You Were Just Here — Weird Horror Magazine

“It’s already over once you see the blood.”

Fantastic, creepy work from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social in Weird Horror Magazine

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/you-were-jus...

Stay safe! I’m watching coverage of the outbreak now. It’s intense!

Congratulations!!!

Thank you!

I’d totally watch a papal kaiju anime

I didn’t know you could do that!

Little Boy Lost by Matt Kendricklives in a lighthouse a hundred leagues from the sea. The house is a tower. The tower is still finding its feet. It was pulled down. It was put up. The waves here are silent. They are ...

“The house is a tower. The tower is still finding its feet. It was pulled down. It was put up.”

I love the language in this @mattkendrick.bsky.social flash in @nervetowrite.bsky.social

www.nervetowrite.com/post/little-...

they should invent a goodreads where cool small press books get thousands and thousands of reviews and big dumb mainstream books get dozens

Damn. The US has you paying alimony.

reader: wow this seems effortless.
writer: it took me ten years & 400 drafts to complete this story

So excited to have a weekend not entirely consumed by DIY (it’s only partially consumed).

"The radio man shares the story of the world’s end, at least according to a push notification from his astrology app"

I love seeing @angieellis.bsky.social on this list. Her story is brilliant.

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Jan Stinchcomb > Queen of Hell > Bourbon Penn Jenn Ryan is in trouble. She’s in The Times today, dressed like Chris MacNeil from that disgusting exorcist movie. She must have scoured the thrift shops to find the clothes people wore back East in t...

“She was obsessed with the devil, so it’s no surprise we ended up here. I heard the police questioned her for twelve hours.”

Some hellish fiction (in the best possible way) from @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social

www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/que...

I love that story!

A twofer! Yay!

Ooh! Bourbon Penn is so good. Adding to my list now. Congrats!

Finally some useful writing advice.

“Behold this angel now: a crowd of bored tourists watching her chisel a crucifix, a heart, a dog with his leg cocked, a tiny woman who looks like you, each feature perfectly modelled in salt.”

This @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social flash in @wigleaf.bsky.social is excellent.

A Million Demented Cicadas | matchbook

“That summer was all exoskeleton—sunburns peeling from our shoulders, lemonade sweating through the glass, the ache of outgrowing.”

Fantastic micro from @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/sozdinler...

Y’all should’ve stocked up on the AWP bathroom donuts

Same! (except for the part where my body is screaming at me that it just wants to sleep now)

Would’ve loved meeting you too!

I’m completely exhausted from AWP, but am so grateful to have seen so many amazing writers.
As usual, I went too crazy in the book fair.

An unattended box of Dunkin’ Donuts in the men’s room off of the AWP book fair.

Your writing prompt, AWP edition: this unattended box of doughnuts in the men’s room just off the book fair.

Hey! If you’re around give me a shout. I’m wandering the book fair, zombie-like.

Fiction contributor Kayla Lightner with Fiction Editor Anna Cabe.

Contributor Josh Jones with former Assistant Editor Anna Vangala Jones. Anna is holding a Library Kids' Club tote bag.

Flash reader Amanda Ellard holding a Library Kids' Club tote bag at the Split Lip Magazine booth.

The Split Lip fam is showing👏 up👏

❤️ Fiction contributor @kaylalightner.bsky.social with @annablabs.bsky.social.

❤️ Contributor Josh Jones with former Asst. Editor @anniejowrites.bsky.social.

❤️ Flash reader Amanda Ellard.

Hanging out with @writesloud.bsky.social this afternoon has been the perfect kickoff to AWP

It’s AWP-eve and I still have no idea which events/panels I’m going to hit.