If you happen to have a long weekend and the weather is not facilitating any outdoor plans to observe the holiday here in the US, I have the perfect thing for you! Or if you just need a way to improve your Monday! Check it out!

The lock screen image on my work computer today is a lovely photo of Alcatraz. Seems fitting.

Ever notice how many of your favorite poets and writers on here have beards? What if you could hear a bunch of them read together? What if you could help a great cause at the same time? I give you Bearded Bards of BlueSky: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

Hey! You still have time to catch up on our latest novelette before the final installment goes live tomorrow! Check out "The Janus Gate" by DJ Bodnar, a creepy tale filled with elements of eldritch, body, and liminal space horror. www.roifaineantpress.com/post/the-jan...

Hey there! Our EIC did not tell the rest of us about this here little piece! But it was a nice surprise to see our very own @tiffanymarie.bsky.social popping up in our timeline! Check it out and also look for more ladies of the #WritingCommunity as the month goes on!

Things aren't great for so many of us right now. So, if you're feeling a little uneasy, like everything is off & nothing is quite right, we have the perfect piece for that mood. Check out the latest installment of "The Janus Gate" by DJ Bodnar, live now! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/the-jan...

Hey, whatcha doing? Looking for something to read this morning with your coffee or tea? Problem solved. The next installment of "The Janus Gate" by DJ Bodnar is live. Right now. So get comfy and dive in! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/the-jan...

As Facebook doesn’t value moderating content responsibly, @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver has launched a useful website to help make your accounts less valuable to Meta, with steps on how to limit how your data is used for advertising. Visit: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

This is just our country now? Every single day it’s like “Today the Nazi laid off everyone who makes sure there aren’t shards of glass in your ice cream” and we’re all just supposed to shrug and keep going to work and paying our taxes? Pretty fucking bleak imho!!

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

If you want to stop World War Three, think what would have stopped World War Two. Occupation of the Ruhr. Anschluss with Austria. Annexation of Sudetenland. Hitler could have been stopped each time. But fear of war led to war. Don’t repeat the mistake. #SlavaUkraini

Did you check out the first installment of "The Janus Gate" by DJ Bodnar? You still have time to read it before the next episode goes live on Sunday! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/the-jan...

Need a break from the chaos? Sit back and relax and enjoy a little escapism. It’s ok, you deserve it!

Right, you fucks, if you live in the UK sign this. If you don’t live in the UK share it as some of your followers might and they should sign this.

It’s been a while since I threw some random words at the bit poetry board. But they were calling me today! Hey @tiffanymarie.bsky.social and @kelkel.bsky.social , bringing bit poetry over to the good place! (It’s still good over here, right?)

Yet another gem from @amymarques.bsky.social from 80 Matey! I wrote a similar letter, but stuck it the screen door and when they let the dog out it blew away.Story of my life. “A Letter From The First Girl to Break Your Son's Heart” read it here! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/a-lette...

On the eve of the new year, and the last day of December, we kiss this year goodbye with a bittersweet longing and beautiful poetry. “Winter Words” by @josephlezza.blsky.social belongs to the world now, and is in 80 Matey! Read it here! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/winter-...

We sure hope that this next year brings you all the success you desire, and five bucks for good cheese. “Rouquefort” by @michellefb.bsky.social is in 80 Matey! Read this flash piece right now. You got a few hours till 2025! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/roquefo...

Closing out this year with a BANG! Read “ Sitting in Front of Your Casket, Contemplating Family Dynamics Via Comic-Book Sound Effects” by @sharon54.bsky.social. Read this short piece here in 80, Matey! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/sitting...

I don’t know how long my message in a bottle will take to reach any shipwrecked sailor, so I’m telling you all now. Check it out!

One does not simply walk into a Polish grandmother's kitchen & ask for her gołąbki recipe—not even in a dream, not even if you are dream Boris Yeltsin. Check out "I Dream of My Grandmother's Piggies" by Chrissy Stegman to find out what I'm talking about! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/i-dream...

