• From “and some other third thing.” The Weird Systers (2023)

When shall we three meet again?


  • June 17, 2024

    100 Words – Ivy

    Ivy’s original writing: A rainy summer, secretive decay lying secure in the hollow. Sleep purring purpose, poised to put a point on progress. The elite vie to rule the throne, worthy anger lying a trap of destruction. Instead a plucky consort, conscious of the cold contract, will yolk the carriage and drag, unwieldy, the rock Continue reading

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    Elena, Ivy
  • June 10, 2024

    1oo Words – Elena

    Elena’s Original Writing: I worry. Careless summer concludes. I sleep, conscious: Spotted toads ooze, Bumpy, Plucky,  Nauseating. Once colorful, since cold: progress, my own sabotage Materialistic, unwieldy, breakable. I chase hollow thrones, frantic –  Burn with steady anger, Boast. The decay is gentle, secretive. The elite explain, identify, hypnotize: lying – They vie, rule, yoke, Continue reading

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    Elena, Tessa
  • June 3, 2024

    100 Words – Tessa

    Tessa’s original writing: Spotted Summer Toad A Fantastical Ancient Food Blog Ingredients: Cold Yoke Cream Peep Carriage Neatly shape the cold yoke. Secure the yoke and drop it into the cream. Place the ooze on the stove. You may need to adjust the substance by scorching it frantically, but it is breakable and can burn. Continue reading

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    Ivy, Tessa
  • April 11, 2024

    Dragon’s Belly

    by Tessa Permar I sit carving another tooth.  This one came down the gullet 3 meals ago, along with a rabbit, an entire wheat field, and half of a moose.  None of them in tact, but I am able to pick at the moose meat which retained a nice char from her fiery breath. The Continue reading

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    and some other third thing, Dragons, Fairy Tale, fantasy, Tessa
  • April 4, 2024

    something about

    by Elena Faverio being nineteen – the year that i got really into one direction that summer – home from college, at my friend keira’s house one thing came on the radio, by the pool my friend bess, short for elizabeth says “i love one direction i can tell them apart by their voices liam Continue reading

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    and some other third thing, concert, Elena, fiction, music
  • March 28, 2024

    Twenty Twenty: (connection issues)

    By Ivy Stevens –   You’re on mute. You unmute yourself. You’re still on mute. You speak, but you cannot hear yourself. –   Your video keeps turning itself off and back on. Your background looks a little blurry – did you leave motion blur on? You don’t think you left motion blur on. – Continue reading

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    and some other third thing, Ivy, list, pandemic, writing, zoom
  • March 6, 2024

    How to Be an Islander

    By Tessa Permar Salt, sand, moss, dewdrop webs, that collective cicada engine sound, thick tall sick-looking trees, crinkled fragile eyes, cutting themselves from tears with belittling jokes. Family men, the round bulge of their jaws jutting toward the next thing they have to do. A lot of witches. Young witches spinning indigo yarn, bearded ladies Continue reading

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    and some other third thing, Martha’s Vineyard, memoir, Tessa
  • February 29, 2024

    Dinnertime (Detestable Maw, Gaping Maw, Your Maw Like Mine)

    By Elena Faverio Yumyumyumyumyum. I can eat everything that I want to eat. Because I am hungry and it is time for me to eat. Yumyum. Once I have the taste for a thing, I must have it. Sometimes it is crackers, sometimes it is a lot of crackers. Dry things and spicy things and Continue reading

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    and some other third thing, Elena, fiction, poem, poetry, writing
  • February 29, 2024

    Hotel Armand

    By Ivy Stevens “What is this?” “This is your room.”“This is not our room.”  You’re 100%, dead certain that when you made this reservation, you asked for a suite, with a kitchen, bathroom and TWO small bedrooms. The room in front of you, at which the friendly front desk gentleman is gesturing, is smaller than Continue reading

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    and some other third thing, fiction, hotel, hotels, Ivy, travel, writing
  • February 14, 2024

    A Vineyard Sail

    By Tessa Permar Feet browned like an expensive wood stain, with callouses softened by sand, I watched him alight on the rim of the vessel like a spring bug on a leaf.  There are two of them, old friends.  One brought me roses last week.  The other I’ve been sleeping with since July.  It’s now Continue reading

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    and some other third thing, Marthas Vineyard, Ocean, romance, Sail, Sail boat, Tessa
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About Us

We all met at the National Theater Institute in 2013. Elena suggested this group at the beginning of Covid as a way to cope/stay engaged/be creative/etc. We generated prompts from conversations, books of writing prompts, writing prompt generator website, and even some from Suleika Jauad’s The Isolation Journals. Like a lot of folks, we all started many projects in 2020, but this is one of the few we all actually kept up with. We are very intentional about what we’re doing: we meet once a week remotely for one hour – unless someone has a conflict and we decide not to meet, or decide to meet for longer. We don’t have homework – occasionally we’ll “bring in an object” or pick a song to share, but there’s no expectation of work being done before the meeting. We never focused on having any kind of final product – some pieces are left unfinished, and we just move on to write something else if we feel like it. Even this book is not the culmination of all our work; it came out of wanting to celebrate what we’d done so far. This whole vibe is part of why we’ve all been able to stick with it while we fell off of other projects.

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