I'm so delighted to have two photographs alongside such wonderful pieces in Salt Hill's 54th issue. Huge thank you to the editorial team. I took both images in a tiny SF apartment, lit by a safety flashlight and emotional distress. Grab a copy. :)
Are there any horror fans out there? Check out last year's 2nd place 100-word story, "Step One: Remove the Stem" by Rachel Henderson (Gretna, LA, USA), at https://t.co/qxV8RMVmxA. Get ready for this year's 100-word challenge on March 21. Original illustration by @znayberg. Enjoy!
An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to survive more than 100 days with an artificial titanium heart as he waited to receive a donor transplant.
Can titanium hearts solve the global donor shortage? https://t.co/6Q7INkwrO0
What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.”
HUMANS!
This sounds frivolous in the grand scheme of things but we need to support archivists, protect public libraries, protect journalists, writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers. We need to continue to keep culture alive and educate our youth.
I’m thrilled to join other writers in supporting Kamala Harris for president. I hope you’ll join us on Tuesday, 10/22 at 7 PM ET for “Writers for Harris-Walz” national call.
Please RSVP by clicking the link below.
https://t.co/RKSV4pDbbr
just watched an NBC meteorologist cry on air talking about how terrifying Hurricane Milton is & then the next thing I saw was a woman in the evacuation zone saying she has literally nowhere to go — all the hotels are booked & she doesn’t have a lot of money & has 4 dogs/6 kids.