Courtney Pasko
@cpasko.bsky.social
Reader, writer, library girl
Country mouse living in Baltimore
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https://www.courtneypasko.com/
Country mouse living in Baltimore
she/hers
https://www.courtneypasko.com/
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Courtney Pasko
@cpasko.bsky.social
· Apr 21
Little pearl of a story up in HAD today! Absolutely delighted to snag a second skull and TRULY thankful to the cool kids at @hexliterary.bsky.social for selecting it 🦪
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Folks. Please don't spread panic with unconfirmed reports. The Beat even has this handy-dandy guide now baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...
How Baltimore organizers are preparing to fight back against ICE
As social media and news coverage is flooded with a relentless stream of images showing immigrants being rounded up, masked federal agents shooting rapid responders, and government officials defending...
baltimorebeat.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Folks. Please don't spread panic with unconfirmed reports. The Beat even has this handy-dandy guide now baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...
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Baltimore, Maryland - January 25, 2026.
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Baltimore, Maryland - January 25, 2026.
All witnesses and jurors are excused 🎉
Has anyone in Baltimore City had their jury duty canceled due to inclement weather? Do you get bumped a few days, or fully cancled/new summons sent?
January 25, 2026 at 7:01 PM
All witnesses and jurors are excused 🎉
Has anyone in Baltimore City had their jury duty canceled due to inclement weather? Do you get bumped a few days, or fully cancled/new summons sent?
January 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Has anyone in Baltimore City had their jury duty canceled due to inclement weather? Do you get bumped a few days, or fully cancled/new summons sent?
Glad to see Wicked is finally getting the attention it deserves from the Academy
January 22, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Glad to see Wicked is finally getting the attention it deserves from the Academy
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Beautiful start to the morning with kind words about "Indicator Species" from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in Matt Kendrick's Mondettes! And among incredible company, no less. 🐋
This month's #Mondettes picked by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Chris made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/january-2026
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Chris made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/january-2026
January 2026
Ten stories picked by Chris Scott
mondettes.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Beautiful start to the morning with kind words about "Indicator Species" from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in Matt Kendrick's Mondettes! And among incredible company, no less. 🐋
Beautiful start to the morning with kind words about "Indicator Species" from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in Matt Kendrick's Mondettes! And among incredible company, no less. 🐋
This month's #Mondettes picked by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Chris made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/january-2026
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Chris made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/january-2026
January 2026
Ten stories picked by Chris Scott
mondettes.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Beautiful start to the morning with kind words about "Indicator Species" from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in Matt Kendrick's Mondettes! And among incredible company, no less. 🐋
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Petroglyph of Whales, Greenland 🇬🇱 🇩🇰
They are believed to have been created by early Inuit or Paleo-Eskimo peoples, possibly belonging to the Saqqaq or Dorset cultures, hundreds of years ago.
Found on cliffs and large boulders scattered around the town of Qaqortoq.
#archeology #history #art
They are believed to have been created by early Inuit or Paleo-Eskimo peoples, possibly belonging to the Saqqaq or Dorset cultures, hundreds of years ago.
Found on cliffs and large boulders scattered around the town of Qaqortoq.
#archeology #history #art
January 16, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Petroglyph of Whales, Greenland 🇬🇱 🇩🇰
They are believed to have been created by early Inuit or Paleo-Eskimo peoples, possibly belonging to the Saqqaq or Dorset cultures, hundreds of years ago.
Found on cliffs and large boulders scattered around the town of Qaqortoq.
#archeology #history #art
They are believed to have been created by early Inuit or Paleo-Eskimo peoples, possibly belonging to the Saqqaq or Dorset cultures, hundreds of years ago.
Found on cliffs and large boulders scattered around the town of Qaqortoq.
#archeology #history #art
The couple in this piece live in Baltimore, where paid family leave was passed in 2022 but has already been delayed once to 2028, the Child Care Scholarship Program has been closed to new applications since May, and @govwesmoore.bsky.social is prioritizing "record" funds for police. Love it here.
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in. n.pr/3NH3yso
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
n.pr
January 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
The couple in this piece live in Baltimore, where paid family leave was passed in 2022 but has already been delayed once to 2028, the Child Care Scholarship Program has been closed to new applications since May, and @govwesmoore.bsky.social is prioritizing "record" funds for police. Love it here.
