My latest micro fiction is out today! Vibe: Gatsby in the apocalypse. 100wordstory.org/acts-of-inte...

My ghost story of a music urban legend and a woman hungry for family secrets is out now in Issue 16 of Blood & Bourbon Magazine! Read "A Broken Spoke" here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FYLQ7ZKX #writing #litmags #horror #spookyread

At long last, my review of Writing Workshops' The Modern Gothic led by @ambersparks.bsky.social: She is a TREASURE. I basked in her joy & knowledge, came away with my imposter syndrome subdued and my hungry mind full. Please buy/borrow her new novel, take her classes, read everything she writes

I just backed Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

We need more subs for The Urge from women! ALL women!

We need your support in the next 3 days, before the fall of eternal night. Help us breathe new stories that keep us alive, each word and phrase building the monster’s body, the one who rends and tears and protects us from darkness. kck.st/4mIkEm1

This captures the vibe I felt at the #OasisLive25 concert in Chicago: a respite from the machine. www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...

This is environmental cruelty that serves no purpose but will lead to irreversible damage, higher costs, and lives lost. The Roadless Rule has widespread support that this administration is deliberately ignoring. Case in point: they cut the comment period to Sept 19. earthjustice.org/press/2025/t...

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

I encourage you to write today! Also, working on an essay about depression and writing, bringing back Show Me Your Shelves, and starting to put together a 10-part series of weird nonfiction. Sign up! Tell a friend! gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/i-encourag...

In summary: 1. Something that is effectively eliminating jobs (AI) and causing more climate change problems, 2. Is putting more of a burden on the average consumer, especially those who are in lower income brackets, 3. Who have to suffer environmentally as a result. wapo.st/4kY7C2k

So many open calls for submission this month, and finally I have enough finished work to find the best fits. Because my Midwestern tendency of "ope, sorry, don't want to be a bother" extends to litmag readers and editors

Writers! If your publisher works with audible, don’t let them use AI narration or translation for your audiobooks. Human narrators and translators do it better, we’re your creative cousins — and undermining our survival as professionals puts you next in line. www.thebookseller.com/news/audible...

Frogs are chirping in the marsh behind the house as the sun sets. I’m on the deck, drinking an elderflower gin & tonic, listening to the new OK Go album. The sky is clear and smells Iike fresh soil. That is all.

“They’ve given us plans for the Death Star,” Ketcher said. “And when when somebody gives you the plans for Death Star, you know what to do.” #TeslaShowrooms could be shutter: missouriindependent.com/2025/03/28/e...

I have a short story out today in Bloodletter Magazine about a ghost, being haunted, and being hungry. Haunting illustrations by the talented @katyhoran.bsky.social #bloodlettermag

Tonight should have reinforced to every single person living in an area w. a tornado warning that Trump’s major cuts to NOAA are a terrible and dangerous policy. #stlwx www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

My witchy, moon-inspired flash fiction/prose poem hybrid is out now! Page 108 in Grey Coven Publishing's winter anthology. www.greycovenpublishing.com/books/shadow...

This map shows how much NIH funding goes to your state. I used the info on my state when I called officials to ask them to push back against the freeze. And if I can do it when my senators are Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville...well, I mean... www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

I’m at the point where I look at a document with a date from 2024 on it and I’m like, “2024? When was that? Three years ago?”

From the artist's statement, which feels so true right now: "Bobbie Russon's paintings speak to the quiet, contemplative and solitary place in all of us"

Here’s some Bobbie Russon art to make your Friday a little better.

Today is World Pancreatic Cancer Day. Please take a moment to learn the risks and symptoms. Join me in celebrating getting through chemo this year with good results by joining or supporting Team Not Null for PurpleStride 2025! #pancreaticcancerawareness secure.pancan.org/site/TR/Purp...

No coincidence that I plugged in my electric blanket on the same day I read this gorgeous piece by @marofthebooks.bsky.social in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

I pledged what I could… good luck to @3lobedmag.bsky.social in the final hours! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Just picking up dish soap, minding my own business, when I find myself in the Cascade Tar Pits

From my dad’s collection: a game from 1910, with trivia cards that will serve as flash fiction writing prompts.