Huge thanks to @paranoidxtree.bsky.social for publishing and nominating “Feels Like Rain” for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social, and to @megpokrass.bsky.social, Gary Fincke, and @dseuss.bsky.social for choosing this as one of the winners! You can grab a copy at www.bestmicrofiction.com

"Maybe I wake up still dreaming about peeling a pile of tangerines..." 🍊 ICYMI: Contributor @aniking.bsky.social was published in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social! 👏 buff.ly/bzIwimT

Another absolute stunner from @paranoidxtree.bsky.social

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"We throw jokes at the pain & hope it doesn’t throw back. When someone asks how we’re doing, we say I’m alright, like it’s a shield, like it’s not a lie soaked in yesterday’s silence." —from "We Don't Talk About That" by Oladosu Michael Emerald. Read the full poem: paranoidtree.com/read/vol-64

Minnesota writers: We're looking for stories & poems under 400 words in response to the ICE occupation of our state. Submissions close THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 30. 📣 ⚠️ Submit & more info about our chapbook project: bit.ly/MN-pride-zine

Minnesota writers: We're looking for stories & poems under 400 words in response to the ICE occupation of our state. Submissions close THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 30. 📣 ⚠️ Submit & more info about our chapbook project: bit.ly/MN-pride-zine

Hey, Minnesota writers! We're looking for stories & poems under 400 words in response to the ICE occupation of our state. Send us your writings of resilience, strength, joy, grief, and healing. Deadline is April 30! Submit & more info: bit.ly/MN-pride-zine

Hey, Minnesota writers! We're looking for stories & poems under 400 words in response to the ICE occupation of our state. Send us your writings of resilience, strength, joy, grief, and healing. Deadline is April 30! Submit & more info: bit.ly/MN-pride-zine

Calling all Minnesota-based writers! We're creating a chapbook of art and writing in response to the illegal ICE occupation of our state. Send us your poems, stories and essays under 400 words — by April 30. Submit & more info: bit.ly/MN-pride-zine

Calling all Minnesota-based writers! We're creating a chapbook of art and writing in response to the illegal ICE occupation of our state. Send us your poems, stories and essays under 400 words — by April 30. Submit & more info: bit.ly/MN-pride-zine

This new micro does in 400 words what Grey's Anatomy barely accomplishes in 22 seasons. Get your paws on "Between Dog & Wolf," a real-life, high-stakes medical drama by Lorraine Hanlon Comanor—paired perfectly with clocklike art by Eloise Koltun. New issue out now 🐾 paranoidtree.com/read/vol-63

This new micro does in 400 words what Grey's Anatomy barely accomplishes in 22 seasons. Get your paws on "Between Dog & Wolf," a real-life, high-stakes medical drama by Lorraine Hanlon Comanor—paired perfectly with clocklike art by Eloise Koltun. New issue out now 🐾 paranoidtree.com/read/vol-63

The Pitt ✖️ werewolves 🟰 this month's micro. When was the last time you were this riveted by a piece of creative nonfiction? Thanks to Lorraine Hanlon Comanor and Eloise Koltun for keeping us on the edge of our seats. 🐺 🩻 Read the full story: paranoidtree.com/read/vol-63

Rent is due on Monday and many in our Twin Cities community are still trapped at home, meaning they can't work to pay rent. Can you help us keep our neighbors housed? Donate $10+ to one of these rent relief funds & we'll send you a free zine as thanks. 💌 Fund links: linktr.ee/paranoidtree

Rent is due on Monday and many in our Twin Cities community are still trapped at home, meaning they can't work to pay rent. Can you help us keep our neighbors housed? Donate $10+ to one of these rent relief funds & we'll send you a free zine as thanks. 💌 Fund links: linktr.ee/paranoidtree

Oh wow, how fab.

Ah!! What an honor to be nominated! <3 thank you so much

Oh, I haven’t had one of these in so long I hardly know what to do with it. 💕💕💕 Thanks @paranoidxtree.bsky.social and congrats to all. Subscribe if you want a soul-saving zine in your mailbox!

