Horrific though unsurprising report from @propublica.org: Ectopic pregnancy deaths have basically doubled since the end of Roe

Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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Love this piece! Definitely stop and take a minute to read this one! "Jason Voorhees was never happy. Or maybe he was happy, briefly, when he was a kid. Before he drowned and all of this started."

Chris Scott@iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 3d ago

New words from me (Chris) at the wonderful @dishsoapquart.bsky.social: dishsoap-quarterly.com/9-8-26

Train Dreams By Stevie Nicks

If I saw a spiderweb that said “some pig,” I wouldn’t think the pig was special. I’d think he was just some pig. And that just shows you how sick and twisted our culture has become since 1952.

My friends’ kid calls me Uncle Goey, which they try to correct, and while I am supportive of her language development, I really really don’t want her to stop

gonna pull a John Henry and challenge Claude to a guitar playing contest. It’ll do some shit like soullessly replicate the Freebird solo, and it’ll probably win, b/c I’ll be in the corner doing that nasty bluegrass riff I learned once over and over until I get bored of it

Just thought of a really good book title: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Guy. Not sure what it's about yet. Don't steal it pls.

A cell phone that is powered by those little light sensitive strips they put on calculators. Don’t steal my idea. I’m cooking here.

New story with STP now free to read! It’s another weird one 👽

Seize The Press Magazine@seizethepress.bsky.social · last wk.

Kay Vaindal is back in STP with An American Execution. A woman travels to witness the resurrection-execution of one of the 9/11 hijackers with the daughter of her abducted neighbour and her boyfriend who claims to be an emissary from another universe. Dark and wacky in pure Vaindal-esque fashion.

posting a snippet of a wendell berry poem I like on instagram to honor him and thinking fondly about how much he'd hate that

It’s Live on Malarkey Public Radio!!! Hear me and @joshuatrentbrown.com discuss his novel The Walls Are Closing in On Us, among other things, and enjoy the dulcet sounds of two Southerners chewing the fat. malarkeybooks.com/malarkeypubl...

Season 2, Episode 2: As Long As a Dog's Tail — Malarkey

In which LJ Pemberton speaks with Joshua Trent Brown about his new novel, The Walls Are Closing in On Us , genealogy as inspiration, how to write a novel if you’ve only ever written short fiction, th...

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Trent Brown@joshuatrentbrown.com · 3w ago

How Y’ALL DOIN

Very worthwhile checking out Ivy's latest blogpost about indie publishing.

Ivy Grimes@ivygrimes.bsky.social · 3w ago

In this episode of Dear Ivy, I was asked a great question by @coffinesque.bsky.social: "I pine for some of the indie music fandom in indie publishing...Do you think there’s anything writers can be doing to foster that feeling in the reading community?"

It’s the plot of Yesterday, but instead of the Beatles, nobody knows about Abbott and Costello and I’m frantically trying to remember how who’s on first goes.

Soup is fun because you can just put anything in your fridge in some broth and it’s done

My Lyft driver is about to take me on a journey!

I have a little 6 sentence story today about scientists and townies in the great new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. Read it here 💣☀️

The Big Bang - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

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Preorders make everything possible, especially paying for the covers and printing copies. malarkeybooks.com/store/inacce...

The Inaccessible Rail, by Roger Vaillancourt — Malarkey

Publishing in October 2026. Preorder for a signed copy. The Inaccessible Rail , a novel by Roger Vaillancourt, is a set of complete thoughts that aspires to render a pointillist portrait of this new...

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There’s one book that pairs with none of these, and that’s Don Bronco’s (Working Title) Shell by @dryan.bsky.social. Which is all the more reason you must buy and read it!!

Joey Hedger@joeyhedger.bsky.social · last mo.

Obvious next step: If you downloaded one of these books, now go buy Kill Radio, Backmask, Still Alive, Boxcutters, Terrestrial, Man in a Cage, and/or the Muu-Antiques. They pair really really well with this list right here. Trust me.

Obvious next step: If you downloaded one of these books, now go buy Kill Radio, Backmask, Still Alive, Boxcutters, Terrestrial, Man in a Cage, and/or the Muu-Antiques. They pair really really well with this list right here. Trust me.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks.bsky.social · last mo.

Results from last week’s Free Friday: 54 people downloaded a total of 346 books and/or zines, with the most popular titles being The Barre Incidents, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Gloria Patri, and I Blame Myself But Also You. Thank you and happy reading!

With the exception of preorders, we are all caught up on orders, which is a relief but also terrifying because orders keep us alive. Anyway order books and zines at malarkeybooks dot com that’s malarkeybooks.com

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"When I try to plan ahead or tackle the concept of something intellectually before I write it, those are almost always the projects I abandon. I try to embrace the long periods of writing droughts as necessary to the eventual and inevitable flood of ideas and stories." -@anniejowrites.bsky.social

Interview with Anna Vangala Jones

Turmeric & Sugar, editing, the inevitable flood of ideas

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They should invent a job that doesn’t involve AI

Friends—my CNF piece A Circus of Songs has been nominated for The Best of the Net. A sincerest thank you to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for publishing this personal narration & for also showing love to it with such a nomination: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/.... Opening lines below:

AI users apparently don't want a watermark reminding them that Claude is just a brand/company product. They prefer to think of Claude as a French dude smoking cigarettes and philosophizing about the meaning of life, making little paintings in his Paris apartment and wrongly solving math problems.

Hey, you should order the Beltway anthology from @nightginkgopress.bsky.social!! It’s chock full of stories, essays, and poems by DC area writers, including myself! So grateful to exist on these pages! nightginkgo.com/product/belt...

Beltway: An Anthology of Writers from the Washington, D.C. Metro Area

This anthology is a collection of stories, poems, and essays, that showcases the immense literary talent in the Washington, DC area.

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Hot take: my tummy hurts because I ate way too much homemade focaccia

Joey Hedger@joeyhedger.bsky.social · last mo.

Your most controversial bread opinion, go! I'm making homemade focaccia today. If you throw shade at focaccia, we're gonna have problems.

I’ve edited and proofed all of these books, did the layout on all but two, pretty proud of all of them and want everyone to be able to read them.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks.bsky.social · last mo.

Hello friends and happy Friday we are making all our ebooks free today with code FREEFRIDAY malarkeybooks.com/ebooks

Your most controversial bread opinion, go! I'm making homemade focaccia today. If you throw shade at focaccia, we're gonna have problems.