iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16h

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Photo by Matthew Weinstein

Sign at side of periwinkle blue wooden building reads, "Ask yourself if internal dialogues are right for you."

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SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you to SmokeLong Quarterly for this interview of my Coeditor Carol Edelstein and me. We appreciate the opportunity to highlight Switch! You can read the interview here: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/107124... The Village: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/plans/1913401 @heyflashvillage.bsky.social

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SmokeLong Quarterly

The community spaces of SmokeLong Quarterly

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2026

'Autumn' entered English in the 1300s. "The fall of the leaves" was shortened to 'fall' in the 1600s.

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SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scroll down to read these stories here, and don't miss the other amazing microfiction published by Switch in 2025 and 2026! www.switchonline.org/about-1 2/2

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Microfiction, 2026 & 2025 | Switch

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SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can read these stories from 2026 here: www.switchonline.org/about-1

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Microfiction, 2026 & 2025 | Switch

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/09/2026

These are your words of the week pool equinox rotund El Niño annihilate meretricious leather lake www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

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The Words of the Week - Sept. 25

Dictionary lookups from weather, colors, and Fat Bear Week

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/09/2026

Here is our draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981. It was written by a lovely human.

Index card with Merriam-Webster's draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981

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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And then there are days when Dostoyevsky reminds you to have hope

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Green is a mission @greenisamission.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1,277,500 sunrises, 1,277,500 sunsets experienced. The oldest olive tree in the world is on the island of Crete, about 3500 years old. 💚☘️🌿🌱🌲🌳🍀💚

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SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We are delighted to have new microfiction up on our website by: Kathleen McGookey, Mary Biddinger, Keith Parker, and Lynn Kozlowski. You can read their work here: www.switchonline.org/about-1

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SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Switch is open for submission until June 15th! Send us your intriguing, your enigmatic, your lovely microfiction. We publish stories up to 300 words. See submission requirements at switchonline.org

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Rick Barot

OCCUPATIONS

Astronomer to the ten Turkish moons
counted out on your fingernails.

Surveyor to the shiny silicate scar
of the childhood cut on your brow.

Geologist to the fault-line crack
your wrist has long since healed from.

Treasurer to the coin of vaccination
darkly minted on your left arm.

Farmer to the stubbled acreage
of your chin; to the nocturnal root.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Ireland Professor of Poetry, Vona Groarke

THIS POEM

This is the poem that won't open
no matter where you press.

This is the poem that cries on street corners
and plays at being lost.

This is the poem arranged at a tilt
so all the words slide off.

This is the poem with lacquered roses
closing in on themselves after dark.

This is the poem that plays itself out
in dives in the small hours.

This poem likes to fool around
in other people's cars.

This poem gives away small coins
and winks at strangers' kids.

This is the poem that understands
what it is to be a dog.

This is the poem with a teensy tattoo
you'll never get to see.

This poem has no big plans for you,
which is something, as poems go.

--Vona Groarke

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

For #worldbiodiversityday, a poem that first appeared in Magma Poetry

Porch Song After Mowing

Shade grass shorn and scattered on the pathway
to the house — my trousers, boots, and workshirt
sprayed with pulverized taraxacum — the viscera
of pigweed, purple thistles, fragrant yarrow leaves.

Like a pollen-dusted honey bee arising from a field
of blooming foxglove, or the barefoot, little smuts-shot
sweep in Blake's hand-coloured copperplate engraving,
I feel wearied by exertion — sway unsteadily — reach

for the rail-post on the porch —drop down — pull out
my Luckies — pop the stay tab on a Schlitz.
Not that it matters much, but brother, it feels good to do
and make. Look on my works. On labour's sweetest

dream. The grass is lone and level. In the late day
heat, the mower sits unmanned and cools its blades.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Peter Gizzi, from Lyric Postmodernisms: An Anthology of Contemporary Innovative Poetries (2008)

In Defense of Nothing

I guess these trailers lined up in the lot off the highway will do.
I guess that crooked eucalyptus tree also.
I guess this highway will have to do and the cars
and the people in them on their way.
The present is always coming up to us, surrounding us.
It's hard to imagine atoms, hard to imagine
hydrogen & oxygen binding, it'll have to do.
This sky with its macular clouds also
and that electric tower to the left, one line broken free.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"Wowed" by Lesle Lewis is in the latest issue of Washington Square Review

Lesle Lewis
Wowed
The contradicting of progressive tenses begins.

