Anne Rasmussen

Just look at those lil toes, curling at the prospect of a satisfying read!

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Make an Electric Company shirt and I will buy that shit in bulk.

Ouch. So good.

Max Wheeler’s short story “Abatement” explores the hazardous bond between a man and his weeds. Listen to him read an excerpt right here!

TLDR: Judge Immergut GRANTS a 2nd TRO blocking the Trump admin from sending ANY federalized troops from ANY state into Oregon/Portland. (Full hearing thread below)

cheers!

I’m going to be teaching a craft workshop on world building with the good folks at @onestorymag.bsky.social ! If you know, uh, me, you’ll know that this won’t be a straightforward class of ticking boxes one-story.com/product/worl...

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Classic.

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Or for the die-hard New Yorkers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNBV...

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Dance Myself to Sleep! www.youtube.com/watch?v=biAM...

Photo of a restaurant sign against a cloudless blue sky featuring a pig holding a breakfast plate and fork, and the words PIG'N PANCAKE, just clearing the top of a nearby tree.

My office is next to this restaurant but when describing our location to callers I keep saying "behind The Pig and the Pancake" like they're some romantic duo, à la The Owl and the Pussy-Cat.

Haha, very much the opposite. My only consolation was the Dodgers being abbreviated to LAD. My dad's term for his drinking buddies. Hard to root against a lad! But I'd hoped for a different outcome.

I love when a writing assignment goes off the rails in a good way. Keep going!

Join the Fam as a flash or fiction reader! I started with the Split Lip team as a fiction reader and you won't find a more fun or supportive team. Hope to see you in the queue, nerding out with all the other smartypants ♥️

This would either ruin my hair appointment or make my hair appointment far easier to accomplish.

Nobody p-pushes it real good anymore and I can't stop crying.

I would be remiss not to post this on national dance day

I'm a big fan of a well-deployed first-person plural. Kim nails the voice here, and the timing couldn't feel more, well, "timely."

Whew. Love this, Kim.

Abatement — Split Lip Magazine Darryl’s house was ringed by luxurious grasses. They were long and sweet-smelling, friendly and carefree, bowing and flirting in the occasional breeze.

"He felt small, as though regarded by a cow." I'm so excited for folks to read Max Wheeler's delightful story "Abatement" in our September issue. To try to summarize would not do it justice. You just have to experience it in all its strange and heartwarming glory! splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0925...

Thisssss. 👇👇👇

If you want to learn about world building in fiction, Anya would be an amazing guide. She's the real deal.

Eyelashes for days! 😍

It's only ten days until our SEPTEMBER ISSUE drops. 👀

Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

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ICYMI: We love all the doubling, the escalating wrongdoing, in Amelia Valasek's "Mud Season." Check it out before our September issue drops, and it hits the archives! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Having lived through a decade of harrowing events as a child, I'll say it's *good* to imagine the day you'll move beyond the reach of a cruel person—even if that moment won't fix everything. They want to convince you of your powerlessness, but that's not how this story ends.