Exactly that. I’m very much looking forward to leaving the industry myself. Sooooooooon.

I mean tech is actively burning to the ground with everyone in the building, so this definitely makes sense to me.

Killer pieces in this months selection by @kplumhoff.bsky.social - so awesome to be included!

April 2026 Ten stories picked by Katherine Plumhoff

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

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

mondettes.substack.com/p/april-2026

Puppy

Read this from messy family, messy feelings one-sentence flash from @aniking.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/puppy/

#FlashInTheFeed

Thank you so much, Christina!

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

I got tired of Substack platforming Nazis, white supremacists, and convicted rapists, so I made a browser extension.

Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link and redirects it to `archive.is`. They never see your traffic. You still get to read the thing tho.

jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-subs...

🫶🫶🫶

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Closing in on TEN DAYS LEFT for this submission period! Polish em up and send them in! Visit our submissions page for details 🖤

Every Galaxy a Circle Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

It's never too late or too early to write a review online for a book you like. Just sayi--whoops I tripped and dropped this link:

🫶 love you, Mom!

Picture of the Advance Readwr Copy title page of Family Night by Ani King

Y’all. 🥹🥹🥹 I absolutely cannot wait for the cover reveal, but in the meantime I’ll be over here rubbing the ARCs on my face and having feelings. Out with @masonjarpress.bsky.social in October!!

Temple in a City literary journal Micro fiction Disco Cinderella by poet and writer Kendra Cardin. Published in Temple in a City literary journal

A little more joy for your day in this Kendra Cardin micro that glitters and soars in the moments between pain.
templeinacity.com/micro-fictio...

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

Mother Needs by Elena Zhang The children were coming, and she needed to be ready. Needed to build skin, layer by layer. Cushions of dermis so thick she could see the strata over time, like a canyon wall clock. She softened wrinkled leather into supple bruised peach peels. Salted her abscission. When they came, they came hungry. Stripped it all away. One bite at a time. Revealed orange sunsets, pink blushes. There was so little of her left, dripping sweetly and alone amongst many. In the end, she was glad. Now they would all see how raw she was underneath.

Happy to have two new prose poems in the latest issue of @theprosepoem.bsky.social! Here’s one:
theprosepoem.com/issue-43-bru...

A breaking update from @timheidecker.bsky.social.

Time for my annual eye appointment, in which I will complain and my dr will “at your age” me for it.

Ooooooohnoooooo

Hotch Potch Literature & Art - Issues Issues: current and past

This new issue of @hotchpotchliterary.bsky.social is gorgeous. Treat yourself to @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social’s incredible story “Doppelgänger,” one of the strangest, most inventive stories I’ve ever read! It may make you want to have sex with yourself… www.hotchpotchliteratureandart.com/issues

“He’s standing there with the ink gun slack in his hand, sexy as ever, even though the color has drained from his face. Do I look that bad? Yeah, probably.”

We almost forgot April is Trash Cat Lit's 2nd birthday! Two years since we were birthed from a bin desperate for treasures. It's been a cracking ride so far, thank you to everyone who submits and supports this wee mag.
We will be mostly eating snacksies today 🦝
Stay Trashy 💜

i'd like to take a moment this 4/20 to say we should exonerate and release everyone in prison on marijuana charges

Puppy

“… & he says all they can do is take take take & he says there’s already nothing left for the rest of us: no unions, no jobs, no land & he says everything they touch turns to beige & …”

@aniking.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/puppy/

We won.

Tesla Chicago is closed.

Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability.

Organizing works.
@teslatakedown.com

A classroom full of women holding up signs with my smiling face and name on them.

Shout out to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for always letting me do my weird shit. ❤️

A contact form reads: Subject: Checking Authenticity Body of message Hi there Beth. I have been contacted by someone who is using the email, [email blacked out], and using you name and one of your novels 'Feast of the Starving Stone: The Chef’s Five' to engage with me as a fellow author - if it is you then great, if it is not, as i suspect, then this is a fake approach. I just wanted to be sure. thanks. [signed name blacked out] You're a real person, right? No, I'm a bot. Please don't include existential questions in a contact form. Yes.

I just found out that an AI scammer is impersonating me in their spam campaign. I am LIVID.

Please, please share this post. Warn people. I’m horrified that someone might be ripped off in my name.

No one is safe from being impersonated like this.

she’s — Blood+Honey by Frances Gapper “watching baby starling that great fluffy lump of entitlement plumped on the feeder’s crossbar waiting to have seedy mush inserted in its beak shoved down its throat hurry up mum...

"woman with a depleted bank account who can’t stop ordering seed and suet balls and pink slabs of seed-studded suet and mealworms and new types of feeder tube or dish or guard." Love this @francesgapper.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/shes