@susannabaird.bsky.social
Neurodivergent Word Freak, Junk Food Fiend. She/her. Editor @fiveminutelit.bsky.social, tho views expressed here are mine alone. susannabaird.com
... five minutes of pure, unshadowed joy ... —"Trading Time" by Kyle Hina, at fiveminutelit.com ...
30.04.2025 10:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0... I entered my login information and scrolled ... —"Exam Score" by Anna Oh, up at fiveminutelit.com ...
29.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He adorably complains it’s a boring operation, my cyst will likely grow back, but says he’ll still do it if I want (I want). —"McDreamy" by @abbys480.bsky.social, found at fiveminutelit.com
29.04.2025 02:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0She’s told him I am on my way, and I am. —"Nonstop Flight by
@kevingrauke.bsky.social
When we met, I was working as a cashier in a windowless cafeteria and felt like a wilted salad. —"Visionary" by K Roberts ...
17.04.2025 11:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trazodone it is.—"Ghabrahat (Nervous)" by Mridula Morgan
fiveminutelit.com/ghabrahat-nervous
I put a chocolate orange into my basket and I tell myself that it’s not really a prayer. —"Not a Prayer" by @stephlay.bsky.social, published at fiveminutelit.com
14.04.2025 16:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This, I felt.
13.04.2025 17:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A small thing that makes me happy: People singing along to grocery store radio, not aware they're singing along to grocery store radio.
13.04.2025 00:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just a reminder that these are the people purporting to be outraged by antisemitism on campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
11.04.2025 19:31 — 👍 1809 🔁 645 💬 31 📌 23. . . the rise and fall of our hands, pressed above your heart, a momentary peace . . . "in bed together" by Elliot Gray Boodhan, published @fiveminutelit.bsky.social . . .
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I am a reader & an eater & I love @newenglandtammy.bsky.social's cookbooks because they make for good reading & I love her cookbook launches because they make for good eating. Sunday we celebrated NEW ENGLAND BRUNCH & I ate all of the everything & I said HOORAY! www.globepequot.com/978149307687...
08.04.2025 19:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0This word person was not only heartened by the size of the crowd at Salem #handsoff, but also by all the clever signs. (Mine was a prosaic, heartfelt HANDS OFF LIBRARIES.)
05.04.2025 22:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Every night ... from the TV in the next room blared this litany of things that had never before happened ... we assumed, that those things could and would soon be undone ... that some adult or adults would arrive ... to set things right."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How are you using Bluesky? I haven't settled in. A million things in the world making me rage, but also 3 things I loved in Melissa Mogollan's OYE, just finished: Abuela's upgraded body parts; Luciana's clever digs at her sorority queen sister; how love is often expressed via quippy exasperation.
03.04.2025 00:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Was literally talking about Wallace & Gromit two hours ago.
03.04.2025 00:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0RIP Val and also this is just a fantastic piece of writing by @taffyakner.bsky.social that I first consumed via the listen option.
02.04.2025 19:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I hope the writers, the poets, will find in this list endless prompts.
10.03.2025 13:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library
04.02.2025 14:41 — 👍 32744 🔁 5626 💬 62 📌 32Love my work as editor of this tiny mag, and super loved getting to tell the talented Jalen Giovanni Jones he'd won our Fall Contest. Good news, good gig. GO JALEN.
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