Just finished DEAD IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA by Venita Blackburn 🔥

Wow, no tweet can do this book justice. But trust in Blackburn and dive head first into this ride. Highly recommend!

She was the kind of girl who positioned herself just right, so when she got stabbed in the back, the blood sprayed at such an angle to look like cherry blossoms on the snow.

It's the first day of #EmptyTheShelters thanks to the BISSELL Pet Foundation 🐶🐱 ! These are just some of the amazing adoptable dogs we have for just a $50 adoption fee now through May 15th! Check it out, RT, and follow PAWSPendletonOR ! #dogs #adoptDontShop

My grandma died at the age of 97. Near the end, she asked for me, and when I went to her side, she held my hand and said, 'Don't ruin it all by being good.'

It was an entire conversation about girlhood between us, and I think about it all the time.

ICYMI I have a new poem in the latest issue of The Adroit Journal!

'it’s the last mow of the year,

and all the eggs we hid too well last Easter

have returned with their plastic cheer.'

Read 'bitches be crazy, ain’t no thing as a free lunch, the man is out to get you' written by Melissa Llanes Brownlee and illustrated by K.S. Illustrations. tinyurl.com/4ep6bdcx

The fact that Aflac hasn’t put Ben Affleck in a duck suit to sell insurance, troubles me.

Dentist: have you been flossing?

*mouth pooling with blood*
Me: most definitely

I'm so thrilled and honored to have a weird new guy in Pithead Chapel this month (guy born with Rubik's Cube for head)! I'm so thankful for PC's interest and can't wait to read the rest of the issue!

pitheadchapel.com/a-series-of-se…

People out here giving up on Western medicine like:

“Weed helps my anxiety.”

“Cocaine helps my anxiety.”

“Getting drunk and fighting a possum on a pontoon boat helps my anxiety.”

“Huffing paint out of the plastic bag I used to murder this hooker helps my anxiety.”

In case you missed it! This episode is up now. I've just listened (my mind goes blank when recording these things) and it turns out, it was a really great conversation! (Of course it was, Neil is a pro).

I’m honored and a little terrified to set this essay free. It’s about the fallout of childhood parent loss on siblings, the price of belonging, and the slippery nature of shame. I’m so grateful to Jo Varnish and X-R-A-Y for giving this one a home🖤

bit.ly/3UEl69B

Delighted to say that 'The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs' will appear in this volume. I've been publishing for 24 years and this is a dream come true.

My story ‘Hunger’ in Fractured Lit Thank you for giving it a home! I LOVE the artwork 🥀🥀🥀

Spending time with my family is an emotional root canal. Not to be attempted without medication.

I’ve been in Sweet Literary a few times (three of my favorite CNF flash) but not for a long time. Thrilled to have this prose micro “Ode to My Cat, Ten Years Gone” in their latest issue. Thanks to Kathy Fish and fellow Fast Flashers for the inspiration.
sweetlit.org/jacqueline-doy…

I just want to live out of an expensive hotel amidst a bohemian community of creative types where we all somehow have money to eat weird food and drink good liquor even though we still all “really need to get work” on that next novel/painting/album/bank heist/nude cupcake shop.

Woah. I just realized I’ve lived longer now with an organ transplant than I did with my original kidney. Feels insane that I have more life on this side of that door at this point. I really expected to die. Shows you what I know. 😆 💜

AHHH!!! I'm THRILLED to announce that my mini-memoir TAKE ME HOME is now available for preorder from Belle Point Press! I poured my heart & soul into this little book. It would mean the world to me if you would consider preordering it: bellepointpress.com/products/take-…

It’s crazy how you can say something relatively safe on the internet like, “Maybe we shouldn’t punch babies,” and 20% of people will be like, “”Some babies need punching! That’s the problem with the world today, not enough baby punching!”