The worst thing about getting older is watching so many brilliant lights getting snuffed out. Yesterday and today have been heavy. Take care of yourself.

Will go forward regardless but we need three or four more patrons to fund the Poetry EP series, which just goes toward paying the poets and for the cover art. malarkeybooks.com/store/poet-o...

In awe of how AI generated text can say nothing with so many words.

Just started Her Body and Other Parties. The first story was a real banger, looking forward to the rest.

The more I think about my book, the less I want to work on it. It’s such a mess currently. Like to the point where it might not be salvageable. Maybe I’m just being pessimistic or something.

Yesterday I was so sick I couldn’t keep Pepto Bismol down. What’s good?

My new (micro)chapbook, LOVE'S THE BURNING BOY, part of the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social inaugural pride series, is titled after the last line of Elizabeth Bishop's "Casabianca." These poems are instruments of self-confidence that helped me begin to publish my work. Price starts at $0

"On November 6 we went to the open mic at Harvey Milk’s Bookshelf. The store was festooned with glittering streamers for the celebration everyone thought was coming but now our voices were an elegy..." pitheadchapel.com/ostriches-at... #SpeculativeFiction #FlashLit #ShortStory #Writing

Thanks for reading and sharing 😊

The sky above the port was the color of an Instagram reel when the WiFi was down.

Torn between entering this poem I’ve labored over for days into a contest or just posting in here. One is ten bucks, the other is free.

“Is the last line really the title?” and other questions I ask myself at 5 AM.

I lied, I’m shopping it around as a chapbook. Already $45 in submission fees. 😬

Guy who leaves “witty” comments on posts that add nothing to the conversation.

You do not need to participate in discourse. You can just keep posting about your favorite books, foods, jokes, fixations. Your contribution won't resolve the issue, it will only feed the unquenchable beast.

Sewing this sweater together.

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

Me: Gas is five bucks a gallon and eggs are eight bucks a dozen. Also me: Please donate to my fundraiser for a book of horror stories about how late capitalism is grinding us all to dust. www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

Just finished Neuromancer again. It is both weirder and more beautiful than I remembered.

Hi, not sold anything for a wee while, these pieces of original art are still available and I think they’re good and thought someone might want them. Though you know. Who knows? Thank you all for being supportive www.chloecumming.com

Issue 8 #Poetry I JUST WANT TO TALK by @lyfaulk.bsky.social “I got an A+ in sleeping and woke up ready to climb a mountain and kill god.” epistemiclit.com/issue-eight/...

Things are looking grim for the SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM Kickstarter! 14 days left and we're 25% of the way there. We can do the book without the fundraiser, but it means fewer books in the future. Help us out! Spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/agi...

Issue 8 #FlashFiction EVEN A WORM by Kelly Murashige “You’d make it painful. You’d make it hurt. You’d say you still love me, then break me again. Make me so tiny, I would disappear.” epistemiclit.com/issue-eight/...

ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. More: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...

So many “we’d love to hear more from you” rejections on this piece but no takers yet. Is it possible to submit to every lit mag in existence? Let’s find out.

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

ICYMI yesterday!

I should stop underselling my work and dropping links with a simple “here’s a thing!” probably.

Aries: You don't have a haunted doll in your collection because you are the haunted doll.

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

If I were a billionaire, I’d do skywriting of poems. Some of mine, some of other people’s.

I don’t know shit about fuck. 🤷🏻 and that’s a guarantee.

New poem up at @epistemiclit.bsky.social today! I Just Want To Talk epistemiclit.com/issue-eight/...

So grateful to be in the Righteous Rage issue with two micros. A brand new one “Before the Ground Gets Too Hard” and a reprint from @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social “Other Moms Stand in an Impenetrable Circle of Backs.” Big thanks to Melissa!

honored to be in the powerful “Righteous Rage” ish from @epistemiclit.bsky.social! thank u so much, Melissa, Kristin & Genalea for letting me share these words with the world 🙏 onwards, humans 🙌 epistemiclit.com/issue-eight/...

I’m ready to fight the creator, / the head creep

Many thanks to the editors at @epistemiclit.bsky.social for publishing my micro story, “What Remains.” I really appreciate what this issue is trying to do, and I can’t wait to read my peers’ pieces! #writesky #microfiction #flashfiction #write #fiction

New poem up at @epistemiclit.bsky.social today! I Just Want To Talk epistemiclit.com/issue-eight/...

Cos it’s Friday and Friday is Try Day, I have put these four original artworks up in my main bit on my website. They are for sale. Sometimes people find my work snazzy. I endeavour to make it so. www.chloecumming.com

Googling “how long is a chapter” and then ignoring whatever it says and just going off vibes.

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...

Mark Lanegan + PJ Harvey = 😍 youtu.be/azH5eEXtllc?...

I tried to build a fancy white pizza but ended up ordering a none pizza with left beef.

ICYMI — goal for pub is FRIDAY so GET READY

It’s all horses

In case you missed my story about a giant, man-eating woman this morning: “Boyfriend troubles?” “No. Why would you jump straight to that? I wish it were so trivial. I’m dying.”

Imagine telling Sylvia Plath to pivot to short form video and shitposting.

You can read this here: lyfaulk.com/2026/05/11/l...

The rejections are still piling up but they’re getting more encouraging.

You can read this here: lyfaulk.com/2026/05/11/l...