Erin Fitzgerald
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I'm at the mall and this song is bumpin linktr.ee/embfitz
Periodic reminder: Even if no one has updated there in a decade? Unless you’re certain that a person and all of their friends live in places where restaurants don’t ever post their daily specials online, it’s not safe to sloppy blind item them on Facebook
- Say happy birthday to Mr. Featherstone on FB - Wish Tilita a happy work anniversary on LI - Check bank balances - Don’t trip over Roomba - Add egg salad to Instacart order - Reset Ring password - Tap smoke alarm battery test button - Tell Claude to change poem default to most played
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When Your House Has Always Had a General Air Pattern That Ends At a Bookshelf in Your Room and One Morning You Wake Up and Realize Just How Long It’s Been Since Anyone’s Looked, Much Less Cleaned, Behind It A horror memoir
Changing up from "does nothing but read/write" to "reads/writes/other stuff" and just uncovered a litmag stash. If you've been looking for something particular from the 2000s or 2010s, DM me, there's a not zero chance
FYI THE LOTTERY FOR MARCH XMAS (DEC 2026) BEGINS 8/1/26. Last call to enter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Trying to write but distracted by two housemates perpetually in a state of trying to work things out
A not zero number of people in the NYC metro area: Finally the flea market is coming back
Don't forget! Today's the day! You can't go outside and lettuce is trying to kill you, might as well come write with us at 3 pm DM for link!
Focused Writing Session Animation
ALT: Focused Writing Session Animation
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WE'RE BACK!! Write-In today at 3pm (Eastern). Same link as always, DM if you don't have it Let's get some writing done before heading off into a summer weekend! 🏖️😎
Get The Word Out There
ALT: Get The Word Out There
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This has to be a coincidence, I thought when I was reading about the 2023 mystery bestseller MURDER YOUR EMPLOYER at 3am last night. But no, it’s the very same guy, and I am delighted youtu.be/YGAeI5KODLA
RUPERT HOLMES - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) (1980)
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If I were writing a novella about a 20+ day journey of suspended consciousness to whatever lies beyond, RBG would definitely be the antagonist
The story is now available to read online 😊 www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/pea...
Peak Conditions for Delicate Fruits — Epiphany Magazine
He’s not so talkative, but the stars are out: there’s the Milky Way, there’s Venus! Not sure what that is, but it’s fucking beautiful, you say, pointing to the east, your voice ringing out like a bell...
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Chris Gonzalez@livesinpages.bsky.social · 2mo agoThank you so much to @saralippmann.bsky.social, Jeff Bond, and the @epiphanylit.bsky.social team for publishing my story "Peak Conditions for Delicate Fruits" in their newest issue! 🍒🍓🍎🥝🥭🍉🍊🍋🍍🍇🍐
I watched the last ten minutes of the DC whatever that was last night and then had really weird dreams and the transition from one to the other was basically seamless
Fun fact: if you watch “Disney Celebrates America” between 1 and 3pm Eastern, you’ll see a couple elope at the brink of Niagara Falls. The Falls Wedding chapel is run by my dad and his wife!
Sources for character names: 1. Baby name websites 2. Newspapers, magazines, dreams 3. What the DNC has been calling you in their "plz send us $100 lol" texts for the last decade
I’m fairly sure those cucumber peel off face masks are just school glue, but also I don’t really care
Found an old receipt in a book and read a sentence at the bottom. Thought: Huh, what's the origin of that? Reached for the one device left where I hadn't changed the default search. Know what I'd like to do next? Among other things, go to the data center and get that water back personally.
Mood: This picture of 27 year old Bjorn Ulvaeus (later of ABBA, the musical Chess, etc) with his parents in their living room in 1972
Thank you for your service, @judyblume.bsky.social ❤️ www.npr.org/2026/06/20/n...
Judy Blume says she's done writing: '50 years is enough!'
Judy Blume wrote her last book more than a decade ago. At the Santa Fe International Literary Festival, NPR's Scott Simon talked to Blume about her long career and why she doesn't miss writing.
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I am once again imploring literary contests - especially ones with entry fees, but really all of them - to alert everyone before telling winners to announce themselves across social media.
Bernie Sanders on Financial Support
Alt: GIF of Bernie Sanders once again imploring us on a snowy sidewalk in his beige winter coat.
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When you go looking for restaurant specials on that other site, scroll for three seconds, and see someone who is absolutely, 100%, complaining about your submission cover letter
I’ve been posting way too much timely content here lately and I don’t do Insta, so here is Roaster coming clean with me about my latest story draft
The only things I know to yell at soccer games are “stand up” and “take your hands out of your pockets”
