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Introducing BULL #13: The Longjohns Issue, featuring a bunch of longer fiction from the past year. Get it now for the low low price of 6 lousy bucks:
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BULL #13: for the longjohns
BULL #13: for the longjohns [Drevlow, Benjamin K., Austin, Stephanie, Atkins, X.C., Cheis, Tommy, Chon, Jeff, Cizak, Alex, Gonzalez, CS, Garcia, J. Malcolm, Kornfield, Anna, McHone, Mike] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. BULL #13: for the longjohns
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3 months ago
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"When someone drifts far from shore on a bright yellow or orange floatâa shark attractor for sure? The lifeguard tower remains mum. I hold my tongue, too. Not my business."
@marciayudkin.bsky.social
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about 9 hours ago
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"Dad was in Da Nang when I was born, so he wasnât there pacing, wearing holes in the maternity ward carpeting, making funny faces at the bassinet just beyond his reach. He was loading an M16. He named it after me."
@susanisrael.bsky.social
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1 day ago
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"Venezuela was bombed. We bombed them, I mean. These things donât just go & happen. I had the feeling because of later events, important events to the story, but no more or less important than that I bombed them, Venezuela I mean." - Fran Kursztejn
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2 days ago
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Linda M. Bayley
3 days ago
The number of times I muttered FOR FUCK'S SAKE while reading this... đ€Ż
#FlashInTheFeed
in
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
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"'Where are our darlings?' we ask, on our knees, patting the ground, groping around in the dark. Weâve eaten your bagels with shmear!" - Mikki Aronoff
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3 days ago
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"Was Paula part of Godâs plan? Or were you following your dickâs plan? Either way, one of you is a massive asshole." - Jeff Burd
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
3 days ago
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"I see a billboard from the church across the street & it says God Will Wash Away All Tears, but between the dusty glass & the little girl in the window, the last word is covered, so it reads all scary-like: no tears, no tears, no tears." - Oliver Cubillos
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
4 days ago
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"When we both caught the flu (him from his recent trip to Japan, and I from tonguing him for two hours on Sunday night), I found myself on my knees. 'Please, Doc,' I said at the clinic, desperate, 'Tell us we shouldnât chew these pills.'" - Amanda Lee
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4 days ago
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"Jug wine never pretends to be something it isnât, and if youâre drinking it youâre probably past the pretense too. Jug wine is the definition of punk rock." - Samantha Hund
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5 days ago
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"Theyâll find each other in the dairy aisle & sheâll say, Oh I was looking for you! & heâll go pull out his massive credit card & massive dick & maybe theyâll have sex right there, in front of the probiotic yogurt & alternative butter." - Audrey Jiggetts
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
6 days ago
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Turn and Work (Hugh)
8 days ago
Linda M. Bayley
@lmbayley.bsky.social
in
@templeinacity.bsky.social
Chris Girman in
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
Ivy Grimes
@ivygrimes.bsky.social
in
@bulbregion.bsky.social
Christopher Lee Chilton
@grnpointer.bsky.social
in
@susurrusmag.bsky.social
...and one of her own in
@hfr.bsky.social
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The Shortlist for May 29, 2026 - Turn and Work
Guest curator Kelli Rule shares stunning writing by Jane Morton, Sophie Nadel, Immaculate Halla, Cate McGowan, Linda M. Bayley, Chris Girman, Ivy Grimes, Christopher Lee Chilton, and Kelli herself.
https://www.turnandwork.com/weekly-shorts/the-shortlist-for-may-29-2026/
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"I was old enough to know shit was going on that my folks wanted to hide from me, but young enough not to care. I had my own secrets."
@jdclappwrites.bsky.social
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8 days ago
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"Turning to his patient, and grinning, the paramedic asked: âPerdĂłneme, un pregunta, Señor: Dañó su cabeza?â (Excuse me, one question, Sir: Did you hurt your head?)" - Dion Dennis
@geriscape.bsky.social
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
9 days ago
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Ross McMeekin
10 days ago
Excited to have a new flash piece in BULL!
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"At six, still raining, he walked along the shipyards. Stacks of rusty pots, boats up on stands, messy gravel parking lots. He passed puddles but none big enough to demand his attention. None could hold a crab, much less a ship."
@rossmcmeekin.bsky.social
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
10 days ago
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"Big time baseball pitchers pose in mirrors, thinking theyâre all sporting fairly large & attractive balls. But baseball is silly. My daddy has a pair of dried-out bull dangles on his truck hitch & Iâm not talking stupid rubber impostors." Scott T. Hutchison
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
11 days ago
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"We had been together for six years before I semi ended things and moved up north. I used the semi because I rarely truly close a chapter. I usually leave a hope, a possibility, a kindle before I am never seen again." - Andre
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
11 days ago
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"You can kill everything in the game, an entire universe of things to murder & the few things that you canât kill, you can bring to life with cheat codes & then kill. Intense violence, blood & gore, Graphic Depictions of Harm has it all." - Charley Paxos
mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
12 days ago
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"A man shouldnât have to apologize for the smell of his own equipment or for what he tried to do to stay in shape." - Gary James Erwin
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13 days ago
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"Itâs not the light that causes me pain. Itâs the darkness. I can hardly step out in the sun at all anymore, let alone stare at it. Cancer. The sun hates us, you know."
@kploughrin.bsky.social
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14 days ago
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MrBullBull
Frank Reardon
15 days ago
The next interview in my interview series with
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
is with the super talented,
@richlange.bsky.social
If you never read Richard GET on that!! Link below
mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...
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MrBullBull
Chris Dodds
15 days ago
New piece up at
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
. "Dog" Thanks to
@thedrevlow.bsky.social
and Co. for the opportunity!
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Turn and Work (Hugh)
15 days ago
(...2/2) Dawn Tasaka Steffler
@dawnsteffler.bsky.social
and Emily Rinkema
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
in Cutleaf Journal David Scott Hay in
@xraylitmag.bsky.social
Hugh Behm-Steinberg
@hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
in BULL
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
Christina Tudor
@christinaltudor.bsky.social
in CRAFT
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The Shortlist for May 22, 2026 - Turn and Work
Great writing from Michael Diaz, Kyle Kennedy, Rachel Nielsen, Timothy Goodwin, Emily Rinkema & Dawn Tasaka Steffler, David Scott Hay, Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Christina Tudor.
https://www.turnandwork.com/weekly-shorts/the-shortlist-for-may-22-2026/
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New BULL interview from
@frank212.bsky.social
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15 days ago
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MrBullBull
"If youâre going to be a serious writer, you MUST read widely outside your genre. Classics, the ancient Greeks, poetry, experimental stuff. Everything, all the time. That way youâre not just regurgitating what other writers in your lane are doing." -Richard Lange
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15 days ago
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"If youâre going to be a serious writer, you MUST read widely outside your genre. Classics, the ancient Greeks, poetry, experimental stuff. Everything, all the time. That way youâre not just regurgitating what other writers in your lane are doing." -Richard Lange
mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...
15 days ago
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New BULL Interview from
@frank212.bsky.social
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15 days ago
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"Easier to be chosen than to choose. Jenni knows this. She pulls us through the day on an invisible leashâher grandmotherâs birthday, a trailer park, a couch that looks like an orange muppetâuntil thereâs no edges left." - Chris Dodds
@liquid-chicken.bsky.social
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
15 days ago
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"My life involves precision. Observation. Balance. Not everyone can keep it up. Thatâs why they falter. Because they glimpse the truth. That everything they call leisure is, in fact, duty. To live well is to work without end." - Caroline Giudice
mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
16 days ago
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"Like my first public memory, which is probably of The Challenger exploding and not of the time that I saw Lindsay Farrâs vagina in eighth grade, which was public but not the sort of thing that probably qualifies as 'public writ large'" - Andrew Bertaina
mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...
17 days ago
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"At your second one-year cake, you lamented the suffering you had put everyone through, but boy, had you not even started yet." - Jade McGregor
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
18 days ago
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@lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social
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19 days ago
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"Itâs none of her damn business, but itâs nice sheâs acting like a mother. Annoying but normal-annoying. Better than her crying alone on the couch, like a decaying potato, oozing in the darkness." - Liz deBeer
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
19 days ago
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"If life had a reset button, I wish my father had beat the hell out of me."
@edmond-pang.bsky.social
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
20 days ago
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"I was ready to negotiate with terrorists. Or at least my boyfriend."
@tlkncrt.bsky.social
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21 days ago
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"Her face glowing the ruby of the cabernet and with shameâthe shame of asking, worrying about her seam, but too afraid to touch it. What if it has dried up? With a few more lessons on seduction, could it be a desert gulch in a flash flood?" - Kristen Reece
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
22 days ago
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"I held my violet fingernails up to my stubble and rhinestone stud earrings and said, Iâm not exactly what most people have in mind when they hear positive male role model." - Brooks Egerton
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23 days ago
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Hey all, please consider helping out
@frank212.bsky.social
as he's going through a lot of health stuff without insurance. And please spread the word.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-frank...
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Donate to Help Frank Reardon Recover From His Back Injury, organized by Brian Keene
Frank Reardon recently suffered a debilitating back injury, the pain of wh⊠Brian Keene needs your support for Help Frank Reardon Recover From His Back Injury
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24 days ago
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âWe werenât right together,â he said. âShe was always telling me I should be with a man, instead.â âShe thought you werenât into women?â âShe thought no man could feel real love for a woman.â - Devika Kaul
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24 days ago
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MrBullBull
Linda M. Bayley
24 days ago
John Brantingham may no longer be with us, but his
#microfiction
will stay with us forever.
#FlashInTheFeed
from
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
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"When Craig dies he's sentenced to come back to earth as a roll of toilet paper. Plenty of time to review his previous acts, searching for the one shameful moment that placed him on the shelf packed tightly with his seven siblings."
@hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
25 days ago
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Chloe N. Clark
26 days ago
For today's story: this one about basketball and what we owe our siblings from
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
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"Clare watches a man on YouTube play guitar and sing to animals, and they come to him and cuddle him, and her mother tells her itâs a bunch of AI nonsense, and her brother tells her sheâs being a girl again, which to him is an insult." - John Brantingham
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26 days ago
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Linda M. Bayley
28 days ago
"I was skint, sometimes stole the pigeonsâ bread, but always a crumb for me, a crumb for them. Whatever else my mum got wrong, she taught me to share."
#FlashInTheFeed
by
@quickasaflash.bsky.social
in
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
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Max Is Going Up In The World | MrBullBull
https://mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-fiction/max-is-going-up-in-the-world/
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"Here I am tonight on the Mexican side of town full now with Hondurans and Salvadorans, shabby streets and houses bursting with Latin American men who for some reason, sometimes, notice me." - Chris Girman
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
27 days ago
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â'Dad says that if PSOs catch ya, theyâll kick your head in,'â says Shauny. I donât want my head kicked in. I run." - Ester Reato
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28 days ago
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"I sit & listen to the sounds of lives clinging to the last bit of dignity they have to offer before they end up little shoe boxes full of ashes no one claims. In life alone. In death, the fading ink on a piece of tape stuck on a frayed box."
@frank212.bsky.social
mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...
29 days ago
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Andrew Careaga (writer)
29 days ago
In today's Friday Five Q&A, I talk with
@thedrevlow.bsky.social
about his new book, "Trash Poems for Trash People," his role as
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
EIC, and the writers who most influence him.
andrewcareaga.com/2026/05/08/f...
#WritingCommunity
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Friday Five: talking trash with Benjamin Drevlow
A Q&A with the author of âTrash Poems for Trash Peopleâ and editor of BULL.
https://andrewcareaga.com/2026/05/08/friday-five-talking-trash-with-ben-drevlow/
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"Andy hides in the igloo the kids had built from snow up to their waists. He sees cars sliding, parents picking up children. But not his. He hears excited voices. 20 inches already! Traffic jammed⊠phone lines down. Now everyoneâs gone."
@kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
about 1 month ago
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"Have you ever noticed when someone wants to sound smart, theyâll start out with, itâs worth notingâŠ? Well, itâs worth noting that my doorâs always open, by which I mean itâs never closed, leaving me vulnerable to all manner of incursion." - Kevin Chesser
mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
about 1 month ago
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