Mark Abdon

That's... a lot of stairs. Thanks, but not thanks. However, did you know a flock of stairs is called a flight?

Whoa dang. Maybe not. $399 on eBay, eh?

I think that you’ve got what it takes….

I think @adroitjournal.bsky.social does some secondary and undergrad-specific calls. I want to say their current contest is only open to undergrad and younger...

Hmmm... yes. That's better than "BeTrothchee". Simpler too. Let's go with yours.

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Grade 37 more essays?

Or I could alphabetize that bag of limes over there...

Thanks, brain.

Heartened to find this thoughtful piece by the editor of Christianity Today on the danger of deportation without due process.

I’d like to congratulate Cezarija Abartis for First Place in the index. Alphabetically, there’s nobody better. Know when you’re beaten, you know?

Kurt Vonnegut quote encouraging creativity for its own sake

Sounds familiar...

"In the bathroom you blushed at the backsides of bawdy dames. Who were those people, black-and-white and glamorous?

Maybe they’re bent on revenge, like ghosts (all that remains of young lives, now parody, glued to the stalls)."

RIP, Buca.

"There was the unpredictable ember of anger he set alight in me that heated everything I did in the weeks and months and, yes, even the years after I had to learn to be without him."

Whew! This one takes quite a turn before the end! New @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social.

Cheers from Indianapolis–also-not–Los-Angeles! 🍻

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Well it only took me several years... but finally got around to making a writerly website.

markabdonwrites.com

Never gets old. An Eternal Joke, if you will. Or some kind of Inf–

I've given up on my kids and literature. I'm just trying to get mine to contribute to household chores. Broom of the system, you know?

"But she’s the one who doesn’t understand. Lila smells like vanilla and limes. She has one blue eye and one brown eye... She sings when it’s raining out and makes me want to sing too."

Great prose moment from "Stupid Girl", @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social. Read the rest!

No offense to the fish lovers out there. But a win for humanity that you work with words, no?

"When we tore the strawberry pink ribbons off our white teddy bears’ necks, it was not about the ribbons. It was our response to the terror of gentleness and elegance..."

Clever new @noraraywrites.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social.
(Side note - glad you're a writer, not an icthyologist)

I Was Asleep When the Golden Opportunity Arose — The Fourth River By Mark Abdon

I hear you're supposed to pay taxes in March. But this month, I'm already indebted to @catamaranlit.bsky.social, @moonparkreview.bsky.social, and now Fourth River:

www.thefourthriver.com/tributaries-...

Yes! One of my favorite parts of the lit mag world is meeting new writers when we overlap in a new issue!

Too kind 🙏

Hey thanks, Dawn! Mutual writerly respect 🫡

"The garden seemed a lovely little oasis, a calm and quiet respite from the hubbub, from the onslaught of human activity that is the city."

New @k-a-polzin.bsky.social in the stunning Garden Issue of @catamaranlit.bsky.social.

Fun to overlap here AND in @moonparkreview.bsky.social this month 🤷‍♂️

In our Special Garden Issue, explore lush literary works with settings that span public gardens, imaginary gardens, themes of flowers, plants, and the organic world, alongside visual artwork from landscape & still life paintings to abstraction and realism.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/the-garden-i...

"Until I slip, and they scowl, and my tongue stumbles, and my brain struggles to recalibrate, and my heart sighs. I give them space."

Wonderfully tender piece by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in the new @moonparkreview.bsky.social.

"I quote her to whoever is with me. I plant myself more deeply when others slip away. I keep hoping it’s still possible to win."

Love this piece ("My Grandma Taught Me Never To Leave Until It’s Over") by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social in this new @moonparkreview.bsky.social issue!

Missing out on AWP? Want to meet some new writer friends? Join me (and other awesome writers & poets) for some chill hangouts! Register (for free) for one or both:

March 26th HANGOUT: shorturl.at/UISIF

March 28th HANGOUT: shorturl.at/zXRBP

“Tomorrow will bring a different mess,” writes Maria Koors in “The Optimist’s Almanac.” As I’ve prepared this Spring 2025 issue, I’ve been thinking about the messes that continue to pile up, both personal and shared.

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-38-spr...