Smart. Cats are underrated for intelligence. Mine can jump up and hang on a door handle to turn and open it. If it is not locked she gets in.

2025 HVWG Nonfiction Contest Winners - Hudson Valley Writers Guild The Hudson Valley Writers Guild Poetry announces the winners of the 2025 Nonfiction Contest - Cynthia Stephens, Eileen Kelly, and Maya Benattar.

Happy to be awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Hudson Valley Writers’ Guild Nonfiction Contest for my story “Low Bar at Greene Gasoline.”

hvwg.org/2025/11/2025...

I didn’t visit people when I was working, raising kids. Too buried, stressed. Cared for my elders too. Now I have retired & I do. Including elderly relatives. Most people from work were transactional allies with common interest, not actual friends. I have actual friends including several new ones.

How r Lit mags that run constant entry-fee writing contests diff than when poor people are targeted to buy lottery tickets?:

1) Lottery proceeds in theory go to fund public initiatives.

2) Single lottery tickets are much much cheaper than most contest entry fees.

#litmags

I am beginning to understand why this app has so few followers. Resetting my login was like breaking into Fort Knox. Finally after 3 weeks I see two new followers and no posts.

Important Enough to Bomb | Issue 10 Radon Journal Issue 10 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.

Happy to have my work in @radonjournal.bsky.social

www.radonjournal.com/issue-10/imp...

The Toll Thomas Behan

Happy to have my story "TheToll" published in Works Progress! worksprogress.substack.com/p/the-toll

"Locks" by Thomas Behan Rivers scrawl the history of the lands they mark up and divide. For thousands of years the Danube bent humanity over its will, vectored empires this way instead of that way, determined settlement patt...

Happy to have my story "Locks" published by Roi Faineant Press!

www.roifaineantpress.com/post/locks-b...

You can get sick from even looking at that filthy creek too long.

Received a tiered rejection from the Sun Magazine! I don't like to brag but I may make as much as $100.00-$150.00 dollars with my writing this year! In 900 AD I would be one of the richest....ok upper middle class, in the village.

Just got followed by an avowedly-authoritarian political party. Though themes seems fascist while carefully avoiding specific racism. Not sure why they came here, where the members tend to be more to the left, but maybe they plan to change that. Yikes. Now blocked.