Linkedin is just unemployed people using AI to generate posts about how they're good at AI.

OH SHIT DROP EVERYTHING OOPS BRECHT DID IT AGAIN

for sale baby shoes never worn she's not dead or anything she's just a pain in the ass

Here's the scene outside our house last night

Gone Lawn was one of the first journals that made me want to be a part of this flash community. I remember reading every story in an issue a few years ago and thinking “This is what I want to do!” (And then quietly dreaming of someday being published there…) Let’s help them keep going!

This story by @hironennes.bsky.social is extremely sick and you should check it out and I hope it wins an award www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/our-best-sel...

Apex's Kickstarter is looking a little dodgy right now and listen, I know times are weird, but there's no magazine doing more at the bleeding edge of spec fiction than Apex; there's no one more important in this space. If you back one thing this year, it should be Apex.

He was like "It's a normal phase, to make terrible art as an adolescent," and I was like [kidding around] "Of course *I* didn't have that phase," and my wife chirps "Oh, so is that why you're doing it now instead?" anyway goodbye forever

flowers flowers flowers

Got a possible frost warning for tomorrow night, and that would be the end of dahlia season, so, uh anyone need any flowers?

My 9-yo and I wrote the cover story for Interzone #303, and we've created this handy synopsis using legos. Pictured: shark wearing a mech suit made of pirate shipwrecks, attacking a surfer on a chainsaw board. Oh, it gets weirder. Check it out: shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw

how is every single queer erotica collection always welcome to BUCKETS OF GOREFUCK, we are a subversive transgressive indie collection. please read our submission guidelines! Submission Guidelines ▪︎ no gore ▪︎ no fuck ▪︎ no buckets

I regret to say that I did indeed used to think Theo was a nice boy I realize this reflects poorly on me in my defense it also reflects poorly on God’s Cruel Joke, which literally publishes stuff like this all the time truly shameful

Things Parents Say: “I’m afraid it’s time to move your cockroach palace off the dining room table.”

Friends and creatures, the inimitable @sashabrown.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

My 9-yo is all "I built a lego shark wearing a mech suit made from pirate shipwrecks" I'm like, what? he's all "He fights surfers on chainsaw surfboards!" I'm like, should we write this down? now it's the cover story on Interzone Check out my kid's literary debut: interzone.press

OH SHIT Y'ALL GUESS WHAT I GOT IN THE MAIL oh okay you did actually guess right, it's Disco Murder City by @calebbethea.bsky.social (seen here bonding joining the disco community with my homemade disco ball plant hanger)

fLoWeRs

This piece by @easton-smith.bsky.social in @kenyonreview.bsky.social is fuckin terrific. I think it's weird horror? At no point does anything I expect happen, almost even on a word-to-word level. kenyonreview.org/piece/the-mi...

look at this glowing flaming skull we found on the Everything is Free group omg Our 9-yo "purchased" it with two week's worth of poker chips earned by keeping his room clean so friggin metal

We're watching Frozen for the first time since the pandemic, when we watched it about a thousand times with our then-toddler, and wow does it make me feel weird. Pandemic vibes, this sort of wistful lonely deal.

my wife thinks this is a bit much but the dog is fine with it

I CLEANED THE FUCK OUT OF THE GARAAAAAAAGE

Here's what I got outta my garden today

CANCEL YOUR PLANS, KAY VAINDAL'S GOT ANOTHER BANGER OUT

Today's flowers!

I have read your work and am concerned.

we're in a cave!

reposting this today because I have no marketing budget, because I'm publishing this with a tiny press run by a friend, because I put my whole heart into this book like I did with Boxcutters and I'm proud as fuck and this year has been one long painful but fruitful lesson in perseverance and risk

Please read this one and nominate it for all the awards, as I’m not allowed to being its editor. One of the best stories I’ve had the pleasure of reading (and working on) in these last few years. It will cut you. It will put you back together. The scars will shape a universe.

li'l bouquet up in one of my wife's handmade vases

Today's flowers!

Today's bouquet. The wild white ones are gooseneck loosestrife - somewhat spready in a garden, so be careful, but some of my favorites to cut.

my ART

Milestone today: this is the first bouquet my nine-year-old kid made himself! It's a good one, right? (You can cut daylilies for bouquets! If you pick a stalk with big buds on it, they'll keep opening for a few days.)

got lost in the woods and found this

@brokenantlermag.bsky.social heyo are y'all open for subs right now?

Feels really good that Split Lip stays in touch and keeps gassing up their contributors. These folks don't just run a great mag, they nurture a great community. Thank you, AJ Jolish!

AC repair guy leaves and my wife closes the door and says one word: “Would.”

Kid is off for a week between school and camp, and my job is cleaning out their weirdest storage room. You know what that means, right? TREASURE HUNT! I scavenged a bunch of free stuff, hid it all over the house, and wrote up clues to keep the kid busy. Here's how it went.

man @ivygrimes.bsky.social is so good (how good is she) she's like thiiiiiiiiiis good [stretching arms way out, wide-eyed, staggering with the effort]

Martagon lilies are popping!

MOMMY

Another gnarly one from Lindz McLeod. "The truth is, there is no reason in this moment why he follows her—only that she was alone, and he was capable of doing so, therefore, he did."

lol this story fuckin rules

What's that? You demand more garden pictures? gosh you're so pushy but FINE here you go. Foxgloves are here! Peony season is in full swing! It's a good month in the garden.

idk what this peony variety is called but I know what it oughtta be called, and that's "wad of used kleenex and uh oh is your nose bleeding"

Gladiator allium currently getting cocky in my garden

if I was a bird I guarantee you I would be a dick about it

In the @barrelhouse.bsky.social Adult Issue with me: I love erasure poems (particularly ones made from verbose rejection letters, but that's a different story) and I love subversion, and this poem by @davidwrites1.bsky.social has both. www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/o...