I first read this piece in a writing class year ago and I’ve thought of it since. Do yourself a favor and read these words.

Fall submissions are OPEN. Little Fruits wants to harvest your spookiest stories. Send us tales of the spectacular, the sepulchral, the spine-chilling 🎃 We accept flash fiction, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Call ends Oct. 3rd at midnight. #writersky #writingcommunity

Here are two very good ones

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

New publisher listing for: Little Fruits Magazine @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social (Fiction Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

The final line of this piece is an absolute wonder. Don’t miss it! #writersky #authorcommunity #writing

Reading my first Sally Rooney and my god it’s wonderful. Normal People is already breaking, healing, rebreaking, and healing my heart and I’m less than a hundred pages in to it.

Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.

Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡

I don't mean to bug you (ha ha) but my new story Bug Man has been published by the very nice people at @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social www.littlefruitsmagazine.com

Bug Man” by Alex Miller is the latest flash fiction published on Little Fruits. Read it today and learn why the Bug Man fucking rules. www.littlefruitsmagazine.com/bug-man #writingcommunity #litmag #literary #writersky

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

So proud and excited to be an editor of this fine and fruity magazine!

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

Submissions are OPEN. We’re publishing inaugural stories and can’t wait to read your work. Submit at link in bio. #litmag #submissions #submission #writingcommunity

Meet the Editors of Little Fruits Magazine: Ghost, @maggiekantor.bsky.social, and Jahla. We’re getting ready to harvest the fruits of your labor. Opening for submissions this month #writingcommunity #litmag #submissions

You had the chance to wash some of the blood from your hands @hickenlooper.senate.gov and @bennet.senate.gov and you chose not to. Be courageous and do the right thing.

They’ll have to pry the em dash from my cold dead hands. 🩷 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Superman says Free Palestine

No one trusts Ada. She doesn’t blame them. But thousands of years after humans broke the planet, the androids who replaced (and resurrected) them are on the same precipice. Ada must convince everyone to skip the second apocalypse or she won’t get to redeem herself. #bluepit 📖 #A #SF #Q

UPROOTED x THE FAMILIAR x OCEAN’S ECHO Sparks fly when carefree Astra and steadfast Grey touch—they don’t know why and don’t have time to find out between a budding romance, a malevolent secret society, and a minor revolution. Romantasy meets Eugene Debs for a #hotlaborsummer. #bluepit 📖 #A #R #F

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times? youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI

The evil that men do lives after them

the early K/S shippers in the 60s / 70s / 80s, living in eras of intense queer persecution and trauma while writing fanfic where two men in love get to have a happy ending on their little spaceship 300 years from now, speaking into existence a future they couldn’t even see, are absolute icons to me

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

I assume this will be the Butlerian Jihad with an additional focus on not putting ketchup on hot dogs

Will I ever write a book as perfectly political coherent and interesting and fun as Novik’s Scholomance series? Pecking away at a scene, I just remembered all of the world building and allegory all over again and had to take a break or die of impressed jealousy.

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Happy Juneteenth, y’all. Take some time today to make this country filled with more liberation and less fascism. And remember all the incarcerated folks across this country who aren’t free (yet). #abolishice #abolishcages #abolishthepolice

Trans kids deserve to live

All respect to Aragorn, son of Arathorn, but monarchy needs to go into the West. It’s time has ended.

Along with abolishing ICE we should abolish all for-profit prison companies in the country.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Avoid the violence/nonviolence debate. It’s a trap. The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm. Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.

With all that’s going on, I decided to escape into Emily Henry’s newest and was reminded why I stick with fake worlds in my writing. I adore Henry but she messed up with island naming convention. It should be Crescent Island if it connects to the mainland directly! No Little required.

“No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that.” - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

happy pride. programming note: this year the annoying posts about kink and bisexuals with boyfriends or whatever will be replaced with information on DIY HRT, over secure and preferably encrypted channels. thank you

Chilling final paragraph and editor’s note.

People marveled at Jefferson’s “automated” Monticello where moments after an empty wine bottle was sent away, it would return filled. Now people marvel at fast shipping and immediate delivery and generative AI’s false consciousness.

I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such

a formerly enslaved Black anarchist woman led the first American May Day parade in Chicago in 1886 and don’t you forget it!!

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.