@brettpribble.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher. Founder and Editor-in-chief of Ghost Parachute literary journal. Inflatable flamingo supervisor. I knew a girl once.
@brettpribble.bsky.socialIt's brilliant work! Thanks for letting us publish it!
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Miss Daria" written by @delgeo14.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"Monday isn’t so bad when the weekend is just a concept for others to plan."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Of the Sea" written by @damicandrea.bsky.social and also illustrated by Andrea Damic.
"Marina wakes, drowsy and disoriented, near the ocean floor. A phantom tremor pulses beneath her skin."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Wildebeests to a Waterhole" written by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"I’m alone in the den tonight, gnawing on what you said last September when our little pride lounged poolside in Zanzibar after that terrific Tanzanian..."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Marital Vampires" written by @kimsrogers.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"Before the invasion when everyone was blissful and ignorant or young and ignored and me and the husband slept peacefully at night, a beetle made its way to..."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialIt's a fantastic story!
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "What Mel Might Have Thought About if He Had, In Fact, Been Thinking" written by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"What if he’d stayed home for his daughter, Chloe’s, sweet sixteen party, helped his wife wrap presents..."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "We Buy a Magnet at Every Stop to Prove We Really Left" written by @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"The low fuel light blinks on as we pull into a Walmart gas station and I feel the tension in the car ease."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Baby Carrier" written by Tim Boudreau and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"He reached down to the baby carrier at his feet and adjusted the blanket canopied over its handle, shutting out the wind and the low November sun."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "My Mother Cracks Death Over My Forehead Like An Egg," written by @m-e-arthur.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"watches it run down and cover me; says, we have begun the season of dying; (the one for us; not the one for everyone else;"
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "The Tale of Two PDs" written by Court Harler and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"Last night I dreamt PD Walker hosted a murder mystery at his house in DC. He showed us hidden nooks for inappropriate dalliances..."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Christmas Party" written by @jennystalter.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"My new neighbor, Julia, with her dangly snowflake earrings and how close she’s standing, laughing at my jokes, touching my arm, electric—the way her red dress clings..."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "My Monsters" written by @skyskkyy.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"They are so hungry, my monsters. I coax them out from under my bed, and they won’t shut up. Feed me, says the little one. Feed me, says the biggest. Feed me, the skinny one begs."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "A Crow Comes to the Window" written by @francinewitte.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"You still speak Crowspeak from the time 20 crows banded together and snatched Jimmy Parker away as the two of you walked to the movies."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Not affected by any of this" written by @taracampbell.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"Or so I thought. It was just a job, just a soap opera. A ridiculous one, sure, what with my upcoming wedding to a monkey."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Unexpected Weather" written by @fionamckay.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.
"They had been full, full, full, and now it is so lovely to be empty, to be so full of potential and not the leavings of people’s lives."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Primate Signaling" written by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"Bob and I are at the zoo, checking out the macaques from the wide viewing window, when I notice a muscular man in a tiger t-shirt checking out Bob’s ass."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Hey Trixie" written by @rgvaughan.bsky.social
and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"Had to cut our trip short after Timmy drowned."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "Again, But No Longer, And Yet, Still" written by @amymarques.bsky.social and also illustrated by Amy Marques.
"But no longer the seatbelt-less, high-heel, buttoned down tucked, bows on pigtails, paper map, stop for a single precious photo to be developed months hence."
@brettpribble.bsky.socialRead "How to Free a Caged Heart" written by @csquareh.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"He insists there’re some unusual murmurs in your mom’s heart, and I’m arguing with him it can’t be the heart. All she does is rant, scream, and swear."
