Jan Stinchcomb (@janstinchcomb.bsky.social)

@ericraglin1992.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 5:11 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

I've forgotten how to write. How do I do this thing again?

@anniejowrites.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 3:48 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

I have a new micro fiction story in @havehashad.com! grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social for my 8th 💀 & you for reading ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

Title: Therapy in the Park
Author: Anna Vangala Jones
Text of the story: “Therapy has gotten too expensive or always was but there was a time I thought a professional’s advice or guidance was needed but now it’s not that I seek answers so much as someone to listen without judgment or interruption so instead of taking the long bus ride to my old therapist’s office between the Chinese food takeout counter and the stationery store—isn’t it funny and lovely how we still sell and purchase letterhead, envelopes, and journals when so many have fallen out of practice at handwriting even their own names—I venture a few blocks past the giant fountain with birds chirping and children shrieking in the cold water to visit my favorite statue of the bronze couple on the bench, the man reading a book with the woman reading over his shoulder, and I sit beside them like they’re expecting me and tell them about my late rent, my mother’s anxious calls I haven’t yet returned about my father’s test results, and the violinist I’d fallen in love with for as long as it took him to fall in love with me until the fear of being someone’s beloved made me forget any tender feeling he or his music had evoked, and as I breathe and blink hard to slow the tears, a beautiful young woman places her hand on my shoulder and asks me if I’m okay so I look up and tell her yes, sorry for being weird, and she smiles and that’s enough therapy for one day so I rise and start walking as the golden setting sun burns bright like it’s lighting the way home just for me.”
Illustration: a pile of skulls

@janstinchcomb.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:33 PM

you're the girl with all the skulls 💀

@ilhanmn.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 4:01 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

@janstinchcomb.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:12 PM

Pat, thank you so much for posting this. I'm always happy to read something by Ashley.

@pdforan.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:56 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

“… I felt, perhaps for the first time in my life, or at least it felt like the first time—it always feels like the first time, doesn't it?—a deep, atom-shaped despair.”

In Case You Need an Explanation by Ashley Hutson in @eldiagram.bsky.social
thediagram.com/26_3/hutson....

@joannechocolat.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:26 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260: Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.

@tylerfromtheinternet.com Oct 9, 2026, 7:38 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

zoom meetings in October

Somebody has had the genius idea to make a Halloween decoration with a really cheap Ikea desk and a chair with a skeleton sitting on it and behind the computer in front of the skeleton is a TV with a zoom call Active with four other skeletons all logged on

@janstinchcomb.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:05 PM

you're on fire today

@wigleaf.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:51 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

new new: "Halloween Party," by Trey Moody: wigleaf.com

@lilliekoi.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:13 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

This one really prods at you

@janstinchcomb.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:55 PM

my beloved Paper Darts

@kristinaten.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:27 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

Got a new story, “Here It Is,” in Strange Pilgrims. It’s about Route 66 billboards & high school cheer & holding onto your own life hard with two hands. V cool artwork. Audio by me. Interview at the end in which I talk alt-dimension jobs & more.

Here...it is: www.strangepilgrims.com/p/here-it-is...

@janstinchcomb.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:33 PM

A reminder that this delicious anthology is available and perfect for Halloween. I'm in here with various cool kids.
bookshop.org/p/books/pois...

@melostrom.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:41 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

Firing teapots this week. Here’s a sassy set in sour apple and pink shadow. #pottery 🍏☕️💗💛🩵

@jesterholm.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:00 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

Always gratifying to slice open a box chock full of books. Also a pleasure to be a part of the Cornerstone Press family of authors guided by @rosstangedal.bsky.social and his staff. TOLLUND MAN is here.

@janstinchcomb.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:29 AM

💔

@janstinchcomb.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 4:53 PM

Let's hear it for Autobiography of Red and The Beauty of the Husband!

@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 3:58 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

@splitlipthemag.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:15 PMReposted by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social

Our art submissions are OPEN. 🎨 Want to know what we're looking for? ✏️ Art steeped in memory & awareness. ✏️ Art that eats donuts & watches cartoons on Saturday mornings. ✏️ Art that reminds us of our humanity.