Jan Stinchcomb

Also: Mothra was a novella!

From the Where Have You Been All My Life Files:

It's Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.

Thank you to all of the providers who put their safety and lives on the line to ensure we can get the care we need. You've helped me to build the life and family I have now, and there's no way to articulate the depth of my gratitude.

"why why why why why did she leave the sea?"

When you know you're going to love a story from the title alone, @hexliterary.bsky.social @katharinetyndall.bsky.social

Submit to jmww this week

Hybrid, blended, & genre-defying works. If you’re working outside the conventions of traditional genres, we want to celebrate your work. Something magical that doesn’t fit other lit categories? We’d be honored to read it.

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“You have never spoken to a dead body and begged it to wake up.”
Hold your breath through this piece in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social!

My photo shows a Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. Octopus detail from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures, including the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish, at the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.

📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions April 19-25.

Kaleidotrope is currently open to artwork submissions.

Misogyny.

A story by T Kira Māhealani Madden about a woman fleeing to safety yet compelled to share her most dangerous secrets with a mysterious stranger, recommended by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

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Oh! What if it happened on International Women’s Day?

🎶Women Anarchists of the world🎶become terror, take over🎶

I’m begging everyone to read this and also watch the documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power by Nina Menkes.
Available on Kanopy.

I’m begging everyone to read this and also watch the documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power by Nina Menkes.
Available on Kanopy.

repost this when Texas turns blue

A Friday acceptance, impossibly.

I don't know either. Something about wrenching oneself awake in horror?

No matter what kind of witch you are, I promise you'll love this story.

No matter what kind of witch you are, I promise you'll love this story.

Everyone's at AWP but I'm at A(lways) W(eeping) (into) P(illow) which is also writing work

Painting of a deer in the forest at night.

In a Flemish folktale, a woman who was said to have been a thief during life haunted a town in the shape of a deer. The ghost deer would knock on doors and wait. Between her horns she carried an illegible text. She stopped appearing when someone deciphered the text.

🎨Eugen Krüger
#WyrdWednesday

Worm (or Lenten) Blood Moon. I slept through the eclipse in my time zone.

It’s also the AWP Moon. I’m not going to Baltimore but I will look up and wish the best for you.

Worm (or Lenten) Blood Moon. I slept through the eclipse in my time zone.

It’s also the AWP Moon. I’m not going to Baltimore but I will look up and wish the best for you.

Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.

I'm still doing a GoFundMe to help my parents rebuild after a devastating house fire. The costs of doing so, with an uninsured house, are extremely high. My parents are elderly and low-income and my disabled brother lives with them. I deeply appreciate shares of this link!

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My New Doctor Asks Me If I’ve Ever Used Tobacco Products I lie because I don’t want my insurance rates to go up, because he has my family history right in front of him where it says both my parents died of lung cancer. Even if he’s too polite to say it, …

Thrilled to have a new CNF in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social , a magazine I’ve long admired. Grateful to the awesome @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for letting me dip my toes in the illustrious waters of this new issue. 🐳 🗺️ 📓

if you're an American & read one article today, read this one

Basking in Glory At the booths, I’m unable to decide whether to enter II or III. I wonder if there is an expectation as to which side of a glory hole belongs to the giver and which to the receiver. I wonder if it w…

Folks, I’m very proud of this (long) new story. If you can find a spare half hour today, I’d love for you to tuck into Basking in Glory. @courtlandavenue.bsky.social was such an incredible editor to work with! FFO: glory holes, bugs fighting, Midwest sex shops

A Sunday evening acceptance after one of the worst weeks I’ve had in a while.

waking up to wars I oppose: a memoir

Incredibly honored to have the featured nonfiction spot in the latest issue of Zone 3. I was unaware of the 1918 suffragette pamphlet “Advice on Marriage” when I wrote this piece - just came across it for the first time a few weeks ago, and it resonated like a mother***ker. Link below.👇