Caitlin O'Halloran

Have you all watched The Way Home yet? It was a Hallmark time travel series originally but right now it’s on Netflix. I highly recommend it!

My 40 hr/week contract job, which was recently reduced to 20 hr/week, is now Zero hr/week due to budget cuts. (Not just me, a whole team.)

If anyone wants to hire the best entertainment writer in the galaxy (me) please be in touch. “I will do dog food commercials!”

JHoffman555@gmail.com

Lemons | Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social | Frozen Sea - Issue Nine

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Our December issue is open for submissions!

Poetry, visual art, and music.

Free to submit using our Submittable:

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Submission Open

15th September to 15th of October 2025

Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.

In this photograph by Melissa Marsh, titled "Bones," a dilapidated--and further dilapidating--building with wood siding is squeezed between two brick structures, probably apartment buildings. The aquamarine sky somehow makes the whole photo look like a watercolor.

See the whole issue, including a more accessible version of "Pink," here: https://www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-27?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Grateful to have two poems in issue 27 of The Shore, a journal I love--in the company of so many lovely poets & the photographer Melissa Marsh.
So: thank you, dear editors, for making space for this narrow fellow, "Pink."

"and the beer / tastes of bathwater / but water is not safe / to drink, and so / here we are" excerpt from Outsourcing, poetry by DS Maolalai #TheMetaworker
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Indirect Books Literature Beyond Convention

Submissions are open at Indirect!

Discover more about our reading interests and background, as well as our forthcoming projects, here:

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Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) | NOEMA To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.

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I recently watched The Way Home and Providence Falls, and loved them both. Is the Hallmark Channel way better than I thought it was? What other shows do they have that are similar?

PSA on links: On Bluesky, there’s no limit to the number of links you can share, and they will receive the same visibility as your other posts 💙

Trump: "I saw Bigfoot once. Very big feet, incredible. He shook my hand and told me what a great job I'm doing."

Media: "Trump sees Bigfoot"

So I feel very strongly that there aren’t enough good resources to tell people what mobile games are actually fun and not just a Delaware corporation lunging for your wallet and I’m going to start a thread. Sam’s IOS Game Thread START:

🚨🚨New Story 🚨🚨

Check out @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social’s “To The Person Who Stole My Package” on our stories page!

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#shortstory #flashfiction #story #fiction #flash #micro #stolenpackage #horror #thriller #funny #humor #creativewriting #writing

The Submission Grinder launched about twelve and a half years ago!

In that time, 712,809 submissions have been recorded by 12,436 users.

Of those, there were 42,894 acceptances have been recorded by 5169 of those users.

So the overall acceptance rate of submissions records on the site is 6.0%.

3 Poems by Caitlin O'Halloran — Sybil When day is done, the sky puts on her black dressing gown and turns in for the night.

3 poems and a photo of mine were recently published in Sybil Journal.
www.sybiljournal.com/work-2/2025/...

This poem is about my husband's favorite kind of art, still life paintings of fruit.
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Resources | MattKendrick.co.uk Free resources from Matt Kendrick.

Just been updating the **FREE** resources section on my website. Hopefully lots of useful stuff here on everything from body language to collective nouns, sensory inspiration to proverbs & sayings. PLUS lots of lists of example stories including a list of lists...

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources

If you're looking to read a summertime poem, check out my latest publication at Backchannels. #Poetry backchannelsjournal.net/edition-no-1...

Thank you!

Thank you!

A mostly made bed with a colorful patchwork quilt and a grey headboard. A small Yorkie mix dog is tucked in between the blankets and the pillows and leans against a teddy bear.

I actually tried to make my bed for once and my dog didn’t want to move, so I tucked her in instead.

Open to Submisions: Switch: A Magazine of Micro Fiction Switch: A Magazine of Micro Fiction (Fiction; non-paying) opened to fiction submissions. #amwriting

Switch: A Magazine of Micro Fiction (Fiction; non-paying) opened to fiction submissions. #amwriting

Thank you, Matt!

I once swore I saw a demon standing by my bed. It was shaped like a lion but made entirely of light."

Love how both these micros from @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social explore the speculative:

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Is "a one way ticket to clown town" not a common idiom? I used it in a conversation with my husband and he didn't know it. Then I Googled it and found only a handful of results. I also cannot remember where I've heard this said before, but I'm certain I didn't invent it.

Crowded City Bus | Caitlin O'Halloran @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social | Frozen Sea - Issue Eight

Novelists, which nonfiction books about writing craft have you found most useful to guide you? I'm getting a lot out of Lisa Cron's "Story Genius" right now & would love more recs. #amwriting

underscore_magazine - witness the street Witness the street with no one on it, the crosswalk signal flashing on and off, the little white man still walking, even with no one around. Water collects in potholes, forming miniature lakes, ...

I have a new poem out today in @underscoremag.bsky.social!
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The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing

This is such a cool student job. I'd be so curious to hear what questions people deem worthy enough to warrant picking up the phone and calling a stranger.
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