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Casey Reiland
@caseyreiland.bsky.social
Bad sleeper | In search of the perfect bagel | Words in HAD, trampset, On the Seawall, and elsewhere

www.caseyreiland.com
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I have two new poems published today in @emergejournal.bsky.social! Read em here: emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-connecti...
Me af
I ain’t been right felt right or done right since Daylight Savings, lord.
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Guys, let’s keep James Bond. Let’s keep Marvel. Let’s keep Jurassic World. Give the straight normies something. Please. They need it.
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I’m late to the game, but I’m reading A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN for a book club, and this may be the best craft book I’ve ever read. Funny, approachable, and actually makes you feel like George Saunders loves to write. Hell, I might even end up reading more Russian literature after this!
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Well this is a very normal and cool thing for a TV network to do
Marissa Bode’s Comment About a ‘Power-Hungry Dictator’ Removed From ‘Wicked’ Concert Special
The 'Wicked' TV special cut Marissa Bode's comment about a "power-hungry dictator," despite it receiving a standing ovation at the taping.
www.billboard.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Did Women Ruin The Workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors!

Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
When this hits your submittable page 🥹🥹🥹
November 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
ICYMI: I have a new short story published in Villain Era Lit! It’s about the Hex Hollow murders, a real set of murders that took place in the 1920s in central PA. Read here: villaineralit.com/2025/10/31/t...
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I never thought I’d write historical fiction, but give me a witch in central PA and I won’t be able to resist. Check out my new short story over at @villaineralit.bsky.social. It’s based on a true story and it’s spooky and vengeful. Happy Halloween 👻
The Hex Hollow Murders as Told by the River Witch of Marietta, Pennsylvania, 1928 by Casey Reiland
Warlocks and the black arts, hexes and pow-wows have been neglected by a race of modern rustics who, when their crops are bad or their pigs perish, appeal to the U.S. government. City people, who s…
villaineralit.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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There’s fine lines between “cringe” and “earnest” and “popular”. As Tris @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy says: popularity matters. Loved participating in the most popular display of resistance yet here in Boston.
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike.

(via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)
October 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Boston. Wow.
October 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I’m a calzone and one beer deep on the T rn and just read this short story about food and friendship and omg the end made me tear up???
I have a new story out today @maudlinhouse.bsky.social! Writing it was heavily inspired by the increasing cost of groceries and general anxieties around money and trying to live a stupid little life!
Tap It, Swipe It, Charge It by Christopher Gonzalez

maudlinhouse.net/tap-it-swipe...
October 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
ICYMI: I have two new poems in Emerge Lit Journal today! I’ve been feeling pretty discouraged with writing in general, so I’m very pleased these babies have been picked up. :)
October 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I have two new poems published today in @emergejournal.bsky.social! Read em here: emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-connecti...
October 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In today’s episode of “Being a Preschool Teacher Is Making Me Have a Crisis About My Age,” I took the kids to the playground and went on the swings with them, only find out that swinging now gives me MOTION SICKNESS
October 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Are there any online writing workshops that specifically help with generative novel writing? I can only seem to come up with short story ideas. I lose steam easily, so I would like a class that could inspire novel plots and also encourage hitting a word count. #writingcommunity
October 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This. And it’s hilarious that Klein continues to call people who refuse to work with fascists as “fatalistic.” He won’t consider historical context nor the long fight it will take to transform our country for the better. Just listen to his interview with TNC. All he wants is a Bandaid.
i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
September 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I need people to stop saying that it was big of Tr*mp to “reach across the aisle” to people like Joe Rogan and RFK and bring them into his coalition. Like, why are y’all acting like they were not on the same side as him?? HELLO??!!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Whew, what a poem
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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trying to fit in as many trips to the olive garden as possible before the world ends
September 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM