I have a story in @coldsignalmag that was sort of inspired by 1960s pop songs in which the back-up singers exhort the lead singer to be careful with her heart and the lead singer replies the way she replies. Thank you @johnnychrostek💙 for taking this one. https://t.co/iQlnwdZeqF
@TomerAzarly@HPbasketball As a longtime as in lifelong Bucks fan, and a lifelong Milwaukeean, Giannis transcends, ok?, and that's it. Glad and grateful for him always as in always as in always. All these takes, none of them hot, especially from those who ain't been here, mean nothing. Break-ups are hard.
"They’re offended by her light, a bright blue-white luminescence, like glowworms on cave walls in New Zealand, or so she hears."
the distance of *until*, a wish when it wanes, a smile when it settles
@WriterMMaggard in @moonrabbitcandy https://t.co/v6UTs6hQeW
"Sunlight silvered the naked canopies of trees, and the Genesee River, its course a stark contrast to the orderly placement of skyscrapers and streets, glinted like a snake let loose in a classroom ..."
Firmament, Engine Roar, Jewels by @melostrom in Red Rock Review
Wintry walk with Mocha & now home to spend time with the latest issue of Red Rock Review. Excited it includes my story, “Firmament, Engine Roar, Jewels.” Happy Friday, friends.❤️🐶
"You don’t say that now when you skip school and buy a cone with a flake it tastes so much like fear you want to spit it off your tongue and ..."
that *can* that *can't* that man that mum that you this one from Kik Lodge in @moonrabbitcandy https://t.co/vP3ZFLCSKd
"... I have grown
another day wiser, but of course
this isn’t true. I have grown another day
closer to coldness ..."
Everything Goes by @jadjosey in @ballastjournal https://t.co/iP6FmlfsmG
"I hide myself in muscle, in warrior football jerseys, and bouncy cheerleader girlfriends, in stormy surfing and outrigger paddling, my skin always bronzed, my hair shorn close, not an ounce of doubt peeking through ..."
@lumchanmfa in @Sunlight_Press https://t.co/pjpbrHUSuj
"They know how to camouflage, to press hard into one another, to hide by being seen."
"Sometimes she maps her bruises, the ones on her neck or her thighs, the ones she doesn't remember getting and the ones she does."
Creeps by @JJLofflin in @Wigleaf https://t.co/laHF4VG9Xy
Congrats & best wishes to our nominees for @altcurrent's Best Small Fictions 2025 including @pdforan, @lilysslave, KM Baysal, Rhea Thomas, & Eliana Megerman