The more I read, the more I've come to find I *really* like a pathetic character. Just give me a pathetic piece of shit to follow around for a while 😅
emily laura costa
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girl on girl (@rejectionlit.bsky.social) // until it feels right (@autofocusbooks.bsky.social) // cnf (@farewelltransmiss.bsky.social) // getting dumber as I get older https://linktr.ee/emilylauracosta
Ice cream. Blood. Visions of destruction. This piece by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social from the Split Lip archives is a microcosm of a girl’s stark reality, with a voice you won’t forget. #archivechallenge @smokelong.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/flash/0923/e...
Banana Split Deluxe — Split Lip Magazine
Two giant men came in and asked for quarts of strawberry. My hands were split from constant washing, from the soaped rag I used to wipe down counters. I opened the freezer.
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Listen to WPKN tonight between 6-7PM to hear an interview with @emilylauracosta.bsky.social and me promoting next week’s CT book launch for Scott Laudati ‘s Rainbow Road! Emily reads from her Dead Mall short story, my fave from her Girl On Girl, and I read Scott’s poem A Garden East Of Eden wpkn.org
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an @emilylauracosta.bsky.social piece I think about often: www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
My First CD: Now That's What I Call Music! (v.1) by Emily Costa
One day at Old Navy in 1998 I was trying on a yellow long-sleeve with a tiny embroidered sun on the chest and my dad said, in front of the whole dressing room, that maybe it was time I should think ab...
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Merc with a 🫦@mercuryal.bsky.social · 3mo agoApril, 1998: Battlefields are now Dancefloors
happy stupid father’s day but only if your dad is dead. otherwise have a bad sunday and god bless
watched brain damage again last night and can’t stop thinking about this!!!
Molly@mollcap.bsky.social · 2y agobrain damage (1988) // i saw the tv glow (2024)
Your summer reading is here. ☀️ WORDS by Miranda Marzano, Audrey Jiggetts, Alexandra Dos Santos, & Nicholas Goodly. ART by Iz Schrader. PLUS A.D. Lauren-Abunassar reviews @summ.bsky.social's THE HUNGERING YEARS. 💛 Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/nhuVTMs
"I will always remember this room with so much fondness." ☎️ Check out Renny Gong's PLEASE CAN WE JUST TALK before it hits the archives! buff.ly/KwnCA4T
had a nice chat with @jrostopovich.bsky.social about sex & violence & some other stuff! open.substack.com/pub/litwoman...
Q&A with Emily Costa
I chat with Emily Costa about her short story collection, “Girl on Girl”
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Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social ( @rejectionlit.bsky.social / @autofocusbooks.bsky.social ) ☣️
Connecticut folks, we're doing a thing! To celebrate the release of Scott Laudati's new poetry collection Rainbow Road, Scott, @emilylauracosta.bsky.social , @terrilinndavis.bsky.social , @zoratheepony.bsky.social , and myself will be reading at Best Video in Hamden on July 3rd. Come on out
Our MAY ISSUE is finally here. 🌼 WORDS by: E.P. Tuazon, Renny Gong, Mary Liza Hartong, & Despy Boutris. ART by: Christopher Dunlap. PLUS: @crsantastic.bsky.social interviews Kate Broad. ✨️ Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/pUBKe7b
I didn’t wake up until 10:30am! I guess living under fascism is exhausting. Anyway, here’s where I’ll be today. With @emilylauracosta.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social
April showers bring: our fresh APRIL ISSUE. 🌼 WORDS by: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen. ART by: Ainaz Alipour. PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social. buff.ly/cyFupU7
Nothing like music analysis to end ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🎶 Senior Assistant Flash Editor Emily Costa’s @emilylauracosta essay on Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” was published in March Xness. Read all about it here ❤️ buff.ly/IeICI1N
I’m really happy and overwhelmed to have won the @marchxness.bsky.social championship. So much respect to @cicilybennion.bsky.social and her incredible, vulnerable essay. I felt connected to so many you in this tournament, both through your essays and interacting with you here. I will miss this ❤️
Fam: we're excited to share these new staff announcements! 🥳 We're so lucky to have this wonderful team! 🫶
there is no sound i welcome more than the chorus of spring peepers….thank you little frogs…you’re doing more than you know
The first thing I've written since I had a baby! Thank you @havehashad.com and @ezhang77.bsky.social!!! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/30-...
30,000 Feet by Lexi Kent-Monning
My playlist for when I’m on an airplane is called “time travel” On it is Brian Eno’s “Here Come the Warm Jets,” then his entire Ambient 1: Music for Airports album, plus one song at the end by Loud...
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I’m assuming this is a non-controversial opinion here, but sometimes, after a long gap since you’ve last listened to it, “Train in Vain” comes on, and you’re just, like, “oh yeah - music - it’s really good.”
Guys, this is gonna be epic. The first time in @marchxness.bsky.social history that two writers who grew up in the single-stoplight town of Mount Horeb, WI go head to head. Whatever happens, the Trollway wins. See you out there tomorrow, sad 90s kids!
Christopher L. Keller@chrislkeller.com · 6mo agoThursday's @marchxness.bsky.social Sweet 16 matchup... Two essays recounting aspects of the same Midwest town by writers who may have burned through — combined — a thousand gallons of gas and Mountain Dew while traversing the backroads & fumbling around to change the CD in the Discman.
proof we @marchxness.bsky.social can't help but be who we are - me & my cousin, back when Hootie was still playing REM covers-- read, listen, vote! marchxness.com/sweet16-bush...
We watered and waited. Now it's ready to share. Our blossoming 🌼 MARCH ISSUE 🌼https://buff.ly/xk6gUgW Love & Thanks to the Contributors! 🥰 WORDS Todd Honeycutt, Carol M. Quinn, @lydia_abedeen, @shannyyy PLUS Jennifer Savran Kelly interviews Jesi Bender ART Scott Radnidge
Two things I keep coming back to in @emilylauracosta.bsky.social's wonderful essay. One: Fear. Makes me think of Victoria Williams' Crazy Mary: "That what you fear the most, could meet you halfway." Two: How many children go missing on any given day? By choice or by force. It's heartbreaking.
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 6mo agoLast day of round 2 🎤😢 LET'S GOOOOO Listen, read, VOTE! marchxness.com#/2ndround-wi...
Last call for "the kids are really the thing about the song, the reason for its cultural and personal impact, but also the reason it is so, so sad." vs "what happens when someone passes through different places, among different people, long enough to be changed." @marchxness.bsky.social
3/16, 2nd Round: (10) Wilco vs (2) Soul Asylum — March Sadness 90s Edition
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Another couple of great essays here by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social & @chrislkeller.com, each doing the classic @marchxness.bsky.social blend of memoir & research & close reading. The songs seem evenly matched too? Tough call, but read if you haven't read. Wilco's up slightly but it's anyone's game!
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 6mo agoLast day of round 2 🎤😢 LET'S GOOOOO Listen, read, VOTE! marchxness.com#/2ndround-wi...