Kirsti MacKenzie
@keersteemack.bsky.social
local woman gets dressed, leaves house
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“Get back out there.
Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.”
Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25.
www.major7mag.com/post/common-...
Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.”
Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25.
www.major7mag.com/post/common-...
"Common Knowledge" • Connor Oberst (by Scott Laudati)
Get back out there. Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.
www.major7mag.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Get back out there.
Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.”
Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25.
www.major7mag.com/post/common-...
Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.”
Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25.
www.major7mag.com/post/common-...
kirst vs the foam roller
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
kirst vs the foam roller
updating your website is a humiliation ritual, merely having a website is deeply embarrassing, like oh here is my call to action at me dot com
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
updating your website is a humiliation ritual, merely having a website is deeply embarrassing, like oh here is my call to action at me dot com
Reposted by Kirsti MacKenzie
Malarkey’s running a sale!
If you haven’t had a chance to read BOXCUTTERS, I’m deeply proud of the collection + the book and would love for you to give it a shot!
BUT also, their book club is one of the best subscriptions out there. Malarkey books will always surprise you + carve singular paths
If you haven’t had a chance to read BOXCUTTERS, I’m deeply proud of the collection + the book and would love for you to give it a shot!
BUT also, their book club is one of the best subscriptions out there. Malarkey books will always surprise you + carve singular paths
As a press, we are all over the place genre-wise, and nowhere is that represented better than in @johnchrostek.com’s story collection, Boxcutters, which blurs and blends the lines between speculative, horror, and literary fiction
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
Boxcutters, stories by John Chrostek — Malarkey
One Amazon delivery stolen from a neighbor’s porch leads to plenty more. To keep the show going, a balding sitcom actress tries out a new wig and discovers a hunger for life. Jesus Christ claims the o...
malarkeybooks.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Malarkey’s running a sale!
If you haven’t had a chance to read BOXCUTTERS, I’m deeply proud of the collection + the book and would love for you to give it a shot!
BUT also, their book club is one of the best subscriptions out there. Malarkey books will always surprise you + carve singular paths
If you haven’t had a chance to read BOXCUTTERS, I’m deeply proud of the collection + the book and would love for you to give it a shot!
BUT also, their book club is one of the best subscriptions out there. Malarkey books will always surprise you + carve singular paths
Reposted by Kirsti MacKenzie
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Reposted by Kirsti MacKenzie
Very Important People
an essay by Mike Nagel
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I have a part time gig at a brewery and they have an over-under bet book on my being late to work
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I have a part time gig at a brewery and they have an over-under bet book on my being late to work
did my ! first ! barbell bench press today
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
did my ! first ! barbell bench press today
“Sometimes when I look at you, I have the strongest sense that some things have happened before that I know have never happened. It’s like I can see us and we’re old or much older than we are now.”
@anniejowrites.bsky.social for Short Story, Long ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
@anniejowrites.bsky.social for Short Story, Long ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
“A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” by Anna Vangala Jones
“This is the one in which they meet, fall in love, and get married. They will grow old together.”
ashortstorylong.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“Sometimes when I look at you, I have the strongest sense that some things have happened before that I know have never happened. It’s like I can see us and we’re old or much older than we are now.”
@anniejowrites.bsky.social for Short Story, Long ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
@anniejowrites.bsky.social for Short Story, Long ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
I’m just going to say it. Two turkey dinners in less than a month is crazy work
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I’m just going to say it. Two turkey dinners in less than a month is crazy work
“And frozen in that one memory is the inevitable flow of air into space, the carnage I’ve lived since.”
@jackbedell.bsky.social for @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=1674
@jackbedell.bsky.social for @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=1674
Swamp Thing Sits on the Bank Examining His Life Through the Lens of Bernoulli’s Principle by Jack Bedell
Let’s just say the Book was correct, and it all started with a single breath. Inspiration—>Expiration. All the seconds in between these two. A breath into the void. A breath before saying “I love you....
hexliterary.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“And frozen in that one memory is the inevitable flow of air into space, the carnage I’ve lived since.”
