Sam Everick
@sameverick.bsky.social
Creative writer living in Baltimore, MD
MFA, Michener Center for Writers
She/they
MFA, Michener Center for Writers
She/they
It’s been ages since I’ve made my inkjet squirt and honestly that’s on me.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It’s been ages since I’ve made my inkjet squirt and honestly that’s on me.
www.pointsincase.com/articles/a-p...
www.pointsincase.com/articles/a-p...
New writing out today in @robotbutt.bsky.social on a very important topic: www.robotbutt.com/2025/07/28/g... #writersky
God Help This Junior Sales Associate Who Just Needs Her Coworkers’ Tee Shirt Sizes by COB Friday | Robot Butt
The associate in charge of getting shirt sizes for her company's kickball team faces the turmoil of emailing all your coworkers about anything.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
New writing out today in @robotbutt.bsky.social on a very important topic: www.robotbutt.com/2025/07/28/g... #writersky
“Anyway, let me get back to my yearning.” Happy Pride!
From “Chlorine,” by Jade Song
From “Chlorine,” by Jade Song
June 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“Anyway, let me get back to my yearning.” Happy Pride!
From “Chlorine,” by Jade Song
From “Chlorine,” by Jade Song
Woman, 33, bemoans yet another delay in writing of personal essay “How I Found Joy As An Adult”
June 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Woman, 33, bemoans yet another delay in writing of personal essay “How I Found Joy As An Adult”
Trust forever broken.
May 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Trust forever broken.
I swear the “tell us why you’re unsubscribing” options (I’m too poor; I’m too stupid to use this product correctly; jk I didn’t mean to) were written by a middle school girl who grew up to be this person.
Our graphics seem a little dated, but deep down we’re the same mailing list you subscribed to all those years ago.
You Can’t Unsubscribe from Our Mailing List Because You Don’t Really Mean It, You’re Just Upset
Our graphics seem a little dated, but deep down we’re the same mailing list you subscribed to all those years ago.
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May 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I swear the “tell us why you’re unsubscribing” options (I’m too poor; I’m too stupid to use this product correctly; jk I didn’t mean to) were written by a middle school girl who grew up to be this person.
Reposted by Sam Everick
Alex Foster considers what draws us to doomsday fantasies (and why we should resist our apocalyptic urges).
And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse
When the end of the world arrived in 1349, flagellants took to the streets to hasten it along. Whipping themselves in shirtless processions, they preached that the Black Death, which was tearing ap…
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May 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Alex Foster considers what draws us to doomsday fantasies (and why we should resist our apocalyptic urges).
Microfiction out today in “101 Words.” This is my first published piece in over a decade, y’all. I don’t think I’ll ever truly get over the feeling of being a fraud when it comes to writing, but it’s nice every now and then to see some of my words on a page. #writersky #microfiction #101words
May 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Microfiction out today in “101 Words.” This is my first published piece in over a decade, y’all. I don’t think I’ll ever truly get over the feeling of being a fraud when it comes to writing, but it’s nice every now and then to see some of my words on a page. #writersky #microfiction #101words
This is on sale at Michael’s. Whoever figured out that the customer bases for “cozy craft supplies” and “unspeakably filthy monster sex” overlap 100% is a marketing genius.
May 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is on sale at Michael’s. Whoever figured out that the customer bases for “cozy craft supplies” and “unspeakably filthy monster sex” overlap 100% is a marketing genius.
“Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately”: a dire and defiant poem by @jackiesabbagh.bsky.social
#stoptranshate
#stoptranshate
April 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately”: a dire and defiant poem by @jackiesabbagh.bsky.social
#stoptranshate
#stoptranshate
Trying to cancel the Apple TV subscription I got to watch Severance is harder than escaping the severed floor at Lumen. Jfc
April 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Trying to cancel the Apple TV subscription I got to watch Severance is harder than escaping the severed floor at Lumen. Jfc
God, this is real.
