Thank you so much! This looks great -- sent to my student :)

Any virtual literary readings/events in the next couple weeks? Asking for a student!

It's such a joy to see this story (originally pub'd in Cutleaf) selected for Best of the Net 2026. Congrats,
@kirakh.bsky.social!

Honored to be included in this year's Best of the Net anthology! Huge thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @keithlesmeister.bsky.social, and the editors!

bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-...

just referenced this picture in a short story I'm writing

I feel like it's actually worse when the influences are more niche / less read authors bc it's easier to get away with !!

I feel like it's important for writers/artists to have wildly eclectic and discordant sources of inspiration to collage into something new so they don't end up just accidentally parroting their influences

You always know you’re in a nice neighborhood when there are lampposts on the sidewalks

One sun only by Camille Bordas and Giovanni’s room by James Baldwin

weekend reading

Hope you’re all enjoying “awp” or whatever

Rereading Lorrie Moore, stoned with an achey neck giggling into my pillows, probably the closest thing to a spiritual experience I have had in eons

also "RAZOR SHARP." enough!

There's something uncomfortable about reading someone's writing and being immediately hyper-aware of who their influences are

sorry but we desperately need to come up with some new blurb language. I don't want to read a book that "deftly navigates the human experience" what the fuck does that even mean anymore

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I'll also be opening up soon for more freelance work, but I need to get my house & mind in order before I push heavy there

Every time I have a medical appointment and have to wear a hospital gown I start pretending I’m a Sally Rooney character like “Her wrists were very slender and white. She trembled slightly and went pale, sitting up very straight.”

excuse me I am “speaking it into existence”

perhaps things will start working out for me again

I’d been trying for so many years

I’m 30 now by the way…

Charles E. May, “Why Short Stories Are Essential and Why They Are Seldom Read” “The question of the short story’s form being true to reality or false to it, of being a natural form or a highly conventional one, requires a reevaluation of what we mean when we say ‘reality’ or ‘natural.’ If we assume that reality is what we experience every day, if we assume that reality is our well-controlled and comfortable self, then the short story is neither ‘realistic’ nor natural. If, however, we feel that beneath the everyday or immanent in the everyday there is some other reality that somehow evades us, if our view is a religious one in its most basic sense, that is, if we feel that something is lacking, if we have a sense of the liminal nature of existence, then the short story is more ‘realistic’ than the novel can possibly be. It is closer to the nature of ‘reality’ as we experience it in those moments when we are made aware of the inauthenticity of everyday life, those moments when we sense the inadequacy of our categories of perception. It is for these reasons, I think, that short stories are essential and yet seldom read.”

The final paragraph from "Why Short Stories Are Essential and Why They Are Seldom Read" by Charles E. May

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contacting wedding vendors is just getting email after email from "artsy" millennials saying "ohhh sorry I only actually work with the 1% <3333"

thank you sm! these are all great recs :)

What is the funniest short story you've ever read? (If you recommend your own I will come bonk you over the head with a blunt object)

I miss living places where having a personality is a given

Get your MENTAL HEALTH out of this FOREST