@jackbedell.bsky.social for @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=1674
@jackbedell.bsky.social for @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=1674
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“…pulses with rebellious energy [and] deftly captures music’s gritty world with wit and hope, making this debut a true muse for those who dare to be different.” - @mallorysmart.bsky.social (@maudlinhouse.bsky.social)
OUT NOW! Better to Beg: A Novel by @keersteemack.bsky.social, co-published with @sweettrashpress.bsky.social // “…a rip-roaring, heart-and-soul-gutting tour through the rock-n-roll sleaze of early aughts New York City...” — @jillianluft.bsky.social, author of Scumbag Summer
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“…pulses with rebellious energy [and] deftly captures music’s gritty world with wit and hope, making this debut a true muse for those who dare to be different.” - @mallorysmart.bsky.social (@maudlinhouse.bsky.social)
I love reading SSL mag for a lot of reasons but when I tell you I was tickled to find out Aaron keeps a bookshop.org page of contributor books! So fucking cool, what a lovely thing
bookshop.org/wishlists/37...
bookshop.org/wishlists/37...
books by SSL contributors
Bookshop.org Custom Wishlist
bookshop.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I love reading SSL mag for a lot of reasons but when I tell you I was tickled to find out Aaron keeps a bookshop.org page of contributor books! So fucking cool, what a lovely thing
bookshop.org/wishlists/37...
bookshop.org/wishlists/37...
“The school board meeting is about my wife’s video. The meeting is not about my wife’s video, but concerned parents have made it about my wife’s video, which is to say they have made it about themselves.”
Hal Wright for @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/one-of-gods-...
Hal Wright for @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/one-of-gods-...
One of God’s Favorites
Hal Wright There is a video of my wife having sex on the internet. “You cannot look at someone the same way after you see them having sex,” one parent complains at the school board meeting, and eve…
pitheadchapel.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“The school board meeting is about my wife’s video. The meeting is not about my wife’s video, but concerned parents have made it about my wife’s video, which is to say they have made it about themselves.”
Hal Wright for @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/one-of-gods-...
Hal Wright for @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/one-of-gods-...
Hello friendly reminder we are still here and would love your music-inspired micros!
Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash.
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Hello friendly reminder we are still here and would love your music-inspired micros!
Reposted by Kirsti MacKenzie
Two nu, slightly censored so as to avoid throttling
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Two nu, slightly censored so as to avoid throttling
super good and fine workload today
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
super good and fine workload today
one million dollars to anyone who can unfuck my goodreads page
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
one million dollars to anyone who can unfuck my goodreads page
one of the very funniest genres of guy has to be Guy Holding To-The-Grave Grudge Against Corporation That Doesn’t Know He Exists
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
one of the very funniest genres of guy has to be Guy Holding To-The-Grave Grudge Against Corporation That Doesn’t Know He Exists
that new new from me at Maudlin
playing chicken with transports, telling comedy in churches, praying in strip clubs, setting bombs in living rooms, we’ve got it all folks
playing chicken with transports, telling comedy in churches, praying in strip clubs, setting bombs in living rooms, we’ve got it all folks
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
that new new from me at Maudlin
playing chicken with transports, telling comedy in churches, praying in strip clubs, setting bombs in living rooms, we’ve got it all folks
playing chicken with transports, telling comedy in churches, praying in strip clubs, setting bombs in living rooms, we’ve got it all folks
today she got poop in one of my shoes
I bought a new blanket for meditating but it belongs to Bailey now
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
today she got poop in one of my shoes
v v excited to return the favor and interview one of my favs @johnwaddy.bsky.social! thanks @xraylitmag.bsky.social for letting me nerd out
now we're gonna put it in reverse - Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social eeMack interviews John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social about his book 'This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers'
they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !
xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else !
xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...
FAULKNER DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES, SO WHY SHOULD I?: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WADDY BULLION by Kirsti MacKenzie
John Waddy Bullion is as versatile a writer as they come. His loosely-linked collection This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers follows coming-of-age tales of Midwestern sons and the fraught relati...
xraylitmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
v v excited to return the favor and interview one of my favs @johnwaddy.bsky.social! thanks @xraylitmag.bsky.social for letting me nerd out
today in oFfiCiAL gOveRnMeNt bUsiNeSs: highest office emailing me about ostrich farms
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
today in oFfiCiAL gOveRnMeNt bUsiNeSs: highest office emailing me about ostrich farms
