Melissa Ostrom
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Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
NEW: Capital One closed hundreds of Trump accounts for money laundering. We wouldn’t have known if Trump hadn’t sued. Now he’s got tax immunity. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-capita...
NEW: Capital One Closed Hundreds of Trump Bank Accounts for Anti-Money Laundering Reasons
"A bottled water company, a winery, a golf course, a construction payroll firm, and a real estate brokerage, and hundreds of other businesses" were debanked. Trump claims it was for political reasons.
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"But it’s either now or nowhere" - @saralippmann.bsky.social steering us home
Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can
At 5 AM and it’s me and the birds. This is how I like it: when the house is asleep. Outside, the slow rumble of a sanitation truck. A lone scooter screams down the block. Sometimes a helicopt…
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Over the moon to have a piece in the new issue of @centaurlit.bsky.social !! Thank you, @lynnmundell.bsky.social !! centaurlit.com/i-have-a-pic...
I Have a Picture of My Mother at Fifteen in a Pink Dress, Hands Clasped, Standing Outside a Place Called Mom’s Luncheonette by Georgia Bellas | Centaur
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Opened the book mail today & went straight to the piece I was telling my wife about. I wanted her to read it. No, I wanted to read it to her, the way I heard @pdforan.bsky.social read it not long ago. So I did. And I cried the same way I did when Pat read it to us. This is a beautiful collection.
“I’ve tried for years to forget them…” Oh, wow, this powerful one by @sfreligh.bsky.social!❤️💔
Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social · 4d agoRead "Jumpers" written by @sfreligh.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "I’ve tried for years to forget them, tried not to imagine how it was to step away from those fingers of fire into the cool air of a September morning." tinyurl.com/yrx38wuy
“…to examine all the tender spots of being alive.” This wonderful interview with @sabrinahicks.bsky.social! 💙📚
Sabrina Hicks@sabrinahicks.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Auraist was kind enough to interview me about my debut collection, “Coyote Girl,” which they chose as Best Book of the Month. If you want to read about how much I hate AI or some of my stylistic choices, then read below! open.substack.com/pub/auraist/...
“I am stalked by the silliness of smiles…” This poignant beauty by @catherineobrien.bsky.social in @soflopojo.bsky.social!💙
Catherine O'Brien@catherineobrien.bsky.social · 4d agoMy flash 'Clapping with Ghosts' appears in @soflopojo.bsky.social latest issue alongside some very talented writers. My thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social editor for giving this piece a great home! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-42-aug...
Pulled plates from the kiln this week. Here’s a wee one in chambray and pink shadow I decided to keep. Perfect size for this slice of peach pie. Happy Friday, friends, and happy peach season. #pottery🍑🩵
One of my visual art pieces, “2 orange threads” is featured in the latest issue of Trailer Park Quarterly: 9” x 12” collage on canvas (includes vintage book pages and magazine and catalog scraps plus an instruction manual from a recently purchased frying pan.)
Volume 17 | Trailer Park Quarterly
Nina Padolf Uniforms & Promotions from E4 to E5 Sergeant Status Tony Gloeggler BARBARA’S Agnes Vojta Near Miss Kevin LeMaster Lineman James Benger That’sHow They Get You CL Bledsoe Elegy for Dad Rick…
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I was lucky to have a sneak peek of an earlier version of this story years ago - @april-bradley.bsky.social in Cleaver. It is amazing. www.cleavermagazine.com/the-promise-...
April Bradley: The Promise of Impossible Things • Cleaver Magazine
April Bradley is a Durham, North Carolina-based writer and therapist. Her writing appears in CRAFT Literary, Gone Lawn, and more.
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In an essay, poet John Haines, who went off grid to homestead in the Alaskan wilderness and wrote poems about it, inverted the phrase "sense of place" to "place of sense" for those places that flood the senses and live in us. Reading these gems, I am reminded of that and of my own place of sense.
Thank you so much Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social for including my story in this month's #mondettes. Thank you, @mattkendrick.bsky.social 🙏 mondettes.substack.com/p/july-2026?...
July 2026
Ten stories picked by Laura Black at Fictive Dream
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We publish short stories, including translations, of up to 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online (including your own blog and social media). We offer th…
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@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social is open for submissions: Artwork for our cover and/or to accompany published pieces of fiction. Fiction with 6 sentences and no more than 400 words. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/
Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Submissions Submission Guidelines Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes fiction with exactly six-sentences and no more than 400 words. Title does not count as one of the six sentences or towards the w...
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“…the warmth makes you feel alive.” This wonderful gem by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @havehashad.com! 🔥
Anna Vangala Jones@anniejowrites.bsky.social · last wk.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...
Thanks to assistant poetry editor @rkalagayanpoet.bsky.social for this interview w/ hybrid writer Beth Gilstrap: <I could not fathom working on a long project. Or even a traditional short story. But I could get 500 words down most of the time & I kept going>. south85journal.com/2026/07/fiel...
Some poems are mantras, I have been reading this poem all day as needed. “new moon rules” by @ellecantwell.bsky.social may even sing me to sleep tonight. Read it in the 98th edition. Here. 👇 www.roifaineantpress.com/post/anthem-...
Hey, I’ve got a skull. Thanks to @havehashad.com for giving it a home.
HAD@havehashad.com · last wk.another wonderful triptych, today from Pam Avoledo! "Two boys run through the backyard, climbing over the steel fence, their hands on the rusted beam, the clang bruising their knees. The first one inside gets a prize." https://www.havehashad.com/or6gy
“His theme was fall, you might say.” Love this gem by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social! 🔥
matchbook literary magazine@matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · last wk.new story day!! “C’est Une Pipe” by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social is out now on mb! have a read: www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/bidar/ces...
If you were there last night, you already know this: @pdforan.bsky.social is a gift to his fellow writers. A book launch & reading that still has me a bit wrecked this morning. Buy Pat's book. I cannot say this strongly enough. Get your hands on a copy of SONGS FROM THE BLIMP RUINS.
Brilliant, playful, surreal & heartbreaking. @pdforan.bsky.social Breathtaking in its originality. Inventive titles-- "Your Heart in a Thimble and on its Way to the Thinnest Home in the World"-- and astonishing stories.
