Jane French
@janefrench.bsky.social
Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
Today you get one of my personal heartbreaks. Next week, we return with more of your sad stories. Send in your micros and poems up to 50 words and one photo. brokenheartsliterary.com/2026-heartbr...
2026 Heartbreaks
Nestlings by Melissa Flores Anderson The grasses are drier and flatter than last month, newly plucked and picked to form a bed, a home, a sanctuary. My son peers into the empty nest. Four and three…
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In THE LAST DROPS OF MEXICO CITY, a Long Lead feature produced in collaboration with Magnum Photos, photographer Jérôme Sessini documents the megalopolis’s diminished drinking water supply, fixing his lens on the people impacted most by this arid new reality. Experience it today.
The Last Drops of Mexico City
One of the world’s most populated cities may run out of drinking water in the near future. Scenes from the parched megalopolis show how water scarcity could one day impact cities around the globe.
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I saw this on TV and remember being embarrassed for Ventura.
Gummy Arts@gummyarts.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Nolan Ryan vs Robin Ventura incident took place on this date in 1993.
New microfiction by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social!! We Only Rest in the Storm “Cody asks what it feels like to have a dad that is not around. I shrug and say it’s like having a skinned knee, fine at first and sore after you notice all the damage.” www.claudineliterary.com/sarpsozdinler
Sarp Sozdinler | We Only Rest in the Storm
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It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
We have quite a few cool books, and a good way to introduce yourself to them, or build your Malarkey collection, is with the bag of books: 5 books (selected based on your favorite book), 5 zines, and a tote bag for $50. We just have a few left. malarkeybooks.com/store/bag
bag of books — Malarkey
A tote bag, two zines, and a selection of zines from Malarkey Books.
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Use code SEALEY for $5 off poetry titles. Given that our ebooks are $5 this means you can download the digital versions for free. *Hair Shirt *The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You’re the Last One Around *Thumbsucker *My Ardent Love for the Pencil *Your Favorite Poet *Sophomore Slump
Happy to have a micro in the latest issue of Ghost Parachute! ghostparachute.com/issue/august...
What Wei Boyang Dreamed of When He Invented Gunpowder — Ghost Parachute
I first fell in love with fire when I watched the body of my father burn in the pyre, his flesh transmuting into a fine powder that danced circles in the breeze like a soul set free, so I swallowed my...
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WWPH WRITES 126 is now live ...with news on submission opportunities, including for DMV writers our first-ever WORLDS BEYOND contest...judged by @mynachang.bsky.social Read on at washingtonwriters.org/wwph-writes/ #fantasy #horror #speculative #fiction #poetry @electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Next week, I'm teaching a workshop where we'll delve into character childhoods to see how they affect a character during their grown-up life. Tues 7pm BST or Sat 9am BST Pay-what-you-can and free spots available Video option for anyone who can't attend live www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
What is Learnt in the Cradle: How our childhoods affect our adult selves | MattKendrick.co.uk
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🚨There’s still time to haunt us, but our call for ghost stories closes tomorrow night at midnight pst! 👻⏰
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · last mo.Haunt us! flash-frog.com/submit/
Our beloved contributor aka house favorite Mike Andrelczyk (@mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social) has a new novel out in the world, and this is your chance to purchase one of the remaining signed copies. Pick one up from Malarkey Books: malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...
Submarines, a novel by Mike Andrelczyk — Malarkey
July 2026 Preorders will be signed by the author and shipped out in June/July 2026, accompanied by a bookmark and a bonus micro-chapbook of the author’s poetry. I loved Submarines fo...
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Mike Andrelczyk@mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social · 7d agoThere’s like ~15 signed copies of Submarines left. Grab an ice cold one tonight. malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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How medieval European Christians came to understand what lurks in the forest.
How Christian Europe Learned to Fear the Forest—and the Beasts Within
Europe is not a continent of deserts, but in the early Middle Ages, Europeans began to assimilate biblical notions of the wilderness by applying the same philosophy to a regionally appropriate cont…
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It was full but we just added a few more spots in my Saturday workshop! Snap them up if you’re interested - we always record these so don’t worry if you can’t make it in person.
No Place Like Home: Writing Domestic Fabulism with Amber Sparks
Learn to write domestic fabulism with author Amber Sparks. Transform ordinary home and family stories with fantastical elements in this online seminar.
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There’s like ~15 signed copies of Submarines left. Grab an ice cold one tonight. malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...
Submarines, a novel by Mike Andrelczyk — Malarkey
July 2026 Preorders will be signed by the author and shipped out in June/July 2026, accompanied by a bookmark and a bonus micro-chapbook of the author’s poetry. I loved Submarines fo...
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“Feler previously attempted to file a report with Chicago police but said he was essentially turned away at the station — twice. One station allowed him to file a report for criminal damage to property but later called to inform him they would not pursue the case.”
Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · last wk.Leo Feler said his home was searched without a warrant during a chaotic incident on Oct. 24 that ended with U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents deploying tear gas on his quiet block. “This was just for fun for them," he told reporters Tuesday while announcing the lawsuit.
NEW — What would it look like for Black Chicagoans to rebuild relationships with the South, and use that connection to imagine new futures? Blending memoir with immersive reporting, TRiiBE EIC Tiffany Walden takes a Sankofa trip to Mississippi. thetriibe.com/interactive/...
Out West: In search of my ancestral home • The TRiiBE
A Sankofa journey to my grandmother’s Mississippi birthplace became a search for ancestral memory and led me to Jim Webb’s West Side Builders School where young Black men reclaim that same Southern in...
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"Every poem is a love poem. Every poem is about a deer on the side of the road." Don't miss Casey Garfield's wonderful poems in The Bulb Region. 🔗 ⬇️
another wonderful triptych, today from Pam Avoledo! "Two boys run through the backyard, climbing over the steel fence, their hands on the rusted beam, the clang bruising their knees. The first one inside gets a prize." https://www.havehashad.com/or6gy
Two Boys by Pam Avoledo
Two boys run through the backyard, climbing over the steel fence, their hands on the rusted beam, the clang bruising their knees. The first one inside gets a prize. Two boys run on the sidewalk, near…
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@splitrockreview.bsky.social is accepting submissions through August 1! Send poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, graphic narrative, hybrid work, and visual art that explores “place, environment, and the complex relationship between humans and the natural world.” www.clmp.org/members/open...
Okay I am your book sommelier. Drop $10 ($5 for the zine, $5 for shipping, sorry) on King Ludd’s Rag No. 26, then tell me your favorite poem, book, song, etc., and I’ll pick out a book you might like and include it in your order for free. malarkeybooks.com/store/klr26
KLR 26 — Malarkey
King Ludd’s Rag No. 26 features stories by Kay Vaindal and Eli Sugerman.
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Who's hungry? We are! Submissions are open for Gone Lawn 67. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
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In my essay for @qianawhitted.bsky.social Desegregating Comics, I wrote a little ab Emmett Till as a comics reader. The bed he was in when he was kidnapped was piled with comics and magazines; one of his Chicago neighbors said a bit about his comics reading. He was a kid. He should still be here.
Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2w agoEmmett Till was born right here in Chicago on July 25, 1941. And it is with deep humility and great pride that I signed legislation this week at Roberts Temple to declare his birthday as the Illinois Day of Reflection and Remembrance of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.
