"The truth of what we are, laid bare." This extraordinary story by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"The water is now up to the sisters’ knees,...." And: "Mandy holds these three lemons like they’re gold coins...." Big love for these brilliant stories by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social 💙💙💙 bulbregion.com/Two-Stories-...

"The lungs, memory chests for held breaths. Joints, for connecting, that connect, the smoky texture where they almost touch" Stunning list piece from @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social; the way each item knits together like a mosaic

"There’s still time to remember snorkling in Honolua Bay as children—the red sea urchins, butterfly fish, parrot fish, yellow tangs" Two brilliant pieces from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social; love the use of the speculative in the first and the hurtling momentum of the second

Thrilled to have 2 stories in the wonderful @bulbregion.bsky.social. Thank you @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving them a lovely home ❤️ bulbregion.com/Two-Stories-...

"Late evenings spent in a sodium-hued gym, hiding from phantom hauntings. Dislocations. An IUD, suspended, the miracle of its tiny T-shaped wings." Stunning story by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/What-Maisie-...

‘Maybe just maybe one of them is conjuring sun coral, pink sea whip, staghorn, the violet tentacles of dragon torch coral, its glistening gold tips.’ There’s magic in the lines of these two new stories from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social 🪸 bulbregion.com/Two-Stories-...

“The outline of everything, seeped in blue ghost-print.” “The truth of what we are, laid bare.” @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/What-Maisie-...

"Adult bones, strengthening. Wisdom teeth, emerging. The architecture of a first-forever home. Desk-bound days, causing the spine to curve slightly, leaning into its history." Don't miss James Montgomery's (@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social) brilliant list story in The Bulb Region today. 🔗 below!

“What a sweet mother she thought she’d be after her own fucked-up childhood. But every living thing has thorns. Hers were longer and sharper than she could have imagined.” The brilliant Claudia Monpere (@claudiamonpere.bsky.social) returns to The Bulb Region with two new micros. 🔗 below!

A joy to have a new flash in the brightest new litmag around, @bulbregion.bsky.social. 🩻 I’ve been wanting to write a list story for ages, and @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social has been the kindest editor to deal with. Send them something good when it next opens for subs! 💡 bulbregion.com/What-Maisie-...

We return tomorrow with two great prose pieces, but before then, make time to read our recent contributor Janice Leadingham's (@thehagsoup.bsky.social) tenderly grotesque micro, "Creatures of the EZ-STOP," in @flashfrog.bsky.social. 🔗below!

"The Baby is 5000 years old, she could’ve known almost anyone you’ve ever heard about, met them and their ghosts, but probably didn’t." 🍼 You wouldn't want to watch trash in front of Janice Leadingham's (@thehagsoup.bsky.social) The Baby in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/There-s-Not-...

"How do you reconcile with this, being spurted out of the cosmic womb, and for what? I’m eating lentil soup on the coldest day of the year. It’s a family recipe. Not my family." 🪳 Spencer Eckart returns to The Bulb Region with three killer, introspective poems. bulbregion.com/Three-Terror...

Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, make time to read our contributor Peter DeMarco's darkly comic suburban gothic, "Class of '77," published last month in Hawkeye. hawkeyemag.com/stories/dema...

We return tomorrow with a new combination of prose and poetry, but before then, have a look at these mordantly funny poems by our recent contributor Catherine Weiss (@catherineweiss.bsky.social) in BOMB. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Enjoyed this story! I really liked how the details of the story unfolded in the reverse chronology.

“That dress becomes you,” says Eden’s mom. “Is it Portuguese?” Thrilling piece by @kplumhoff.bsky.social @bulbregion.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity bulbregion.com/Ready-Set-Go...

her downfall, it appears, was being poisoned // by art

"Archivist You catalogs the times something like this happened before. Physical You has to pee." New @catherineweiss.bsky.social poems!!

Three poems in today's Bulb Region!

"I’ve never seen an airplane / I didn't feel responsible / for holding up. / I was an anxious child. / Now I’m an adult who measures / life in lengths of road" 📺 There's plenty of truth in Catherine Weiss' (@catherineweiss.bsky.social) poems in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

"[I] don’t trust him, she said, he kills things for a living now, got a pest control van, see, he’s still a bully [...]" 🚚 Don't miss Peter DeMarco's breathless, one-sentence story, "The Good Guy," in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/The-Good-Guy...

Before tomorrow's new edition, make time to read these poems by our recent contributor Robert John Miller, published in @bruisermag.com www.bruisermag.com/miller_three...

Tomorrow we return with a new pairing of prose and poetry, but before then, have a look at this amusingly brilliant micro by our returning contributor Matt Rowan (@veryrealbatman.bsky.social), "Dad Fights," published in X-R-A-Y. xraylitmag.com/dad-fights-b...

I love this story! Such imaginative absurdity! Kept me laughing.

Congratulations to our dear contributor Ivy Grimes (@ivygrimes.bsky.social) who has been featured on Turn & Work’s The Shortlist selection this month with her wonderful, enigmatic short story, “Fish Eyes.” 👏 Link in the comments section below.

New story up at @bulbregion.bsky.social today. It's been quite a week, publishing-wise. This one is deeply inspired by and indebted to the work of writers like @benloory.bsky.social and @kellylink.bsky.social. Thanks go out to @sarperotto.bsky.social for publishing it! bulbregion.com/Cabbage-by-M...

“Are you peeing right now she says and I say ohnonono how can you tell it’s imperceptible and she says you have to submarine and I say yes of course […]” Find Robert John Miller’s edgy, inventive sonnets in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Two-Sonnets-...

"Ernst began to form reasons for why it was illegal to carry a cabbage concealed in one’s pocket. Maybe people were afraid you might use the cabbage as a weapon." 🥬Matt Rowan (@veryrealbatman.bsky.social) returns to The Bulb Region with a hilariously brilliant story. bulbregion.com/Cabbage-by-M...

this is a blast from the past for anyone interested in what I was writing like MANY years ago! thankful to the Barren editors for picking this at the time too, it was my first acceptance after a year of almosts and no quites

Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to have a look at our recent contributor Binh Do's wonderful short story, "(They Long to Be) Close to You," in SmokeLong Quarterly (@smokelong.bsky.social). www.smokelong.com/stories/they...

Tomorrow there'll be two new posts on the website, but before then, make time to read our returning contributor aka house favorite Todd Dillard's (@toddedillard.bsky.social) amazing poem, "Newly Wed in the Dominican Republic," in Barren Magazine. barrenmagazine.com/newly-wed-in...

"Those who had dabbled in ouija boards and harmless playful witchcraft in childhood were somewhat less concerned while others saw the new magical objects as being placed there by the devil." This is a beauty! @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social <3 bulbregion.com/Unsent-Love-...

Just realized we've passed the 100th-publication mark with today's pieces and here's one of them in case you missed it. @toddedillard.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

ecstatic to have a new trio of poem in @bulbregion.bsky.social! here's one:

Here, read these three beautiful, musical poems from @toddedillard.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social

"In the rare occasion when she would be in her tiny office, right beside mine, I could hear, through the crevices of our doors slightly ajar, the sounds of her writing something in pencil, erasing that something just as often." 📚 Binh Do, in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/A-Story-Abou...

"They’ll say the hand strums a guitar like wind rolling across the crops, that sorrow is pianissimo erupted by forte, and silence a minor Stygian chord." 🎹 The amazing Todd Dillard (@toddedillard.bsky.social) returns to The Bulb Region with three new poems. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

"rain fills the footprints that march down the broad avenue a trail of reflecting pools in which pigeons duck and drink and the nightwoke racoons wash their meals" The beauty & awe in these 3 poems! @fklein907.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to have a look at these three Robert Frost poems by our recent contributor Dave Brennan in Heavy Feather Review (@hfr.bsky.social). heavyfeatherreview.org/2016/08/25/t...

We resume tomorrow with a new slate of prose and poetry, but before then, make time to read "Good Sign of Future Happiness" by our recent contributor Katherine Plumhoff (@kplumhoff.bsky.social) in SmokeLong Quarterly. www.smokelong.com/stories/good...

"We are cheersing to the radiant bride with stolen glasses I brought from home when I make eye contact with Eden’s parents, sitting to the side of the dais like minor royalty." 🥂 Find @kplumhoff.bsky.social's episodic, temporal short, "Ready, Set, Go," in TBR today. bulbregion.com/Ready-Set-Go...

"It’s lonely work, digging graves for ghost dogs. Autumn’s overcoat sulked in the east. Birdsong & the alien chatter of unearthed rocks littered the low field." 🪨 Don't miss Dave Brennan's prose poems in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

We return tomorrow with a whole new combo of prose and poetry, but until then make time to read this wonderful, humorous, spatial story by our recent contributor Matt Leibel (@mattleibel.bsky.social), “Town,” published in LEAN. www.lean-mag.com/town

This will make your heart hurt in the best of literary ways.

Bumping this in case you missed Sam Berman’s lovely numerical piece on the website today! bulbregion.com/Five-Similar...

ICYM this wonderful new story by Matt Leibel (@mattleibel.bsky.social) today! bulbregion.com/Infinite-Rod...

New story about a time-trapped cowboy in @bulbregion.bsky.social! Big thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social

"Some of the letters were angry, others were guilt ridden confessions, a few spoke of unexpressed longing, but most were—as expected—about missing people they’d loved and lost." & "a rainbow of yearning and regret" @anniejowrites.bsky.social @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Unsent-Love-...