November, Chapter Twenty-Four: Ketamine V: The Center of the Ketamine World, Part One Mick and Sasha moved into Andrew’s bedroom that night.

No! White! Lighters!

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Abolish ICE and the DHS!!!!

sending this to your girl saying ‘you ❤️’…high risk high reward

*the dangers of the poets Matthew and Michael Dickman

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

i'll read any article of any length. i'll read any book. but i will not watch a youtube explainer or monologue that is longer than three minutes. write it down buddy

Anyways…help me reach tier two of small donors so I can keep winning on city council for the people ✨🫡

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I still have not seen clavicular's face or heard their voice and I am begging everyone to stop talking about him

The Seasons, OG influencers

November, Chapter Twenty-Three: Moving Out It was the afternoon and I washing the dishes in the sink.

My Dad was, and is, and absolute MASH-head, and one of the things that fascinated me as a kid was how a main character can just leave partially through a story. This has some of that attempt in novel-form

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they should invent a goodreads where cool small press books get thousands and thousands of reviews and big dumb mainstream books get dozens

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

went to buy a baseball for the kid and this store is selling baseball gloves for four hundred dollars! that’s like two Narrative Magazine necklaces

the US government poisoned bootleg liquor with methanol in 1926-1933, killing around 10,000 people, to dissuade home distilling. a hundred years later, people still claim that home distilling will blind or kill you, and that the US government protects you from this fate. propaganda is amazing

Bad news After 36 years, the garage fridge finally died. Been through a lot together. Outlasted 3 trucks, 2 wives. Went out quiet, like a cowboy. Must've kept 10,000 beers cold. Thinking about giving it a proper funeral

"Must've kept 10,000 beers cold"

Prosperity Council Survey Reponses_2026_03_25

Tina Kotek’s Oregon taxpayer-funded Prosperity Council is comprised of mostly business owners.

The results of their latest 1k+ respondent survey:

• 43% represent “Businesses”

• 41% represent themselves, but are “founders”, “developers”, “employers”, etc…

They think taxes are bad for business… 👇🏾

"You have [X] amount of data left" Okay?? What do you want me to with that information? Like, leave me out of your kink fr

WOW.

I got one from Bill Watterson and it actually hurt my feelings

November, Chapter Twenty-Two: The Second Fight, Part Two We heard the toilet flush, and heavy footsteps came down the hall.

This week I sent out two scenes, a climatic one between two characters and then the aftermath. This scene is difficult for me to re-read a edit, but I think captures the messiness of these kinds of confrontations.

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I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways

November, Chapter Twenty-Two: The Second Fight, Part One There was a knock on my bedroom door.

This is a pretty fun opening to a pretty difficult chapter. It might be the last fun thing that happens in the book.

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Farley Rd. Wendell, MA

it’s true that overall likes are way down on bluesky over the past year. however, if you look closely at the data, that’s mostly an anomaly resulting from the fact that your posts specifically have gotten worse and are dragging the vibe down.

Portland officials have been using this monumental code name to discuss Trail Blazers arena project The name reflects the scale and significance of the Moda Center to Portland, a city spokesperson said, as officials work to finalize public funding.

Changing the name of my staff meeting to Project Oversight

“Top city officials have held a weekly “Project Mt. Hood” meeting since at least early November focused on a taxpayer funded renovation of the Moda Center, currently estimated at $600 million, according to a review of public calendars.”

Or abolished!!!!

Todd Dillard “Will-o’-the-Wisps” The children are turning into deer again. I hear soft cries from their beds. Their voices trickling down long tongues. I pick them up and carry them downstairs. Their limbs lengthen, their hair drifts away like Christmas tinsel. They cry and tell me about aches cracking bones, the itch and burn of their erupting pelts. I unbutton their pajamas and they slip out of them onto all fours, their fists folding into cloven hooves, their eyes vast and still as summer camp lakes. I speak to them in the sing-song voice I use for wild animals. I tell them they will be OK, and I slide open the glass door. On stilt legs, my deer children cross the threshold and bound into the dark. The flames of their white tails winking. The night flicking its panther tail.

Writing prompt: “The children are turning into deer again.” How great is that opening line? I love it so much. Your prompt this week is to borrow this template and mad-lib your own word choices. Use the line “The ____ are turning into ____ again.” Pick your nouns, objects, animals, people, etc. See where such a decision takes you. What happens when cars turn into trees, when birds turn into serpents, when the elderly turn into stone? Like Dillard, never stray from the surreal, never let your narrator grow concerned, never over-explain. Act as if this transformation is perfectly normal. After all, looking at the first line’s masterful use of the word “again”, this isn’t the first time such a thing has happened, right?

ICYMI I have a previously unpublished poem that came out with @neonpajamas.bsky.social’s Sunday Prompt series!! Check it out!!