen to Omnibus. after one episode her takes are: "i wish @kenjennings.bsky.social talked more" and "they are right this episode is long"

Libs of TikTok put on a whole dress and did her hair to party on the white house lawn with an empty binder and now the speaker of the house is threatening to shut down the Congress over what they were all crowing about was in the binders.

This gluttony of layers-upon-layers torment and fearsomely macabre storycrafting comes to you courtesy of my good friend, the Horror Queen of Appalachia, @rachelsavagewrites.bsky.social, in the pages of @unchartedmag.bsky.social. A new American myth for our day. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/sitt...

Up for a scary writing challenge? Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story Challenge on October 31st! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/scary

I'm not sure I have ever read writing as achingly beautiful as Elysia's. This story is pristine. An indescribable admixture of love and remorse and bitterness and perfect compassion. In short: it describes the haunted reality of true human love more perfectly than perhaps any story I've ever read.

RFK "We don't know whether (vaccines) have anything to do with the epidemic of chronic disease."

The way Jaime continues to reach inside me and manipulate my heart with every new story he writes... I'll stop being surprised one day, but not today. Stunning story.

Read this beautiful little collection of essays on life, living, death, and dying this morning before work. Can't recommend it enough. 45 minutes of mindset-altering beauty.

Ready to test my writing skills in the Twisted Teams challenge "Twisted Teams 1"! Looking forward to the creative prompts and team collaboration. Any other writers joining me? twistedtournament.com/homepageteams #TwistInTaleContest #writingcontest

@ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social I gotta know if you've ever heard the Pittsburgh Pirates television play by play guy. Dude sounds like he's doing an impression of you. Or maybe vice versa. It's quite pleasant but bizarre. Keep expecting him to ask about checks and balances or ceviche or something.

Update: well there you go

Thrilled to have my story, The Salem Society, included on the longlist of this great quarterly contest. Looking forward with excitement for Friday's short list!

This (Holly) B can WRITE.

Imagine thinking anybody wants this. What bizarre divorce from society have you had to experience over the course of your life to have these thoughts?

Extremely hilarious that good ole boy can't believe these weirdo elitist liberals on SNL Morgan get me to God's country Wallen posted his little dig on the New York Freaks with a picture of his private plane

My story, Consequence, is as weird as I get. "Behind these doors, living minds persist within dying bodies. Seeing what I've seen, I'd beg for death."

Humbled to be featured in this creepy horror anthology alongside some truly stellar writers. Check out this freaky departure from my standard fare for $3 on digital, and all for a good cause! @tldrpress.bsky.social does great work, and I'm proud to return to their pages. a.co/d/4URmabp

I think where the left screwed up (lol as if there were only one place) was when they backed down on Critical Race Theory. Ceding the ground that racism and thinking critically about privilege was good led to now. Imagine telling folks in like 2018 that DEI was gonna become a right-wing rallying cry

This is brilliant and funny and disturbing and enthralling, by @jonsteinhagen.bsky.social in the digital pages of @trampset.bsky.social

I don't know how @jaimegill.bsky.social does it. "If making hearts beat was a matter of will, I’m not sure he’d bother." Might be the best line I've ever read.

Truly gorgeous storytelling from @mattkendrick.bsky.social "did you know angelfish groom each other as part of their mating habits? asks Charlotte / she has a knack of coming out with things that tie together an occasion’s disparate threads" Beautiful

"He was the first to die in the After. The first to be buried there, in a backwoods clearing on the backside of a mountain by the broke-back curve of the creek that rested at the half-forgotten crossroads of the Appalachians and the footpath to hell." Hooooooly cow this is good stuff.

Hard to believe it's real, but here is my story in the wonderful digital pages of @trampset.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy it!

Who do these Epstein hardos think they're gonna find in there that's gonna make any difference in the world? If they reveal every Democratic senator alive was on the island, what changes? We don't have heroes anymore. There is nobody you can bring down that can hurt us.