dust!n

I keep hearing about this mythical good ol’ boy network but all I’ve ever found is the okay at best ol’ boy network.

Merlin bruh make up your mind

A clam on a wooden railing with a stormy grey sea in the background

There it is. The clam before the storm.

Taste the Gazpacho, Smell the Hyacinths: Literary Transference in Memoir By Maureen Stanton In The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, John Gardner famously wrote about the “fictive dream,” whereby writers use “images that appeal to our senses”…

@maureenstanton.bsky.social on "the evocative power of the smallest grains of storytelling, those tiny sensory details," and how they allow memoir readers to "not only see and hear people and actions, but ... viscerally feel the moods and emotions of the story."
brevity.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/t...

Awww yeah I just finished TCAIUW too! I went in not knowing anything about it and was like a paragraph in before realizing gahhhhhh it’s that weird unicorn town from Hardboiled Wonderland again but oh well, still liked it 😆

Remember the 90s when everybody only hurt sometimes.

This post goes out to all the party people I was staring at for five minutes while I was dissociating in the cafe today. I hope you feel seen now…because you definitely weren’t seen before.

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

Tbh somebody could have sent me classified war plans in a group chat too and they’d be totally safe because I always just wait for everyone to stop texting and go “sounds good 👍 “ without reading any of it because group chats suck.

Enough with the pollen already, trees.

I would love this harder if I weren’t still permanently cringed up about Scott’s Tots

Can we just skip to the part where the bad guys eat each other already?

I call bushtit on that.

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

I want you to know, every time I hear “Vladimir” in the news I hear you sing “We’re outta here like Vladimir” and it sounds like the voice of the resistance

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.

I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

THEM: you look tired

ME: I am tired

THEM: oh right because of the…

ME: the horrors yeah

THEM: right right, that’s right

I want my writing to have so damn much atmosphere that things actually burn up in it.

Me thinking of what to post: Okayyyyyy nothing super depressing or existentially terrifying.

Nothing that could get me fired.

Also make it quirky.

And original.

Nothing old, either.

Bangers only.

[Screen turns black and locks]

Never fails. I come home after teaching night class. Dog is nowhere to be found. I unwind for half an hour. Before going to bed I open the fridge and what ho—the dog appears, like, Oh hey, just came down to check on you, so what, uh, what do you think’s happening up in that cheese drawer there

[scrolling]
Where’s the dopamine?
[scrolling]
Where is it?
[scrolling aggressively]
Where

My recent short story "Internal Monologue of a Creative Writing Professor," from Kings River Life Magazine, gets on shoutout on LITTLE BIG CRIME:

"Witty, suspenseful, and satisfying."—@roblopresti.bsky.social

Blog:
lbcrimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/inte...

Story:
kingsriverlife.com/12/18/intern...

CURE Childhood Cancer invites proposals for childhood cancer research - OncoDaily CURE Childhood Cancer invites proposals for childhood cancer research / cancer, Childhood Cancer, CURE Childhood Cancer, OncoDaily, Oncology, pediatric cancer

CURE Childhood Cancer invites proposals for childhood cancer research
@curechildcancer.bsky.social

oncodaily.com/insight/222760

#Cancer #ChildhoodCancer #CUREChildhoodCancer #Health #OncoDaily #Oncology #PediatricCancerResearch #Medicine

Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson

I would love to get a new tattoo but it would defer me from donating platelets for three months again and sadly people need platelets more than I need a new tattoo.

Also please donate platelets 🙏 🎗️

Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.

Once, when I was throwing up on a boat, someone nudged me and said it was because of crystals in my ear. Later, when I told the story and the words “crystals in my ear” left my mouth I thought, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever said.

Anyway damn turns out there really are ear crystals—canaliths.

Know Your Rights—
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narcs existed then, and narcs exist now

Someone teach me how to not doomscroll