this will take your breath away

apologies to mackenzie phillips

so excited to get to welcome Chelsea Stickle back under the skulls, with this total banger "Christmas was coming and we were worried about the zebras out in the cold. The news updated us: one died in a snare trap and two were returned home." https://www.havehashad.com/hes5d

i have a new piece up at barren magazine today. happy new year, mes amies🙂

hny. here’s to finding peace amongst the chaos.

i was surprised and thrilled to be a finalist in this @smokelong.bsky.social competition. congratulations to the 2025 smokelong fellows!

our cat-proof christmas. merry merry, y’all

is this anyone else’s childhood christmas?

read this gorgeous gut punch from ani, on @mooncityreview.bsky.social today: And by hated, I mean he was the kind of person who treated high school like a movie, shoving queers like me into lockers or tripping us down the stairs

🚨UK People🚨 1/7 Your government is proposing a HUGE change to copyright law, where they give away YOUR works to Tech companies to profit from for FREE! A disgusting overreach that will cause irreparable harm to ALL creatives and beyond .You have one chance to stop it, read how below👇

YES

srsly

Best Microfiction nominee @jjlofflin.bsky.social trampset.org/getting-save...

i have an essay up at the disappointed housewife today.

SmokeLong Fitness. Come for the writing; stay for the miniature mountain goats. (Sign up before Nov 30th for December start.)

even on

inside the vast spaces between last breaths/the connection i feel to a swirl of butterflies alighting on the flower bed i just watered/ in reading of a wrongly convicted death row inmate’s stay of execution/ the cold fact of the sunrise

the energy i’m bringing into 2025

stop. and listen.

the beauty, the slow build of this one by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social like the tide coming in❤️

i made the long list☺️ congratulations to all!

big congrats @glennorgias.bsky.social and to all the nominees!

woot! congrats @annelouisepepper.bsky.social !! such a fantastic story.

ten shows to get to know me:

 monty python’s flying circus
 night flight don kirshner's rock concert six feet under square pegs the monkees the blacklist bridgerton russian doll stranger things

Alright! Started working on a literary agent starter pack on here, for all my writer friends out there! Follow along and see what folks are looking for. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

i recognized this around age 9. my characters all had debilitating injuries like getting shot in the eye with a bb gun or losing a leg in a hunting accident, and then went on a journey which changed the world, and, more importantly, found them friends #beawriter #findfriends

We're only 500 followers away from surpassing the New Yorker. We are the Literary World's Prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly.

THIS

i've read it probably 100 times

git yer micros in

yeah.

where are the creative non fic journals/people? no starter pack for that

any lucia berlin fans out there? this book is slaying me, flaying me open. it's one of those books that pushes me to write, i read, i write, i think of @dseuss.bsky.social and i go read "Frank" for awhile, which vibes so hard with this, and then i write some more. salvation lies in all these words.

The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center designed a broadside of the first poem in frank: sonnets, and a handmade book with selections from frank, both with linocut art by Shannon Hardy. Link to the full book in the comments. kalbookarts.org/shop/broadsi...

where i find solace (tbh i have several of these, ever-evolving)

join me inside this noir world, painted so beautifully by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social

really powerful work here

If you are struggling, you might find this helpful, as I did. I think I'll read it daily, with my coffee. Two paragraphs from Vaclav Havel. havelcenter.org/2015/05/04/d...

i sunk so deeply inside this wonderful piece by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social

clearly, the only panacea for the current state of the world, is power pop.

is it a sign that i had the idea for a piece about the time we stole the taco bell in high school, for years now, before i ever found out about @tbq.bsky.social? started working on it yesterday. #goals

Someone made a searchable directory of starter packs. Super useful if you are just getting started on bluesky and trying to find others who share your interests! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

I’m still grappling with the news that I actually have a published poem (my first!) and perhaps it’s a sign I’ve slipped into the bizarro universe. www.abyssapexzine.com/2024/03/the-...

Egon Schiele, Liebesakt, 1915

Egon Schiele, Mother and Child, 1912

two great mags just joined Bluesky! ✨✨✨ follow @coverlit.bsky.social & @boneparade.bsky.social ✨✨✨