Michelle Drozdick

Nothing goes harder than a PSA tapping into excruciating detail about how much shingles hurts.

[Hulu boardroom]

“netflix is killing us! let’s hear some ideas”

-what if we make people choose one of the same 3 shitty commercials every 10 minutes?

“first of all, i love it..”

Recency Bias: Favourite Short Stories of 2025 so far - turn and work Favourite short stories of 2025 so far

Recency Bias: The short stories

Here are 20 of my favourite short pieces from 2025 so far. Any genre, some nonfiction here, just brilliant storytelling.

You know how Meta keeps trying to push its AI tools by randomly selecting photos and showing what it would look like with an AI filter? You have not lived until Facebook, without warning, shows you a completely unsolicited, “kawaii” version of your dead father.

not sure what my brain was doing overnight but I woke up this morning to the name “pia zadora” drifting across my consciousness like a low-res 1990s website graphic

"You’re alive to me!"

— zombie disowning their child

Everything is a lot have a timeline cleanse. Remember to breathe. 💖

I think a lot about the fact that my mom thought AI was called "Al" (as in "Weird Al") until this year and just never questioned it too deeply.

Had a dream that someone invented an "On This Day" app, but it instead listed every milestone your parents had achieved at your current age (down to the day), and this may be the worst nightmare I've ever had.

memorizing all the digits of an irrational number is as easy as pi.

Picture showing a groudon in a picture book

where is groudon

The older I get, the more automated Happy Birthday emails I get from random doctors and medical providers I visited throughout the year.

Thank you so much for including it! 😁❤️

Thank you for including my short story in this shortlist, @turnandwork.com ! ❤️

I cannot stop thinking about how there were supposedly teeth lodged in the top of the loop from people who rode it before.

*you're

American cheese is just regular cheese with 70k in hospital bills

Thinking about this character from the Amanda Show and hope she's doing okay, given everything.

Holy crap I love this.

Me? Oh, Just Living the Dream So now I’m a child, still bouncing on the trampoline--did I mention the forest floor is made of trampoline?--and I’m trying desperately not to cry.

So now I’m a child, still bouncing on the trampoline--did I mention the forest floor is made of trampoline?--and I’m trying desperately not to cry.

oh my God he is perfect

Thank you so much!

This is the first short story I’ve had published in two years. I’d love it if you gave it a read ❤️

So We Sat in the Parking Lot and Laughed About Death My mother took a week off work to make the journey to Port Nix, her mother’s hometown, even though it was only a day-and-a-half away by car. “I haven’t decided whether we’ll stay a couple of days,” sh...

So We Sat in the Parking Lot and Laughed About Death by Michelle Drozdick

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Getting 100% on this particular Sporcle quiz has been my white whale for roughly a decade now. I finally managed it, while simultaneously never identifying so hard with the "...Now what?" moment at the end of Finding Nemo.

My short story "So We Sat in the Parking Lot and Laughed About Death" runs in Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social on March 21st. It's been ages since I've had something published so I hope you check it out if that's something you might be interested in!

“i’m going to make my case, and it’ll be brief”
— creator of the briefcase

“New” Super Mario Bros. is a 20 year old videogame

look up your name in GIFS

INT. MOVIE THEATER- 1940s

The crowd of SLEDS gasp.

SLEDDY: Citizen Kane was his person the whole time?