"Four Poems" by Steven Bruce “Because it was cheaper than therapy. / Because sleep never came alone. / Because she left him for a better man. / Because the bottle felt lighter than guilt.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/bruce...

Short story "A Ritual Unknown" by Sophia Craig “Shoeless and emptyhanded, the woman ran with nothing but the feeling that she couldn’t kill what never lived to begin with.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/a-ri...

I’m happy to have new poems with the avant-garde zine @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social! Thank you to the editors.

Lovely CNF by @zaryfekete.bsky.social in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social #EpistemicLitFamily

💥ANNOUNCING💥Rules of Verse--Poetry Inspired by the Velvet Underground Subs Open @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social on October 1st w/ Guest Editor @seangmeggeson.bsky.social

Fiction "American Mysticism" by Marty Shambles “There's a comfort with the return of the towers. It means Americans can go on not caring about the world again, as the great, lumbering hell beast of American empire stomps the arena of the Global South...” www.bloodhoneylit.com/marty-shambl...

"Five Poems" by Mark Young “It doesn’t suddenly / fall into place… / Rather, small pieces, frag- / ments of a template, shaken / loose by the coughing fits / that wake you every / hour… / …Sort of like / the leftovers from / a bad acid trip…” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/young...

VERY EXCITED about 'The Luddites' by Writer-in-Residence Marty Shambles coming at you in late-October! "There comes a time for every employee these days when robots come for your jobs. For you that time is now." Until then, he's got a couple more new pieces coming your way!

"Five Poems" by Rose Knapp “All sense of self dissolves / Time moves very slowly / Bad trips can make / Paranoia intense…” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/five-...

CNF "Fisherman" by @zaryfekete.bsky.social “We stood by the river. The fishing line in his hand like a quiet reward. Behind us, Váci Street shimmered with glass storefronts and clean white signage...The river didn’t care. It flowed between both lives...” www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/fisherman

With many thanks to the outstanding @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social team and journal. They saw Tino.

“The Velvet Underground won’t replace anything … except maybe suicide.” --Cher. Rules of Verse: subs open Oct 1 @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Poetry editor: @hubbsd.bsky.social Guest Poetry editor: @seangmeggeson.bsky.social EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social

Poem "Of Wars and Divorce" by Dario Cvencek “a clusterfuck of decency / a shitshow of humanity / a bankruptcy of morality…” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/of-wa...

Micro-fiction "T Is for Tino" by Eirene Gentle “When Tino called in the sharks they were ready. They’d practiced so many times. The circle, the dip. Synchronized finning to the music of Bolero.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/t-is...

Poem "An Exhibition in Crucifixes" by Tempest Miller @ectoplasmphanta.bsky.social! "The Greek god of wine and ecstasy is on the cross in the drawing room...” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/an-ex...

"Walking the Birds" from WIR Jordan Trethewey @jordan-trethewey.bsky.social and Laura Kinney's @lkenney.bsky.social Judy 4 Justice!!! “Judy / naturally attract an odd following. / As if Snow White’s aura warped / upon entering Earth’s atmosphere.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/jordan-treth...

Poem "Redbird" by Allister Nelson from her serialized chapbook 'Jethro's Daughter"! “...to fall from a sycamore and swing from an oak / is but the path of angels lit on fire…” www.bloodhoneylit.com/jethros-daug...

Poem "The Chromium Parlors" by Michael Borth “When all borders become one. Decisions of the / Barbiturate nocturnals. I remove the goldpowder / from the plate of cranium silver. To better evaluate / the heaving of the wind.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/the-c...

"Three Poems" by Ron Tobey “Spring begins a poor beggar / clothes torn, thread-bare / bruised, scabbed skin / hungry, unhealthy, thin / though ambitious.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/tobey...

Micro-fiction "Jiggle" by Cheryl Snell “The Peeping Tom says, it’s lucky the mother can’t see all those folds and puckery! This is not the body she assigned the daughter.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/jiggle

Also had a ghost flash piece published yesterday 👻✋🪸

"Interview with EIC and Author Colin Gee" by David Estringel “I am constantly surprised by the quality and ferocity of the writing cropping up in my favorite lit mags, and for me that is the start and end of the game.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/beneath-and-...

'Of Nurture's Wildness: A Novella' (Book III, Ch. 2) by Writer-in-Residence Tom Stuckey @HardRainPicture. “Ted still fell into traps everywhere. They were mainly lain in the phone now, but also on the walls, in the books, and on the radio...” www.bloodhoneylit.com/tom-stuckey-...

"Three Visual Poems" by László Aranyi “sea answers / the questions of fish / not the mainland” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/arany...

Flash fiction "Woman in the Coral" by Rebecca Karas “Someday I would join her, intertwined on the ocean floor." www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/woma...

