Mark Bessen

Roses are red,

Mmmmm boyfingers

Merry Xmas from my mother’s loaf Oscar

18 Gay Men Ask Edmund White Some Sexy Questions The renegade gay novelist sounds off sailors, silver daddies, and hustling ahead of the release of his new sex memoir.

I was happy to be asked by editor Christopher Bollen to contribute to these questions for Edmund White. Also featured are questions from Brontez Purnell, John Waters, Ryan O’Connell, and a showstopper from Gary Indiana. Among others. www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/t...

One loaf of sourpuss please

Bear Collides With Snowboarder at Heavenly The entire incident was captured on a high definition camera by a fellow rider.

And Gwyneth Paltrow still wins the trial

www.snowboarder.com/news/bear-co...

Allowable any Nikki Giovanni I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened

I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it.

Today is as good as any day to return to it.

This is Mr. Tony who would like to send Yuletide solidarity to his long lost brother Maui

Obsessed with the little kid who just asked her mom if this said “luck” or the f word 🥰

Just read a chapter of my novel in progress and thought, “oh, that’s not all trash,” so we’re making progress!

Lolll it’s too perfect

May you find the Honey Mama to your Mr. Tony.

Looking cute acting evil

I want to rest like Mr. Tony in the shadow of a monstera leaf

Does anyone have a better contender for greatest living singer than Cynthia Erivo? (This is not about Wicked even)

You must always watch the turtles

A Workshop for Shame and Sexual Energy - Electric Literature I closed the gulf between my intellectual and emotional comfort zones with an erotic massage

“Erotic Bodywork” in @electriclit.bsky.social

Check it outtttt and follow if ya fancy

electricliterature.com/erotic-bodyw...

Four Endings to a Grindr Romance • 1 • The sex is fine. Good, even. As the two of you are cleaning up, he says: “I wouldn’t mind doing that again.” “Neither would I,” you say. Every week or two for the next five years, you do it a…

“Four Endings to a Grindr Romance” pubbed by @tacobellquarterly.org

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(I’m rebuilding a life over here, forgive me, forgive me)

(Forgive me, I’m moving shit over from the hellsite)

Statistically, anyone referring to their 25th birthday as a “quarter life crisis” is being wildly optimistic

My stress level is directly proportional to the number of cups on my desk

I fall slightly in love with every man I see unironically wearing Volcom

BREAKING: that pig is gay now

they lost me at Meta and drove a stake through my heart with no nudity

Perfect alt text

ART

Bluesky posters: weird little freaks (complimentary)

Threads posters: weird little freaks (derogatory)

Four Endings to a Grindr Romance • 1 • The sex is fine. Good, even. As the two of you are cleaning up, he says: “I wouldn’t mind doing that again.” “Neither would I,” you say. Every week or two for the next five years, ...

no better time than now to read queer lit

@tbq.bsky.social

so far my favorite thing about bsky (genuinely) is that sometimes you swipe down to load new posts and there just aren’t any so I move about my day. wild

imagine simultaneously pitching that place as an Everything App and throttling usage, that would be crazy right