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"Maybe it’s a trick
of light or perspective,
or the pull of night
with all its stillness
and heavy want. ..."
@jackbedell.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/bedell-3/
"At my most hideous, she made me feel beautiful."
+ "wearing my baseball cap"
@barlowadams.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/adams-3/
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Thank you Lori!
“… even if I have to wait all over again in the cold slug of a queue when I return, it doesn’t matter because there’s something settling in my heart right now …”
@kiklodge.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kik-...
“‘I knew I smelled something mom-ish,’ one of them said, rolling his eyes.”
@lorimbarrett.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/lori...
“It’s a message to me. Saying without saying. I could tell you how I refuse to respond.”
@allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/03/02/m...
“You're not in a fairy tale, you're not a four-poster bed adorned with silk sheets, soft pillows, and those little plastic torches that look like candles. But …”
@kathrynreese.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.com/kathrynreese
Thanks so much for sharing, friend! ❤️
Thank you, Jackie!
“… arms raised as we howl like coyotes, imagining the neon lights still burn, certain we can hear the rush of jingling coins …”
@suzannehicks.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.com/suzannehicks
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“Someone once took their shoes off for you. You were special. All of the world took place in Pennsylvania. Which was just a word among many …”
Bare + 2 by @dieddisappointed.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Three-Very-S...
“… But I’m learning to feel
the depth, that there are ways to be that have been kept from me …”
@kathrynreese.bsky.social in West Trestle Review www.westtrestlereview.com/spring_2026_...
“… where I first
understood that the way
you looked back at the men
who looked at you could be
dangerous, which my mother
understands as karma …”
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in West Trestle Review www.westtrestlereview.com/spring_2026_...
“The woman at the counter looks at my hips like they are parentheses for my body.”
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @flarelitmag.bsky.social flare-magazine.com/workout-star...
“‘Are you sure you’re okay?’ she asks. ‘I worry about you.’ You can bet it’s not just me she’s worried about when she asks that.”
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/02/27/f...
“never divining the prophet you’d become, never mind how small her
hand felt in your palm, her heart no longer here, the goodbye gone.”
Aftermath by @jadjosey.bsky.social in Cast Your Longest Shadow, from Chestnut Review Chapbooks
“… and sometimes, you can see by the way she keeps one hand hovering at the other’s back, how she tries to hold on.”
There is News Along the Ohio River by @bettysueblue.bsky.social, from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
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Myna! Thanks for including the Gooseberry Pie piece and for saying what you said about it ❤️
"We bring our pieces of the past, our anxiety for the present, and our uncertainty about the future ..."
Jeanne Lyet Gassman in Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/02/26/w...
Of course! I like your work and am grateful I had the chance to workshop with you once a pond in time.
