Rachel Abbey McCafferty
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Ghosts of the Mundane by Rachel Abbey McCafferty
The office bathroom
Picture this: you’re in the bathroom, trying to rinse off your hands, but the automatic faucet won’t acknowledge your existence.
Can you imagine being stuck in a public bathr...
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“… when you were young, you were just always bumping up against all the ghosts of people you used to be, and the ghosts of people you wished you were, and what no one tells you is that life is about figuring out just how to live with all those different ghosts.” www.havehashad.com/hadposts/gho...
Thought I didn’t have anything for the @welkinprize.bsky.social this year, but then the last @havehashad.com call sparked a new idea. Sharing in case you, too, need a few more days to trim and polish something up!
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:
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December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thought I didn’t have anything for the @welkinprize.bsky.social this year, but then the last @havehashad.com call sparked a new idea. Sharing in case you, too, need a few more days to trim and polish something up!
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May the season bring you joy and peace, reflection and renewal. ♥️
December 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
May the season bring you joy and peace, reflection and renewal. ♥️
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Write the stories you want to write. Because then, no matter what happens, no matter what markets are or aren’t there, you’ll at least have written the stories you want to write.
December 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Write the stories you want to write. Because then, no matter what happens, no matter what markets are or aren’t there, you’ll at least have written the stories you want to write.
This thread is spot on about why AI doesn’t have a place in writing but also about the act of writing in general.
The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This thread is spot on about why AI doesn’t have a place in writing but also about the act of writing in general.
May the season bring you joy and peace, reflection and renewal. ♥️
December 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
May the season bring you joy and peace, reflection and renewal. ♥️
I don’t know if it’s just because I don’t have as much time to watch TV now, but it feels like a decade ago there was so much good TV that you could watch legitimately great shows that no one else in your life had even heard of.
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I don’t know if it’s just because I don’t have as much time to watch TV now, but it feels like a decade ago there was so much good TV that you could watch legitimately great shows that no one else in your life had even heard of.
I … am not sure why I consistently get excited for adaptations of things I enjoy when I am very rarely rewarded for this excitement.
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I … am not sure why I consistently get excited for adaptations of things I enjoy when I am very rarely rewarded for this excitement.
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a cornfield maze where to get out, you have to finish writing your novel instead of just posting about it
December 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
a cornfield maze where to get out, you have to finish writing your novel instead of just posting about it
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ICYMI: “No one knew what it meant when the numbers starting appearing around town: an errant 2 tacked to the bulletin board at the neighborhood pool, a random 7 spray painted in the middle school pick-up lane.
The rumors started immediately.”
The rumors started immediately.”
I have a strange little piece in the new @bendinggenres.bsky.social — give it a read? bendinggenres.com/the-digital-...
The Digital Evolution
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December 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
ICYMI: “No one knew what it meant when the numbers starting appearing around town: an errant 2 tacked to the bulletin board at the neighborhood pool, a random 7 spray painted in the middle school pick-up lane.
The rumors started immediately.”
The rumors started immediately.”
It’s that time again: time for the old Midwestern bag of bows and gift bags from the closet to shine once more.
December 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It’s that time again: time for the old Midwestern bag of bows and gift bags from the closet to shine once more.
I would love to totally finish my novel and maybe format/submit a chapbook. But! With the baby being, well, a baby, I’m going to just aim for continuing to write regularly and call it a win if I manage to do that.
My 2026 writing goal is to finally finish this novel in the first half and then write weird shit for the second half. What's your writing goal?
December 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I would love to totally finish my novel and maybe format/submit a chapbook. But! With the baby being, well, a baby, I’m going to just aim for continuing to write regularly and call it a win if I manage to do that.
This is gorgeous.
love every beautiful noticed detail in today's piece from L. Andrew Huffman
"...with the Aldi advent chocolates, with you, with the canned venison with fat crusting the top from your Aunt Julie,..."
https://www.havehashad.com/7yvs4
"...with the Aldi advent chocolates, with you, with the canned venison with fat crusting the top from your Aunt Julie,..."
https://www.havehashad.com/7yvs4
I too am in love down there by L. Andrew Huffman
after George Oppen with the streets, with the last of the black ice refusing to melt, with the doe hit on the side of the road, with the deer hide drop box on the corner of the abandoned gas station,…
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December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is gorgeous.
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2025 has been a rough year. What's one piece of art that's brought you absolute joy despite everything?
