@sherriwithab.bsky.social
Sherri writes weird, sweet, and occasionally angry stories, poems, and essays. Her work has appeared in Does It Have Pockets, Rattle, Cosmic Daffodil, Dorothy Parker's Ashes, and other publications.
So pleased to have Soft Avocado Heart in @salvationsouth.com Thanks to @chuckreece.bsky.social for seeing what I hoped an editor would see in this piece and for loving it. www.salvationsouth.com/texas-family...
Soft Avocado Heart
Sherri Alms’s essay from a Texas family funeral looks at how to belong in a family with different politics and religion. Grieving in Texas...
www.salvationsouth.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
So pleased to have Soft Avocado Heart in @salvationsouth.com Thanks to @chuckreece.bsky.social for seeing what I hoped an editor would see in this piece and for loving it. www.salvationsouth.com/texas-family...
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Where do you love to read? Send a photo of yourself, a friend, or family member reading in a local Gettysburg business—a coffee shop, restaurant, bar, or brewery–and send it to friends@adamslibrary.org. We will feature it in an upcoming post and tag the business.
October 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Where do you love to read? Send a photo of yourself, a friend, or family member reading in a local Gettysburg business—a coffee shop, restaurant, bar, or brewery–and send it to friends@adamslibrary.org. We will feature it in an upcoming post and tag the business.
Delighted to have this story in Cleaver Magazine! And I really love the artwork!
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Sherri Alms: WHAT I KNOW ABOUT DEATH • Cleaver Magazine
Sherri Alms writes weird, sweet, and occasionally angry stories, poems, and essays. Her work appears in Rattle, Cosmic Daffodil, and more.
www.cleavermagazine.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Delighted to have this story in Cleaver Magazine! And I really love the artwork!
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www.cleavermagazine.com/what-i-know-...
Pleased to have a mini-story in Jelly Squid's Mini Squid issue and to share the page with other wonderful writers and an artist. It would be a delight if you would read my story and the others too. Thank you! www.jellysquid.site/mini-squid
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read page by page or piece by piece
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August 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Pleased to have a mini-story in Jelly Squid's Mini Squid issue and to share the page with other wonderful writers and an artist. It would be a delight if you would read my story and the others too. Thank you! www.jellysquid.site/mini-squid
This short essay by Melanie Ritzenthaler is perfection.
url:https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/autobiography-on-the-eve-of-my-thirtieth-birthday-2/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=beautiful-things-from-river-teeth-5
url:https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/autobiography-on-the-eve-of-my-thirtieth-birthday-2/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=beautiful-things-from-river-teeth-5
July 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This short essay by Melanie Ritzenthaler is perfection.
url:https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/autobiography-on-the-eve-of-my-thirtieth-birthday-2/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=beautiful-things-from-river-teeth-5
url:https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/autobiography-on-the-eve-of-my-thirtieth-birthday-2/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=beautiful-things-from-river-teeth-5
Finishing up my first Smokelong Summer, glad for the wild writing ride with other writers. The @smokelong.bsky.social editors guided, prompted, and supported us every step of the way. Now I have a pile of flash to polish and send forth.
July 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Finishing up my first Smokelong Summer, glad for the wild writing ride with other writers. The @smokelong.bsky.social editors guided, prompted, and supported us every step of the way. Now I have a pile of flash to polish and send forth.
Beyond delighted to see my poem in the pages of Rattle.
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The Waffle House sign glows neon yellow
in my rearview. I can smell the greasy food.
A thin crescent moon reaches for Venus,
ice against ink.
—Sherri Alms
in my rearview. I can smell the greasy food.
A thin crescent moon reaches for Venus,
ice against ink.
—Sherri Alms
Last Rodeo by Sherri Alms - Rattle: Poetry
The Waffle House sign glows neon yellow
in my rearview. I can smell the greasy food.
A thin crescent moon reaches for Venus,
ice against ink. Hank Williams tears up Spotify.
The silence of a falling s...
www.rattle.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Beyond delighted to see my poem in the pages of Rattle.
@rattlepoetry.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ratt...
@rattlepoetry.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ratt...
So pleased and excited to have The Night Before published at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social. The editor is a kind human being and great to work with. And I love the stories and poems Pockets publishes. Go have a read.
www.doesithavepockets.com
www.doesithavepockets.com
Does It Have Pockets
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July 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
So pleased and excited to have The Night Before published at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social. The editor is a kind human being and great to work with. And I love the stories and poems Pockets publishes. Go have a read.
www.doesithavepockets.com
www.doesithavepockets.com
This is the writer's first publication; what a beautiful first.
Magpie by Hope Rudebusch
Magpie Magpie on the metal rail, black and white, echoing the mountain behind— black pine and white snow. Wrapped in fleece, I wait for the water to boil— morning tea. You are gone— the house feels…
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June 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This is the writer's first publication; what a beautiful first.
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"He fed me his best lines: You mustn't feel that way. I'd do anything for you. You know I love you." Today from #MicroMonday, The Jig Is Up or Ever After Hills Like White Elephants by Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social #microfiction. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/05/05/m...
