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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · 4d

Gorgeous cover!!!

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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 4d

It only took 256 days to reach the “zip tying little kids at 2am on the street” stage of this administration.

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 4d

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · 4d

How does it feel to have leopards eating your face? #leopards #leopardsatemyface

Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · 6d

Schrödinger’s army: the best on earth but also fat and woke.

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you!!

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 15d

Our BotN nominations are in! Congrats to Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez and @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social We're rooting for you! 🐸💙

Mostly black flier with a green leaf on the left with a silhouette of a frog. Text announces Best of the Net nominations: Laura Leigh Morris and Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez.

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · 21d

Tomorrow at 6pm, join writers from @hubcitypress.bsky.social and @kentuckypress.bsky.social for a short reading and discussion about reading, writing, and the South. Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#fiction #memoir #poetry #writingcommunity

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Hub City Press and University Press of Kentucky: Reading and Conversation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meetin...

Join us on September 18th at 6 pm for a virtual reading and conversation with Hub City Press and the University Press of Kentucky.

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to take part in the virtual open night mic at the Pat Conroy Literary Center tomorrow. Check it out: patconroyliterarycenter.org/.../virtual-...

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · 29d

Come be my colleague! Open rank position in multi-ethnic US literature.
Feel free to reach out if you have questions. #multiethniclit #academia #English #litjobs

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Assistant, Associate, or Professor of English

Welcome to Furman University's Career Site! IMPORTANT: Load all documents in the My Experience area under Resume/CV. This may include your resume/C.V., cover letter, unofficial transcript, teaching ph...

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'm not sure why I like to see my #submittable pieces move from received to in progress, but it feels so very good.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Aug 11

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Aug 11

when people don't want to preserve what we have, when people act like authoritarians. And right now, this system is breaking. Is broken. And there's no stopping it until everyone stands up against authoritarianism. 2/2 #authoritarianism #America #democracy

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Aug 11

I keep thinking about people saying, "well, technically, he is allowed to..." whatever it is. Here's the thing: not everything is made illegal or legal for leaders, but we do expect our elected officials to act within the spirit of the law, to hold democracy high. The whole system breaks down 1/2

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Aug 2

Watched Superman tonight. When the right equates themselves with the bad guys and blames the left for that...that says more about them than us. #Superman

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Jul 28

Me to Three: I love you.
Three: Thanks.

Later...
Three: I don't love you everyday, but I love you right now.

#parenting

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Jul 7

Just called the lawnmower repair place and then scheduled a colonoscopy. I think I just crossed the official threshold into middle age.

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Jun 26

American intelligence: We set back Iran by a few weeks.
Trump: hissy fit.
CIA: Surprise information! We obliterated it!

Y'all. Dafuq?
#nuclear #iran

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · Jun 23

NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“Eat You Up” by @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social is now up!

Art by Miranda Kramer

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Eat You Up by Laura Leigh Morris

The baby stares at the ceiling fan, content for the moment. I slump on the couch, afraid any movement will make her cry. My stomach growls. I can’t remember my last full meal. Days blur together. M…

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Jun 23

Stoked to have a new story up @flashfrog.bsky.social today: flash-frog.com/2025/06/23/e... #writingcommunity #flashfiction

Eat You Up by Laura Leigh Morris

The baby stares at the ceiling fan, content for the moment. I slump on the couch, afraid any movement will make her cry. My stomach growls. I can’t remember my last full meal. Days blur together. M…

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Jun 19

Reorganizing the collection after some additions and revisions. #flashfiction #writingcommunity

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Jun 10

and leave the throngs of religion a huge, horrible, repulsive form. It is a religion for oppressors, tyrants, man-stealers, and thugs."

I should not see such clear connections to the christian church in America today. 3/3

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Jun 10

He writes, "These ministers make religion a cold and flinty-hearted thing, having neither principles of right action, nor bowels of compassion. They strip the love of God of its beauty, 2/3

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Jun 10

I'm currently reading Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" for today's class, and today's religious right seems to live in the entire section about the church's responsibility for continued enslavement. 1/3

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Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social · Jun 8

"Tasted like fascism."

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