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May all of your dreams come true in 2026. Happy New Year!

Issue 89 with new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in our Master Series, is live! Work by established writers and those new to the form rubbing elbows in this issue. All rare gems by writers from around the globe. So proud of everyone in this issue. www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

Easy like, uh, Saturday morning or something @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer Camp

Let’s team up! DiFranco and Dillard. People love alliteration

I feel like I have the opposite problem lately 🫠

Good morning from @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer Camp

But what does the Pope have to say about Poopgate? The incident on August 8, 2004, when a tour bus belonging to Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds of human waste onto an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River?

#popegate #poopgate #pope

I’m starting a gofundme to put on a production of Hamlet this Saturday at the Capitol. All senators and Trump are invited.

Yes. Always a treat when your imaginary friends turn out to be assholes. Just when you think you know someone…

He “whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

— The Declaration of Independence

Can we fast forward to the part in the bunker?

PSA! General submissions will be open for another few days! From Feb 15 to May 10 we'll be reading for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Grand Prize $2500! We'll be open for paid feedback subs throughout, reading for the Sep issue. We're rooting for you!

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I love it. ☠️

Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92 He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”

Breaking News: Tom Robbins, whose comic novels drew a cult following by blending pop philosophy and absurdist comedy, has died at 92.

I'm really excited about this one: my Qanon story is up at @identitytheory.bsky.social! This is the one that kept on getting the good rejection, but rejection nevertheless, and it's what I think is probably the anchor of my alien invasion collection, and I'm so glad it wound up where it did.

Discover Why 'The Raven,' Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative Poem About a Distraught Lover and a Talking Bird, Remains an American Classic Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a dark and melancholic tone

180 years old and still kicking.

Done. 🤙🏻

Thanks for the support fellow SLQ and pressmate! When do preorders go live for yours?

If only for a brief time…

What are you working on? What’s coming down the pipeline, or has @smokelong.bsky.social completely absorbed you?

I’m excited for you to read mine too 🥸😈

That’s a solid lineup!!

There it is. 🤝

And leave one in the Perpepooity Wing.

Truth

Yes.

Happy Burns Night to you. May your haggis be warm-reekin’ and rich!

I’m putting together a workshop centered around music. What’s your favorite work (fiction or non) that uses music as a catalyst, theme, or whatever? Bonus point if you slide a link over 🤙🏻

Still singing it, huh?

Fantastic (and inspiring in a doomer kind of way?)