Reading Severance by Ling Ma at a cabin in the woods over Memorial Day weekend, as one does 📚💙

Shelly is fishing. Summer has begun!

congrats to jared polis for getting played like a chump

by my own two hands

by my own two hands

i honestly think that if a piece of writings sits in the ol' submission queue for 4 months, you should either accept it or shut down your magazine

MTSU forever

I haven't published anything else this year but my book and this short piece came out in the same week. Proud to be in the latest issue of Sinking City Lit: sinkingcity.as.miami.edu/fall-behind/

My second review ever is Suzy's awesome novella

Some of the best mail comes from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. This time it is Terrestrial by @suzyeynon.bsky.social with a Poetry EP (zine) by Rachel King.

once I get elected to the HOA board it's over for you bitches

Can't wait for this scene in the new movie

If you missed it, read my long-listed piece about how a bad day turned okay in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social.

In the new Gundam movie there's a musical montage of Gigi Andalusia redecorating a house

REI Union asking for a boycott of the Denver Flagship store this weekend www.axios.com/local/denver...

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

I’m back in @bulbregion.bsky.social with “Unsent Love Letters (& Other Regrets)” ♡ grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social + all of you who read this story 💌 📬 bulbregion.com/Unsent-Love-...

Today is Tuesday, and that's a great day to read this story

(commencement speaker)At long last we have created the Torment Nexus

I've noticed how much I’ve aged in the past 5 years and I am really hoping that adding chia seeds to my yogurt can turn this whole thing around.

My new story was published in Afterimages today! It's about the workplace grind, and also our wild hearts that can never be tamed open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

My new story was published in Afterimages today! It's about the workplace grind, and also our wild hearts that can never be tamed open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

Daniel Radcliffe's face at the end of Swiss Army Man when he's blasting through the waves out into the ocean

TGIF everyone! Be sure to have a lot of great sex this weekend!

Clerks Mallrats Chasing Amy Dogma Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Jersey Girl (idk lol)

Dark auguries speak the fell truth...HELLARKEY 5 is again open for submissions! Send @renbolger.bsky.social, @ossuary.bsky.social, and yer's truly your best, weirdest, scariest stories for the single most important horror publication in the history of the written word docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

if you go into the city to have fun you should expect to pay approximately $3 million. This is economics

Join Summer Stewart, Amy Baskin & Elisa Carlsen for a virtual reading on motherhood, embodiment, labor, religion, desire, survival, class, and the strange performance women are forced into to remain legible to the world around them. Thursday, May 14 6 PM PST Zoom: csupueblo.zoom.us/j/92761376436

Big news! thrum is going to be republished with @malarkeybooks.bsky.social this November! Some gentle changes have been made to the text, and here's a first look at the new cover, remixed by the original designer Very glad this book will have a second chance at life, and with some distribution!

Denver

did the wheels fall off? www.denverpost.com/2026/05/13/l...

I am reading in a lineup with some great writers tonight: Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Melissa Flores Anderson, Aaron Rabinowitz, Lita Kurth, Katherine Sapadin, Mike Karpa, Keith Gaboury, Swetha Amit, Leah Mueller, & Steve Gowin Online via Zoom or in person (see below). sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

accidentally clicked on a Bret Stephens column and then thought, "oh, I don't care about anything Bret Stephens has to say"

My daughter's pithy summation: "Covid reminded people they lived in a society; and they hated it."

the good people of @malarkeybooks.bsky.social asked me to review Vi Khi Nao’s new book, and while I should have done it sooner, I couldn’t be happier that I got to: www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658428

I was lucky to talk with Megan Nichols from @variantlit.bsky.social about aliens, the 90s, and communication in Terrestrial @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

last night

making library holds no man could live up to

Preorders of Terrestrial from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social are shipping this week!

one week until my new story drops

Been thinking a lot about this since it came up among some writer pals: Writers, do you have a short story you consider your signature or flat out best work? Why that one? Good feedback, dear to your heart, good blend of what you like to do best? Every answer is interesting imo

hot

the year is 2035. An aging Taylor Swift enters her "I'm going to fuck your boyfriend" era

There was much Malarkey to be had!!

Did a Ford F-250 write this? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.