Robert McEvily ♏️

📚 Libraries are the only places where you can time-travel quietly and for free.

They implemented a rigid return-to-work policy on a sickeningly hot summer day when everyone was already sluggish and depressed. ➡️ "Crumbs in the Butter" by Alan Keith Parker 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/07/crumbs…

Black hearts in effigy We sing a song that was hated All dressed in rag and bones Sharks smell the blood that I'm bleeding I know there's something wrong Might take a fire to kill it Might take a hurricane Don't know what life that I'm livin youtu.be/wEXaEYpifhg?si…

My pleasure, Beth! 🌖 @bsherm36

The moon floats in my wine glass, white as a scythe, surreal, unreal. ➡️ "On the 19th Anniversary of Your Death" by Beth Sherman @bsherm36 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/07/on-19t…

On Monday, having just been released from a seven-year prison term for robbery, I was supervising a museum heist with a bunch of guys, many of whom I’d met on the inside. ➡️ "An Eventful Week" by Susmita Ramani 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-eve…

Hartley Lin is a cartoonist based in Montreal. He rules. 🚲 condenaststore.com/featured/the-b… 🎩 popehats.ca

...some kids think she's giggling and others tease her for freaking out... ➡️ "Waterworks" by Adele Gallogly 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/06/waterw…

The receptionist at the clinic looks me up and down before asking if I’ll be using insurance today. ➡️ "Pop Songs" by Julia Gilmour 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/06/pop-so…

Today a cicada flew into my neck... ➡️ "Brood X" by Jen McConnell 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/06/brood-… 🎨 etsy.com/listing/155020…

Every year she came hoping, irrationally, that she’d wake up and find him beside her... ➡️ "Three Ducks" by Celia Northam 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/06/three-…

Fly away on my zephyr I feel it more than ever And in this perfect weather We'll find a place together youtube.com/watch?v=0fcRa5…

There was a time when babies smiled just from seeing my face. ➡️ "I Used to Be Better Looking" by Walter Penrose 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/06/i-used…

There is no political solution To our troubled evolution youtu.be/BHOevX4DlGk?si…

"How would you kill someone?" ➡️ "Where Is Dexter When You Need Him?" by Zoé Mahfouz 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/05/where-…

It’s Publication Day! Check out my newest super short story, “The Origin of Something New,” in Six Sentences today!

I raised my palm high so its light could reach the masses... ➡️ "The Origin of Something New" by Caetlin Witbrod @wordsbywitbrod 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-or…

YOU JUST GOT NIMMO-ED!!!

He had been led to believe that dystopia would be more interesting. ➡️ "Do Something" by Ben Cotton 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/05/do-som…

It’s a frigid Chicago morning. ➡️ "Midwestern Courtesy" by Pippa Storey 6⃣ sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/05/midwes… 📸 Photo credit: Chicago Transit Authority

@sixsentences Thanks to @mcevily for posting this- much appreciated.