Love this gem by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social!🔥

"You wouldn’t risk losing your “soulmate”—your word, not mine— would you?" A lil valentine from @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @brettpribble.bsky.social's Ghost Parachute!

it's here! my first publication of 2026!

And now a 3.9 followup earthquake. Jarring. Definitely awake now!

"I learned to open his left hand like a lotus flower, working each finger loose, stretching tendons, reminding his brain that this hand belonged to him." I love today's "Beautiful Thing" by @lizkleinfeld.bsky.social in @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

Felt this one. 3.7. Nothing like waking up to an earthquake. (It was exactly a month ago that we woke up to a 6.5 earthquake in Mexico City. Quite a year so far.)

“But the old house still breathed: a dampness after rain, the ghost of sautéed onions, the wool-sweat of winter.” From "A Geometry of Silence," a new original essay by Noreen Zobel. ➡️ buff.ly/BU3rKOT

Valentine's Day is coming soon and the new issue of Ghost Parachute is here, with my micro "What I Can Tell You Now," which will also be featured in their forthcoming anthology. Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social! ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

Like weirdness? Fairy tales and fabulism? Voids in the backyard? Gila monsters with uplifted intelligence? Oblations to the ocean? Bakers who speak toads and snakes? Beautiful things that fall apart? I have a short story collection with that & much more coming soon: www.uapress.com/product/bedt...

Dropping the link here because Oh! You will want to get your sweet hands on Beth’s beautiful & searing & attentive & human & aching collection 📚💙🎉👇 riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

“There are a million ways to give up, but we choose magic over grief and despair, and tonight we’ve decided to eat twelve grapes for twelve months. Twelve wishes for twelve ways to learn to live without him.” Jamie: ❤️ @lescribbler.bsky.social in @short-reads.org www.short-reads.org/twelve-red-g...

Ghost Parachute is purely a labor of love by EIC @brettpribble.bsky.social. I'm honored to have my story, Catedral, chosen for the press's second anthology, in the works now! The project is a true love letter to our #flashfiction community. Pictured: art by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social

Excited to announce that my micro “What I Can Tell You Now” will be published in the next issue of Ghost Parachute and included in their forthcoming print anthology (available at AWP!). Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and team!

Across the forgotten walls of a Hong Kong island, a flock of bird murals rises They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house's rooftop. © Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

GOOD NEWS. My novel--a retelling of Hansel & Gretel in which the parents are addicted to opioids--originally titled Abandon & now titled A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR, will be published by Cornerstone Press (Univ. of Wisconsin) in February 2028.

Humor/not humor by Jon Savitt in @mcsweeneys.net

From the latest Brevity, such a powerful essay of the tenderness and secrets within Fathers and this is a powerful one plus it has baseball, and Caregiving. By the wonderful Josh Martin whose book of poetry Earth of Inedible Things from Jacar Press I also recommend. brevitymag.com/current-issu...

I've started a Substack where I'll be sharing more about my forthcoming book THE LUNATICS' BALL. (Subscribe if you're interested. It's free.) Here's my first post. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!

"another woman watching another movie about another dead girl, trying once more to make sense out of something that will never make sense; a life taken and a girl gone, try as I might to keep her alive through language." Read @abigailoswald.bsky.social! www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/12/26/i...

Only one more week to enter the Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest at CRAFT! Roxane Gay judges this year. See details here: www.craftliterary.com/craft-memoir...

Brevity's new issue launched this morning. Flash essays from Nicole Walker, Alex Sokol, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Shuly Cawood, Thomasin LaMay, Charles Montgomery, Derek Maiolo, José Orduña, Josh Martin, Liz Sauchelli, Margaret Grayson, and Rocky Halpern. Artwork by Michael Todd Cohen. brevitymag.com

"Many decades later, my craft of writing remains a performance. It’s air guitar and costumed dress still under floodlights." Read Richie Smith's stunning flash "Floodlights" in CRAFT today: www.craftliterary.com/2026/01/07/f...

