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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me so much of Van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhone.

Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 8d

I'd been knocking on @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social 's door for a long time, and I was so honored that they chose to publish "Sea Glass, Yellow Basket" -- my 2nd BotN nom is just the icing on the cake. Thanks to Millie and her team! You can read it here:

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Dana Diehl @danadiehl.bsky.social · 8d

I'm very excited to have some of my pottery featured with Lover's Eye Press, in a special folio celebrating David Lynch.
www.loverseyepress.com/post/art-by-...

A dark brown ceramic vase stamped with the words "I had a dream"

A dark brown ceramic vase stamped with the words, "The world was dark."

A curvy ceramic vase with a narrow top, stamped with the words, "The robins represented love"

A dark brown ceramic vase stamped with the words, "There is trouble til the robins come."

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 13d

This is what ICE does to unarmed, traumatized civilians not in their custody and posing no physical threat. Now imagine what they do to detained immigrants.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16d

Shana tovah to my Jewish friends and good luck in tomorrow’s Rapture to my Christian ones

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 19d

Spending the morning with TLAT at the Abington Community Library Local Author Fair!

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 20d

This poem would have made a perfect epigraph for The Last Analog Teenagers! Love this BotN-nominated piece by @maudiemichelle.com

Maudie Bryant @maudiemichelle.com · 20d

And here's the poem. 🥰

A black background with white text of a poem titled "Millennium Girl." The poem reads:

“A pop song, bath oil beads,
butterfly hair-clips,
candied dreams—
Hope was a dELiAs* catalog,
blow-up furniture,
wide-legged jeans.

Reality, a monthly bleed,
essential needs,
worn-out tunes, split seams,
rent-to-own, hand-me-downs.
Molded by what
I couldn’t consume.”

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 20d

I have this one:

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First Time at Waffle House, as a Hurricane Approaches ~ by Abigail E. Myers

They won’t tell you this, but you can replace the grits with a hash brown. And when you do, they’ll still make them however you want. Jalapenos and cheese, extra crispy with ham. They won’t tell yo…

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 20d

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The Last Analog Teenagers | Stanchion

Over the course of nine stories, the teens of Carvel, Pennsylvania, slip in and out of each other's lives during the final days of the 1990s. Rachel, struggling to come to terms with a crush while lon...

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 20d

The Kirkus Indie review of The Last Analog Teenagers will be featured in the November 2025 print issue. Don't you want to say you read it when it was just a lil book you had to hear about on the socials? Sure you do! Link in replies!

Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 28d

The Last Analog Teenagers has been out in the world for 3 months now, and people like it!
✅"Get It," Kirkus Indie: "In nine interlocking tales, Myers delivers a poignant coming-of-age story set at the turn of the 21st century...compelling...intriguing overarching narrative."

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 21d

I did an interview with my college paper about The Last Analog Teenagers in advance of my reading there tonight! NEPA folks, come on down. Details in link.

crown.kings.edu?p=14040

September 15, 2025 (vol. 78, n. 2) – The Crown

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 22d

So glad this piece landed with @reckonreview.bsky.social -- I've admired both their literary publications and their terrific Wind and Root columns for a while now.

Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 24d

New fiction at Reckon this morning. Check out "Resurrection Drive" by Abigail Myers.
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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 24d

Just finished Ethan Hawke and Me by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and really enjoyed it. Tackles tough topics with honesty but hard-earned hope while taking a rich stroll through the lovely Before films.

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Ethan Hawke & Me: The Before Trilogy

The Before Trilogy

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 25d

As a fellow '90s teen, this piece gave such lovely and sad chills. @pleomorphic2.bsky.social captured how this album felt so perfectly.

Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · Sep 1

@nffr.bsky.social had a call on the theme “Ten”. I was a teen in the 90s. Only one thing came to mind. Thanks for reading 🙏🏾 newflashfiction.com/i-know-somed...

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 28d

The Last Analog Teenagers has been out in the world for 3 months now, and people like it!
✅"Get It," Kirkus Indie: "In nine interlocking tales, Myers delivers a poignant coming-of-age story set at the turn of the 21st century...compelling...intriguing overarching narrative."