Cheers to our Best Small Fictions nominees! We're honored to be the home for each and every one of these stories. 💌 ⚡

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I'm a resident of the Twin Cities. A small team and I spent 3 days sculpting this for a competition/festival in extremely cold temperatures. We were disqualified for political messaging and one of the organizers defaced it. I have no regrets and I have never been more proud to be Minnesotan. (cont)

Hi friends, just checking in from Minneapolis. Can we put out a couple asks for your support? 💕 Turns out, it's really hard to run a lit mag in your free time when the federal government has besieged your beloved city.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

Going to throw a few more out here to add to Twin Cities Bookstores: Black Garnet is a newer bookstore in St Paul that specializes in BIPOC literature and has done a lot already to build a community space and there's also Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Books in Minneapolis

Every once in a while, a poem lands with you at just the right time. Thanks to @ewam72.bsky.social & @cutandplaced.bsky.social for sharing the beauty and pain of this imagined—but all too real—Rockwellian scene with us. 🩵❤️ Read the full issue: paranoidtree.com/read/vol-61

Friends, our community here in MN desperately needs help protecting against ICE. Please join us in donating directly to these orgs that provide food, safety & legal support to MN immigrants. And if you’ve been meaning to pick up a zine from our shop, there’s never been a better time. 💌

To organize local news events we are counting days since Dec. 2, regarded as the beginning of what fed authorities call “Operation Metro Surge.” The “Twin Cities Metro Activity Dashboard” page shows updates re police activity. It has ~1300 data points.

made some updates to the list. if you want to give to a gofundme, the ones in spanish are getting way less than other, and they are asking for much less

Minneapolis.

We’re having a super proud mom moment for @aniking.bsky.social being selected for the 2026 Best Microfiction anthology! 🎉 And huge thanks to the editors of @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social & @dseuss.bsky.social for your hard work and care in selecting these pieces. Congrats to all the winners!

Holy crap! Congrats everyone and so incredible to be on this list!!

It's impossible to isolate just one gorgeous, pithy line from this new story by @aniking.bsky.social. So, here, have them all. Read the full story and more at paranoidtree.com/read/vol-60. Wishing you all a warm, dry & well-fed holiday season. 🍊

I fricking love a zine, so @paranoidxtree.bsky.social has been on my dream list for such a long time. Guess how excited I am to have this story in digital and print? GUESS?? And Kelly Emmrich’s art brings a whole new layer, I love it so much. www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-60

My first Pushcart nomination! I am beyond grateful and honored. Thank you so much @paranoidxtree.bsky.social for loving my story as much as I did 💚

“Rage in Retail” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! Thank you so much, @paranoidxtree.bsky.social, and congratulations to all of my fellow nominees! ⚡️💚

Announcing our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees. ⚡ 💚 Congrats & thanks to you all for sharing your talents with us at Paranoid Tree!

A subscription to Paranoid Tree is the perfect gift for: - Your cool artsy cousin - Brave readers with eclectic taste - Your biggest crush Treat someone to a new short story in the mail every month. 💌 Get 2 free issues with each subscription—for a limited time! paranoidtree.com/subscriptions

Make sure you read this today, Black Friday: @jennymliu.bsky.social @paranoidxtree.bsky.social

New CNF (my first!) is out now at @paranoidxtree.bsky.social 🛍️ I wrote it almost exactly a month before I quit this job and didn't think I would ever send it out. Grateful to the editors for picking this up and Ruth Baccam for grasping the crux of this story when they created the accompanying art 💞

"I spend too much on supportive shoes. There is a mound of black on the back of my door, hanging ghouls perfumed with company-gifted By Kilian—it is a wardrobe for a funeral, the mourning of." New CNF by Jenny M. Liu. Sending solidarity to retail workers this season! paranoidtree.com/read/vol-59

“You would never guess our power from the occasional King Cake cameo.” @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58

“You know us. We are the original gang of tiny plastic babies.” What a delight to wake up to @janstinchcomb.bsky.social’s gang in my inbox

Once more for the night crowd:

Because everything is terrible, allow me to share these little creeps with you. Always a pleasure to work with @paranoidxtree.bsky.social & thank you to Kate Voronina for the illustration. www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58

Our October issue is here and ready to CREEP. YOU. OUT. Many thanks to @janstinchcomb.bsky.social for setting the atmosphere with this story & to Kate Voronina for putting such a delightfully horrific face on it. 💚 🖤 Read the full story ➡️ www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58

Heading back to the Midwest for my book tour in November. Catch me at Dual Citizen in St Paul for a Twin Cities Book Festival after party with a kickass lineup of readers. Hosted by @paranoidxtree.bsky.social and @conium.bsky.social dcbc.com/event/shapes...