Proud to share this today. Coming November 2025 from @sweettrashpress.bsky.social / @houseofvladpress.bsky.social

"It was the season of fat raspberries, fresh-caught salmon packed layers-deep in freezers, fiddleheads fried in the pan." JR Fenn's CASSANDRA is just the slice of fiction you need right now. Check out this flash piece in our newly released SEPTEMBER ISSUE: buff.ly/5mYlMXa

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

Kick back, fix yourself a warm drink, and enjoy our SEPTEMBER ISSUE. 🍁 WORDS by Max Wheeler, JR Fenn, Kimaya Diggs, & Michal ‘MJ’ Jones ART by Valerie Marshall AND Benjamin Selesnick reviews Katie Lynn Johnston PLUS Matthew Groff reviews Gabe Montesanti buff.ly/uOXuAsg

“what are you doing tonight?”

My best friend is married to Tonic’s drummer, can confirm The Juice is a mystery

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@emilylauracosta.bsky.social starts the collection off with a solid offering that begs the question: Who is the Glow Stick Girl? Perhaps this is the question that keeps me from attending any class reunions. This story is quietly disturbing & honest & a reflection of so many lives.

I have a new story out today! Huge thanks to @kimmagowan.bsky.social & @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. And to you, for reading! (No thanks AT ALL to you if you don't read it 😤) pitheadchapel.com/the-bowling-...

wrote about this scene from 28 days later and other equally important cheeseburger scenes in film with @emilylauracosta.bsky.social this month: listlessstack.substack.com/p/listless-g...

new semester tomorrow which means summer is over which means burger season is over which ALSO means new LISTLESS out now 🍔🍔🍔🍔 (🔗⬇️)

it’s friday nite

I planned to just read a couple stories but couldn’t stop, it’s too good @emilylauracosta.bsky.social

Helluva reading streak I’m currently experiencing… @sandorfpassage.bsky.social @emilylauracosta.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social @clairehopple.bsky.social @ferrifrigida.bsky.social

I'll write up an actual Goodreads review to this effect at some point and elaborate, but Girl on Girl from @emilylauracosta.bsky.social was an incredible read, and I would have read it cover to cover in one sitting had I not been running on an elliptical when I started it.

this is me driving to work every morning

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really excited to get to write about the music video that terrified me as a child (& also made me really sad!!!!) thank you @marchxness.bsky.social

Excited for this 09.18 pub date for THE POEMS, a novella, from @erratumpress.bsky.social. Thanks to @emilylauracosta.bsky.social, @coreymesler.bsky.social, and @amishtrivedi.bsky.social for the very kind blurbs. www.erratumpress.com/the-poems.

every second of street trash is unbelievable

yarr it be thursday

excuse me

pennsylvania, hello i'd love to see you on july 29

really connecting with this youtube comment

Needed this 🍻 @emilylauracosta.bsky.social @rejectionlit.bsky.social

taking a moment here to emphasize how good @emilylauracosta.bsky.social's "girl on girl" is. some of the best short stories i've read in quite a while. the whole collection feels like a middle-school sleepover -- a really weird, perfect mix of joyful nostalgia and plain old uneasiness.

Thanks so much to our amazing intern Evangeline Lim for putting together these summer beauties for your reading pleasure! Featuring @dinalrelles.bsky.social @chloechun.bsky.social @emilylauracosta.bsky.social @joshmccolough.bsky.social Eli Kourtis, Ajay Makan, Aurielle Marie, Juliana Lamy, & more!

We're enjoying Summer with our brilliant new JUNE ISSUE 😎 Enjoy it at our website: buff.ly/M9YTorb All the love to our contributors! WORDS: Amelia Valasek, Jack Barrie, Ella Harrigan, Alex Bortell ART: Jasper Glen PLUS: @taniamalik.bsky.social interviews Esinam Bediako

happy summer

The secret to happiness

in which @emilylauracosta.bsky.social and i talk about some cool movies & shows we like, taking risks, and authenticity

friedkin rules

got a little 💀 up at HAD. i never was any good at rolling with the punches

it’s his day

was asked for "a list of 5-10 or so recent collections you want to vouch for" and so threw this together, and am counting it as my "writing" for the day

Here’s Brittney Uecker’s 10 Favorite Stories of the 2000's (in no particular order). (I think Brittney’s “Dead Deer,” published in SSL, should prob be on someone’s list. Also, next week we’ll feature Brittney’s interview with Erin Somers about “Ten Year Affair”!)

thinking about jim

wish i could be this happy

Another deeply formative short story for me, Mike Meginnis' Navigators. This story so brilliantly subverts expectations around video games to (beautifully) explore a father-son relationship. It's something I pull regularly when teaching and a decade later, it's as wonderful as ever.

Shocked & grateful (thank you Stillhouse Press for giving my book a chance ❤️)

Flipped through this and went first sentence by first sentence until my mood was met by "Space Cat" by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social.

started a dumb little writing project with my sister & it's the most fun/meaningful thing i've been doing lately 💘 part 3 is out now 💘 @mollcap.bsky.social talks abt @kylegallner.bsky.social & i get into how important giuseppe andrews is to me 💘 ty for reading

seeing a lot of people doing the thing where they're posting a short story for every day of may (it's national short story month!). as a Short Story Appreciator, i'm gonna keep the good vibes flowing. may 1st: "what ever happened to glow stick girl?" by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social

A new month, a new issue of beautiful work we are PROUD to showcase ✨ May we present: our APRIL ISSUE 😍 WORDS: Vincent Perrone, Neeru Nagarajan, katiehrob.bsky.social, & Amy Thatcher ART: Shannon Louise Barry PLUS: @dianegotauthor.bsky.social reviews @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social buff.ly/a8ZJANg

Struggling with deep panic, so to channel that productively, I'll post a reminder my partner and I just started a tiny bookstore. To be sustainable, we need to make enough to move into the building's front space to get foot traffic. ALL purchases, local or not, help a ton: eveninghousebooks.com

New essay out today, about Weird Al & GnR & middle school & performance &&&... CNF editor, @emilylauracosta.bsky.social, is one of my fave writers about the awkwardnesses of teenagerdom & growing up and this couldn't have found a better home than her & FT. farewelltransmission.net/2025/04/a-li...

Feelin' froggy, so decided to share this story that I very much love (and which my mother considers "my best") that appeared in print in Pleiades last year! FFO: UFO Catchers, 96 Geo Prizms, Love