Thank you! It’s a beautiful and beautifully messy process and I’m just trying to enjoy it as much as I can 💚

Thank you, Sam! Between this nice news and a little vacation starting tomorrow to reset a bit, feeling pretty optimistic about next week 👀

Lastly: I loved “Sorrow for Youth” by @thisisguan.bsky.social for how it invokes the idea of leaving ourselves on the water. A hint of fairy-tale—selkies, perhaps. Prose that's quiet but electric. A perfect way to round out the Retrograde—

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I loved Carter Lappin's "Sometimes You Can’t Help but Feel Like He Does These Things on Purpose" most for the way it weighs the definitions of help and helplessness. Its imagery. How quickly it sets a scene and ashes it completely.

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Eli Dowd's "They Buried Their Dead in Sitting Posture" swept me up in language and scene-setting: the sun-spottedness of it all, the all-yellow, the vulture that mutes atop a tree. The name Mabel always hits close to home, as does the loves we cannot help.

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Next up, "Annual Review" from @shanaross.bsky.social: This made me laugh more than once in a touch under 200 words which is a true FEAT. It's surreal and absurd and yet *exactly* spec of working life. Go read and laugh and sublimate your own rage!

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First, Amanda Yskamp’s artwork “gathering,” of which I’ve included just a portion of here: I love the interlocking of hands and shreds, how they seem to be holding both the scenes and each other. The perfect way to bind this group, the whole Universe.

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All over this preorder! So excited to read it!!

Thank you Majda!! Means so much to hear that from you.

Thank you! 💚