Reposted by kira homsherJohn Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 07/09/2026Cannot recommend this essay enough. It's incredible 161
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026New essay up at @electricliterature.com! It's about my first winter in Ohio, my dog’s knee surgery, Iceland, friends, and Watership Down, but mostly it’s about ambivalence, a term and feeling I kept returning to for that entire year. electricliterature.com/what-if-ther...electricliterature.comWhat If There Is No Master Plan for Your Life? - Electric LiteratureI thought I knew the point at which my youth would transform into something else 0122
Reposted by kira homsherThad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Pleasure by @kirakh.bsky.social from Phoebe, vol. 51, issue 1. #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 183
Reposted by kira homsherbestofthenet.bsky.social @bestofthenet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Check out one of our 2026 Fiction Selections, “Year of the Rat” by @kirakh.bsky.social (Cutleaf Journal), selected by Andrew Porter on bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-fiction/year-of-the-rat/ #bestofthenetanthology #fiction #finalist 052
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026New story up at @therumpus.net! It’s about LA, ikea, and shame, and I would be so happy if you read it! therumpus.net/2026/07/13/t...therumpus.netThe Biggest Ikea in America - The RumpusThis place wasn’t for us, we didn’t deserve it, we didn’t belong. We had only come to play a temporary game of pretend. I missed our old furniture, how everything was made of wood with real density an... 031
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026the lord taketh and taketh away. and then He taketh away some more 010
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Thank you so much! This looks great -- sent to my student :) 010
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Any virtual literary readings/events in the next couple weeks? Asking for a student! 100
Reposted by kira homsherKeith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social · 26/03/2026It's such a joy to see this story (originally pub'd in Cutleaf) selected for Best of the Net 2026. Congrats, @kirakh.bsky.social! 031
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Honored to be included in this year's Best of the Net anthology! Huge thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @keithlesmeister.bsky.social, and the editors! bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-...bestofthenetanthology.comYear of the Rat – Best of the Net 082
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026just referenced this picture in a short story I'm writing 020
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026I feel like it's actually worse when the influences are more niche / less read authors bc it's easier to get away with !! 100
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026I feel like it's important for writers/artists to have wildly eclectic and discordant sources of inspiration to collage into something new so they don't end up just accidentally parroting their influences 100
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 12/03/2026You always know you’re in a nice neighborhood when there are lampposts on the sidewalks 010
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Rereading Lorrie Moore, stoned with an achey neck giggling into my pillows, probably the closest thing to a spiritual experience I have had in eons 130
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 22/02/2026There's something uncomfortable about reading someone's writing and being immediately hyper-aware of who their influences are 110
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 20/02/2026sorry but we desperately need to come up with some new blurb language. I don't want to read a book that "deftly navigates the human experience" what the fuck does that even mean anymore 130
Reposted by kira homsherJohn Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 15/02/2026If you don't mind the direct ask, if you're looking for a tightly-curated online bookshop focusing on indies & top-tier reads, come check us out: www.eveninghousebooks.com I'll also be opening up soon for more freelance work, but I need to get my house & mind in order before I push heavy thereeveninghousebooks.comEvening House BooksBuffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices. 12219
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Every time I have a medical appointment and have to wear a hospital gown I start pretending I’m a Sally Rooney character like “Her wrists were very slender and white. She trembled slightly and went pale, sitting up very straight.” 020
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 28/01/2026The final paragraph from "Why Short Stories Are Essential and Why They Are Seldom Read" by Charles E. May 060
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 06/01/2026contacting wedding vendors is just getting email after email from "artsy" millennials saying "ohhh sorry I only actually work with the 1% <3333" 020
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026What is the funniest short story you've ever read? (If you recommend your own I will come bonk you over the head with a blunt object) 140
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Seattle is such an unbelievably beautiful city with a spooky eerie atmosphere and it sucks that it’s wasted on a bunch of tech normies 131
kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social · 09/12/2025How do I tell my neighbors that they cannot just have a fucking rooster in an urban neighborhood waking everyone up before dawn every morning 120
