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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻

@mollyandrearyan.bsky.social
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Fiction writer (words in Overheard Lit, Okay Donkey, Barren Magazine, Idle Ink, and elsewhere), Assistant Fiction Editor at Split Lip, converted cat lady, Pittsburgh dweller, hobby enjoyer she/her mollyandrearyan.com

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This is the second year in a row that a Split Lip Magazine story made it into the PEN/Dau anthology! We are so excited and grateful. Congratulations to @infinitecoinglitch.bsky.social! 💫
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A PSA to all my millennial eldest daughters: the time to digitize those family VHS tapes is now! I started yesterday and a lot is salvageable, but the film has sustained some significant damage, as seen below
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Happy pulling shed hair out of sweater armpits season to all who celebrate, why is there always so much, please tell me this isn’t just me
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Emotional resonance? Yes, please! Some thoughts on the subject by SLM staff @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social @michaeltoddcohen.bsky.social @ruthlefaive.bsky.social @cedarchromatic.bsky.social @razishadmehry.bsky.social @maxpasakorn.bsky.social @terivela.bsky.social & more!
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
All week I’ve been wondering if the thing my cats are staring at is a pantry moth or a ghost. Now I desperately want to write a story about this but I can’t figure out the angle or POV and the most deranged part of my brain keeps going “give the POV to the moths”
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It was such a pleasure to be part of the editing process for Priyanka Champaneri’s short story, “Good Neighbor.” I think we’re all craving connection right now, and this story delivers. Read it and then go say hi to your neighbors 💖
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A story to close ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ❤️ Assistant fiction editor @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social has a new short story up in Heavy Feather Review! Read it here and have a good night 🌙 : buff.ly/K93BZjL
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"These calls were a disruption, an upheaval, a re-placing of herself onto the plane of shared existence." 🎶 🎉 Assistant Fiction Editor @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social published a story in @bulbculture.bsky.social! buff.ly/7AfBwiR
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
So excited to have this story about an aunt, her niece, and a little bit of madness up in @hfr.bsky.social today! heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/09/30/a...
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Short Story for Side A: “Fragments of One or the Other” by Molly Andrea-Ryan
Fragments of One or the Other It’s Tuesday, which means it’s the day that I spend the afternoon with my niece. I watch her, that’s what her mother would say, although that sounds a little too punit…
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Joining the Split Lip fiction team has brought me nothing but joy—plus community plus better reader insight plus plus plus…YOU SHOULD APPLY is what I’m saying 😇
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A beautiful story to close out ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🌙 Assistant Fiction Editor @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social published a fabulous story in @tinymolecules.bsky.social about motherhood and broken expectations: buff.ly/5kssm3B
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Who needs a book rec to head into the weekend? 🙋‍♀️ Assistant Fiction Editor @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social recommends BOXCUTTERS by John Chrostek. "There’s a story in here about an artist who lives in a glass house and the ending will stay in my brain forever!"
Boxcutters, short stories by John Chrostek.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Aaaaand we're officially back! And even better: we're open for submissions.✨ We can't wait to dive back into your work!
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I’m so honored to have my first flash story in AGES featured in the summer issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social ☀️🥀 If you’re in the mood for some motherhood grotesquerie, give her a whirl ❤️ www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
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twenty-four — Tiny Molecules
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I was watching the 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy’s The Group last night and couldn’t figure out why the actor playing Libby looked so familiar, and then it hit me: she’s Lucille Bluth!
A photo of a television. On screen, a young Jessica Walter plays Libby in The Group (1966)A screenshot of Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development (2003-2006/2018-2019)
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This story in particular is a great resource to read, bookmark, and share with your networks outside of Bluesky. Let's make Lex's dream come true by clicking through and sharing widely! www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-ra...
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What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid?
Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Okay I know we’ve largely agreed that talking about dreams can get a little boring but I have a question for you all: what is the architecture of your dreams like? Do you dream buildings that are realistic and logically designed or do you dream buildings that are all surprises and confusion?
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I’m so honored to have my first flash story in AGES featured in the summer issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social ☀️🥀 If you’re in the mood for some motherhood grotesquerie, give her a whirl ❤️ www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
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twenty-four — Tiny Molecules
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Tiny Molecules @tinymolecules.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Summer 2025 is here. We have 12 amazing pieces for you to read, share, and enjoy! https:/www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twentyfour
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twenty-four — Tiny Molecules
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This cover has been my song of the summer and dare I say it’s better than the original 👀 youtu.be/UqYRIOjy8MM?...
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THE MAIN INGREDIENT - SUMMER BREEZE
YouTube video by Limu013
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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 31/07/2025
reposting this today because I have no marketing budget, because I'm publishing this with a tiny press run by a friend, because I put my whole heart into this book like I did with Boxcutters and I'm proud as fuck and this year has been one long painful but fruitful lesson in perseverance and risk
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
"... I use our second-best dinner set instead and put my mother on his left with his mother’s urn on the right" Weird & wonderful collaboration @stillsquirrel.bsky.social @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-third-be...
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The Third Best Dinner Set - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash by Anika Carpenter, Sara Hills, Rosaleen Lynch, and James Montgomery David’s favourite fish is bream, which he will only eat off of our antique dinner set. His old mo...
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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Hi! I've been offering one hour Zoom writing coaching sessions, and it's been going really well! I think I've been helping people, which makes me feel good. Hit me up in my DMs for some writing therapy and for more details!
A flier for my writing coaching. Very simple. Words and a picture of me smiling and holding books. Words are in the post.
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Rhiannon @aywarhiannon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
From "Refaat Writes Back" newsletter, here: refaatwritesback.beehiiv.com/p/if-i-must-...
If I Must Starve
a poem
Nour Abdel Latif
July 22, 2025

