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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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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Sep 4

Also dying to know @ambersparks.bsky.social’s thoughts/feelings on the new film trailer.

M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Sep 4

I think I’m in the minority of diehard Wuthering Heights fans who are actually excited about Emerald Fennell’s new film. But maybe that’s because my only published poem is a cliff notes version of who and why everyone hooks up in the novel? 🤷‍♀️ 🥵 #hottake

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The Modern Reader’s Cliff Notes to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë—But Make It Hot by M.M. Kaufmann

(Cathy sr. re Heathcliff)Is he hot or is he the only guy you’ve ever known who isn’t related to you?Is he hot or did your dad bring him home and you and brother mistook him for a dog?Is he hot or i…

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 31

Shout out to the birds that live around my neighborhood. Y’all sound real good today.

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you for sharing, Casey!

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Kevin Maloney @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social · Aug 28

Um. Everybody... stop what you're doing and check out @mmkaufman.bsky.social's new banger "PLATEAUED"... up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥🔥🔥

Pool Party @poolpartymag.com · Aug 28

"Her breath caught in her chest and wouldn’t release. She hadn’t taken an edible, but this felt like a terrible trip."

We're soooooo excited to publish the story "Plateaued" by one of our favorite writers in the world, the carwash queen
@mm_kaufman 🔥

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Plateaued by M.M. Kaufman

Cooper and CeCe were sitting in the backyard watching their respective daughters, Lily and Anya, play at the bottom of the sloping hill. They sat in Adirondack chairs while their Aperol spritzes colle...

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · Aug 27

wwwwwwwwwwell my buckle makes impressions on the inside of her thigh

belt buckle featuring Slimer from Ghostbusters

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pulling up to yoga class blasting Rage Against the Machine because that’s where I’m at right now.

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 22

Are people aware of what flight anxiety is really like? What it’s about, the triggers, the origins, and how it presents? Do I need to put off my novel projects again to write a CNF piece about this plague?

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 22

Battling flight anxiety with a pre airport carwash.

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 20

There are just not enough people telling me on a daily basis that they wanna rock my Gypsy soul just like way back in the days of old.

M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 19

All it took was 2025 (and a whole lot of bullshit) to make me realize I’m a Rage Against the Machine girlie.

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 17

Road trip hair.

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 11

My new practice of subbing 1 piece to 1 magazine that I think it’s really, really right for is paying off. Got a 102 minute acceptance from @poolpartymag.com! Been wanting to sub there for ages, but waited until I knew I had something up their alley. Let’s go swimming!

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 9

This boujee coffee cost me one small organ and I shall take a sip every 15 minutes to make it worth it.

And no I’m not writing an existential think piece/memoirella on all the major Batman films, why would you even ask?

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 9

I am so incredibly proud of Travis Alexander for writing this amazing story and creating this serialized podcast SIRENS. And I’m even more honored to be a part of it. Check out ya girl Tabby popping in at episode 3!

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SIRENS: Season of the Seawitch

Science Fiction Podcast · Series · This is a story about a machine. A big machine. A supercomputer the size and shape of an ancient pyramid. A device that runs the world from the secret recesses of th...

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 8

Anyone in the market for some emotions? I think I’m gonna start selling mine off to pay my student loans.

M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 8

Anyone else find themselves thinking about Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and muttering to themselves, Man, fuck that dude. Fuck all the dudes in that play. Just me?

M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 8

Driving to work on a cloudy Friday morning wearing all black and singing along word-for-word to Joni Mitchell—watch out (emotional) world!

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 7

If fiction goes short story < novella < novel, can I call my cnf work-in-progress that is longer than the average essay but not a book a memoirella? Because I'm not actually asking and totally calling it that.

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 4

I really miss my Dad.

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Aug 4

When you’re so sad your everyday barista asks what’s wrong with your voice. 🙃

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Jul 29

Was up till 3am at the ER with my baby nephew (he’s gonna be fine! Whew!), so this morning I walked into a local coffee shop and said I need enough caffeine to get me right with a God I don’t believe in. The baristas doubled over in laughter and said we got you.

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Jul 29

Find someone who looks at you the way I look at a carwash.

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · Jul 27

Driver of a U-Haul thought I was checking him when I tried to read the fact on the side of his truck.