snuck one in to @xraylitmag.bsky.social

it's tha 1st of tha month, submissions are open thanks !

Sending some prose out into the world? Here's some places that are super cool, fee free, and OPEN FOR SUBS!!! @xraylitmag.bsky.social @alocasiamag.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @fahmidangroup.bsky.social @bruisermag.com @trampset.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social

Who doesn't love a family story on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? ❤️ Contributor @kimmagowan.bsky.social published a piece in @xraylitmag.bsky.social about sisterhood and loss: buff.ly/thno5fO

Nice lil acceptance from @xraylitmag.bsky.social - very excited to share Portrait of You in Five Psychics 🔮

read 'Pile Drive Me Into the Earth' by Thora Dahlke !! it's such a good one lonely college freshman + wasted summer + roommate from Finland + MDMA + Moomintroll tattoo + this sentence: "Her awe is wide, her hope so raw." xraylitmag.com/pile-drive-m...

". . .but if I say, “Yes, we’re going down in the dose permanently, I hope,” if I say, “So far we’re doing pretty well,” if I say anything at all, we’ll be at the hospital in twenty-four hours." Swallow by @writesloud.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/swallow-by-h...

i love this story by Hank O'Neill ! 'Coaguloid' is about a tv show in which a woman eats in front of a live studio audience. what else can is say about this weird 1,000 word story except that it's so fucking cool & well written xraylitmag.com/coaguloid-by...

New Xray Recommends is live - a paean to Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune, Kristin Garth’s Daddy, Danielle Chelosky’s Pregaming Grief, and the 1969 movie musical Paint Your Wagon! @clashbooks.bsky.social @anxietypress.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/dave-fitzger...

This floored me this morning. I didn't realize hospitals smelled like mashed potatoes, but they do. Also, the way the narrator is brought right up to the edge of epiphany. A great kind of flash.

we have some book recommendations by Dave Fitzgerald @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social ! he discusses books by Brandi Homan, Kristin Garth, and Danielle Chelosky xraylitmag.com/dave-fitzger...

we have a great story by Emma Burger ! it's about a woman who idolizes the wealthy & fashionable to the point that she starts abusing stimulants to keep up, a choice that ends up giving her a heart attack. read it ! xraylitmag.com/you-teach-me...

"...now, she wants Amy to feel shitty. To confront her rigidity and selfishness. To brim with impossible regrets." @kimmagowan.bsky.social + @xraylitmag.bsky.social = ⚡⚡

"Because of course Cora would have hoped that the silver lining of dying is that Amy would want to see her." Oh, this strikes a chord. 💔 @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social

Thrilled to have a new story in @xraylitmag.bsky.social!

"How they loved those scissors when they were little girls! They always wanted to play with them, to cut out their paper dolls and snowflakes." I love this piece. Brilliant storytelling by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social 💙💙💙 xraylitmag.com/two-days-aft...

we have a story by Kim Magowan @kimmagowan.bsky.social ! it's about two daughters who start going through their recently deceased mother's apartment. one of the daughters was estranged from her. a very strong & tightly written story that u should read pronto xraylitmag.com/two-days-aft...

this story by Saoirse Bertram is so interesting ! i love how each paragraph sinks u deeper into a more unreconizable world, i love the title, i love stories where the world falls apart. don't miss 'Avalon' xraylitmag.com/avalon-by-sa...

Had the pleasure of speaking with Sienna Liu about the musing Specimen, out now at @splitlippress.com. Head over to @xraylitmag.bsky.social! xraylitmag.com/near-miss-in...

What a great interview with Sienna Liu & @rgransden.bsky.social: "So much of Specimen is about the near-miss: people circling each other, reaching, misunderstanding, saying almost but not quite what they mean. I wanted to write into that space of near-miss, not to resolve it, but to give it form."

we have another great Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social interview ! Rebecca talks with Sienna Liu about her book 'Specimen' -- read it ! xraylitmag.com/near-miss-in...

