Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, 2025 Best Small Fictions. Lapsed scholar/ Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc. https://mooninabucket.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mkfrwzzyjs23For @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s Small Poem Sunday, a monostich of mine that never landed anywhere (though it did get a nice-ish rejjie from Only Poems 😊)26 Apr 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfrwzzyjs23https://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mk6ehzh2tk22Found out my poem is a semi-finalist in the only contest I entered last year 😃 🤞23 Apr 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6ehzh2tk22https://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mk3nddjc7k2iWow, thanks @grantamag.bsky.social - this actually was worth the 2+ year wait … 😉22 Apr 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3nddjc7k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mjwlgwenzc27Guys, is this a form rejection or a (*slightly) tiered one 🤔 The encouraging last line has me puzzled, since they rejected my work after just 9 days 😬. I’ve never submitted to this place before, and don’t know their MO…20 Apr 2026 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwlgwenzc27https://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mjuo5gz6ms23Preparing for my keynote speech at the recent Zone 3 Writers’ Festival got me nostalgic for the decade I spent immersed in Japanese language & literature. Shown here are the cover and pages of my beloved, much-marked copy of Murakami’s novel “Almost Transparent Blue.” - 1/319 Apr 2026 19:17 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjuo5gz6ms23https://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mjrhba45jk2iRegrettably, I have been unable to access my clean, folded towels for more than a week now. 😂 🐈‍⬛ 💕 Happy Caturday 😻18 Apr 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrhba45jk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mj2pw3eay22pYeah, my kids basically lost their $h1+ when we saw this 😂 🤣09 Apr 2026 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2pw3eay22phttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mijc5qlpw22zNew readers on an old writer 😆 👓Recent medical tests revealed, to my surprise, that I am NOT (hormonally) in perimenopause😳 I have a fibroid. We shall see what the OB thinks we ought to do about it. And boy, if this ain’t peri, cannot WAIT to see what that’s gonna feel like 😂02 Apr 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijc5qlpw22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3migrh3rvos2rThe other marriage of mine that didn’t work out 😬 JK - you know what day it is 😜01 Apr 2026 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3migrh3rvos2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mibyw4pfms2hHonored to have a little poem out today in Burial Mag. In the words of the EIC, “…this demolishing [ekphrastic] poem … stands entirely on its own: it’s called ‘phantom thread,’ and i like that it works as interpolation of the film AND as its own devastating object. don’t you dare miss it.”30 Mar 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibyw4pfms2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mi2cahfzp226Still can’t believe I’m in this, along with some of my favorite flash fiction friends, including @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & @claudiamonpere.bsky.social 💕 Catching a plane today, & so excited to have this read on my travels 🤗 TYSM to @altcurrent.bsky.social & @southeastreview.bsky.social🙏27 Mar 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2cahfzp226https://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mhxqn7czks2sThrowback to that time I went up against a giant metal rooster for best cockscomb and won 😆26 Mar 2026 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxqn7czks2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mhnzkpo4fc2uAnother bite-sized banger from Mag Gabbert for #smallpoemsunday, with thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 🙏 🚀 ✨22 Mar 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhnzkpo4fc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mh7bzrzyks27So honored to be the recipient of this year’s creative nonfiction prize from Zone 3 Press! 😃 I’ll be a (virtual) reader/keynote speaker at the 2nd annual Zone 3 Writers Festival, happening in Clarksville, TN from April 16th-18th. More details to come!16 Mar 2026 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh7bzrzyks27https://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mh42ohlvrc2hThis week’s offering for #smallpoemsunday - a #haiku of mine from Better than Starbucks (Originally published November 2022) Thanks as always to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social for championing small poetry 🙏 🤗15 Mar 2026 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh42ohlvrc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mooninabucket.bsky.social/post/3mgl4ggw6jc2qSomething for @tomsnarsky.bsky.social ‘s #smallpoemsunday by Sonia Sanchez. So f-ing hard to write a haiku this good in English while still adhering to the OG 5-7-5 … and she does it masterfully08 Mar 2026 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:64eebso7ozxemimb55zifqz5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgl4ggw6jc2q