chicago last weekend, amsterdam next weekend, salt lake city the week after that, then puerto rico, then boulder...my past self really underestimated the amount of energy I would have this summer 🫣

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A delightful and tender piece that I could read over and over and over again.

This flash piece hasn’t left me since I first read it. Do yourself a favor, and give it a read.

Have you read our newest issue yet?!?

Still on Cloud 9 over this! ☁️🥰☁️

I can't believe I get to share this piece with the world after it was named one of the finalists of the We Love Short Shorts Creative Nonfiction Contest put on by @hippocampusmag.bsky.social I am so proud of these piece and honored to have been selected! hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/gree...

I'm so honored and excited to be one of the finalists for @hippocampusmag.bsky.social's We Love Short Shorts Contest! I have been reading Hippocampus Mag for years, so to be selected as a finalist means so much to me ☺️!!

working to pay for my daily strawberry matcha latte and protein smoothie 🍓🍓🍓

Today's read: themorningnews.org/article/the-...

"They are beautiful. They are good. They do not doomscroll. They do not despair about what is to come. They do not live in the past, swimming in regrets. They are alive in the here and now." www.thebeliever.net/the-magic-we...

“I do not have one brain for thinking about a rubbled Gaza and another for thinking about my gentle cat wheezing through the night.“ www.thenation.com/article/acti...

happy spring sunsets everyone 🌹🌸🌷🌼🐝🐄🌅

Team Renae Update: The Power of Community It has been one month since we first shared Renae’s story, and the response has been nothing short of awe-inspiring. 💛OVERWHELMED. GRATEFUL. INSPIRED. 💛 www.gofundme.com/f/rallyforre...

Subs for @variantlit.bsky.social are open until April 5!!!

“They’re fluffy and pastel, the kind of sweater a young girl would wear, a girl who still believed that presidents were kind and just. A girl who …” @sfreligh.bsky.social in @variantlit.bsky.social variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...

HVAC unit needs repairs, piles of laundry, left garage door broken, bones aching—Friday is hitting hard this week.

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

“They threaten to call Bruce the manager who’s usually doing Roberta the lifer waitress in his office upstairs or is passed out drunk in the wine room.” You gotta give this piece by @sfreligh.bsky.social a read!

If you're sending out work today, send us your poems or prose! We're open now through April 5 for our Summer issue. variantlit.com/submit/

"I can’t really fix anything, but I feel all this pressure to save everyone. To be of use./ My friends, they are coming apart at the seams. Not my problem, you say?" Oh my. This may be my new favorite poem. yalereview.org/article/emil...

"In the beginning, it was spring. That magical unfolding—viriditas." Nancy Huggett's nonfiction piece, "The Beginning of Devotion," was a lovely way to start my morning and to intensify the yearning for spring today. @thedodgemag.bsky.social cymbals-corn-mx5t.squarespace.com/nancyhuggett1

New Rita story at Variant Lit. Thanks to the editors! variantlit.com/the-girl-mos...

We’ve worked hard to bring you these wonderful poems and works of prose. Enjoy and share!

We're open in all categories. Take a look at our most recent issue to see what we've loved in the past!

"He’s a bridge and she’s the boat, and gravity hungers to bring them together." @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social's piece in @psmokejournal.bsky.social is echoing in my head today. www.peatsmokejournal.com/winter-2025-...

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

Hi folks, excited to announce that we will be open for submissions in fiction starting March 1st! The Dodge is also currently accepting submissions in nonfiction, translation, and visual arts. More information about all things submissions can be found at the link in our bio.

Different kind of sunset today, thanks to the snow ❄️

From the postman telling my dad it should snow 10 inches in Fayetteville to my coworker saying it should snow 12 inches in Sherman—you could say my hopes are up ❄️🌨️☃️☃️🌨️❄️

Well, my last living grandparent, my paternal grandmother, Diddle, just called to tell me she read my essay, “Elsewhere”, and that she loved it. “It is graphic because you knew what happened, it is grief, and it is love.” And that, dear friends, is the only praise that matters.

So proud to have 2 MOTEL stories nominated for Best Small Fictions! Congrats to all!

Another ranch sunset for the books

“frozen in amber her funeral held no answers” Every line in every poem by @jlmoultrie.bsky.social is devastatingly beautiful. @antiheroinchic.bsky.social heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-...

“You climb into her bed, press your small body against hers, and feel her heart rage.” What a powerful , compelling piece by @karenc.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social

A tiny story.

Thank you, @antiheroinchic.bsky.social, for giving this precious piece the perfect home. This is my first published essay in a very, very long time. It is about the light of my life. I hope those who read it soften as I did, and continue to do. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/elsewhe...

How does one use Substack? Is it like a blog?

When the other place was still Twitter, I asked them to reactivate my deceased best friend’s account that had been deactivated due to inactivity. Obviously, I never got a response, her account never reappeared, and now Twitter, too, is dead. I wish I had saved more of her.

Subs are open, in case you hadn’t heard, and I can’t wait to read your flash and CNF!

Made turkey for the first time—nailed it, didn’t fight with my dad—success, and we buried my grandma’s ashes with a pack of her favorite Salems under the elm tree 🌳 A whirlwind crazy wonderful weekend with much to be thankful for ☺️

The grass was extra green at sunset 💚

Cooking the turkey 🦃 overnight tonight 🌙 Someone scream at me if this is a bad idea

I’m so down! @gracelp.bsky.social ☺️

Nerds cluster today, cavity filling tomorrow 🦷

Thawed that bitch in an ice bath for 4 hours tonight 🧊🧊🧊🦃🧊🧊🧊 And she’ll take another dip tomorrow 👀

I had two pieces accepted last week and have been processing ever since. These will be my first publications since earning my MFA. I can’t wait to share them with y’all!!

Why does everything I love get a movie adaption that it doesn’t fucking need?!

Got more wedding photos in, I can’t help but notice how old my parents look. They are fresh into their 60s, and the photos betray the youth I see in them in person. In my mind they are still my spry, sarcastic, springtime, Mom and Dad.