TRossi (she/her)
@trossiwriter.bsky.social
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Writes. Professes. Edits.
Alligator by David Ryan is out today from Cash4Gold Books. Canât wait to read!
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Variant Literature
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Weâre thrilled to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2026: âOn Craftâ by Erica Dawson âClutchâ by Stephanie Frazee âHolesâ by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy âCooking Lessonâ by Shira Haus âFive OâClock Shadow in Phillyâ by Allen Means âThe Opposite of Duskâ by Ron Riekki
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Itâs that time of year again!
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2 months ago
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Canât wait to read this! Out 11/30 from Cash4Gold books. Preorder here:
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3 months ago
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âPoor Historianâ by
@rriekki.bsky.social
haunts long after the read.
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4 months ago
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New remote classes starting this week with David Ryan: Studies in Shadow Form (starts tomorrow, Thursday, 7/24) and Irrealism: Surrealism and the Lyric Essay (starts Sunday, 7/27). His classes are so inspiring and generative! More info and signup here:
curiovox.com/185-2/
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CurioVox offers education and consulting services from writer David Ryan, author of the forthcoming collection, Alligator (C4G Books). His earlier, Animals in Motion: Stories (Roundabout Press), Kirkus reviewed as âA debut collection of storiesâone of the best in recent memoryâŠ. Ryan has plainly been honing his craft, because the 13 tales here are the work of a writer who knows exactly what heâs doingâand challenges the reader to figure out how heâs doing itâŠâ
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TRossi (she/her)
Barbara Lock
6 months ago
What's in the box?
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@variantlit.bsky.social
âs own
@barbaralockmd.bsky.social
Her storyâs sunlit-subtle menace will have you looking over your shoulder in a literary way!
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6 months ago
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Emily Rinkema
6 months ago
What an honor! Thanks
@variantlit.bsky.social
for seeing something in this story!
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Tori Walters
6 months ago
A delightful and tender piece that I could read over and over and over again.
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Congratulations Elijah! In case you missed it, read this
@wigleaf.bsky.social
Top 50 here:
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6 months ago
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TRossi (she/her)
Variant Literature
6 months ago
"The mouse in the grass gains confidence, and it is harder and harder to keep track of her. She runs around and starts to remember herself, the part of her that ran through grasses in past lives." Read "Red White Fur" by Sonny Fillmore, about a snake, a mouse, a boy
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TRossi (she/her)
Variant Literature
6 months ago
"She presses her glossy lips together over a folded white napkin. When she pulls the paper from her mouth, thereâs a perfect print of two coral lipsâa Rorschach test: a butterfly. a boy. a blowfish. an ocean." Read this Micro Series by Laci Mosier from issue 21
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Micro Series
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@derekshirae.bsky.social
âs âTerminalâ serves up strange snacks and an unlikely protagonist.
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6 months ago
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Yikes. Wondering where weâll be even a year from now on this front.
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6 months ago
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TRossi (she/her)
Matt Jakubowski (he/him)
6 months ago
âItâs kind of exhausting maintaining everything I have going on, which isnât that much, but even without ambitions you still have to go and be whoever it is youâve been for however long youâve been alive.â So excited to have this new
#flashfiction
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Sparrowâs Work Song
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One urgent care visit takes an unexpected turn in
@beebs44120.bsky.social
âs âNothing Dead in Your Ear.â Read it in Issue 21 from
@variantlit.bsky.social
here:
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Nothing Dead in Your Ear
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6 months ago
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Cannot recommend David Ryanâs classes strongly enough! His revision course is đ„, the craft classes so generative! Check out the whatâs starting soon along with other opportunities here:
curiovox.com
6 months ago
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Prose, lighthearted and somberâlittle somethings for everyone in Summer Issue 21!
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6 months ago
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This one catches you midsteam and pulls you under. If only it didnât hit so close to home. đ§
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6 months ago
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Wonderful work in this issue, check it out!
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6 months ago
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A bit late to the party, but wow! Whoa! What a way to kick off summer reading.
7 months ago
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Stanchion
7 months ago
I've designed the cover already for Issue 19 & I've drafted an article explaining the several key changes to Stanchion Magazine. All I need is your brilliant prose & poetry. Who's gonna send in something on June 16th for Stanchion's first ever guest editor,
@fbereaud.bsky.social
, to read?
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Iâve found
@esmewang.com
âs free guides helpful and generative. This class could help get your memoir started!
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8 months ago
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Matt Jakubowski (he/him)
9 months ago
Acceptance post! Iâm so delighted
@variantlit.bsky.social
magazine has accepted a new
#flashfiction
of mine. I canât wait to share it with everyone! âšđŒđđ If you havenât checked out the poetry and prose in Variantâs spring issue itâs a stunner
variantlit.com/issue-twenty/
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ISSUE TWENTY
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Megan Nichols
9 months ago
A new neat thing from Lemon Grove Writers! Iâve created 30 poetry prompts for April, and Iâll be emailing one out each morning (around 6am Central) for the whole month. Here's the link if you want to join in!
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Megan Nichols
10 months ago
Sign up for this co-writing session! We had lots of poets in the last one, some short story writers, a novelist! Bring a current project or write something new:
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Let us help your story love you back! Imagine if your writing could treat you to a cup of coffee and pastry, or a drop in the rent bucket! Weâre open for subs until April 5, and we pay!
