Will Klein

In Memento when Guy Pearce says "I don't think they'd let someone like me carry a gun" and Joe Pantoliano says "I fuckin hope not."

Pleased to say my piece, Its Powerful Parking Lot, has been nominated for Best of the Net by @flightlit.bsky.social ! I’m grateful to Frances and Will! flight-literary.ghost.io/sean-ennis-f...

It's Best of the Net Season! The Flight Crew is psyched to nominate two essays:

Honored to have my story "The Ace of Teeth" on the @wigleaf.bsky.social long list. Thanks to the judges and the Wigleaf Team. And thanks to @lostballoon.bsky.social for publishing this. lost-balloon.com/2025/06/18/t...

Check out all the great pieces in the new @flightlit.bsky.social including my little essay about death, @deathcabforcutie.bsky.social, and why music makes me cry. Thanks to editors Frances and Will for including me.

I'm not generally a spiritual person, but I believe that if you have x gonna give it to ya on your playlist and you put it on shuffle it will come on at the time you need it most

I worked retail all through lockdown while getting up at 4 am to work on my first novel before work. I remember driving to my shift, listening to news reports about people quarantined on cruise ships in San Francisco. I'd fantasize about how much writing I could be getting done if that were me.

Everyone's all "but I need AI for little jobs artists won't do." As though I don't want a hundred music videos of 00s hip hop songs featuring my cat with his name in the chorus. As though I wouldn't rip up my Grandma's hook rugs in front of her to get that.

Whenever my wife leaves I'm always like "now I can do all the fun stuff she won't let me do!" and then I always learn that there's nothing she keeps me from doing except leaving sharp knives in the sink.

im reading bleak house and they just got to the house and guess what. its really nice. so what the fuck

PROSE POETRY IS POETRY BUT REGULAR POETRY ISNT

we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back

When I told him about The New Yorker's very human fact-checking process, he crowed that "a lot of that is going to go away." To which I said, NO, AI means we need MORE fact-checking, because AI has flooded the web with bullshit. It certainly can't be trusted to fact-check itself, or anything. /

Lately I've been tired of stories about hyper competent people whose plots are never troubled by mundane greed or stupidity. The truth of the world is more like a Cohen brothers comedy than a grand tragedy.

The many advantages to using AI: -You have to use it. -If you don't use it, you'll get left behind. -We'll force you to use it or trick you.

There is a construction crew working on either side of my house that keeps short-cutting through my yard and a whole-ass fox hunt of hounds baying and horses clopping down my street ex-urban Philadelphia Wednesday morning WHAT IS UP

So in a completely terrifying and vulnerable shift from my normal flash, I wrote a very personal essay, up at Herstry today. Hope it resonates. herstryblg.com/true/2026/3/...

My chapbook—5 weeks before its official release—is NOW IN ITS SECOND PRINTING! Eternal thanks to everyone who bought a book, came to a reading, shared a post, etc, etc, etc. I’m so grateful.

My new dentist keeps texting me reminders about my upcoming appointment...in three days. I hope they have money to pay for my multiple heart attacks.

My cat gets into everywhere she's not wanted and is always trying to help with things even though she just makes them harder. She's basically AI.

one time i was playing frolf in alaska and i hit a moose

Fun fact: after you come back from AWP, everything sounds like a poem. My wife opened the curtains and said "There's something like sunshine outside."

My get rich quick scheme is to move to Asia and sell "Ancient European Secret" quackery, and it will be all leaches and no bathing.

Getting ready for AWP. If you're on a panel, please do not spend your time saying you don't know anything about the topic. No one came to hear that. We all know human's are fallible, just take your best shot.

Writing retreats always ask why you want to go there. My honest answers are "Because I crave institutional validation, and because I want to crawl back into my MFA the way some children want to go back into the womb." Please rate this response in terms of its likelihood to land me a residency.

Leafblowers! A Duet By: The Dudes Outside My House

I'm writing a plot synopsis for beta readers, but it's also kind of a test-run for agents. Would you include prologue/epilogues? Would you include a backstory chapter? How would you designate these? For instance, I'm considering writing: In a backstory chapter, we see...

@thelincoln.bsky.social , in addition to "Tv-brain" writing, I think we should consider "video-game-brain" writing, where the prose is like watching someone steer an avatar around the screen. The current novel I'm reading does this and it's driving me crazy.

The "should writers read?" discourse feels artificial this time around, like an excuse to get out that Ana Mardoll tweet from a couple years ago out an smack it around again, like we found an old pinata in the attic.

Everything only helps Trump. Hurting Trump? That helps Trump.

Anytime someone shames Dem voters for not swearing to vote for any candidate, no matter how odious, they are wasting an opportunity to encourage the Dem party to be worth voting for.

The GOP are hypocrites in the way that an assailant is a hypocrite when they want to punch you in the face but they don't want you to punch them back. In both situations, complaining about the hypocrisy misses the point.

They say there's a male loneliness epidemic but there are two men chainsawing logs next door to my house

New flash in Milk Candy Review today! Check it out if you have a minute: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/02/05/t...

It's release day for Tiny Vessels! Thank you so much to Rita Bullwinkel for this amazing introduction! mastersreview.com/tiny-vessels...

For creative nonfiction, we have work from Dominik Slusarczyk, with his essay “An analysis of Transfiguration” “Nowadays, we do the Heimlich maneuver. I doubt they had that when Jesus was around but there must have been something else they did.” flight-literary.ghost.io/dominik-slus...

Our poetry selection is “Ars Poetica: Tulips” from @carriganak.bsky.social “Petals fall into your cereal, soaking in milk and staining Cheerios” flight-literary.ghost.io/alex-carriga...

Flight 3 is here with four works all related to the theme of art! Let’s take a walking tour through this issue:

I both sincerely appreciate that ICE keeps losing in court and feel kinda bummed that they apparently need to be fought case by case.

This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked. The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.

Trying something fun with my 1st AWP offsite. A reading that doubles as an irl submission window. Come to Vinyl & Pages on March 4 w/ a new piece of writing to read & hand me on paper. I want to start making Issue 23! & support an incredible Black-owned shop & community space! StanchionZine.com/awp

Anyway, what's up with these high prices? Sure hope Dems are giving that their full attention.

I will happily take the most noodle-spined, weather-vane Dems as long as they ACTUALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THE WAY THE WINDS ARE BLOWING