May 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"He fed me his best lines: You mustn't feel that way. I'd do anything for you. You know I love you." Today from #MicroMonday, The Jig Is Up or Ever After Hills Like White Elephants by Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social #microfiction. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/05/05/m...
Happy to have Two Too Many Martinis, a short story, in @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social's latest issue, In the Company of Strangers. Thanks to editors Madison and Kelly!
Read the story in the ebook...
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Read the story in the ebook...
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May 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Happy to have Two Too Many Martinis, a short story, in @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social's latest issue, In the Company of Strangers. Thanks to editors Madison and Kelly!
Read the story in the ebook...
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Read the story in the ebook...
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Excited to announce that FlashFlood will open its doors on Sunday 20 April until Saturday 26 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Previously published accepted. Get writing, folks! More details here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/fl...
a cartoon character is writing on a piece of paper with a south park sign in the background
ALT: a cartoon character is writing on a piece of paper with a south park sign in the background
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April 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Excited to announce that FlashFlood will open its doors on Sunday 20 April until Saturday 26 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Previously published accepted. Get writing, folks! More details here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/fl...
Heartbreakingly beautiful poem by by Joaquín Zihuatanejo in the Texas Observer.
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www.texasobserver.org/poetry-promp...
Poetry Prompts for Detained Children
Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom...
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April 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Heartbreakingly beautiful poem by by Joaquín Zihuatanejo in the Texas Observer.
www.texasobserver.org/poetry-promp...
www.texasobserver.org/poetry-promp...
@barrelhouse.bsky.social, thanks for an amazing conference. The session leaders were fabulous. The writers' panel was awesome. And it was so much fun to be among writers.
April 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
@barrelhouse.bsky.social, thanks for an amazing conference. The session leaders were fabulous. The writers' panel was awesome. And it was so much fun to be among writers.
And what if you have an amazing supportive writing workshop led by an incredible, generous writer that meets weekly? And you treat yourself to good lotion and make your own blueberry scones? Thankful for your mentorship, @beekaekae.bsky.social
What if the writing retreat is a Holiday Inn? Your mother's spare bedroom? What if your view is the water tower? What if blueberry yogurt & lukewarm showers? What if lotion that makes your hands drier? What if u can access your thoughts anywhere. What if silence weighs the same in ordinary places.
March 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
And what if you have an amazing supportive writing workshop led by an incredible, generous writer that meets weekly? And you treat yourself to good lotion and make your own blueberry scones? Thankful for your mentorship, @beekaekae.bsky.social
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Either she wants to say nothing, or say too much.
Either her world keeps ending, or it’s always beginning.
—Courtney Kampa
Either her world keeps ending, or it’s always beginning.
—Courtney Kampa
Avant-Garde by Courtney Kampa - Rattle: Poetry
A man slouches before a uni-colored canvas
with the perplexity of a stumped technician
gaping at the unremittingly blank screen
of a television. He adjusts his stance,
a double antenna, in search for ...
www.rattle.com
March 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Either she wants to say nothing, or say too much.
Either her world keeps ending, or it’s always beginning.
—Courtney Kampa
Either her world keeps ending, or it’s always beginning.
—Courtney Kampa
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Still, Barbie lifted her hands
to her temples and told a white lie—why yes …
—Denise Duhamel
#ThisWeekLastYear
to her temples and told a white lie—why yes …
—Denise Duhamel
#ThisWeekLastYear
Poem in which Barbie Qualifies for Medicare by Denise Duhamel - Rattle: Poetry
Barbie never thought too much about her eligibility.
She’d loved AARP—the discounts at Sunglass Hut
and Outback Steakhouse—when she waved
her bright red card.
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March 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Still, Barbie lifted her hands
to her temples and told a white lie—why yes …
—Denise Duhamel
#ThisWeekLastYear
to her temples and told a white lie—why yes …
—Denise Duhamel
#ThisWeekLastYear
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The US is expelling South Africa's ambassador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, calling the envoy a "race-baiting politician" who hates Donald Trump reut.rs/4bEd07V
US expels South Africa's ambassador, calling him 'race-baiting' Trump hater
The U.S. is expelling South Africa's ambassador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, calling the envoy a "race-baiting politician" who hates President Donald Trump.
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March 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The US is expelling South Africa's ambassador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, calling the envoy a "race-baiting politician" who hates Donald Trump reut.rs/4bEd07V
#Fridayreads I am reading Don’t Be a Stranger by Susan Minot. It was slow at first, but now it is blooming. Just in time for the weekend! What are y’all reading? Post with the hashtag and join us!
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Don't Be a Stranger: A Novel
A Novel
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March 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
#Fridayreads I am reading Don’t Be a Stranger by Susan Minot. It was slow at first, but now it is blooming. Just in time for the weekend! What are y’all reading? Post with the hashtag and join us!
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Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
February 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
Thank you, @kathyfish.bsky.social and Kerouac House, for a jam-packed flash workshop today!
February 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Thank you, @kathyfish.bsky.social and Kerouac House, for a jam-packed flash workshop today!