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M.M. Kaufman

@mmkaufman.bsky.social
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Meet me at the car wash. Writer. Managing editor at Rejection Letters. Latest words at X-R-A-Y, trampset, Okay Donkey, Identity Theory, Farewell Transmission, JAKE.

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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Write when the baby is writing.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Less than 15 minutes.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
And for my next trick, we will see how long it takes me to do something I’ve been putting off for months.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Car washing for two.
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
one more from the open-tabs TBR pile! a beaut' from @mmkaufman.bsky.social! "I make a firm decision to tell Joe the next time he comes over. Sammy won’t take it well. She doesn’t take anything well; or rather, she takes things too well, too close to heart."
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NOT EVERYTHING DIES IN THE DARK by M.M. Kaufman
For Ben There reality was, being all realistic, when it blinked out. One second I’m looking at Sammy and Joe sitting on the stoop in their church clothes eating deviled eggs and rice casserole off sty...
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Every year for the past 7 years I have made a playlist for a ghost. Here is the 2025 incarnation of Mm’s Feels. The big M is my Aunt Marian and the little m is me, her namesake. Love you, mean it, my sestra. open.spotify.com/playlist/0IH...
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Mm’s Feels 2025
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
"She’s walking the railing of the balcony like an Olympic gymnast on a balance beam, and the next second she’s a stuffed animal with those beads for eyes and plastic whiskers" Stunning story. @mmkaufman.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/not-everythi...
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NOT EVERYTHING DIES IN THE DARK by M.M. Kaufman
For Ben There reality was, being all realistic, when it blinked out. One second I’m looking at Sammy and Joe sitting on the stoop in their church clothes eating deviled eggs and rice casserole off sty...
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
we have a story by MM Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social ! it's about an aging man whose reality starts glitching, switching between ordinary life & a staged reality of actors, props, & cardboard a beautiful story with a beautiful ending - u should read this pronto xraylitmag.com/not-everythi...
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NOT EVERYTHING DIES IN THE DARK by M.M. Kaufman
For Ben There reality was, being all realistic, when it blinked out. One second I’m looking at Sammy and Joe sitting on the stoop in their church clothes eating deviled eggs and rice casserole off sty...
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Steve C @stevexisxok.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
so much love and care in these stories by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social @mmkaufman.bsky.social and Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez pleased and proud we get to publish work like theirs🔥
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Guess who is not getting published in The New Yorker? Me. But guess who got a tiered rejection from The New Yorker? Also me! #muchtoadmire 💅
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I fucking love my writing friends.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I tripped and fell and wrote another tiny little poem. Where we sending those these days?
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HAD @havehashad.com · 16/11/2025
really can't recommend strongly enough that y'all treat yourselves today to a wonderful M.M. Kaufman treat of a poem "There are many ways To divide Southerners. I do it by those who hate Loud bugs and frogs..." www.havehashad.com/eikr1
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Southern Divide by M.M. Kaufman
There are many ways To divide Southerners. I do it by those who hate Loud bugs and frogs, the Ones that leap and fly In the dark, and those, Like me, who enjoy them For the inability to get too…
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New little paw-eem up at @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/sou...
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Southern Divide by M.M. Kaufman
There are many ways To divide Southerners. I do it by those who hate Loud bugs and frogs, the Ones that leap and fly In the dark, and those, Like me, who enjoy them For the inabil...
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It’s here. My favorite thing I’ve ever written. Let’s go to the carwash!
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
You’ll never guess what my piece is about…
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I made two strangers happy-cry (like fr) in my office today. So my work is done here. I think I can go home.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Got good news today for enthusiasts of both carwashes and my writing. Stay tuned!
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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇
a pink banner with the hex logo that says "submissions open 10 AM ET 9/5," lists recent contributors and awards, and includes a link to hex's submittable: hexliterary.submittable.com/submit
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I think I’m in the minority of diehard Wuthering Heights fans who are actually excited about Emerald Fennell’s new film. But maybe that’s because my only published poem is a cliff notes version of who and why everyone hooks up in the novel? 🤷‍♀️ 🥵 #hottake jmwwblog.wordpress.com/the-modern-r...
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The Modern Reader’s Cliff Notes to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë—But Make It Hot by M.M. Kaufmann
(Cathy sr. re Heathcliff)Is he hot or is he the only guy you’ve ever known who isn’t related to you?Is he hot or did your dad bring him home and you and brother mistook him for a dog?Is he hot or i…
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Shout out to the birds that live around my neighborhood. Y’all sound real good today.
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 28/08/2025
Um. Everybody... stop what you're doing and check out @mmkaufman.bsky.social's new banger "PLATEAUED"... up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥🔥🔥
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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
wwwwwwwwwwell my buckle makes impressions on the inside of her thigh
belt buckle featuring Slimer from Ghostbusters
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Pulling up to yoga class blasting Rage Against the Machine because that’s where I’m at right now.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Are people aware of what flight anxiety is really like? What it’s about, the triggers, the origins, and how it presents? Do I need to put off my novel projects again to write a CNF piece about this plague?
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Battling flight anxiety with a pre airport carwash.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
There are just not enough people telling me on a daily basis that they wanna rock my Gypsy soul just like way back in the days of old.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
All it took was 2025 (and a whole lot of bullshit) to make me realize I’m a Rage Against the Machine girlie.
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elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire
ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Road trip hair.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My new practice of subbing 1 piece to 1 magazine that I think it’s really, really right for is paying off. Got a 102 minute acceptance from @poolpartymag.com! Been wanting to sub there for ages, but waited until I knew I had something up their alley. Let’s go swimming!
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This boujee coffee cost me one small organ and I shall take a sip every 15 minutes to make it worth it. And no I’m not writing an existential think piece/memoirella on all the major Batman films, why would you even ask?
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I am so incredibly proud of Travis Alexander for writing this amazing story and creating this serialized podcast SIRENS. And I’m even more honored to be a part of it. Check out ya girl Tabby popping in at episode 3! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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SIRENS: Season of the Seawitch
Science Fiction Podcast · Series · This is a story about a machine. A big machine. A supercomputer the size and shape of an ancient pyramid. A device that runs the world from the secret recesses of th...
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Anyone in the market for some emotions? I think I’m gonna start selling mine off to pay my student loans.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Anyone else find themselves thinking about Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and muttering to themselves, Man, fuck that dude. Fuck all the dudes in that play. Just me?
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Driving to work on a cloudy Friday morning wearing all black and singing along word-for-word to Joni Mitchell—watch out (emotional) world!
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
If fiction goes short story < novella < novel, can I call my cnf work-in-progress that is longer than the average essay but not a book a memoirella? Because I'm not actually asking and totally calling it that.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I really miss my Dad.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
When you’re so sad your everyday barista asks what’s wrong with your voice. 🙃
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Was up till 3am at the ER with my baby nephew (he’s gonna be fine! Whew!), so this morning I walked into a local coffee shop and said I need enough caffeine to get me right with a God I don’t believe in. The baristas doubled over in laughter and said we got you.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Find someone who looks at you the way I look at a carwash.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Driver of a U-Haul thought I was checking him when I tried to read the fact on the side of his truck.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Alabama Shaaaaaaaaakes in Bhama!
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Embarrassing myself in front of you is my love language.
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 15/07/2025
ICYMI: "Divine Creatures and Monsters Alike," flash fiction by @mmkaufman.bsky.social:
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Divine Creatures and Monsters Alike by M.M. Kaufman
It was a strange time for us all.  My mother, always a confident woman, acted odd her whole pregnancy. Was nervous from noon to night. My father, a nonstop talker, was silent. And I had what t…
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Taking the homies* for a carwash ride. *my eleventy-billion feelings
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
“Sometimes the past pulls at me like seaweed gripping around my ankle, dragging me into a rift in the ocean floor. And if I just look down, look at the face of the sea creature holding me, then some great idea will be illuminated.” New work @okaydonkey.bsky.social okaydonkeymag.com/2025/07/11/d...
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Divine Creatures and Monsters Alike by M.M. Kaufman
It was a strange time for us all.  My mother, always a confident woman, acted odd her whole pregnancy. Was nervous from noon to night. My father, a nonstop talker, was silent. And I had what t…
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
EVERYONE FREAK OUT! My latest story is out @okaydonkey.bsky.social And it’s good! And you should read it!
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Ended a voice memo to a friend today with “k, bye, party and bullshit!” and I think I found my new sign off for everything?
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Not saying there is a right or wrong way to do it, but as I've gotten older and gotten to know my writing and literary magazines better, I really enjoy subbing one piece to one mag I think it's right for rather than buckshot submitting.
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M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My carwash essay might finally be done? I don't even know how to go about subbing this. Wish I could just put it up for auction. Pay me in compliments. Best flattery wins pub rights.
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