Forget sense and get it right, all the glory and dark of it, the color gray of it, the space between it and its name.

We are looking for the word for where our bodies begin and end, where our minds begin and end.

Are we are going to Boston?

After bushwhacking for hours, we are disappointed to come out on a familiar road.

Is this not familiar?

It’s not.

Our guests arrive and we are already sloshed.

I say it and thereby give the problem to you.

We leave each other messages, but we rarely put our arms around each other.

No one taught us how.

What if I said I’m sorry?

That I made a six hundred page mistake?

I made squares around only the easy things.

And now my heart folds flat out like a map.

And I tape my standing woman assemblage to the wall.

It isn’t like anything not to be.

We just fall into water.

We go to the zoo.

The fox says, “I’m a fox.”

The gorilla family is depressed.

We see everything.

Behind Walgreens for example.

We’re not wowed by it.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“If you’ve Fallen in love with trees I know your heart” ― Nanette L. Avery

swaying trees in a field with mountains in the distance

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

There were so many things I used to do Dorothea Lasky

THE GREEN LAKE

What work will you leave behind
I ask the tailor
Who has sewn the button upon my shoe
I can walk again

Yesterday everything felt so hopeless
Now I have the energy to sit in the sun
All of the damned seething baths
Now I am finally on my own

When I go places I call her
And unload my fashionable happenstance
I used to stop in the street and pick up an acorn
There were so many things I used to do

In the middle of the fire
I went and thought to mention it to the ghost
I have already burned, it said
Its face was like my father's but was different

What work will you leave behind
I asked myself while in the rain
Oh, this and that, it answered me
And handed me the stars, then the moon

--Dorothea Lasky

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Ian The Daily Nature Photo Man @lawnmasternotts.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Day 1328 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and even the ladybugs are now having meetings, asking how long it is until spring 🤗🐞🐞🐞❤️ #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters #365DaysWild

Hibernating ladybirds waiting for spring on a wall

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#astronomysky #science Galileo Galilei #BOTD invented the telescope in 1609 — a wood-and-paper tube with eyepiece, covered in leather — which he used to discover Jupiter's moons, the phases of Venus, and lunar craters.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14/02/2026

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Alex pretti was a Va nurse and a dog owner

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 25/01/2026

art is hope

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Speaking of taping things up, here is the text of the note which playwright Lillian Hellman kept on the door of her work room to keep guests from interrupting her writing time.

This room is used for Work

Do not enter without knocking

After you knock wait for an answer

If you get no answer, go away and

Don't come back

This means everybody

This means you

This means Night and Day

By Order of the Hellman-Military-Commission-for-Playwrights. Court Martialling will Take Place in the Barn, and your Trial Will Not be a Fair One.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 20/01/2026

Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.

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SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Bruce would have to spit out those socks.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

(How do we explain our fascinations? Our obsessions? We’re drawn. Isn’t that enough?) Love this lyric essay by @jilltalbot.bsky.social in @sonorareview.bsky.social

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SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Switch’s nominations for Best Small Fictions 2026! "𝐋𝐢𝐭" 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥" 𝐛𝐲 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐲𝐫𝐧𝐞 "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝" 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐃𝐨𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐧 "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠" 𝐛𝐲 𝐙𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐫-𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 "𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐨𝐭" 𝐛𝐲 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐜𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐲 www.switchonline.org

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for publishing the 6 sentences that is “Subway Was Real When You Worked There” 🥪🌽🚙 Read them and these other fabulous stories in Issue 37 here ⬇️ gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/

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Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 12/11/2025

fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, @lmanusos.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, & @angelaliu.bsky.social ⚡🦇 don't want to subscribe to my free tiny letter? weird choice! but you should still read these stories, so here's the link:

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a bullet, a lantern, an eyeball, a knife

Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.

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