Congratulations to the writers (and lit mags) included in the forthcoming BEST MICROFICTION 2026: www.bestmicrofiction.com

ICYMI Great flash by @parlorspider.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social ! www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/knapp/she...

Love this New Year's poem by Naomi Shihab Nye (recommended on the @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social Substack): www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48597/...

Time for @cliffgarstang.bsky.social's annual lit mag rankings for fiction, cnf, and poetry. Check them out here: cliffordgarstang.com/2026-literar...

Thank you NUNUM for nominating "Your Perfect Day" for BEST MICROFICTION 2026, along with works by Dawn Miller @dawnwriter.bsky.social, Cole Beauchamp @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and others. Congrats to all!

Mexico Earthquake Videos: Angel Of Independence, Buildings In Mexico City; Acapulco Airport Shake Amid 6.5 Temblor A 6.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico City and parts of the southwestern state of Guerrero on Friday morning, sending people rushing outside as buildings swayed for several…

Scariest thing that's happened to me on a vacation. Very loud alert before electricity went out and people started evacuating our 12-story building in Mexico City. Wow.

ICYMI "lIn Grover Cleveland’s childhood home, I’ll be so busy baking sourdough bread and reading poetry that I’ll rarely scroll the internet.flash essay" by Sari Fordham (@sarifordham.bsky.social) via @short-reads.org (& originally in @electricliterature.com). www.short-reads.org/in-grover-cl...

A compendium of Trump's own words. Shocking. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Love the joy in this flash essay by Melinda Brasher via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/to-the-young...

“… I know I’m your only sister and you felt you had to ask for a toast despite your misgivings, but maybe if you didn’t always have misgivings about me I …” Your Perfect Day by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social with art from Angel Dionne in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...

Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout. With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

My newest essay, “Enough,” on @essaydaily.bsky.social’s Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

@jacqdoyle.bsky.social in NUNUM!

I just got a rejection labeled "Default Decline" from a print journal that's had my submission since September 2022. No answer when I queried about the status in July 2023. Now a decline that ends "we're grateful you considered us." Really?

"The wind blew, the windows rattled, the firelight flickered like writhing ghosts on the floor." And: "The cellar stairs were dark. And steep." I love this extraordinary writing by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social 💙💙💙 bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...

"I looked up and she’d crumpled lifeless to the floor. As she wasted away, Berenice grew more beautiful by the day, especially her teeth." Wow--brilliant voice in these 2 micros, both chilling and funny @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...

Scams targeting published authors. You probably know all t his, but just in case. electricliterature.com/that-persona...

"The first time I watched Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, I was twenty years old, and I felt the pin on the hand grenade in my head coming loose." Let's go @leahmensch.bsky.social, Dec 11th in the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

Such a nice idea. We have such a nourishing literary community. Without nominating the writer who nominated me (an amazing human being), here are three of many writers whom I really appreciate for their inspiration and support:: @kathyfish.bsky.social, @patforan.bsky.social, @danbillyc.bsky.social

“‘Take your beak out of my heart,’ I said.” “Okay, I did it, I told the police, who were staring, staring, listening, listening. Listen, it was...” lovers, murderers, man you should have seen them not kicking EAP & @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...

Love this so much! 🖤

Not sure how to describe my piece in @bendinggenres.bsky.social today. A haunting maybe. A hybrid medley incorporating Poe's music, his murderers, his lovers, his women. Most of them come back. bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...

"As a child, you wanted a bigger, stronger body. As a woman, you wanted and want to be smaller. Your body is something you inhabit but also something that inhabits you." Read @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social 's compelling essay in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/bod...

Semicolons! I almost left them behind when I left academic writing behind (when I was very fond of them). Maybe they're worth another love affair. Check out Georgia Bellas' enchanting experiment in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/bellas

SF and Bay Area friends! Looking forward to reading with @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social and these great writers on Tuesday, Dec 9, at the Sycamore in the Mission.