In honour of Dolly Parton, encourage your children to read books. In honour of Tim Curry, encourage them to play near an open storm drain in the rain.
Jessica Dawn
@jessdawn.bsky.social
Writer at night, animal day job, tired in between. Work in Short Story Long, HAD, Rejection Letters, Barren Magazine, Jake, and more. Assistant editor, Short Story Long. Tin House fall ‘25. Lots of dog photos. https://jessdawn.neocities.org/
When you want to spy on the neighbors but also want to take a nap
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"
I love this story / comic and I'm glad y'all can read it today!
Aaron Burch@aaronburch.bsky.social · 2mo agoAfter taking the summer off, we've got a new short story on SSL today. A really great one. A fun one! Out first graphic/comic story!! "Lake of the Gulfs" by Nathan Holic
Got a poem published in one of my dream journals earlier this week, and I’d be really happy if you gave it a read. @rustandmoth.bsky.social 🔗👇
You can get White People on Vacation as an ebook FREE today. You can get ANY ebook in the Malarkey catalog free today! Why? Because some things are more important to us than money, like getting you to read my book!
Malarkey@malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 2mo agoHello friends and happy Friday we are making all our ebooks free today with code FREEFRIDAY malarkeybooks.com/ebooks
Who planned this tour, who did Isaac Brock wrong to deserve SF to Jacksonville to Portland
RIP to the girls showing up to Outside Lands in bikini tops and shorts, welcome to San Francisco
Important update, I just added a guy with a rattail and an ankle monitor to my WIP
It’s that magical time of year when the goats are in the Oakland hills to eat all the flammable plants
i'm not arguing about covid lockdowns in 2026 bitch get a hobby. take up collecting coins. and you better do it now bc they stopped making pennies
It'd mean everything to me if you preorder my book. But definitely pick up some other Malarkey titles. They're all amazing reads 💙💙💙
Malarkey@malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 2mo agoWill’s book comes out in April and it is beautiful. As it’s our first book of strictly flash fiction we are offering a flash sale. Code AFTERLASTCALL gets 50% off anything in our store today only (8/1/26). Great day to preorder Will’s book but the code will also work on all of our other titles!
Looking forward to seeing all my fellow olds watching Modest Mouse at Outside Lands next week, and also do you think they have a nap area for us
Our 1st issue back after break is 🔥. Featuring @mitchkates.bsky.social @ewenglass.bsky.social Ben Starr @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Jason Davidson, Claire Lee, Pravin Vemuri, Lorrie Ness @thaddevassie.bsky.social & @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social! www.trampset.org
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"if anyone accuses you of being a liar, astral-kick the shit out of them, then deny anything happened." @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's "Which Starseed Are You?" www.trampset.org/post/which-s...
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by Sarp Sozdinler...First: remove all the mirrors in your home. Hide them in the crawl space, bury them in your landlord’s garden, shove them in the backseat of a stranger’s car.
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Thank you @bulbregion.bsky.social & @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving a home to this trio of poems about #libraries. This is my 27th year in public libraries. These are three stories I can't forget.
The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 2mo ago"In the library’s parking garage, I found a poem / shaped like a woman / slumped over the front seat of her SUV / with gray hair / shrouding death-dull eyes" Tracie Renee (@tracierenee.bsky.social) is in The Bulb Region today with three vivid, weird, wondrous memories from the library archives. 🔗⬇️
excited to be in @havehashad.com again with a tiny micro about a bar for ghosts. grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social + any of you who read it 💀 🍻 👻 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/whe...
write the book you want to read because you will have to read it over and over and over when revising
A fun part of working in a vet clinic is playing “why is this wet, what liquid is that”
I don’t know why we’re fucking around with stuff like AI when all we want is a cigarette that doesn’t give us cancer
Real sucker move to get rid of so many DVDs because now I’m stuck searching “Run Ronnie Run streaming”
"Robot Lady’s ready to give birth. We know she’s ready to give birth because she’s doubled over, her spider-leg hands clutch her metallic stomach." Don't miss @christinaltudor.bsky.social's new piece in The Bulb Region, which is in dialogue with Cathy Ulrich's inaugural "Baby Things." 🔗↓
I need the corpse paint puppy that came into the shelter at work
