Papier-Mâché Sestina by Claudia Monpere | Centaur. Love this piece by ⁦Claudia Monpere⁩ in the groovy ⁦Centaur Lit⁩: women warriors, sisters, art. centaurlit.com/papier-mache-s…

Working Class Date Suggs ~ by Holly Pelesky – Milk Candy Review. “Let’s get corndogs and strawberry limeades and dip our feet into the river. I know it’s rising and there’s a flood warning but think what it would feel like to watch the banks fill” Amazing! milkcandyreview.home.blog/2024/11/07/wor…

Congratulations to 1 of my writing partners ali mckenzie-murdoch, a fresh voice full of synesthesia & sparkle, for her Best Microfiction 2025 nom! Congratulations to all the nominees this yr!

My flash story “Dangling Over the Sea” is now officially selected for Best Microfiction 2025! Thank you to Whale Road Review & editor Katie Manning for first publishing the piece! Happy 💃🏽 dance! & great belief in revise revise revise & what it’s teaching me.

Thank you, Librelit Castañeda for accepting my story, “Self-Help”. My day job—psychotherapist—bled into my passion project—flash fiction—for that one.

A poem for all of our girls, and for all us girls, by Ada Limon

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In hard times, poetry comes back to me—esp this last stanza of Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”, urging us to love.

Read "Chad" written by Kyle Isamu Weik and illustrated by Brett J Barr. tinyurl.com/mvkc5skr

Read “Chad”, written by Kyle Weik Kyle Isamu Weik in Ghost Parachute. A story with surprising displays of, and twists on, masculinity, as well as an impressive final landing: “And when I hear him sniffle, Chad turns on the radio and tells me to keep my eyes on the road.”

Strugglers — Ghost Parachute. It’s mine! My baby! “Strugglers”, born out of a long hard day at my day job, doing therapy. Thank you, ⁦Ghost Parachute⁩ and editor ⁦Brett Pribble⁩. ghostparachute.com/issue/march-20…

Very early birthday gift fr fellow Anne Tyler super-fan, my buddy Cass, who’s read ALL of Tyler’s books—a feat in itself—& gifted me the new one: “I even bought if fr a REAL bookstore! But I read it first, & loved 💜 it.” Happy to start reading it tonight.

You meet the strangest people, at airports!

bloodlettermag.com/swallowing/ Here’s my new story, “Swallowing”, in Bloodletter Mag. Love their concept—feminist horror— & love their engaged editor, Anna Laura Falvey.

My new microstory, “Tractor”, w teenaged dance energy, is in Micromance Magazine 🥰. Thanks for your youthful spirit, this opportunity, & colorful graphics, Micromance! open.substack.com/pub/micromance…

Thank you to Fictive Dream magazine for accepting my risk-taking story, “Some Good News About Jesus”. 😉 😉 Can’t wait to see how it reads in print!

Austin Texas, prickly pear cactus.

fictivedream.com/2025/04/27/som… Pleased w Fictive Dream & editor Laura Black for their fine treatment of my recent surreal story, “Some Good News About Jesus”. I enjoyed taking risks here. Please read! Thanks

centaurlit.com/goat-boy Check out 250 w “Goat Boy”, by moi, published in the lovely, admirable Centaur Lit . Thank you, editor Lynn Mundell.

Thank you to Libre Lit, & editor Mary Buchanan, for showcasing my therapy-culture-infused maximalist flash, “Self-Help”. 🙏🏽