The day started out like any other Monday except it was Tuesday because Robert had called in hungover the day before. Plus one of the windows was covered in plywood. Word in the aisles was that someone had launched a homemade rocket at the building. Another happy IRS customer.

Awesome Nathan Pettigrew !!

Your Mom is Wearing Mermaid Underwear at Dave and Buster’s A collection of stories by Dawn Tasaka Steffler / @dawnsteffler #MythicPicnicTweetStory _______ Crossing the Limen - Limen, noun. A border between one thing and another. See also Threshold. My dad calls and, in

I have no gift for clear or elegant expression. I've read a lot of good writing so can sometimes mimic it, given enough time and motivation

Elated to have two poems of mine published in July 2025 issue of the gorgeous Blood+Honey. My sincere gratitude to the wonderful editor, David Estringel, and his amazing team! Please visit the link below to read my poems. bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/chatter…

My first movie review finds a home today in The Hooghly Review. A huge thanks to the wonderful editors Tejaswinee 🖤⚖️🖊 and Ankit Raj Ojha for believing in the piece and giving it a place in their magazine! #MovieReview

Read my review of #SpecialOps2 The Hooghly Review KayKay Menon🇮🇳 Neeraj Pandey shivam nair thehooghlyreview.com/special-ops2-r… Big thanks to the wonderful editors Tejaswinee 🖤⚖️🖊 Ankit Raj Ojha 🙏

I can't believe it's been five months already! I've signed four clients, and we're about to go on submission very soon! If you've got a great book, send me a query!

I go outside to relax and commune with nature but the crows are fighting with the hawk and the mockingbirds are fighting with the crows and the jays are fighting with the mockingbirds and the bees are fighting with the hummingbirds and the hummingbirds are fighting everything.

My epiphany came when I learned that even hummingbirds are assholes.

I'm so thrilled to announce that I won the The Lascaux Review Flash Fiction contest! Big thanks to the editors! I'm excited for you to read this story soon! lascauxreview.com/contest-result…

I'm teaching a seminar and taking pitches/first page reviews! All online! Let's connect!

Don't forget to preorder Melissa Llanes Brownlee's upcoming collection BITTER OVER SWEET while listening to her latest ukulele video! buff.ly/JnD7XIh

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"People shared work publicly on Twitter with a fearlessness and vulnerability I’d never encountered" Love Barlow Adams's summary of writing Twitter (it will always be Twitter), the community, and the decline (refuse to call it an end) reckonreview.com/wind-and-root-…

We're thrilled to share the Library Journal's review for BITTER OVER SWEET by Melissa Llanes Brownlee! buff.ly/xAxcyCe Preorder a copy of BITTER OVER SWEET right here! buff.ly/xpJLEAs

The Gorko Weekly Preview Midwestern humor from William M. McIntosh Mykyta is back THEODORE WALLBANGER 🎈CERTIFIED BANGERS chalks hard Poetry from David Estringel Kenneth Nichols and more

Thrilled to have my micro piece "Down the Bermuda Highway" reprinted by Mythic Picnic. HUGE thanks to the editors for accepting this piece that was originally published at the very cool Citywide Lunch!

Check the micros curated by Tara Campbell ⬇️ We also have stories from Ioanna SadeeBee Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 Melissa Llanes Brownlee Sumitra Singam (she/her/Baginda) Tommy Dean (is open to queries) Jay Bechtol Glenn Orgias T.L. Tomljanovic @dawnsteffler & soon Amy Marques Tejaswinee 🖤⚖️🖊 Tara Campbell Nathan Pettigrew

I think of twitter more as a literary form than a social media platform.