Tall thin twin trunk mountain hemlock, brown oval bonsai container, topped with moss, gray background
Tsuga mertensiana bonsai
Mountain Hemlock bonsai
I have had it since 2022, and the repot shows me how I will need to reshape front and back trunk in future years.
#bonsai
#tsugabonsai
#hemlockbonsai
#tsuga
#hemlock
"The school had been leaving messages about Ellie’s jacket."
New fiction: "Crickets" by Nathan Willis aka @nathanwillis.bsky.social
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...in one of the finest lit mags, @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social !
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me to both lovers and serial killers: you’ll never catch me fucker!
Time for some public servants to risk arrest or worse. Show the fuck up
"Granny invites the bees to her funeral. She stands behind our cottage, facing the velvet hills, the blueberry sky."
New fiction: "Bees, Bees, You're Invited to My Funeral" by Sage Tyrtle aka @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
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"Maybe this funeral director directed funerals as a kid, placing shiny pennies on the unblinking eyes of his sister’s dolls..."
New fiction: "An Unlikely Crucifixion" by Gabriel Moseley
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"She is seven years old, plump, tanned and covered in scratches and scrapes."
New fiction: "The Death at Your Door" by Sarah Wheeler Hedborn
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We don’t have a table but we’ll be wandering the aisles of AWP. Just say matchbook three times and we’ll appear.
Twisted Japanese Larch bonsai, small Japanese gray-purple pinched cylinder pot, gray siding background, pot on top of wooden block.
Larix kaempheri bonsai
Japanese Larch bonsai from Left Coast Bonsai
Repotted in Japanese pot, buds were starting to swell and the rootball was very dense (grown in small felt grow bag)
#bonsai
#larixbonsai
#larch
#larchbonsai
ICYMI
Repotted into different training pot to build some strength
#bonsai
#mugopine
#pinebonsai
#pinusbonsai
Small willow bonsai before leafing out, small blue-white abstract circle pot, gray background
Salix boydii bonsai, Japanese abstract round, shohin range
Boyd’s Willow, Iseli Nursery, before leafing out
#bonsai
#salixbonsai
#willowbonsai
"We gathered them at dusk, brittle casings caught in the mesh of the fence, clinging to tomato vines, tucked beneath the lip of the porch railing."
New fiction: "A Million Demented Cicades" by Sarp Sozdinler aka @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
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A friend’s found footage film, help return the camera—
Please share!
"Winter prairie is hard on everyone, especially rabbits."
New CNF: "Weed Killers" by Chel Campbell aka @chelcampbell.bsky.social
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Annette the frog
Annette the frog
it's here! my first publication of 2026!
A call for Portland Book Fest to divest from banks that profit from the destruction of Palestine has grown into a collective that programs events to raise awareness across the city.
An upcoming event presents an opportunity to hear the winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry.
Our submissions open Jan 5 and will be open a week until Jan 12!
"It's a Saturday in the middle of July on a white porch with an old friend. Towels along the clothesline. She’s ten years younger, so I’m always asking about her sex life."
New CNF: "Mechanical Pencils by Dina L. Relles aka @dinalrelles.bsky.social
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Art lives in the process, in the struggle to grow and figure out the specific needs of the work, and in the arrival at a better understanding of the artist’s limitations. The product is just the end result of the art.
Mugo pine bonsai, black bark, informal upright, terra cotta colored plastic rectangle training pot, gray background
Mugo pine, bonsai material to develop in training pot
Pinus mugo
#bonsai
#pinusbonsai
#pinebonsai
#mugo
#mugopine
"She left suddenly. That's what we said when the police asked."
New fiction: "She Left Suddenly" by Zelda Knapp aka @parlorspider.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/knapp/she...
I've been seeing people say about their work lately, "I used AI in the edits & refining of this piece, but it's all my own words & ideas."
I think people don't quite understand what "my own words" means. If you're using AI, the words are not your own. They are an amalgam of other people's words.
"Daryl disappeared while we were gathering wood. He’d stayed back to prep dinner. We returned to an empty camp."
New fiction: "Happy Birthday" by Michael Czyzniejewski aka @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
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"When my daughter insisted I live with her, I refused."
New fiction: "Wings in the Dark" by Beth Sherman aka @bsherm36.bsky.social
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Need some writing inspiration? ✏️ Check out these notebooks by @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social featuring flash prompts from contributor @kathyfish.bsky.social! buff.ly/UpOj2s9
