Congrats, @csquareh.bsky.social ! This line still floors me: "We tiptoed between our dreams and our duty." Well deserved.

This guy takes advantage of every flopportunity.

Just what I needed to read, courtesy of @charlesjensen.bsky.social charlesjensen.substack.com/p/on-forgett...

Great pieces in this issue and I loved "My Mother Is Getting Small" by @seanthomasd.bsky.social

Overwhelmed to be included alongside so many talented writers. Congrats to all, and much gratitude to @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social, @dseuss.bsky.social, and @blinkink50.bsky.social !

Loved this piece, as well as @mattjakubowski.bsky.social in recent issue of Your Impossible Voice.

Love this. Happy holidays, everybody.

As far as I'm concerned, @levato.bsky.social kicked it down. Hard. Kudos--I loved it.

If you are feeling blue about the holidays, @70sscifiart.bsky.social will cheer you up with this four-armed Santa (and more): 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/ed-emshwille...

Big thanks to @dadakuku.bsky.social and @petrock.bsky.social for publishing my little ‬verse!

Loved this piece by @rrmitchell.bsky.social at 50-Word Stories today: fiftywordstories.com/2025/12/18/r...

Friday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uxn...

Beyond grateful to the editors at @blinkink50.bsky.social Thank you so much for the nomination and for your support. And congratulations to the other nominees!

I love the holidays.

@70sscifiart.bsky.social is really fueling my obsession with do-overs today:

This vintage Santa looks like he's going to have to add himself to his own naughty list.

Overwhelmed and grateful to @whiptailjournal.bsky.social co-editors @komadorihaiku.bsky.social and @songsofkat.bsky.social for the Pushcart nomination! Thank you, thank you, and congrats to all the other nominees!

Big thanks to 50-Word Stories for publishing my story today, "Field Trip Head Count": fiftywordstories.com/2025/12/01/t...

I have this one too, and display it all year!

Thankful to EIC @lorettec.bsky.social for featuring my six prose poems in The Mackinaw this week and for nominating "Hard Stick" for Best Small Fictions: www.themackinaw.net

Thanks so much to EIC @petrock.bsky.social for featuring my poem today at dadakuku.bsky.social

#FilmNoir #Noirvember #NoirvemberChallenge Loved They Live by Night (1948), including this performance by Marie Bryant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJO...

Lupino is SO great in this movie! Love Jefty's midcentury nightclub / bowling alley.

#Noirvember Current favorite Richard Widmark movie, but open to being persuaded

Another Floppy Friday with Digby Flopwell

Humbled and grateful to have been nominated for Best Small Fictions at The Mackinaw: A Journal of Prose Poetry. Congrats to the other nominees and warm thanks to EIC @lorettec.bsky.social www.themackinaw.net

So embarrassed I haven't seen this yet.

This movie is BAM right out of the gate with a dynamite sequence featuring Cloris Leachman. But the bonkers ending defies words. ALSO: Special features on the disk are interesting. Apparently screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides and source material author Mickey Spillane weren't fond of one another.

I have smelled these flowers in person and can confirm: They are lovely, and yet, STINK-O-RAMA

Big, big thanks to the folks at @100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my story, "What She Wore," out today: 100wordstory.org/what-she-wore/

#filmnoir #Noirvember Day 16: Lesser-known noir everyone should see #NoirvemberChallenge Phantom Lady (1944) Ella Raines goes undercover and inspires Elisha Cook Jr. to perform a manic drum solo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQQ...

Bob Hicok in my inbox on a rainy Sunday? Thanks, @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-origin...

Watched this film (Rope, 1948) back-to-back with Gun Crazy (1950) and found myself wishing John Dall had made more films.

Great read today at 50-Word Stories: "Imposters," by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social : fiftywordstories.com/2025/11/14/s...

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Are you a hot sleeper?

This @charlesjensen.bsky.social poem was exactly what I needed on this flop of a Monday:

The Ministry of Fear will forever change your relationship with cake.

Love this one, Shaina Nanavati and @villaineralit.bsky.social ! I'm crazy about these short, tight lines.

"We tiptoed between our dreams and our duty." Another gorgeous piece from Christine H. Chen @csquareh.bsky.social at @centaurlit.bsky.social centaurlit.com/yellow-by-ch...

@70sscifiart.bsky.social knocking it out of the park again this week. Each image screamed, "Yes, Monday is like this."

I gave Richard Widmark some space so I could catch up on horror movies, but it's Noirvember and I'm welcoming him back with open arms.

Overwhelmed and thrilled to have my flash fiction, "Adaptation" appear today in the new issue of Flash Frontier. Much gratitude to the editors! flashfrontier.com/october-2025...

Thanks to @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social for featuring my microfiction in this week's Ekphrastic Challenge (scroll down for "Five Things I’ve Learned About Witches") www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...

Don't miss this interview with Rob Renzetti as he discusses the final installment in his spooky trilogy, The Cursed Cloak of the Wretched Wraith, his inspiration for the Horrible Bag series, and the importance of supporting banned books.

Thanks to Tim Sevenhuysen for featuring my Halloween story, "October Thirty-First" at 50-Word Stories today: fiftywordstories.com/2025/10/31/t...

Big thanks to @ricklupert.bsky.social for publishing my Halloween haiku (click to "9 of 25") at @haikuniverse.bsky.social ! haikuniverse.com

Another one I wish I'd written! @horrorsenryu.bsky.social

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50. California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections. Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

"I knew it was over. But I held onto hope with a vise grip." Yes, that seems familiar...More resonant words from @charlesjensen.bsky.social