If I must starve,
let it be with dignity in my children's eyes,
not with my hands tied by silence.

Let the world witness
that I did not bow to the hunger
but stood, even as the sky emptied
and the earth closed her mouth.

If I must starve,
let it be while I still cradle my child's hope,
not as a number lost in footnotes.

Let the sea carry my name
to shores that forgot my people,
and let the wind whisper:
she fed love when bread was gone.
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Normally I would text this thought to my brother but as he is hiking right now, I’ll share it with you: the illustration on the cover of this album by The Fixx reminds me of the stretchy-arms guy from the og Super Nintendo Street Fighter
Photo of a record sleeve for “Reach the Beach” by the Fixx sitting on top of a record player
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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
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Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
“What I mean // is we should be kissing even now.” So pleased to have this new poem published in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
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“I Wanted to Tell You about These Geese” by Amorak Huey
I love the work a kiss can do. The wayit leaves languageharmless, temporary. The way it erases a whole history of distance.It’s raining in Ohio this morning,roadside ditches filled to overflowing,a…
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
6 days left to apply!
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
You’re in for a treat when the story starts, “No one at Sunny Wonders Amusement Park was more downtrodden about owner Barry Victor’s death than the twenty-seven mannequins of his likeness that stood like sentries across the sweltering, dilapidated grounds of his life’s work.” 🎡🎢🎟️ @johnchrostek.com
Photo of the first page of a story called “Man and His Kin” by John Chrostek with the line referenced in the post underlinedPhoto of the book Boxcutters by John Chrostek, a collection of short stories featuring the one being referenced in the post
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
One of my special interests is wellness grifts and every single instagram ad right now is “you’re not UGLY, you just have high cortisol—and here’s an untested drink powder that can solve the problem that is that unfortunate face of yours”
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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 18/07/2025
"You're thirty-two and ache for motherhood, hike back to the lakeshore. If you wade into the water, you must remain." "Time Only Looks Human" by @ljensenlampe.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝
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Time Only Looks Human by Lynne Jensen Lampe
Everything starts with a start. You emerge from the lake in August, a toddler covered with silt. The neighbor’s mastiff cleans your face and noses you to the glass of cold milk on the porch. An hou…
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
A bunch of years ago, before I knew anything about poetry, I wrote this poem on the porch of an old farmhouse in central Virginia. I've learned a lot since then about form and diction and <poetry stuff>. But I still love this little rough thing. It was so honest.
A Train Poem

