Aaron Burch
@aaronburch.bsky.social
Author: A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
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cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
a little memory-refreshing "research" for my new story...
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
a little memory-refreshing "research" for my new story...
I love so many things about this first page of Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Private Lies,” including (but not limited to) the previous owner’s “L = little lies” note, everything about Tina’s dialogue, and that Mickey “compromises” that he isn’t supposed to drink by drinking Scotch with half-and-half (!!)
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I love so many things about this first page of Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Private Lies,” including (but not limited to) the previous owner’s “L = little lies” note, everything about Tina’s dialogue, and that Mickey “compromises” that he isn’t supposed to drink by drinking Scotch with half-and-half (!!)
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
love this interview with @burialmagazine.bsky.social. in part cause I get a nice shoutout, and i'm self-obsessed, obvs, but also just love seeing the joy that can be found in words and DIY shit and chasing and doing what excites you
andrewcareaga.com/2025/11/28/f...
andrewcareaga.com/2025/11/28/f...
Friday Five: Z.H. Gill, editor of Burial Magazine
‘I want the fancies and the unclean to coexist at Burial because I like a lot of different kinds of writing.’
andrewcareaga.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
love this interview with @burialmagazine.bsky.social. in part cause I get a nice shoutout, and i'm self-obsessed, obvs, but also just love seeing the joy that can be found in words and DIY shit and chasing and doing what excites you
andrewcareaga.com/2025/11/28/f...
andrewcareaga.com/2025/11/28/f...
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Inside me there are two Ernests.
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Inside me there are two Ernests.
Family Thanksgiving + a bottle of wine = a new short short. (First thing I’ve written since early summer!)
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Family Thanksgiving + a bottle of wine = a new short short. (First thing I’ve written since early summer!)
Every pitch for ChatGPT is basically “this is completely useless except for cheating on basic ass homework or maybe if you’re an absolute moron.”
Needing ChatGPT to tell you make pasta for a first date as though dudes haven’t been doing that since the beginning of time
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Every pitch for ChatGPT is basically “this is completely useless except for cheating on basic ass homework or maybe if you’re an absolute moron.”
Happy Drink a Whole Bottle of Wine by Yourself While the Family Complains at Each Other About Cooking Day to all who celebrate.
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Happy Drink a Whole Bottle of Wine by Yourself While the Family Complains at Each Other About Cooking Day to all who celebrate.
Every Thanksgiving I remember it was Thanksgiving break — 2001! my first away from Washington and family — when I bought hobartpulp url (because every 2-4 years I’d forget to pay the renewal fee and site would be down and I’d panic).
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Every Thanksgiving I remember it was Thanksgiving break — 2001! my first away from Washington and family — when I bought hobartpulp url (because every 2-4 years I’d forget to pay the renewal fee and site would be down and I’d panic).
Working on a theory that this Nuzzi/Lizza stuff is season 3 of The Rehearsal.
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Working on a theory that this Nuzzi/Lizza stuff is season 3 of The Rehearsal.
I’m thankful for mornings full of reading short stories with coffee and bourbon cream.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I’m thankful for mornings full of reading short stories with coffee and bourbon cream.
Could take this in so many different directions, have no idea how to identify a MOST.
I’ll say Mulholland Drive as one. Lynch isn’t totally my flavor, which makes me all the more appreciate his movies exist. I’m thankful for art, even when it isn’t my own fave, that so uniquely does its own thing.
I’ll say Mulholland Drive as one. Lynch isn’t totally my flavor, which makes me all the more appreciate his movies exist. I’m thankful for art, even when it isn’t my own fave, that so uniquely does its own thing.
What movie are you most thankful for? (not necessarily your favorite!)
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Could take this in so many different directions, have no idea how to identify a MOST.
I’ll say Mulholland Drive as one. Lynch isn’t totally my flavor, which makes me all the more appreciate his movies exist. I’m thankful for art, even when it isn’t my own fave, that so uniquely does its own thing.
I’ll say Mulholland Drive as one. Lynch isn’t totally my flavor, which makes me all the more appreciate his movies exist. I’m thankful for art, even when it isn’t my own fave, that so uniquely does its own thing.
me, submitting to New Yorker/Paris Review/McSweeney's/etc.
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
me, submitting to New Yorker/Paris Review/McSweeney's/etc.
this is set the night before christmas, but the night before thanksgiving gets a shoutout, so you should all read it today.
“Biggest bar night!” he says again. “Let’s go out! Like old times!”
I wonder why he’s confused tonight, Christmas Eve, with the night before Thanksgiving...
