From my 30-day novel challenge #WIP Three Little Birds that you can follow along with (for free!) on #Substack (bio). CW: greasy pizza, sticky fingers, friendship, offshoring production #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #authorsky #sometimesdowells

From my 30-day novel challenge #WIP Three Little Birds that you can follow along with (for free!) on #Substack (bio). CW: corporate life, bandwidth throttling, social commentary #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #authorsky #sometimesdowells

This is because Netflix has a specific list of approved digital cameras and a specific production pipeline that ends up making everything look extremely same-y. Nothing else looks like a Netflix show, but every Netflix show looks like a Netflix show. www.vice.com/en/article/w...

from my #WIP that you can follow along with (for free!) on #Substack, It Came...From the Video Store (bio) CW: the midnight after, questionable screen names, The Voice™ (but not "The Voice," babe); ah, #romance #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #authorsky #romance

From my 30-day novel challenge #WIP Three Little Birds that you can follow along with (for free!) on #Substack (bio). CW: Clocks, pot calling the kettle black, discharge (firearms), honor among thieves #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #authorsky #sometimesdowells

lost amid a dream betwixt twisting farther on than I care to sleep #haiku #haikufeels #poetry #micropoetry

"anime food" sounds like the bottom of the food pyramid for weebs

heard NYC is getting renamed WokeYC, and that lines for government pronouns are stretching for blocks. they're talking about Shakira law. There are lines of city buses parked along Wall Street saying "totally not the gulag express lol" . chat, are they cooked?

super big thanks to @wipsnips.bsky.social for setting up a trackbear for all of us doing a novel writing month challenge. this is where I ended up yesterday i'm serializing every day, and you can read along with me over on #Substack (for free! bio link) #amwriting #writesky #booksky #nanowrimo

reminder that you can follow along with my novel writing month #WIP for free on #Substack. If you haven't seen me posting it, you can find out more (and be subjected to my singing voice) here #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #booksky #authorsky jointhekult.substack.com/p/insert-coi...

from my novel writing month #WIP "Three Little Birds." you can follow along (for free!) on #Substack (bio) CW: postmodernism, seagulls and fries (and fezzes), awful puns, displaced Goldman's bankers. #writingcommunity #writesky #authorsky #booksky #caper #amwriting

what's a name but things the mind whispers to itself waking from a dream #haiku #haikufeels #poetry #micropoetry

You know all those "strong men build" hustle guys have never actually read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations deeply because it's basically an old man who is at the apex of his world's social order constantly complaining about how none of it makes him happy and it's all meaningless

Generally respect the preferences of the owner-operator, but I prefer my forks circumcised.

from my #WIP I'm serializing free on #Substack (bio) "It Came From the Video Store." (on short hiatus until I finish "Three Little Birds" for novel writing month). CW: the Hello Kitty Couch song, pianos, awkward mornings #writesky #writingcommunity #booksky #authorsky #romance #tentacletuesday

from my 30-day novel challenge #WIP "Three Little Birds" — that you can follow along with (for free!) on #Substack (bio) CW: Norman Rockwell, museum security, potted plants, opening night galas #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #authorsky #caper #heist

it is when the moon hits your eye, big pizza pie that — that's amore #haiku #haikufeels #poetry #micropoetry

oops new splashes and book cover

stop calling your heart's work "content"

No one gets to look like they did in their 20s all their life, but one of the things I am finding gratifying (and also, a bit of a relief) is that as I age I'm finding people my age continue to be beautiful. It makes leaving youth behind easier, although I still miss the knees of my 20s.

from my 30-day novel #WIP "Three Little Birds" that you can check out (free!) on #Substack (bio) CW: French, French Fries, French Thief, Awful Puns, Subprime Lending Crisis of 2008, Shellfish #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #authorsky #crime #dramaedy

exhaling between my lips, steam drifting to sky settling within #haiku #haikufeels #poetry #micropoetry

crab rangoonification

'chat, are we cooked?' implies the existence of 'chat, are we raw?'

