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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio
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Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mountain, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Tahoma Literary Review, Flash Frog, Milk Candy Review, Passages North, Gone Lawn, more. Soon in OSU The Journal/ BSF 2023
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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social · 27d
Grateful for the recognition from the incredible team at @vestalreview.bsky.social 🥰🙏
vestalreview.bsky.social Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · 28d
Happy new year and congratulations to our 2026 best small fictions nominations!

@marioaliberto3.bsky.social Anna Schachner J.D. Strunk @francinewitte.bsky.social @eileentomarchio.bsky.social
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jamesmontgomery.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @saloneurope.bsky.social for a brilliant evening! The variety of work shared is what really makes it special. Cheers @kiklodge.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social 👏 Especially wonderful to hear @eileentomarchio.bsky.social read this beauty 🍦❤️

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Drive-Thru Cone — Ghost Parachute
At the McDonald’s window for a soft-serve an hour after you died, I thought of telling the woman who took my three ones that I was motherless now, that I wasn’t hungry, not really, but the germicidals...
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January 28, 2026 at 8:38 PM
eileentomarchio.bsky.social
Brilliant, riveting flash by @djpoissant.bsky.social in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social miCRo Series. 💙💚💔
cincinnatireview.bsky.social The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 2d
"It was one of those drinking games. You go around the table, and each person says which memory they’d borrow from a parent to embody." Today's miCRo, "Heart" by @djpoissant.bsky.social, shows how information can be revealed slowly and deliberately in flash fiction. Link in thread.
White text on a gray background: "It was one of those drinking games. You go around the table, and each person says which memory they'd borrow from a parent to embody. David James Poissant, 'Heart'" A white man with black and gray hair, and blue eyes. He's wearing glasses and wearing a royal blue polo. His picture has an arch shape to it, and the rest of the background is gray.
January 28, 2026 at 8:46 PM
eileentomarchio.bsky.social
Excited for this! ☺️💫💥
January 27, 2026 at 9:10 PM
eileentomarchio.bsky.social
Got the lovely news yesterday that my Ghost Parachute story “Drive-Thru Cone,” from the terrific Nov. 2025 issue, has been selected for the journal’s upcoming print anthology. Thank you, @brettpribble.bsky.social and team for the honor and support! ☺️🙏💙💚🧡

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November 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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January 27, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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cherylpappas.bsky.social
GOOD NEWS. My novel--a retelling of Hansel & Gretel in which the parents are addicted to opioids--originally titled Abandon & now titled A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR, will be published by Cornerstone Press (Univ. of Wisconsin) in February 2028.
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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troubledminnesotan.bsky.social
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 12:34 AM
eileentomarchio.bsky.social
Happy to have a story on the longlist! Thank you, @smokelong.bsky.social ☺️❤️🙏
January 24, 2026 at 5:09 AM
eileentomarchio.bsky.social
Radiohead
Björk
The Cure
PJ Harvey
Sigur Rós
💙💛🧡💚❤️
erinvachon.bsky.social Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social · 9d
5 concerts I've seen, no order:

PJ Harvey
Nick Cave (1. that wild show where he played piano and took questions from the audience between sets 2. & the Bad Seeds)
The Magnetic Fields
Bright Eyes
FKA Twigs
mrwojorising.bsky.social David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 9d
OK, I'll bite; Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

Reel Big Fish/Goldfinger
Radiohead
NIN
Stars
Weird Al Yankovic
January 21, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

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This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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chiefgordoncole.bsky.social
I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have.
#DavidLynch
January 19, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Publishing news alert! 🚨Contributor Sara Lippmann's book JERKS was republished from Tortoise Press! buff.ly/Vfv18vR
Jerks by Sara Lippmann.
January 20, 2026 at 10:27 PM
eileentomarchio.bsky.social
"The constraint needed to force the author to consider every element of the work, the bold and the shy, the controlled gestures and the peepers with secrets."

Marvelous editor's letter by @owenwyke.bsky.social. Deep mid-winter thanks to him & @amygcb.bsky.social for the call and opportunity! 🌚❄️✍️✨💙
gonelawn.bsky.social Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 13d
Here it's snowing, tonight it will be dark for all. But guess what will be bright? Gone Lawn 63 will be! This is the micro-excerpt issue, featuring thirteen brilliant authors. Enjoy!

Art by BEE LB.

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Fuzzy snowy wood in evening.
January 18, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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maudlinhouse.bsky.social
This book isn’t about small towns.

It’s about learning how to live with less and calling it enough.
January 13, 2026 at 4:20 AM
eileentomarchio.bsky.social
"This grief has crushing depths and I am its diver. Did you know it’s the ascent that bends you, that jackknifes you in sudden pain?"

Reeling from the incredible prizewinning "Submariner" in the latest @smokelong.bsky.social. Can't wait to read more by @lapharr.bsky.social 👏💫
January 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
eileentomarchio.bsky.social
If anyone still wondered what a Vance presidency might be like, if it could be any worse than Trump‘s, we know now, thanks to his tweets.
January 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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ilyakaminsky.bsky.social
They killed a young poet on a street while a university in Texas forbids teaching Plato (among other things), and president can’t stop talking about buying an island that has no desire to be sold. That was the first week of the year in a strange country getting stranger by the hour, my Horatio.
January 8, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
Make it viral.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
🙌❤️
January 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
eileentomarchio.bsky.social
Yay, @ettereview.bsky.social !!! 🎉💫🎊💫💜💕
January 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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variantlit.bsky.social
We are so proud that "Escape to a Burning Moon" by @kyleisamu.bsky.social from Variant issue 20 is included here! Congratulations all!
January 6, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Isn't it odd that the United States has enough money to suddenly run Venezuela, but not enough to run our own country?

There is always cash in the piggy bank for bombs to kill people, but never for healthcare to keep them alive.
January 4, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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johncassidysays.bsky.social
I think the main reason Trump did it was because he could. He's got all the toys. In the first term, his WH staff, his Defense Secretary, and his generals restrained him. Now it's bombs away--in Iran, Yemen, Nigeria, Venezuela, wherever.
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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eliseblackwell.bsky.social
Enjoying the Points of Light series at @necessaryfiction.com: short literary responses to the changing of seasons/time: necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...
Points of light, day 1 – Necessary Fiction
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January 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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sabrinafernandes.com
We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM