"The thing I don’t remember is leaves. It’s been winter forever, branches bare, limbs naked. There’s ice on snow on ice" Always wonderful to discover a new-to-me writer. This is a micro gem from @miriamgershow.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

“For this slice of afternoon, like a perfectly tart orange slice, the freedom to trickle is not only okay, but beloved.” Settle into this quiet afternoon scene and the bodies that inhabit it. Quiet and gorgeous by @maxpasakorn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

On the surface, this nonfiction piece by @maxpasakorn.bsky.social seems like a peek into their cozy weekend, but there's so much simmering beneath it. Case in point--the line we've picked. So powerful! Read "Restful Self-Portrait" here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning

“Your hands run over the surfaces, trailing paths into the leftover dust. The dust is holding onto your touch and is all I have left of you.” Gorgeous and introspective piece reminding us that now is all we have by @francinewitte.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

"The Now of All Things" by Francine Witte is a beautiful, aching moment between a recently separated couple. The details the narrator now notices are brilliant. This is a must-read. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/th…#namjooningn#namjooningbutliteraryry

"...and why am I not doing the things I need to make me happy, and better yet, now that I think of it, why am I not just a dog?" Big love for this piece of writing by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"You tell me, I’ll never change, and you leave and I’m standing there like I’m a candle. A flame from the very top of my head." I love this brilliant piece of writing by @francinewitte.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Reading this lovely piece by @jackiegoyette.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social felt like self care literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“…and I leave myself there in case I find myself.” This wonderment by Shome Dasgupta in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social!💙

“Perhaps we only wanted her as long as she didn’t mean grief.” This stunner by @happilander.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social! 🔥💔

“We breathe, we bloom.” Gorgeous piece by @saipradhan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social full of little lives and small creatures and finding the beauty in the cyclical nature of living.

A gecko on a canvas, its moves rising and depressing. The canvas is askew, but it's still art. Brilliant use of metaphor told from a unique POV. Read "Come Alive Again" by @saipradhan.bsky.social in Issue 2. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/co…#namjooningn#namjooningbutliteraryry

“She’s waiting for me," you say. You say this knowing you are breaking the now. Knowing that the now is all we have left. I tell you that wait is a future word, and I’d appreciate you not using it. @francinewitte.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“We aren’t happy, but we aren’t sad either, we’re halfway sad when you hold me and you tell me, *I’m here*, but we could have been sadder if we knew that soon you wouldn’t be.” @happilander.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“… and you stand while this whole world whirls around you, muscles you didn’t know you had singing a wild chorus …” @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“I seek castles and walk in mumbles …” “... and round and round and round I go until I am a mouse on a boat sailing to a land tucked away in my mind where no one can venture. Not even me …” Shome Dasgupta in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“If you can’t find love, there is always parchment.” @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“You must conclude that the path up is never the same as the path down, no matter how careful you are to tread in your same footsteps.” @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“… the sea doesn’t just go away. Place your hand here and listen. Even if you can’t see it, it’s always there. Listen closer.” @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“We ignore the hateful yard signs and tell ourselves we belong here.” @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

‘What are you making? they holler.’ ‘I’m rebuilding my life, she whispers.’ 🪚🛠️🔧🪛 What does a woman do after she moves into her freshly bought hardware store? A clever, inventive, and oddly relatable story by Belinda Rowe in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

A runaway mother buys a hardware store and what happens next is you're nodding along saying "omfg, yes" all the way till the end. Belinda Rowe stuns with "Flying the Nest" in Issue 2. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/fl…#namjooningn#namjooningbutliteraryry

A runaway mother buys a hardware store and what happens next is you're nodding along saying "omfg, yes" all the way till the end. Belinda Rowe stuns with "Flying the Nest" in Issue 2. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/fl…#namjooningn#namjooningbutliteraryry

ICYMI: my micro in @claudineliterary.bsky.social!

Loved this piece by @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

ICYMI, Our 2nd issue is out now. Take a short break, dig in, and breathe with these pieces. #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Rest well with this restful nonfiction piece on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 💕 Poetry reader and contributor @maxpasakorn.bsky.social published this lovely self portrait in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social: buff.ly/W50Nfl0

"out here it’s either a corn year or a bean year and nothing about the flat-as-a-pancake terrain allows anything to sneak up on you." Love how this soars with hope and beauty @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

'And in this dream, the same stone could tour through all the oceans of the world, never stopping once to sink...' Touching blend of imagination & reality by Matt Leibel @lit-namjooning.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

'As the bottom of the hills came into view ... Maya savored the final twists and turns ... a tight holding on before letting go. Just like her marriage.' Excellent weaving of the physical & emotional by Divya Durgadas @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

'And even then, the sea will still be there. Of course, the sea doesn’t just go away. Place your hand here and listen.' Wonderful reminder to stop & listen to nature & your heart in this piece by Mizuki Yamagen @lit-namjooning.bsky.social #fiction literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

'I think I prefer the sunshine, the way I think I prefer chocolate to vanilla and parties to rest but then the mist rolls in and I am reminded.' Lovely piece by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Hit it out of the park with this issue 👏👏👏👏

The Now of All Things, in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"I need to sneak out of my own bed just to get downstairs and actually do the things that I need to do, so many things that a normal person should do without having to worry about a dog" Love! @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"I tell you that wait is a future word, and I’d appreciate you not using it." Stunning story. Nobody writes breakups like @francinewitte.bsky.social @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"you stand while this whole world whirls around you, muscles you didn’t know you had singing a wild chorus" What a gem @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"...but remember where it used to be, just beyond the last row of cypress and between the alder and the dogwood—the patch of blue, the undeniable sea?" I love this extraordinary piece (the sensory details!) by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"You claim we loved the cat too much to let her go, the cat stays longer if we don’t know she’s gone, you say,...." Big love for this brilliant story by @happilander.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"When we walk up the long lane after dinner, the tink of the softball on aluminum bats soars all the way from the park to the horse barn." I love this vivid, perfect piece of writing by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"Spring is in the small things today: the twitch of flowers peeping up from their boxes, yellow and purples, a brilliance of white chamomile" Wonderfully evocative writing from @jackiegoyette.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"I am a gecko, and if a sampling of Indian grandmothers have anything to do with it, I am mythically endowed with the full spectrum of human desire" Wonderful sense of calm beauty in this @lit-namjooning.bsky.social @saipradhan.bsky.social piece: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"...passing over pufferfish, whizzing by walruses, dancing past dolphins, and finally landing in the sand in, let’s say, Ishinomaki, Japan." Imagery that will live in my head forever in this magical story by @mattleibel.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙🌊

I'm absolutely delighted that my piece, 'These days you're kinda okay', has found such a loving home with @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💜 Many thanks to editors, Hema, Lakshmi & Melissa. #amwriting #writingcommunity #fiction #flashfiction literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

MUCH GRATITUDE TO @jenwithwords.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and all the WONDERFUL EDITORS AT LITERARY NAMJOONING for including "Sticky Notes for a Downcast Soul" in Issue 2 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/sticky-notes-for-a-downcast-soul-by-tracie-adams

It's a rainy Saturday morning here in Singapore. Staying in and taking in all the lovely comments we're getting about Issue 2. Have you read it yet? literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue-2 #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Thanks so much to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for publishing this tiny CNF in their gorgeous second issue. There are some real gems inside ✨💛 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Here's a new "how to" piece up at @lit-namjooning.bsky.social I really enjoyed reading all the pieces in this issue--a nice respite from, well, everything else that's going on.

"You must conclude that the path up is never the same as the path down, no matter how careful you are to tread in your same footsteps." My lord, this extraordinary piece of writing by @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"...and you stand while this whole world whirls around you, muscles you didn’t know you had singing a wild chorus,...." Wow, brilliant sensory details in this gem by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