Sat down to write. Cat had other plans.

Kind of obsessed with that feeling you get when you read a story or essay or poem and you're suddenly inspired to return to a random draft you've been stuck on and dive back into it

🥹🥹🥹 love love love this one!

Another new story out today! It's about road trips & Weezer & friends & karaoke & barhopping & storytelling (of course) & nostalgia (of COURSE) and it folds in on itself and gets super meta in a way that you're probably gonna find either fun or really really annoying. Read it and find out which!

Google Photos over here hitting me with wholesome memories of my kid’s major milestones

back-to-back bangers from @thedrevlow.bsky.social this week!

we have a micro by Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social ! i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out xraylitmag.com/late-to-work...

fall weather and new vans 🖤

❤️🤘

Really banking on joining multiple fantasy football leagues to solve my problems and make me a happier/calmer/more fulfilled human

When the rejections for a piece start getting nicer and nicer ( ¬ᴗ¬)

Suburbia holds more than you care for

Sidewalk chalk. Flowers. Sand castles. Graffiti. Punk rock / folk songs. Poems. Little stories on the internet. Bonfires. Beer with a buddy. Things don’t have to last long to be meaningful.

This city runs on murder, disco, and bad decisions. Disco Murder City — for readers who want their horror loud, campy, and dangerous. Preorder now 🪩 shop.maudlinhouse.net#disco-murder...

rambling Berninger is one of my favorite Berningers, so yeah, I pretty much loved this.

Anxiously awaiting bonfire and pumpkin beer season

Jumped in a lake to save my daughter’s ball, I’m pretty much a hero

Back in the midwest and I’m in front of a bonfire within half an hour

My daughter's at summer camp at our local nature center, and every day I get pictures of her playing in the creek and meeting different animals and painting and making crafts and man, I think I just want to quit my job and go to summer camp.

Recently learned about SOFT PLAY and man oh man I can't stop listening.

this new story from D.T. Robbins is a perfect example of this joyful energy & momentum in so much of D.T.'s writing that makes him such a singular & fun writer "I look over, and the Grim Reaper is sitting in the passenger seat. He turns to me and smiles." https://www.havehashad.com/nb4w3

My daughter's at summer camp at our local nature center, and every day I get pictures of her playing in the creek and meeting different animals and painting and making crafts and man, I think I just want to quit my job and go to summer camp.

I’m pretty sure turning toward your partner at an Offspring concert and screaming DANCE FUCKER DANCE in unison counts as a love language

Eating my granola bar and listening to Weezer while I write my little stories and look really productive at work

This story is sad and sweet and nostalgic and I love everything about it.

This is an absolute banger of a novel, hit Aaron up and get a copy!

@autofocusbooks.bsky.social book mail days are great days

Come celebrate the launch of the Autofocus Books anthology, IF I CAN BE HONEST, with us at Stories on July 23rd! 🖤🍰

Didn’t know what to do for the fourth yesterday, so I got a lil MOTORAZR tattoo. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One of my favorite things is to find a book (or song or tv show or anything, really) that makes me stop and look at the world with a little more of a sense of wonder. @tmcallister.bsky.social’s latest does that but also so much more. It’s funny and honest and sad and such a goddamn treat.

today we have a story by Eric Subpar @ericsubpar.bsky.social !! it's about a man that becomes more & more obsessed with a hockey team, while the rest of his life slowly dissolves read this story ! xraylitmag.com/the-last-gre...

AI folks have missed the point entirely. It's the ACT OF WRITING ITSELF that matters. That's where the joy and wonder is. That exploration, that flexing of the imagination in a way you hadn't previously thought possible. It's magic.

@barrelhouse.bsky.social writer camp with all the best vibes

just reread Cody Shrum's "square" on the site today, and the end *literally* gave me goosebumps and made the hairs on my arms stand up, it's so good. "In fifth grade we had a school-wide read-a-thon for 33 minutes." https://www.havehashad.com/7pb22

The midwestern desire to sit by a fire pit is unshakable

Spent last weekend camping and reading and doing a bunch of nothing, 10/10 would recommend

slash slash slash bb

Almost 40, and the urge to jump and touch an exit sign or ceiling beam or the top of a door frame hasn’t died and I’m very okay with that

Can't wait to read this one!

A Mown Lawn: A Celebration

got a little 💀 up at HAD. i never was any good at rolling with the punches

Made a decision today

New work in @havehashad.com today! Another cheesy little dad piece that might be the cheesiest little dad piece I’ve written yet (while also maybe the one I had the most fun with?)

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Aaron is my absolute favorite. He is an amazing writer and editor and I love that he spreads the word about writing he loves and always fosters community. Here, I got to talk about work by Reginald McKnight, Steven Millhauser, @elizabethhand.bsky.social, @alexhigley.bsky.social, and Jim Shepard.

Holy shit, this one’s a stunner.

now playing: volume 22 happy sunday, folks! xo www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

Love seeing Barrelhouse drop in my inbox, and man, this essay is such a gem—just funny and sad and wonderful in a way that makes you miss your favorite treats.

Feeling a little too seen by my fortune cookie tonight, lol