This is now a gardening account.

This story is phenomenal.

There’s nothing worse than when what you planned to cook for dinner isn’t thawed in time to cook it ~except~ when it actually is and then you do indeed have to make it.

If and when someone out there publishes my basketball novel I talk about on here sometimes, I doubt I'll be able to give a single interview without mentioning that it took over 20 years to write, all said & done. Several chapters drafted in literal bleachers, on sidelines, in car at pickup time...

I’d like to offer a sincere apology to any parent I’d expected anything from in May in the past. — Signed, a parent of a kid in school for the first time

Have a flower.

Have a flower.

Suspiciously, this Tuesday ~also~ has Monday vibes.

This Monday feels unmistakably like a Monday. Just, pure Monday, through and through.

I read this intentionally slowly to grapple with the weight of the content and the beauty of the language and how the latter supported the former. Truly, one of the best, most stunning books I’ve ever read. Probably the best. It’s an example of what art, particularly the novel, can aspire to.

I read this intentionally slowly to grapple with the weight of the content and the beauty of the language and how the latter supported the former. Truly, one of the best, most stunning books I’ve ever read. Probably the best. It’s an example of what art, particularly the novel, can aspire to.

AI absolutely cannot have lists of three. I refuse.

What do we want? More superb short horror fiction! Very happy to report I’m now editing Sunday Scaries for @therumpus.net. A huge thank you to the great @roxanegay.bsky.social. Pro rates, no submission fee. Read more below and send us your best. Long live horror. therumpus.submittable.com/submit

short poem in @havehashad.com yesterday --

today from Vic Nogay! https://www.havehashad.com/g6rgg

Love this thread, particularly this part: “Focus on the house you are building. That is your home. Everything else is weather.” Do the work. You can’t control how it’s received, but you can be proud of what you’ve built if you do that.

What I need is a craft book on how parents write novels in between school drop off and pick up and sports and special events and sick days and work and household chores and and and

Ok, the accuracy of the second one in particular has been making me laugh for like 10 minutes ~and~ is probably the mental nudge I need to get back into the old novel-in-progress.

In honor of Mother’s Day, this piece gets the closest at how I feel about parenting, about the sacrifice and reward wrapped up in it, and how love can break the world open in beautiful ways if you let it. emergeliteraryjournal.com/an-ear-a-hea...

it’s up to us to keep literary traditions alive

Always have to reshare these calls when I spot them (after I submit my own, of course, sorry!)

In honor of Mother’s Day, this piece gets the closest at how I feel about parenting, about the sacrifice and reward wrapped up in it, and how love can break the world open in beautiful ways if you let it. emergeliteraryjournal.com/an-ear-a-hea...

“I think about writing poetry the same way I think about parenting: It’s my job to illuminate the complexity of being human, to say, here is what is hard and here is what is beautiful about being alive and now you have to decide what to do with that information.”

I’ve always like how much (and the way) @housleydave.bsky.social has talked about writing at various practices and other little stolen moments here and there!

I have this article by @housleydave.bsky.social saved for moments such as these themillions.com/2018/07/baby...

I can’t speak to novels, but I wrote a lot of early drafts of poems at swimming lessons.

Yes! I talked about this in an interview recently: “I have learned to ignore all opinions & advice about how to create & stick to a writing schedule. If you don’t have young kids & a thousand obligations pulling you every which way all week long, we are not the same & your advice is not for me.”

Why are greeting card writers always going through it in exceptionally specific ways?

What I need is a craft book on how parents write novels in between school drop off and pick up and sports and special events and sick days and work and household chores and and and

Writers, what themes do you return to again and again? Mine are the end of the world, monsters and ghosts. Considering putting together a chapbook on the former and, honestly, just feel like sharing/reading some stories, so threads/links below. (Feel free to share your obsessions, too!)

Happy “repeatedly hit refresh on the local Board of Elections website” day to all my fellow local journalists out there.

Thinking of my alma mater. The lessons of May 4, 1970 have never been more important.

Also remembering Dr. Lewis, who helped keep the memory of the May 4 shootings alive when many, many people were trying to forget them.

Thinking of my alma mater. The lessons of May 4, 1970 have never been more important.

A year later and more true than ever.

I realize that this instinct has also brought us approximately 27,932 show and movie reboots, but you must understand, those are bad and this is good. That’s the difference.

I respect Pizza Hut for bringing Book It back and understanding that millennials are quite possibly the most nostalgic generation.

I respect Pizza Hut for bringing Book It back and understanding that millennials are quite possibly the most nostalgic generation.

Amazing thread of stories and a great question for writers. What themes do you find yourself drawn to again and again?

Okay my list of presses that don't charge submission fees and take non-agented subs is looking nice for my new story collection. However, I'd still love to hear from anyone who has worked with a press they love that fits those two criteria! My new book is a collection of dark speculative stories.

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

Writers, what themes do you return to again and again? Mine are the end of the world, monsters and ghosts. Considering putting together a chapbook on the former and, honestly, just feel like sharing/reading some stories, so threads/links below. (Feel free to share your obsessions, too!)

If there is any sense at all in using the term “Great American Novel” then Beloved is the great American novel. I will die on this hill

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

I am now thinking of other books I would consider necessary to understanding the American experience. Beloved needs to be on that list. The Grapes of Wrath. (Feel free to add …)

I opened up the best American songwriters thing to ensure Kendrick is on there. Since he is, I can simply get on with my day and decide whether I want to have further thoughts later.

When I was fairly young I read Of Mice and Men. Nothing could prepare me for that ending- it totally blew my mind;few works besides King Lear have moved me like that.

The short story "Désirée's Baby" by Kate Chopin.

Frederick Douglass!

Destiny’s Child on the radio dedicated to “the moms out there.” Accurate but also, rude.