Happy for an acceptance from the lovely @bulbregion.bsky.social and grateful for the friendly, speedy turnaround! ☺️🙏

Cool news: I got an acceptance from @bulbregion.bsky.social

NEW POEMS BY ME!!!! big thanks to @bulbregion.bsky.social for including this batch and another to come soon

If someone tried to rob me of this life / I’d tell them how much I love you

“My husband is not a man you can just leave, so I start leaving parts of him instead.” Read Masha Shukovich’s wonderful short story, “Runner,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Runner-by-Ma...

“The moon is a white bowl the God of Children Finally Asleep has given me to dry. My only towel is your hair.” Find three brilliant poems by the one and only Todd Dillard (@toddedillard.bsky.social) in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

Before tomorrow's new installment, give a read to The Bulb Region writer Will Musgrove's (@willmusgrove.bsky.social) wonderful short story, "The Waver," in @theforge.bsky.social. forgelitmag.com/2024/07/15/t...

Like every Saturday, two new pieces will go live on the website tomorrow, but before then, make sure to read these two Santa-stic micros by The Bulb Region writer Guy Cramer, published in the bestest @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...

Honored to have a new story in @bulbregion.bsky.social. It's about a van. Check it out if you wanna. 🚐

Don’t miss Guy Cramer’s laugh-out-loud idiomatic micro, “The Sayings,” in The Bulb Region today. 🔥🔥🔥 bulbregion.com/The-Sayings-...

"I saw the van cresting over the hill like some four-door sun, coming at me head-on just as I was passing a slow motorist on the opposite side [...]" Read Will Musgrove's (@willmusgrove.bsky.social) wonderful short story, "The Van," in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/The-Van-by-W...

‘And she would tie her hair in that bun he loved, and make her voice like trembling ash.’ Such a rich atmosphere created in this new flash from @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social, and love that alternating sentence structure 🎥 bulbregion.com/Infamy-Comes...

While you are here, give a read to The Bulb Region writer Patrick Holian's wonderful poem, "Hamburger University," published in American Literary Review. americanliteraryreview.com/2024/03/25/p...

Okay, the subs are over, the craze is behind us, and we return with two new pieces tomorrow. But before then, will you give a read to this amazing story by The Bulb Region writer Tommy Dean (@tommydeanwriter.bsky.social), published in the great @trampset.bsky.social. trampset.org/nicknames-fo...

“Someone once took their shoes off for you. You were special. All of the world took place in Pennsylvania. Which was just a word among many …” Bare + 2 by @dieddisappointed.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Three-Very-S...

SUBS OPEN NOW! 🚨 It’s also my birthday, so humor me. The window closes at midnight! bulbregion.com/Submissions

We open for submissions for the first time TOMORROW! The window will remain open for just a single day, so make sure to get your goodies ready. We accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, comics, and everything in-between. Don’t forget to check our guidelines page: bulbregion.com/Submissions

"One day, he said, he wouldn’t return, and she promised she’d spill the paint on the driveway, the pint blood-red, soaking into the cement..." @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social ⚡⚡

New micro with crime vibes! @bulbregion.bsky.social "HE WOULD BURY THE BODIES FOR HER, careful to sweep out all of the soil in the crevices of her trunk. And she would always be his alibi..." bulbregion.com/Infamy-Comes...

"She would invent alias for him, stringing together names, Kent Longfellow, Maurice Flowers, and Damien Cornflower;...." Big love for this micro by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social 💙💙💙

“He would bury the bodies for her, careful to sweep out all of the soil in the crevices of her trunk.“ Read Tommy Dean’s electrifying micro, “Infamy Comes in Black Ink,” in The Bulb Region today. ✍️ @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Infamy-Comes...

Read Patrick Holian’s wonderful little poem, “Coolest Dumbass at the Strip Club,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Coolest-Dumb...

Before tomorrow’s new iteration, make sure to read The Bulb Region writer Shane Kowalski’s (@dieddisappointed.bsky.social) wonderfully weird “To Be Frank,” which was recently published in @harpers.bsky.social. harpers.org/archive/2026...

We return with two new pieces tomorrow, but before then, give a read to The Bulb Region writer Wilson Koewing's (@wilsonkoewing.bsky.social) gut-punch of a story, "The Deep End," published in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. maudlinhouse.net/the-deep-end/

i have 3 very short pieces about different things in The Bulb Region

here’s the first of my three new poems in @bulbregion.bsky.social, it’s about trying to have a good day, which I suggest you try

“I’m playing a game that is about a lonely town full of lonely people. Some of them are farmers, some of them are failed artists.” Read the brilliant Shane Kowalski’s (@dieddisappointed.bsky.social) three very short stories in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Three-Very-S...

“I chose to work on the ferry because it created the illusion that I was going somewhere. […] Not stuck inside a place, not stuck inside a life.” Read Wilson Koewing‘s (@wilsonkoewing.bsky.social) fun and tender “S. Pellegrino” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/S-Pellegrino...

"there just has to be a part of the day that I’m not trying to solve problems"

Before tomorrow's new rendition of the journal, make sure to check out The Bulb Region writer Steve Gergley's wonderful micro, "The Black Hole," in the one and only @bruisermag.com. www.bruisermag.com/gergley_blac...

Two new pieces will be online on the website tomorrow, but before then, we recommend you read The Bulb Region writer Crow Jonah Norlander's (@crowjonah.com) three tasty tinies in Neutral Spaces Magazine. neutralspaces.co/magazine/two...

"Think summertime sparklers, jellyfish without jelly, an electrical outlet when prodded with a fork." This micro @formermissnj.bsky.social at @bulbregion.bsky.social is just SO damn good.

Find the great Steve Gergley’s absurdist micro, “Telecommunications,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Telecommunic...

“reading a book / that’s making me think / you can just write a book / about anything I guess” Three new fire poems by the amazing Crow Jonah Norlander (@crowjonah.com) in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

“There is no talking me out of Ella. Maybe she will marry me, maybe she won’t. But she knows …” @keersteemack.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...

Before our new rendition tomorrow, we recommend you have a look at The Bulb Region writer MD Wheatley's mini poetry comic in the one and only @havehashad.com: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/a-h...

Our new rendition goes live tomorrow with two new pieces, but before then, make sure to give a read to The Bulb Region writer Shy Watson’s (@formermissnj.bsky.social) punchy prose, “The Lunch Lady,” in @fencebooks.bsky.social. fenceportal.org/the-lunch-la...

We love our writers and we love their books. Get your copy of Aaron Burch’s new novel, TACOMA, now out from the amazing Autofocus Books. @aaronburch.bsky.social 📚 @autofocusbooks.bsky.social autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma

In about two weeks, we open for general submissions for the first time. It will go live on March 1...and remain that day for only a single day (through midnight EST)! Save the date and spread the word. Looking forward to reading all the great work. bulbregion.com/Submissions

MD...he's a skater. These are great.

You can find three new poems by the brilliant MD Wheatley in The Bulb Region today. The pack includes “The Golden Bowl,” a sonnet written after @tomsnarsky.bsky.social's “The Silver Cord,” which was previously published in our pages. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

“The angels, usually in pairs, precede tragedy. During my first encounter, I was a child. I awoke from the scent of their heat.” Today’s banger comes from the amazing Shy Watson (@formermissnj.bsky.social). Read “Call to Action” in The Bulb Region. bulbregion.com/Call-to-Acti...

The brilliant Kirsti MacKenzie (@keersteemack.bsky.social) has recently gotten her debut novel "Better to Beg" published by Sweet Trash Press (@sweettrashpress.bsky.social) and House of Vlad Press (@houseofvladpress.bsky.social). Make sure to buy a copy! asterismbooks.com/product/bett...

The Bulb Region writer Lacey Cohen's (@laceyrco.bsky.social) tasty little poem in @havehashad.com, "Sake," is a great way to spend your time before our new iteration goes live tomorrow. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/sake

Two new pieces will go live on the website tomorrow, but before then make sure to read The Bulb Region writer Çağla Arıbal's short story, "04:17 a.m, February 6," which was awarded the Oxford Review of Books Short Fiction Prize 2023. www.the-orb.org/post/04-17-a...

i have a new little story over at @bulbregion.bsky.social about a guy who eats a bicycle for love. happy valentines day kids xo

“Neighbors gather while I gargle mineral oil and let the metal bits slide down my throat. Ella appears unmoved.” So much fun! Love this Kristi.

“When I am done eating the bicycle I eat the saddle last. Chew the leather and it tastes like dessert, like victory.” Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (@keersteemack.bsky.social) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...

“hi, yes, it’s us as in thick, putrid us, as in poor mythology, blood clot, yes you and me, here, never native to this world.” Third in our V-Day series is a multi-cellular double-blind experiment by Çağla Arıbal. Read “First Cells” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/First-Cells-...

“There you sat, much the same, as always, With the curiosity of commercial meat.” The second iteration in today’s Valentines Day run comes in the shape of a deliciously anti-romantic Sam Gilchrist Hall poem. Read “Aubade” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Aubade-by-Sa...