Check out one of our 2026 Fiction Selections, “Year of the Rat” by @kirakh.bsky.social (Cutleaf Journal), selected by Andrew Porter on bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-fiction/year-of-the-rat/ #bestofthenetanthology #fiction #finalist
kira homsher
@kirakh.bsky.social
writer & PhD student in cincinnati / rep: UTA kirahomsher.com
New story up at @therumpus.net! It’s about LA, ikea, and shame, and I would be so happy if you read it! therumpus.net/2026/07/13/t...
The Biggest Ikea in America - The Rumpus
This place wasn’t for us, we didn’t deserve it, we didn’t belong. We had only come to play a temporary game of pretend. I missed our old furniture, how everything was made of wood with real density an...
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The Rumpus@therumpus.net · 3w ago"I wanted to take pictures of my perfectly manicured hands in rooms that were as bright and depthless as commercial backdrops. I wanted beauty and invisibility." From "The Biggest Ikea in America," a new short story by @kirakh.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/ENJmVzn
the lord taketh and taketh away. and then He taketh away some more
Any virtual literary readings/events in the next couple weeks? Asking for a student!
It's such a joy to see this story (originally pub'd in Cutleaf) selected for Best of the Net 2026. Congrats, @kirakh.bsky.social!
kira homsher@kirakh.bsky.social · 4mo agoHonored to be included in this year's Best of the Net anthology! Huge thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @keithlesmeister.bsky.social, and the editors! bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-...
Honored to be included in this year's Best of the Net anthology! Huge thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @keithlesmeister.bsky.social, and the editors! bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-...
Year of the Rat – Best of the Net
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Sundress Publications@sundresspub.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe 2026 Best of the Net Anthology is live! Check out all of this year's award-winning poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art plus our full list of 2026 finalists! https://bestofthenetanthology.com/
You always know you’re in a nice neighborhood when there are lampposts on the sidewalks
Rereading Lorrie Moore, stoned with an achey neck giggling into my pillows, probably the closest thing to a spiritual experience I have had in eons
There's something uncomfortable about reading someone's writing and being immediately hyper-aware of who their influences are
sorry but we desperately need to come up with some new blurb language. I don't want to read a book that "deftly navigates the human experience" what the fuck does that even mean anymore
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Evening House Books
Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.
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Every time I have a medical appointment and have to wear a hospital gown I start pretending I’m a Sally Rooney character like “Her wrists were very slender and white. She trembled slightly and went pale, sitting up very straight.”
The final paragraph from "Why Short Stories Are Essential and Why They Are Seldom Read" by Charles E. May
contacting wedding vendors is just getting email after email from "artsy" millennials saying "ohhh sorry I only actually work with the 1% <3333"
What is the funniest short story you've ever read? (If you recommend your own I will come bonk you over the head with a blunt object)
Seattle is such an unbelievably beautiful city with a spooky eerie atmosphere and it sucks that it’s wasted on a bunch of tech normies
How do I tell my neighbors that they cannot just have a fucking rooster in an urban neighborhood waking everyone up before dawn every morning
Forgot to reactivate my twitter after 30 days so now I'm really stuck here huh