"Kill me softly with your lipstick mouth, glistening like bloodhoney—haunted by spirits— under the slow burn of this bar light sun." @davidestringel.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Thank you, @mrbullbull.bsky.social for publishing my flash, “Vladimir Nabokov Would Be Proud”!

Thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for publishing my weird little story in BULL!

"He’s naked and she’s dead and he has more to say to her in that shower than he ever does to me." - Kathryn Kulpa mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"John felt unoriginal—an insurance company office worker offing himself in his cheap apartment. But this weapon had balls. His friends and family could take pride in knowing he’d killed himself in this way." @cshrumly.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"It was the way Conan moved through the world—never giving up, the way his sword cut through everything without hesitation. Alone but not lonely. He never looked back. He didn’t wait for anyone to come home." Mathieu Parsy mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Thanks so much for giving this one a home!

"Right from the start, sum things you know you’re gunna fuck right up. Still, it would a been easier if China Joe hadn’t stuck that dart in Bobby Chopp’s arm and shooting him full a Hero cut with Ajax." - u.v.ray mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

Read the latest interview from @frank212.bsky.social - he always has such good insight

“K2, you’d need a team. Ice shelves, 50 below. Do you know how many people died trying. I’m not suicidal,” he says. “But you’ve climbed Everest, Denali,” she says. Those were years ago. He regrets the brag. What a guy will say to win a smart beauty." - Lavina Blossom mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I had been trying to write a novel called Gaslit for about 7 years, on and off, and it went nowhere. There's no other way to explain it but a man's voice came to me, and off I went. Gaslit turned into The Stalker." - Paula Bomer interviewed by @frank212.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

"A chance to go to a house party where the Butthole Surfers might be living with Timothy Leary is too good to pass up but does lead one to making new life choices." -Al Kratz @alkratz.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

‘…it should simply serve as a token of buoyancy post-analysis, but today the allotted time is not enough…’ So good to have new @kiklodge.bsky.social writing in the world at @mrbullbull.bsky.social 🚘

"Graham Moiselle waits in line like everybody else. He’s not an eejit. He doesn’t usually ask anything from anyone. He’s not looking for trouble. He just wants to be heard. That’s all he wants." @kiklodge.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Famously, Heidegger didn’t get knock-knock jokes. And his erections weren’t a mouthful like his metaphysics, so I’ve read. His Poiesis, in other words, was puny." - Chris Vaughan mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"...and Janine Dankworth, your allotted therapist for today, because it says so on her badge, says she’s not the one who decides, it’s the powers that be,...." I love the way @kiklodge.bsky.social writes! This stellar flash in @mrbullbull.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"Graham Moiselle waits in line like everybody else. He’s not an eejit. He doesn’t usually ask anything from anyone. He’s not looking for trouble. He just wants to be heard. That’s all he wants." @kiklodge.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"The primordial push doesn’t care who I choose, but it’s going to continue beeping until I get laid. If my doctor had a pill to put an end to desire, would I swallow it?" - David Lefkowitz mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

In all likelihood he was on drugs, but so were many of us, escaping from our own lives into chemically enhanced worlds. It was the last time we would see him. Casey Jo Graham Weimers @mrbullbull.bsky.social

"This was a new kind of loss. A historical loss. A full sleeve of human shit, soaked up into vintage Champion cotton like a sponge made by Satan’s Etsy store." - Justin Taroli mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"You almost had me? You never had me! You never had your kart!" - James Vachowski mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

Don't read the news. Read short stories instead. We got links to eight incredible pieces of writing. Featuring nonfiction from: Meg Doyle in @electricliterature.com ‬ Casey Jo Graham Welmers in @mrbullbull.bsky.social Jeannie Vanasco in @literaryhub.bsky.social (...cont'd) #cnf #nonfiction

"If Max were gay and Cliff the boyish Mormon had a different god, the 25-year-old loser in stained sleepwear would’ve asked for a kiss. But that would be too much, even in a fantasy world." - Grey Traynor mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"We didn’t know if his name was Jerry or Jeremy, and we never bothered to find out. To do so would have granted him personhood, and an upsetting place in our tenuous, paper-doll world." - Casey Jo Graham Welmers mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

I have a new story in BULL! It’s called The Moose.