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
2025 has been a rough year. What's one piece of art that's brought you absolute joy despite everything?
“We are, and will keep being, the greatest gifts in each other’s lives. And also, we will keep doing this: killing each other, making each other’s lives hells, maintaining our reverence to systems that both promote and benefit from the massacres.” — @garrettbucks.bsky.social 1/4
I need you to know how much I love you all, but I also need to scream what the hell
The dilemma is, we ware capable of great beauty and wonder and care, but we also keep killing each other
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December 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“We are, and will keep being, the greatest gifts in each other’s lives. And also, we will keep doing this: killing each other, making each other’s lives hells, maintaining our reverence to systems that both promote and benefit from the massacres.” — @garrettbucks.bsky.social 1/4
You know? This feels correct.
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
You know? This feels correct.
A beautiful thread and a reminder to help whoever you can, whenever you can.
When my grandmother was 9 years old, she and her family lived in Texas and they were extremely poor. She lived with her mother and stepfather and three sisters. My great-grandmother made all their clothes, and they scrimped on everything so that they had enough to eat.
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
A beautiful thread and a reminder to help whoever you can, whenever you can.
Nope. Nope! I almost started reading the AI’s gonna bless us lowly humans with all the ideas piece. But! I instead closed the tab and am going to go do literally anything else.
December 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Nope. Nope! I almost started reading the AI’s gonna bless us lowly humans with all the ideas piece. But! I instead closed the tab and am going to go do literally anything else.
I am delighted to be part of Issue 48 of @bendinggenres.bsky.social. Starting a thread to boost some of the wonderful writing my piece gets to appear beside. bendinggenres.com
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December 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I am delighted to be part of Issue 48 of @bendinggenres.bsky.social. Starting a thread to boost some of the wonderful writing my piece gets to appear beside. bendinggenres.com
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Love this! Today's must read!
I have a strange little piece in the new @bendinggenres.bsky.social — give it a read? bendinggenres.com/the-digital-...
The Digital Evolution
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December 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Love this! Today's must read!
This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”
Most writing advice is take it or leave it as it works for you, but one I stand by? Save PDFs of anything you publish online.
December 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Most writing advice is take it or leave it as it works for you, but one I stand by? Save PDFs of anything you publish online.
ICYMI: “No one knew what it meant when the numbers starting appearing around town: an errant 2 tacked to the bulletin board at the neighborhood pool, a random 7 spray painted in the middle school pick-up lane.
The rumors started immediately.”
The rumors started immediately.”
I have a strange little piece in the new @bendinggenres.bsky.social — give it a read? bendinggenres.com/the-digital-...
The Digital Evolution
bendinggenres.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
ICYMI: “No one knew what it meant when the numbers starting appearing around town: an errant 2 tacked to the bulletin board at the neighborhood pool, a random 7 spray painted in the middle school pick-up lane.
The rumors started immediately.”
The rumors started immediately.”
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“After exactly 1 week, 2 days and 17 hours, the number began to decrease. 1801. 1779. 1643. Historians were consulted on significant events of those years. 1385 threw everyone for a loop.”
@ramccafferty.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/the-digital-...
@ramccafferty.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/the-digital-...
The Digital Evolution
bendinggenres.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
“After exactly 1 week, 2 days and 17 hours, the number began to decrease. 1801. 1779. 1643. Historians were consulted on significant events of those years. 1385 threw everyone for a loop.”
@ramccafferty.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/the-digital-...
@ramccafferty.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/the-digital-...
I have a strange little piece in the new @bendinggenres.bsky.social — give it a read? bendinggenres.com/the-digital-...
The Digital Evolution
bendinggenres.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I have a strange little piece in the new @bendinggenres.bsky.social — give it a read? bendinggenres.com/the-digital-...
Reposted by Rachel Abbey McCafferty
@bendinggenres.bsky.social Issue 48 is now live!!! Our Nov/ Dec 2025 issue is filled with hybrid flash, poetry and CNF, an amazing issue! Congratulations to all BG editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #Writer #writerslift #writerscommunity bendinggenres.com
Current Issue
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December 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@bendinggenres.bsky.social Issue 48 is now live!!! Our Nov/ Dec 2025 issue is filled with hybrid flash, poetry and CNF, an amazing issue! Congratulations to all BG editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #Writer #writerslift #writerscommunity bendinggenres.com