Refresh, Renew, Reimagine Mythic Micros by Amy Marques Mathieu Cailler blaise marcc Laila Amado 🇺🇦 Charlotte Hamrick⚜️🇺🇸⚜️ JP Relph - Novella "Watcher" out now Mario Aliberto III Emily Rinkema 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 Frances Gapper Sumitra Singam (she/her/Baginda) Suzanne Hicks (she/her) Allison Field Bell Curated by Melissa Llanes Brownlee / Melissa Llanes Brownlee

board meeting

new (albeit very rough) project in the can

here comes the hotstepper

out of office

At children's book event, I sneezed. A kid in the front whispered to his friend, "When someone sneezes, it means someone is talking about their butt." The friend shrugged. I rattled off 5 more sneezes. The kid looked at his friend. "Someone is *really* talking about his butt!"

Such an honest, beautiful--and well, perfect collection of poetry. Loved it, Kyle Newman

Lightning in AZ. What a show from the hotel patio.

My father just called me up and said (in French), "Wow. Your mother and I are pretty stressed out. We just finished watching Calamari Club." My mom cuts in, "He means Squid Game."

Huge congrats to Stanchion and Jeff Bogle -- what a beautiful book. Loving it!

Après Surf

Hugest thanks to Flash the Court! Honored to have this micro go live so close to fall.

Really enjoyed chatting with VoyageLA. Huge thanks to Mike 📷 You can read the short interview here. No follow-up questions. No quiz. I promise. voyagela.com/interview/math…

3 years for these meatballs. Love you, Teenie.

Huge thanks to the -ette review for nominating my piece "My Evening with Marilyn" for Best of the Net!

Hello, all! As a former Pushcart Prize winner, I can nominate 2 fiction pieces, 2 poems, and 2 works of CNF. Drop your favorites in this thread (can be yours, of course, or other favorites). I'd be honored to give them a read. <3.

My micro "Known for Its Adaptability, the Coyote Joins the Human Race" was picked up by the South Dakota Review! I'll share it when it goes live, in early 2026!

Even though it's been well over 20 years, know that if you wrote "stay cute" in my yearbook--I'm trying my *very* best to uphold your wishes.

Honored to learn that this piece "A Week After I Die" has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Huge thanks to 10 x 10 and Zvi A. Sesling!

Feeling safe as I take the water in front of a group of nuns (or a superfluity I just learned).