Micro-fiction "Fountain" by Elan Barnehama “When we met, she was sitting barefoot on the rim of the fountain, hungry for everything.“ www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/foun...

Do you know Leopold von Sacher-Masoch? If so, maybe you have a poem to submit for Blood + Honey's Velvet Underground Special issue: Rules of Verse? Subs open Oct 1 on Submittable @hubbsd.bsky.social @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @davidestringel.bsky.social #poetry #thevelvetunderground

Subs open Oct. 1 @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Special Velvet Underground Issue! Excited to be Guest Editor alongside Blood + Honey Poetry Editor @hubbsd.bsky.social Tell us how the never-ending drone of an electric viola warms your heart🎵🎵🎵🎻

ANNOUNCING: Rules of Verse: Poetry Inspired by the Velvet Underground Subs Open @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social on: 10/1 (Submittable) W/ Guest Editor @seangmeggeson.bsky.social

Many thanks and much♥️to ALL our contributors--past, present, and future--for making us better and better a single word (or picuture) at a time.

It is only with the support of journals like @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social and the hard work of editors like @davidestringel.bsky.social that we can reach new audiences and find the reciprocal energies to keep putting work out. Thank you

Flash fiction "The Knife" by Writer-in-Residence Aodán McCardle @redochre1.bsky.social “The knife has been with me since my earliest days, it is memory...it anchors memory there in a cool interior dark with an outside hovering.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/aodan-mccard...

Poem "Lemon" by Tempest Miller “I liked lemons once / in orchards on high ground / above the sea.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/lemon

"Two Poems" by Marisela Zamora “…he’d be standing dark in a kitchen scrounging / the fridge although daylight and a bug grazing / his scabs strobing lights lighting some cold cuts…” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/zamor...

Our Poetry Editor Damon Hubbs and @seangmeggeson.bsky.social are up to no good...thank Heaven. 😈

Short story "A Significant Deficit in Coherence" by Dimitry Partsi “Somewhere, deep in his alternatively gifted mind, Mr. Badgerson was certain of only one thing: he had not yet been misunderstood loudly enough.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/a-si...

Poem "Confectionate Quintain" by William P. Adams “Jacobo Daye was the Chef of all Trades / His muffins were buttery tender / On the flip side of this / His eel pies were bliss / Until he put both in the blender” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/confe...

Micro-fiction "How to Stop Your Mother from Wandering" by Beth Sherman “104) In the picture, she has a crooked smile. Her eyes shift to the left, away from you, toward something you can’t see.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/how-...

"Waiting..." from Jordan Trethewey @jordan-trethewey.bsky.social and Laura Kenney's @lkenney.bsky.social Judy 4 Justice drops tonight!!! “Judy studies the door / contemplates whether it keeps / people safe, or bars entry.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/jordan-treth...

Poem "Small Hours" from Allister Nelson's serialized chapbook 'Jethro's Daughter'! "We played charades under the moonlight, / letting the small hours pass." www.bloodhoneylit.com/jethros-daug...

Digital Art by Ernest Williamson III www.bloodhoneylit.com/digital-art/...

Micro-fiction "Trigger Happy" by Susan Flint “On the way home from the restaurant Joselyn stops at the Asian market. She walks in between rows of rotating Peking ducks and she thinks about killing herself.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/trig...

Poem "Letter" by John Jeffire “PC…political correctness…personal computer…probable cause…” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/letter

"...the cruelty of the inexhaustible" by Michael Templeton from his column, Wander Lines! "The digital sex bot can stand in for live nude girls, but we always know it is not a live nude girl. But with AI...it will increasingly appear to be a live nude girl." www.bloodhoneylit.com/wander-lines...

Poem "The World" by Writer-in-Residence Chiara Maxia! “The world in a cup of coffee. / The world. Steaming. The World. Fuming. / Flaring. On my lips.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/chiara-maxia...

Chapter I from Book III of Writer-in-Residence Tom Stuckey's 'Of Nurture's Wildness: A Novella" drops today!!! “Ted knew he would never see her again, but he would have a story to tell himself, from time to time, and that was something.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/tom-stuckey-...

Poem "The Firemen of Philidelphia Are Giddy, Expressionless Dancers" by Stephen Brown “…firemen curl to occupy this precious space...Their bulky costumes bunch at their backs, the fabric forming the familiar hunchbacked folds of vulture wings.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/the-f...

"Four Poems" by Jason Ryberg “the deep- / sea moan of whale song and the / harmonica hum / of the beehive, the fusion / reactor and the lone fire- / fly’s flickering candle-wick.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/ryber...

Short story "Stick Him" by Tom Andes “Channeling all his hatred and self-loathing, all his rage at the number of times the Heaney boys and their minions had whaled on him, Patrick had. He’d stabbed the poor dude because Declan Heaney had told him to.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/stic...