Story of the Week: Suvajeet Duttagupta (@lucidillusions.in) explores the concept of digital addiction in his story “The Digital Familiar” wherein a teenage girl becomes psychologically dependent on an AI(?)-powered phone app. - Josh Boldt, Editor www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/suva...

Story of the Week: I loved the subtle foreshadowing in Deb Blenkhorn's piece, hints that the story may not be as innocent as it seems. The final, devastating reveal demands a rereading of the girls’ experiences with newly-opened eyes. Josh Boldt, Editor www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/deb-...

Merceline Ochieng’s story is inspired by the murder of Agnes Tirop and of many other women in her country of Kenya. Merceline is a Fulbright Scholar currently living and teaching in Kentucky. www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/merc...

One of the things I look forward to on Thursdays in my inbox... and now I'm very excited to read tomorrow's story! (p.s. BHP has been an absolute treasure find for me and I've loved everyone of the stories Josh has shared)

You’ll want to be subscribed so you get the Thursday email this week. It is a haunting and important story written by a Fulbright Scholar from Kenya. Subscribe at brownhoundpress.com #shortstories

Psst: If you still haven't signed up to get a free story every week from @brownhoundpress.bsky.social, why? But also, tomorrow's story is such a necessary one--you really should sign up, then read and share it. www.brownhoundpress.com

We pay authors. We never charge reading fees. We respond to every submission within two weeks. Our website gets thousands of readers each week. Submissions open now at brownhoundpress.com/submit.

A new story by Christopher McCurry is up at brownhoundpress.com. We publish a story every Thursday. Subscribe to get it emailed each week for free.

I really dug the mix of horror and humor here -- what hath these parents done?

As the editor of @brownhoundpress.bsky.social I wouldn’t dream of asking an author to submit a story and then deliberately deciding they aren’t worthy of a response. I can’t understand how other publications think this is acceptable behavior. We don’t do that.

Story Track: The Sigur Rós song “Samskeyti” employs the band’s signature sound: sequences of gradually-layering, syncing patterns, similar to the thoughts of the story’s narrator. The Icelandic title roughly translates to “seam” like the mental connection between the two telepathic characters.

what a gorgeous little story! (this is going to stay with me for a long time, and inspire me to write something new, I know it) take a 5 minute breather and read this, you'll appreciate something about yourself that's meant to be… just for you! #readSky #ReaderSky #ShortStory #WritingCommunity

We just saw The Bride! and it’s fucking great. Highly recommend seeing in theater. @joshaboldt.bsky.social and I agree it’s the best movie we’ve seen in awhile. Wildly inventive and steeped in movies at the same time.

Anybody need a yogurt cup cleaner? I know one who will work for, well, yogurt.

Story of the Week: In Soramimi Hanarejima's “Minding Yourself” we are dropped into telepathic chaos along with the narrator. As we read, the urgency overtakes us until we become the tandem skydiver of the story’s beautiful last line. -Josh Boldt, Editor www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/sora...

Learn about the origins of Brown Hound. And meet Ruby, the dog who inspired the logo! undermainarts.org/brown-hound-...

LOOOOOVE this story about @joshaboldt.bsky.social's @brownhoundpress.bsky.social and what he's doing with it -- go read it (bonus: there's also a v. cute photo of us): undermainarts.org/brown-hound-...

The title says it all for this week’s song pairing: Queen’s “I’m in Love With My Car.” Neighbor Carl has an unhealthy relationship with his automobile. If you spot him lurking in your driveway, you better cover that tailpipe! www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/judy... #shortstories #soundtracks

It’s hard to get published at Brown Hound Press, but one thing we guarantee all authors is you will hear back from us quickly. Two weeks or less. Every submission.

New story this week from @judypenzsheluk.bsky.social! #darkhumor #mystery #crime www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/judy...

