Read "The Sky is a Neighborhood" written by @allisonwrites.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "It’s dark here, no sunrise or sunset, just murky, muddled atmosphere. We’re told to stay quiet, keep our eyes down, do as we should and nothing will happen." tinyurl.com/5bc94bfs

Read "When She Left" written by @delgeo14.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "... everybody shook their heads and tut-tutted and agreed she had always been trouble or a narcissist or too much of a goody-two-shoes, how they’d seen the signs..." tinyurl.com/y8fmsvpk

Read "A Recipe for Borscht" written by @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Dale beats his fists against the bathroom stall. They had long ago turned to hardened stone beets, always red, always sweating sweet juice." tinyurl.com/cycf927z

Read "Drive-Thru Cone" written by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "At the McDonald’s window for a soft-serve an hour after you died, I thought of telling the woman who took my three ones that I was motherless now..." tinyurl.com/5yjrrth2

Read "The Shambles" written by Lorette C. Luzajic and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "No one went there if they knew better. A few smart alecks who didn’t believe in evil had trekked the winding hill ready to plant their flags." tinyurl.com/ynny4p2w

Read "Live from St. Joseph’s, Room 232" written by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "On the ninth day after the accident, John called his wife from his daughter Cece’s hospital room to tell her to come quick, there are llamas on the roof..." tinyurl.com/mryzzxkf

Read "Archive>The Martians>About" written by @claudiaputnam.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "The first landings of course had us glued to our screens. Occasional crises would bring us back. After a while we lost interest, forgot, even." tinyurl.com/yjy894td

Read "Jewel Wasp" written by @americanmarvel4.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "For a moment I imagine her snapping my arm off at the elbow and sucking the juices from my bones to satiate her hunger." tinyurl.com/494yfpcc

Read "Brewski" written by @willmusgrove.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "Brewski was sort of the building’s mascot. I wasn’t sure if he lived in the upstairs unit or just enjoyed hanging out in parking lots..." tinyurl.com/bdzcvxcw

Read "Foreshadowing" written by @gary79.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "In 1963, a week after I begin third grade, three men with rifles rob the savings and loan four blocks from my parents’ house in a small town just outside of Pittsburgh." tinyurl.com/2y42w6ez

Read "Let’s Not Lose Our Heads" written by @jekwriter.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "For the longest time, we walked around, bodies without heads, shuffling our feet to avoid tripping on curbs, twigs, and each other." tinyurl.com/3jbp428j

Read "Paradise" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "The out-of-work actress finds a mastodon in her bathtub." tinyurl.com/4s59efec

Read "Jack’s Mother Minds the Grandchildren" written by Mikki Aronoff and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Gather in, you squits, you whelps of my wayward boy. But not so close, I don’t want to smell you." tinyurl.com/3wck3ukp

Read "Sex In Public: A Triptych" written by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and illustrated by @courtneyb77.bsky.social. "She is ten and obsessed with porn. Been around it her whole life. Her uncle, who still lives with her grandmother, has stacks of it under his bed." tinyurl.com/5af9m2rw

Read "Crushed or, Lust" written by @jennystalter.bsky.social and illustrated by @kaystedmanfriedman.bsky.social. "I call in to work with a case of limerence, it’s debilitating, you can look it up, and the boss tells me that isn’t a good excuse..." tinyurl.com/38knf7uj

The November 2025 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! tinyurl.com/bdvtr9bx

Exited to share that my story "Just Another Halloween" was published by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social today! tinyurl.com/2jc87hre

I have a new micro in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social today. Thank you to editor @jhhwriter.bsky.social for publishing it. gooseberry-pie.com/forgiving-je...

Read "River Shoes" written by Ben Reed and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "We come to the bend in the river that I promised would look like an alien landscape and you say it looks more like the bones of a massive dinosaur, being slowly revealed by the eroding earth." tinyurl.com/ppf2kt3p

Read "The Flight" written by @swethaamit.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "What was once soft human flesh was now covered in brown and white feathers." tinyurl.com/3y9bny3f

Read "The Funeral" written by @delgeo14.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "But when they met at the funeral, Anna was not pleased as Debby rushed to her side. Didn’t the woman know anyone else there?" tinyurl.com/2fayp7xd

Read "True Crime Addict" written by @jamybond.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "It becomes a running joke in our house. Lock the doors so the bone crusher doesn’t get us! Soon, we aren’t just locking doors, we’re bolting them shut." tinyurl.com/2cp4ah4h

Read "Be More Raccoon" written by @keithjpowell.com and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Whittled thin by another season of flu and fire, Jacob looked to the internet and embraced its advice: Be more raccoon." tinyurl.com/w4me8cay

Read "Pool Party" written by @bstephens.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "I was twenty-two, alone at my parents’ Orlando winter home, roughing it without any of our staff. My father had made it known I was not to get too comfortable..." tinyurl.com/45n5f2xm

Read "Victorian Girl Gang" written by @saracrowley.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "That ghost girl is back, boxing me awake with her old leather gloves. I smell them just before the punch comes." tinyurl.com/mr2aactj

