Connections Puzzle #818 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.”

Osmosis - Audio shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/09/05/o... via @ShannonFrostGre An mp3 of a downer of a flash fiction piece, and the dulcet tones of my voice as I read it. #writing #writer #author #flash #fiction #audio #reading #writingcommunity #amwriting

shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/09/05/o... A tiny little flash about biology and bad luck. I hope you take 45 seconds to read! #flash #fiction #writer #writing #author #writingcommunity #amwriting #castaway #audio #literary #write

So delighted to have a copy of the summer issue of Metachrosis Lit Mag in my hands. They were kind enough to publish my hermit crab piece about my widowed Czech Grandmother’s late-in-life boyfriend, and it feels good to honor her legacy in this inconsequential way. :) #writer #writing #author

shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/09/01/w... I am honored to be included in the Fall issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social. This flash is directly based on the 2004 Indonesian tidal wave and is, understandably, quite a downer. But the REST of the issue is gorgeous and uplifting! 🤣 #writer #author #flash

Mood:

Y'all, I'm in the Fall Issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social with some flash fiction about the Indonesian tidal wave. And, yes, it's a downer, but I would still recommend you read this gorgeous magazine, because the other 44 contributors might have written something happy. Click the link to pre-order!

Poetry reading! #poetry #poet #poems #writer #author #writingcommunity #amwriting #newshit

Thanks to @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social for publishing my latest CNF, a true story of first love and my absolutely terrifying German grandmother! You can read it on my site or buy a gorgeous issue for yourself! shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/08/01/m...

I’ve got some new CNF out, the story of my grandparents’ 50-year marriage and the relationship my grandmother resumed with her very first boyfriend from back in Czechoslovakia after my grandfather passed away. ❤️ #cnf #nonfiction #writer #author #writingcommunity #essay #writing #literary #litmag

Because we all have a moral obligation to speak up. Complicity is now a crime in and of itself. I’m delighted to have my poem included in a collection that calls out injustice and fights for change. I hope you read my poetic rant! #poetry #poet #writer shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/07/31/t...

A new poem in the world and some gratitude for healing. Thanks to Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight for publishing!!! #poem #poetry #poet #ED #anorexia #writing #writer #author #litmag #publishing #published #recovery #amwriting #writingcommunity #Renfrew #ana #DBT #eatingdisorders

I cannot even describe how much I needed this this morning.

I see you standing up, Miss Rachel. I see you. 👍 🍉 🇵🇸

Because when you pay an actual human artist to illustrate your family instead of using AI to spit out something soulless, you can actually TELL. Death to the robots. Real art lives!!!

I am GUTTED. 😢

I have a new poem out in the world, thanks to @unlikely-stories.bsky.social, and I was so happy when it got placed. It’s a departure from my previous poetry, and I really hope you take a look! shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/07/13/c... #poem #poetry #writer #author #poet #writingcommunity #amwriting

Because AI, crypto, Bitcoin, and chatGPT will be our DOOM. 🤣

Y’all, this was meant to be a 2,500-word short story, and THINGS CHANGED. 🤣 Probably the most fun I’ve ever had researching, because the myth of the Wendigo is BANANAS. 🍌

shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/06/27/f... Countertransference, yo. #writing #writer #author #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #hermitcrab #writingcommunity #amwriting #Freud #DBT

Oh, to Be Gwen Verdon in a Towel in a Cole Porter Show… shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/06/24/o... via @ShannonFrostGre A poem by a former theatre kid who is OBSESSED with Michelle Williams in FX’s Fosse/Verdon. I hope you have a moment to read it! #poem #poetry #poet #writer #writingcommunity

“1984? That’s a typo. Orwell is here now, man.” - Hackers (1995)

Did a thing. Bought a house. Now we’re broke. 🤷‍♀️👍

Cat. #cat

A poem about parenting, and how we are all just doing the best that we can. #poem #poetry #poet #author #writer #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #motherhood #parenting

I keep underestimating my son, and he keeps surpassing every single expectation I have ever set for him. My heart is so full. ❤️ #asd #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AutismMom #Family

Thanks to @prosetrics.bsky.social for adding my story to this absolutely beautiful glossy tome. The piece is a tale of cochlear implants and the maddening power of sound, and it couldn’t have found a better home. ❤️

Some fiction in the new Long River Review, and this magazine is so freaking pretty! Honored to grace its pages with a true-to-life story about my coworker’s friend’s cousin’s cryptic pregnancy. #writing #writingcommunity #writer #author #amwriting #fiction #shortstory

Summatime.

