"I fucked up, okay, and I ate the whole jumbo-sized cinnamon roll, which was apparently not meant for me..." - @jdschwartzman.bsky.social, on how the stories we devour mutate, change shape inside our stomachs over time.

Short piece up in @short-reads.org! About a small mistake I made in the place where Andy escapes to in Shawshank. Thanks @hattiefletcher.bsky.social for the thoughtful edit 🙏 www.short-reads.org/second-draft...

“The Blinken Prize was a prize for a debut, a first work from an emerging artist. I worked in so many mediums that I was able to debut many times; for about fifteen years I just kept emerging, like a bud opening over and over again. But that was a long time ago now.” —Miranda July, All Fours 😂