Corey Campbell -now at @coreyecampbell.bsky.social

My contributor’s copy of @StoryLitMag just arrived! Many thanks to @mpnye for giving my story a home and providing such thoughtful edits. Glad to be a part of this!

On the waterfront, Portland

Akira Kurosawa offering invaluable advice for writers all around the world

Matsue in Izumo (Hazy moon), by Kawase Hasui, 1924

Thank you Rep. Huffman for laying it plain.

Internal White House meetings goin on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

ICE is the American Gestapo.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

BREAKING: @AOC just completely went off on Trump after ICE murdered Alex Pretti. "Donald Trump [is] accusing a Veteran Affairs ICU nurse (Alex Pretti) as being a terrorist against the United States. A man who was treating services members to our country, who was dedicating his life to serving Americans. Who in his final act on this earth was helping a woman pushed to the ground. And they are calling him a Domestic Terrorist, in order to defend their gross abuse of power, their absolute breaching of the law and in order to precipitate greater conflict."

Alex Pretti was murdered.

DEPORT ICE.

Get ready for them to tell you the man struggling on the floor and getting shot in cold blood gave the half dozen ICE agents that were beating him up internal bleeding. Fuck ICE.

We have a responsibility to protect Americans from tyranny. DHS just shot a man in broad daylight two weeks after they shot a mother in the face without consequence. They need our votes to continue. We cannot give it to them. Every Senator should vote NO.

Clearer look. I never see the man touch his firearm, and it looks like he's disarmed before being shot.

Our government is murdering American citizens and covering it up

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

"Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."  - from Herman Melville, MOBY-DICK #SundaySentence

"Do thou too remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world w/o being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St Peters & like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temp. of thine own." -MOBY-DICK #SundaySentence

The Oligarchs Never Change: Marie-Antoinette: Let Them Eat Cake Donald Trump: Let Them Starve

"I tell you, the Sperm Whale will stand no nonsense."  - from Herman Mellville, MOBY-DICK #SundaySentence