Nate Krenkel
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Rhizome Radio at WMPG. TEAM LOVE and OYSTERTONES. words at nathanielkrenkel.com (he/him)
“….I realized the Bros were meeting at a club, one of those preppy social affairs where everyone’s in kakis, polo shirts, braided belts, and salmon-colored sportscoats. I was wearing black cutoffs covered in paint splatter and a Stereolab t-shirt.”
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Issue 35 feature
Welcome to issue 35 of the literary magazine 100subtexts, with over 200 pages of the best and most diverse in contemporary writing and poe...
https://100subtextsmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/issue-35-feature_14.html?m=1
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“I hit PLAY. Seconds later The Psychedelic Furs are blasting out of the TV speakers. I’m rocking my head up and down. Florida is doing his towel-wave dance with his arm and kicking both his legs. All three limbs, growing.”
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Watching TV With Florida | Nathaniel Krenkel
“What’s this?” Florida¹ asks. “Ted Lasso? We tried it before, you didn’t like it because of the guy’s mustache.” “Really? I don’t remember. Can we try again?” “Sure.” I hit play. We watch Ted Lasso…
https://thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/watching-tv-with-florida-nathaniel-krenkel/
23 days ago
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Bookshop.org
28 days ago
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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“Too bad you can’t smoke your phone,” Florida says.
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Watching TV With Florida | Nathaniel Krenkel
“What’s this?” Florida¹ asks. “Ted Lasso? We tried it before, you didn’t like it because of the guy’s mustache.” “Really? I don’t remember. Can we try again?” “Sure.” I hit play. We watch Ted Lasso…
https://thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/watching-tv-with-florida-nathaniel-krenkel/
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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“I am told to enter my PIN. I don’t think I have a PIN, and if I do, I’ve long forgotten it, so I say, yeah no yeah fuck, and the computer says, no problem.”
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Let me tell you a story about a Compromised Fuse
A flash fiction about the frustrations of aging and tech, as a father navigates PIN numbers, phone trees and Kafkaesque obstacles to get his daughter’s phone working in Paris.
https://letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tell-you-a-story-about-a-compromised
3 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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“….but swallowing was no longer an option. His cheeks expanded and swelled until they touched the walls and filled the room. Someone was trying to open the door, but this was no longer a possibility.”
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Congress Street
Congress Street
https://maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazine/fiction-piece/congress-street
about 2 months ago
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Oystertones
3 months ago
we all need more napps
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Extended Play Vols. 1-3 by Napps on Apple Music
Album · 2024 · 14 Songs
https://music.apple.com/us/album/extended-play-vols-1-3/1754043971
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“I am told to enter my PIN. I don’t think I have a PIN, and if I do, I’ve long forgotten it, so I say, yeah no yeah fuck, and the computer says, no problem.”
letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...
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Let me tell you a story about a Compromised Fuse
A flash fiction about the frustrations of aging and tech, as a father navigates PIN numbers, phone trees and Kafkaesque obstacles to get his daughter’s phone working in Paris.
https://letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tell-you-a-story-about-a-compromised
3 months ago
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the stack:
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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“This time in the SPECIAL INSTRUCTION spot, he wrote things such as “allergic to rice,” “left-sided cashews only,” “extra glue,” and “no egg whites no hippies no sadness no lost boys.” He filled the cart with $85 worth of lunch specials and appetizers.”
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Congress Street
Congress Street
https://maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazine/fiction-piece/congress-street
3 months ago
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“I pause. I give him an address from six years ago. He says, bingo-bango…Please and Thankyou and then a child in the background screams and a bus drives into an apple cart.”
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Let me tell you a story about a Compromised Fuse
A flash fiction about the frustrations of aging and tech, as a father navigates PIN numbers, phone trees and Kafkaesque obstacles to get his daughter’s phone working in Paris.
https://letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tell-you-a-story-about-a-compromised
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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“Everyone had beards, designer drugs, pants pulled too high, anti-capitalism slogans slapped onto the side of a pair of Vans or a shirt from H&M. These were dire times…”
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Issue Six | Mania Magazine
https://maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazine/copy-of-issue-five
4 months ago
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“I pause and frown. Am I boring my daughter? Or is she lightly amused? I have no idea. I do know that I have too few years left on this earth to waste any of it listening to bloody Beck.”
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"Thank You, Lorde" by Nathaniel Krenkel
Nathaniel Krenkel
https://www.wordswelljournal.org/thank-you-lorde-by-nathaniel-krenkel.html
4 months ago
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Belfast:
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Berlin butterfly bush:
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Mildest Men:
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ISSUE ONE: LOST IN TRANSLATION
Featuring work by Gregory Santo Arena, Ivars Balkits, Annie Bolger, Guillermo Bowie, Tove Ditlevsen, Bailey Dunn, Amanda Emilio, George Evans, don farrell, Michael Favala Goldman, Melisande Fitzsim…
https://shoegazeliterary.com/issue-one-lost-in-translation/
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The Empty Library:
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“I grab the remote. A minute later, I find Pretty In Pink. “Every seen it?” “Is it about Onk’s friend, Billy the Tongue?” Florida asks. “No. It’s about high school kids and class division.” “Sounds like frog-dog shit.”
