This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Choose barbaric yawp over AI slop.

A review of our resident cartoonist's bingo fiction book.

Also new! "We Only Get Drier" by Jason Hardung (CNF)

New! "The Alphabet of a Sidewalk Story" by @julietpersimmon.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/the-alphabet...

Dad, let go. This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

RIP to our old friend Thomas Perry.

nice surprise- thanks @identitytheory.bsky.social for the nomination ☺️

I am beyond honored that @identitytheory.bsky.social nominated my poem for the Best of the Net 2026! 💜

COVER REVEAL!!! So excited to finally share the cover of Naming a Dying Thing with you all. You can preorder a copy from @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/p/nami...

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees from Identity Theory!

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

What an honor to have a story selected by the amazing @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social! And thanks to @identitytheory.bsky.social for publishing “Egg, Five Ways”!

Reposting the poem I had in @identitytheory.bsky.social last week because it means something to me and I’m glad it was published in a good joint.

Submissions are tentatively scheduled to open October 1st. We will be finalizing responses to outstanding submissions for the rest of September. This has been a social media post in the year 2025. It was written from a bed with no sheets. The sheets are in the laundry. They will return soon. Fresh.

Two from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Hey! Here's a new poem by @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social

Two new poems by Ruthie Chen on the site today.

What do we all need right now? Probably some “poems” crafted from Nextdoor posts! Many thanks to @identitytheory.bsky.social for featuring #satire www.identitytheory.com/unexpected-p...

"FREE couch! It could be totally wild." Read "The Unexpected Poetry of NextDoor Digest" by @keflann.bsky.social

"but, that’s past. The future is a sparkling fishhook. All beautiful things conceal their rough and hanging edges." Read "Cape Disappointment," a new poem by @mickafoos.bsky.social.

This week's @ampydoo.bsky.social

We got lost in the code, but we're back with another @ampydoo.bsky.social cartoon.

I was due to be born August 1st, but my mom got toxemia, so they cut me out, jaundiced yellow, on June 12th. Hence the line “Ordained Leo, but born Gemini,” in my @identitytheory.bsky.social prose poem from last April, if you’d like to read it 😉 👯 🦁 🙏 www.identitytheory.com/im-sorry-pla...

Identity Theory turned 25 this week. We've been on a long semi-hiatus, behind on many things. We're now trying to put out a 25th anniversary issue with lots of new things.

"Erosion here is constant, and people often need rescuing from the collapsing edges." This story by Rebecca Winterer in @identitytheory.bsky.social tenderly combs through memories washed up on the shores. Last day of @smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge www.identitytheory.com/toy-collector/

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Here, have a speculative micro recently pubbed by @identitytheory.bsky.social

This week's @ampydoo.bsky.social

We've got snacks. This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

I've had this bookmarked for a bit, and thought I'd pop it open on Father's Day. @mikemwilson.bsky.social originally said "It's kind of grim," and DAMN he was right. But it's the best kind of grim, the kind that makes you think about yourself and the people around you in a deeper way.

This micro is in my forthcoming chap "Hospice." Thanks to @identitytheory.bsky.social and @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for giving it a home first 💕 Preorder ➡️ www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hosp...

It's a double CNF day! Read "Cold Comfort" by @sarahorman.bsky.social

"We’d pretend we were a family and we would do this for the memory, to create one final lasting picture in our children’s minds of what we had the potential to be." New CNF by Brittney Uecker

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Really great, powerful, stunner of a story from @mikemwilson.bsky.social "If this is true he’s doing a cool thing for my wife. His wife. Our wife. It can’t be easy to come over here and tell the dying ex that she doesn’t want to see him anymore, to help us break up all over again."

"Our daughter had blood cancer, the type 80% of people who get it survive. The thing about that is it’s a hopeful number, that eighty percent. Gives you a false sense of hope. Just about anyone would place a bet on eight out of ten odds. But there’s a whole other twenty percent." -Mike Wilson

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Congrats to Tara Isabel Zambrano on making Best Small Fictions 2025 for her Identity Theory story "Nascent"!

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Thrilled to have found favor with @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social to land this micro in @identitytheory.bsky.social ongoing series. True pros offering excellent feedback to make this sing.

a huge well-deserved congratulations to Tara Isabel Zambrano for her inclusion in BSF 2025 with this @identitytheory.bsky.social Micro Monday piece!!! www.identitytheory.com/nascent/

Absolutely thrilled to be in this year's @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social with my @identitytheory.bsky.social micro! Best Microfiction comes out July 7th! Pre-oder a copy to see what all the fuss is about! best-microfiction.square.site/.../best.../...

So happy to be a part of 2025’s @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social with a little piece in @identitytheory.bsky.social (thank you!!!). 🐟🍜 Pre-orders here! best-microfiction.square.site/product/best...

The End by @thaddevassie.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/the-end-deva...

Last Request by @julianday.ca in @identitytheory.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/last-request/

Delighted to have my micro poem "Last Request" up today at @identitytheory.bsky.social - thanks so much @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for selecting it.

"a drugstore toothbrush, for the few teeth left, gray tombstones in his gummy mouth" Wonderful use of form and such depth of character and emotion in this flash from @mrsfanster.bsky.social

Which cloud do we feel like today? This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social