Danielle Zaccagnino Maes

for the night crowd 🌙

Thank you!!

Yay! So excited for this issue!

“Did the world fall ill at once, or was only the ill world visible?”

Editor @daniellezacc.bsky.social has work in the new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social!

anmly.org/ap41/daniell...

A screenshot of a Twitter post featuring a colorful graphic with the text "Unlock Your Potential!" in bold letters, accompanied by a motivational quote about personal growth and self-improvement.

I'm not even totally sure how to describe today's footnoted collage-y pastiche from a.d. but it feels kinda like one of those "only on HAD" pieces and I really love it a lot

https://www.havehashad.com/uuksi

accountability post: I need to finish a not embarrassing draft of my novel by the end of 2026. looking for someone to potentially cause me grievous bodily harm 18 months from now

for those getting AP scores back today, I know there can be a lot of emotions attached to scores—so I wanted to share briefly a few thoughts around what I find helpful versus unhelpful (again, just from my experience!)

(brief 🧵)

That sounds like so much fun!

🖤🖤🖤

Signs: The Emperor Has No Clothes, Immigrants Make America Great, No Kings, Diversity Equity Inclusion

NO KINGS

every time “where is thumbkin” plays, I hear the “how are you today sir? very well I thank you” in adam sandler’s voice. it’s the chalamet of baby songs

3rd time submitting to one of my favorite journals and I got a big fat acceptance! 💪💪💪

I'll Be Waiting — Peatsmoke Ani King Because Pastor said it doesn’t matter if our eyes are closed if we pray with our whole hearts, Tattletale, worry about your own eyes.

I'm so incredibly happy to have a new Horsegirl story in @psmokejournal.bsky.social today! www.peatsmokejournal.com/spring-2025-...

go kate!!

COLE BEAUCHAMP: In April, Hartley wakes to find two bumps Flash Fiction By Cole Beauchamp In April, Hartley wakes to find two bumps   hot and squishy to the touch, on top of her skull. But there’s nothing to see in the mirror, no matter how carefully…

Nice one! My story "In April, Hartley wakes to find two bumps" is published in April by Flash Boulevard ☺️

Thanks so much to editor @francinewitte.bsky.social for selecting this and my Shark boy tale...

flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/04/19/c...

Love this one! So good to see it in the world!!

Poem titled unnameable creature by Mai Hindawi

Loooove this poem by Mai Hindawi in @fastfleshlit.bsky.social

Artwork for issue 10: “The 12 Caesars of Rome” by Marek Danielewski

We had so much fun reading the submissions for our Experimenting with Form issue! Here it is in all its glory, featuring Marek Danielewski, Mai Hindawi, Lukas Wood, Jonathan McLelland, and JI Kleinberg.

fastflesh.net/issue-10

I hate when I’m listening to a book thinking “oooh my student might like this” and then halfway through it’s like ✨something heeeinous ✨

motherhood update: they don’t talk enough about the phantom cries. I heard them last night while he was IN MY ARMS and SLEEPING. how / WHY

every day that my son practices crawling and standing, he gets bit by bit better at holding his own weight, and every day I watch him and think of madam zeroni’s advice to carry a piglet up a hill

I taught DFW when I was subbing yesterday, and today I’m listening to Tenth of December (George Saunders). DFW’s influence on him is SO PALPABLE. never caught it before!

The autistic guide to waving exuberantly without accidentally Sieg Heiling We’ve all done it. Who hasn’t been innocently hanging out at the inauguration of a man dubbed by people in his own party as the next Hitler and accidentally performed a Nazi salute that could only be ...

By Sara Gibbs an autistic comedy writer

"The autistic guide to waving exuberantly without accidentally Sieg Heiling"

thedailytism.com/the-autistic...

I can’t see the original post but I believe she did make clear that this is a resource for her project, crowd-sourced reviews of small press books. I don’t think she’s obligated to give away a resource she made. If you signed up to review, you would get it.

when I was young I read so I didn’t have to interact with people. now I hang out with people, get hit hard with a social hangover, and read to recover. progress?

David Lynch is part of a small fraternity of famous people (think Mr. Rogers, Bob Saget) who, when he dies, despite his enormous body of artistic & financial achievement, the very first thing everyone says is: he was so kind. What a good, kind man.

Aspire to follow suit.

no idea how people do #5amwritersclub. when my baby wakes me up at 6:30 I have to turn on ms rachel until my eyes and brain accept that consciousness has been thrust upon me

there’s a nyt crossword called “extremely online in 2024” and unfortunately I crushed it

best Lorrie Moore book? only one I’ve read is Self Help and I need more

put on a lot of disney movies the last few days while I was sick and baby was cranky. Encanto and Moana might be… better than some of the classics?