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January 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
He has claimed three blankets (and a cushion), for those keeping track at home
January 6, 2026 at 7:32 PM
He has claimed three blankets (and a cushion), for those keeping track at home
Wonder how much this influencer got paid for 100% ChatGPT slop
January 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Wonder how much this influencer got paid for 100% ChatGPT slop
Should I move to NYC? she asks, looking at the Mamdani inauguration photos, having said "I'm never moving again" as recently as June
January 2, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Should I move to NYC? she asks, looking at the Mamdani inauguration photos, having said "I'm never moving again" as recently as June
Brought the first day of 2026 to a close with a rewatch of “The Boy and the Heron.” Many things are bad but it feels so very good to know people like Miyazaki are out there making art like that.
January 2, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Brought the first day of 2026 to a close with a rewatch of “The Boy and the Heron.” Many things are bad but it feels so very good to know people like Miyazaki are out there making art like that.
"Into the boxes I delved, dipping the broad shovel inside and scooping up as many pay stubs as I could at a time. I deposited them into the divination machine and then shoveled more."
Very proud of Nathan for his first fiction pub, a dark speculative flash in The Dread:
Very proud of Nathan for his first fiction pub, a dark speculative flash in The Dread:
FEATURE: “Performance Review” by Nathan Pasko
I was an hour early because to be even one minute late was to face automated retirement at the hands of the virtual receptionist. I pushed my rented hand truck into the elevator, leaning against the...
the-dread-literary-review.ghost.io
December 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Into the boxes I delved, dipping the broad shovel inside and scooping up as many pay stubs as I could at a time. I deposited them into the divination machine and then shoveled more."
Very proud of Nathan for his first fiction pub, a dark speculative flash in The Dread:
Very proud of Nathan for his first fiction pub, a dark speculative flash in The Dread:
I have to work the rest of the week and my husband does not which feels very illegal.
December 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I have to work the rest of the week and my husband does not which feels very illegal.
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
Merry Christmas from Poe 🎄
December 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Merry Christmas from Poe 🎄
There's a throwaway line in The Office Season 3 where Pam tells Roy if he uses more than 3 pieces of tape to wrap a present he's "doing it wrong" and I have thought about it basically every time I've wrapped a present in the last two decades.
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
There's a throwaway line in The Office Season 3 where Pam tells Roy if he uses more than 3 pieces of tape to wrap a present he's "doing it wrong" and I have thought about it basically every time I've wrapped a present in the last two decades.
Book borrows have gone up every year since I moved to Baltimore and I simply don't believe that's a coincidence!
"Through history, libraries have been designed to serve the whole public, Helmick said, regardless of class or social strata."
"Through history, libraries have been designed to serve the whole public, Helmick said, regardless of class or social strata."
December 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Book borrows have gone up every year since I moved to Baltimore and I simply don't believe that's a coincidence!
"Through history, libraries have been designed to serve the whole public, Helmick said, regardless of class or social strata."
"Through history, libraries have been designed to serve the whole public, Helmick said, regardless of class or social strata."
Playing my favorite game (hitting "random" on Smitten Kitchen's website until I decide what to cook for a belated Christmas dinner this weekend)
December 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Playing my favorite game (hitting "random" on Smitten Kitchen's website until I decide what to cook for a belated Christmas dinner this weekend)
"The pigeons, wired into the municipal guidance field, hang motionless above the square, wings cupped like spoons."
🛸🛸 ”One of them turns its head, or the idea of a head, and looks in my direction. Does it see me?”
🛸🛸 an encounter, from @hellena.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/maintenance-...
🛸🛸 an encounter, from @hellena.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/maintenance-...
Maintenance Window
by Elena Pavlova
Every morning at 6 a.m., the city blinks. It’s not a metaphor, but an actual flicker, like the whole grid exhales and forgets itself for half a heartbeat. The coffee machines pause m...
www.nightshadesmag.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"The pigeons, wired into the municipal guidance field, hang motionless above the square, wings cupped like spoons."
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today is their day 🧤
December 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
today is their day 🧤