It's biblically accurate gourd season, motherfuckers

Feels bad when the hospital asks

To be fair, these fallacious court wizards can pull off a full choreo and song whenever a wandering monotheist arrives, so they earned their paycheck

Hobbits getting into the graffiti game

World is falling apart so I'm going to watch the Autopsy of Jane Doe but pretend it's Logan Roy at his hobby job with the only kid of his he actually likes

Learn about @aabalaskovits.bsky.social‬'s writing process and inspirations for STRANGE FOLK YOU'LL NEVER MEET, and more, in this interview with @thirdcoastmagazine.com‬! buff.ly/9SmDWrJ Get STRANGE FOLK YOU'LL NEVER MEET here: buff.ly/0WIEWKj @susanschulman.bsky.social‬ @ipgbook.bsky.social‬

So honored to be interviewed by Third Coast! We discussed many lovely topics, including but not limited to violence and defecation

No kings, no fascists

"They pass her skin from one hand to another. A lesson for the wide-eyed children present: Good people share among themselves." In this week's miCRo, A. A. Balaskovits gives us a glimpse into collective cruelty and our age-old fear of, and fascination with, difference. buff.ly/uEryOGQ

Deeply honored to have my latest flash, about a selkie and her skin, in the Cincinnati Review miCRo: www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...

"would you like some erotica I found on the street?" Is a real thing I asked today

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Dust storm in Chicago. Repeating all the great hits of the 1920s

Chicago is now Silent Hill :(

Made a street friend today

Woke up to my two cats laying on me, licking each other's assholes. Life comes at you fast

“What if we replicated the atrocities of Abu Ghraib every day, in startling clarity, for the express purpose of letting the world know that we enjoy kidnapping and torturing people en masse” is a pretty goddamn grim agenda to set for your political party.

Make the weekend magical when you read @aabalaskovits.bsky.social's #fracturedfairytale collections, STRANGE FOLK YOU'LL NEVER MEET, and MAGIC FOR UNLUCKY GIRLS! buff.ly/d7sMLN3 Strange Folk You'll Never Meet: buff.ly/0bZf9i2 Magic for Unlucky Girls: buff.ly/kyYwCpa

I'm supposed to be at Sweet Briar College, where I was so excited to meet with the amazing students, faculty, and staff who organized my visit & made Mobility their Common Read. Hours before my flight I learned about their Board's exclusion of trans & nonbinary people. So now I'm not going.

Don't miss out on reading @aabalaskovits.bsky.social's short non-fiction piece, "Of the moment," over in The Palisades Review! buff.ly/jrk9I3K Treat yourself to her first #shortstory collection, MAGIC FOR UNLUCKY GIRLS, here: buff.ly/bpciUzk

I’m going to be zooming in for this, but I’m so glad to be part of this community at 100 West Corsicana, and I can’t wait to be there soon to do work that feels urgent to me.

Today, I have a short non-fic piece about a monument I walk past every day in The Palisades Review. Free Gaza. Free all of us.

If you're interested in this position, we're open for applications till next Sunday 3/16 at midnight EDT! Sorry I forgot to put a closing date on this till now.

Make a wish

It's happening. It's happening.

Current read

Fall in love with #shortstory collections by @livesinpages.bsky.social, @josephholt.bsky.social, & @aabalaskovits.bsky.social this upcoming #ValentinesDay! https://buff.ly/3EwBJ1z

Revisit @aabalaskovits.bsky.social's #shortstory "The Handkerchief" over in The Journal on this #FairyTaleFriday! https://buff.ly/4hejts4 Don't miss out on reading more #fracturedfairytales in STRANGE FOLK YOU'LL NEVER MEET! https://buff.ly/40RaI1q

Melania dressed as Carmen Sandiego in mourning for the inauguration

Aggressively listening to Pure Moods (1994) at work.

Need gift ideas for someone who loves all things spooky? Then you'll want to treat them to STRANGE FOLK YOU'LL NEVER MEET by @aabalaskovits.bsky.social! https://buff.ly/3gyR96p

So grateful to be nominated. Thank you and all your stars, @astrolabe.ooo!

A lovely early Christmas gift and my current read

Platinumed Bloodborne. I have nothing else left to achieve in this life.

Doing my part to heal Europe

One of my coworkers said I was not a serious person. As I wrapped my feet in paper towels yesterday as my shoes were soaked from the snow/rain, I knew she was correct.

A great guide and group. Resistance to doom, an array of hope. American democracy doesn't just exist at the federal level. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Living close to a lake is true joy, when nothing else really is.

Congratulations to @aabalaskovits.bsky.social whose #shortstory "Nothing Buried Won’t Reveal," was published over in @astrolabe.ooo! buff.ly/4ctV1kb Get MAGIC FOR UNLUCKY GIRLS by A.A. Balaskovits here: buff.ly/3XLTEZt

Current read. Research is fun.

Congratulations to the winners and it’s nice to be on the list of finalists with l Latifa Ayad whose story was a finalist for flash fiction. Going to go celebrate this moment!

Current read

My coworker gifted me a plant <3 it is thus named as I have doubts regarding its survival in my care.

Starting my second McCarthy