Aaron Burch
@aaronburch.bsky.social
Author: A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
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cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
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"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
gf is making a much smaller pie this year than normal because "no one but me really eats it," leaving me to wonder what I am going to be having for breakfast the next week or two??
This got me thinking….how do we as a society normalize pumpkin pie as a breakfast option at restaurants year round? Who will be the change we want to see in the world?
It turns out Mina and I have identical pie takes (literally had home made pumpkin pie for breakfast this morning before kids woke up).
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
gf is making a much smaller pie this year than normal because "no one but me really eats it," leaving me to wonder what I am going to be having for breakfast the next week or two??
Feeling this!
But also... last week a past student asked me to be one of their thesis readers and said, "your joyful approach to writing has really stuck with me." Passing on a "joyful approach to writing" to even just one student a semester, does (unfortunately! lol) kinda make it feel worth it.
But also... last week a past student asked me to be one of their thesis readers and said, "your joyful approach to writing has really stuck with me." Passing on a "joyful approach to writing" to even just one student a semester, does (unfortunately! lol) kinda make it feel worth it.
I was feeling like "my job is pointless and no one cares" and then one of my students popped in to office hours just to ask for book recommendations
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Feeling this!
But also... last week a past student asked me to be one of their thesis readers and said, "your joyful approach to writing has really stuck with me." Passing on a "joyful approach to writing" to even just one student a semester, does (unfortunately! lol) kinda make it feel worth it.
But also... last week a past student asked me to be one of their thesis readers and said, "your joyful approach to writing has really stuck with me." Passing on a "joyful approach to writing" to even just one student a semester, does (unfortunately! lol) kinda make it feel worth it.
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I really, really loved this one. @anniejowrites.bsky.social is always so good, but this really touched me.
"They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."
"They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I really, really loved this one. @anniejowrites.bsky.social is always so good, but this really touched me.
"They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."
"They remember and think of each other often in the intervening years between their conversations and meaningful glances."
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Of course this is so beautiful and good 😍😭
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Of course this is so beautiful and good 😍😭
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I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
🚨 🚨 NEW @anniejowrites.bsky.social ON SHORT STORY, LONG DAY! 🚨 🚨
“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 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🚨 🚨 NEW @anniejowrites.bsky.social ON SHORT STORY, LONG DAY! 🚨 🚨
This movie is great. Plummer is bonkers in it.
A few years ago I added THE SILENT PARTNER (1978) to my regular holiday rotation because it’s a Christmas adjacent thriller that is scary, sexy and funny in equal measure. My highest recommendation. It also gets bonus points for a very early John Candy appearance.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This movie is great. Plummer is bonkers in it.
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
Maybe this gets a lotta love, I really don't know? I hadn't seen it, and am not sure I'd ever even heard of it, but watched it a couple weeks ago, and it was a blast.
Maybe this gets a lotta love, I really don't know? I hadn't seen it, and am not sure I'd ever even heard of it, but watched it a couple weeks ago, and it was a blast.
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
Maybe this gets a lotta love, I really don't know? I hadn't seen it, and am not sure I'd ever even heard of it, but watched it a couple weeks ago, and it was a blast.
Maybe this gets a lotta love, I really don't know? I hadn't seen it, and am not sure I'd ever even heard of it, but watched it a couple weeks ago, and it was a blast.
reminder: interested in reviewing it and/or doing an interview? I can hook you up with a pdf ARC (or a physical copy ARC next month). it'd be a super fun book to chat about. hmu!
first blurb, from big fave, Amelia Gray!
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
reminder: interested in reviewing it and/or doing an interview? I can hook you up with a pdf ARC (or a physical copy ARC next month). it'd be a super fun book to chat about. hmu!
A movie based on a Danielle Evans story would be dope.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A movie based on a Danielle Evans story would be dope.
pretty much every day i'm like, idk man, people are even dumber than i'd already thought??
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
pretty much every day i'm like, idk man, people are even dumber than i'd already thought??
communications professor had been a phone phreaker and gave us CDs with pirated adobe programs, we made websites instead of wrote papers as hw, I graduated and was working in a bank, I built a website to entertain myself bc it had been fun, it kinda accidentally became a lit journal...
