felt like I was going insane, reading this one, and it was awesome

Excited to share my story “Late Bloomer” is out today at @ergot.bsky.social

I've run into this recently, too. Seeing more interest in the industry of writing -- marketing, for instance -- and less in craft. Sometimes I hear even writers say they don't have time to read. I've struggled to say exactly why that's insidiously dangerous in a way that's really felt and heard. :(

This is so, so well-articulated.

Sometimes learning German means asking an archery range if they're closed for Austrians on Monday and having them then tell you that yes, but they're closed for everyone, not just Austrians

Easter

I meant Easter
🐤

"suspended by the parabola of my ambivalence" is 👌👌 Love this one!

Even the idea that being at war might incur noticeable day-to-day inconveniences in middle-class America has been absent for decades

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything?

That’s how the internet was.

Since it's Long Covid Awareness Day, I had/have it. My symptoms were milder than most but disruptive enough to fuck up my life for a year. Fatigue, hair loss, GI issues, brain fog. They've mostly improved, but I get flair ups, often when I'm stressed or anxious. My hair still hasn't recovered.

The Tide Folk - Lightspeed Magazine In summer, when the ocean ebbs at dusk, when the sand turns to glass and it becomes impossible to discern the difference between reflection and sky, the Tide Folk emerge from their pools. You might th...

My @lightspeedmagazine.com debut is free to read today! Come for the ocean vibes; stay for fleeting moments of beauty.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

im grabbing your hand to tell you. it’s not too late to start wearing a mask again. it’s better to wear a mask 1/4 of the time (or whatever your percent looks like) than not at all. there’s no shame in starting to be covid safe again even if you havent been for a long time. its okay

Had me from the first line, stunned me by the last. This is gorgeous.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Loving the mask representation! ❤️

I've read this one multiple times and am still not over it. So good!

If you live near Providence, you know the collective power of the Brown students, especially over the last few years. This is devastating on so many levels.

This is my alma mater, and I can't stop thinking about how student reporters at the Herald have been so diligently updating everyone to keep them safe -- and how absent that integrity and care is elsewhere.

Thrilled to have made it to this year's @smokelong.bsky.social micro competition shortlist! 🎉

5x a week German classes have completely obliterated my writing schedule, but I now have So Much Energy to get going again

I actually couldn't stop scrolling -- so good!

Thank you! ❤️

So incredibly creative.

I'm the worst at keeping up with social media, but here are two of my new pieces!

One is very somber.
crowcrosskeys.com/2025/10/11/l...

One is decidedly not.
www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

Call it the duality of the writer. (Or the writer being hangry for one of these -- guess which.)

My family grew up in, around, and apart from Shanghai.

Sometimes, I think about the skyscrapers --- how as I grew, they grew with me. People didn't use to praise Shanghai, but now if they do, it's to talk about how modern it is.

I love Shanghai.

But every so often I wonder whether our idea of modernization looks an awful lot like Westernization. If as a kid, in more ways than one, I learned the wrong lessons about infinite growth.

Honored to be a part of Ricepaper. Thank you to Xiao He for the guidance

The Tiger on the Seventy-Third Floor | Ricepaper Magazine Hello? Can you still hear me? You said you wanted to know why your family left you in New York. Are you calling from there now? I’m sorry, these old Shanghai lines cut out all the time. No, don’t hang...

I have a debut short story now published @ricepapermag.bsky.social!

ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/08/the-...

But every so often I wonder whether our idea of modernization looks an awful lot like Westernization. If as a kid, in more ways than one, I learned the wrong lessons about infinite growth.

Honored to have a debut short story up @ricepapermag.bsky.social. Thank you to Xiao He for the guidance

"Protecting" the populace from depressing, ugly, & "confusing" art (& representing it as contagion) has been a feature of more than one authoritarian regime, and whether folks like Isabel realize it of not, they are siding with deeply anti-democratic ideas when they engage in this type of rhetoric.

poem by bridget lowe in new england review

wow. I'd been lazing about & procrastinating on reading, but after this I'm inspired to procrastinate no more @bridgetlowe.bsky.social

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

Fifty-two seconds without air. A record. Has to be. I set the stopwatch back on the edge of the pool, refilling my lungs with oxygen. “It’s okay to be jealous of my breath-holding abilities,”

Today on ergot.: 'Inside It Now' by Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Chri...

Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents