kira homsher
@kirakh.bsky.social
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writer & PhD student in cincinnati / rep: UTA kirahomsher.com
hexback --->
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500 words a day is truly the way
about 1 month ago
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the lord taketh and taketh away. and then He taketh away some more
about 1 month ago
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sally rooney short story collection when
about 1 month ago
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any day now
about 2 months ago
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Any virtual literary readings/events in the next couple weeks? Asking for a student!
3 months ago
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Keith Pilapil Lesmeister
3 months ago
It's such a joy to see this story (originally pub'd in Cutleaf) selected for Best of the Net 2026. Congrats,
@kirakh.bsky.social
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Honored to be included in this year's Best of the Net anthology! Huge thanks to
@andrewporter01.bsky.social
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@keithlesmeister.bsky.social
, and the editors!
bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-...
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3 months ago
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just referenced this picture in a short story I'm writing
3 months ago
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You always know you’re in a nice neighborhood when there are lampposts on the sidewalks
4 months ago
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weekend reading
4 months ago
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Rereading Lorrie Moore, stoned with an achey neck giggling into my pillows, probably the closest thing to a spiritual experience I have had in eons
4 months ago
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There's something uncomfortable about reading someone's writing and being immediately hyper-aware of who their influences are
4 months ago
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sorry but we desperately need to come up with some new blurb language. I don't want to read a book that "deftly navigates the human experience" what the fuck does that even mean anymore
4 months ago
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John Chrostek
5 months ago
If you don't mind the direct ask, if you're looking for a tightly-curated online bookshop focusing on indies & top-tier reads, come check us out:
www.eveninghousebooks.com
I'll also be opening up soon for more freelance work, but I need to get my house & mind in order before I push heavy there
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Evening House Books
Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.
https://www.eveninghousebooks.com
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Every time I have a medical appointment and have to wear a hospital gown I start pretending I’m a Sally Rooney character like “Her wrists were very slender and white. She trembled slightly and went pale, sitting up very straight.”
5 months ago
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perhaps things will start working out for me again
5 months ago
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I’m 30 now by the way…
5 months ago
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The final paragraph from "Why Short Stories Are Essential and Why They Are Seldom Read" by Charles E. May
5 months ago
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6 months ago
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contacting wedding vendors is just getting email after email from "artsy" millennials saying "ohhh sorry I only actually work with the 1% <3333"
6 months ago
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What is the funniest short story you've ever read? (If you recommend your own I will come bonk you over the head with a blunt object)
6 months ago
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I miss living places where having a personality is a given
6 months ago
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Seattle is such an unbelievably beautiful city with a spooky eerie atmosphere and it sucks that it’s wasted on a bunch of tech normies
7 months ago
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How do I tell my neighbors that they cannot just have a fucking rooster in an urban neighborhood waking everyone up before dawn every morning
7 months ago
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winter break
7 months ago
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Forgot to reactivate my twitter after 30 days so now I'm really stuck here huh
7 months ago
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Lit Hub
7 months ago
Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, El-Hakawati, in occupied East Jerusalem, shutting down a children’s musical show titled “Dreams Under the Olive Trees.”
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Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, shutting down a children’s show.
On Sunday night, Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, El-Hakawati, in occupied East Jerusalem, shutting down a children’s musical show titled “Dreams Under the Olive…
https://buff.ly/J7bsU38
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We seem to be in some kind of cultural moment where everyone feels the need to write about wrestling or boxing or deadlifting or whatever
7 months ago
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Reuters
7 months ago
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
reut.rs/48tKTYY
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Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don't use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday.
https://reut.rs/48tKTYY
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Pls recommend short stories that particularly lend themselves to a lesson on syntax? :~)
8 months ago
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The Baffler
8 months ago
The decline in literacy is the result of a top-down class war.
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We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
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New York’s gotta be the only place in the country you can just walk around in a beret and expect to be taken seriously
8 months ago
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Max Berger
8 months ago
The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.
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zach silberberg
8 months ago
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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finally scanned my story in The End Magazine, you can read here if you're so inclined:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Rc6p...
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Rubber Ball_The End.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rc6pFV1j_lmCW7l4Ex6XeVUL9vyncSfP/view
8 months ago
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Bookshop.org
8 months ago
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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tell me a word to ctrl-F in my novel
8 months ago
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prose and cons. get it? hahaahahahahhaha
8 months ago
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go birds fuck ice free palestine :)
9 months ago
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Forgot that I’m supposed to be writing for the Fat Lady
9 months ago
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all my favorite authors sound a little bit like junie b jones
9 months ago
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prescribing myself a franny and zooey reread
9 months ago
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Don't make me look at your labradoodle
9 months ago
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somehow despite having two parents with chronic pain / disabilities I still didn't believe that getting older would involve this much ambient pain and discomfort
9 months ago
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Loaf
9 months ago
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wint
about 1 year ago
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
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I wrote a poem! :)
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about 1 year ago
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I spiritually/physically/intellectually/emotionally cannot continue to teach college composition anymore
over 1 year ago
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