we have a comic by Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social ! beautiful drawings matched with beautiful words “deer reborn as a horse, horse reborn as charioteer, charioteer reborn as hunter, hunter reborn as deer” xraylitmag.com/big-karma-co...

Lovely to see Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group included in the Senate House Library selections for January’s loanable display, under the theme of novellas. www.instagram.com/p/DTIcE7ZiOv8/ www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...

we have a story by Filip Jakab ! its about a guy who obsessively maintains his body so Sean can fuck it up. "The other day, Vinnie started smashing his head under the bleachers till he could hear only a singular white noise piercing his ears." xraylitmag.com/vacuum-by-fi...

hell yeah. xraylitmag.com/orcas-or-lif...

made a list of some of our favorite things from 2025 ! subs open today at noon arizona time, until we reach our caps xraylitmag.com/x-r-a-y-2025...

Without further ado, here are my favorite stories of 2025, to give you something to read today. Other than my two favorites, these are in chronological order. My FAVORITE story of 2025 was this one by @keersteemack.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...

FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025 In Another Life, I Am a Direct Descendent of Sharks by @bdcutkomp.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/in-another-l...

we've got a story by Christian TeBordo ! written as a report on a perspective university donor, it's about a man, among the 400 richest Americans (his father invented prime numbers), who wants to ‘solve the Hundred Years War’ - it's so good xraylitmag.com/from-a-donor...

Love this!!!

we have a very well written 200 word story by Sam Carradetti @samcorradetti.bsky.social ! it’s about the difference between what a person likes to wear (‘ripped jeans and dirty flip-flops’) & what they’re expected to wear (‘lace, sequins, tulle, fringe, satin’) xraylitmag.com/appraisal-by...

today, Joshua Mohr interviews David LeBrun about his memoir 'Delirium Vitae' !! a wonderful conversation -- check it out ! xraylitmag.com/memoirs-in-t...

"She’s walking the railing of the balcony like an Olympic gymnast on a balance beam, and the next second she’s a stuffed animal with those beads for eyes and plastic whiskers" Stunning story. @mmkaufman.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/not-everythi...

Dig this, friends

I love everything about this story. The ending is phenomenal!

Have been waiting for this @mmkaufman.bsky.social beauty to drop. Don’t miss it

Was gonna pull-quote, but that'd detract. Just take a couple and read this.

love love this 😻

we have a story by MM Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social ! it's about an aging man whose reality starts glitching, switching between ordinary life & a staged reality of actors, props, & cardboard a beautiful story with a beautiful ending - u should read this pronto xraylitmag.com/not-everythi...

Some work pubbed in 25 @ergot.bsky.social @minorliteratures.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social @bruisermag.com www.ergot.press/authors/Davi... www.bruisermag.com/luntz_castle minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t... farewelltransmission.net/2025/04/lemo... xraylitmag.com/an-echo-is-f...

all X-R-A-Y subs will be open on... friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time ! subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour. we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !

he is a sloth ! he is associated with beaches. he has written about two stories we published this year, ‘The Grotto’ by Jim Ruland @jimvermin.bsky.social & ‘Baby Phones’ by Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social #TYBS beachsloth.substack.com/p/the-grotto... beachsloth.substack.com/p/baby-phone...

It's the first anniversary! Last December, @xraylitmag.bsky.social published my sad Santa #flashfiction Lone Wolves. These two Santas inspired the #Santa in the #magicalrealism story. xraylitmag.com/lone-wolves-...

5. Baby Phones by Elena Zhang in @xraylitmag.bsky.social where babies are born with phones in their hands, but not for the reason you think xraylitmag.com/baby-phones-...

This holiday season, please buy my book 😃👇🏼

"Something about the snazzy shade of yellow and the way his skin peeled away from his body. It felt like his truest essence." The Christmas Banana + 1 by Kevin Sampsell in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/xmas-stories...

just imagine... a whole town of mozarts!! hundreds of mozarts to spare even if an entire shift were to perish in the mine

we have a story by Maxfield Francis Goldman ! the ending of this story has stuck with me...& it maybe suggests some interesting misdirection. read the story & see what u think about it ! xraylitmag.com/the-answer-b...

we have another installment of Stuff Your Face with Scott Laudati ! in which our intrepid author tastes & describes the best pizzas our great country has to offer this one focuses on the best pizza places in New Haven, CT !! don't miss it xraylitmag.com/stuff-your-f...

Surely everyone knows a Christmas banana? 🍌🥂

today we have a couple mico-length xmas stories by Kevin Sampsell ! one is about a santa who can't grow a beard, & the other story is about a christmas banana who goes to an office party. check it out !! xraylitmag.com/xmas-stories...

we have a great story by Isabelle Yang ! it's about a woman living with her lazy unemployed boyfriend who watches sports all day. there are some very wonderful sentences in here !! a great style <3 xraylitmag.com/looking-at-y...

“Then the man said, Someone can love you and still do terrible things. Like nobody taught them how to do it right.” @mpmcsweeney.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/city-desk-by...

we have a dark & beautifully written 130 word micro by Uma Payne <3 "No one ever found him. Worms turned his whole body into the nutrient shit that plants need to grow. The plastic that had shared space with his flesh stayed." xraylitmag.com/earthbound-b...

XRAY one of my fave journals, Absolute Elsewhere one of my fave albums of last few years, Blood Incantation among my fave recent live shows. "Music is art, and art is inherently transgressive to the concepts you mention (ultranationalism, authoritarianism, populism, and xenophobia)."

art monster lifestyle

The last year’s worth of published work. Short stories courtesy of @stingingfly.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social and @xraylitmag.bsky.social and my essay on the cinema of Marguerite Duras in @fallowmedia.bsky.social.

this is one of the coolest things to happen here at X-R-A-Y... Chris Kelso interviews Paul Riedl of Blood Incantation !! they discuss Blood Incantation’s latest album, art’s threat to authoritarianism & much more xraylitmag.com/and-now-its-...

we have a story by Dana Jean Rider ! it's about a woman who starts watching a woman doing yoga through her window. "My problem is that I’ve only ever known for certain what I don’t want. ... But I do want." read 'Let's Talk About Desire' !! xraylitmag.com/lets-talk-ab...

subs opening! 🩻

tomorrow is the 1st -- all subs will be open tomorrow at 5am arizona time

latest story from me today. go on and give it a lil looky dirt.fyi/article/2025...

What a thrill to be interviewed by @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social and nerd out about structure, humor, flawed male role models, and Elvis Grbac (1998’s Sexiest Athlete Alive) xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...

v v excited to return the favor and interview one of my favs @johnwaddy.bsky.social! thanks @xraylitmag.bsky.social for letting me nerd out

my thanks to X-R-A-Y and @keersteemack.bsky.social for allowing me to turn this interview into a game of “let’s remember some guys”

now we're gonna put it in reverse - Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social eeMack interviews John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social about his book 'This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers' they discuss narrative form, setting, humor, baseball & a lot else ! xraylitmag.com/faulkner-did...

“[Y]ou have to get up, every day, and engage in creating for its own sake. You can’t control anything about the outcome . . . If nobody else gives a fuck about this but me, is it still worth doing? The answer has to be yes.” Amen and amen.

Lucky enough to be interviewed by (and to interview, stay tuned! @johnwaddy.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social You can read it here if you want to 😊💕

I had the honor of talking with @keersteemack.bsky.social about her marvelous new novel BETTER TO BEG (Sweet Trash Press) in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...