So thrilled to be running a 6-Sentence Story Workshop collaboratively with Jeff Harvey of the wonderful @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social from May 1st- May 3rd. There are a few spaces left. pokrassprompts.substack.com/p/6-sentence...? #FlashFiction #ShortStory
A small cosmetic jar in a long bulb shape. The body is a shade of turquoise blue with black detailing and neck.
This small blue perfume flask from Jericho, in ancient Canaan, dates back to 1650–1550 BCE.
Cosmetics and toiletries were highly valued in many ancient societies, with both men and women wearing eye make-up and using perfume, and even using various forms of hair dye.
One week left before submissions close. Tell us about the fields set to fire, of the fires put out, of the smoldering in your chest. What time does. What life does.
Try to only panic about one thing at a time.
Of all the places to look for content! Lots of disgruntled tech bros speculating on when the repo guys will come for the ping pong table
“Don't stand by while human life is destroyed.”
#tdih 1965: largest anti-war protest in D.C. up till then.
Number of marchers close to number of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam.
Organizers prepared an exam: “How much do you know about the war?”
Check it out. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...
A split bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say T. Rex is their favorite dinosaur, but many don't have a favorite." The chart has the sub-headline: "Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: "Other" includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of "other." We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs. Opinion about dinosaurs comes from the question, "How much do you like or dislike dinosaurs?""
A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur.
And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops).
Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...
Submit to Stanchion!
Opening for submissions on Monday April 27th.
www.stanchionzine.com/submissions
Print with nine stylised animals and birds, including two cats, a rooster, mice and a rabbit, in different colours on a white background
Jane Ormes, contemporary UK printmaker based in Bristol #WomensArt
The killdeer are everywhere, on the grass and in the desert. They follow me to show their broken wing routine. Glendale, AZ, US #birds, #nature, #wildlife, #photography
My chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN is now available from Bottlecap Press. The pieces explore marginal life and have magical or fantastical elements. They're sad but I hope you enjoy them. #booksky #fiction #bottlecappress
bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
If only I had time to write!
[makes time to write]
Ah now I have time to do the dishes
ICYMI-FBOMB Flash reading.
youtu.be/eYoS7ypcybg?...
Montana has figured out a way to put the screws to Citizens United.
Good.
All states need to do what the gutless SCOTUS won't.
Thank you, Suzy!
I'll be reading at this tonight!
Somewhere along the line, I decided I wrote either novels or micros, but then I wrote a 2,000 word story that was just accepted. So I guess, don't put yourself in a writing box
Stone relief of a gladiator, standing within a rectangular niche. He’s holding a shield, a sword and is wearing a helmet. A inscription in Greek letters (reading Peneleos) is carved along the top edge of the stone.
A Roman gladiator frozen in his final fight: this funerary relief shows Peneleos, a heavily armed murmillo, who won eleven fights in the arena - and seems to have died in his twelfth.
Dating 3rd century AD and found in Türkiye.
From the collection of Antikensammlung Basel.
📷 me
🏺 #reliefwednesday
Excerpt from Guardian article about outcome of 2024 U.S. Presidential election. "White women still voting for the Republican candidate." Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Yellowed paper with text, the title page of a speech delivered by Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy" titled "Wrongs of History Righted" which was included in the Congressional Record in 1916.
Got excited when I found the first instance of a woman appearing in the Congressional Record, in 1916.
Until I realized that she was a white supremacist and the speech was about the value of slavery.
I was about to recommend this, too. The dialogue is fascinating! I find myself repeating it the day after watching
Dark blue flyer for the 2026 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, featuring headshots of judges Leila Chatti and Karissa Chen and a deadline of May 1
Calling all high school and college writers! The 206 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose are open for submissions through May 1, judged by the brilliant Leila Chatti and Karissa Chen. theadroitjournal.org/adroit-prizes/
This 100 word story is perfection. @100wordstory.bsky.social @tracyroyce.bsky.social
100wordstory.org/what-she-wore/
Do lit journals send out acceptances on April 1? Because I would not believe it was real
They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead.
Me: Can it talk to my printer yet?
They: haha no
It might also work as a twist that we're not supposed to expect?
Preorder your Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival merch! This year's tee is bringing medieval vibes so you know it will sell out
Female serial killers in real life: 16%
So why are so many of the serial killers in books and movies female?
