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Chloe N. Clark
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Patterns of Orbit Escaping the Body, & more
Every Galaxy a Circle forthcoming
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
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I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
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Thrilled to post that PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE has made NPR's list of Books We Love!

It's one of over 300 books handpicked by NPR staffers and trusted critics. See the full list here:

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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Cowboy Jamboree's Fall issue is live y'all.

We're kicking off our 11th (!) year with "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." The theme was inspired by a Slim Hand lyric & these writers took it in all kinds of cool directions.

www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hidden-behin...
Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked.
fall 2025 issue 11.1 "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." Where'd this fall's theme come from? It's a James "Slim" Hand lyric from a song about sitting in a bar in the corner at a table by a.....
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Yesterday I posted about my favorite novellas of the year, and today I'm posting about my favorite short fiction collections of 2025.

acwise.net/favorite-col...
Favorite Collections of 2025 – acwise.net
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November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
At a cake cutting ceremony for their mission, an astronaut shouted me out for my baked goods. A highlight of my life.
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Now that, is a Rhombus.
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @lmanusos.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, Mizuki Yamagen, & Malena Salazar Maciá 🦇⚡

prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
a feast, a star, a howl, a wound
Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.
www.kcmeadbrewer.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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We need some sweetness, so please regale me with a description of the best pie you've ever had 🥺

Here's a picture of a lemon pie I once made with salted meringue. It was not the best pie I ever had but it was delicious
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Do you know how much of the cover price goes to a trad published writer? About 10-15%.

The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).

How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read:

milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
Nothing certain ~ by Matt Kendrick
The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…
milkcandyreview.home.blog
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I once bought sweetened condensed milk instead of evaporated milk for pumpkin pie and had to find a recipe for it quick. It was the best pie I ever made and I never went back to the traditional recipe.
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Not quite a pie but had a "lemon tart with raspberry three ways". Cool, creamy, tart with fresh raspberry, sweet raspberry sauce drizzled on top, and powdered raspberry. I believe there was lemon curd under the bottom.
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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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!
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
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I helped a fellow teacher score her student essays, and she baked me a blueberry/sour cream pie with a crumble top.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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We are mostly cake people but when I was 16 I went out for pie with my great-grandmother and they had triple berry that was really fresh and hot and a la mode

Great-Grandma was struck speechless by the goodness of this pie
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Me creeping through an economist's nightmare clutching my 2016 laptop.

I whisper: it's me. I'm the Device Hoarder.

*Smash cut to black*
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Who are writers you started reading in the last year or so that are now must-read writers for you?

This happens a lot but off the top of my head for me it's Sayaka Murata, Eliza Clark, and Delilah S. Dawson.

Also a big nod to Dan Howarth for wowing me with Last Night of Freedom and Lionhearts.
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Hi CNF writers with a book, if you're interested in teaching a 1-1 for the next two to three years while you're hopefully working on your next book and want to live in the Twin Cities, please consider applying to be our next writer in residence: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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A citron tarte I had in Luang Prabang. It was the perfect balance of acid, floral, sweetness and fat. The crust was light and crisp. I was totally satisfied. flic.kr/p/9vXmGh
citron tarte
flic.kr
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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That's tricky but it was a slice of NY Style Cheesecake I had way back in 2000. It was the platonic idea of a perfect vanilla NY Style Cheesecake

Second place would be a slice of French Silk from Stockholm Pie Company

Third place would be a slice of Chocolate Creme from Betty's Pies
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I make a raspberry walnut tart. I shared a picture on social media and Adrien’s who lived across country said, “stop taunting me, that looks delicious.”

I posted another picture and she said, if you do that again I am flying out and you will make me one…
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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When 19 was 13 (I think?), they asked for chocolate cream pie for their bday. Being me, I tweaked the recipe I found in a 2000-era cookbook (gift). So: peanut butter-oreo crust; custard from a mix of semi- & dark chocolate, homemade whipped cream obvs. It eats, every year. Silky, rich, crunchy. Yum.
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Tie: Coconut Cream Pie from Dahlia's Bakery in Seattle and the Coconut Cream Pie @beckysayers.bsky.social made me for my birthday a year or two ago.
We need some sweetness, so please regale me with a description of the best pie you've ever had 🥺

Here's a picture of a lemon pie I once made with salted meringue. It was not the best pie I ever had but it was delicious
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Best pie I ever had was a vegan & gluten free pistachio cream pie. The crust was almond flour mixed with pistachios & butter. It had this heavenly, rich filling made of coconut milk and blended pistachios, topped with fluffy coconut cream. The sweetness came from agave. I still dream about this pie
We need some sweetness, so please regale me with a description of the best pie you've ever had 🥺

Here's a picture of a lemon pie I once made with salted meringue. It was not the best pie I ever had but it was delicious
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM