Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, make sure to read this banger by our recent contributor Lauren Kardos (@lkardos.bsky.social), "What we talk about when we want to talk about Fight Club," published in Milk Candy Review. milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/08/14/w...

Tomorrow there will be another combo of prose and poetry on the website, but before then, find time to have a look at this one on siblings and family by our contributor Tim Frank (@timfrankquill.bsky.social) recently published in Bottle Rocket: www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/nig...

I love this energetic, bizarre, celebratory, and deeply sad story from @lkardos.bsky.social!

when human-made art from the 15th century inspires human-made art in the 21st century. thank you @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving this little danse macabre story a home in @bulbregion.bsky.social

“I saw the moon on the move through remains of debris, far away from the bruise of the slowly sinking suburbs.” 🛸 The brilliant Tim Frank (@timfrankquill.bsky.social) has three new poems in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

“[Dad] brought home a boombox from his construction site, the equipment victim of an errant brick so every few words crackled. It became Big Band at midnight and Hip Hop at dawn and Country at lunch.” 🔥 Lauren Kardos (@lkardos.bsky.social) in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Danse-Macabr...

Okay, so, two Saturdays from now, on May 2, we'll run four new comic pieces in line with Free Comic Book Day—and to complement this, we'll be open for comics submissions for just a single day. So save the date and send your goodies our way! bulbregion.com/Submissions

Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, make sure to have a look at this brilliant micro piece by our recent contributor Patricia Q. Bidar (@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social), "Chaos," published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. fracturedlit.com/chaos/

Had 3 poems from my new MS Kielbasa appear in the Bulb Region this weekend! Here's one of them. Visit their site for the others!

Tomorrow we return with another splendid combo of prose and poetry, but until then, make sure to create some time and read these great poems by our contributor David Wojciechowski (@mrwojorising.bsky.social) in Heavy Feather Review: heavyfeatherreview.org/2019/07/21/w...

This story is the S**T! Amazingness from the amazing @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social

"He ends the call, sees Lizzie. 'That kids’ birthday party inside? I bailed. I get… panicky.' His eyes, like the eyes of all clowns, contain misery." So weirdly wonderful! @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Earth-Wind-F...

always dig on @thecorlew.bsky.social's newsletter & especially jazzed to see my tiny story from @bulbregion.bsky.social spotlighted here ⚡️⚡️⚡️

As a huge fan of David Ryan, I’m not even remotely surprised this one is a banger.

“A woman removes her hands and places them in a glass of water by her bed every night. In her dreams, her hands are a forest that she runs through.” Don’t miss David Wojciechowski’s (@mrwojorising.bsky.social) delightfully labyrinthine poems in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

“In person, she can remind Rick they belong together. And what was a little poop between old friends? A very a small amount, he’d said.” 🪩 Find Patricia Q. Bidar’s (@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social) vaudevillian cliffhanger, “Earth Wind & Fire,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Earth-Wind-F...

We usually bump older pieces in our contributor highlights, but I’ll make an exception for today and strongly urge you to grab a copy of David Ryan’s amazing collection, “Alligator,” published by C4G Books. It’s one of the best out there! bookshop.org/p/books/alli...

Tomorrow, we return with a killer combo of prose and poetry, but until then, make sure to create time to read our recent contributor Calvin Cummings’ breathtaking short story, “Sleepwalking,” published in Blue Arrangements. bluearrangements.com/cummings

really great story from David Ryan on @bulbregion.bsky.social "The cake is a big Batman face, nine candles stuck out from it. Years later, your brother will be diagnosed only after they find him wandering a northeastern college campus, painted in mud, bleeding out loud demons."

Another piece that yesterday’s Bluesky downtime failed. Calvin has a fun little story in The Bulb Region that you won’t regret reading!

Bluesky was down for a while right after I posted our new pieces yesterday, so they never received the love deserved. So here I am resharing them for the late crowd. Don’t miss David’s astonishing short story if you have fifteen minutes to burn today!

really loved this new short from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social on @bulbregion.bsky.social “Nothing has changed, if you think about it, not really.” “What if other things change though?” “Well, everything is always changing,” I reassured him, in that way only fathers can fail at.

“Kill me,” the crab said. “You’re already dead,” the seagull said. “Oh,” the crab said." 🦀 Find Calvin Cummings' must-read parable, "The Gull and the Crab," in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/The-Gull-and...

"But this is the Midwest, a Midwest of a certain texture, where many things discussed intimately and publicly alike on the Coasts do not exist because there’s no language for them here to make them real." 🎂 Don't miss David Ryan's stunner in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Birthday-by-...

Before tomorrow’s new edition, stop what you are doing and have a look at this absolutely chilling micro by our recent contributor Ivy Grimes (@ivygrimes.bsky.social), “Shadow Land,” published in one of our favorite journals. www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

We’ll return with two exciting publications tomorrow, but before then, we urge you to spend some time with this very unique matryoshka of a poem(?) by our beloved contributor Tom Snarsky (@tomsnarsky.bsky.social), recently published in the great @havehashad.com. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/tim...

“If a mime mimes dying in the forest, does he make a sound? If a mime mimes a mime miming his hanging of himself, will anybody laugh?” @thedrevlow.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/An-elegy-for...

“… I’m Loath to remember my most shameful Moments but I don’t have to bc god Takes care of that anyway, folds them in Like a kind of overlay, guilt-chyron That can run at any time …” @tomsnarsky.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Book-of-Hour...

Many thanks to The Bulb Region for publishing my particularly weird little story "Fish Eyes"!!

"One woman rolled out from under the bed and told me her theory about what happened that night, which is also happening now." 👁️ Don't miss Ivy Grimes' (@ivygrimes.bsky.social) deliciously uncanny short story, "Fish Eyes," in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Fish-Eyes-by...

"I am a record of things I have tried To keep secret or going or both. I’m Loath to remember my most shameful Moments [...]" 🚨 New Tom Snarsky (@tomsnarsky.bsky.social) alert! Tom returns with three stunning poems, and you can read them in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Book-of-Hour...

Check out this story on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ✨️Contributor @inauthenticity.bsky.social has a piece on friendships and secrets in @bulbregion.bsky.social 💙 buff.ly/0Q1tQko

Speaking of killer poems, don't miss this absolutely brilliant one by our recent contributor Travis Shosa (@travisshosa.bsky.social). "Bird Box" was published in the first issue of the amazing Dreck. drecklit.neocities.org/travisshosa

Tomorrow we return with a splendid combo of prose and poetry, but before then, we highly recommend you spend the wait time reading these three killer poems by our recent contributor @thedrevlow.bsky.social, published in Hobart: www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

❤️ this piece by @thedrevlow.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social so much! "At what point does the mime’s mom call to ask him again when he’s gonna get a job. How long does a parent wait for a mime to mouth never over the phone before hanging up and calling again?"

the longest poem I've ever had published is now live on @bulbregion.bsky.social here's a snippet of it bulbregion.com/Two-Poems-by...

"Tears of a clown, what about the maudlin bawling of a mime? If a mime mimes dying in the forest, does he make a sound?" Be warned: the great Drevlow has a wonderful hybrid piece demanding your attention in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/An-elegy-for...

"My wife and I were at the clock shop, which was suspiciously devoid of clocks, suspiciously devoid of anything but us." Don't miss Travis Shosa's (@travisshosa.bsky.social) brilliant temporal micro, "Clock Shop," in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Clock-Shop-b...

Speaking of great poems, make sure to have a look at this stunner by our contributor Nora Rawn, published in the second issue of Dodo Eraser 💜 dodoeraser.org/2026/01/23/s...

Amid all DeWitt-Lerner mashup, we’ll continue our operations with a killer combo of our own tomorrow but before then, wouldya have a look at this absolute beaut of a poem by our contributor @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, published earlier this year in Michigan City RoB. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler

This story by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social hit me really hard this morning. It's exactly how I feel living in the world at this moment, and the way Chris writes about that without writing about that...The ending is at the same time hopeful and horrifying, the way we psychologically adapt so quickly.

"“What if other things change though?” “Well, everything is always changing,” I reassured him, in that way only fathers can fail at."

‘Camps hastily formed: New Sky vs. Old Sky.’ Just impeccable storytelling from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in the best new lit mag around, @bulbregion.bsky.social 🌆 bulbregion.com/The-Wrong-Sk...

"The great thing about the suffering hierarchy is you can play it anytime, although my blood sister, Alyce, and I decided that every six weeks is optimum." We ❤️ Contributor @claudiamonpere.bsky.social’s new flash "Calculations" in @bulbregion.bsky.social ✨️ buff.ly/EVnBXdM

Pleased as punch to have some new flash fiction in the very amazing @bulbregion.bsky.social today. Consider our sky here ---> bulbregion.com/The-Wrong-Sk...

"The sun held its position amongst the clouds, same as always, but the way its rays attached to the trees, the houses, the pavement, was off somehow." Find Chris Scott's (@iamchrisscott.bsky.social) deliciously uncanny story, "The Wrong Sky," in The Bulb Region. bulbregion.com/The-Wrong-Sk...

"When the world is spiraling off its axis, more than normal that is, one may still catch the bus just in the nick of time." Don't miss Nora Rawn's amazing new poems in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

Seconding James' comment about the confidence in the storytelling; the ending wrapped up in the opening, you don't see it on first read thru, but it's there, staring you down. Terrific story! @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @bulbregion.bsky.social

Before tomorrow’s new edition on the website, don’t forget to have a look at these three fantastic poems by our contributor Ben Starr in @bullshitlit.bsky.social. www.bullshitlit.com/blog/bstarr

We continue with two new pieces tomorrow, but before then, make sure to give a read to this brutally powerful micro by our contributor Francine Witte (@francinewitte.bsky.social),“Drunkdaddy,” published in Cleaver. www.cleavermagazine.com/drunkdaddy-b...