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Fiction writer, EIC/ Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel, adjunct professor www.kimmagowan.com
Woohoo all these amazing writers, including my daughter Nora!
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This is a fantastic issue of
@pitheadchapel.bsky.social
! Congrats to
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
,
@karenkay.bsky.social
,
@brttnyblm.bsky.social
, and their entire staff, and to all these talented writers.
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Volume 14, Issue 12
COVER ART BY deems ortega FICTION A Bestiary of Immortal Creatures by J. Condra Smith The Great Miss Valentina Speaks by Rebecca Turkewitz Mr. Palm Beach by Will Willoughby Awe by Nick Rees …
https://pitheadchapel.com/2025/12/01/volume-14-issue-12/
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine
about 1 month ago
“my brilliant brain behind my exquisite face is stupefied that you ever mattered to me a single iota”
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/kimmagowan
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Kim Magowan | Instead of Doing Something Juvenile, Like Slashing Your Tires, After You Dumped Me for DeAnna Vacario
https://www.claudineliterary.net/kimmagowan
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My new book!!!! Grateful thanks to
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
@mooncitypress.bsky.social
and also Elisabeth Anderson for her weird and wonderful artwork. I love this cover so much!
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Pat Foran
about 2 months ago
“… (perhaps ‘feature’ isn’t the right word) …” “… there was no way, Karen felt, that Elizabeth Taylor’s driver’s license would describe her eyes as ‘violet.’”
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
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@bendinggenres.bsky.social
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Karen’s Features
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Pithead Chapel
about 2 months ago
We're proud to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction 2025! Please join us in congratulating these stellar writers. Good luck everyone!
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Melissa Llanes Brownlee
about 2 months ago
Thank you so much
@pitheadchapel.bsky.social
for the nomination! Congratulations everyone and good luck!!
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about 2 months ago
I get to read on Thursday at Northwest Missouri State University with my colleague,
@jennifermurvin.bsky.social
, for the indisputably cool
@lukerolfes.bsky.social
and
@jgallaher.bsky.social
and their wonderful writing community. Can't wait!
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Congrats to
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
,
@karenkay.bsky.social
,
@brttnyblm.bsky.social
, and the entire
@pitheadchapel.bsky.social
staff on another fantastic new issue!
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Volume 14, Issue 11
COVER ART BY SUSAN POLLET FICTION CABBAGE SOUP WEEK BY NINA Y. MORAGON ONE OF GOD’S FAVORITES BY HAL WRIGHT CREEPS BY MELISSA BENTON BARKER THE NEED IN HER EYES BY RACHEL EPHRAIM &nbs…
https://pitheadchapel.com/2025/11/01/volume-14-issue-11/
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Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
2 months ago
I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚
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Buy tickets – Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom
Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There – Zoom, Sat 22 Nov 2025 - Curious about how to move from publishing standalone flash to a body of work? This 2-hour workshop breaks down everyth...
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/westword/1834812?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Michael Czyzniejewski
2 months ago
Thanks to
@davidestringel.bsky.social
and his team at
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
for publishing this new story, "The Screams of the Jellyfish," in their October issue! Thanks, too, to
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
and
@courtneyb77.bsky.social
for the early eyes.
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the screams of jellyfish — Blood+Honey
by Michael Czyzniejewski “ One by one, they fell into the trap, each jellyfish pierced on a different spike, their jelly seeping out, oozing down the wood. Worse, the jellyfish were screaming...
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-screams-of-jellyfish
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3 months ago
A fab new micro by
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
and Michelle Ross in The Ilanot Review!
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A Stranger in My Home - Ilanot Review
Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross One evening after work, I return home and find a woman in my kitchen. She’s arranging purple fingerling potatoes onto my roasting pan. I smell her before I see her. Or mo...
http://www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-favor/a-stranger-in-my-home/
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Michelle Ross and i have a weird new collaboration micro in wonderful The Ilanot Review:
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A Stranger in My Home - Ilanot Review
Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross One evening after work, I return home and find a woman in my kitchen. She’s arranging purple fingerling potatoes onto my roasting pan. I smell her before I see her. Or mo...
http://www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-favor/a-stranger-in-my-home/
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T Guzman
3 months ago
"furthermore, that our children, far from being perpetrators, are victims, too. Perhaps victims in a different sense than Ryan Gottfried, who we are relieved to hear has regained consciousness" by
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from Milk Candy Review.
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Subject: We Are All Appalled ~ by Kim Magowan
We are all appalled. That’s the crucial thing we want to convey here. We, like all members of our parent community, are appalled by what happened on Saturday night, and furthermore, that our childr…
https://milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/09/18/subject-we-are-all-appalled-by-kim-magowan/
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I have a new story in awesome
@bendinggenres.bsky.social
, alongside many writers I love. Can't wait to read this issue!
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Karen’s Features
https://bendinggenres.com/karens-features/
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Eileen Frankel Tomarchio
3 months ago
"Some slogans made no sense. A product could not be, logically, both 'new' and 'improved.'" A brand new delight from
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
in the super new issue of
@bendinggenres.bsky.social
🤩™️
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Karen’s Features
https://bendinggenres.com/karens-features/
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3 months ago
A gem by Michelle Ross in New World Writing.
