unhinged melody
@jrvrhlms.bsky.social
they/them. tummy ache survivor. Alabama MFA ‘13 https://linktr.ee/jriverhelms 📍Houston, TX
Hi friends. If you’re looking for a poetry book to read (for The Sealey Challenge, for any reason), please consider buying my collection, Machines Like Us. This little book of nightmares has been out for 10 years, somehow! (selfie included to draw attention lol) www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p...
attempting the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social this month — reading one book of poetry per day. Day 1’s read:
saw Dashboard Confessional and The Fray last night. the 00s nostalgia. cried multiple times.
ever since i was a little kid i always wanted to type “-ai” at the end of every single fucking google search
Name your top 15 shows ever, gut instincts only: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Parks & Rec Veep Insecure Mare of Easttown The OA Severance Schitt’s Creek The Haunting of Hill House Hacks The Good Place Veronica Mars The Bear The Good Wife Mama’s Family
Name your top 15 shows ever, gut instincts only: Bones Cold Case L&O: SVU Grace & Frankie Golden Girls Designing Women Roseanne Shameless Ugly Betty Schitt's Creek Nurse Jackie Star Trek TNG M*A*S*H Murder, She Wrote Oz
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18
Mean Girls Christmas Show: Lindsay Lohan & Cast
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Without saying your age, what's your favorite movie that came out when you were 18
i’m never quite looking at the green dot lol, but this is a cute photo of me & my love @austho.bsky.social
whenever i wear cargo pants + a short sleeve tee layered over a long sleeve tee, i need it to be known that i am always channeling Josh Hartnett in The Faculty
her love language is aggressive beard nuzzles & putting all the pressure she can muster on my chest
I’m very excited to have two poems in the latest issue of @westchesterreview.bsky.social! Follow the link in their post to check out the issue & also listen to me read my work.
We welcome summer and our seasonal issue here: westchesterreview.com/#/summer-2026/ ...The stories are bittersweet, offering hope and resolution even in the most troubled situations. Sky arches over many of the poems in this issue—at the edges, as a character, as light... #creativewriting
I’m very excited to have two poems in the latest issue of @westchesterreview.bsky.social! Follow the link in their post to check out the issue & also listen to me read my work.
We welcome summer and our seasonal issue here: westchesterreview.com/#/summer-2026/ ...The stories are bittersweet, offering hope and resolution even in the most troubled situations. Sky arches over many of the poems in this issue—at the edges, as a character, as light... #creativewriting
spending pride month as i do every day of my life: gay & gassy
it’s pride month! buy things from queer artists! maybe buy my book for its 10th anniversary! i wrote this very queer, surrealist nightmare of a thing in my 20s & i’m still pretty proud of it. (also it was published under my old name) www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p...
Machines Like Us by J River Helms — Dzanc Books
Machines Like Us is part love story, part dreamscape, part exploration of self. For the characters (Speaker, Boy, and Historian), love is dangerous, disorienting, self-erasing. To understand th...
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