Sam (he/him)

Ten Queer-owned businesses to support during the post-holiday sales slump - Queer Kentucky Businesses suffer in January! Here are a few to support this month.

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My mom: “We’re okay! I’m glad you had a good night out!”

My mom, ten seconds later: “Your old history teacher’s second cousin’s hair stylist’s tax attorney’s massage therapist’s ex-husband fell into a well and drowned this morning.”

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

Steinbeck: What did you think of my draft of 𝘖𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘯?

Publisher: It needs more characters.

Steinbeck: I'll see what I can do.

A pen that resembles a cat holds a Pride flag in a coffee mug full of dry-erase markers.

Love my little cheerleader, a grinning cat/pen nestled in a mug full of useless dry-erase markers.

Kiss me passionately in the secluded corner of a used bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Prague during a raging thunderstorm, or kindly stop wasting my time.

A page from the screenplay to the 2009 film Bright Star.

Help, the screenplay of Bright Star is attacking me.

I’m not competitive or anything, but I’ve beaten every sibling to wishing my dad a happy birthday 33 years in a row.

My writing process is usually:

a) I got this
b) well, fuck
c) wait that part was real good
d) wait no that part sucks
e) I am a god of this place
f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here
g) oh man I just figured it all out
h) mistakes were made
I) existential dread

The courtyard of the Lilly Mansion’s Winterlights show, featuring the Gardens at Newfields and countless Christmas lights.

Christmas light budget goals.

I certainly haven't been shopping for any new shoes
And I certainly haven't been spreading myself around

November 2024 was longer than 2024.

One of my stories has been nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Project! Writing about gays and mountain lions pays off. 💪

Binx (a black cat) wearing a reindeer costume.

Tinx (a gray cat) wearing a polar bear costume.

Help, there’s a reindeer and a polar bear in my house!

Tinx (a spoiled gray cat) with a little pig face.

Binx (a spoiled black cat) with a little pig face.

My first post will be highly important: my cats with little pig faces.