Thank you! 🙏🏼

Grateful to be surrounded by a community of writers who read and support one another 🙌🏽😊♥️

Bronwen, thank you so much for your review. 💕🙏🏼

Highly recommend this beautiful #flash fiction about enduring love by @tracieadams.bsky.social 👇

I’m one of the lucky cohort who got to see an early draft of this in @smokelong.bsky.social workshop, too. It came together with such power & sad truth!!!

Bravo, Tracie & congratulations
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Lori, thanks so much. I appreciate you! ♥️

The Bear Who Loved Me It takes exactly nine minutes for his padded paws to lumber from the pines at the edge of our property to our bedroom window. He taps three times.

"I stopped telling them when Bear came to the back deck, swatting the bird feeders, scattering seed like spilled time, then extending his heavy paw and asking if I wanted to dance."

"The Bear Who Loved Me" by @tracieadams.bsky.social
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Bahahaha 🤣

Killed it. This might be my all time favorite @lmbayley.bsky.social piece.

Love love love every word of this— so flashy from the strong opening to the precision of the details to that unforgettable last line. Gawd, Linda.. you made me cry!! Congratulations!🎉

Eeek! How exciting! Thank you, Matt! I can’t wait💃🏼

Gorgeous pic. Stirs the soul.

Just finished reading “Ina-Baby: a love story in reverse” by @thedrevlow.bsky.social published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and it has already shifted my thinking about every word I’ve ever written. Like, I want I do- over. Burn it all down. My God, this book.

Bittersweet to read this gem by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social in the farewell issue of @literaryruby.bsky.social 👇🏼

Kathryn, this is lovely. 💕

Lots of good stuff planned, Matt. I hope to hop in as much as I can between travels. ♥️

WELKIN ME UP! 💃🏼🙌🏽😜

My book landed in beautiful hands. The words of support have been overwhelming. Thank you thank you
Tim Winton
Pip Williams
@christopherallen.bsky.social
@kathyfish.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social Mabel Gibson
Susan Midalia & #chil3design

Thanks, Lauren. I really appreciate you reading and taking a minute to comment. 😍

A sad, yet beautiful, story of the death of someone you do not know how to mourn. It reminds me of when my friend's boyfriend died. We never had any physical contact but I did love him in a way but I couldn't say that.

Bronwen, thanks so much for reading and taking time to share your thoughts. 💕

Lisa, thank you for reading. 😊

Thank you, Matt. I have a super smart teacher. 😁

Beast of Burden Tracie Adams   I didn’t go to the funeral because he meant nothing to me. That’s what I told myself. He was just a boy with a white work van with ladders strapped to the roof. Just a seventeen…

“If it meant nothing, then there was nothing to mourn.”

“… I had my own ways to celebrate our love. If that’s what it was.”

@tracieadams.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/beast-of-bur...

Thank you for reading and sharing. 😊

Can’t wait to read that essay. ♥️

Don’t make me swim across that pond and make you publish that book before Jesus comes back. 😂

Thank you.☺️

Praying my parents never read it. 😬😂

"We had tried to cauterize our separate childhood wounds with skin and sweat... In the van, with “Beast of Burden” blaring, we tried to numb ourselves and feel something better at the same time."

@tracieadams.bsky.social burning it up in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 🔥

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