I love the way a good piece of criticism can make you rethink how you feel about a piece of art, even a little while after you finish it. Definitely softens my opinion on S5 of the show.

Been cracking up lately spinning "Rocking the Suburbs" on repeat. It's just so good lmao

Goooooooood morning! Guess who has an announcement? It's US. Are you tremendously excited? Can you simply not wait? Well, you're going to have to, because this was just an announcement letting you know we have an announcement. HAH!

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

Pitched one to an editor and he said to send it over. Gonna need to give it one more pass first, but hopefully soon!

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase. ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Where's my Mitch, money?

For some reason today feels like a day to listen to Neutral Milk Hotel while I'm writing

Idk if this is a good thing or not, but I've been starting a lot of essay drafts lately with the working title of "Against __________." Maybe I'm just getting (more) crotchedy as I end my 20's.

You guys ever submit to lit maga moments before they close to feel like you're back in college?

Also, I'm working on an essay about Hades II right now, but I can only work on it a couple hundred words at a time because the end of that game makes me too mad. Just put a small session in and now I probably won't sleep for another hour lol

I don't want to spoil the surprise, but I just got access to help edit one of my favorite mags on the web today.

Red card this, red card that, this is the only red card you need

AND...with both of our editors in the same state (finally) your chances of a lightning-fast response are pretty good, if you submit TODAY.

Watching blue beetle (2023) rn and it's the best superhero movie of 2003.

i’m sorry but farming is cheating. you didn’t scavenge those cucumbers, you grew them in your field on purpose and “found” them later. and that’s bullshit

Betcha thought we forgot ya. NEVER. It's that time again, folks. 97 is live. Let the future ghosts of your past self know. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #writingcommunity

Very funny Submittable email header

The end of The Bear was fine I guess? Less intense/stressful than previous seasons? IDK, it just didn't hit the same even though I don't think there was anything "wrong" with it.

Da Bear (singular)

I'm wrapping up these conversations but if you are rural, indigenous, physically/medically disabled, or not currently able to safely identify as trans in real life or online, and willing to talk, I'd be thrilled if you dropped me a line

It feels like the city of Boston is conspiring to keep me from going home. Sort of like the last time I left

Once again drinking watered downed rum at an airport bar thinking about books and stuff.

Corporate bean counting bugs me extra when I know I'm going on vacation in less than 12 hours.

Wow, I still have never learned how to not make a million early draft edits on verb tense lmao. Sometimes the shifting is intentional, sometimes I look at my work and think "what was I thinking?"

You couldn't make Casablanca today! Because they already made that movie.

Damn, busy writing day after all

Don't have an exact count of what I have on hand, but I'm getting ready to move soon and have spare copies of these two chaps rolling around. DM me if you want one. $12 for Short Relief, $8 for ACFNOTR. Can have them in the mail by EOD Wednesday.

It's so weird hearing a new Sublime album in 2026. I'm only a couple songs in, but there's something off about hearing new songs by a band you thought was just gone. (I'm aware the new singer is Bradley's son, but the vocal resemblance is uncanny. I expected it to be further apart.)

Good? The other schools should boycott tech? share.google/faBBvxBY70Cy...

For real though we don't do a ton of sales like this and we hope this is a chance for some of our new followers to dig into a decade worth of funny, weird, sad, and cool books www.barrelhousemag.com/shop

The Sorsby ruling is truly disastrous. It will be appealed, of course, because one of the fundamental parts of watching a sporting event is believing that it’s as fair a competition as possible — and that no one directly involved has money riding on specific outcomes.

Was shadowboxing my baby bro (13, almost 14), and kid tried to put a french fry in my mouth as a distraction lmao

A reflection on sports fandom from @beansbaker5.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/ben-shahon-c...

Creative nonfiction has one of our highest chances of acceptance! So far, for CNF we’ve published:

Tweeted and deleted something about hating work. But it was pretty boring and probably would only serve to cause problems to leave up.

Do you like clowns, infidelity, hot dogs, car crashes, or other things that make fucked up little guys? This is the flash piece for you!

every little thing she does is magritt everything she do is not une pipe

New short story coming soon from Memezine

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

Spent most of the day today plumbing the archives of my flash fiction pubs/work in progress drafts and pulled together about 100 pgs of a manuscript. So that's pretty cool.

Fuck yeah!

I just paid enough attention to he lyrics on the new bleachers album on probably listen 7 or 8 and heard this Mountain Goats shout out

Now that it's been passed on by TBQ, it's time to find a home for "Listening to ‘El Scorcho’ on Double Speed While Eating Del Taco"

Anyone got good food/drink recommendations for Oakland? Heading up for a quick weekend trip today

Watched The Boys finale, and it's alright I guess? Perfectly serviceable.

I think I just landed my biggest payment for a pub yet, and it's for a 1500-word essay about being a bit of a mess? No pub date yet, but coming soon.

I have a MS of poems written in 2018. I have a MS of erasures of cowboy poetry. I have a MS of erasures of the novelization of Ang Lee's HULK. I have a MS of prose poems written after 1950-90s Polish animated shorts. Publish David.