Some new fiction in the world, thanks to SciFanSat! I was BLOWN AWAY when I first learned “Queen for a Day” was actually a THING in the 1940s. 🤯 Link also in Bio! shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/06/02/q... #fiction #writing #writer #author #writingcommunity #amwriting #syfy #scifi #realityTV

Damn straight it’s coming soon. 🤩 #StephenKing #writing #writingcommunity #fiction

shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/05/30/t... A new poem, a musing on the intersectionality of the beliefs you hold and the loved ones you respect. #writer #writing #poem #poetry #poet #amwriting #marriage #love #peace

Hashtag perpetually annoyed. #GwenVerdon

A @doorisajarmag.bsky.social acceptance for Fall 2025, and I’m floored with surprise and gratitude. What a stellar email for a Secular Humanist to receive on this, the Lord’s Day, when everything in this moment is coming together perfectly and all is sure to end well. #dopamine

How. f*cking. auspicious. 🤩

I got a gold star. 🌟👍🤣

This was such fun to write. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, the title was totally the first thing to happen. 🤷‍♀️

F*cking. Dream. Journal. Alert. Absolutely tickled to be a part of Nimrod Journal’s Summer 2025 issue. #writer #writing #author #fiction #amwriting #secondperson #pov #ChooseYourOwnAdventure

Oh, f*ck THAT. After a lifetime of ballet, I feel I have the authority to say that no matter how great a robot’s turnout and feet may be, they will never be Margot Fonteyn or Julie Kent.

“Slavery never ended. It was just disguised.” - Janine Africa “The City that Bombed Itself.” - Dr. Charles Abraham, JMU May 13, 1985. ✊#MOVE

40 years ago today, my City's government dropped a bomb on a residential neighborhood and decided to let the fire burn for almost two hours, killing 5 adults and 6 children. No city official was criminally charged. Bones from burned children were used in Penn classes. It will never make any sense.

shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2023/04/13/b... In recognition of the 29-year anniversary of the 1996 Everest disaster, I offer this story once again, based on actual events with real-life consequences. I hope you give it a read! #writing #writer #author #fiction #shortstory #ameriting #litersryfiction

I’ve got top billing, and I’m kvelling. ❤️❤️❤️

New poem up with The Anti-Misogyny Club! What do you mean, I can’t take Ozempic with a history of eating disorders? Surely this wouldn’t go wrong in every conceivable way!! 🤣 shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/04/29/c... shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/04/29/c...

Where are my Depeche Mode fans at? Brand new @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social is up on the site this morning. I'm taking a ride with my best friend. Get in: www.stanchionzine.com/post/i-m-tak...

Brand-new flash fiction with @stanchion.bsky.social! Please enjoy perusing if you’re interested, but be mindful of a content warning for substance abuse. #writer #writing #author #fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #amwritingfiction #shortstory #fictionwriter #depechemode #recovery #LBGTQIA #LGBT

Cladogenic evolution. 🦍 #darwin

shannonfrostgreenstein.com/2025/04/22/g... A true-to-life story about what happens when you try to explain mortality to a four year-old. Google was NO HELP. Thanks to Vagabond City Lit for publishing! #writer #writing #author #amwriting #nonfiction #essay #essayist #cats #mortality #motherhood

New publication! And this one is print only, friends. Stanchion puts out a gorgeous lit mag, and is an independent press which does SUCH good work for the Philly literary community. Don’t miss out on getting a copy of Issue 18! #philly #author #writer #writing #fiction #litmag #amwriting

Wordle 1,396 2/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 F*ck yeah.