Ivy Grimes

Stories Old Woman and the Girls in Rejection Letters Shadow Land in scaffold lit Pearl Ring in Heavy Feather Review Our Mutual Friend in HAD Three Plagues for Ninth Letter, Featured Writer Green in ergot. …

some inspirations:
1) Barbara Comyns
2) Haruki Murakami
3) Raymond Chandler
4) Leonora Carrington
5) Marie Redonnet

To read what has been mildly inspired, here are my stories:
ivyivyivyivy.com/stories/

Au hasard Balthazar / Robert Bresson, dir., 1966 One of the greatest films ever made. On my short list of favorites.

Au hasard Balthazar / Robert Bresson, dir., 1966

One of the greatest films ever made. On my short list of favorites.
📽️🎬

Ruba has been volunteering this whole time and trying very hard to continue her studies- she just started this fundraiser because she didn’t see any other options

I often miss when a book I've read as an ARC is finally released. Feel free to bombard us when your book comes out!

Happy Birthday!!

Yes, she did!!

I resisted seeing Wildcat (the Ethan Hawke movie about Flannery O'Connor) for a while, but I finally gave in and really enjoyed it. I think I was worried a Flannery movie would be overly dramatic with overwrought Southern accents, but it wasn't at all. And Liam Neeson was there for the best scene.

Tokyo Drifting Into Your Inbox (With A Fun Little Short Story At The End As A Treat) What’s good, pals? I’ve decided to do a newsletter. Like all things with me, it will be sporadic, unorganized, likely infrequent but full of grit and...

I've decided I'm gonna give a newsletter a proper go again on Buttondown as I try to structure my life around consistent literary work + the store. To celebrate I've got a new flash fiction story about men who make TikTok skits about their exes not appreciating them:
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Or maybe we should all start calling them shorties

One of many offputting things I do is freezing when I have to make an ordinary decision and asking whoever is standing closest to me to make it for me.

How sweet!!

HWA Poetry Showcase XII HWA Poetry Showcase XII [Gold, Maxwell I.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. HWA Poetry Showcase XII

Happy Dark Poetry Day! The HWA Poetry Showcase: Volume XII is now available, and I'm thrilled to have my anglerfish-inspired poem, "The Ghoulish Abyss" in here!

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Thanks so much for including my poem "Glass Alphabet"! The glass never ends.

Ha! I can see a cat not being in the mood for a blessing. My dog is always ready for any kind of attention.

I got my dog blessed this weekend at a St. Francis service. He doesn't seem holier yet, but maybe it'll take some time to sink in.

For anyone interested in fiction explicitly grappling with politics and class issues, I recommend Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels...My Brilliant Friend and the rest

I love this book!

Ivy Grimes's review of The Veldt Institute 5/5: A strange and wonderful novel about a confused patient doing his best to progress in his treatment at the mysterious Veldt Institute. I recommend this book to everyone.

Some very kind reviews coming in on G R for 'The Veldt Institute':

Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social says "A strange and wonderful novel"

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"Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likeable ones and the unlikeable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles you."

-from Elena Ferrante's The Story of the Lost Child

Marnie from HBO’s Girls is wearing a bathrobe it seems and saying, “Artistic, but also with a nod to my cultural heritage, which is white, Christian woman.”

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.

My swiftnalysis is the latest album doesn't have catchy songs, but I also don't think the charli xcx insult song is that insulting. What is your swiftnalysis?

(fine print: I am a nonexpert who sometimes listens to five seconds per song on popular albums to see what's going on)

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Baraa. Baraa is the mother of 3 children Masa, 6, Ibrahim, 4 and Maha, 7 months. Tragically Maha was killed after a nearby bombing caused gasses to overwhelm her little lungs. Masa is in the hospital because of kidney issues from malnutrition.

I'm so sorry!!

This came out the day Charlie Kirk died so I feel like it got overshadowed a bit. Anyway, here’s “Boxed In.”

I googled to see when Thomas Pynchon died, but he’s actually still alive. I don’t know his Bluesky handle yet, though.

😭😭

So excited to have a new story in one of my very favorite magazines today. Super proud of this one, and I hope you all like it.

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

"…and now I’m definitely awake again, sitting up in my bunk, and I’m sure it’s Wednesday. For some reason Wednesday is intake day for new prisoners. Not Monday or Friday, which would make more sense to me."

Today on ergot.: "Gowpen" by Max Olesen

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I didn't do some of the things people said I needed to do to be happy, but I am happy about all of it. Sometimes I wonder if I'm falsely believing that, living in kind of a dream. Or if someday I'll wake up from my own dream and find myself in someone else's.