I let the phlebotomy students next door practice on me, and I feel good about it. Minimal bruising. Nice work, future healthcare providers of Mississippi.

Big thanks yet again to Josh Dale and Thirty West for their support. It’s really incredible what they have going on.

At a tech conference where the futurist speaker talked about turning used coffee grounds into concrete with 3D printing. My students just want a job. Took myself on a dinner date. Gozilla versus Kong on in the hotel room, but still slept awful.

I miss when you could call a psychic on the telephone. Very convenient.

The great JAKE ran my piece, “Through Some Coincidence” in their call for pieces not about people. Thanks as always for their support jakethemag.com/through-some-c…

Eagles are on bye, so I’m complicating Sunday dinner early. Pickling carrots at the moment.

Next announcement today! If you're on the JAKE Discord, you've already seen this, but we're having a reading of some longtime JAKE friends (Alex Carrigan, C.M. Green, Sean Ennis, and David Elliot Eisenstat) coming up in a couple of weeks there! discord.gg/648ZzxsfNr?eve…

I miss Philadelphia for lots of reasons, but the Stereo MCs are doing a reunion show there in January, and now I’m devastated.

Thanks so much to @LenticularLit for running four (!) of my micros. I’m pleased with my performance. lenticularlit.com/2024/10/15/enn…

Zeke’s birthday! The best.

Huge thanks to ⁦unstamatic⁩ for running 3 of my micros! The image they created also made my night, and my wife was impressed. search.app/ffoYJxff18GcYc…

Thanks to libre for running these micro pieces! It wouldn’t take that long to read them.

The Jump Off this Saturday. Just buckets. Go Blue Devils.

Congratulations & happy pub day to @KristinTenor! THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN, selected by TW novelist @laughingyeti this year is a masterclass in flash fiction in the Midwestern Gothic genre. Only 6 limited edition copies remain but plenty standard eds too. thirtywestph.com/shop/thisishow…

House to myself, I’m going to get into this new Underworld and watch Boise State vs. UNLV on mute. I’m the strawberry jam girl.

Tomorrow night!

Silly data point. Also, you need 30 monkeys working simultaneously. “It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.”

Our local Piggly Wiggly has no business selling dragonfruit.

Anxious night, so I’m turning to my comfort movies—Cars 2 and Ad Astra.

The elections are free and fair and totally meaningless. Two stories by Sean Ennis, SUFFRAGE and CRAZY OF THE DARK. Link↓