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Babe are you okay? You’ve barely touched your serotonin reuptake mechanisms

11. Are you even trying?

"You took a hammer and smashed the idea. Broken letters strewn all over the floor."

I need a substitute teacher to wheel a TV in from the hallway for the rest of 2025 please

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"surrounded by the sting of chlorine and uncertainty that turned our eyes red" My story about living in a motel briefly as a kid

Sleepy dog pass it on

"surrounded by the sting of chlorine and uncertainty that turned our eyes red" My story about living in a motel briefly as a kid

I couldn't think of the word salvation, so I wrote saving-ness. Not sure whether to be proud or disappointed.

"The next morning, in the hour before dawn, Tess hears clicking steps again. This time she calls the old dog to her." Faithful to the end.

"we stayed there six weeks one small room four of us two beds zero jobs" Read my latest tiny true story, told in one long, emotional sentence at @theprideroars.bsky.social theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/09/libe...

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

"The day of my funeral I'm still young enough that I’m wearing school uniform in ninety per cent of the photos in the memorial collage." A story that aches.

I miss this in multiple ways, now

If truth and beauty ask for a ride home tell them ideals are out of your way and then flaw it

This is my small beautiful moment this morning.

"Behind us the tram, bereft of your fun, trundled on" A delicious read

5 small pleasures to battle the doom scrolling: 1. The smell of an old book 2. The sound of windchimes in a lazy breeze 3. Your mouth puckering after a sip of lemonade 4. The joy of a dog riding with his head out the car window 5. The soft, springy, dusty texture of a jumbo marshmallow

Sucks when you're in a writing groove and you have to stop for something as dumb as eating lunch.

From the #quote book this week, fresh off the @literarycleveland.bsky.social Inkubator '25 writing conference: "A story is not an explanation. It's a separate place of possibility." - Katie Kitamura

Read my latest CNF on @theprideroars.bsky.social

"before we laid in pitch black as deep as longing"

ICYMI - My creative nonfiction piece "Fourteen" was just nominated by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social for Best of the Net. Read it here: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/fourteen-by-...

"She indulged in melancholy—that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries." —from Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

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I will not celebrate senseless violence, no matter who it is.

What a wonderful surprise! Thank you so much @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social for nominating this piece that is so meaningful to me

What a wonderful surprise! Thank you so much @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social for nominating this piece that's so meaningful to me!

How come a capital D faces right, but a lowercase d faces left? And why am I like this?

From the #quote book today: "When you've flown as far as you possibly can, you're halfway there." -Legend of the Guardians

Today we're thrilled to be featuring Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and Sandra Arnold in #MicroMonday #microfiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/08/m...

Everything so bad, but there is a little dog sleeping on my lap.

"A man’s pain smells different than a woman’s, she realized then."

Bang, right to the heart

"The lesson is this—your fire will reduce everything to blackest soot, and you will be left alone."

"I wouldn’t mind being a whole new woman."

"‘The world is gone crazy,’ he says." Mmm-mmm good

"Now I walk without fanfare or fortitude, just slow and steady. Like a running a marathon on a treadmill, like moving because I can’t think of any other option." ICYMI

"Now I walk without fanfare or fortitude, just slow and steady. Like a running a marathon on a treadmill, like moving because I can’t think of any other option." ICYMI

9yo: "Can you imagine what a world without commas would be like?" That's my girl.

"My throat feels like a dusty road. I ask, 'Is there another layer under that one?'"

“You’re going to write an essay about this, aren’t you?” Trying to live it and capture it at the same time

Looking for a writing mentor for short fiction or a novel? I've opened back up for mentorship applications. All details can be found here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/mentoring

“This is fine” dog was truly ahead of his time

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"Rena never enjoyed anything."