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Love this piece. The heart. The anger, muted. It's great.

Thanks so much @stevexisxok.bsky.social 💙

We Took Turns Trying to Start the Truck With Our Minds by Jeffrey Herman I closed my eyes and held my fingers to my temples. Nothing. Just the quiet field. The two of us sitting in the truck cab, the summer sun still hot in the evening. She said anyone could do it but n…

"I closed my eyes and held my fingers to my temples. Nothing. Just the quiet field. The two of us sitting in the truck cab, the summer sun still hot in the evening. She said anyone could do it but no one was like her. I’d known that right away."

Thank you @okaydonkeymag.com 🌟

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Thanks @okaydonkeymag.com 💙

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

I love a perfect little poem—so good @ezhang77.bsky.social

“Homesickness begins to creep in. Loneliness. I showed them a picture of my girlfriend and they love her hair. It’s long and blond and she has it pulled back into a ponytail. One of them asks why I came all alone, across space, to this distant place. What have I done, I wonder.”

Thanks @mrbullbull.bsky.social 🪐🌏💜

"As he passes my window I see his face very clearly. Not an animal who desires something he cannot have but an animal who has known love and has lost it. Who has possessed something and must now live without it."

Big hairy thanks to @havehashad.com 🌟

Thanks @havehashad.com 🦍

You gotta read this.

This is wild and amazing.

"I ask what happened to her new job, and she laughs. She tells me that she’s grown tired of luring men into purchasing software licenses and she’s ready to try luring them to their watery doom."

Love this one.

Alysa Liu with her gold medal

"I love struggling actually. It makes me feel alive." -Alysa Liu

Get out there and start falling on your ass!

February 2026 Ten stories picked by Kathryn Reese

This month's #Mondettes picked by
@kathrynreese.bsky.social

⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Kathryn made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing

mondettes.substack.com/p/february-2...

Finally someone with a fresh idea.

You should read these beautiful, eerie little fictions by @happilylenaaa.bsky.social 🌟

Oh, I love these!

Thank you @offbeatlit.bsky.social @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social @dseuss.bsky.social 💙💙💙

One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.

I love this 🐰

If you’re not firmly in the business world, and maybe more specifically the B2B world, you might not understand the agree to which large language models have already become the expected and required tool for many tasks. People don’t have a choice if they want to keep their job jobs.

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Happy happy birthday, Kirsti!

Honored to have a littte something in @thecitronreview.bsky.social -- and thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for boosting 🌟

Thank you for sharing this, @mattkendrick.bsky.social !

Thanks 💙

Warm yourself up with this cozy-yet-thrilling issue of @thecitronreview.bsky.social. Excited to be part of such a great lit mag ⭐️⭐️⭐️