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.

I said this in the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, but it feels even more pertinent to say now: the fact that we have to continuously share images/videos of children starving, children without limbs, children with open wounds to convince the world that they need help is completely deplorable. 1/3

In Calgary and heard the most Canadian thing ever on my trip from a group of teenagers: “Grown up Caillou would not be hot.”

white women need to keep doing this shit.

I fucking love PA

I’m still so heartbroken about Andrea Gibson. So unfair that their time on earth was so short. ❤️‍🩹

I may apply for some graduate classes in computational science. I thought books would be a good first step, but I’ve found very few published in the last 5 years. Any textbook recommendations for the following? 🧪 Numerical methods, automatic differentiation, inverse problems, learning, etc.

Showing bf Phantom of the Opera for the first time. We get to the scene where the Phantom is crying in front of the cymbal-banging monkey toy by himself after Christine kisses him and bf says, “The most insufferable incel.”

The summer issue of Image Journal is live today & full of so many gems, including a last poem from the late, extraordinary @marthasilano.bsky.social. My editorial essay, on taxonomies of grief is shot through with gratitude for the solace this work provides. I'm honored to share it all:

I finally experienced finding out about the results of a writing contest that I submitted to through social media instead of being informed I was rejected beforehand! My manuscript still says “in-progress” on Submittable. Does indeed suck!!

I forgot about this lil story I wrote 13 years ago!

An excerpt from “Ilium" by Casey Reiland (@caseyreiland.bsky.social). Read the full piece in garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-5

I saw The Materialists the other night (it was great), and the highlight was when Dakota Johnson leaned into Pedro Pascal and said, “You’re what we call a unicorn,” and the queer couple next to me turned to each other and whispered, “Bisexual.”

Finding out another shitty man I went to college with has a Substack, when will it end

Grateful to @pleiadesmag.bsky.social for publishing this love poem and its deranged title — dream journal to have work in.

Professional development days are generally boring, but I’m always delighted when the speaker shares an activity for 2 yr olds that I know my cat would also love

Are there cookbooks that give recipes for omnivores and their vegetarians partners? I love tofu, but sometimes I want to make a meal that offers two dishes: one meat and one veg. 🍽️

Sure, this is a conversation that needs to be had, but then you get to the Joe Rogan jump scare