“Biggest bar night!” he says again. “Let’s go out! Like old times!”
I wonder why he’s confused tonight, Christmas Eve, with the night before Thanksgiving...
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS by Aaron Burch
It was exciting and sad and over too fast and underwhelming and amazing, all at the same. It was all of it. It was beautiful.
xraylitmag.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
this is set the night before christmas, but the night before thanksgiving gets a shoutout, so you should all read it today.
“Biggest bar night!” he says again. “Let’s go out! Like old times!”
I wonder why he’s confused tonight, Christmas Eve, with the night before Thanksgiving...
“Biggest bar night!” he says again. “Let’s go out! Like old times!”
I wonder why he’s confused tonight, Christmas Eve, with the night before Thanksgiving...
Such a great rave on Substack for this killer @toddpetersen.bsky.social story!
"The best kind of Christmas story.
Take yourself somewhere unhurried and calm; this deserves better attention than the phone-scroll mind can offer."
"The best kind of Christmas story.
Take yourself somewhere unhurried and calm; this deserves better attention than the phone-scroll mind can offer."
Caroline Osella (they/them) (@carolineosella)
The best kind of Christmas story.
Take yourself somewhere unhurried and calm; this deserves better attention than the phone-scroll mind can offer.
substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Such a great rave on Substack for this killer @toddpetersen.bsky.social story!
"The best kind of Christmas story.
Take yourself somewhere unhurried and calm; this deserves better attention than the phone-scroll mind can offer."
"The best kind of Christmas story.
Take yourself somewhere unhurried and calm; this deserves better attention than the phone-scroll mind can offer."
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
it is so interesting reading these college students write about the pandemic in personal essays — sometimes head on, sometimes in almost tossed off acknowledgment, always pretty interesting
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
it is so interesting reading these college students write about the pandemic in personal essays — sometimes head on, sometimes in almost tossed off acknowledgment, always pretty interesting
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“This is the one in which their paths never cross. It is unclear what their opinions of each other would have been had they ever met.”
One couple, nine different lives in which they orbit, meet, and possibly fall in love. Fabulous story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in Short Story Long!
One couple, nine different lives in which they orbit, meet, and possibly fall in love. Fabulous story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in Short Story Long!
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
“This is the one in which their paths never cross. It is unclear what their opinions of each other would have been had they ever met.”
One couple, nine different lives in which they orbit, meet, and possibly fall in love. Fabulous story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in Short Story Long!
One couple, nine different lives in which they orbit, meet, and possibly fall in love. Fabulous story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in Short Story Long!
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You know what food I hate? Your personal favourite food. Inedible garbage.
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
You know what food I hate? Your personal favourite food. Inedible garbage.
gf is making a much smaller pie this year than normal because "no one but me really eats it," leaving me to wonder what I am going to be having for breakfast the next week or two??
This got me thinking….how do we as a society normalize pumpkin pie as a breakfast option at restaurants year round? Who will be the change we want to see in the world?
It turns out Mina and I have identical pie takes (literally had home made pumpkin pie for breakfast this morning before kids woke up).
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
gf is making a much smaller pie this year than normal because "no one but me really eats it," leaving me to wonder what I am going to be having for breakfast the next week or two??
Feeling this!
But also... last week a past student asked me to be one of their thesis readers and said, "your joyful approach to writing has really stuck with me." Passing on a "joyful approach to writing" to even just one student a semester, does (unfortunately! lol) kinda make it feel worth it.
But also... last week a past student asked me to be one of their thesis readers and said, "your joyful approach to writing has really stuck with me." Passing on a "joyful approach to writing" to even just one student a semester, does (unfortunately! lol) kinda make it feel worth it.
I was feeling like "my job is pointless and no one cares" and then one of my students popped in to office hours just to ask for book recommendations
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Feeling this!
But also... last week a past student asked me to be one of their thesis readers and said, "your joyful approach to writing has really stuck with me." Passing on a "joyful approach to writing" to even just one student a semester, does (unfortunately! lol) kinda make it feel worth it.
But also... last week a past student asked me to be one of their thesis readers and said, "your joyful approach to writing has really stuck with me." Passing on a "joyful approach to writing" to even just one student a semester, does (unfortunately! lol) kinda make it feel worth it.
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I really, really loved this one. @anniejowrites.bsky.social is always so good, but this really touched me.
"They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."
"They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I really, really loved this one. @anniejowrites.bsky.social is always so good, but this really touched me.
"They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."
"They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."
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Of course this is so beautiful and good 😍😭
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Of course this is so beautiful and good 😍😭
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I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...