Thinking about submitting a story? Here's why you should. Each week, our website is visited by thousands of readers. We're new, but our readership already includes writers, editors, publishers, and literary agents. brownhoundpress.com/submit #submissionopen #shortstories

I went in blind for this story, and it had everything and more I expected as it progressed. @judypenzsheluk.bsky.social whattay great story! loved it so much! p.s. @joshaboldt.bsky.social perfect track combo (I was thinking of Greased Lightening at the fixer upper bit)

Story of the Week: It’s just a coincidence we scheduled @judypenzsheluk.bsky.social's darkly humorous tale about feuding with a rude neighbor and exacting a delicious revenge this week. Not at all related to my own daydreams. I promise! -Josh Boldt, Editor www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/judy...

We are still looking for good short stories! Mystery, literary, offbeat, southern gothic, dark humor. 3K words or less. We pay $25 for each accepted story. brownhoundpress.com #OpenSubmissions #SubmissionsOpen #CallForSubmissions #LitMag #LiteraryFiction #mystery #ShortStories #amwriting #writers

Please send your thoughts and prayers to @joshaboldt.bsky.social who is getting my chapters hot off the typing fingers while I'm crunching toward deadline and being so great as to read them -- finally think I've figured this one out

Story of the Week is “Nepo Baby” by Damieka Thomas. Check it out at brownhoundpress.com.

Story of the Week - Damieka Thomas only needed 1200 words to paint a vivid character portrait in “Nepo Baby.” Thomas has given a masterful example of how to develop a character implicitly by dropping the character into a scene and letting her react to it. www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/dami...

I just spent a harrowing several hours making a birthday cake for @joshaboldt.bsky.social’s birthday tomorrow and I think the reason I prefer writing books to baking is you get to live in the uncertainty of whether it will turn out good long enough you forget the verdict will come. Anyway! 🤞🎂

Have you read the second story at @brownhoundpress.bsky.social yet? It’s a good one. Dark and southern gothic. About collateral damage from cultish ideology. Not like we have any reason to worry about that right now… www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/libb...

If you had a pulse in the 1990s then you remember the Jar of Flies album from Alice in Chains. “Rotten Apple” leads off the record. Not only does the tone match this week’s @libbycudmore.bsky.social story, but so do lyrics like “arrogance is potent” and “sustenance is stolen.” -Josh Boldt, Editor

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Our second story is a dark southern gothic tale with a surprise ending from @libbycudmore.bsky.social #saturdayreading

For the late crowd. Our story of the week is up and getting lots of praise today. www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/libb...

This was a beautiful fun read. :)

We pair each story with a Story Track that complements the theme. I paired Bob Johnson’s story with John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery” because of the similarities between the two narrators. Both women long for something they can’t quite name. “If dreams were lightning and thunder were desire…”

for anyone not watching football, here's a review of Bob Johnson's latest short story, "The Train to Union Station," published in the new lit journal @brownhoundpress.bsky.social. The review along with a link to Bob's story: read-short-stories.com

Who of us hasn’t, like the narrator in “The Train to Union Station”, experienced the feeling that life may not be turning out the way we’d planned it? Read the story at www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/bob-....

One of the best parts about this new venture is picking the music pairing.

My new literary magazine @brownhoundpress.bsky.social launched yesterday with our first short story. If you like reading good stories, you should check it out and follow. www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/bob-...

Our first story is up today from PEN/Bingham nominee Bob Johnson. www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/bob-...

It’s a time of terrible things, but if you go sign up at @brownhoundpress.bsky.social right now, you’ll get the very first weekly short story tomorrow morning! Do itttttt! www.brownhoundpress.com

10 is today's magic number. That's how many stories we have lined up. Ten weeks of reading pleasure. And it all starts with a PEN/Bingham longlisted author on February 5th. #litmag #shortstories #author #fiction #writing

fyi for all short story writers! #writer #amwritering

One week until our first story goes up. Next Thursday. Hint: the author is currently longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Bingham Prize!

Updates happening at brownhoundpress.com! We have real pages now. First story coming next week.

“Read those authors who write the way you hope to write, those who think the way you would like to think. But also read those who do not think as you think or write as you want to write, and so be stimulated in directions you might not take for many years.” - Bradbury in Zen in the Art of Writing

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We’ve been working on the website that will be Brown Hound’s new home at launch. It’s so good. We plan to drop the first story on February 5th!