#PrettyInPink
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Watching TV With Florida | Nathaniel Krenkel
“What’s this?” Florida¹ asks. “Ted Lasso? We tried it before, you didn’t like it because of the guy’s mustache.” “Really? I don’t remember. Can we try again?” “Sure.” I hit play. We watch Ted Lasso…
https://thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/watching-tv-with-florida-nathaniel-krenkel/
4 months ago
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Team Love Records
4 months ago
Bremen:
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“The movie starts, but I pass out almost immediately. Before Chris Penn’s classic line about The Police. Before the game of chicken on tractors. Before Kevin Bacon dances through a grain processing facility. Before Lithgow’s change of heart.”
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Watching TV With Florida | Nathaniel Krenkel
“What’s this?” Florida¹ asks. “Ted Lasso? We tried it before, you didn’t like it because of the guy’s mustache.” “Really? I don’t remember. Can we try again?” “Sure.” I hit play. We watch Ted Lasso…
https://thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/watching-tv-with-florida-nathaniel-krenkel/
4 months ago
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5 months ago
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Team Love Records
5 months ago
finds from Pleasant Street Books, in Woodstock VT, plus owner Sonny Saul’s very deep listen via his Quartet:
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“Mount Rushmore in the background, every face Ted Nugent.”
@shoegazeliterary.bsky.social
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ISSUE ONE: LOST IN TRANSLATION
Featuring work by Gregory Santo Arena, Ivars Balkits, Annie Bolger, Guillermo Bowie, Tove Ditlevsen, Bailey Dunn, Amanda Emilio, George Evans, don farrell, Michael Favala Goldman, Melisande Fitzsim…
https://shoegazeliterary.com/issue-one-lost-in-translation/
5 months ago
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story about the perils of a bookclub, up now at 100subtexts:
100subtextsmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/issu...
5 months ago
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excited to share a new story in the premiere issue of
@shoegazeliterary.bsky.social
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in translation (lost) | PDF to Flipbook
shoegaze literary is a capsule project that publishes poetry and fiction. the inaugural issue explores themes of listlessness, indulgence, and irreverent longing. www.shoegazeliterary.com. PDF to flip...
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/c67e9322de.html
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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happy to be sharing a piece in the new
@januaryhouselit.bsky.social
issue:
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January House Literary Journal
Poetry | Art | Prose
https://januaryhouselit.com
5 months ago
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new poem in Sunday Mornings By The River’s collection: Capitalism Is A Death Cult
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Portland, ME
#NoKingsMarch
5 months ago
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“The reporter counts from one to six like it’s Sesame Street, one two three four five six, six apples six flying squirrels…six school busses six bowls of soup six flaming tires six broken vertebrate six spinning tops six Sam & Dave singles six Trump Steaks…”
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ON THE RADIO
Nate Krenkel
https://dumbopress.com/short-stories/102
6 months ago
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Team Love Records
6 months ago
Alice Notley: 1945-2025
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“…this playlist has been generated from a music platform, Spotify’s Alternative Modern Indie Bollocks Midtempo Blerg…” Roxy snorts. “Or Apple’s Contemporary Modern Rock CockpunchDogshit…” “Dad. Language.” new piece:Thank You, Lorde, at Wordswell Journal:
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“…she’s stuck growing up in a world where lazy programmers are filling the heads of capitalism’s new digital children with guidelines in which their goal, in predicting stupid-people-needs, is to keep ears and eyeballs glued…”
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"Thank You, Lorde" by Nathaniel Krenkel
Nathaniel Krenkel
https://www.wordswelljournal.org/thank-you-lorde-by-nathaniel-krenkel.html
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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“…this playlist has been generated from a music platform, Spotify’s Alternative Modern Indie Bollocks Midtempo Blerg…” Roxy snorts. “Or Apple’s Contemporary Modern Rock CockpunchDogshit…” “Dad. Language.” new piece:Thank You, Lorde, at Wordswell Journal:
www.wordswelljournal.org/thank-you-lo...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Sundowning by Nathaniel Krenkel The green plate rests in my lap. “Imagine how much this would cost in a restaurant.” Under different circumstances, I’d say something rude—the snarky son—but for now, I remain silent and force another bite of the walnut and raspberry buckwheat pancake. “Susie, your…
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Sundowning
by Nathaniel Krenkel The green plate rests in my lap. “Imagine how much this would cost in a restaurant.” Under different circumstances, I’d say something rude—the snarky son—but for now, I remain silent and force another bite of the walnut and raspberry buckwheat pancake. “Susie, your boy is here,” he says. “Talk to her while I finish up,” he instructs me.
http://januaryhouselit.com/2025/05/29/sundowning/
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Sundowning
by Nathaniel Krenkel The green plate rests in my lap. “Imagine how much this would cost in a restaurant.” Under different circumstances, I’d say something rude—the snarky son—but for now, I stay si…
https://januaryhouselit.com/2025/05/29/sundowning/
6 months ago
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“And when hip youths listening to The Frog Dogs or Radiohead or Black Midi didn’t all throw likes my way or say, Oh man not Al, I thought…WHY ARE YOU NOT LIKING MY TWEET ABOUT THE DEATH OF AL JARREAU YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES. “
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NATHANIEL KRENKEL
Guns, Al Jarreau, and Dreams Downstairs, I put on an Al Jarreau record and remember doing a cheesy dance for Nat while she emailed and sent text messages and tried to make plans for the kids’ socia…
https://fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/2024/07/31/nathaniel-krenkel/
6 months ago
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new poem (about lotion) coming soon…
7 months ago
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7 months ago
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Biddeford, ME
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