Ellen Morris Prewitt

It will never not be funny to me that an important writer like Joyce Carol Oates who writes captial S Serious Literature is also really good at posting. It's like if Stravinsky had lived long enough to be really good at Animal Crossing too.

an image of a home office with a long wooden desk and a computer monitor on it. Bugs bunny is sitting at the desk in a chair, and he's slouched, sinking into the chair and nodding off, falling asleep in front of the monitor

me: I get my best writing done late at night.

me, 7 minutes into writing late at night:

In which @carlquintanilla.bsky.social casually kills a man

Finishing a lengthy library book before I have to return it always makes me feel like the most powerful being on earth

I love a meme targeted for my demographic

The Girl #Cat after I took the lizard away from her. @docsavage88.bsky.social

seems like the easier solution is to give everyone free healthcare and pay for it by like buying 17 less missiles or taxing 53 dudes 1.8 percent more

It felt so good to have hope for... 5 minutes

I don’t know how you reform this. I genuinely don’t.

The Contested Domain by Lise Vogel edited by me, displayed on my grandmother’s kitchen table from the 1950s

She’s here!

When the shakedowns just start happening in public.

$NVO

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

— Albert Einstein

I have already had cause to check the 2026 Mardi Gras parade schedule twice.

Again, these maps have got to be causing a massive panic in any state where they're considering gerrymandering.

three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

To Americans, not other countries. People don't seem to understand that.

American companies were taxed, and that was passed on to consumers.

Ellis: "If they are making changes to what they do because they have been tear gassed, because they've been hit in the head with a pepperball — twice. Because they've been staring down barrels of guns. Then that is what matters."

Can we set aside that crisis of young men being driven to the Right? From NBC’s exit polling for young men 18-29:

VA: Spanberger +14
NJ: Sherrill: +10
NYC: Mamdani +40

A black, white, and red drawing of Godzilla, by Doc Shaner.

Detail of a black, white, and red drawing of Godzilla, by Doc Shaner.

Started this yesterday when it was still Godzilla Day. Skreeonk and such.

Reading Hibernation - Ellen Morris Prewitt Like a bear in the literary woods, I feel a reading hibernation coming on. Oh, and a "reading hibernation" might not be what you think.

I feel a reading hibernation coming on. It might not be what you think.

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Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger taking a selfie together

Good morning to these future governors!

A woman saying to her fluffy dog, "Peppermint, no m'am!" The most Southern thing ever.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

A short story titled "After" by Cheryl Pappas reads "I put the orange in the freezer, because I didn’t know what else to do. The rest of her school lunch I threw away, but it seemed important somehow to hold on to the orange. People filtered in and out of the house for days to ask us questions. I stacked shepherd’s pie and lasagna in the freezer; the orange poked its head out from a corner. I felt cold for it, wanted that kind of cold, wanted my fibers to go ice-sharp with crystals, wanted all the sweetness to stay put, wanted to play dead."

Just found out my story "After" published in Hunger Mountain Review is being nominated for a Pushcart!

Split the Baby - Ellen Morris Prewitt In "Split the Baby," author Lauren Rhoades takes us through the bifurcating pain of divorce into the grownup land of healing.

"Split the Baby," a memoir by Lauren Rhoades

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“There’s no going back. We *broke* something here today, something good, something that can never be put right again” — me, when I open the dishwasher before the cycle is finished.

Every time I read a Kate DiCamillo book, afterwards I'm tempted to say my favorite author is a a writer of children's fiction.

Walking Evangeline at night, I'm explaining how her dad was just moving the car to the spot in front of the house and would be right back. Ha, ha--there's my new neighbor smoking a cigarette in his side yard. So then I had to explain to him what I was explaining to my dog.