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10 months ago
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TRossi (she/her)
Variant Literature
10 months ago
"asking me again what kind of bird & yes for me a reason to wear the red wool mittens my mother knitted forty years ago" Read "Beyond the Frost" by
@rich-jordan.bsky.social
from Issue 20 đ
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Beyond the Frost
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TRossi (she/her)
Variant Literature
10 months ago
"I spun quick as a whip, and there I saw him. Flopped on the floor, the chair overturned. I stared blanklyâlike a dog whoâs finally caught his tail." Maybe you've seen him too? Read "The Man in the Corner of My Eye" by Nathaniel Mumau, from Issue 20
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The Man in the Corner of My Eye
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Tom Lee
10 months ago
A story about two kids seeking redemption in the spirit world:
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The Spirit Fisher
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Cluster flies are waking up for spring. Get vibing with itâread this buzzy piece from
@variantlit.bsky.social
âs own
@megjnic.bsky.social
!
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10 months ago
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Donât pass up this chance to write in community!
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10 months ago
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Send us your most best, most gorgeous prose. Canât wait to read it!
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10 months ago
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âHe doubted she could really talk to spirits, but part of him really wanted to believe.â Manifesting something true, centered in this tale from Tom Lee:
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The Spirit Fisher
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10 months ago
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âI couldnât even find the word that was my sisterâs name. I wanted to run out that door into the night and keep on running. The cold and wind would hurt more than anything, but thatâs what I deserved.â Haunting tale from
@pahoehoe.bsky.social
:
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Soft and Warm Against Me
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10 months ago
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âThe things you say to me now are only for now. If you teach the bird, she will continue to say them for years to come.â All the ways love endures in this story by Thom Hawkins:
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A Legacy of Birds
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10 months ago
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âThey moved into the little house that stood quietly between two pine trees. Inside, they made small meals in a tiny kitchen. Inside, they slept fitfully in dark rooms. Inside, no one could tell the truth.â Read e. sĂ€fverblad nelsonâs magical realist tale here:
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Spine of Hard Bone
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10 months ago
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âDo you know the feeling? In a dark room, when your attention is elsewhere? Preoccupation wanes for a moment, and there he is. In the corner of your eyeâthe silhouette of a man.â Uncanny chills abound here, from Nathaniel Mumau:
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The Man in the Corner of My Eye
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10 months ago
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âWhen I sleep with the oncology resident, I wonder if my father will get better care. Maybe now heâll qualify for the trial he supposedly canât get intoâŠâ Love shown in ways both quiet and loud in
@bsherm36.bsky.social
âs
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T4.N1.
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10 months ago
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âOn the center of the raft, atop a bed of knit twigs, lies my betta, Erik Finn, orange and blue, like âa volcano at night,â Dad said once, stoned.â Fly to to Valhalla on the wings of
@travisflatt.bsky.social
âs flash:
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Sail On, Valhallan
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10 months ago
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âOn her days off, Rita tidies up. She stacks the coins⊠arranges the bills so that the Georges are with other Georges, the Abes with other Abes... Soon enough, there are a lot of them, fat stacks of vinegary faces.â Read
@sfreligh.bsky.social
âs story here:
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The Girl Most Likely To
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10 months ago
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âEgg just sat there⊠never left dirty dishes on the counter or trash next to the can. I could make whatever I wanted for dinner⊠Egg never complained. He was the perfect partner, silently bearing witness to my life.â
@stephiosaurus.bsky.social
ruffles some feathersâŠ
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Clutch
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10 months ago
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âI meowed in response. I was fiveâthirty-seven in cat years, and cats didnât speak Japanese or need parents. Benji, cats are seen not heard, Grandpa barked.â Stellar micro series by
@kyleisamu.bsky.social
. Read it here:
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The Ways We Orbit
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10 months ago
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âThe last time I saw my brother, Jay, a comet seared the night sky. Iâm not saying the two things are connected, that the shit we did that night was cosmically important. But sometimes I wonder.â In âWe Blazed,â by
@amethystwrites.bsky.social
, wonder and awe abound:
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We Blazed
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10 months ago
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âThe shower curtain was opaque. Anything couldâve been happening on the other side.â In
@queercomrades.bsky.social
âs âZizzi,â anythingâeven love, is possible. Read it here:
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Zizzi
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10 months ago
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âIâd spent years here â hiding from my parents and siblings, listening to the same ten records on repeat, necking with pimply-faced boyfriends. I lost my virginity on that couch, barely visible underneath all the boxes.â Secrets are brought to light in
@scmart.bsky.social
âs
variantlit.com/pogo/
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Pogo
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10 months ago
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âI thought the word sounded like a magic spell. It even begins with hex. A sort of abracadabra meets hydrocarbons.â This piece by Ron Riekki resonates:
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The Opposite of Dusk
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10 months ago
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âThe clink of her drained mug on the glass-top table recalls the litter of shot glasses⊠Both times, his werenât the only eyes staring back.â
@jmcm.bsky.social
on the ways we try to escape ourselves
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Song of Reason
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10 months ago
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Melissa Llanes Brownlee
10 months ago
I forget there are 15 volcanoes surrounding me, five of them active, one of which destroyed my cousinâs home. Auntie Mel blamed Pele. I told her the gods have better things to do. Damn!! Read these amazing micros from
@kyleisamu.bsky.social
in
@variantlit.bsky.social
!!
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