Stop what you're doing and read this right now

Brown Hound Press@brownhoundpress.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have you read our Story of the Week yet? #weekendreads Pearl Reagler tells stories about rejects of American Southern culture–stories about addicts, taxidermists, queer cowboys, cult members, and anyone else who lives life on the fringes. www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/pear...

Good story alert!

Wigleaf@wigleaf.bsky.social · 7d ago

new new: FIRST OF SEASON! Cameron MacKenzie's brilliant "The Tilted World": wigleaf.com

Planning on opening up Short Story, Long submissions mid-October. (Probably the 15th? But maybe a skosh earlier. And then they'll stay open thru the end of the year.) If you’ve got a killer 3k–8k word story, get ‘er ready! (I'll also be in need of a couple submission readers; hmu if interested!)

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Longer short stories, published biweekly. Click to read Short Story, Long, by Aaron Burch, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Sorry ma'am, It's nintendo time

It was solid, a pretty quick read. Genuinely unsettling and hard to put down. I feel like the movie is going to be very, very different, but I'm more interested in seeing how

“Middlebrow” is the perfect level of brow for a movie to be. if you want smarter read a book if you want dumber read some posts

As long as I'm thinking about book covers, an anecdote: When we talked cover concepts for APPLESEED, I totally straightfaced told my editor that I wanted to spoof the TWILIGHT cover, but with furred, clawed faun hands clutching the apple instead. I cannot tell you how long we stared at each other...

Sure whatever man I don't care anymore

This is a really good time for jokesters to make a bunch of videos of themselves promoting & endorsing a bunch of weird and evil stuff and then say Meta did it when they get yelled at

i would hunt the new meta ai mascot with a crossbow

i don't want to see chat gpt make you a mascot. i don't want to see you at all. i want to see fire emblem fortune's weave on my nintendo switch 2

Thinking about the time I bought a donkey kong barrel sized jug of metamucil and texted all my friends that I was "the jewish fiber demon"

Dungeon Tucker Carlson

Please Lord at least one more 70+ sunny day so I can make ten more tie dye shirts before i succumb to seasonal depression

i’m ready to kms just so i can stop hearing about this shit fr

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 6d ago

BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".

Steve Zahn is always my favorite character in every movie he's in

We're doing a spooooooky book club for October!

They even made DoorDash apologize.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

I will not stop writing fiction stories until all global financial markets are obliterated

The real risk of AI destroying the world is through some bullshit like this honestly

Doing this the next time my girlfriend gets mad at me for coming home with too many books

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

The Bugs "WHAT AM I DOING" activated me like a sleeper agent

Jacob Geller@jacobgeller.com · 2w ago

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

i have a little flash fiction story in the new issue of prairie schooner! or, to put it another way: sandra cisneros and i have work in the same magazine!?!?!

Prairie Schooner@prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our Fall 2026 issue is now available! In this issue, we're excited to share a portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir edited by Joy Castro. See the full table of contents, read excerpts, and order now: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/fall-2...

YOUR FRIEND WHO LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK: Yeah I just saw Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 70mm,

Now that everyone has turned on Ed Sheeran I finally feel comfortable saying this: you shouldn’t be allowed to get a bunch of tattoos if you’re a musician who makes wuss music

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Underrated part of the Sydney Sweeney gambling ad is she reassures us the app can't be used to bet on wars, the concept no one had heard of like three years ago