this one's an all timer folks

Happy pub day!!

Caleb 4ever

some1 come quickly, this place* was built for moving out *bluesky/theinternet/theplanet

Still Alive, now two years (and a few months) old, is officially @malarkeybooks.bsky.social backlist. But don’t let that stop you.

These books are officially out at midnight! I feel like I'm 10 years old again & it's the night before Christmas. asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...

For anyone who hasn’t heard—my first book is out! 👻

Sad to announce that I failed to pass the final exam for my online krumping class. Teach said I'm popping at the 9th grade level but my spazz meter levels are well behind. And too, Summer Krump Kamp is cancelled.

cool and good

PoV: you just read your latest flash fiction at an AWP offsite

"We’re far out, way, way far out from the houses when we see him coming, the shape of a man struggling towards us from the road." A creeping delight. Ominous as hell. Absolutely love "He Isn't On Us Yet," by Jack Lennon, up now on @hexliterary.bsky.social! Don't miss this new horror!

Want to help me keep putting out anthologies? Snag the ones Cursed Morsels has already published. We've got antifascist splatterpunk, sports and fitness body horror, teacher horror, polite horror, Shirley Jackson Award-winning ghost horror, and weird eco horror: www.cursedmorselspress.com

sorry to "um actually ☝️"

its so cool seeing art i made on a zine!!!

highly rec disabling your social media and also riding a bike outside

one (1) like and i'll do it

Sure, I could buy a regular sponge for a fraction of the cost, but a regular sponge doesn’t stare back at me with that slutty little smile #ad #scrubdaddypartner

If you've never read my flash, 'The Wife Hunters', then you just found a great reason to do so now...

hey i found the perfect place for you to send your short stories to

‘…a monument in the constriction of my pupil that telescoped outward for twelve feet and saw the things in my life I kept missing.’ So brief, so vast. @ezhang77.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social 👁️ hexliterary.com?p=3307

hot damn! surrealist mastermind microfic magician @ezhang77.bsky.social is back in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week!

looking over my Chess dot com game review and its just the little animated guy calling me a dumb idiot 40 times in a row

"A civilization grew out of my eye. Their written language a divine loneliness. And they named constellations from my eyelashes and worshipped gravity,...." This remarkable piece of writing by @ezhang77.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social 💙💙💙 hexliterary.com?p=3307

In a moment of magical synchronicity, @ezhang77.bsky.social has TWO new wonders on offer today. Make sure you check out "Today I Won't Say Goodbye" also in the fantastic @burialmagazine.bsky.social !!!

"A civilization grew out of my eye. Their written language a divine loneliness." @ezhang77.bsky.social has a mind like no other. a conjurer of dreams. an architect of microfictions, of civilizations. There is an entire world here, protruding out of an iris, and all under 150 words. Don't miss it!!!

This month's #Mondettes picked by @aniking.bsky.social is on the theme of "embracing the animal as a way to bring out the human." ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis 🪴Ten fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/may-2026

My book This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers came into the world six months ago today. If you've bought the book, read it, reviewed it, thought about buying it, or even just liked, shared, or laughed at/cheered for a post about it, you have my eternal and undying gratitude.

Heartwarming: Man who integrates self into literary community as means to find scam targets grows genuine appreciation for short fiction

Yesterday I met someone who told me he felt like he was having a hard time reading fiction lately because he felt it impertinent given the state of the world. I suggested that art could be quite pertinent. Anyways, that's why he told me he's been reading NF, like Klosterman's 90s book (pertinent?)

I know it's taboo to share DMs, but it's messages like this that keep Piżama Press going ❤️ means the world

for the sunday crowd: Hellarkey v. 5 submissions are now open!

I’m looking for more lit journals based on this list bookmarked while my 3 y/o yelled out the window at bigfoot. They should be available 100% on the web, charge no sub fee, ideally pay writers but not required, and have published something you actually liked reading and would rec in person.

This is such fantastic news!

maybe i'll eventually write about that book, but in the meantime, I hope you'll read this Charles Yu story that came out over a decade ago and is, in my eyes, much stronger, much funnier. It no longer has the RapGenius annotations but those added an additional layer. Bummer they are gone!

plug a lil weird but he chill

Before tomorrow's new edition, make time to read another deliciously weird short story by our returning contributor Steve Gergley, "Four Pastrami Sandwiches," published in @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/fou...

Killed by a koosh ball headshot during live taping of Rosie O'Donnell Show (how I'm tryna go out)

Two new micros (and a postcard) on @wigleaf.bsky.social today! One of my very favorite journals.

Submit to Hellarkey nerds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can't decide if i want to be a hater (minor) and just write a quick spiel about why this book didn't work for me, or if i want to be a hater (major) and really get into the nitty gritty of why it offended me on multiple levels

ICYMI: in the past month, I've had new small strange pieces out in hex, Keep Planning, and The Bulb Region. Listed here for your convenience: ivyivyivyivy.com/stories/

I can never get my phd because the cowards in academia aren’t yet willing to accept a dissertation asserting that the impractical jokers are contemporary examples of the folkloric trickster figure. Who will #gatekeep the #gatekeepers

"Smooth and bald as a terrible baby, yet carries with him the scent of old-man aftershave even though he’s not yet old enough to smell like an old man." Excited that this is only a first chapter of something longer. Ryan Bradford in @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social

Yesteryear? Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow? Folks, I'm trying to get through TODAY!

after they were canceled for breaking edge, youth crew legends Turning Point rebranded as Turning Point USA, trading x-rated Swatch watches and letterman jackets for oversized wing-tips and poorly fitted sports coats. Such is the life cycle of hardcore punk.

This is 100% true.

"chud the builder" is lowkey something i would name a video game character i spend 45 minutes tailoring to be as ugly and deformed as possible

In case you missed it yesterday…

the real "Lord of the Flies" ? Me. To date, I've hit my bong no less than 4 times only to discover, immediately upon exhale, that the carcass of some Diptera floated peacefully in the ash laden water of the pipe's main chamber