Yes in the email I received it says for best small fictions considers prose poems too…so I guess it counts? lol

🤍 Brilliant response to the funeral cliche and stunning piece. I relate to the game in the swimming pool of kicking your legs as hard as you can, testing if you could flee her shark jaws. “and we couldn’t stop laughing because all accidents are funny, depending on how you look at them.” 🦈

Thank you for the close read, it means a lot! 😊

Thank you so much @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!!

Love my gym in my queer neighborhood where grown ass men are discussing Who Framed Roger Rabbit while lifting weights

Watched Jennifer’s Body for the first time (finally) and we all owe an apology to Diablo Cody and Megan Fox

I’ve learned my lesson for the next subs window

Remembered Shenandoah mag was open today. Went to read the sub guidelines at 8 am. Went to the gym quick and checked to make sure they were still open at 9:30. They were. Finally was able to sit at my computer and submit at 9:45 and they were closed already lmao wtf like HAD levels there

Seeing ppl on ig post about reading a whole book in a day and it’s like…do you even like reading? Do you like indulging yourself and sitting art and taking the time to process it? Or do you just want another number on your reading list for the year? I do not find it impressive

I need a name ASAP!!

Matthew Lillard seems like the nicest guy ever, meanwhile I feel like we don’t talk enough about how Quentin Tarantino put himself in as a character in Pulp Fiction just so he could say the n word a million times in a movie