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Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention.
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My favorite author. Made for this forsaken timeline.
The sheer pride people have in shunning education in any form is staggering. It’s Revenge of the Bros.
Short fiction writers with collections published/forthcoming: Would you share your publisher’s name to help the rest of us find one? Best if they charge no reading fees, but if they do, maybe share what writers get in return? (Quick response, great feedback, high royalties, etc)
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
A new anthology from @datlow.bsky.social published by Simon & Schuster / @sagapressbooks.bsky.social is out today!! Features my short story “We Take Off Our Skin in the Dark” as well as other gems by Clay McLeod Chapman, SGJ, Brian Evenson, Priya Sharma, etc www.simonandschuster.com/books/Night-...
I’ve been waiting on this one! ❤️
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
Love this one.
Wow, do I love the sound of this.
Broken Dolls comes out in exactly four weeks! Pre-orders are appreciated and if you're in the NYC area, I'll be doing a launch at The Twisted Spine with @claymcleod.bsky.social www.harpercollins.com/products/bro...
I would love to live closer to you!
I will never understand why people submit to places they don’t read.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Oh wow. That looks amazing.
Going hard.
I do! Though I always miss the micro pet by like a day! 😆 😭
Finch?
…you mean foreshadowing?????
Delighted to reveal the cover for my forthcoming book from @jacklegpress.bsky.social with huge thanks to amazing editor @fulmerford.com
Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster
🚨BREAKING: Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
My first short story in, like, two years is out today. The only true thing in this story is that I did once see Ron Goldman's dad in a mall.
What a cool cover.
Can’t wait to read it!
This month’s column is up at @nytimes.com! This time around, I talk about Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath, Tim Lebbon’s Secret Lives of the Dead, Lindsay King-Miller’s This Is My Body, and John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Free link! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
That’s an unexpected little miracle of connection, huh? I never get over it.
Rad
💙 🫂
So many plots don’t work now. Covid, cellphones, Google, street cameras—all fundamentally changed the human experience. Not to mention the performance aspect that now accompanies living. We live in a time of indiscriminate knowledge, where every answer is too easy, and laced with manipulation.
Smoke and flannel and fumbling toward something intimate and grand, all tinged with the naive hope that things would perpetually bend toward the better. It was dark and raw and strangely innocent in comparison to the lights-always-on world we have now.
Indeed. I feel this. There is something clean about that period.
I agree with this. The process is the “point.” The love of it is the “point.” The little connections, the moments of being part of something bigger than yourself, and the moments of it being just you holding this fragile egg world of your own ridiculous ideas and loving it and letting it be loved.
Mine is not quite so advanced. 😆
That’s interesting. The thing I love about subversion and stories with children is that it often feels somehow wrong but also inherently delightful, but the child doesn’t know what response is being stimulated. Children often learn about stories through genre and archetype, so it’s a lot of fun.
For sure!
How is it going? 😆
Trying to teach my 8 year-old the inherent entertainment value in subverting expectations of genre in storytelling and fiction.
Indeed. Just out there raw-dogging this awful.
Yes! 🙌🏻
It is. Maybe the best anime ever. The main character is named Eren.
Following you down to the fires of hell just to be your reply guy.
Always glad to see you. Bored or not.
Woot!
Show about a mutilated cabbage solving crime. Call it Slaw and Order.
Very cool. Anything to keep going1
How did I make literary magazine rejections into a game? You can read about it here, with awesome contributions from @electrarhodes.bsky.social, @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social and @aniking.bsky.social and a cameo from @lindzmcleod.bsky.social: tyrtle.com/2025/08/29/s... #WritingCommunity #LitMags
Little life hack for those of you having difficulty going to work amidst all the awful: have you tried drinking/taking drugs/eating cheese, watching funny dog/cat/ferret videos, and not doing that work thing?
This thing is destroying writing because it’s too good and not enough all at once.
Thanks!
That is wonderful.
Really great story. Well deserved. Love the space this one takes up.
My @lascauxreview.bsky.social Prize-winning story! "You used to cook for four, now after the kids have gone to college, and the divorce is finalized, and you and your husband, you keep forgetting to put the ex in front of this yoking title," lascauxreview.com/if-you-didnt...
It is part of the crossroads deal so it’s especially sinful and delicious.
I loved Lilith Fair so much.
Were you aware that my upcoming collection, Pardon Me for Moonwalking, has its own playlist? Check it out at the bottom of its page! (Pre-orders are open now--treat yourself!)
Then the deal is off!
There’s nothing wrong with me some pie and a crossroads deal with a devil to restructure this corrupt, diseased government in exchange for my immortal soul couldn’t fix.
We’ve added more authors to 2026! Pledge to support us so we can all read new fiction by: Clay McLeod Chapman, Kristi DeMeester, AI Jiang, Rachael K. Jones, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Langan, Premee Mohamed, Hailey Piper, Keith Rosson, Nisi Shawl, Molly Tanzer, and Wendy N. Wagner. kck.st/4mIkEm1
I'm not sure how Three-Lobed Burning Eye landed all the most huggable writers, but LOOK AT THAT LIST OF GOOD HUMANS. Now go support the Kickstarter.
I am SHOCKED. Shocked I tell you.
“I’ll have you know flash fiction is thriving,” I whisper in the back of the town hall meeting where everyone is rightfully screaming that everything is going wrong and we are racing toward a second Dark Age at breakneck speed.
Goddamn monster trucks and shit.
When’s the last time you heard a Vice President talk about an investigation this way? You haven’t. Because the DOJ/FBI are supposed to be independent, and a VP using “we” to describe a particular investigation is not supposed to happen.
You always were!
Thank you!
Trying to have a discussion about art and story and the purpose of each is entirely pointless with these people. It’s like trying to explain hibachi to a dog.
I fixed the Cracker Barrel logo if anyone is interested! #illustration #branding
💙 💻 💙!
😆 The odds of that are approximately 3,720 to 1.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see people revere the Star Wars prequels.
But a not insignificant portion of that 13% adore you. 😍
Oh god…what are we even doing?!
A short story of mine first published in the wonderful @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
It’s a calling.
Stunned and mightily honoured that Cold Toast has been selected as Book of the Month by the Republic of Consciousness Prize in partnership with Queen Mary University London!! 🥂 It's winging its way to their subscribers today!
Congrats!
It’s because I made out with a girl there.
I’m partial to Erie for completely nonsensical reasons.
I sort of have that job. 😆
Work a job you do reflexively and you’ll never work a day in your life.
Born for it!
That’s a good one. Think you need a degree.
I would like a job overlooking the ocean and sighing wistfully.
Now, now, Kristina. You’re a peanut butter purist. It’s refined. You don’t sully the vintage with muddy tastes.
What a cool idea.
It’s close to a perfect movie in many ways.
This is going to be one hell of a reading, book launch & zoom party on Tuesday night. Have you registered yet to celebrate @writesloud.bsky.social ? Tinyurl.com/FirstKickingThenNot
Yeah. Likewise I was able to find out that this sword my uncle had that he thought my grandpa made was actually a 400 year-old blade from England.
Got a bunch of emails last night from something called Find Hussies, which, I’m sorry, is an objectively great name.
That is quite the collection.
I was curious. Half my life moving one place or another.
I feel this. 22 for me including the one this summer.
You know, it’s embarrassing how I don’t think about stuff like this sometimes.
This is absolute gold.
Generally-speaking, ducks have never let me down.