Come kiss my face goodbye The space below my eye And above my cheek Cause I'm faint and fading fast

it a little bit feels like the showrunners for Company Retreat watched every popular sitcom of the last 20 years (The Office, Parks & Rec, Workaholics, Abbott Elem), and then created a la carte characters and situations that are just lesser versions of the original shows

this is the most productive thing i did today and it's not even the real BF font because that's not free look on my works ye mighty & despair etc etc

sorry, but when I was a boy, we had to put a ladder on a boat AND jump to reach the moon. And we'd still come back down with lunar milk. So pardonne moi for not jumping up and down and frothing at the mouth for NASA

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Icymi and want to read it: I have a new story over at @doricliterary.bsky.social

If anyone has any idea at all whatsoever -- plz let me know!

Not too far off geographically!! But I suspect this is actually Sam 🤔

I love M7 and so it’s especially exciting to see Basking in Glory included in today’s Friday 5 !! Go check out Major 7th for some of the most interesting and exciting music writing!

don’t usually remember to post here, but here i am sharing penelope dieppa’s fiction debut new in burial mag today. it is exceptional. burialmagazine.neocities.org/genre

🚨 NEW Benjamin Niespodziany! 🚨 TIMES TWO!! 🚨 https://www.havehashad.com/i80cs

Starting my morning w Joy Williams call it a Good Friday

If you are in mid-Missouri, make sure you check out nightjar! I'm thrilled to be included in the Unbound Lit Crawl reading on 4/16 and hope to see you there! Support the arts or die!!!!

Many people are comparing myself & @martinezfjulian.bsky.social to the Bash Brothers in the 1994 film D2: The Mighty Ducks, so it was extra special when our writing went live on the same day over on @bulbregion.bsky.social

beyond delighted to share my new story "Even After You're Gone," fresh now with the lovely @bulbregion.bsky.social! check it out 🦇⚡

Today is my birthday and all I want is for you to buy my book 🖤

This is beautiful!

Coworker fiction 😬

I had 4 new stories come out in the same two weeks (yay promo burnout!). Here's a thread of everything I had out in March: 1) “What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social (love, marriage + liminal spaces) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...

New fiction, and falling stars, by Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social at Doric Literary! It's about astronauts, shooting stars, & an ill-fated mission to Mars but it's also a classic short story about a grieving mother, searching for peace in a cold galaxy. doric-literary.com/2026/04/01/a...

oh you don’t like telling stories? Get the fuck out of the storytelling lane

If you're saying to yourself, "you know what my spring is missing? a novel about death" then have I got good news for you. Remember You Will Die ebooks are $1.99 for all of April! Stock up your cellar for summer! www.amazon.com/dp/B0CS1GV1TY

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send us your words!

So proud to have another novel section in the awesome @doricliterary.bsky.social today. It's got space and grief and the weight of a falling star

Go on with your japes today, but don’t forget that we are all of us God’s fools. Divine dunces.

“A fire catches in the basement of the TV and VCR Repair shop on South Main.” This one is so strange and surprising. an absolute stunner by the one and only @nathanwillis.bsky.social! An uncanny wonder 🔥🔥🔥🔥

“I don’t owe you anything. There’s no owe. You knock on my door, that’s your choice. You wake me up, that’s on you.” 🚨 The great Ben Niespodziany (@neonpajamas.bsky.social) returns with two new poems that will knock you out. Find them in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Two-Poems-by...

In a very new experience (for me!) I participated in a panel discussion for Best Small Fictions with some really cool writers like Scott Garson and Meg Pokrass. About endings and short fiction. Watch or don't!! www.youtube.com/live/OTB7dxC...

Huge Congratulations to Doric Literary contributor, Exodus Oktavia Brownlow! @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social She is a 2026 Best of the Net Finalist with this creative nonfiction piece: craftliterary.com/2025/05/14/b... Read her Doric Literary short story here: doric-literary.com/2025/01/01/b...

If you dweebs don’t shut up about Andy weird and Harry Potter I’m voluntarily going back

We are absolutely not joking! On April 1, we'll publish two great new short stories, exploring grief and loss, as two very different women find their own ways of coping. @tracieadams.bsky.social @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social

a super-special supplement to @malarkeybooks.bsky.social's book club, @lyfaulk.bsky.social's SICK SAD QUEER. "We are better than space, though I have trouble imagining what that might be." malarkeybooks.com/news/2026/1/...

Folks, after a 4 day stint in the local penitentiary, I’m a free man again. However. My parole obligations are to issue a public formal apology for my actions. So here goes. I am sorry for stealing urinal cakes from various public venues. I am sorry for reselling them to online fetishists.

For anyone who hasn't read the story yet, this is one of my favorite passages from it because this story was always as much about the brutality of classism and addiction as the moments of tenderness and understanding that help us feel human again.

happy pub day, Ivy @ivygrimes.bsky.social !! can't wait to read 🥳

It's released!! I want to thank the editing powers and help of Marissa van Uden at Violet Lichen, and the great support of folks at @apexmag.bsky.social (Nichole, Ori, Jason, and more)! Thanks for taking this journey with me! And thanks to Jack Hillside and Mikio Murakami for the beautiful cover!

I will be gone for a bit, but I leave you with this, a glowing review of the quietly haunting and then gloriously disturbing opening (titular) novella of this collection. Lucid prose. Great strangeness. A wonderfully rendered Korean harbor district. Mudangs and junjips. Put it on yr radar!

well okay, my book is very good and you all should read it. ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

I've updated my freelance horror and Weird fiction editing page and am now open for April bookings. Give your manuscript the second set of eyes it deserves! ericraglin.com/editing-serv...

Doric Literary is getting closer to having one of its busiest months for website visitors, ever. This new story by @danielmiller.bsky.social is 23 readers from being our 3rd most read post, ever! Perhaps there aren't enough glory holes in modern porn shop fiction! doric-literary.com/2026/03/01/b...

Dave will also take care of your work and help you hone it in a way that's not intrusive. A great journal worth your time!

this is secretly writing advice

Afternoon crew, GET IN THE BOG!!!!!

WELL OK :) www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/p/nami...

the "small white dogs with crusty eyes" of contemporary alt literature

"The Frog God heard them coming from afar. It saw the fire from their lit sticks reflected in their eyewet before they even arrived at the pond..." Ooh, new @adrianf.bsky.social is NOT to be missed. Dip your toes in the Frog God's pond. Await the exquisitely slow boil. 🐸🐸🐸👇

"It was a cool yet unusually hot midnight in the dead center of Connecticut. Bog weather." SO fucking stoked to have the incomparable @adrianf.bsky.social back in the (virtual) pages of @hexliterary.bsky.social with a new mythology and the same (awful) humans. An absolute banger. Don't miss it!!! 🐸