... five minutes of pure, unshadowed joy ... —"Trading Time" by Kyle Hina, at fiveminutelit.com ...

... I entered my login information and scrolled ... —"Exam Score" by Anna Oh, up at fiveminutelit.com ...

He adorably complains it’s a boring operation, my cyst will likely grow back, but says he’ll still do it if I want (I want). —"McDreamy" by @abbys480.bsky.social, found at fiveminutelit.com

She’s told him I am on my way, and I am. —"Nonstop Flight by @kevingrauke.bsky.social

When we met, I was working as a cashier in a windowless cafeteria and felt like a wilted salad. —"Visionary" by K Roberts ...

Trazodone it is.—"Ghabrahat (Nervous)" by Mridula Morgan fiveminutelit.com/ghabrahat-nervous

I put a chocolate orange into my basket and I tell myself that it’s not really a prayer. —"Not a Prayer" by @stephlay.bsky.social, published at fiveminutelit.com

This, I felt.

A small thing that makes me happy: People singing along to grocery store radio, not aware they're singing along to grocery store radio.

Just a reminder that these are the people purporting to be outraged by antisemitism on campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

. . . the rise and fall of our hands, pressed above your heart, a momentary peace . . . "in bed together" by Elliot Gray Boodhan, published @fiveminutelit.bsky.social . . .

I am a reader & an eater & I love @newenglandtammy.bsky.social's cookbooks because they make for good reading & I love her cookbook launches because they make for good eating. Sunday we celebrated NEW ENGLAND BRUNCH & I ate all of the everything & I said HOORAY! www.globepequot.com/978149307687...

This word person was not only heartened by the size of the crowd at Salem #handsoff, but also by all the clever signs. (Mine was a prosaic, heartfelt HANDS OFF LIBRARIES.)

"Every night ... from the TV in the next room blared this litany of things that had never before happened ... we assumed, that those things could and would soon be undone ... that some adult or adults would arrive ... to set things right." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How are you using Bluesky? I haven't settled in. A million things in the world making me rage, but also 3 things I loved in Melissa Mogollan's OYE, just finished: Abuela's upgraded body parts; Luciana's clever digs at her sorority queen sister; how love is often expressed via quippy exasperation.

RIP Val and also this is just a fantastic piece of writing by @taffyakner.bsky.social that I first consumed via the listen option.

I hope the writers, the poets, will find in this list endless prompts.

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

Love my work as editor of this tiny mag, and super loved getting to tell the talented Jalen Giovanni Jones he'd won our Fall Contest. Good news, good gig. GO JALEN.