Ok, GOING TO WORKOUT. WHILE IM GONE, EVERYONE SEARCH 4 THEIR INNER CHILD.

This campaign hasn’t received any donations. With the significant rise in prices, I decided to help children by making clothes for them. I buy fabrics and blankets and use them to tailor winter clothes for the children. Please donate and share. gofundme.com/f/the-needle-o…

Rouragu’s Fall 2024 is live! (link in bio) Check out works from: Carolyn Oliver (Carolyn Oliver (is on IG w/ same name)) Dale Going & Marie Carbone Ince Lacey Parker Logan (parker logan) Angela Townsend (Angela) Gemini Wahhaj GRSTALT (GRSTALT Comms) Emily Myles (Emily Hannah-Myles)

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

hey (with the intention of going to the cinema)

"This morning, I was assailed by such sadness at the velocity of life, the distance I've travelled from my own youth, the persistence of the old regrets, the new regrets, the ability of failure to freshen itself in novel forms, that I almost crashed the car." —Denis Johnson

perfect example of the potential and power in a short list poem today from Claire Nelson! havehashad.com/hadposts/8-hea…

I liked your book about the writer. Where do you get your ideas

another pitch perfect example of the power of a list, today from Mo Buckley Brown! havehashad.com/hadposts/thing…

trying to explain to normies what it’s like to publish short fiction online for tens of likes

“We didn’t feed the cats. Feeding the cats generated cat shit. We spray-painted neon circles around their shit and left it there. The only one who did was Safety Jen.” From “Skyhawks” by Bud Smith in our new Fall issue. buff.ly/t6ASe8q

hAs bEeN pUbLiShEd iN mAnY LiTeRarY jOuRnaLs, iNcLuDiNg

sex is a very intimate and sacred act. your body is a temple and you shouldn't be sharing it with someone who generates AI art

this has been making the rounds again in different forms. it’s in my forthcoming collection of stories called Are People Out There (Future Tense Books): futuretensebooks.com/product/people/

Ben Lerner, with a riff on Defoe

She's a 10 but she attributes the emotions expressed in the poem to the author's biographical experience

"Some minutes later, the murderer explained everything. She was here to kill Rebecca. Hundreds before, as hundreds after, had faced the same situation: these are your final hours. There is no escape." —from "The Murderer" by Eve Morgan joylandpublishing.com/fiction/the-mu…

In your twenties there may be love. It's very important to ignore this love and pursue a Masters instead.

Why must a movie be “good” ? Is it not enough to sit somewhere dark and see a beautiful face, huge?