Read "Everywhere for Answers" written by @juliastrayer.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "He wears a wolf mask, and that’s okay. I’m fairly forgiving." tinyurl.com/57w6rsde

Read "We Don’t Let Elephants Grow" written by @happilander.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "We only grow flowers and trees and joy and all things beautiful and shiny. We open the windows, and air the room, and we chase all wrong and bad and evil out..." tinyurl.com/pnuc4c8k

Read "Gigging Bullfrogs in Hell" written by @kiptain.bsky.social and illustrated by @courtneyburton.bsky.social. "I can’t say I’m all that surprised I ended up in Hell after I died, but things are really starting to look up." tinyurl.com/4zh6mb2p

Read "The Wait" written by @amymarques.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "The man returned to town. He shouldered his bag and stepped out of the station and past the shuttered hotel, towards the big house on the side street." tinyurl.com/y9hrkwj6

Read "The Year I Forgot What I Like" written by @megpokrass.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "First, I forgot how to play. When there is so much shouting I have to think like an equal at home." tinyurl.com/af9sa4d4

Read "Late summer. August." written by Court Harler and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "When Sam entered the restaurant, Julie’s keen eyes flashed, then just as swiftly dulled." tinyurl.com/85rewxbf

Read "Man Staring, 2025 Oil on Canvas" written by @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "You are an eight-foot painting in a gallery in Mallorca. Your stomach is swollen with creatures inside." tinyurl.com/9xrxhz5j

Read "The Untranslatable German Word for a Gate Slamming Shut" written by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "My only friend, Little Hansel, smells like closet." tinyurl.com/2wrmbd8m

Read "In the Back Row of the Nostalgia Group, We Talked about Death" written by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "So we agreed on lying in our beds, the sun just razoring through the blinds, soft shadows that often welcomed us..." tinyurl.com/4v5sum4h

Read "The HOA rules don’t apply" written by @amygcb.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "To the zebra who wanders loose in our suburban neighborhood. It ambles up and down the streets like he belongs among their English countryside names." tinyurl.com/mw27m3hn

Read "Clone of the Lost Astronaut" written by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "There’s a hurricane teasing the leftover bits of Massachusetts. A snow storm masking Chicago. Mission control wants to keep things concrete." tinyurl.com/26e9nnen

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." tinyurl.com/3ep2nhhb

Read "One Day, Pele Decides She Wants to Visit Us" written by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "her lava coursing down our streets into our houses, like liquid gelatin, as we eat our cereal and go to school, swimming through her." tinyurl.com/y8jmem3w

Read "Fish Commercial" written by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social and illustrated by @courtneyburton.bsky.social. "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..." tinyurl.com/2zamtwkw

Read "The Way the Cookie Crumbles" written by @sfreligh.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "Sometimes Rita pretends to be sick so she can stay home from school." tinyurl.com/4cekduun

Read "Making Love Is A New Subject" written by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "I haven’t made love in ages, which isn’t true. But I often say, well, many things. I often say that the truth isn’t in the truth but in what feels like the truth." tinyurl.com/36t2vbvu

Read "Tunnel" written by @ninaschuyler.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Halfway through the Glory Tunnel, traffic stopped, as if someone cast a terrible spell." tinyurl.com/33eh3cus

Read "Animal Visitation: Bald Eagle" written by Nancy Stohlman and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "If you are lucky, you will draw this card only once." tinyurl.com/4zf8465r

Read "shelter in place" written by @saralippmann.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Maybe it’s the rising sirens, maybe it’s the sudden soak, a complete wet heat through the cotton sack I’ve taken to wearing like a body flung overboard because this is..." tinyurl.com/y5f23693

Read "Whatever" written by @sherrieflick.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Don’s dad liked to say whatever when the kids were around. He thought it was cool—like the word “cool” used to be cool." tinyurl.com/22ezah8h

Read "Zombie Quartet" written by @pamelapainter.bsky.social and illustrated by @kaystedmanfriedman.bsky.social. "I describe arms hanging straight down, how our hands weave and flutter. I say tomorrow we learn how to drool. Shooting starts in a week." tinyurl.com/mpvxa3bv

Read "The Saddest Fuckers of All" written by @kathyfish.bsky.social and illustrated by @kaystedmanfriedman.bsky.social. "I am needing a prescription for the Pill. I can no longer use Student Health due to living in a new town and not being a student anymore." tinyurl.com/ycehv5jv

Read "Encounters" written by @aimee-bender.bsky.social and illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. "When I was in my twenties and went through a breakup and didn’t hate the person, I harbored what I’d call the “nursing home” fantasy." tinyurl.com/5384pnpt

We are excited to present the October 2025 issue, which is our Nine Year Anniversary issue. We've put out an issue every month on the first since we started, making this our 108th issue. Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/mtcaexjy

My story "The Black Window" was published by Roi Fainéant Press: @rfpress.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/2wyr5ckp