@mooninabucket
Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, 2025 Best Small Fictions. Lapsed scholar/ Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc. https://mooninabucket.com
Thrilled to have a new CNF in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social , a magazine I’ve long admired. Grateful to the awesome @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for letting me dip my toes in the illustrious waters of this new issue. 🐳 🗺️ 📓
Boy, you can really tell when I’m having a raging ADHD brain day because my IG stories are craaazzy 😆 But seriously, I curate some of the best ish around on there - you should follow me 😉
Watched “Bridgerton” before bed and when I woke up my hair was just like this 😂
My stepmom sent me this letter I wrote at 13. I showed it to my boyfriend, who said, “You’re completely crazy. You haven’t changed a bit.” “Really?” I said. “Why do you think I fell in love with you?” he said, reinforcing my belief that I’m (finally) with the right person 😊 😂
Aw, thank you so much, Dan 😭 🤗 you always say the nicest things 💕
"Because no two people ever share the same language, even when they think they do."
My lord, this is extraordinary writing by @mooninabucket.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Thank you so much🩷❤️🧡
For the morning crowd. 🌞 🤗 My little piece inspired by how both words and marital roles can entrap us is now the featured nonfiction spot in the latest Zone 3 🙏 Link to full text below 👇
Incredibly honored to have the featured nonfiction spot in the latest issue of Zone 3. I was unaware of the 1918 suffragette pamphlet “Advice on Marriage” when I wrote this piece - just came across it for the first time a few weeks ago, and it resonated like a mother***ker. Link below.👇
Anybody ever get a message like this in Submittable? It seems canned/automated to me…and I’ve certainly never gotten one from a place that offers free submissions. What do you think? 🤔
TYSM 🤗
Aww, Jay, thank you so much 🥰 Maybe we all need a little Alysa Liu gold medal free skate kinda energy right now
"I Am Duck Phillips in Mad Men Season 3, Episode 12"
By Francesca Leader
@mooninabucket.bsky.social
…because fuck it, the world is always ending.
Got a new MadMen-inspired poem up in the lovely Trampoline Poetry. I’ve been battling a bad cold and feeling wretched, so I’m extra grateful to EIC Justin Lacour for getting this particular poem online today, as well as for his kind words about it. You can read the full issue at the link below 👇 🙏 🤗
The second time, I read these aloud--they're so good.
Susan Leary's amazing poem "Self-Portrait & Fiction with Oversized Eye" in Bayou Magazine. Great writing. Wow to this piece. @susanlleary.bsky.social
If there’s any bigger dopamine hit for a writer than hearing that your story is part of a creative writing curriculum, I don’t know what it is 🥰 Since I started publishing in late 2020, I’ve had 3 or 4 amazing teachers tell me that they’ve used my writing in this way😱 😭
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
"Proust doesn’t talk but he’s taking notes. He stares at Mom like she owns wisdom, and I stare at him, like he can teach me."
@happilander.bsky.social is always good but damn do I love this new one from The McNeese Review!
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Pleased to have work in Mythic Picnic alongside other fine work by @happilander.bsky.social, @mooninabucket.bsky.social, @melostrom.bsky.social, @jenwithwords.bsky.social, Aniket Sanyal, @angelajoynes.bsky.social, and others! Thank you, @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social ! x.com/MythicPicnic...
A little something of mine for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social ‘s #smallpoemsunday, first published in Molecule
Welp, guess I gotta leave this drawer open all the time now 😂 Hope you have the love of a good feline Valentine in your life this Caturday 💕
Well, I just submitted the longest, most fully-realized story I’ve ever written (all 6,389 words of it) to a dream mag, even though their limit is 6k words. I acknowledged it in my cover letter, & requested an exception. I guess we’ll see what happens 😉🤞
Here I am, late Sunday morning, in bed with my cat, busily reading and posting about poetry and stories without a single football-related thought in my head. I didn’t even realize until late last night that today was #SuperBowlSunday. And I love that for me. 😆 🥰
For @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s #smallpoemsunday, here’s a lethal little gem by Dallas poet laureate Mag Gabbert 🩵 #thebreakup
"Hot Minutes"
recent poem by me #smallpoemsunday
If this isn't overkill, here is the poem. Note I also have five micros and this is really a great issue, so be sure to read the whole thing! www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
