i don't get here much😅 was happy to make it into the flood this summer... flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...
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Mollie McLean
@pennypriddy.bsky.social
writer. cat herder. music hoarder. writing featured in Pithead Chapel, The Disappointed Housewife, Barren Magazine
This CNF by @pennypriddy.bsky.social from @pitheadchapel.bsky.social archives is the kind of brilliance I expect and adore from Mollie-- poetic, repeated images spilling like stream-of-conscious, a voice raw & deep speaking straight to our hearts #archivechallenge pitheadchapel.com/pulling-muss...
Pulling Mussels from A Shell
Mollie McLean I gave my baby away and God gave me a Walkman. A year before she was born all I wanted was a band, a boyfriend, a day at the beach. She came to be at the beach. All thin…
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so excited to get to welcome Chelsea Stickle back under the skulls, with this total banger "Christmas was coming and we were worried about the zebras out in the cold. The news updated us: one died in a snare trap and two were returned home." https://www.havehashad.com/hes5d
It All Happened Before Me by Chelsea Stickle
This all started when those loose zebras were frolicking across suburban Maryland. It was summer, and it seemed they might live out there for the rest of their lives. We imagined them dodging those…
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The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open!@offbeatlit.bsky.social · last yr.Just got here. Hi! Please pop by over at The Disappointed Housewife, where you'll find wonderfully offbeat #fiction, #poetry, and #essays, along with a great community of #writers with a special take on things. thedisappointedhousewife.com
i have a new piece up at barren magazine today. happy new year, mes amies🙂
Seven of Cups
Barren Magazine - Seven of Cups -
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hny. here’s to finding peace amongst the chaos.
Camera Obscura - New Year's Resolution (4AD Session)
YouTube video by 4AD
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i was surprised and thrilled to be a finalist in this @smokelong.bsky.social competition. congratulations to the 2025 smokelong fellows!
The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellows 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
For over a decade SmokeLong has supported emerging writers, first through The Kathy Fish Fellowship, later renamed The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship. As we have grown, we’ve decided t...
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is this anyone else’s childhood christmas?
Andy Williams - O Holy Night
YouTube video by Oskariilmen
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read this gorgeous gut punch from ani, on @mooncityreview.bsky.social today: And by hated, I mean he was the kind of person who treated high school like a movie, shoving queers like me into lockers or tripping us down the stairs
Ani King (they/them)@aniking.bsky.social · 2y agoThrilled to have a new CNF piece up at @moonparkreview.bsky.social today, and I really love the art they created for it: moonparkreview.com/issue-30-win...
🚨UK People🚨 1/7 Your government is proposing a HUGE change to copyright law, where they give away YOUR works to Tech companies to profit from for FREE! A disgusting overreach that will cause irreparable harm to ALL creatives and beyond .You have one chance to stop it, read how below👇
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 2y agoToday, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10
i have an essay up at the disappointed housewife today.
All the Colors of Red ~ creative nonfiction by Mollie McLean
There are reasons for recurring dreams, he says. My therapist. He holds the keys to the inside of my head, but he won’t use them. He expects me to manage this alone, with the butter knife I use as …
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SmokeLong Fitness. Come for the writing; stay for the miniature mountain goats. (Sign up before Nov 30th for December start.)
SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 2y agoIt’s not a cult. But if it were a cult, it’d be one of the nice, harmless, mildly eccentric ones where people just make art and raise miniature goats as pets and help each other become better writers and sing a lot of karaoke in a quiet mountain community somewhere. www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...
inside the vast spaces between last breaths/the connection i feel to a swirl of butterflies alighting on the flower bed i just watered/ in reading of a wrongly convicted death row inmate’s stay of execution/ the cold fact of the sunrise
ONLY POEMS@onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat are your “places”? :)
the energy i’m bringing into 2025
a man in a gray cardigan is standing in front of a green background and laughing .
ALT: a man in a gray cardigan is standing in front of a green background and laughing .
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Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 2y agoThe energy I’m bringing into 2025
the beauty, the slow build of this one by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social like the tide coming in❤️
Wigleaf@wigleaf.bsky.social · 2y agoNew on our mainpage: “Let’s Go Holoholo,” by Melissa Llanes Brownlee: wigleaf.com
i made the long list☺️ congratulations to all!
SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 2y agoWe couldn't be more thrilled to share our long list for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Congratulations to the writers of these 42 micros--out of 1,170. You are all stars. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
ten shows to get to know me: monty python’s flying circus night flight don kirshner's rock concert six feet under square pegs the monkees the blacklist bridgerton russian doll stranger things
Melody E. McIntyre@melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 2y ago10 shows to get to know me: (in no specific order) 1. Gilmore Girls 2. Grey's Anatomy 3. LOST 4. Dead Like Me 5. Mad Men 6. Cobra Kai 7. Babysitters Club (the recent one) 8. Friends 9. The Good Place 10. Wheel of Time
Alright! Started working on a literary agent starter pack on here, for all my writer friends out there! Follow along and see what folks are looking for. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo
i recognized this around age 9. my characters all had debilitating injuries like getting shot in the eye with a bb gun or losing a leg in a hunting accident, and then went on a journey which changed the world, and, more importantly, found them friends #beawriter #findfriends
Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 2y agoThis is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
