Excited to have my flash piece, “Vanishing Lessons”, in this wonderful new issue of ⁦The Mersey Review⁩ !! Thanks so much to the editors! 💚🖤 themerseyreview.com/issues/4/vanis…

LFG, NIGHTBITCHES

Oh my! This novel of mine is all the way to 400 reviews in just four months. Thank you, thank you if you have read this book and rated or reviewed it. Time is a resource that you never get back, so thanks for giving yours to this book. 🖤

The America many are so desperate to return to never existed. It’s all an illusion created by the Hays Code. The movies you think represent a wholesome county we have somehow lost are not representative of reality. You have been sold a commercial and believe it to be history.

I have a new story in jmww Journal about neighbors,, loneliness, San Francisco. Many thanks to Kristin Bonilla for publishing this! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/fla…

I just found out a married couple I know doesn’t have assigned cars. Like they have 2 cars.. but one isn’t his and hers… they just wake up every morning and grab whatever set of keys and go??? That’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard in all my lives????

delivered today: MOTHMAN WAS HERE: TALES OF THE UNCANNY!!! featuring Amy Cipolla Barnes * Jack Bedell * Melissa Llanes Brownlee * Myna Chang * Michael Garrigan * Bri Gonzalez * Kari Gunter-Seymour * Denton Loving * Katie Manning * Jennifer Maritza McCauley * Elena Zhang

— Leila Chatti

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO ME! I'm so happy that Sunbathers—my weird, queer, culty sun-vampire novella—is out in the world! Check it out here: linktr.ee/hedonebooks

I'll be once again running my online, asynchronous horror writing course in October. Tons of prompts and readings, with the option for in-depth feedback on your writing! forms.gle/SAFen3P87HvEit…

not my partner finding feminist theory that blows my mind in The Bachelor reddit

Today is my 22 year kidney transplant anniversary. Simply unbelievable. I’m so far past my expiration date it’s absurd. I am a lucky organ thief. The secret to my longevity is a delicate balance of being too grateful to let people down and too spiteful to die. To the pie cave!

it’s time everyone acknowledges that Brooklyn Nine-Nine belongs in the uppermost tier of sitcoms

I got an acceptance for this, and I didn’t even have to submit! This is the best. Can we do all submission calls like this from now on? Submitting is my least favorite part. I could get used to this. All credit to Elizabeth Fletcher who deserves at least half of this 💀. Probably more.