Jessica Dawn

if you're going to a protest today I wish you luck. The only specific thing I will beg of you is this: don't use milk to wash out tear gas or mace. if you see a street medic with milk, yell at them until they throw it out. do not continue to spread lies about emergency medicine.

L E G E N D SHIT

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

the difference between a wonderful audiobook performance by a gifted voice actor and this "digital voice" horseshit masquerading as legit audiobooks makes me steaming mad. good narration is important and deserves to be paid for!!!!!!

Rilo Kiley last night so tonight we watch X-Files and do lit journal reading, that’s balance baby**

**if I go out two nights in a row I might die

A framed professional photo. Brody the blue heeler sits in front of a blue backdrop. He wears a blue and gold paisley bow tie and looks directly into the camera. His mouth is slightly open like the dog equivalent of a smile. He looks like a little kid in school photos.

Please look at my boy

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Wait no one told me The Haunting of Hill House was so funny

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Also RIP to our three and a half year streak with no emergency vet visits

Brody the blue heeler lies on a plaid quilt and white towel. His eyes are open and glassy, like he is looking through space and time.

Good morning to Brody, who spent yesterday stoned out of his gourd after apparently finding an edible on our morning hike.

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

High fives issue-mate!

"... for a moment we all just stood there for a bit, under the bright heat of the sun, a steady stream of traffic buzzing by us."

Sweeping, unnerving, abyssal, a brand new #longread from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/chri... #fiction

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

I wrote this!

"Janice has come to understand what all the groaning is about. She does talk about the fucking mammoth a lot."

This roundhouse kick of a story by @jessdawn.bsky.social *is* about a mammoth, but so much more: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jess... #fiction

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Anyway that’s the story of how I got three pairs of glasses at the optometrist today.

My superpower is looking good in all glasses. My kryptonite is having to actually pick a pair.

Truth or Consequences by Whitney Collins I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss. High above a green and turgid swath of Florida, one of the aircraft’s giant white engines began smoldering like a marshmallow. This mechanical de...

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

It is such a thrill that we get to feature stories like "Truth of Consequences" in @hexliterary.bsky.social. This new @whitneycollins.bsky.social is so exciting and strange and perfect. Don't miss this incredible story.

The theme is "LUCK". In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry". POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap. PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece. Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under. Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry". All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours

Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

I always forget how much I hate Ed and Lorraine Warren until I put on the Conjuring.

PORTRAIT OF YOU IN FIVE PSYCHICS by Kirsti MacKenzie First guy says: you’re gonna see a UFO. Like, BOOM. He lays this on me. Right now you’re probably thinking well, if that doesn’t torpedo the whole thing for you. But it didn’t. Okay? It didn’t. I sat ...

“Love stories are a drug I can’t quit; just one more fix...”

we have a story by Kirsti Mackenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social !!

it's about a woman who keeps seeing psychics to learn about the man of her future, while being reminded of her past. read it !

xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...

Departures by Dina L. Relles handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry. I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again. I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate. You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

You should definitely read this, it’s goddamn good

I saw a comment on .. somewhere where a person referred to people who love AI as “botlickers” and I haven’t stopped laughing about it

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

Can’t wait to publish a series of books that smell like wet dog, low tide, and cigarettes

Jessica Dawn — Does It Have Pockets The Mammoth

I wrote the first draft of this story standing at the side of a trail during a hike while Brody whined at me, and here she is now all grown up and published: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jess...

"The People Who Live Inside" by Sarp Sozdinler "My mother called me on a Tuesday afternoon to say that my Uncle Frank had been seen climbing into the old grain silo at the edge of town again."

Got a new story from @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social on Short Story, Long today!