Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Waffle House Poet Laureate. Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, Wigleaf Top 50. Rejected by Tiger Beat
Cincinnati, OH
Joined November 2017
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The word is out. @ClaudiaMonpere'sTHE PERIODIC FAMILY is a stellar collection. And it's out today from Cowboy Jamboree! Get yours: cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/t…
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My memoir is ONE OF FOUR FINALISTS FOR THE @booklife Prize, y’all! 🙀
Announcing the BookLife Prize Finalists! booklife.com/news/authors/04…
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My very first piece of cnf today in the wonderful
@frazzledlitmag . Please have a read about my cousin, Ashton & if you don't feel like reading, there's an audio of me narrating the piece. Thanks to brilliant editors, Jen & Laura. Check out the issue!
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Big thanks to my literary hero @BarlowAdams for reading an advance copy of Not Finished Yet and providing such a lovely blurb for the cover. Preorder now, releases in January.
“Threaded with humor, grace, and unsparing honesty, Not Finished Yet is both an autopsy and an anthem— an exploration of trauma, grief, and healing that invites the reader to celebrate the courage to allow ourselves to be undone and the beauty of the in-between moments that precede real growth and change.”
— Barlow Adams, Writer and Essayist
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It’s performative reading now. Back when I was younger, people just called it being a dork.
The weirdest part of getting old has been seeing the nerdy things I got teased for loving as a kid become so trendy, people get accused of trying to look cool by doing them in public.
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We were closer than ever to curing cancer and now everyone’s gonna end up with some shit called Cobbler’s Rot that no one’s had since the Habsburgs
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he didn’t know how many Americans died from Covid-19 or whether Covid-19 vaccines saved any lives.
Story: rollingstone.com/politics/po…
Free donuts at work are the mind-killer. Free donuts at work are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face those donuts. I will permit them to pass over me and not through me. Only I will remain.
Monster-fucker romance gives me hope for the world because it takes a special kind of resilient optimism to look at the awful state of humanity and think, “Yes, people are terrible, but I’m not giving up on dating. If Mothman exists, I’m totally going to find him and bang him.”
“I’ll have you know flash fiction is thriving,” I whisper in the back of the town hall meeting where everyone is rightfully screaming that everything is going wrong and we are racing toward a second Dark Age at breakneck speed.
Seven year-old: “Dad, have you ever felt like your heart was a little meatball and someone just stabbed through it with a fork?”
Raising poets over here, y’all.
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“….Twitter filled … a hole I didn’t realize was there. It was messy and chaotic, but ….You could celebrate a milestone—”Finished my draft!”—and strangers would cheer you on.”
@BarlowAdams nails what we all loved, and miss, about OG Twitter in this new @ReckonReview essay 💔
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NEW STORY⚡️🐸
“The Bright Jars of Our Bodies” by @sarahillswrites is now up!
Art by Sherry Shahan
flash-frog.com/2025/07/28/th…
Have a new column out about this place, what it was and what it meant to me, the lingering good it still does in spite of itself. reckonreview.com/wind-and-ro…
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Please head over to Reckon to read this essay by our columnist Barlow Adams. It was exactly what I (Meg) needed to read today. Maybe you, too?
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ok so this is a bucket list item checked off for me...i got quoted in @Forbes!! check out my commentary on the SharePoint exploits that have everyone scrambling: forbes.com/sites/tonybradley…
Never thought I’d live long enough to hurt from age-related aches and pains, and they are beautiful, terrible things to me now. Each one an agony of good fortune. Some mornings I feel so lucky I could scream. 😆