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Michelle Ross ~ People in Elevators - New World Writing Quarterly
People in elevators are anxious. This is partly because people in elevators are going somewhere, and the elevators are not that somewhere. But it is also
https://newworldwriting.net/michelle-ross-people-in-elevators/
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I have a new story in wonderful New World Writing! Many thanks to Kim Chinquee for taking this one:
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Kim Magowan ~ A Series of Lukes - New World Writing Quarterly
What first gave us the idea is that Gwen was a lead in the school play, and her character would only love men named Ernest. So we decided that for the next
https://newworldwriting.net/kim-magowan-a-series-of-lukes/
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Joshua Jones Lofflin
3 months ago
“But what did I know? I was just saying a word in real life that I’d only heard in movies” New micro from
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!
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I have a new story in awesome
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
! Many thanks to Jeff Harvey for publishing this micro, and
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
fpr the prompt that generated this micro. (And Mike is in this issue too, yay!).
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Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...
https://gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-going-to-my-fathers-funeral/
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Dan Crawley
3 months ago
"...that reminded me of my dad helping me put on my wobbly ice skates, before he left my mother for terrible Claudia,...." I love this stellar piece of writing by
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
in
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
💙💙💙
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Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...
https://gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-going-to-my-fathers-funeral/
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Timothy Boudreau
3 months ago
"and so I decided fuck the funeral, I just couldn’t deal..."
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in
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
, packing an entire emotional world in six sentences ⚡
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Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...
https://gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-going-to-my-fathers-funeral/
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Patricia Q. Bidar
3 months ago
A bittersweet gem from
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
in
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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Instead of Going to My Father's Funeral - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash by Kim Magowan I went to a bar called (I kid you not) The Last Chance Saloon, and ordered a double. “A double what?” said the bartender, wearily, and so I said “A do...
https://gooseberry-pie.com/instead-of-going-to-my-fathers-funeral/
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Michael Czyzniejewski
3 months ago
A great
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
story in the new Ghost Parachute!
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My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar — Ghost Parachute
Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls. I’m behind the bar, so I assume I’m the bartender. We’re all in old-timey clothes. I’m wearing a l...
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/october-2025-issue/my-husband-my-ex-boyfriend-and-the-love-of-my-life-walk-into-a-bar/
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Thanks to Ghost Parachute and
@brettpribble.bsky.social
for publishing my story in their 9th Anniversary Issue! Congrats them! Thanks to my pal
@courtneyb77.bsky.social
for her art, and to her and
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
for the reads. I'll post other stories soon!
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Fish Commercial — Ghost Parachute
I was sitting on the bed in my hotel in Amsterdam when the fish commercial came on. Geena was in the bathroom. I had the TV on because I was nervous—she’d only been in there a minute, but it felt like...
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/october-2025-issue/fish-commercial/
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Timothy Boudreau
3 months ago
"Instead of watering blown-out peonies, crocheting baby socks, and shopping at Home Depot, doing the things we were meant to do together, I was drowning my grief by fucking a series of bad men."
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
in Ghost Parachute ⚡⚡
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Brett Pribble
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Read "My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar" written by
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
and illustrated by
@amymarques.bsky.social
. "Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls."
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My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar — Ghost Parachute
Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls. I’m behind the bar, so I assume I’m the bartender. We’re all in old-timey clothes. I’m wearing a l...
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Dan Crawley
3 months ago
"I’m relieved he ordered something easy, because though the dream has assigned me the role of bartender, it hasn’t accompanied that with any mixology knowledge." I love the way
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
writes! This stellar piece of writing in Ghost Parachute! 💙💙💙
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Thrilled to have a new story in the kick-ass 9th anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute, alongside so many flash fiction superstars. Thank you
@brettpribble.bsky.social
for including me in this incredible issue!
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My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar — Ghost Parachute
Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls. I’m behind the bar, so I assume I’m the bartender. We’re all in old-timey clothes. I’m wearing a l...
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/october-2025-issue/my-husband-my-ex-boyfriend-and-the-love-of-my-life-walk-into-a-bar/
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Split Lip Magazine
3 months ago
We love some flash on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 😍 Contributor
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
published this story on parental outrage and what it means to be truly appalled in the Milk Candy Review:
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Patricia Q. Bidar
3 months ago
This phenomenon feels doubly true when the scene is being conspicuously and visibly filmed, illegally filmed moreover, without the consent of people in the room. Ryan may have been aware that Sebastian was videotaping—his goofy smile, nearly a smirk, before he imbibes the beer bong is indicative.
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Keith Pilapil Lesmeister
4 months ago
Cutleaf is the "listing of the day" -- and we're currently open for nonfiction subs (cap of 200) and collaboratively written short fiction. The latter will be selected by our guest collab writers
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
and Michelle Ross.
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Split Lip Magazine
4 months ago
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:
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Pithead Chapel
4 months ago
Please join us in congratulating our Best of the Net 2026 Nominees! Good luck everyone!
