freely and fearlessly indulge in all peaceful concernments

"If you're going to fly a cast-iron airplane with no engine you might as well do it while it's snowing. The risk abates once you crawl above the clouds." Love this @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social micro at @wigleaf.bsky.social.

next week!! more like “coolest month” imo, featuring @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @travisshosa.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, & Stephanie Anderson — register below!💡

Love this piece. The heart. The anger, muted. It's great.

"I closed my eyes and held my fingers to my temples. Nothing. Just the quiet field. The two of us sitting in the truck cab, the summer sun still hot in the evening. She said anyone could do it but no one was like her. I’d known that right away." Thank you @okaydonkeymag.com 🌟 tinyurl.com/3tkct3ey

Thanks @okaydonkeymag.com 💙

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

“Homesickness begins to creep in. Loneliness. I showed them a picture of my girlfriend and they love her hair. It’s long and blond and she has it pulled back into a ponytail. One of them asks why I came all alone, across space, to this distant place. What have I done, I wonder.”

"As he passes my window I see his face very clearly. Not an animal who desires something he cannot have but an animal who has known love and has lost it. Who has possessed something and must now live without it." Big hairy thanks to @havehashad.com 🌟

You gotta read this.

"I ask what happened to her new job, and she laughs. She tells me that she’s grown tired of luring men into purchasing software licenses and she’s ready to try luring them to their watery doom."

"I love struggling actually. It makes me feel alive." -Alysa Liu Get out there and start falling on your ass!

This month's #Mondettes picked by @kathrynreese.bsky.social ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Kathryn made these brilliant picks 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/february-2...

Finally someone with a fresh idea.

You should read these beautiful, eerie little fictions by @happilylenaaa.bsky.social 🌟

Thank you @offbeatlit.bsky.social @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social @dseuss.bsky.social 💙💙💙

One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.

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Honored to have a littte something in @thecitronreview.bsky.social -- and thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for boosting 🌟

Warm yourself up with this cozy-yet-thrilling issue of @thecitronreview.bsky.social. Excited to be part of such a great lit mag ⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is happening tonight. Excited about it.

Please help us congratulate our @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees! @ladiwoods.bsky.social @robinwilder.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @kellathornton.bsky.social & @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

It’s an honor—thank you, @offbeatlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Goods words and music here 🌟

"You Can Be Something Different Today You Say to Yourself Again Today" @trampset.bsky.social

Thank you @trampset.bsky.social for including this in the new issue 💙⭐️💙⭐️

Sex Pistols playing in the dentist waiting room. Things have changed.

say this every time, but every time it is a treat to get to feature and share new work from HAD fave Julián Martinez! "She forgives my lack of communication! I forgive her lack of decision-making! We get to focus on the ways we make our hearts go BOOM!" https://www.havehashad.com/r9bng

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What does "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked" mean? @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social asked and of course a bunch of writers took the bait. Check out the whole issue--it's really great: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hidden-behin... Here's one of my contributions.

Howdy

amazing

good morning

We’re open!

This was a great conversation—I got one video game and two book recommendations, some super helpful writing advice, and cool background inspiration for Amber’s new novel, Happy People Don’t Live Here, which is on my nightstand. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Exit King.]

Want to believe (in everything)? Read this @keersteemack.bsky.social story.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

This flash is so good. Man.

These small @ezhang77.bsky.social poems are actually giant poems.

Good adivce for those of us with an associate's degree from an accredited two-year institution. "From a certain perspective everything looks like math but if you pay attention to the subtext it says to work on being charming and go into sales..." Thanks @rfpress.bsky.social 😍

Very honored — thanks @bruisermag.com ⭐️

Thank you thank you thank you @rfpress.bsky.social for publishing these "six little ones"! Here's one, the rest at the link: www.roifaineantpress.com/post/six-lit....

And if you DON’T like micro fiction, maybe these will bring you around? Could happen, cuz @rfpress.bsky.social is an amazing lit mag.

Five things you probably don’t know about the number five. Thanks @havehashad.com 💙

"There are actually five chambers of the heart. The fifth one holds all your loneliness, which for some people stays put and for some people leaks out slowly." 🔥 today from Jeffrey Hermann https://www.havehashad.com/0cj37

I feel so upset by the fact that so many of these same people fetishizing mourning right now have ignored the gun deaths of thousands of children, have just allowed their memories to disappear like smoke in the public mind

If you have literally 35 seconds you can read this story of mine that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social was kind enough to publish. 😘 www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/hermann/t...

I ❤️ @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

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