My agent: Do you have any short stories?
Me: I've been waiting my whole life for someone to ask me that question.
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Thriller writer. Author of LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER. St. Paul resident. TV watcher. Greyhound owner. Roll tide. Repped by Katie Greenstreet at Paper Literary. MATCHMAKING FOR PSYCHOPATHS forthcoming in July 2025.
My agent: Do you have any short stories?
Me: I've been waiting my whole life for someone to ask me that question.
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, itβs declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earthβs highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
07.10.2025 00:25 β π 8622 π 2784 π¬ 144 π 124its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content
06.10.2025 02:27 β π 4487 π 1062 π¬ 22 π 30this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
04.10.2025 01:13 β π 8214 π 3835 π¬ 269 π 456Don't forget that she dated Taylor Lautner
03.10.2025 13:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0it's funny to me that the people who talk about the criminal mindset, which is not a real thing, are the same people who talk about the success mindset, which is just crime
01.10.2025 16:54 β π 650 π 78 π¬ 8 π 3Unfortunately I think TikTok has made me hate it when people dance
01.10.2025 13:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
28.09.2025 05:36 β π 22605 π 5337 π¬ 608 π 260Thatβs not actually the worst idea
24.09.2025 23:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The man opened a sushi restaurant and named it Ajian. He should not be allowed near the senate.
24.09.2025 23:09 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0I need to apologize. Brian and I invoked this today by recalling how he tweeted about bikes needing to stay on the sidewalk. Also, AJ McCarron blocked me on Twitter, which would make him one of many AL politicians that I had weird interactions with on that website.
24.09.2025 23:07 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0I realized when Ronan was a baby that I actually hate going to sleep and itβs hard when you are waking up at minimum three times throughout the night (more like six most of the time). The thing I like is waking up feeling like Iβve slept.
23.09.2025 23:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think Iβm doing pretty well postpartum, except I hate the transition from daytime to nighttime. I dread going to sleep and am also so tired feel like I need to sleep immediately.
23.09.2025 23:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Truly hate that when an Auburn coach retires, I have to dread what political position heβs going to take
22.09.2025 17:55 β π 26 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0I can tell the economy is bad because my IG inbox is filled with accounts offering to promote my book if I pay them $200.
21.09.2025 13:25 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For myself, Iβm just excited to get free books that other people would think I like. I just finished a forthcoming book that was excellent and kept me company during overnight pump sessions.
20.09.2025 22:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Little do people know that a lot of times you donβt even get a physical copy of the book. The UK tends to be better about this than the US. In the US, only *special* writers get physical copies usually.
20.09.2025 22:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I did do a search to see if itβs safe to exercise earlier than six weeks and found a reddit thread that was like βno because the wound inside of you is still healing and your pelvis will prolapseβ and wow, pregnancy is a horror movie.
20.09.2025 13:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0At two weeks postpartum, I'm not exercising or writing, but I am preparing to exercise and write, meaning that I'm going for long walks and writing in short bursts.
20.09.2025 13:31 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Eminem lyrics from βWithout Meβ So the FCC wonβt let me be Or let me be me, so let me see
He tried to warn us.
18.09.2025 20:08 β π 147 π 16 π¬ 2 π 2As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.
18.09.2025 07:48 β π 2870 π 425 π¬ 84 π 71What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator
16.09.2025 05:50 β π 9440 π 1920 π¬ 204 π 110Thank you!
15.09.2025 23:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I cannot describe the level of relief I feel the several times a day I remember that my baby is here and that both she and I are healthy.
15.09.2025 22:38 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
12.09.2025 20:58 β π 21526 π 5116 π¬ 258 π 285Weβre making pulled chicken with apples in the slow cooker for sandwiches.
10.09.2025 21:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The biggest news is that I had a baby on Friday
10.09.2025 19:59 β π 79 π 0 π¬ 10 π 1Student in my gen ed creative writing class asked if I'd ever written a book and I said 'yes' and he said 'what's it called' and I told him and he wrote it down very carefully with a pencil in his notebook and let's just say certain family members could learn something from that kid
09.09.2025 01:29 β π 16 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0i bet it feels amazing to be a middle aged college professor and say stuff like "napoleon wouldn't stay in his lane so the duke of wellington locked in" to a survey course of a hundred bored 18 year olds
08.09.2025 11:59 β π 1224 π 76 π¬ 41 π 32I had to leave threads because it kept showing me miscarriage content when I was in my first trimester, but I just got back on because no one wants to talk about Bravo shows with me on here
04.09.2025 21:28 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0