4: do your teachers let you say potty words at your school?
Me: I am the teacher.
4: do you students let you?
@lauraleighwrite.bsky.social
Appalachian, prison reform advocate, mother, author of The Stone Catchers: A Novel (UP Kentucky, 2024) and Jaws of Life: Stories (West Virginia UP, 2018). Words in STORY, North American Review, Florida Review, others. www.lauraleighmorris.com
4: do your teachers let you say potty words at your school?
Me: I am the teacher.
4: do you students let you?
Reports of icy conditions in Greenville, SC, especially near White Horse Road. Stay safe. Keep your neighbors safe. Keep your eyes open and your cameras on. #greenvillesc
18.11.2025 13:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0She dresses up nicely. (Birthday gift from the husband.)
10.11.2025 22:42 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0um...
06.11.2025 21:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Honored to be on the Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia longlist with so many other great books. @kentuckypress.bsky.social #Appalachia #Writing
22.10.2025 12:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Gorgeous cover!!!
04.10.2025 21:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It only took 256 days to reach the โzip tying little kids at 2am on the streetโ stage of this administration.
04.10.2025 16:21 โ ๐ 3875 ๐ 1394 ๐ฌ 108 ๐ 54How does it feel to have leopards eating your face? #leopards #leopardsatemyface
04.10.2025 21:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Schrรถdingerโs army: the best on earth but also fat and woke.
02.10.2025 01:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you!!
23.09.2025 18:25 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Mostly black flier with a green leaf on the left with a silhouette of a frog. Text announces Best of the Net nominations: Laura Leigh Morris and Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez.
Our BotN nominations are in! Congrats to Sonia Alejandra Rodrรญguez and @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social We're rooting for you! ๐ธ๐
23.09.2025 17:24 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Tomorrow at 6pm, join writers from @hubcitypress.bsky.social and @kentuckypress.bsky.social for a short reading and discussion about reading, writing, and the South. Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#fiction #memoir #poetry #writingcommunity
Excited to take part in the virtual open night mic at the Pat Conroy Literary Center tomorrow. Check it out: patconroyliterarycenter.org/.../virtual-...
10.09.2025 18:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Come be my colleague! Open rank position in multi-ethnic US literature.
Feel free to reach out if you have questions. #multiethniclit #academia #English #litjobs
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I'm not sure why I like to see my #submittable pieces move from received to in progress, but it feels so very good.
26.08.2025 20:29 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.
Do you understand?
when people don't want to preserve what we have, when people act like authoritarians. And right now, this system is breaking. Is broken. And there's no stopping it until everyone stands up against authoritarianism. 2/2 #authoritarianism #America #democracy
11.08.2025 22:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I keep thinking about people saying, "well, technically, he is allowed to..." whatever it is. Here's the thing: not everything is made illegal or legal for leaders, but we do expect our elected officials to act within the spirit of the law, to hold democracy high. The whole system breaks down 1/2
11.08.2025 22:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Watched Superman tonight. When the right equates themselves with the bad guys and blames the left for that...that says more about them than us. #Superman
02.08.2025 02:13 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Me to Three: I love you.
Three: Thanks.
Later...
Three: I don't love you everyday, but I love you right now.
#parenting
Just called the lawnmower repair place and then scheduled a colonoscopy. I think I just crossed the official threshold into middle age.
07.07.2025 13:08 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0American intelligence: We set back Iran by a few weeks.
Trump: hissy fit.
CIA: Surprise information! We obliterated it!
Y'all. Dafuq?
#nuclear #iran
NEW STORYโก๏ธ๐ธ
โEat You Upโ by @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social is now up!
Art by Miranda Kramer
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Stoked to have a new story up @flashfrog.bsky.social today: flash-frog.com/2025/06/23/e... #writingcommunity #flashfiction
23.06.2025 12:42 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Reorganizing the collection after some additions and revisions. #flashfiction #writingcommunity
19.06.2025 21:20 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0and leave the throngs of religion a huge, horrible, repulsive form. It is a religion for oppressors, tyrants, man-stealers, and thugs."
I should not see such clear connections to the christian church in America today. 3/3
He writes, "These ministers make religion a cold and flinty-hearted thing, having neither principles of right action, nor bowels of compassion. They strip the love of God of its beauty, 2/3
10.06.2025 13:26 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm currently reading Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" for today's class, and today's religious right seems to live in the entire section about the church's responsibility for continued enslavement. 1/3
10.06.2025 13:26 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"Tasted like fascism."
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