From "Note on Two Napkins," published in Wigleaf, 2016.
R. Gatwood
@iwantanewhead.bsky.social
R. Gatwood (iwantanewhead.wordpress.com) is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system. Short fiction in 3:AM Magazine, Apex Magazine, and elsewhere.
"The old pop song says it’s in his kiss, but of course that’s nonsense. The only way to know if your man’s love is true is to cut out his heart and eat it, still beating, by the light of the full moon."
![[tweet from Nanoism] Call me Victor. I don't deserve the name of Frankenstein. My creature, my son—let him take that from me. I have given him nothing else.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreicnfirftgrm4pqe2oieog2cplzhuypcfrknzcpjvepifxcbmpvcwi)
It's summertime, and most of my English students are on vacation. But less students means more time. And I'd like to invest that time in critiquing and coaching. So if you need some affordable help, please reach out. There are some great testimonials on my website. www.kaidelmas.com/editing-serv...
From "Note on Two Napkins," published in Wigleaf, 2016.
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Neo-Twiny Jam 2026
A game jam from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-01 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. Create a tiny Interactive Fiction piece in 500 words or less! This returning jam is a commemoration of Porpentine's Twiny Jam , where creators were li...
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![class. This lack of credentials didn't give him any qualms, he warned us and we soon learned frsthand, about imposing his exacting standards of writing on the students who had fallen into his care. He had strong opinions on syntax, grammar, and sentence- and paragraph- and scene-level flow; also, of course, on breathless polysyndeton,
fragmentation and nonlinearity as achieved by footnotes and endnotes and parenthetical asides, and strategically deployed erudition; et a whole lot of cetera. My attempts to mimic Dan's favillating 141 prose
earned me furious green strikethroughs and once, in the margin, "Knock it off?" Another time:
"Stop being CLEVER!" -something he must have told himself when he was fighting his own outsized brain.
[15]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreicnely4wmaojepyosmhbui3xuoatelgd2y7a2kusgohlfdy4k2hgu)
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![[tweet from Nanoism] Instantly he adds, "Forget I said that," and endures a moment of agonizing hope until she says,
"Okay."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreidf2ysdned3alhuzan4qhfhfqcznfndg63jswc53ig5yckjhv7s64)
![[Tweet from the Drabblecast] He feels no urge to howl, only to dither and doubt and qualify everything he says. Oh the horror: he's an as-it-were wolf. #twabble](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreigob6wrlntq42flymqdwuze2mh5ij6pdv4dzhyehgs2aosrl3wqgm)
![[tweet from Cuento Magazine] No affair, no break-up. Fair enough. #sixwordstories [Twitter handle: iwantanewhead]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreidfphzm3sybx2u5rjxrxms65yiucvfmvvidkgibkvlahuodxnelf4)
Still can’t believe I’m in this, along with some of my favorite flash fiction friends, including @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & @claudiamonpere.bsky.social 💕 Catching a plane today, & so excited to have this read on my travels 🤗 TYSM to @altcurrent.bsky.social & @southeastreview.bsky.social🙏
A writer friend called this story "great writing and also bonkers." Feel like it might appeal to folks who've soured on Wallace or never understood his popularity?
David Foster Wallace fans (and perhaps foes)! In anticipation of the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest, why not give this story a read? www.3ammagazine.com/3am/praeludi...
Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Daniel W. Foster – 3:AM Magazine
My whole life I’ve been a fraud. I have come to accept this with the help of writer Daniel W. Foster and violinist Friedrich “Fritz” Kreisler, the latter of whom (in 1905, hoping to draw attention to ...
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David Foster Wallace fans (and perhaps foes)! In anticipation of the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest, why not give this story a read? www.3ammagazine.com/3am/praeludi...
Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Daniel W. Foster – 3:AM Magazine
My whole life I’ve been a fraud. I have come to accept this with the help of writer Daniel W. Foster and violinist Friedrich “Fritz” Kreisler, the latter of whom (in 1905, hoping to draw attention to ...
3ammagazine.com
![[tweet from Seven by Twenty] Smooth, perfect snow. Urge to piss. // @iwantanewhead](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreiefmkjkc3uoieqnvu5j4n7yjd43kfnxfhgsk5vqfxkbaeyeqiyd3m)
![[tweet from Nanoism]
I never miss her. But sometimes I miss the man she thought I was.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreicj36ktuzyrhfdpvpzkhip3lkk5tch3fctqhmz3zhoyjtbgqgbufe)
Made the CRAFT 2025 Novelette Print Prize longlist. www.craftliterary.com/craft-novele...
CRAFT Novelette Print Prize 2025 - CRAFT
CRAFT 2025 Novelette Print Prize January 15, 2025 – March 16, 2025 Awarding $3,000 + Print Publication Thank you to all the writers who sent work to our 2025 Novelette Print Prize, guest judged by ’Pe...
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"Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Daniel W. Foster," in 3:AM Magazine. My David Foster Wallace story, replete with footnotes. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/praeludi...
Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Daniel W. Foster – 3:AM Magazine
My whole life I’ve been a fraud. I have come to accept this with the help of writer Daniel W. Foster and violinist Friedrich “Fritz” Kreisler, the latter of whom (in 1905, hoping to draw attention to ...
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End-of-year wrap-up thread. Two stories published, a few mentions of note.
![[tweet by R. Gatwood] I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus so I blackmailed them for more presents.
#vss](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreihydkm6gahj7ef6h4zxdb3l6ijjvcyb4fpouodu6x5hwzltft2eem)
To those who celebrate, hope your Christmases are merrier than the ones in this microfiction.
![[tweet from Nanoism] Christmas Eve was the night Santa didn't come. I mean, he didn't come every night, but Christmas Eve was the night it mattered.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpd7ehn5yiszxeosv6o4b3cc/bafkreid3hzx3dqiedckklnl5fusto426m2td6jybbn6acex2no7x2lufly)
To those who celebrate, hope your Christmases are merrier than the ones in this microfiction.