Regardless of category, You Must Be This Tall from Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag is about a haunted playground, so if you don’t want to read about dead kids, you should probably give this one a pass! But I hope you do read it, because it’s gleeful and bouncy and just wants to plaaaay.

Remember playing? Sometimes I’ll go to the park and watch people throwing balls and frisbees for their dogs and be envious of how uncomplicated a dog’s hobbies are. Chase! Fetch! Flop onto your back and wriggle in the dirt! Then again I like sitting in parks and watching dogs be goobers, so who’s got the uncomplicated hobby now, dawg.

(A coworker and I share a birthday week, and it’s our hobby to trade chocolates. This year I also made a tiny adorable gift bag from scraps left over from a larger project. I like making extremely niche-purpose bags. I recently got a steam cleaner and am looking forward to making a bag to hold all the attachments, though I am more looking forward to getting the big stupid box it came in out of my apartment.)

I just got my taxes did (shoutouts to MY GIRL ZORKA) and need to clean the oven today, but it’s sunny and nippy so maybe some of the day will be spent in a park, creeping on dogs and listening to birds yell about how SEXXXXXAYYYYYY they are.