Abigail Oswald

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Hi I wrote you a love letter to Neutral Milk Hotel, Totoro, and partnership.

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this was really beautiful, Aaron!

“If you build it, they... might not come, but at least you did something” (+ 2026 reading log, week 8) Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Camille Bordas, John Updike, Samantha Schweblin, Curtis Dawkins...

avoided lots of other work and wrote up my weekly short story reading log + a blog post thinking about @thelincoln.bsky.social's punk rock mindset & @summerbrennan.bsky.social's book review supplement & @miriamgershow.bsky.social's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 & just making/doing things

Dear Diary, I Died Today On journaling in pop culture + writing to make sense

man, what a month! some notes from me on writing to make sense of it all, with shoutouts to Roswell and First Reformed

abigailoswald.substack.com/p/dear-diary...

Yellow background with six copies of a book with a cassette tape on the cover. Beside the stack of books is a vase with yellow, white, and one orange flower.

Just about one month until publication day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social, and to celebrate the upcoming Xness tournament (starts on 3/1), we’re shipping preorders today!

Order yours: splitlippress.com

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Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition

It took me too long to get to the last couple of @marchxness.bsky.social extracurriculars, but WOW, if you haven't read @abigailoswald.bsky.social's essay on Pearl Jam, let me just link you up right now. Obsessed with the form. OBSESSEDDDDD marchxness.com/the-essays#/...

Flight of the Mothman - Orion Magazine Reflections on survival and queer iconography

“Symbols are defined by how we use them. Their power lies in how our imaginations interface with their construction, in what parts of ourselves we’re able to pour into the scaffolding they provide.”

Gyasi Hall on queer iconography and the man, the moth, the legend.

Woman holding two books: TeeN Queen Training, and a zine with a teenager in knee socks and a baseball tee dancing with a dance in a tux. The teenager is me.

We’ve entered TQT Bonus Round: I made a 16pg zine, using Chapter 8 from the Seventeen Book of Etiquette and my old Seventeen mags, and they’ll be available as a FREE GIFT WITH PURCHASE, exclusively at my reading events this spring. Buy a copy of Teen Queen Training onsite, get a free zine!

AHHHH I LOVE THIS

thanks so much, Kathleen!

Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition

"A wish is a genre all its own—a form with infinite variations, a fill-in-the-blank left incomplete without desire." I love what @abigailoswald.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay does with form!

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If there was a write-in vote, this essay would get mine.

I'm totally teaching this to my high school Creative Writing students next year

you are too kind!!

seeing this made my day 😭 I hope they have fun with it!!

so happy my experiment was a success!

"When you commemorate a person in your art, you’re creating a way for yourself to return to them."

So much fun; made me want to participate in every essay I read!

“I’ve gotten interested in these very little, subtle things you usually don’t see in movies, very quiet, tiny, little moments that you see in life and which are very difficult to put into a movie. I watch people a lot and look for those moments.”

- Tom Noonan, R.I.P.

thank you! had a blast writing it ☺️

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For Extracurricular Friday we bring you @abigailoswald.bsky.social's Mad Lib of Longing (on Pearl Jam's "Wishlist")! Read it on the substack or the website: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...

WHAT?!?! This is amazing!!

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Over on Metafilter, some links on Mad Libs, pop culture, horror movies, contemporary poetry, 18th-19th C Mad Libs-like parlor games, Friday the 13th, and Valentine's Day--e.g. two essays by @abigailoswald.bsky.social and several poems by Duy Đoàn: www.metafilter.com/212195/An-ex...

what a treasure trove of rabbit holes; thank you for including me!!

Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition

Here, @abigailoswald.bsky.social delivers on a fabulous conceit for a @marchxness.bsky.social essay & does so with my favorite band's song.

Abigail - Thank you for giving power to wishes and the lists of them we keep.

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thanks a bunch, was so fun to write!