Angela James

Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion Abortion *is* a big tent issue

To single out abortion as the place for compromise is to ignore the political reality of the last three years.

And in a moment when the stakes are so high—as women are literally dying—being both confidently wrong and hugely influential is straight up dangerous. jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

Thank you, Jessica!

At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: September 4, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones. Below that is the text of the story: —we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But when he called to cancel, I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer and not revealed the lazy mess lurking beneath my put together surface yet. "It's not that," he said. "I have to go to a funeral." After I told him how sorry I was, he said, "Want to come?" I joked, "It's too soon but take me to the next one." I appreciated the earnest vulnerability of his response that he could use the company so I said yes. My friends teased me that we'd only been on one date so maybe he was a serial killer and we would be going to my funeral. Weird how we cope with the possibility of being murdered every time we meet someone new by laughing about how hilarious it'll be if it happens, but it's preferable to being paralyzed by it. "He loves Bruce Springsteen, so he can't be that bad," I told them. The funeral was for his lifelong friend—they had first met at only five years old—so it was of course sad. We held hands as they lowered the casket. After everyone else left, we wandered the cemetery chatting about everything and nothing like we were at a coffee shop and he kissed me in front of a tombstone that read, "Beloved and remembered. Until we meet again." He ghosted me after that. When I listen to Bruce at the laundromat, I wonder why our first and last kiss happened amidst graves and death and almost write him to ask. But maybe it's better not to know.

I have a new tiny story in @havehashad.com today about fleeting connections. thanks as always to @aaronburch.bsky.social, one of the best editors around, & to all of you who read this one ♡ 💀 🪦 ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...

Gorgeous - both of you! Congratulations!

Very happy with the work @danrussell.bsky.social and I get to share with this! Get it while it’s hot, people! Yum yum yum yum

Thank you so much @offbeatlit.bsky.social for the Best of the Net nomination! I am over the moon!

Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle - Wikipedia

He did this but two women being in love and having a child is indecent. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop_D...

Thank you so much, Myna!

Guess who has a story shouted out in Myna Chang’s always fantastic Spec Flash Roundup!

The Body, Electric My body is a body in which I mean it eats, sleeps, pisses, and shits, all thanks to the 200 jolt-a-roos the ruffian at the corner gives me once per week. I am ageless, I am boundless, but I can no …

📣 Tuesday release: “The Body, Electric” by Lauren Kardos is free to read on FFO today. Content warning: immortality that’s as crumbling & inconsistent as the world we live in!
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction
@lkardos.bsky.social
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On this, the day of my birthday

A tough one to write and "have out there," but I'm proud of this hybrid micro. Many thanks to Court Harler, Flash the Court journal, and @sfreligh.bsky.social, whose prompt spurred the piece.

So a couple of years ago I feverishly wrote this thing about mothers and kids, pretending it had nothing whatsoever to do with my own mothering or childhood (hahahahahaha) and @publishedbyjake.bsky.social want to publish it (WHAT?). Coming towards the end of the year!!!

I Was Made for Loving You The boys are staying overnight at their dad’s apartment for the first time. A perfect opportunity, I’m sure, for my ex to introduce them to his twenty-five-year-old tart.Flopped on my bed upstairs …

Today, we have a historical, satirical, fantastical story from Angela James. “I Was Made for Loving You” imagines Gene Simmons from KISS as a Peter Pan figure. It’s wacky and fabulous!

#writingcommunity #flashfiction #satire #historical #literary #KISS

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Dermoid — Ghost Parachute When hunger gnaws at Kima, the dermoid gnaws back until she has no appetite at all. Since her last gyno exam, it has amassed germ cells, their weight warping the balance of her insides. She plods to t...

New story out today with Ghost Parachute’s August 2025 issue. Check out my slipstream clump of mischief—“Dermoid.”

#flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream #lightbodyhorror #hysteria #ladytroubles

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I Was Made for Loving You The boys are staying overnight at their dad’s apartment for the first time. A perfect opportunity, I’m sure, for my ex to introduce them to his twenty-five-year-old tart.Flopped on my bed upstairs …

My 70s Gene Simmons story just dropped! Thank you @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and thanks to my @smokelong.bsky.social , @jdclappwrites.bsky.social and @kmelkes.bsky.social for earlier feedback and for generally enabling my foolishness! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/i-wa...

Are you working on a motherhood linked series? I thought I was spotting a theme in some of your recent ones!

How am I just seeing this now? What a wonderful pieces, Sumitra!!

I love you… 🥰

Love this new one by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social in the new issue of Milk Candy Review!

Signed up!

@bruisermag.com also springs to mind

The piece in here by @danbillyc.bsky.social will destroy you (but that’s why we’re here, right?).

Did I say March? June but same diff.

And it is technically still March! You are on fire!

Similar but maybe because my family has had at least four orange cats over the years named Ginger

From the Google images, it seems to have all the vibes

That looks amazing! I vote both!

Yea!!! Congratulations!