This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

First bloom 🌸🤍

Melinda Gates could do the best thing right now if she bought the bones of the paper they're pulling apart to sell as scrap and asked Mackenzie Scott to be her partner & buy some other media papers like the WSJ

In the new issue of Ghost Parachute, among a wealth of worthy pieces: ghostparachute.com/issue/februa... We assume you've suffered this, too, right?

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!

Huge thanks to @saloneurope.bsky.social for a brilliant evening! The variety of work shared is what really makes it special. Cheers @kiklodge.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social 👏 Especially wonderful to hear @eileentomarchio.bsky.social read this beauty 🍦❤️ ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

Brilliant, riveting flash by @djpoissant.bsky.social in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social miCRo Series. 💙💚💔

Excited for this! ☺️💫💥

Got the lovely news yesterday that my Ghost Parachute story “Drive-Thru Cone,” from the terrific Nov. 2025 issue, has been selected for the journal’s upcoming print anthology. Thank you, @brettpribble.bsky.social and team for the honor and support! ☺️🙏💙💚🧡 ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

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.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

Happy to have a story on the longlist! Thank you, @smokelong.bsky.social ☺️❤️🙏

Radiohead Björk The Cure PJ Harvey Sigur Rós 💙💛🧡💚❤️

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have. #DavidLynch

Publishing news alert! 🚨Contributor Sara Lippmann's book JERKS was republished from Tortoise Press! buff.ly/Vfv18vR

"The constraint needed to force the author to consider every element of the work, the bold and the shy, the controlled gestures and the peepers with secrets." Marvelous editor's letter by @owenwyke.bsky.social. Deep mid-winter thanks to him & @amygcb.bsky.social for the call and opportunity! 🌚❄️✍️✨💙

This book isn’t about small towns. It’s about learning how to live with less and calling it enough.

"This grief has crushing depths and I am its diver. Did you know it’s the ascent that bends you, that jackknifes you in sudden pain?" Reeling from the incredible prizewinning "Submariner" in the latest @smokelong.bsky.social. Can't wait to read more by @lapharr.bsky.social 👏💫

If anyone still wondered what a Vance presidency might be like, if it could be any worse than Trump‘s, we know now, thanks to his tweets.

They killed a young poet on a street while a university in Texas forbids teaching Plato (among other things), and president can’t stop talking about buying an island that has no desire to be sold. That was the first week of the year in a strange country getting stranger by the hour, my Horatio.

Make it viral.

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Yay, @ettereview.bsky.social !!! 🎉💫🎊💫💜💕

We are so proud that "Escape to a Burning Moon" by @kyleisamu.bsky.social from Variant issue 20 is included here! Congratulations all!

Isn't it odd that the United States has enough money to suddenly run Venezuela, but not enough to run our own country? There is always cash in the piggy bank for bombs to kill people, but never for healthcare to keep them alive.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

I think the main reason Trump did it was because he could. He's got all the toys. In the first term, his WH staff, his Defense Secretary, and his generals restrained him. Now it's bombs away--in Iran, Yemen, Nigeria, Venezuela, wherever.

Enjoying the Points of Light series at @necessaryfiction.com: short literary responses to the changing of seasons/time: necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

Grateful for the recognition from the incredible team at @vestalreview.bsky.social 🥰🙏

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

Our 2025 Pushcart Nominations! Best of luck to all of these brilliant authors!

Help us celebrate the more than 60 publications reported to us by our workshop participants in December! Onward, trousers! www.smokelong.com/december-wor...

"A life is looped yarn and slipped knots, chains and accidents. Bearable, you hope." Melissa works magic with this gem. 💙💚🧡❤️

Have something weird and unusual? It might be right at home at JMWW journal. Send us your writing via Submittable.

Bright spots after a sad & difficult stretch. Warm thanks for supporting my work in 2025: @hungermtn.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social @psmokejournal.bsky.social Ghost Parachute @brettpribble.bsky.social @vestalreview.bsky.social @necessaryfiction.com

Barnes and Noble is having its preorder sale (25% off pre-orders), so it's the perfect time to preorder a very cool and good book called Every Galaxy a Circle

Love this creepy, sinuous flash by @cherylpappas.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social !!!

Hey, some happy news! Sometimes nominations come from the Pushcart Contributing Editors. I was just informed this story has been nominated! Many, many thanks to Paul Crenshaw for the nod and much needed boost. 💙

Day One of our solstice gathering features writing by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social, @travisflatt.bsky.social, @raymondbrunell.bsky.social, @eileentomarchio.bsky.social, @janewords.bsky.social, Talya Byrd, Carol M. Quinn, Tanya Kornilovich, and Joe Kalovac. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

Belated congratulations to TLR contributor Summer Hammond for her "A Little Slice of the Moon" being selected and published in Best American Essays 2025. www.newletters.org/a-little-sli...

I've had a great time selecting some pieces to mark the solstice and year's end at @necessaryfiction.com, and am grateful to the writers who shared their work. Here is the first gathering of lights, with three more to follow in the days ahead.

The lonely library people are really getting to me this year. 😔📚

I just read this absolutely wonderful piece of prose.

Glad to be included in this lovely Points of Light series with my prose-poem, “A New Home.” Thank you, @necessaryfiction.com! Happy Winter Solstice to all ❄️🧤🧣⛄️

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Love your goals. Mine are to get back to the novel I started 5+ years ago and put aside thx to Covid and eldercare. Frankly nervous. I’m a different person now. And these are different times. 😕

It's good to remember that there are things worth celebrating–like this *incredible* issue of SmokeLong. We received an overabundance of stunning work for this year's Micro Contest. Check out all the winners, including my interview with Mikey winner, Claire Y. Guo. ✨

Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.