post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Electric Lit Social Media Editor Jalen Giovanni Jones (@jalengjones.bsky.social) speaks with “Hamnet” author Maggie O’Farrell about translating her heartbreaking narrative from the page to the screen.

Idk if we still do wrap-ups over here, but here’s what I published in 2025! To start off, a poem in @garlicpresslit.bsky.social called “Illium”: www.garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue...

You need to read this story.

For the morning crowd, I have a new short story out! This one is very important to me. I’m very grateful for the editors at Blue Mesa Review for publishing it. 🫱🏻🔪🐚🐉

I have a new short story out today in Blue Mesa Review. It’s a retelling of the “One-Handed Murderer.” Although this folktale was written a long time ago, we are still writing about the same shit. But I hope we can change how we tell the story. I’d so appreciate it if you’d take the time to read:

“‘Everything will be alright,’ Lena told the egg baby. She considered what other reassurances a mother might offer her child, and gave these all to the egg though not one of them felt true.” A wonderfully weird and unsettlingly pertinent story, @ellenrhudy.bsky.social!

when we drive in your car i’m your baby because i can’t drive can’t navigate couldn’t tell you what a car is or will be

“‘Because of ‘Wicked’s’ success but also the fanship, we have almost a responsibility to figure out how we can continue in this universe,’ Moses said.” No. You. Literally. Don’t!!!!!

I’ve lived in many places, and nothing tops horrendous traffic like Connecticut —> Massachusetts. We were supposed to get home in 4.5 hours and now our whole trip will be 8 hours. Jfc

@natmiller.bsky.social and I had Musical Fridays, where every Friday we would order takeout and watch a bootleg of a musical

This story is so beautiful @anniejowrites.bsky.social

A lot of ppl have said that it was unnecessary to have Wicked be in two parts. I used to think the same, but since re-seeing the Broadway musical, and now seeing Wicked: For Good for the first time, I highly disagree 🧵1/6

Employer: What can we give you this holiday season as a thank you for all the hard work you’ve done this year? Employees: Ooo a bonus, a raise, more time off— Employer: OKAY SELF-CARE TIPS IT IS!

New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction. Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸

“I feel– […] Like I’m waiting, she says and seems surprised with herself. Like the Dinah’s tears, and I am glad of it. She smiles. I am glad. We inhale the air together, and my gills stretch with the taste of water.” Loved this story, @lmanusos.bsky.social!

Is it just me or is it required that every ride share driver must dowse their car in the WORST perfume/cologne??

Me af

Guys, let’s keep James Bond. Let’s keep Marvel. Let’s keep Jurassic World. Give the straight normies something. Please. They need it.

I’m late to the game, but I’m reading A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN for a book club, and this may be the best craft book I’ve ever read. Funny, approachable, and actually makes you feel like George Saunders loves to write. Hell, I might even end up reading more Russian literature after this!

Well this is a very normal and cool thing for a TV network to do

Did Women Ruin The Workplace?

Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors! Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

When this hits your submittable page 🥹🥹🥹

ICYMI: I have a new short story published in Villain Era Lit! It’s about the Hex Hollow murders, a real set of murders that took place in the 1920s in central PA. Read here: villaineralit.com/2025/10/31/t...

It’s me! Thanks, @villaineralit.bsky.social!

I never thought I’d write historical fiction, but give me a witch in central PA and I won’t be able to resist. Check out my new short story over at @villaineralit.bsky.social. It’s based on a true story and it’s spooky and vengeful. Happy Halloween 👻

There’s fine lines between “cringe” and “earnest” and “popular”. As Tris @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy says: popularity matters. Loved participating in the most popular display of resistance yet here in Boston.

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

Boston. Wow.

An abusive small-town priest gets what's coming to him in Mike McClelland's celestially supernatural short story, today at Villain Era!

I’m a calzone and one beer deep on the T rn and just read this short story about food and friendship and omg the end made me tear up???

ICYMI: I have two new poems in Emerge Lit Journal today! I’ve been feeling pretty discouraged with writing in general, so I’m very pleased these babies have been picked up. :)

I have two new poems published today in @emergejournal.bsky.social! Read em here: emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-connecti...

In today’s episode of “Being a Preschool Teacher Is Making Me Have a Crisis About My Age,” I took the kids to the playground and went on the swings with them, only find out that swinging now gives me MOTION SICKNESS

Are there any online writing workshops that specifically help with generative novel writing? I can only seem to come up with short story ideas. I lose steam easily, so I would like a class that could inspire novel plots and also encourage hitting a word count. #writingcommunity

This. And it’s hilarious that Klein continues to call people who refuse to work with fascists as “fatalistic.” He won’t consider historical context nor the long fight it will take to transform our country for the better. Just listen to his interview with TNC. All he wants is a Bandaid.

I need people to stop saying that it was big of Tr*mp to “reach across the aisle” to people like Joe Rogan and RFK and bring them into his coalition. Like, why are y’all acting like they were not on the same side as him?? HELLO??!!

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

Whew, what a poem

trying to fit in as many trips to the olive garden as possible before the world ends

Watching IT (1990) and, yeah, I get the critiques about the inconsistencies with the adaptation and the weird pacing but holy fucking shit Tim Curry!!!

Frances Ha. I found it randomly online and watched it by myself in college. The first time I’d ever seen a friendship between two women that felt true to the kind I’d experienced and the kind I still try to have today.

At a cafe with the bf. He says, unprompted, “It happened.” Me: “What?” Bf: “I got to the part of my coffee where I have hope for the world again”

Banksy by way of Ratatouille in Somerville MA.

Omg stitch comics are a thing? Obsessed! 🪡

Slightly diminish a band: Sex Nerf Guns

This essay confronts what I’ve been trying to write in a short story that deals with SA. To let the world forget the names of men who have abused women. Thank you @megpillow.bsky.social. I hope others take the time to read this important essay.