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Laura Leigh Morris

@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

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Gorgeous cover!!!

04.10.2025 21:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It only took 256 days to reach the โ€œzip tying little kids at 2am on the streetโ€ stage of this administration.

04.10.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3893    ๐Ÿ” 1405    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 108    ๐Ÿ“Œ 55
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How does it feel to have leopards eating your face? #leopards #leopardsatemyface

04.10.2025 21:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Schrรถdingerโ€™s army: the best on earth but also fat and woke.

02.10.2025 01:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you!!

23.09.2025 18:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mostly 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.

Mostly 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! ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿ’™

23.09.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Hub City Press and University Press of Kentucky: Reading and Conversation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meetin... Join us on September 18th at 6 pm for a virtual reading and conversation with Hub City Press and the University Press of Kentucky.

Tomorrow 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

17.09.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Assistant, Associate, or Professor of English Welcome to Furman University's Career Site! IMPORTANT: Load all documents in the My Experience area under Resume/CV. This may include your resume/C.V., cover letter, unofficial transcript, teaching ph...

Come 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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09.09.2025 12:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

11.08.2025 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13222    ๐Ÿ” 3378    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 379    ๐Ÿ“Œ 185

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Watched 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Me to Three: I love you.
Three: Thanks.

Later...
Three: I don't love you everyday, but I love you right now.

#parenting

28.07.2025 23:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

American intelligence: We set back Iran by a few weeks.
Trump: hissy fit.
CIA: Surprise information! We obliterated it!

Y'all. Dafuq?
#nuclear #iran

26.06.2025 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Eat You Up by Laura Leigh Morris The baby stares at the ceiling fan, content for the moment. I slump on the couch, afraid any movement will make her cry. My stomach growls. I canโ€™t remember my last full meal. Days blur together. Mโ€ฆ

NEW STORYโšก๏ธ๐Ÿธ

โ€œEat You Upโ€ by @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social is now up!

Art by Miranda Kramer

flash-frog.com/2025/06/23/e...

23.06.2025 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Eat You Up by Laura Leigh Morris The baby stares at the ceiling fan, content for the moment. I slump on the couch, afraid any movement will make her cry. My stomach growls. I canโ€™t remember my last full meal. Days blur together. Mโ€ฆ

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reorganizing the collection after some additions and revisions. #flashfiction #writingcommunity

19.06.2025 21:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

and 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

10.06.2025 13:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Tasted like fascism."

08.06.2025 19:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

05.06.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44360    ๐Ÿ” 9670    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 517    ๐Ÿ“Œ 544

They made a public announcement of the winners hours before letting people know. I've never been a part of a literary contest like that. I've always heard, "sorry, not you, but we'll announce the winners soon." Then they do. Literary contests aren't televised. There's no reason to go public first.

23.05.2025 12:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's always weird when a press announces the winner of their contest without actually telling everyone else they've lost first. Bad form. #Writingcommunity

22.05.2025 16:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Iโ€™m letting the business of the writing world interfere with my #writing. Does not make me a better writer. Need to find a way to get my head on straight. Ideas? #writingcommunity #writingadvice

22.05.2025 16:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Life with elder cat. #cats

21.05.2025 01:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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