Thank you Terri Linn for capturing me and Ben's souls @terrilinndavis.bsky.social @beansbaker5.bsky.social
Terri Linn Davis
@terrilinndavis.bsky.social
Virgo (Scorpio rising) | co-EIC @icebreakers_lit | poems & reviews @TBQuarterly @flypaperlit @Dailydrunkmag @Fivesouthlit | @kenyonreview ww '22 | host @TooLitToQuitPod
My best friend is married to Tonic’s drummer, can confirm The Juice is a mystery
HAD@havehashad.com · 11mo ago90s music + earnestness about what you like is a real arrow to my heart, and Emily Costa nails it all here so perfectly "We see many gray ponytails. Do you remember American Pie, Tonic asks. Of course we remember American Pie." https://www.havehashad.com/3qj5r
Open for general subs through September 13th (which is also our dear @terrilinndavis.bsky.social’s bday so give her something good to read)! www.icebreakerslit.com/submissions
would you (yes you) kindly share with me one (1) visual art/artist you are feeling rn? What's inspiring you? A few that I've been obsessed with are... Elena Redmond
what’s the hottest thing a man can do? get a vasectomy
Drop the album you're most embarrassed you once loved here. Judgement free zone. Get it off your chest.
L.P. Hernandez@lphernandez.bsky.social · last yr.Drop the album you're most embarrassed you once loved here. Judgement free zone. Get it off your chest.
It's rare that a book makes me laugh out loud, let alone to accomplish that nearly every page, let alone in a book that's as much about isolation and alcoholism and depression as it is about funny. These have become instant recs for CNF for me.
Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪@neonpajamas.bsky.social · last yr.two ridiculous, absurd, tender, laugh-out-loud slim books by Mike Nagel I finished (and loved) Duplex back in 2022 & I finished (and loved) Culdesac this morning @misternagel.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social
it's "fuck it dawg friday," and also short story month is coming to an end (thankfully it's short story year every year) so here's one last short story. @pitheadchapel.bsky.social is a mag I've been trying to crack from the beginning, so was thrilled when they liked this one enough to run it!
A Series of Sequential Movements
Daniel Miller The man born with a Rubik’s Cube for a head has a headache. I know this because he tells me. We are sitting on my couch and the basketball game is on, but not so loud as to further ca…
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actually when I do it, it's called "Dansplaining" and you have to listen because I'm always right
Aubri (seemingly) reached into my brain, pulled out a bunch of my favorite things, and made an incredible story of them. I would lose it all at the Space Casino.
Aubri Kaufman@aubrirose.bsky.social · last yr.i never post here but maybe i should? idk. idk anything. anyway here’s space casino! maudlinhouse.net/space-casino/
think i might set up a table at "Association of Writers & Writing Programs" conference to sell bead geckos
i never post here but maybe i should? idk. idk anything. anyway here’s space casino! maudlinhouse.net/space-casino/
Space Casino
“Eight of swords.” I can’t tell if the dealer recognizes the unlikelihood of the pull. It keeps happening. Over, and over, and over. Eight of swords, eight of swords, eight of swords. A woman, bound ...
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this is where I'm posting from when I post my little tweets
so so grateful for this review by Yelizaveta P. Renfro in @wirobooks.bsky.social "In the end, it is the fear of what might happen — rather than what actually does happen — that proves the far greater torment."
Washington Independent Review of Books@wirobooks.bsky.social · last yr.This incisive hybrid work plumbs what it means to be afraid. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/h... @wlupress.bsky.social @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social #BookSky
Imma read so many new poems!! Help us raise money for Trans Lifeline!!!
David Rosenthal@davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · last yr.Join us on May 31 for the 2nd installment of #BeardedBardsOfBluesky Listen to live lit. Give to a great cause. Info and zoom registration links here: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com/may-31.html
Flipped through this and went first sentence by first sentence until my mood was met by "Space Cat" by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social.
Filmed a super normal little thing for @filthyloot.bsky.social. Just a super normal little video. Totally normal stuff
Filthy Loot@filthyloot.bsky.social · last yr.@xaviergarcia.bsky.social. He’s the normal one around here.
Working on a piece about how parents talk to their kids about *their own* cannabis use now that it’s more socially accepted. Looking to hear from parents + experts (psychologists, pediatricians, substance use counselors). DMs open or email me if you’re up for chatting!
"She goes to the horror film festival in lieu of her sister, who was ill with morning sickness and suddenly felt, despite years of being an aficionado, that watching horror while pregnant was a form of blasphemy. " So fucking stoked to have @lmanusos.bsky.social back in hex this week! Go check it!
Proscenium by Lyndsie Manusos
She goes to the horror film festival in lieu of her sister, who was ill with morning sickness and suddenly felt, despite years of being an aficionado, that watching horror while pregnant was a form of...
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"It was early, late, lockjaw hour." Back on my bullshit with another Short Story Month pull. Today, I invite you to read Sam Lipsyte's I'm Slavering, a story that greatly influenced me. When I say I like when stories surprise me, this is a perfect example. A wonder. Dig it--
Sam Lipsyte Story
I’m Slavering Everybody wanted everything to be gleaming again, or maybe they just wanted their evening back. Everybody was from everywhere...
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A reminder that I'm keeping general subs for IGs @brokenheartliterary open through May 15th. Send in a photo of a heart break object and up to 50 words: melissafloresandersonwrites.com/broken-heart... And we'll launch our music-themed call on May 16 so start thinking about those, too.
Broken Hearts Gallery Literary
We’ve all been there. Somewhere along your path in life someone or something has broken your heart, and maybe like me, you’ve held onto the detritus left in its wake. If so, this is the…
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sharing this again in case anyone wants their afternoon brimmed with the dulcet tones of my deep voice vacillating between laughter, sincere writing advice, and perhaps more eff bombs than I remember
Michael C.@snakeborn.bsky.social · last yr.Kicking off SHORT STORY MONTH by sharing a favorite from my besties and @hexliterary.bsky.social co-conspirators, @katemcintyre.bsky.social & Joe Aguilar: "The Outpost" in the gone-but-never-forgotten Collagist/Rupture
The Outpost — The Rupture
Joe Aguilar and Kate McIntyre One day, we were rolling dice on the battlement when Merfyn spotted a rider who galloped toward us with such force the valley shook. Our two archers rose rea...
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Okay, it's come out in the @barrelhouse.bsky.social newsletter, so it's official: We're opening for print submissions (fiction, nonfiction, poetry) on May 30 Peruse general submission info here and get ya s#*+ ready, y'all: www.barrelhousemag.com/submission-i...
Submissions — Barrelhouse
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what poem is stuck in my throat?