We were feral children—unattended and free, like naughty baby gangsters
We were scarred children—waiting for the belt, like condemned prisoners
We were selfish children—looking out for #1, like pirates dividing treasure
We are alienated adults—like refugees—no more family reunions are planned
It's as if I blasted out a fart and the stink rendered them mute.
“Did you talk to your therapist about this rape?” Sister #1 asks, finally. Coldly. Clinically.
Sister #2 says zilch.
#3 finally weighs in: "Just be careful; memories are tricky. And EMDR isn't an exact science."
Ah, sisterhood.
"Oh, look. Over there. A dog on a shelf," I said to my friend.
She peered across the arroyo. "You mean that black lab on the balcony? The one barking at us?"
I hate it when words fail me. Though I think my version is snappier, don't you?
#brainfart #neologism #malapropism
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Tama Janowitz, Brett Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney were the new media darlings. I wanted that notoriety. Thing is, I wasn’t a coke-snorting, social-climbing club kid. Plus, I actually needed to live first. Decades later, I've lived too much. Ready for my stories?
#emergingwriter #latebloomer
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Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.
I urge everyone reading this to keep your spirits high and to make up your Goddamn mind to be a steel-spined, unrelenting, ultra-resilient, super-charged, motherfucker on wheels.
Toss every thought of, "I can't," out on its ass with such a fierceness that those thoughts wither and die on the vine.
*meat
Set in October 1962, FIVE WEDNESDAYS is an immersive, prismatic look at a woman tip-toeing into an affair weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis. The book explores whether facing our mortality changes our morality—when it’s love and only love that makes us feel most alive.
#LF #HR #HF #2025Pit
🔥 FIX YOU 🔥
🔥 Latina Representation
🔥 Catholic High School
🔥 Enemies to Lovers
🔥 Sapphic Love Triangle
🔥 Slow Burn
🔥 Mental Health Rep
🔥 Passionate Sports Girl
🔥 Serial Killers
🔥 Love Conquers All
🔥 Cooper the Corgi
#2025Pit #YA #agentsguide #litagents
THE MAD HATTER’S PROJECT follows Mary, a Manhattan Project physicist, across alternate realties. Themes of creativity, power, and the ultimate ambition: to imitate the Divine, emerge—exploring the complex relationship between choice, consequence, the universes we create within us.
#2025Pit #LF #A
It'll Cost You: A Contemporary Romance
Comps: Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey, A Not So Meet Cute by Meghan Quinn, 2 Broke Girls TV Show
Natasha has one dream: to take S&N Sweets from side business to storefront bakery. When her sugar daddy leaves her, she’s chef kitchenless, broke, and lands flat on her back underneath her annoying co-worker, Beckett. Rock has met bottom until Beckett makes her an offer she can’t refuse: pretend to be his live-in girlfriend, and she can have full access to his ovens. Another agreement without sweet promises, because no one stays in Nat’s life forever. Beckett doesn’t need a girlfriend to be happy, despite the protests of his friends and family. All he wants is to be promoted from VP of Operations to COO of Carmichael, Lennox & Ross, Corp.. He just needs to survive the acquisition of Sterling Property Group, all while pretending to be someone he’s not. When Nat derails all his plans, he wrestles between being the man he promised someone else he would be, or the happy one he never thought he’d be again.
Snippet from IT'LL COST YOU where Natasha wagers her terms to pretend to be Beckett's girlfriend, stating it'll cost him if he wants her to be sweet and loving.
Mixing sugar with butter? Good.
Mixing business with pleasure? Bad. Terrible. Stupid.
But there's no crying in baking, and the cost to save S&N Sweets? Pretending to be his live-in girlfriend.
#R #A #YouDeservePit #AmEditing
HILL HOUSE x NONE OF THIS IS TRUE
A sentient house can be a bully, but terror is tolerable when an author acquires talent. When it attacks, a stalker threatens, and his sister attempts a rescue, they must confront secrets, their past, & both monsters to survive.
#2025Pit #T #H #A #Spf #LGBTQ
Alt POV
LEAVING LAS VEGAS + THELMA/LOUISE
They launched their own meet-cute love story during the dot-com bubble over dial-up modems. It devolved into a death story. Then ripened into a rebirth story. “Poison attracts poison,” Isla said. But she wasn’t talking about herself or Finn.
#2025PIT #LF #A #CNF
“Why do I see only white faces? Where’s everyone else?”
“Glad you finally think of us as white,” Yīnyǐng said. "You didn’t notice that our teachers, street meet vendors and subway conductors are now bots? Now you're here, too? Lining up to opt out. Funny."