I'm not sure anyone is ever truly honest with their therapist. But when you frame your answers and behavior to elicit a specific response, well, that's a whole other level of dishonesty! Check out "Tools of the Trade" by @academiablues.bsky.social Live now!  www.roifaineantpress.com/post/tools-o...

Planning a wedding can be stressful. Sometimes planning the honeymoon can be the downfall of the marriage. Well, it just might be in this little piece by Johannes Springenseiss. This is "Honeymooning in Central Europe" & you can find it now in Entwine 79! www.roifaineantpress.com/post/honeymo...

Take a break from wrapping presents or baking cookies or whatever else you’re doing and relax with the new issue. It’s live now!

The Santa saga continues. Another Santa has fallen! He’s more of a Christmas gnome, but is not looking good for him.

It’s been a while folks, but we’re back with “A Word?” Wednesday with KSR and @maudlavin.bsky.social Maud’s new chapbook “Silences, Ohio” is published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and you don’t want to miss this conversation! youtu.be/Qcf1PqaL1eI?...

This, by @judedoyle.bsky.social, is so good. “I am asking you, the cis reader of this piece, to take up that mantle of being an inconvenience.” jude-doyle.ghost.io/r/c42e2b30?m...

Dropping my youngest back at college and apparently Applebee’s is the place to be on a Sunday afternoon.

I don’t have an Aunt Myrtle, great or otherwise, so I’m telling YOU! Something 78 is live now. Get on it.

Such a well done and all too relatable story! ❤️

Closing out your Turkey Day with a dark piece, about mental health, what is real to us, and what we are told is real. “Red, Red God” by @lmbayley.bsky.social is in the next edition of the press out 12/1. You will love this micro, THAT is real.

It’s the Thanksgiving Holiday here in the U.S.Are you grateful yet? I am for this verse, for this author, and the poetry party that ensues after because we can’t help it. “The Cost of Living…” by Poetic Dad from our 78th edition says it all. Have at it, 12/1!

*This is not a paid endorsement* (really it isn't) But Malarkey does put out great books. I have loved everything I have read so far and I have read over 10 at this point. Check out their kickstarter and help keep indies alive.

Santa must have gone back to the North Pole to get ready for Xmas. Or he finally gave up completely. Either way he’s been replaced by a Xmas Sloth. And my excellent photography makes him look like he’s getting beamed up to the Enterprise!

Monday roars in with this poem out of a 1950’s horror flick! “famous monsters of film-land” by DJ Wolfinsohn is in the 78th edition of the press out 12/1! It’s hip, it’s now, dady-o’s and baby dolls! Sunday!

On our morning walk, I noticed a neighbor had placed a sparkly pinwheel right near their mailbox. There was no wind this morning so Kodi didn’t really notice it. I am curious to see if on future encounters, Kodi, my ever skittish Husky runs from it or turns it into a very sparkly “water” wheel. TBD

Seasonal Afflecktive Disorder

Santa has never felt more relatable. I feel you, my man. I feel you.

Well, first real snow fall today, and what better way to celebrate than to have a new micro up @identitytheory.bsky.social about warm soup! 🍲 Thank you @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for taking this one!

Yes! Greek Mythology puns! Now I can face this horrible thing called Monday!

“It’s been seven owls and fifty jays.” -Sinéad O'Connor bird-watching

I’ll start with the photo of the moon. Here’s one taken by my brother last night in the Polish mountains

-Joy Sullivan

Ho Ho Ho Crime Writers THIS IS THE DECEMBER SUBMISSION CALL Can you write a Christmas Crime Story in under two hundred words? 200 words MAX (All pieces MUST be in a Word Doc w/a 3rd person BIO) Subs Open NOW ([email protected]) punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/submissions/

From the #quote book today, by Nayyirah Waheed: all the women. in me. are tired.

Spread the word about Paragraph Planet, the #writing website publishing one piece of 75-word #flashfiction every day since 2008 www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php

In case you’re looking to keep your experience over here better than over there.

Road-trip with my sisters to visit the pizzeria where we always stopped when visiting family in Utica. Nostalgic pizza is the best pizza!