i am so, so grateful and so deeply honored to have a poem featured on @slowdownshow.org today. you can listen to the poem and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social’s beautiful thoughts on what we know and how we know it here: www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2026...
Are you going to link 3 pieces?’ 😃
Thank you so much!
Which one of the three are you speaking on? 😊
I would love that!
Some emergency financial or health thing always gets in my way!
I’m going next year. It’s I. Chicago, apparently.
Ha! Thank you.
Still quirky as ever.
Since I have FOMO from missing AWP (again), maybe we can use this opportunity to get (re)acquainted from long-distance.
Please link to three “getting to know you” pieces of writing.
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They both do indeed rock.
Okay. Just had to agree. Back to your discussion. 😆
Circa Long December 1997
That’s so goddamn amazing.
Did you sleep in a perfect blue building?
We are excited to announce that every piece we publish in 2026 (our 10th anniversary) will be considered for our first annual Forge Editors’ Prize voted by our editors as story of the year. The announcement will be made in December and the prize will be $500.
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!
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" 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.