[The things I might say to you if I were brave: that you illuminate a room like the sun after hard winter; that my heart stops when you say my name; a look into your eyes freezes time and when my breath comes it is in frantic desperate gasps? No. Perhaps just this...]
Climb me you dirty fuck-puffin.
Climb me you dirty fuck-puffin.
April 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
God, this is real.
Karen Russell’s verbs 🤌
“He takes my elbow and gentles me down the planks with such tenderness that I am suddenly very afraid.”
#prose #writersky
“He takes my elbow and gentles me down the planks with such tenderness that I am suddenly very afraid.”
#prose #writersky
April 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Karen Russell’s verbs 🤌
“He takes my elbow and gentles me down the planks with such tenderness that I am suddenly very afraid.”
#prose #writersky
“He takes my elbow and gentles me down the planks with such tenderness that I am suddenly very afraid.”
#prose #writersky
I was going to pick some favorite lines of prose from ZZ Packer’s “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” but my favorite lines are actually the whole thing. #writersky #prose
March 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I was going to pick some favorite lines of prose from ZZ Packer’s “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” but my favorite lines are actually the whole thing. #writersky #prose
"An Abduction" by Tessa Hadley offers this apt description of a 15-year-old girl: "Jane was listless, her mind a blank with vivid little jets of dissatisfaction firing off in it."
#writersky #prose
#writersky #prose
March 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"An Abduction" by Tessa Hadley offers this apt description of a 15-year-old girl: "Jane was listless, her mind a blank with vivid little jets of dissatisfaction firing off in it."
#writersky #prose
#writersky #prose
Another brutal metaphor:
"She had to contend with the company board of directors, who were all men, who were all accountants or indistinguishable from them, who were cautious and slow as moles."
From "Kat" by Margaret Atwood #writersky
"She had to contend with the company board of directors, who were all men, who were all accountants or indistinguishable from them, who were cautious and slow as moles."
From "Kat" by Margaret Atwood #writersky
March 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Another brutal metaphor:
"She had to contend with the company board of directors, who were all men, who were all accountants or indistinguishable from them, who were cautious and slow as moles."
From "Kat" by Margaret Atwood #writersky
"She had to contend with the company board of directors, who were all men, who were all accountants or indistinguishable from them, who were cautious and slow as moles."
From "Kat" by Margaret Atwood #writersky
She had lived rooted in this one place and life with this one man like the black sally in the one hedge, as pliant as it is knobbed and gnarled, keeping close to the ground as it invades the darker corners of the meadows.
A brutal metaphor in the short story “Sierra Leone” by John McGahern
A brutal metaphor in the short story “Sierra Leone” by John McGahern
March 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
She had lived rooted in this one place and life with this one man like the black sally in the one hedge, as pliant as it is knobbed and gnarled, keeping close to the ground as it invades the darker corners of the meadows.
A brutal metaphor in the short story “Sierra Leone” by John McGahern
A brutal metaphor in the short story “Sierra Leone” by John McGahern
[Pritchett] avoided endings of stories that were too pat, where there was a detail that made you go, oh that’s what it’s all about! He liked to leave you in a mood where you finish the story yourself.
Paul Theroux on V.S. Pritchett
Paul Theroux on V.S. Pritchett
March 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
[Pritchett] avoided endings of stories that were too pat, where there was a detail that made you go, oh that’s what it’s all about! He liked to leave you in a mood where you finish the story yourself.
Paul Theroux on V.S. Pritchett
Paul Theroux on V.S. Pritchett
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙
20/20
20/20
March 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙
20/20
20/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙
19/20
19/20
March 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙
19/20
19/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙
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18/20
March 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙
18/20
18/20
These rejection letters definitely arrived with unidentifiable reddish brown stains in the margins
It’s always “will you publish my short story,” and never “Editor, how are you feeling?” (@katieburgess.bsky.social)
Rejection Letters from an Editor Who Is Going Through Some Stuff - Electric Literature
Dear writer, we regret to inform you...
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March 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
These rejection letters definitely arrived with unidentifiable reddish brown stains in the margins
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙
17/20
17/20
March 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙
17/20
17/20