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
communications professor had been a phone phreaker and gave us CDs with pirated adobe programs, we made websites instead of wrote papers as hw, I graduated and was working in a bank, I built a website to entertain myself bc it had been fun, it kinda accidentally became a lit journal...
Writing & publishing is so funny. This year, I probably wrote the least I have in YEARS... but I also have a novella coming out in a cpl months, pubbed a handful of stories that are among the best things I've written, and had stories nominated for Pushcart & Best of the Net. A pretty good bad year.
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Writing & publishing is so funny. This year, I probably wrote the least I have in YEARS... but I also have a novella coming out in a cpl months, pubbed a handful of stories that are among the best things I've written, and had stories nominated for Pushcart & Best of the Net. A pretty good bad year.
oh, hey, that's me!
this was a fun one. glad pithead loved and accepted and pubbed it, honored they nominated it.
pitheadchapel.com/the-bowling-...
this was a fun one. glad pithead loved and accepted and pubbed it, honored they nominated it.
pitheadchapel.com/the-bowling-...
Please join us in congratulating our Pushcart nominees! Good luck everyone!
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
oh, hey, that's me!
this was a fun one. glad pithead loved and accepted and pubbed it, honored they nominated it.
pitheadchapel.com/the-bowling-...
this was a fun one. glad pithead loved and accepted and pubbed it, honored they nominated it.
pitheadchapel.com/the-bowling-...
one of the best kinds of responses to editing a lit journal
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
one of the best kinds of responses to editing a lit journal
lol at "taking too long" as the reason for withdrawal for a story submitted 64 days ago
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
lol at "taking too long" as the reason for withdrawal for a story submitted 64 days ago
"Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns."
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns."
one of my favorite parts of editing Short Story, Long is sending an acceptance email, and one of my other favorite parts is sending the author a preview proof of their story, formatted, with the art and artist made just for their story
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
one of my favorite parts of editing Short Story, Long is sending an acceptance email, and one of my other favorite parts is sending the author a preview proof of their story, formatted, with the art and artist made just for their story
LOVED this! It is kinda aimed right at me (one long, run-on sentence! a WriterCamp shoutout! big, open-hearted appreciation and love for ART!), but I love how it wrestled with many of my own frustrations with Gen AI & the world but also reminded me of my love & wonderment for people & creativity.
My Flamingo essay, brilliantly edited by the team at @sillygoosepress.bsky.social!
sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/th...
sillygoosepress.com/issue-six/th...
The Flamingo — SillyGoosePress
As someone who’s always wanted to be a writer, the rise of ChatGPT and software like it that mimics the very real work that I’ve been pouring my life into is downright depressing, and to begin, I want...
sillygoosepress.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
LOVED this! It is kinda aimed right at me (one long, run-on sentence! a WriterCamp shoutout! big, open-hearted appreciation and love for ART!), but I love how it wrestled with many of my own frustrations with Gen AI & the world but also reminded me of my love & wonderment for people & creativity.
I can baaaarely get this squirrel trap set without setting it off, but man the squirrels don’t seem to have any trouble getting the nuts out.
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I can baaaarely get this squirrel trap set without setting it off, but man the squirrels don’t seem to have any trouble getting the nuts out.
Just an absolute emotional knockout of a story. I reread every five years or so and am totally wowed anew every time. Don’t see it mentioned or talked about that often, tho everyone I know who has read it agrees it’s an all-timer.
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Just an absolute emotional knockout of a story. I reread every five years or so and am totally wowed anew every time. Don’t see it mentioned or talked about that often, tho everyone I know who has read it agrees it’s an all-timer.
bff's wife texted to tell me she preordered 2 copies of TACOMA, one for her and one for her parents, immediately making me remember that one of the first few chapters is an oral sex scene
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
bff's wife texted to tell me she preordered 2 copies of TACOMA, one for her and one for her parents, immediately making me remember that one of the first few chapters is an oral sex scene
really can't recommend strongly enough treating yourself by pausing your life and reading "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog"
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
really can't recommend strongly enough treating yourself by pausing your life and reading "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog"
Seth Abramson bout to drop his 172 tweet thread opus
AI bros trying to get into MFA debates now? Oh boy are they in over their heads lol
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Seth Abramson bout to drop his 172 tweet thread opus