Cat Ingrid Leeches

🍂 Get your favorite fall beverage and cozy up with our new OCTOBER ISSUE 🍂 buff.ly/hJmnbBm Love & gratitude to our contributors 🧡 WORDS: @trentlewin.bsky.social, Kelly Luce, @janehammons.bsky.social & Thia Bian ART: Yezi Lou PLUS: @leeches.bsky.social interviews @eshanisurya.bsky.social

"Part of having an invisible illness is knowing that what’s on the outside doesn’t always reflect what’s on the inside. I wanted the structure of the book to play with the inside/outside dynamic as well." @leeches.bsky.social interviews @eshanisurya.bsky.social in our OCTOBER ISSUE💕 buff.ly/2ZVy5zj

Good morning to poets starting over again

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

“Plunge. Me. Daddy. I’ve never. Met an iceberg. I didn’t want / to swallow / whole, never / met a half- / woman I didn’t / want to cultivate / a garden with. You know the metaphor, right?” —Zoë Fay-Stindt beestungmag.com/issue15/thre...

"Eventually, I hope she gives up on wanting to rip herself, on seeing the shredder as a secret kind of weapon." 3 stories by Kara Crawford (@kara-c.bsky.social): "Corporate Life," "Co-Work," & "Slumber Party!" / New today at AC

"William Faulkner says kill your darlings. I say drag your dead darlings around with you everywhere you go and try to prop them up in everything you write and see how they do as ghosts." - Sabrina Orah Mark

Cat Ingrid Leeches @leeches.bsky.social / @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social

is karl ove knausgaard the most normal norwegian because if so then boy howdy are yall in trouble

MN state is being denied access to evidence It is not metaphorical or hyperbolic to say that this country is now run by, and functions wholly to foster, fascism If they continue to be allowed to act w this level of corruption & impunity— which has been the case for awhile now— many more will die

Fuck ICE. Fuck Nazis. Fuck fascism, capitalism, and white supremacy.

we are open 💅

We’ve been playing hide and seek for quite some time, and I think I’ve been defeated by a master.

Today is my birthday, and this year I published a book with @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social. I find it increasingly difficult to talk about my work in online spaces, but I’m giving myself permission today. My partner did the illustrations and they’re my favorite part tbh.

Prefacing that I liked Bugonia but this is wayyyy more interesting

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

there’s a new charmin commercial where the teenage daughter of the shitting bear family is an influencer reviewing charmin for her channel or whatever. i don’t approve of this. why can’t the shitting bear child be a surgeon. or a celebrated academic

brb going on book tour with my emotional support imodium

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

I had a nightmare that was a mash up between The Summer I Turned Pretty and Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild. 😬

This boy cravin’ salad

Recently, I was a guest on Betwixt the Sheets to discuss 19th c Kansas sex work. Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you don’t have to go to that church anymore. Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.

i think there should be a program that pairs the emotionally needy with recovering alcoholics who haven’t made new friends sober yet. sort of a big brother/sister program for impossibly dysregulated people

Things that have the same energy: 1. When updating your voter registration, they'll ask you to select from a drop-down menu of street types (e.g., "Lane," "circle," "Meadow," "Drive"...)—It's a surprisingly long list. 2. The Wikipedia chart detailing every one of Guinevere’s abductions.

Almost stepped on this baby today 🐍

If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.

this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are

I love the smell of office supplies that have never seen the sunlight.

excited to announce the fourth issue of New Session, the world's premiere telnet-based literary magazine "Upheaval" submissions are open today, and close November 7th, for a December release read the guidelines and theme here: anewsession.com/issue4

Our Kathryn Davis Symposium with @kellylink.bsky.social is a couple of weeks away! Our Symposium series (this is the 2nd one) celebrates an under-read living writer. We're hoping this becomes a pretty special annual event that introduces readers to great writers portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

Timely, no? “Louis XVI Goes To The Guillotine” by Benjamin Péret and translated by Charles Simic.

Disintegration in the wild, shout-out @leeches.bsky.social grab a copy here (or DM us directly) -- asterismbooks.com/product/disi...

Me getting home from work this afternoon having been off socials all day