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"Her body sounds out of tune." What a creative form. Brava!

From the #quote book today: "Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?" -Jane Austen

LOVE the way this story pieces itself together at the end. Brilliant.

If you ask me, every owl is a superb owl.

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“Start again with 1, 2, 3 and keep going until something takes shape from when you were a child. A pebble, a shard of glass, a secret memory, but find it, join the dots and see.” “Join the Dots” by Nora Nadjarian @noranadj.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD: buff.ly/WWxn5eF

"...what could you do at this hour of the morning, at this distance away, at this point in your lives? Nothing."

"...what could you do at this hour of the morning, at this distance away, at this point in your lives? Nothing."

if I give up social media entirely, maybe will wander my local grocery store, handing out my printed short stories like flyers or post them on cafe bulletin boards saying here, please read this

"Greg approached the casket with the apprehension of one raised on the stories of Edgar Allen Poe, but with the inquisitiveness of an eager child on Christmas morning." I had no idea where this would end up

"I understand there’s likely a middle ground, but right now I can’t find it."

"You know these calls. They come from four hours away, and even if you answer, you know there's nothing you can do. These are calls to remind you that your mother is dying, slowly and reluctantly." From the archives at @y2kq.com www.y2kq.com/works/its-2006

I squeeze the lemons myself.

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"'I don't have any time to simplify, I said, the edge in my voice glinting in the morning light. 'And I certainly don't have any time to sit by a pond and write about simplifying.'"

“Is there anything else?” the doctor asks, looking at her father. I love that the story here is everything that isn't paid attention to. Well done, @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

"just the sounds of supper, the Ingalls, and Mama’s faint thoughts."

"It has come to this: the two of us in the hallway at one a.m." I feel the angst in this one

From the #quote book this week: "So many ways to handle problems. So many people that only handle problems one way."

"they didn’t even try to understand." All this truth. Listen.

This is who runs this account

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Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Marching Band 2. Business calculus 3. Newswriting 201 4. Astronomy 5. Human Sexuality

Why the fuck do we have so many cops & so many FBI agents & so many sprawling law enforcement intelligence fusion networks if all they ever do is say "the victim didn't email us back so we never followed up on their accusations against Jeffery Epstein" or "she sounds crazy, allegations disregarded"

It's 6 degrees, it's snowing, and three deer have bedded down in the woods just past our back yard. I wonder why there, in full view of me at my windows, when they had acres of cold snow to choose from. I think it's because they know I'll worry about them.

"in Beirut, you and the boys had carried the piano onto the roof," Gorgeous and tragic

I say this with all sincerity, WTF?

"'I don't have any time to simplify, I said, the edge in my voice glinting in the morning light. 'And I certainly don't have any time to sit by a pond and write about simplifying.'"

"I have befriended the dust bunnies that live under the kitchen stools." A blog post about writers and women's work. sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2026/01/wald...

Excited to be a part of what's coming! @theprideroars.bsky.social

HIGHLY COMMENDED in the Welkin Writing Prize 2026, "Time for Tom to Go" by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social. A wonderfully original relationship exploration with so much verve at the level of words: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

From the #quote book today: "It is the courage to continue that counts."

Music for the win

So much in 100 words.

When the world goes to shit, bake cookies. The world will still be shit, but at least you'll have cookies.

"I can’t stop any of it – the torn-open disconnect notice, the giving-up fire, the water doing what water does, searching for a way out." Love this one.

What a dreadful year it has been.

If you are looking for a comprehensive guide on how to support Minnesotans or stand up to ICE, individually or collectively, @naomikritzer.bsky.social created an amazing resource with a ton of useful information. Might be the best I've seen: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

I wonder if I’ll ever stop being angry all of the time.

There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there A-telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop Children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down

"I can’t stop any of it – the torn-open disconnect notice, the giving-up fire, the water doing what water does, searching for a way out." Love this one.

My worth is not measured by how many people I can convince to care My worth is not measured by how many people I can convince to care My worth is not measured by how many people I can convince to care

"I learned early that pain gets misquoted. So I taught it to speak clearly." Yes to all of this.

"Something like sadness had blocked the flue and stained us with the marks of poverty." Some cold memories from the archives at @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/burning-and-...

Today's shortlisted story is "That Day" by Shofiqure Rahman. A powerful exploration of refugee life: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Look, I don't know why I took this picture 4 years ago, but it's a good one so I'm sharing it.

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"Other countries don't like you." We don't like us either, ok

Let it burn