Barlow Adams

Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”

Or as I like to call them—bagels.

It's Women in Horror Month! Here are some of my favorite horror and horror adjacent books by women that I think you should read. 🖤

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I hope it turns out wonderful!

Episode 229 ft. Karen Palmer Karen Palmer joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about changing her identity to escape a dangerous ex-husband, being stalked, the consequences of deciding to disappear, coming to grips with the...

Ronit Plank interviewed me @ SHE'S UNDER HERE. We had a good conversation about how hard it is to know anyone, including yourself, about moving around in time w/out losing the reader and finding an ending late in the writing and, especially, on keeping the faith.

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What inspired this, if I may ask?

I don’t even read them. I just lick the pages. It exists to serve me!

Heartwarming, really.

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

Nice.

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This is marvelous.

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…

"Basking in Glory" by @danielmiller.bsky.social is a day in the life of an adult video store employee. With a mysterious encounter, online gambling at Insect Sport World, & the last active Glory Hole in Howard County, it has the makings of a literary classic!
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Such a nice way of wording “trauma dump.”

Thank you!

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It is! But it can be unwieldy for the flash market.

What’s a good place that’s open right now for a 4k word CNF that got way too long and may or may not have a Taco Bell reference in it? 👀

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

It turns out you can’t clean up the government with Dude Wipes.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

I think this is the danger of telling any story with any hint of subtlety. These same people will idolize Patrick Bateman and think Homelander is the protagonist. Walter White is clearly not someone to be admired. He ultimately fails at everything and is mostly a wannabe tough guy who loses it all.

Flash contributor Ani King with fiction editor Anne Rasmussen.

Split Lip Treasurer Ruth LeFaive with flash contributor Skyler Melnick. Skyler is holding a "Library Kids' Club" tote bag. Ruth is holding socks reading "Keep Writing."

We ❤️ our flash contributors! Here are contributors @aniking.bsky.social and @skyskkyy.bsky.social. 🙌 @whatll-i-do.bsky.social @ruthlefaive.bsky.social

a stuffed animal is looking out of a window . ALT: a stuffed animal is looking out of a window .

Thank you!

Well, still processing the news, but my short story “More” has been selected as the 2nd Prize Winner at the Bath Flash Fiction February 2026 Award. Big thanks to Jude Higgins and Ingrid Jendzrejewski for the selection.

Read all prize-winning work here:

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/win...

Barlow Adams has a beautiful new essay out in the world: www.whaleroadreview.com/adams-3/

That’s actually my favorite thing as a writer, so thank you!

Fucking. A.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

We all come due eventually.