Jane Yager
@janewords.bsky.social
Fiction/CNF writer. Winner of Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize. Recent stories in Los Angeles Review, Gooseberry Pie, Coachella Review, Ekphrastic Review. Criticism in TLS, Paris Review Daily. Based in Berlin, originally from California, frequently in Poland.
Happy May Day! Here's the German History Museum's collection for 1. Mai. www.dhm.de/sammlung/uns...
1. Mai – Arbeits-, Kampf- und Feiertag - Deutsches Historisches Museum
1. Mai – Arbeits-, Kampf- und Feiertag - Das Deutsche Historische Museum (DHM), in Berlins historischer Mitte gelegen, macht deutsche Geschichte im europäischen Kontext...
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I am incredibly honored and excited that my story won the Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize judged by Jemimah Wei. Enormous thanks to @fracturedlit.bsky.social, @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and @jemmawei.bsky.social
Problems of Inheritance Law in Fig Country, Chapter 117 | Fractured
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Ghosts are like salt for storytelling. Take any plot in any genre and add a ghost to it to make all the flavors pop!
This essay is so right—all the dads in Bridgerton are dead and part of the fantasy is patriarchy without patriarchs.
Brandy Jensen@brandyjensen.bsky.social · 4mo agoI love when an essay points out something true—and, in retrospect, totally obvious—that I had never noticed before. All the dads in Bridgerton are dead.
Elizabeth is so right on about this song and its homage to "St. James Infirmary Blues" and McTell's "Dying Crapshooter's Blues"
Elizabeth Nelson@paranoiacs.bsky.social · 4mo agoSix scary minutes chronicling a five thousand year continuum of human oppression from the dawn of man to the Mississippi Delta, Bob Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell" is the saddest song written about America's failed promise. This land is our land. This land is condemned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AIR...
This. The dream of the 90s is dead. Cheap rent enables every kind of creative work and nothing else can substitute for it.
Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4mo agoI get bummed out regularly that kids can’t just come in from the country with a few hundred dollars and a dirtbag dream and rent the third or fourth shittiest hole of their lives and make a go of it
EWS is such a treasure for the writing community in Europe - it's amazing what they've accomplished in just a few years. I loved having the chance to participate in the multilingual salon at Lettrétage and am excited for future events.
European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe had some fantastic readers last night, including @aechristie.bsky.social @janewords.bsky.social, @cmichaelis.bsky.social & welcome return of @redfernjon.bsky.social We ❤️ you Berlin. See you next year. Bis bald!
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
Just finished this gorgeous, spooky book on the murder ballad genre by @katyhoran.bsky.social and now I understand that when song lyrics talk about going down to the willow garden, that means murder. Also, I want to read basically everything on the recommended further reading list at the end.
"people are never who I decided they were they are like piles of snow brief, mutable" Love this piece by Sophia Tone in @havehashad.com
Crawdad Update by Sophia Tone
I’d been trying for months to write a poem about Crawdad, a boy my father knew in high school Crawdad had no friends he came to school with mud in his hair smelling like his nickname and t...
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My kids and I attended this AOC event last night in Berlin. She is very charismatic in person! We were sitting next to some paramedics who were there at the venue's behest just in case of an emergency, not out of any interest in AOC, and they loved this bit about not letting ICE agents use bathrooms
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6mo agoREP. @aoc.bsky.social : “It’s important to remember there’s more of us than them — every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice.”
I'm delighted that this odd story about a priest foraging for mushrooms has found a wonderful home on @freeflashfiction.bsky.social! Massive thanks to EIC Ian Rushton for believing in this piece!
Free Flash Fiction@freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 6mo agoCommunion by Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writing #writerslift #microfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comm...
"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6mo agoYou have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign
More accurately: I have told the clergy of the episcopal diocese of New Hampshire that we may be entering into that same witness and I've asked them to get their affairs in order, to make sure they have their wills written..."
Claire Nevin-Field@clairenf.bsky.social · 7mo ago“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
On this shortest day and longest night, I'm so happy to be part of @necessaryfiction.com's wonderful solstice project, which will be featuring new short pieces of wintry writing from now until new year's:
Necessary Fiction@necessaryfiction.com · 8mo agoDay One of our solstice gathering features writing by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social, @travisflatt.bsky.social, @raymondbrunell.bsky.social, @eileentomarchio.bsky.social, @janewords.bsky.social, Talya Byrd, Carol M. Quinn, Tanya Kornilovich, and Joe Kalovac. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...
Love the lingering eeriness of this unsettling Arctic tale by @kplumhoff.bsky.social in Issue 90 of @smokelong.bsky.social:
Good Sign of Future Happiness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Let’s agree that it was an accident, what happened when the tourist interrupted us choosing our king. All 12 of us boys were climbing on each other’s shoulders, turning our forearms into lances, charg...
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We’re all being punished because a bunch of unattractive billionaires are mad they can only buy the faux respect of sycophants, and not real cultural influence.
Hey, I do hate my student loan company with the fire of a thousand suns and coincidentally enough have asked for this very novel for Christmas and am greatly looking forward to reading it!
Some really excellent writing and reporting here on the monstrous absurdity of ICE in New Orleans.
Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
Honored & delighted that my story is on the shortlist for the Elsewhere Prize of the wonderful @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Fractured Lit 2025 Elsewhere Prize Judged by Jemimah Wei Shortlist | Fractured
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Looking for a pièce de résistance for a birthday party or Christmas day? The February 1911 edition of American Homes and Gardens has you covered with Quaint Dessert Dishes like Welshwoman with Cat, banana pigs, and of course the booby bird:
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in *American Homes and Gardens* (1911)
Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.
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me, after that: whew, really learned my lesson this time, will definitely remember a book next time me, next time: wait where is my book
Skittle me timbers 🏳️⚧️@adatedreference.bsky.social · 8mo agome: i should make sure to always have a book with me me, this morning: eh, i dont think ill have time to read today me, sitting and waiting bored: where the FUCK is my book
"...writing a novel is like being lost in the dark woods, and writing a short story is like being set upon by wolves... writing flash is like stepping on fire ants." Erin McGraw, expanding on Flannery O'Connor in @necessaryfiction.com: necessaryfiction.com/interviews/a...
Super excited that my story "La Brea Tar Pits" was nominated for Best Microfiction 2026 -- huge thanks to Gooseberry Pie and Jeff Harvey!
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 9mo agoBest MicroFiction nominees 2026 from @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Jen Wrightsmith Kalliopy Paleos @francinewitte.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social Jane Yager Congratulations to all!♥️ gooseberry-pie.com/category/goo...
Can't stop thinking about number 33 here.
Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 9mo ago33. All the great stories are about loneliness. Because that's the most relatable thing. 34. Only a very small number of friendships are evergreen. But deciduous friendships can still be beautiful, important, and unforgettable. A chestnut tree isn't a broken pine tree; it's just a different thing.
Awesome piece by the Berlin-based writer Jane Yager in the fabulous new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: "I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad let slip that the pits are still active." gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...
La Brea Tar Pits - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Imleedh Ali on Unsplash by Jane Yager I’m the one who wanted to come here, but now I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad le...
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