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 28d

Plus:
5 🌟 on Amazon
5 🌟 on StoryGraph
4.57 🌟 on Goodreads

Come join the Zima-soaked, Foo Fighters-soundtracked party:

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The Last Analog Teenagers | Stanchion

Over the course of nine stories, the teens of Carvel, Pennsylvania, slip in and out of each other's lives during the final days of the 1990s. Rachel, struggling to come to terms with a crush while lon...

www.stanchionzine.com

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 28d

The Last Analog Teenagers on Kirkus Indie:

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

THE LAST ANALOG TEENAGERS | Kirkus Reviews

In Myers’ novel, high school graduates face myriad interpersonal conflicts as they prepare to move on to the next chapter of their lives.

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 28d

The Last Analog Teenagers has been out in the world for 3 months now, and people like it!
✅"Get It," Kirkus Indie: "In nine interlocking tales, Myers delivers a poignant coming-of-age story set at the turn of the 21st century...compelling...intriguing overarching narrative."

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · 28d

Conventional wisdom recommends against reading one's own reviews, and while I strenuously avoided doing so for my mental health, I am not sure if you can be a self-promoting indie author and keep it up indefinitely. (This is to say, review thread incoming.)

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have a new tiny story in @havehashad.com today about fleeting connections. thanks as always to @aaronburch.bsky.social, one of the best editors around, & to all of you who read this one ♡ 💀 🪦 ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...

At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: September 4, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones.
Below that is the text of the story: —we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But when he called to cancel, I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer and not revealed the lazy mess lurking beneath my put together surface yet. "It's not that," he said. "I have to go to a funeral." After I told him how sorry I was, he said, "Want to come?" I joked, "It's too soon but take me to the next one." I appreciated the earnest vulnerability of his response that he could use the company so I said yes. My friends teased me that we'd only been on one date so maybe he was a serial killer and we would be going to my funeral. Weird how we cope with the possibility of being murdered every time we meet someone new by laughing about how hilarious it'll be if it happens, but it's preferable to being paralyzed by it. "He loves Bruce Springsteen, so he can't be that bad," I told them. The funeral was for his lifelong friend—they had first met at only five years old—so it was of course sad. We held hands as they lowered the casket. After everyone else left, we wandered the cemetery chatting about everything and nothing like we were at a coffee shop and he kissed me in front of a tombstone that read, "Beloved and remembered. Until we meet again." He ghosted me after that. When I listen to Bruce at the laundromat, I wonder why our first and last kiss happened amidst graves and death and almost write him to ask. But maybe it's better not to know.

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'm working on another prompted story for this year since I loved Trashies so much last year! Don't miss the window from @trashcatlit.bsky.social !

Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · Aug 20

3-DAY CLAXON FROM THE BIN!
Scaring the Trashies to say subs open Saturday to Tuesday for prompted stories. Don't be tardy 🦝

Need some last minute inspo - here's what @abigailmyers.bsky.social did with An Esoteric Bookshop, a Ghost and an Animal Idiom last year.

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Rosemary: an Herb for Remembering

Abigail Myers Content Warning fatal traffic collision I recommended she invest her small inheritance in the shop with the apartment over it. You can’t get evicted if you own the building, that’s th…

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thanks @bookshelfie.bsky.social for the lovely and thoughtful review of The Last Analog Teenagers!

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The Last Analog Teenagers, by Abigail Myers—Book Review - Bookshelfie

There's something achingly relatable about the world Abigail E. Myers creates in "The Last Analog Teenagers", even if you've never shoplifted cucumber melon

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Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social · Aug 6

Has Bluesky made it to NEPA? If you're reading this and you're in the part of the world often described as "you know, like The Office," I'm reading from The Last Analog Teenagers in the book's spiritual home tomorrow night. Free to attend.

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · Aug 6

Still offering up a bundle that stradles two eras of Stanchion Magazine, in print & PDFs for $20. That's 184 pages of poetry, prose & photography from talented people who were each paid for their work and weren't made to pay a fee. What a novel idea!

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