Twisted Japanese Larch bonsai, small Japanese gray-purple pinched cylinder pot, gray siding background, pot on top of wooden block.
Larix kaempheri bonsai
Japanese Larch bonsai from Left Coast Bonsai
Repotted in Japanese pot, buds were starting to swell and the rootball was very dense (grown in small felt grow bag)
#bonsai
#larixbonsai
#larch
#larchbonsai
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20.02.2026 22:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Repotted into different training pot to build some strength
#bonsai
#mugopine
#pinebonsai
#pinusbonsai
Small willow bonsai before leafing out, small blue-white abstract circle pot, gray background
Salix boydii bonsai, Japanese abstract round, shohin range
Boyd’s Willow, Iseli Nursery, before leafing out
#bonsai
#salixbonsai
#willowbonsai
"We gathered them at dusk, brittle casings caught in the mesh of the fence, clinging to tomato vines, tucked beneath the lip of the porch railing."
New fiction: "A Million Demented Cicades" by Sarp Sozdinler aka @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/sozdinler...
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A friend’s found footage film, help return the camera—
Please share!
30.01.2026 23:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Winter prairie is hard on everyone, especially rabbits."
New CNF: "Weed Killers" by Chel Campbell aka @chelcampbell.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/campbell/...
Annette the frog
Annette the frog
18.01.2026 00:05 — 👍 162 🔁 19 💬 5 📌 1it's here! my first publication of 2026!
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A call for Portland Book Fest to divest from banks that profit from the destruction of Palestine has grown into a collective that programs events to raise awareness across the city.
An upcoming event presents an opportunity to hear the winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry.
Our submissions open Jan 5 and will be open a week until Jan 12!
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"It's a Saturday in the middle of July on a white porch with an old friend. Towels along the clothesline. She’s ten years younger, so I’m always asking about her sex life."
New CNF: "Mechanical Pencils by Dina L. Relles aka @dinalrelles.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...
Art lives in the process, in the struggle to grow and figure out the specific needs of the work, and in the arrival at a better understanding of the artist’s limitations. The product is just the end result of the art.
26.12.2025 16:23 — 👍 90 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1
Mugo pine bonsai, black bark, informal upright, terra cotta colored plastic rectangle training pot, gray background
Mugo pine, bonsai material to develop in training pot
Pinus mugo
#bonsai
#pinusbonsai
#pinebonsai
#mugo
#mugopine
"She left suddenly. That's what we said when the police asked."
New fiction: "She Left Suddenly" by Zelda Knapp aka @parlorspider.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/knapp/she...
I've been seeing people say about their work lately, "I used AI in the edits & refining of this piece, but it's all my own words & ideas."
I think people don't quite understand what "my own words" means. If you're using AI, the words are not your own. They are an amalgam of other people's words.
"Daryl disappeared while we were gathering wood. He’d stayed back to prep dinner. We returned to an empty camp."
New fiction: "Happy Birthday" by Michael Czyzniejewski aka @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/czyznieje...
"When my daughter insisted I live with her, I refused."
New fiction: "Wings in the Dark" by Beth Sherman aka @bsherm36.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/sherman/w...
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Need some writing inspiration? ✏️ Check out these notebooks by @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social featuring flash prompts from contributor @kathyfish.bsky.social! buff.ly/UpOj2s9
05.11.2025 22:27 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
"The producers knew they had a hit even before the first episode."
New fiction: "The Box" by Joshua Jones Lofflin aka @jjlofflin.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/lofflin/t...
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27.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"The sky is so big here, you say, stretching your arms wide as we wade through the tall grass at the base of the basalt cliffs."
New fiction: "We are always talking about the light" by Kate Lavelle
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/lavelle/w...
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Small Douglas Fir bonsai in round gray container, twisted and slanting right. Gray bench and background siding.
Douglas Fir, more than four years old at this point, volunteer from neighbor’s tree. A lot of development in the past year, it is about 6 inches bottom of container to apex.
Pseudotsuga menziesii
#bonsai
#douglasfir
#pseudotsugabonsai
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
Love this ❤️!
03.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to our Best of the Net noms this year:
"Tether" by Meghan Phillips
"Queen" by Nora Nadjarian
"Meditation on Immigrant Moraine" by K Anand-Gall
"The Theory of Infinite Hurrahs" by Angela Townsend
@mcarphil.bsky.social
@noranadj.bsky.social
@kanandgall.bsky.social
"Gregor does not believe in an afterlife, though he has more proof than most that one exists."
New fiction: "Gregor, the Saint of Close Calls" by Spencer Nitkey aka @spencerwriting.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/nitkey/gr...
