Ugly fire blowing upslope on Washington side of Columbia River, west of Swell City/Spring Creek Hatchery area. Avoid driving Cook-Underwood so E.R. folks can do jobs.

Bravo, NPR. See ya, twittersphere. Shutting this dude's account down. Last social media into the trash can.

Happy to see my story "Party of One" out in the world today, thanks to the fine folks at The Muleskinner Journal. Free for the reading.

Rich tribute to the power of bookmobiles and now, especially, rebel bookmobiles.

Check this out. Great short story. Thx, Barzakh . and Tracy.

Follow from earlier: Go here, get lit.

Only 60 pages into it, but LMAO every other page of Percival Everett's "The Trees." It's about dark stuff, but Everett has so much fun shootin' redneck fish in a barrel. Best read in a long time. Props to Graywolf and Everett for such brilliance.

New issue of MacQueen's Quinterly is up, and me so happy and grateful to have work there. Inspired by a file I kept during my newspaper days of all the stupid news stories wondering if most recent quake was "The Big One." Check it out.

Rabbit hole rewards. Checking out Caught by the River web site, then link to this video. Just precious. Animal lovers will get it.

Big hugs and thanks to the team at new Substack lit mag Wrong Turn for their warm embrace of my recent flash, "Ashes to Ashes." So nice to sip tea beneath their digital roof.

Thanks, Meg. LOVE the LOVE . and thanks for welcoming my whimsy into your grid.

Uh, whodat at the bottom of the list? Honored to pieces. Thanks @rvaughan and editorial team for the props. Congrats, too, to my litter mates. We should get together for a drink to celebrate our statues. The Microbes, right?.

RT @NicoleCLindsay: All these writing coaches and mentors like "how may I help u succeed" bro you may cook dinner for my family, bathe my k….

RT @JohnFetterman: The Statue of Liberty doesn’t say “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and then throw them on a bus for….

Yes, abortion rights and inflation are legit issues, but just wanna remind Dems to remind voters how GOP tried to gut Obamacase/Medicaid and failed by John McCain's vote, then passed massive tax cut giveaway to richest Americans. Waiting for Bentz to crow about that. @cliff_truth.

What GOP never crows about is 2017 tax bill, which gave 252 times as much to top 0.1% as to mid quintile of earners. The only thing Congress did during Trump's reign. Talk, talk, talk about helping workers, but not really.

RT @TheSGTJoker: I’m a combat vet. Some years I have a difficult time because I wonder if my sacrifice and my friends’ sacrifices were wort….

This is great. Smug asshole. Go back to the Tinpot Dictator Ex-Slave-Holding Nation of Texas. And give back all the federal dollars I helped fund.

Always room for an oldie but goodie. LMAO.