hexback --->

500 words a day is truly the way

the lord taketh and taketh away. and then He taketh away some more

sally rooney short story collection when

any day now

Any virtual literary readings/events in the next couple weeks? Asking for a student!

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!

Honored to be included in this year's Best of the Net anthology! Huge thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @keithlesmeister.bsky.social, and the editors! bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-...

just referenced this picture in a short story I'm writing

You always know you’re in a nice neighborhood when there are lampposts on the sidewalks

weekend reading

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

There's something uncomfortable about reading someone's writing and being immediately hyper-aware of who their influences are

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

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

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.”

perhaps things will start working out for me again

I’m 30 now by the way…

The final paragraph from "Why Short Stories Are Essential and Why They Are Seldom Read" by Charles E. May

Hey

contacting wedding vendors is just getting email after email from "artsy" millennials saying "ohhh sorry I only actually work with the 1% <3333"

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)

I miss living places where having a personality is a given

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

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

winter break

Forgot to reactivate my twitter after 30 days so now I'm really stuck here huh

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.”

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

Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY

Pls recommend short stories that particularly lend themselves to a lesson on syntax? :~)

The decline in literacy is the result of a top-down class war.

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

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

finally scanned my story in The End Magazine, you can read here if you're so inclined: drive.google.com/file/d/1Rc6p...

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.

tell me a word to ctrl-F in my novel

prose and cons. get it? hahaahahahahhaha

go birds fuck ice free palestine :)

Forgot that I’m supposed to be writing for the Fat Lady

all my favorite authors sound a little bit like junie b jones

prescribing myself a franny and zooey reread

Don't make me look at your labradoodle

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

Loaf

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

I wrote a poem! :)

I spiritually/physically/intellectually/emotionally cannot continue to teach college composition anymore