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Writer of sorts, desert dweller. Words in Best Sm Fiction, Best Micro, Wigleaf Top 50, pubs listed at sabrinahicks.com
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Droppin in December from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social...

It’s heating up here. Two snakes in one day! One on the left is a king, alive, and passing through my yard. The one on the right is a dead rattlesnake with its rattle torn off. No more AirPods in the desert. Fitting I have a story coming out soon titled “Rattlesnakes”.

Here are some highlights from the BBC thing 1/6

“Better to love the process, even when it’s rife with mishaps and mistakes and bumps and blunders, and to take comfort in the promise of do-overs.” Pottery, writing, life…all apply. Love this post by @melostrom.bsky.social

Very excited to read this collaboration by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross!

Incredible memoir. A woven tapestry of growing up with secrets and how we are shaped by events, by the people in our lives, and the lies we tell ourselves. Powerful piece.

"The only sound – the rhythmic thwack of the ball arching into blue. I liked this hushed world too, how orderly it seemed, how managed." Beautiful piece by @bsherm36.bsky.social!

A absolutely stunning, bittersweet piece by @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. Go read it now! So honored to contribute a watercolor to this story 🙏 The original painting will be on the way to you soon, Matt!

Acceptances (and unfortunate final rejections) have been sent and the CJ Spring Issue, TOUGH WOMEN, GRITTY TALES, lineup is set. We'll take a couple of weeks to get it polished up for y'all and you can expect it sometime around the end of March or the beginning of April...

“Willy’s pretty sure he will never have a plaque. Not in this reality, at least. He wonders if he has one somewhere in the multiverse, a plaque that hangs on the gym wall next to Pop’s.” Brilliant flash by @kelliborges2.bsky.social!! Love it. 😍

was asked about my writing process & david byrne said it best: I must be having fun. the less we say about it, the better. we’ll make it up as we go along

First post on here and it’s a big one! Thank you @flashfrog.bsky.social and Gina Chung for this honor. Big congrats to Alison Morretta and @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social too! I can’t wait to read all the stories 💙🐸

Michelle Ross and I wrote this "If My Book" for Monkeybicycle about our forthcoming short story collection, Don't Take This the Wrong Way: monkeybicycle.net/if-our-book-...

“We tried to contain them in cribs and playpens, but they slipped out of our grasp like memory.” Fantastic flash by @ezhang77.bsky.social 😍

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“The fact that he didn’t want to see me on a Friday night was a teenage problem, but when one person is still in her twenties and new to adult relationships and the other has already turned forty, the old problems cycle back, charged and ripe for ignoring.” Great piece by @mossyair.bsky.social. 😍

"The evening dark settled into high branches and spread like a stain. This isn't yours, it said." Ah, so so good. Love this by @the-big-quiet.bsky.social! I can't wait to read this essay in full, Steve!

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Was so happy to have this flash, “Cowboy Titanium,” in the Texas Wind anthology, published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social that I wrote a short story with the same character in mind for their March issue with the theme Tough Women, Gritty Tales. Just got an acceptance. Thanks, AV!

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Write drunk/edit sober? 🍸🍸It worked for me and @amymarques.bsky.social.. we had so much fun working on this collaboration, out at the new issue of the fabulous @bendinggenres.bsky.social! Thank you, editor @rgvaughan.bsky.social! ❤️❤️ bendinggenres.com/template-of-...

Please call your reps. (Even if they are GOP like mine.) www.glamour.com/story/save-a...

I wonder if Google will take my correction.

“We have to catch ourselves. We have to come home to ourselves.” Beautiful, meditative piece by @the-big-quiet.bsky.social

“The sound of liquid pain. There was meaning in all of it, if I only looked hard enough.” A real gem by @bsherm36.bsky.social! Love it.

“I will see that beauty is a game of look-alikes. It is a game of making an enemy out of time.” Great CNF by Ciaro Alfaro in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 😍

“I hack your antique coffee table to pieces. These will be good bones, I think.” Oh love this by @ezhang77.bsky.social 😍