"...the babies needed a way to call poison control at their own leisure." @ezhang77.bsky.social + @xraylitmag.bsky.social =🔥🔥

"The babies are all born with phones in their hands. It hadn’t always been this way,...." I love this brilliant piece of writing by @ezhang77.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social 💙💙💙 xraylitmag.com/baby-phones-...

man, Elena Zhang is so good

Fantastic!

Dream come true to have a story in @xraylitmag.bsky.social !!!

Good story

to me this three sentence micro by Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social describes modern life so potently...like, it reveals this...big...mysterious force that we're caught in... ...or maybe it's just good writing ? read it for yrself, it's wonderful xraylitmag.com/baby-phones-...

Still super proud of this weird book: a collection of tiny fictions / prose poems disguised as one-act plays. Comprised of ten sections, each one begins with a different type of cloud. xraylitmag.com/shop/cardboa...

we have a story by Saul Lemerond ! don’t skip this one !! it’s about a billionaire's son who shoots a hole in his father’s aquarium as revenge for refusing to purchase half a million youtube subscribers & it's batshit & awesome xraylitmag.com/come-and-see...

This is an incredible essay. So full of courage, vulnerability and emotional truth. Lots of love to you Hannah. 🩷 @xraylitmag.bsky.social

I have a new little flash essay up at @xraylitmag.bsky.social today. It was stupid hard to write this, y'all. Thank you, XRAY. ♥️ xraylitmag.com/swallow-by-h...

today we have an incredibly powerful, emotional story by Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social 'Swallow' is about throwing out a years' worth of failed prescription bottles at the pharmacy -- it will tear yr heart out xraylitmag.com/swallow-by-h...

it's tha 1st of tha month, which means that subs are open for... short stories flash micros creative nonfiction until we reach our monthly cap. thank u ! xraylitmag.com/submissions/

This flash fiction piece by @amykdebellis.bsky.social hits hard. Read here and get into itttt www.memezinelit.com/featured2025...

So excited to have made it to the halls of the great @xraylitmag.bsky.social with my lil auto-fic piece about almost being rescued from my not so imminent death. Thanks so much to Chris Dankland and the rest of the X-folks for giving this baby a shot at the big time. xraylitmag.com/late-to-work...

‘I tell her no I’m just trying not to die. I’m not trying to get anywhere.’ Absolutely dynamite micro from @thedrevlow.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social, phew! 🏃 xraylitmag.com/late-to-work...

I love this one so much

Lovely, lovely, @thedrevlow.bsky.social.

Yeah this is great.

Loved this little dark bit of humor this morning. The repetition kills.

we have a micro by Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social ! i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out xraylitmag.com/late-to-work...

So this just happened. It’s a morning of good news. I’m a big fan of X-R-A-Y and am so pleased to have an essay published with them. But brace yourself: it’s a brutal read. In other news, my UK permanent residency application was approved. I just got the email. I predict champagne tonight.

we have a creative nonfiction story by Marshall Moore @marshallsmoore.bsky.social ! 'The Symmetries' is about the unraveling of a relationship with a partner suffering from epilepsy, among other things. xraylitmag.com/the-symmetri...

we have an interview with Noah Kumin ! Matthew Binder talks to Kumin about his very interesting new book 'Stop All the Clocks' xraylitmag.com/noah-kumin-i...

📌 ICYMI, from the homies at @1111press.bsky.social: THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by @raviddice.bsky.social Out 11-SEP & ALL pre-orders come w/ the fall issue of SwR. Jump now bbs 💥 1111press.com/the-squimbop...

i recommend visiting Cortez's website & reading some of her other stories too, especially 'The Year of the Self' & 'On Earth As It Is In Heaven' ... she's really good cortez.nyc

today we have a story by Cortez ! 'Would You Tremble in the Presence of the Virgin Should She Come To Your Town?' is about the narrator's mother, who keeps getting pregnant. brilliant themes of creation, scandal, & power in here <3 great sentences xraylitmag.com/would-you-tr...

Cannot recommend this story enough. Funny, dark, tender. @glennorgias.bsky.social is one of the absolute best doing it

“when I saw a job ad looking for a “big guy” who was willing to “become anonymous” and to live in a “dungeon”, I said: Bingo.” Fantastic new work from @glennorgias.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/mrs-beatrix-...