Morning fiction! The best part about this one is how it goes from so physically aware (even paranoid) to so metaphysically surreal and back and around again. I don't know where I am at the end, but I like being there, even though it's a trap.

"I’m slightly embarrassed that the moose is seeing me in my Jockeys. At least these are from a fresh pack. When they’re new they hug better and my junk bulge must seem more masculine to the animal." @supernaturalfeat.com mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"I wonder about the type of man who believes he has a direct line to God. Direct power to heal individual people. What if I put my hands on him and slid them down his well-defined pecs? What if he didn’t view me as broken?" @karakahnke.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

I’ve been dying to put this description somewhere for years. Now it’s the first line of my words flash over at BULL today!

"Naked men look like frogs, pinched in at the waist with wide shoulders. Rupin undresses and I think of dissecting frogs in science, pickling formaldehyde and sharp-singed nostrils." - Danielle Barr mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Please read my very first fiction publication! Thank you to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for giving it a home.

"Tony's jealous of a lot of shit. He once found a photo of me & a friend kissing at her 19th birthday & called me a dirty whore who deserved to be punished. I thought about that as I came. I was a dirty whore & I did deserve to be punished." -Ashley Espinoza mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

“What did you give up?” “That’s between me and my makah.” “Who gave up his son.” “It’s not like you did, Ma.” “Don’t get smart. I gave you life. I get to worry about your soul.” - Rory Doherty mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Ohmigod, I’ve been waiting to see “Karate Obligations” published after hearing @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social read it to a Zoom room of people who could not stop laughing, beginning to end.

"DeVries started punching at the kid, but he blocked every blow. Neither me nor the kid could believe it. He smiled and said thanks and resumed trimming the hedges." @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"As I ambled through a cloud of Tommy Girl perfume, new but not-unwelcome sensations spider-walked their way across every nerve ending. For the first time, my body felt awake, like my entire childhood had been a nap Mom insisted I take." @novelnatalie.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"everything is dusty and dead, with dust still hovering in the air from his car. he stands there, quiet, a small smile on what could only be described as a head still growing into the man" @poetjohncompton.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

@jenn-rossmann.bsky.social is at it again with her new story in @mrbullbull.bsky.social  mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Chuck Norris, along with my mother, taught me basic morality. I feel a debt." - Alec Cizak mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

“we are all aliens here on earth” @lumchanmfa.bsky.social is on a roll with two new awesome (as usual) pieces in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

Stoked beyond measure to be in @mrbullbull.bsky.social this month, please check it out if you are so inclined.

My latest. One of my experiments with dialogue as a playwriting student at @rcsofficial.bsky.social. @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

“Have you seen the sun?” “The sun?” “The sun.” “What?!” “See, that’s the problem with you…” - Eraldo Souza dos Santos @eraldo.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

“Riffing on each other. It was fun, I think, or not. Maybe the truth is.." “When people are sad or broken, you aren’t supposed to make them feel better. You’re supposed to be like, ‘Shit’s fucked, and I see you.’” @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

“A child does a spit-take. A woman has a croissant halfway to her mouth. And you are unimpressed, chewing this pumpkin spice nightmare coffee cake. How long do these things usually last?” @chelseastickle.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

“Maybe they did walk into a bar, maybe on the way they said *You know what? Screw this* and now they’re sitting at a corner table in facepaint and finery, gulping Budweiser and ...” @didiwood.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

“This is what happens to boys who don’t listen to their fathers he shares with me.” These two @lumchanmfa.bsky.social gems in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

"The day they destroyed the set of Waterworld, they blew it up. Let metal and plastic sink to the bottom of our ocean. Let it dirty our life-giving waters with their Hollywood waste." @lumchanmfa.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

ICYMI

"Before we headed to the viewing room, we spent the night jerking off into a jar—taking turns, no eye contact, focused, like a drill exercise." - Oleg Olizev mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...