Me checking my inbox as all the litmags are clearing out their queues to start the year fresh:

Hey! Want to learn about line breaks with me? I am teaching a 2-hour workshop about it this month via @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social! Check it out! shop.onlypoems.com/products/end...

My god, what an incredible piece. Satire feels harder in an age where real life is so ridiculous, but this is sharp as hell

Was I the only one who didn’t know the Best American Poetry series is ending?

Mini craft talk: giving my manuscript draft a silly name has saved me from getting overly attached to a fine-but-not-great book title early in the process.

6 just walked in with a toy phone, took a call, and then told me: “It’s for you, they said you’re a loser” Devastated. Absolutely ruined.

Glass Onion’s most genius deception is in making absolute smokeshow Kathryn Hahn appear unsexy

The Boy made a little snowman “to do all our yard work”

I would take Goofus out behind the shed and shoot him. Gallant I would shoot somewhere else, a place of honor

If you have a poetry manuscript waiting for a good home, @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social is open just for this month! Working with their team (and editor @wordperv.bsky.social) were the best thing about my 2025–make your year and submit

Woke up briefly at six and tried to put an earplug into an ear that already had one in it so the year is off to a strong start

Oh dang I'd better post my one NYE poem right quick! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/bou...

ANOTHER year? In this economy??

Once again solving Law & Order cases in the first ten minutes by identifying the person who is too famous to be in an episode of Law & Order

ending the year the way I started it: bleeding

Departures 6 comes from @jackbedell.bsky.social and his poem “sillage” in Flight 2 as the year departs flight-literary.ghost.io/jack-bedell-...

Making a picture of myself with AI just so that I’ll have more fingers to cross

My local steakhouse really has the tired millennial demographic in a chokehold

unclear whether my throat is sore because I have a cold or because I have been scream singing Melissa Etheridge’s “I’m the only one” too much

after submitting & publishing only one or zero stories per year since my book four years ago, I am proud to say I had 9 new stories (+1 reprint) published in some very wonderful journals in 2025. thanks so much to the editors & readers. you can find links at my website: annavangalajones.com/writing/

My local steakhouse really has the tired millennial demographic in a chokehold

What I can tell from this thread is a bunch of people who don’t know anything about Alaska other than “lol snow igloo” #alaskasky

Departures 4 is based on the Brewer’s Choice selection for Flight 1, @ritamookerjee.bsky.social piece “Wherein the Kardashian Sisters” flight-literary.ghost.io/rita-mookerj...

Me on my way to ruin the economy* *eat one piece of avocado toast

Just had a real “sorry I was being a bitch, there were too many sounds” moment

Old plan >>>>> new plan

yes I’m happy to clarify. when I do it it’s called discourse. when you do it it’s running off at the mouth all wild style and whatnot. these are just technical terms

No more human experience than bonding with the other souls at your very delayed airport gate

Working on today’s Departures prompt from an airport bar like god intended

I’ve ALWAYS said Frances has the best taste.

Oh wow! ☺️🙏🎉 Most definitely!!

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

End of year reading stats from @thestorygraph.com Looks like @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @aaronburch.bsky.social are in the big leagues

Departures 2 is inspired by @mehpoeting.bsky.social and his poem “it is not the stones/but the child’s mound” in flight 1: flight-literary.ghost.io/matthew-e-he...

I have been savoring Donna Vorreyer’s Unrivered (Sundress Publications, 2025). Took her with me to Bela for one of their last evenings open. Here she is in candle glow with ginger lemon tea and holiday lights, and yes, she was accompanied by cake.🍰 📖 @sundresspub.bsky.social @djvorreyer.bsky.social

My husband and I have started saying “they don’t fear death” when we see someone doing something idiotic

Departure 1 is inspired by the @seanennis.bsky.social story "Its Powerful Parking Lot," published in Flight 1 flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...

Christmas is over, and New Years is coming. Here at Flight, we know how hazy time can get in that endless week between. To fight that ennui, we're bringing you Departures, a series of 8 writing prompts. We'll drop one prompt each day from now until January 2nd Mark the time by writing with us!

6 has invented a Santa-esque character called “the birthday bachelor,” someone who “doesn’t have anyone to marry, and has all the stuff they need in their apartment, and so they give me good birthday presents”

Ladies, the best way to test a new partner is to make them watch Muppet Christmas Carol. If they don’t cry at the “life is full of meetings and partings” scene? If they don’t AT LEAST tear up?! 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Christmas as a kid: I didn’t get any clothes!!!! 🤪 Christmas as an adult: …I didn’t get any clothes? 😟

Thanks to the folks at @podcastmicro.bsky.social for including my piece “At the Writer’s Group” originally published by the good folks at Milk Candy Review

Super fun to be on the Xmas episode of Micro Podcast with @sfreligh.bsky.social @karismaprice.bsky.social and @dtrobbins.bsky.social micropodcast.org/podcast/klei...

Honestly, respect to the litmag editor out there sending 11pm on Christmas Eve rejections. True definition of grind

and Hans Gruber, who DID die

I refuse to go back to the store for one more @!&$*# thing, so we’re getting creative with the wrapping

Can’t wait for six to come home and see his early Christmas present: Big Box™️

I haven’t checked the quote posts yet to see if anyone else from Alaska has dropped the fever dream that was the mattress ranch commercials: m.youtube.com/watch?v=eldb...

me: oh hey cool you write towards certainty, that's great. I write towards *holds up fish* fish: hey