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Barb Ristine
4 months ago
“‘Peer pressure’ implies that there is one particular peer who exerts the pressure (note the phrase is not ‘Peers pressure,’ the subject is singular).” Great story!
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Sage Tyrtle
4 months ago
Just loved this very clever flash fiction piece by Kim Magowan -- I want to put all these parents on a one-way spaceship to Jupiter:
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Kelli Short Borges
4 months ago
“When we look at that video that has been making its endless loops on Instagram and the other socials, round and round, we, like all of you, are appalled.” This stunner…
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
@milkcandyxx.bsky.social
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Anne Rasmussen
4 months ago
I'm a big fan of a well-deployed first-person plural. Kim nails the voice here, and the timing couldn't feel more, well, "timely."
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Dan Crawley
4 months ago
"In this context, we wonder if our fellow parents are familiar with the 'Observer Effect,' which postulates that there is no neutral way to 'see' a scene." I dig the way
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
put this story together! In Milk Candy Review! 💙💙💙
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I have a new story in awesome Milk Candy Review! Grateful tahnks to Cathy Ulrich for publishing this one, and also to my
@smokelong.bsky.social
Fitness mates for reading a first draft.
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Subject: We Are All Appalled ~ by Kim Magowan
We are all appalled. That’s the crucial thing we want to convey here. We, like all members of our parent community, are appalled by what happened on Saturday night, and furthermore, that our childr…
https://milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/09/18/subject-we-are-all-appalled-by-kim-magowan/
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Pat Foran
4 months ago
“What Monica’s husband doesn’t understand is that when he’s an asshole, it takes a while for Monica to bounce back. What he doesn’t understand is these slights embed themselves into her like splinters.”
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
with 2
@literaryruby.bsky.social
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ISSUE SIX
September 2, 2025 ISSUE SIX BACK TO TOP Sudha Balagopal FICTION Here and There ❦ I hear the double ring at the other end in India—different from the single ring here in the US. For the first minute…
https://rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-issue-six-food-stories/#kim-magowan
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Love this story by
@jjlofflin.bsky.social
in the new issue of
@smokelong.bsky.social
! This is brilliant:
www.smokelong.com/stories/on-o...
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On Our Way to the Circus - SmokeLong Quarterly
We saw a man getting mauled by a tiger. The man was our father. My brother Johnny and I didn’t recognize him at first, not because of the profusion of blood, but because the man, our father, had grown...
https://www.smokelong.com/stories/on-our-way-to-the-circus/
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My daughter Nora has a story in
@smokelong.bsky.social
! Read Nora's story, and also her interview (she calls me out for not writing as much as her). So proud of this girl!
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Animal Therapy - SmokeLong Quarterly
A new low for group therapy. We thought it couldn’t get worse than Christina forcing us to bake brownies. Eat brownies. She divided us up: flour team, sugar team, Ghirardelli chocolate team. Everythin...
https://www.smokelong.com/stories/animal-therapy/
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Timothy Boudreau
4 months ago
"...now, she wants Amy to feel shitty. To confront her rigidity and selfishness. To brim with impossible regrets."
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
+
@xraylitmag.bsky.social
= ⚡⚡
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Myna Chang
4 months ago
"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
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Thrilled to have a new story in
@xraylitmag.bsky.social
!
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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖
4 months ago
Oof. This micro about playing Two Truths & a Lie by
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
in
@tinymolecules.bsky.social
hits where it hurts. "Oscar faces Julia, clasps her hands & says, “I love you. I have always been faithful to you. I fooled around with your cousin Eve.”
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twenty-four — Tiny Molecules
https://www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twentyfour
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I have two stories in the new issue of amazing
@literaryruby.bsky.social
! And even better, so does my ridiculously talented daughter Nora! Thank you
@april-bradley.bsky.social
for publishing these. :)
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ISSUE SIX
Sudha Balagopal | Allison Field Bell | Patricia Quintana Bidar | Joefel Bolo | Timothy Boudreau | Kim Magowan | Nora Esme Wagner | Elinor Ann Walker
https://rubyliterarypress.com/259-2/issue-six/
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Keith Pilapil Lesmeister
5 months ago
Cutleaf Journal will be open in Sept for collaboratively written short fiction up to 4k words. Guest editors for this call are
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
& Michelle Ross, who wrote a collab story in Cutleaf which you can check out here. Also included: an interview with them abt their process.
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Deluxe Scrabble - Cutleaf Journal
When I was a kid, I had this friend named Sunshine. Sunshine’s house was filthy, and if I walked barefoot on her family’s tile floors, the soles of my feet would turn gray-black.
https://cutleafjournal.com/content/deluxe-scrabble
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My daughter Nora Esme Wagner has a new story at Monkeybicycle. Thanks
@jamestatehill.bsky.social
for publishing this! This story was first drafted in
@smokelong.bsky.social
Fitness:
monkeybicycle.net/the-ocean-th...
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The Ocean, the Ocean
https://monkeybicycle.net/the-ocean-the-ocean/
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