Lifting up the vetted fundraiser for Renee Good’s wife and son- please give

She was a mother and a poet. I didn’t have words for this before we knew who she was. I don’t have words for this now. Here is her poem that won the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2020. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

”Hey, they’re shooting at us,” said Arthur, crouching in a tight ball. “I thought they said they didn’t want to do that.“ ... (Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

“Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.” —Douglas Adams‘ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

People used to talk to me on Twitter. I liked that part... hello? 🎤 *tap tap* Is this thing on?

My best friend just suggested we start the world’s smallest book club where we read books we’ve been wanting to read at the same time so we can discuss them but also decide if they aren’t worth finishing and definitely never invite anyone else to ruin our good time and— He’s the very best.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

8: Ugh. I was too good AGAIN this year. Me: ? 8: My New Year’s Resolution is to make it onto the Naughty List. Me: Why would you want to do that? 8: I need to determine if the coal threats are real.

Starting a new manuscript is always as terrifying as starting the last new manuscript, and somehow also requires more blind faith and hope than ever before.

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

Hear me out This lunch lady land shirt, but make it a dress (with pockets) Then I buy 12 and go full Steve Jobs and never where anything else ever again

Forty hours left until this giveaway closes! We're giving away ten ARCs of @victormanibo.com 's THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED on Goodreads and it will, err, haunt you if you don't get in on that . . .

Chatbots commenting on AI articles about chatbots feels like that Ray Bradbury house where all the robotic, automated processes keep running long after the humans are extinct.

Whoever made this should go straight to McJail

When I was younger, I was hurt many times when I confused my idea of someone with who they really were. I’m glad to report I’m now a writer, and my idea of someone is much more important than who they actually are.

All persons living and dead are purely coincidental.

They needed the money, Ingrid. You can’t expect them to keep parking their carcasses at the Happiness Hotel.

Trying to write down everything they say to use as dialogue before they give you the ick #writerprobs #amwriting

They are called writers

TV: 🎶 Into the woods! Into the woods! 🎶 7: 😐 TV: 🎶 Into the woods! Into the woods! Into the woods! 🎶 7: 😒 TV: 🎶 INTO THE WOODS! INTO THE WOODS! INTO— 7: They’d get there a lot faster if they stopped singing.

too many people think the answer to "I've written something, what now" is getting published when really the answer is cleaning your room, making a roast, refilling the bird feeder. writing is also the living we do. it's not a way to get recognition in the same way that flossing isn't.

Me: They say they’re going to find a cure for autism. Do you want to be cured? 7: Nah. I’m good with my brain.

Oh hey, my new novel, LITTLE NIGHTMARES: THE LONELY ONES, is also eligible for the Bram Stoker Awards if any HWA member liked it well enough to recommend it for the Reading List. It's age 12+, so technically YA, though I consider it upper middle grade. 🙏

Autism and ADHD run in my family. We didn’t “get it” from Tylenol. Or a vaccine. We don’t need a registry. We don’t need toxic metals removed from our brains. We are poets and painters and engineers and parents and children and— We are not broken. We are not a problem that needs to be fixed.

Is anyone with a nice place getting raptured tomorrow? If you could just give me the heads up, I’d like to call dibs. I’ll leave my house to a less fortunate, equally unworthy person. I’m not greedy.

So uh... this is terrifying… www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

What does the tooth fairy do with the teeth? She grinds them up and makes a tooth smoothie, of course. — my 6 year old

More headlines like this please

Sorry to everyone who has asked me for poems in the last two years. My fingers do not seem to know a poem from a poetato.

Honored to be performing with my band this weekend in support of the Cleveland Missing’s 2025 Hope Ride. If you’re in the area, come out and support an important organization in our community. 🏍️💜🎸

undocumented father killed by ice agent in franklin park shooting had no criminal background, lawyer says www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

“…Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.” James Baldwin

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

The type of speech most punished in this society is that which consists of telling the truth about how the powerful have harmed you

It’s true… Parenting isn’t easy. But truly no one is prepared to have a kid whose special interest is parasitic worms.

Just me sitting among the fellow human gymnastics moms

Man: How do you spell it? Me (for the 8th time): A-G-A-T-E-P. alpha georgia alpha, tango echo papa. Man: I don’t need that!!! Me: I’ve spelled it 8 times. Man: JUST LETTERS Me: A-G-A-T-E-P. Man: I said LETTTERRSS Me: Those… are the letters. *transfers me to someone else*

Thank goodness my Little Nightmares novel, The Lonely Ones, comes out on Tuesday, September 2! It's short, so you can definitely read it well before Hollow Knight Silksong arrives. Especially if you pre-order it now: bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

national geographic but with muppets: thread

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Spouse: 6 said I can’t sing. 6: That’s not true! I said you’re a terrible singer.

Everyone telling you to eat nasty cinnamon spaghetti in Cinci is just distracting you from finding out about the filthy delicious delight that is Grippos. #stayvigilant #skylinesucks #grippos #bbqgripposforever

Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)

Internet stranger told me I’d end up an “old cat lady”. I’m a bog witch. Cats HATE the bog. I dwell in my chicken-footed hut. I thrive amongst the toads and mosquitos as big as your fedora. Watch me fly past the moon from the egress window of your poor mother’s basement.

the moon is so beautiful my atheism is waning seriously go look now

I’m not going to entertain “Is Bluesky dying?” discourse, we have it at least once a week, it’s a chronic condition we can manage with diet.