Identity Theory

Executor of tangible goods: A Micro Poem by Molly Akin we invent our hauntings

One of the poems in the chap found a first home in @identitytheory.bsky.social: www.identitytheory.com/executor-tan...

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Ethan Hawke Interview (Ash Wednesday) - Identity Theory In-depth conversation with writer-actor Ethan Hawke (Gattaca, Chelsea Walls) following the publication of his novel Ash Wednesday in 2002.

ASH WEDNESDAY throwback. www.identitytheory.com/ethan-hawke/

"Men get to go shave their heads and chant and leave behind the people they were. Women get to raise kids who look more and more like their sisters, have to keep living in the old life, living in it and living in it and living in it."

So real, poignant, and true, @jessdawn.bsky.social.

Monkey Sea Monkey Do - Identity Theory All we can do now is work with what we’ve got, even if none of it is what we asked for.

"All we can do now is work with what we’ve got, even if none of it is what we asked for."

Read "Monkey Sea Monkey Do" by @jessdawn.bsky.social

Cartoon: Where do you see yourself in 5 years, Geno?

The latest from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Run, Sisyphus, I've got this

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Absolutely chuffed. 2025 was the hardest year I have experienced as a writer (fascism isn’t great) so I was thrilled when @identitytheory.bsky.social picked up Baggage. Thank you for nominating this one; it means the world to me.

Baggage by Fannie H. Gray - Identity Theory Pack the pills first.

We've nominated "Baggage" by @mrsfanster.bsky.social for Best Small Fictions 2026. Read it here:

Cartoon of person standing in front of colors. Caption: Color Guard

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Cartoon: The Museum of Outsider Geometry

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

this was fun! thanks for your subs. i only accepted one piece last night, but read a lot of almosts! subs remain open if you want to send something today :) happy new year 🤍

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Willis picked a bad place to renounce corporeal existence

This week's @ampydoo.bsky.social cartoon.

Walking After: A Poem by David Rosenthal - Identity Theory Everything is fraught / with terror when one’s life is blessed / by saving.

In September, the illustrious @identitytheory.bsky.social put up this very personal poem
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Oh, wow! I barely published this past year, so this is an unexpected honor. Thanks @identitytheory.bsky.social and good luck to my fellow nominees!

Thank you so much @identitytheory.bsky.social for the nomination, and congrats to the other nominees!

Best Microfiction 2026 Nominees from Identity Theory: "Lullaby to the Old World Order" by Elizabeth Fletcher, "Egg, Five Ways" by Emily Rinkema, "Never This Before" by Donna Shanley, "Homing" by Elena Zhang

Congratulations to this year's Best Microfiction nominees: @esfletcher.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social and Donna Shanley!

The Amazing Sleep Anywheres

That time the horizon snapped

It's a double @ampydoo.bsky.social Sunday!

Some ghosts, like Larry, are all smell

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Cartoon drawing of person holding a shampoo bottle with a raccoon head sticking out. Raccoon shampoo, not good

Hey, it's another @ampydoo.bsky.social cartoon.

Drawing of an island outside a window. Caption: Honey, why is the island so much closer today?

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Cartoon drawing of 3 grey mullet fish. Caption: Gray mullet mullet

This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Choose barbaric yawp over AI slop.

Book Review: Alan Michael Parker’s Bingo Bango Boingo At the core of Alan Michael Parker’s 'Bingo Bango Boingo' is its major formal premise: stories laid out in the 25 boxes of a bingo card.

A review of our resident cartoonist's bingo fiction book.

We Only Get Drier by Jason Hardung - Identity Theory Still, it was love, and this type of love would pull me through later in life when there was no other kind.

Also new! "We Only Get Drier" by Jason Hardung (CNF)

The Alphabet of a Sidewalk Story - Identity Theory Yes, it’s true this all started with a crow. Or maybe it all started with the bagels.

New! "The Alphabet of a Sidewalk Story" by @julietpersimmon.bsky.social www.identitytheory.com/the-alphabet...

Cartoon drawing of man with goatee hanging on to knee of large person.

Dad, let go. This week's cartoon from @ampydoo.bsky.social

Thomas Perry Dies at 78; Writer of Popular, Unconventional Thrillers

RIP to our old friend Thomas Perry.