I'm getting sick of all the jokes, everyone. Christ. Show some empathy. Charlie Kirk and Joseph Goebbels were both good family men.

Number 20.

Getting work added to my back today.

My students seemed to be on board with/amused by my A.I. policy. Hopefully won't have to deal with any incidents this semester.

Busy day, but it’s still #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing the perfect summer read: a hurricane, the ocean, things from beyond the reef, magic, friends, and maybe a bit of violence. www.amazon.com/House-Bone-R...

I have a piece published this morning.

"you're a fungus expanding your fibrous tendrils across dead skin and decaying organs; sing in the language of hunger, the words an ancestral memory buried in the genetic code..." Genre-bending writing by @gorillapoet.bsky.social from our Summer 2025 issue. #flash #experimentalwriting

So I’ve been using @LibreOffice for a year now, and I’m not a fan. Is there something better?

you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.

Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! www.404media.co/republicans-...

So I read a story tonight at an event organized and facilitated by Chuck Palahniuk. At the end of the night, he came up, shook my hand, told me he liked my story…and gave me some valuable feedback. Im fucking stunned. And glowing. Fuck.

I’m reading one of my horror stories tonight. The first time I read this thing in front of an audience. So it will be interesting.

Mythology is full of queer heroes.

How about a little devil music to liven up your evening? If you're not listening to Twin Temple, you're doing it wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6M0...

Your first draft, don’t try to make it perfect, just let it be your thoughts, your ideas for the story. The rest will come with revision.

Three years ago today, my grampa followed my gramma across the frozen bridge, after a five month separation. So much of what is good in me is from my grandparents’ example.

Write new worlds. Write beautiful places. Write angry people. Write imaginary beasts, futile quests, broken hearts, lifelong injustices, mysteries, love affairs, lost children, newfound purpose. Write anything that allows you to escape or heal or vent or rage or explore or reconcile. Write 🖤

You'll find isolationism in the playbook of any abuser. What is more abusive than fascism? Or any authoritarian government, for that matter?

At Mississippi Studios to see Builders and Butchers.

A poem of mine based on Irish mythology.

Depression has been kicking my ass since just before Christmas. It's been hard finding the hope seeds. I seem to have misplaced them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m83...

I swear the most frustrating part about dating is trying to set up that first one after talking for a few weeks, and they vanish.

I’m including this haibun in my next chapbook.

"“Uh…uh..yes..Mz. Othmar. Very nice cake…very nice cake.” His throat dried as warm blood flowed through his face, before it angled back through his body to his groin, hardened his Woodstock." From my current story..."Meet Your Private Tutor, Charlie Brown!"

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m bringing you a lot of ghosts, blood, revenge, and monsters from beyond the reef for only $4.99. That’s less than a cup of coffee! Get some. Thanks! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...

Dearest writers, Updated submissions info! We plan to open Jan 22-29 22-25 to works by BIPOC authors 26-29 open to all Short fic! Flash fic! Poetry! Please check guidelines; apologies for any confusion. We are eager to see your words! psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga... - A

Don’t submit your work to @atticusreview.bsky.social . Fuck their NFT bullshit. newsletter.atticusreview.org/p/an-atticus...

Almost done with this round of revisions for my post apocalyptic Santa story.

Depression has been kicking my ass like it usually does this time of year. I had a nice respite from my mind yesterday at some friends' place. They kindly invited me to spend the day with their family. So I cooked my bacon wrapped mushrooms stuffed with cream cheese.

Well it’s Another Day. Happy Another Day everyone!

This classic anti-fascist song feels fucking relevant again. People love scapegoating the weak and vulnerable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pqs...

I'm reading a hybrid essay about grief and loss tomorrow night in Southeast Portland. It's called To Our Faithful Departed, and it's inspired by this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zXV...

I’ve been doing some heavy cleaning because my sister is moving in, and I found this. Dennis was an amazing poet. He passed a couple weeks ago. Rest easy, old friend.

@gabino.bsky.social I think we’ve been to the same poetry readings. “I looked at Melisa’s photos and remembered when we met, two bored individuals in a poetry reading where the readers performed with the passion of tired grandparents after inhaling chloroform.”

Yummy! #horror #feet

Mood the daily pill packet rolls between fingertips— unopened. when the mood matches the winter outside it’s hard to remember raindrops are breaths to the land. nt

And I just finished tightening up a piece I'm reading in Portland on the 14th. It's a hybrid essay about losing my grandparents called To Our Faithful Departed. It is inspired by a Radiators From Space song.

Just sent a story out into the wild. I hope it finds a nice home.

Humble Bundle is selling a bundle of Ursula Le Guin books in ebook format. Each sale benefits Literary Arts, an organization in Portland, Oregon. www.humblebundle.com/books/wizard...

My six year old niece made this in Church.

My mind is busy lying to me right now, so I’m finding my comfort in weed and the show Eureka.

Whelp, everyone who agreed to write me a rec letter is ghosting me. About typical, really. Guess I have to do this myself.

Current mood. (Art by Pierre Mortel)

I’m working on my WIP…currently called The Saga of Maya Raven-Feeder. Norse names are easy to think of…but hard to keep track, especially all of the variations of “Thor”.

For the next time some one wants an author pic.

And it's done...coming in at 4710 words.

Today I am editing and revising my post apocalyptic Deaf/Hard of Hearing story "River" for a call I saw recently. I am hoping to finish it today, and send it off.

Fuck this bullshit.

People in my town are fucking pissed. www.opb.org/article/2024...