make a little art today. read a story, enjoy a painting, appreciate and escape into a little art today. look back at something you've made and let yourself feel proud of it today. reach out and tell a few people how much you love something they made today...

Great episode; great podcast!

At the edge of Cambridge Commons, reminders from the resistance

This is a great reminder to send us your regret story if you didn’t get a chance to last month! #writingcommunity #flashfiction

Creative signs in Cambridge Common today as folks gather to say Fuck the Regime!

Motherfucking wind farms…

Happy to be in the top three for WestWord Folktale Flash competition with these fine flash writers. Thanks Amanda! #flashfiction westword.substack.com/p/folktale-f...

I **may** have started a new newsletter 🧐 This is for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date with upcoming flash / short-fiction courses, workshops & events being offered by all your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags & awesome independents. fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/from-the-c...

It’s strange times when the headline “Marines will begin withdrawing from Los Angeles” is “below the fold” and sounds normal in the scheme of things.

WGBH building in Boston today

One of my tasks for the day is to create a list of historical and speculative prompts for my upcoming panel discussion with @mynachang.bsky.social and @sharontelfer.bsky.social and now I want to write half of these stories 😁🥸 (but must focus on novel, no short fiction for Matt!!!)

Why not treat yourself to a hump-day treat and book onto my Glorious Words course in September? Such a great group already signed up. Should be a lot of fun. Just six places left for anyone who wants to join us 👇

Well, that’s a nice surprise on a Wednesday morning! Thanks for tossing this one back out there @mattkendrick.bsky.social

Today I've got a new micro up at Ghost Parachute! Wrote this one in @neonpajamas.bsky.social's @bendinggenres.bsky.social workshop. And, holy fuck, am I obsessed with the art made to go with it! ghostparachute.com/issue/july-2...

Honored to have a story on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 and one on the longlist. Thanks to Timber & @xraylitmag.bsky.social for giving my work such amazing homes. 💙

“It is this court’s opinion that apparently everyone has their own ideas about how this court should operate and is not shy about sharing their views—even when no one asks,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote theonion.com/supreme...

Just read this! So good. I laughed out loud at “she must have fallen.” !! Think I’ll go grab a bite.

Tickled pink to be on the long list! Thanks to Eric Scott Tyson @flashfrog.bsky.social for publishing my work. Congratulations to the Wigleaf Top 50!

Yankee Fans welcome Ted Cruz to New York. Proud of my homies!

Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."

@mattkendrick.bsky.social this is an awesome bunch of resources! I’ll be digging into these for months, thanks so much!

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

@whipkclark.bsky.social uh, don’t mean to wake you so early, but did you happen to see Trump has sent MARINES to LA? Why aren’t you “whipping” some response? Our representatives showing some outrage would be nice. Seeing them protest would be better. Going to LA and standing with CA would be better

Cause some good trouble. 💚✊

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

Here's my latest in Ghost Parachute tinyurl.com/yx6c88w7

Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.

From M. Gessen in today’s NYT: “But while we are still capable of looking, we have to say what we see: The United States has become a secret-police state.”

🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that intended to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives, but she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!!

Over 600 local events with many more being added every day. In all 50 states and DC, we will demand an end to the most brazen power grab in modern history. We hope to see you in the streets on April 5: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...

Absolutely terrifying. This is what I grew up imagining Nazi Germany looked like in the days before the war. Call your legislators and demand action, though I k ow it will do precious little.

"The only thing that the “vast majority” has to fear from the private lives of individuals who represent a small minority of the population is that their irrational hatred for this minority will poison their souls & lead their own children to abhor them." ~Joyce Carol Oates

Some days you really need a boost & some days the universe delivers. Many thanks to Chris Corlew for the kind words & including me in amazing company. #flashfiction 💙 open.substack.com/pub/shipwrec...

Some lit mags go above and beyond @trashcatlit.bsky.social is one. They post/ repost work, boost our work in other lit mags, list books on their website and interview writers( here’s mine) I’m so grateful to editor, JP RELPH. They are open for sub #shortstories #flashfiction

Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety. This won’t go well—we love our parks.

ISSUE 3 HIGHLIGHT 🦝 We have Emma Phillips today with her emotionally charged window into war. We love the control and restraint in this piece, the quiet intensity of the voice. Our reader, Sarah simply said "beautiful and moving" trashcatlit.com/mirna-and-da...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

ISSUE 3 HIGHLIGHT 🦝 We bring you @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social with her surreal feline flash fiction. We love the way this piece develops and builds. Our reader, Sarah said "I love the evocation of this ambiguous, shifting situation; tenderness in weird places." trashcatlit.com/tiger-sleeps...

ISSUE 3 HIGHLIGHT 🦝 Today we have @tom1walsh.bsky.social with his poignant short. We love the light humour building to punchy emotion, and a last line we wish we'd written! Our reader, Sarah said "Gorgeous! I love the micro-flashbacks and the gentle surrealism." trashcatlit.com/two-halves-o...

The World's Revolution #clifi series is on sale starting today! $0.99 each until March 24 including the ebook of my Editor's Pick novel A VALLEY TO HARNESS books2read.com/u/b6gJ26

Delighted to be part of the Trash Cat family. @therelphian.bsky.social does an amazing job working with authors, including offering us the chance to record the story and link to others. Can’t wait to read my co-contributors! trashcatlit.com/two-halves-o...

More Issue 3 teasers @tom1walsh.bsky.social tells a surreal story of grafting and love in Two Halves of the Apple, @pamavoledo.bsky.social delivers a single-sentence life journey in best Friends Forever, 1/2

Missing these views. Can't just pop down to the beach and hike along the lava clifftops :( #Iceland

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

@whipkclark.bsky.social when are you meeting with constituents? When are you planning a rally? Your posts are things we know. How about some leadership rather than repeating known facts?