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eileentomarchio.bsky.social
Writer, Librarian ✍🏻: Baltimore Review, Hunger Mountain, The Forge, Porter House Review, Passages North, Reckon Review, Maudlin House, Okay Donkey, X-R-A-Y, Pithead Chapel +++/ BSF 2023 https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Brilliant and heartbreaking, by @joekap64.bsky.social in @havehashad.com

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This is terrible/important.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

"Beyond that, the lights of the harbor shine. Joey is saying how his uncle can get him in the Longshoremen’s union. Julissa is in his lap, thinking. A job at the harbor. A new start in their town of grit and pollution-clogged skies." A thing of beauty from @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in Waxwing.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

In California, solar panels on farms generates 25 times more revenue than crops. Some farmers are doubling up, growing shade-loving crops beneath panels or grazing livestock, creating wildlife habitat while maintaining food production. buff.ly/KI3lR47 #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

You MUST read this story by John Jodzio. I'm not kidding. It's truly fantastic. Every time I read it, I love it more. John is a major talent with a unique voice that so beautifully meets our current moment.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

love this story by Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social !! it’s about a recently widowed woman who goes to see the hippos at the zoo, meets a dude drinking alcohol through a straw, & overhears some juicy mermaid drama. read this pronto ! xraylitmag.com/sea-maidens-...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I'll admit it: I can't resist plugging my story again. So proud of it.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Before the summer girl sang, they hadn’t known they had souls, hadn’t known they could be serious. Ah, @eileentomarchio.bsky.social your beautiful goat story! 🐐 I love this one and am so thrilled to be in a @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social issue with you!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to see my title on the Smokey 2025 Long List! Thanks a ton to all the @smokelong.bsky.social lovelies. 😊🙏💜

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Confused still… Should I watch Rogue One first or Andor? #starwars #andor

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“Before the summer girl sang, they hadn’t known they had souls...” “When one day, a buckling nuzzled the fence where the girl had always leaned as she sang, he felt it there, her voice …” the rhythms in this @eileentomarchio.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/goat-song/

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"She asks if I’ve turned white inside eating American pastries instead of learning how to steam homemade sweet lotus seed pao..." Read this beautiful slice of family love by @csquareh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💚🧡 gooseberry-pie.com/secret-recipe/

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"Tiffany who tugs your already short hair, hair that you cut yourself, twisting two inch sections up and sawing at them with a pair of old scissors..." Ohhh my, this chef's kiss of a love story by @aniking.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💚🧡 gooseberry-pie.com/love-buzz-cu...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

"Before the summer girl sang, they hadn’t known they had souls, hadn’t known they could be serious." I love this brilliant piece by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social (congrats, Eileen!) in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙 gooseberry-pie.com/goat-song/

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"...he called out to the others to claim a square of fence and bite down on it, so that every one of them could have a piece of the girl’s singing" - love this tale by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/goat-song/

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

"Before the summer girl sang, they hadn’t known they had souls, hadn’t known they could be serious." I loved this story by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. gooseberry-pie.com/goat-song/

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment