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www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/six-st... Five Stories, a chapbook by @travisflatt.bsky.social is available now on our website!

There's queer lit, then there's THIS. An amazing piece @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - congratulations!

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"When you en garde your business card and ask me for mine, my feet have already turned into a bitter, hard-shelled pointed end plate, a telson at the end secreting musky and glandular." Love this winning story @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

I hope you check out this banger from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social!!

ICYMI @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social annual writing award winner by the wonderful @pleomorphic2.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/the-undulati...

“because everyone knows pigtails and pinafores belong in Kansas (said The Man.)” A fresh take on Glinda and the Wizard of Oz all in six sentences by @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

Open for submissions. Send us a 6-sentence story with no more than 400 words. #microfiction gooseberry-pie.com/open-for-sub...

ICYMI: I had a flash in @yourimpossiblevoice.com

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Revision tip: check your manuscript for gasp, held breath, twisted guts, glanced, saw, felt, monitor, control, lighting strike, smiled, fringed, glared, sucked in, scrunched, blood stopped, ran cold, anything filtering emotions as bodily responses, especially ones which are involuntary in real life

Announcing @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social nominees for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards Kyle Weik and @nomad-sw18.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/monarch-quee...

Thank you @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social !

@patiencemackarness.bsky.social “she left us and moved with someone called Freya Firewing to mid-Wales, where they built a roundhouse out of reclaimed railway sleepers and cob plaster, with a compost toilet and bottleglass windows.” gooseberry-pie.com/skipping-gen...

“Only the eyes and the mouth are still well placed on a face that floats between two hands, like they’re holding it, but in fact wave aimlessly at passers-by as if asking for help.” @happilander.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/everything-r...

bsky.app/profile/goos... Thank you to Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine for featuring my piece! What a thrill!

“Next stop, this sweat-glued geezer, oozing bad breath and booze, topples onto the seat next to me,” @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/boston-to-ne...

@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social “The manual described the Olivetti’s body parts – space bar, ribbon spool, paper table, platen knob, ribbon vibrator – and I read you out the last two, tangled naked with you in our hotel sheets, and you laughed at me,” gooseberry-pie.com/red-olivetti/

@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social “When Papa’s safely gone, I climb on Mama and wrap my arms tight around her and snuggle my face in her flower-smelling neck, whispering, you’re mine, all and always mine,” gooseberry-pie.com/peanut/

What if there was some kind of app where writers could sponsor other writers so they could afford submission fees? Writers could donate and others could pull from it to pay Submittable. I want to hear all the voices.

@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social “Four years of separation are duly mourned in sleeves of interlocking puzzle pieces inked in orange and green, while blackwork notes freckle tender inner thighs every time a lover tries to read their bodies,” gooseberry-pie.com/needles/

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@jennystalter.bsky.social “and I don’t tell her I know why all I got for my birthday was pants from the church drive so small they pinched tight around the middle because her bottles and cigarettes cost us her whole paycheck.” gooseberry-pie.com/superpower/

“Mom leaned back through the window as they were leaving and said there was a fence around the tar, but this didn’t reassure me because I know the tar shifted over the course of its eons of trapping unsuspecting animals,” — Jane Yager gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...

Awesome piece by the Berlin-based writer Jane Yager in the fabulous new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: "I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad let slip that the pits are still active." gooseberry-pie.com/la-brea-tar-...

“We knew not to mention to anyone that dad drank three six packs and listened to Barry Manilow until he cried when mom was out.” -Elisabeth Meyer Gonzalez gooseberry-pie.com/white-suburb...

“Glinda popped those ruby slippers on Dorothy and sent her back home like a good, obedient girl because everyone knows pigtails and pinafores belong in Kansas (said The Man.)” - @charhamrick.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/glinda-was-n...

“… because everyone knows pigtails and pinafores belong in Kansas (said The Man.)” @charhamrick.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/glinda-was-n...

“… pushes his flask in my face, says, *I never drink alone, sweetheart!* I clamp my earphones on, stare at my book. His shoulder keeps bumping mine, *oops, oops, oops.*” @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/boston-to-ne...

“… We inhale, exhale, we breathe and we smile and we glow, like we’re safe and we have all the time in the world and everything isn’t dark and ruined and pointless, but …” @happilander.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/everything-r...

“The announcer says, “Here comes the Homerun Kid with his magic plantmatter.”” —Chad Foret gooseberry-pie.com/panicles-of-...

“My hands too heavy with fear, my fingers made into fists against the reaching, until they held me down and put the hot paper to my lips,” “Summer Play” by Beth Konkoski gooseberry-pie.com/summer-play/

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Such a beautiful edition - loved reading all the stories in it!! 😍❤️

Super happy to be in this issue - congrats to all!

Read new issue of Gooseberry Pie Beth Konkoski Chad Foret @charhamrick.bsky.social Jane Yager @jennystalter.bsky.social Elizabeth Meyer Gonzalez @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social @patiencemackarness.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/

1. The Private Investigator Out Of Body by Jack B Bedell in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social a six sentence story about imagination while on surveillance. gooseberry-pie.com/the-private-...

The new @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social issue is live and I have a story in it about how we keep each other whole. Thank you so much Jeff Harvey ❤️ gooseberry-pie.com/everything-r...

Thrilled to have three micros up in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social ❤️ gooseberry-pie.com/issue-35/ Shoutout to @smokelong.bsky.social where these pieces all began! x

I'm delighted to have a new micro live in this fab issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social. This one got rolling in a @megpokrass.bsky.social workshop. 🚌 🚌 🚌 gooseberry-pie.com/boston-to-ne...

"...topples onto the seat next to me, pushes his flask in my face, says, I never drink alone, sweetheart!" This wild moment by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Everything feels kinda awful today but I got an acceptance from @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social so that helped a lot ❤️❤️

Thank you editor @keithpowell1955.bsky.social for featuring "The Things You Will Do" in today's issue of @doesithavepockets.bsky.social yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-things-y...

So very cool and humbling to see some of these great writers reading work that has come out with Cowboy Jamboree or that will come out with Cowboy Jamboree. Heard tell some snippets might make their way onto YouTube if you weren't able to make it...

Yes Gooseberry Pie is open for submissions with a quick turnaround. Send us your work. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/

Thank you so much @jhhwriter.bsky.social and @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social!