Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti)

a few self-portraits as queer plants! 🪴

Poured boiling water on my hand. 4/10. Can't say I recommend. Only thing interesting is the blush of plum developing under the scaled and scalded skin that vaguely matches my nail color.

Boosting because my father's undiagnosed sleep apnea (for 30+ years!) was passed off as "he's just a loud snorer!" yet led to severe heart problems and cognitive impairment. Get checked! Snoring for long periods is NOT NORMAL.

"I was never a plant girl. It was always the insects and arachnids that fascinated and moved me. I owe them for seeing me through some of the worst times in my life." —Cassandra Urquhart alocasia.org/2026/10/19/c...

Happy Birthday, Sylvia. I wrote a sonnet just for you. 🕯️🤍✨

“Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on lessons from Brazil:

"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong." ~ Richard Feynman

Had the honor of blurbing @kavetchnik.bsky.social’s Domiciliary, and you’re going to want to get your copy today. ❤️

Starting to think Talarico is in the pocket of Big Text.

Good morning from the tiny cut in my mouth who sings its little song incessantly, so that everything I say hums with pain.

an absolute banger!

We only have 12 copies of John's Table & 16 copies of Game of Little Deaths left. Get 'em while you can! asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...

Leslie Scalapino, from New Time

an absolute banger!

From our Fall issue, now unpaywalled on our site: ‘Diary of a Transgender Ideology Extremist,’ a comic by @soljbrager.bsky.social. jewishcurrents.org/diary-of-a-t...

poem (poet?) as ant under magnifying glass Mall Water Jenna Jaco (@jennajaco.bsky.social) Beast Country K. Christopherson Olympic Speedwalker Savannah Wolden kithbooks.com

a poem is that crack between your stove and counter that you have to clean with a knife

Nothing is "inevitable," no matter how insistently repeated. The future IS a choice, no matter how insistently denied.

Me [reading Spinoza]: ....Gay Brain DON'T! DON'T DO IT! Gay Brain: ...conatussy... Me: GODDAMNIT!

What is Talarico Text Bot isn't containable at the end of this campaign?!

hex is stoked to announce our nominations for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions. We are so incredibly grateful for all of the writers that choose to trust us with their work. It’s such an honor to read your submissions and highlight the writing we love every week!

ICYMI 🌱💚

Do Towels Dream of Damp Sheep?

wow, JKR & HBO must be scared shitless about the backlash to the new HP series. I can't wait to cancel my HBO subscription on December 1st – you should too!

@neonpajamas.bsky.social has a new book!!! Uncle Time from Gasher Press- won the 2025 Chapbook Competition. I'm beyond excited to read this one. Ben's innovations are magnificent! Get you some!

Reminder that it’s time to fit the communist manifesto into the sour skittles packs.

Reading Gass feels like playing in a fast-food restaurant’s ball pit, but for intellectuals. — William H. Gass on Sartre and the theater in “The World Within the World” (1971)

So slant & beautiful & true

Catapult shuttering and BioWare getting axed is Not Great for my specific demographic of nerd who likes writing that is good

neato! this means boycotting is like paying myself!

Adam Gianforcaro 💙 “This is what it means to write a poem…” @adamg.bsky.social @stanchion.bsky.social

We're open for new work! The next issue we're reading for is 1/2 of the way full! We'd especially love to read more work by BIPOC writers & other underrepresented groups! Send send send! alocasia.org/about-send-w...

M- cut my hair so that I look like a slutty horse & I love it.

eeek! so excited for this new @aniking.bsky.social book!

Happy Birthday, my dear Maureen. 🌻

Aliens far in the future have to recreate a sense of human society based on the sole remaining artifact of civilization: a DVD of The Tom Green Show.

Objectively funny.

Should I have not spliced my cucumbers with the humble housefly?

ALOCASIA #21 is here w/ more queer planty writing as fall goes fallow and we begin to refreeze w/ Chella Courington, Tyler Lemley, Shon Mapp, Lawrence Schimel, Chloe Lim, Jax NTP, Kite Marsh, Cassandra Urquhart, Sumitra Singam, and Mary Beth Becker ALOCASIA.org

Need a prose poem on ACCOMPLIHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @writesloud.bsky.social's honest poem “I lied when I told you I was a Riot Grrrl” was published in Bending Genres 🎉 buff.ly/XBHtaIv

From @neonpajamas.bsky.social’s incredible new chapbook, Uncle Time (www.gasherpress.com/product-page...) #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Join @aniking.bsky.social for the launch of their debut flash fiction collection, Family Night. Features Katherine Plumhoff, Claudia Monpere, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Allison Field Bell, and Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes. Come hang out with us! Gonna be 🔥 Register here: aniking.net/launchparty/

Stay with me, A little Simic #poetry for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social