At six o'clock the train is loud, passing
by the house we’ve rented, where we
sit on the porch, car after car, and 
Dave says, My son would love 
this, and I imagine his boy running 
down the hill through the trees, thrumming
like the train, like my son, who hates 
trains and all loud noises, hates 
nature and all bugs, shadows, itchy 
branches, but still he'd run with Dave’s 
boy, and maybe they'd be friends.
Two kids, almost not kids
anymore, who don't always know the how 
of friendship, but who always know how 
to go fast, how to move forward then 
back, around and around, miles and 
miles, like a train, like a motor thrumming 
to life, two boy-men chasing this big track to 
its end. Then off into the field beyond.
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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The preorder link is up for my novella, Terrestrial! Also! Malarkey has a discount code right now on all their titles in preorder: 15% off with the code PREORDER
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Twice last night, I woke up on my stomach with one arm so completely asleep that moving it felt like touching the arm of a stranger. Twice!!! What does it mean?? Ominous
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
As Trump closes LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline, here’s where you can still find help www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/16/a...
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As Trump closes LGBTQ+ hotline, here’s where you can still find help
As of Thursday, July 17, a federal program that provides emergency crisis support to LGBTQ+ youth at risk of suicide will be shut down.
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
It’s here, it’s here! It’s been well over a year since I had published work to share, and I’m so grateful to be amongst the ranks of @bulbculture.bsky.social writers 🥰
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
It’s here, it’s here! It’s been well over a year since I had published work to share, and I’m so grateful to be amongst the ranks of @bulbculture.bsky.social writers 🥰
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Do some zooming to see the funniest thing I saw on my walk yesterday evening (or check the alt text to see what’s so funny)
Photo of a tiny baby bunny eating grass from a small lawn. Only a few yards away, a wild-eyed cat is stretched to a standing position in a (fortunately closed) window to get a better look at the bunny.
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I’m so so happy that @bulbculture.bsky.social is giving this story a second home 🥹 if you like late night radio, weird callers, and unlikely connections, you just might enjoy this one!
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Sean and I went away for one night and Mia is here to ensure that it never happens again
Photo of a black and white cat laying on top of a closed suitcase and staring up at the camera with determination
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from trans writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on July 15th, 2025. www.sundresspublications.com/submit#trans...
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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
So happy to be in The Disappointed Housewife today, if you like weird, this one's for you! "When Amanda Corin arrived at Mommy & Me Yoga, everyone could see that her new baby had turned into a glass of wine..." #FlashLit #FlashFiction #Writer #AmWriting
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My mom just sent me the photos my grandparents took when I sent them my Flat Stanley in 2001 and I have now claimed dibs in the event that my nieces ever get to do the same project and also if any of you have Flat Stanley photos or memories, please share them here!!!
Photo of a photo of an older man holding a flat paper doll (by the name of Stanley) while making ties for fly fishingA photo of a photo of a flat paper doll (Stanley again) leaning against a big metal baseball inside of a big metal baseball glove at the Baseball Bat Museum in Louisville, KY
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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I'm thrilled to have this CNF flash appear in the wonderful @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. My father died in April, so it's especially meaningful to have this out now. Many thanks @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @brttnyblm.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/we-drive-the...
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We Drive the Years
Claudia Monpere   I drive my dad to the air-conditioned Ace Hardware. I’m visiting from out of town, and it’s 110° in Fresno, too sweltering for his daily walk around his condominium complex, …
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
What are your favorite books about time? Fiction, nonfiction, poetry—not just things that are very explicitly about time, but that come to mind for YOU when you think about time. In other words, take this as literally or otherwise as you want!
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Honoured to find TWO (2) of my pieces on the @wigleaf.bsky.social longlist. Massive thanks @samanito.bsky.social and @laughingyeti.bsky.social 🙏🏾 epistemiclit.com/past-issues/... Thank you @epistemiclit.bsky.social 🧡 centaurlit.com/trolley-rock... Thank you @centaurlit.bsky.social 🧡
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THE SCHIZOPHRENOGENIC MOTHER -
The schizophrenogenic mother is held to be emotionally distant, yet intrusive anddemanding, and is thought to be the cause of the psychosis in the child.
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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 25/06/2025
hell yeah (first ARCS are in)
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I love this magazine so much and I’m so excited to be taking on this new role and working even more closely with the incredible team behind @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 💖
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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 24/06/2025
ICYMI: @malarkeybooks.bsky.social is trying to move product to prep for upcoming books, so you can pick up my new collection BOXCUTTERS alongside a host of incredible books of fiction and poetry at the Malarkey Shop with a 20% discount using the code SELLOUT at: malarkeybooks.com/store
promo image that reads: "20% off Boxcutters: Short Stories by John Chrostek and so many other literary bangers on the Malarkey Site with Code SELLOUT"
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I love this magazine so much and I’m so excited to be taking on this new role and working even more closely with the incredible team behind @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 💖
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