#SF #LF #A #2025PIT #nearfuturefiction
FIVE WEDNESDAYS:
In 1962, two British ex-pats meet on a Seattle commuter ferry and fall in love over a series of Wednesdays. When JFK announces Russian missiles discovered in Cuba, they wrestle with facing the end of the world with their American spouses, or with each other.
#LF #HF #HR #2025Pit
#2025Pit
We Cut Tongues For Ourselves.
Like if Robert Eggers made a film called THE SELKIE.
Set on a mysterious Scottish island at the peak of the Highland Clearances, a young man’s arrival heralds doom for the locals, their beliefs and for the Gaelic girl who falls in love with him.
#A #HF #LF
SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR
Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life.
#A #LF #2025Pit
A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles
A photo that reads: Crowned In Light A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query! This one has it all! - Magical Realism - Slow Burn - Found Family - Gods and Goddesses - Music Heavy - Soul Mates / Past Lives - Strong Female Friendships - Disability/BIPOC representation - DAVID BOWIE?!?!
A photo that reads: The Pitch! It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions. When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world?
A photo that reads: For Fans of: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Maggie Stiefvater Richelle Mead Laurell K Hamilton Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality. Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way. Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory. Playlist: Have I Found My Home by Paden What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin Breathe Me by Sia Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes Silence by Marshmello & Khalid The World We Made by Ruelle Like That by JP Saxe Safe Place by RuthAnne Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt Somebody Loved by The Weepies For You by Angus & Julia Stone Past Life by Morgan St Jean Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last
💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫
NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES
🌹Romance/Romantasy
👨👨👧Polyamory
❤️🔥Slow Burn
👨👨👦👦Found Family
⚖️Gods & Goddesses
🎵Music!
♿Diversity
🏳️🌈LGBTQIA+
💖Soul Mates
✨Magical Realism
Agent's guide included 📖
#2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV
My second story for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine is "As You See The World," a tale of obsession, taking risks, fresh starts and ... how you see the world.
www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/as-you-...
Business man in a suit with the novel title KILLING ASHER STEWART
Three days ago, he was sitting in the kitchen with me.
Yesterday, we spoke on the phone.
Today, he’s dead.
KILLING ASHER STEWART is an interwoven multi POV character driven story of betrayal, redemption, & the power of money.
#A #S #2025pit
#amquerying
Walking in the woods, a spooky house, moonlit night, hooded man, hiker, ghost at the bedside.
A sentient house can be tricky, but night terrors and jump scares are tolerable when a struggling author acquires talent.
When the House attacks, a stalker threatens, and his sister attempts a rescue, they must confront secrets, their dark past, and both monsters to survive
#2025Pit #A #T #H
Alt POV
Is that good or bad? Just joined here, so forgive any etiquette errors
And here I am!
The sun is dying and there was a living being inside the mysterious artifact from Mercury. The first android CEO of the Sol System has to save his citizens, but his enemies and love life make it nearly impossible. Novel working title: ANCESTORS OF EARTH
#2025pit #SF #A
Lizzy, a high school freshman caught between the unraveling of her family and the trauma she carries, is going to die. After jumping from a third story balcony, Lizzy’s life flashes before her eyes as she relives the chain of events that brought her to the brink.
#LF #2025PIT #CON #A #ownvoices
Collage of 5 images overlaid with word KINSHIP: sharp metal nails coming out of a bright red lipsticked mouth, a lesbian couple clasping hands, a bloody white cloth against a pink background, light shining behind a spiderweb with a juicy spider and the shadow of a hand, a man's bare back as he is held by another man.
KINSHIP, 84k, #A #H #T w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan’s reunion with her long lost brother is complicated when he kills his lover. Luckily, Megan’s prepared for this. Subversion of gothic tropes + send up of true crime culture. #2025Pit
Happy to swap. Still learning the rules of the PIT, so bear w/me
Appreciate any boosting you might be feeling
HUSBAND COME HOME
They launched their own meet-cute love story during the dot-com bubble over dial-up modems. It devolved into a death story. Then ripened into a rebirth story. “Poison attracts poison,” Isla said. But she wasn’t talking about herself or Finn.
#2025PIT #FICTION #INUKSUK
“Fight on [...]
I am hurt, but I am not slain;
I'll lay me down and bleed a-while,
And then I'll rise and fight again."
With apologies to Thomas Moore, if we lie down, we may not get up. And, I admit, I am struggling to get up.
#dictatorfatigue #justplainfatigue #andthisishowtheywin #getup
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