Excited to report I just signed a contract with Littoral Books to publish a short story collection! Scheduled for spring 2027 release. 🎉
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Our story of the week is Impractical Choices by Raheem Omeiza.
“Gary used to bring his solitude home with him. I could feel it whishing in behind him. It was like a gentle autumn draught.”
I love everything about this funny, sad, little-bit-nutty story about grief and false teeth - can’t recommend it enough! Jan makes it all look effortless, as always.
Love seeing Ex Partum out in the wild. Look how lovely it is, sitting there in the sunshine. Right before it rips out your faith in the system.
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What a lovely Sunday to read @slashnburnett.bsky.social’s new novel!! I love her work and I’m flying through this already. Unsettling stories of motherhood are my jam!
This is absolutely brilliant - if you haven’t read it yet, highly recommend!
“But a person cannot have a thousand hands, especially Mahdokht, who loved the winter and took daily afternoon walks during the season. It would take five hours or so to put one thousand gloves on one thousand hands.”
- Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men
Our story of the week is Your Ad Here by Newton Holt.
My second editor's pick is up @theforge.bsky.social
It's an excellent flash by Bethany Holmstrom:
We're Not Monsters
And so we didn't wish anything terrible on the boy. Only...
Our story of the week is We're Not Monsters by Bethany Holmstrom.