from my not-NaNo #WIP, "Three Little Birds" serializing on #Substack — and you can read it for free, babe (bio). currently at 10,500/50,000 words. CW: French thief pretending to be British, Realtors, fetes vs. soirees, godawful puns #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky #booksky #authorsky

reminder that you can #read my serial #WIP stories for the low, low price of "absolutely free" the 'start here' link explains how it works, what you get, and how they'll be different from the finished versions. kasscarcosa.carrd.co #amwriting #booksky #authorsky #writingcommunity

from my novel writing month #wip, "Three Little Birds" you can read for free on #Substack (bio) CW: powdered sugar pastries, crossword puzzles, potentially one of my real life outfits. #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #booksky #authorsky

from my (free to read) #WIP "It Came..From The Video Store" on #Substack (bio) CW: golden retrievers, mac and cheese, morality plays, best friends #writesky #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersky #booksky #authorsky

lemon gold falling leaves dance together at dusk breaking gentle waves #haiku #haikufeels #poetry #micropoetry

words to live by #amwriting #writesky #art #booksky

Baker & Taylor, one of the largest distributors for print library books in America, is closing down.

going to start calling editing "pruning my prosebush."

let me ride the wave a little longer before you at last release #haiku #haikufeels #poetry #micropoetry

From my novel writing month #WIP, Three Little Birds. You can read more about it on #Substack (bio). CW: Art, the French, billionaire tax evasion, crossword puzzles, contemplated thievery #amwriting #booksky #authorsky #thriller #dramedy #crimefiction #actionadventure #writesky #writingcommunity

if anyone's competing in ANY form of novel writing challenge this month —  you're welcome to join a group board on Pinterest for sharing inspiration and helpful guides. pin.it/7t3aNEZTG #writesky #authorsky #nanowrimo #novelnovember #novnov #reedsy #amwriting

from my #WIP not-#nanowrimo challenge, "Three Little Birds" (bio to learn more). CW: villainy, antiheroes, homages to carmen sandiego and arsene lupin, Norman Rockwell paintings, Burn Notice, Leverage inspo. #amwriting #writesky #booksky #authorsky #crime #honoramongthieves #adventure #dramedy

Serializing on #substack (bio), and my play at generalized novel writing month. #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #thriller #action #adventure #crime

i'll be participating in one of the #nanowrimo (RIP) variants this year — Reedsy's Novel Sprint. You can come check me out over there, or you can catch me serializing it (with my commentary, as always) over on #Substack (bio). More on this as I go along. #amwriting #writesky #booksky #authorsky

It would be kind of based if a conservative US president decided to remodel the white house to resemble their constituents’ taste and went with wood paneling and giant puffy sectional couches everywhere.

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

from "It Came from the Video Store," my #WIP novel serializing on #Substack (bio) . CW: Musical chapter epigraphs, silences, lyricism. . #tentacletuesday #amwriting #writesky #authorsky #booksky #retrofuturism #southern #scifi #spooky #romance

gulfs of meaning crossed slashed contusions paint the sky knowing breaks again #haiku #haikufeels #poetry #micropoetry October 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM

just remember, you've never seen me and the Louvre thief in the same place, at the same time. you don't even know where in the world I am. #halloween

a non-paywalled piece on #Substack that's basically me doom spiraling about "transgressive" means anymore. but also a freebie — my friends and I (The Electric Kool-Aid Stand) just for fun put together a theme song for my Electric Love serial (that's also free), and you'll only find it here.

about to start telling men "good boy" when they behave

from my serializing #WIP on #Substack, "It Came...From the Video Store." (bio) CW: monster dick, best friends, social norms, parasocial engagement #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #tentacletuesday #amwriting #booksky #authorsky #90s #speculativefiction #scifi #retrofuturism

the leaves turn russet the world's beginning of sleep my hands are freezing #haiku #haikufeels #poetry #micropoetry

you know who isn't experiencing a loneliness epidemic? book boyfriends.