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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 2d

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 3d

Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · 17d

I love this!

River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social · 17d

“I don’t tell you you’re my muse; that will come later, after we’ve left this adobe house in the New Mexico mountains, where you’re gracious to let me stay.”
-from “Letter from the Same Room,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Lauren Fath
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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · 23d

So excited to see all y'all at AWP in Baltimore! It's been a helluva year and I'm looking forward to laughing with writer friends.

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Essays that dwell in uncertainty are in many ways closest to the truth of the human experience." Thank you @sfmontgomery.bsky.social for this inspiration today. Needed it.
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Essaying as Empowerment - An Interview with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Jody Keisner

Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Jody Keisner sit down to discuss essayistic empowerment in their new collections, "Halfway from Home" and "Under My Bed and Other Essays."

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Sep 4

oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is gorgeous!

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Sep 2

I love this so much!!!

Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Sep 2

Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · Sep 1

Read "Lark Song" written by @jennystalter.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth."

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Lark Song — Ghost Parachute

I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth. I take flight under pink spring sunris...

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Aug 13

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The View From Gaza—As Seen Through WB Yeats’s Widening Gyre

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and …

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · Jun 28

Just fantastic, Cole!!

Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thank you to the editors at @trampset.bsky.social for publishing this story. It's from a @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness prompt where the only requirement was that people get naked...

@patiencemackarness.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @pennypriddy.bsky.social

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Jun 26

I love these wild micros

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Fractured Lit @fracturedlit.bsky.social · Jun 23

New Micro Series by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social

"The house slept while I stayed up stretching, trying to fit my body into this world, knowing
something ancient lives inside me and needs to ease into sleep. It worms its way through my
bloodstream."

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Coyote, Bones, Howl - Fractured

CoyoteThe house slept while I stayed up stretching, trying to fit my body into this world, knowingsomething ancient lives inside me and needs to ease into sleep. It worms its way through mybloodstream...

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thank you!

Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thank you @assayjournal.bsky.social !

Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies @assayjournal.bsky.social · Jun 19

This throwback Thursday we’re revisiting Assay issue 10.2 with Lindsey Pharr’s “Brave Person Drag: Identity, Consciousness, and the Power of the Cyclical in Gamebook-Formatted Memoir.”

Read it here:
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#ThrowbackThursday #CreativeNonfiction #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #ExperimentalForm

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Jun 14

Well, here's a great birthday present: my essay "On Being Still and Knowing" in Appalachian Review was given the Denny C. Plattner Award from Beara College. Thank you!

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Jun 11

It's a strawberry full moon in my moon house of the archer. My birth day falls on Friday the 13th within this full moon cycle. And all I want for my birthday is for you to say it with your full chest: FUCK ICE.

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thank you!! 🤞

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · Jun 8

Thanks for my badge @bathflashaward.bsky.social !

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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · Jun 7

I have a new speculative, climate story and interview in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. I hope you check it out!

As always, thank you also to @smokelong.bsky.social for being my ride-or-die. And thank you to @lunchontuesday.bsky.social who discombobulated my brain enough to shake this story loose!

‘What Moon Wouldn't Give’ by Dawn Tasaka Steffler

Flash Fiction

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · Jun 6

my honest answer to “what radicalized you”

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · May 30

Thank you, Jill! ❤️🐊

Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · May 30

Look, Ma! I'm a rerun! It was a truly bewildering experience to pull up my podcasts today and stumble across my own mug. Thank you Pop of Culture at Indiana Public Radio and @riverteeth.bsky.social ! Listen to S2 E21 here: indianapublicradio.org/popofculture/

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · May 30

I’m not saying we should flood this line with UFO reports but I’m not NOT saying that either.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 30

I know I should take this seriously but this ICE tweet genuinely made me laugh.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforceme... '
@ICEgov
Contact us if you were harmed by an alien.
855-48-VOICE
ICE.gov/voice

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Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social · May 28

yes!

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