Poem "Halloween Sky" Poetry by John Grey “The night is a machine – / not of gears but of stars clicking into place. / From its end a woman rises – / broom between her knees, hair stiff as wire. / Guided by phantoms, / she floats between the stars.” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-05-gho...

Flash fiction "Drinking Whiskey in the Backyard" by Joe Kilgore “I’m sitting here with a tumbler of Maker’s Mark in my left hand and a Colt Single Action Army Peacemaker in my right. The glass of Kentucky straight bourbon feels particularly comfortable.” www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-issu...

Poem "Mermaid Tales" by Anthony Ikeh “We're neither kids // & the pier — an anonymous object in our minds now an inconspicuous project // & we're certainly smarter about mermaids.” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-4/ike...

Poem "Primadonna of the Weapons Factory: On Conversion" by William Summay “tell me a story / & I will wind the jack-in-the-box / until you are on your knees…begging / for more…” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-4/sum...

Flash Fiction "The Dead Hold a Party" by Norbert Kovacs (from Theme 05: "Ghosts") “The most we could do now was wish to experience those things as our earthly selves again, however happy we were at the mansion.” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-05-gho...

CNF "I Trip the Light Ekphrastic: An Autoimmune Journey" by Barbara Krasner “I write. I enter ekphrastic writing challenges every two weeks. I look forward to the new images offered. I try my hand at pantoum, sestina, sonnet. I have nothing to lose.” www.theargylelitmag.com/cnf-issue-6/...

CNF "God Created a Thing" by Fatima Okhuosami “This man loves me. So, I do what a prey must never do. I giggle. And in that giggle, I seal my fate.” www.theargylelitmag.com/cnf-issue-6/...

Issue #7 submissions for poetry, fiction, and Theme 06: "Bucolia" are now CLOSED!!! We are still accepting subs for CNF and digital art until 2/28/26 @ 11:59 PM CST. www.theargylelitmag.com/submissions-1

Fiction "1962: It's Always the Girl's Fault" Fiction by DC Diamondopolous (from Theme #1: "Blood". Issue #2) “In the classified section of the Daily Breeze, Donna had recognized a coded message with a phone number and called.” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-01-blo...

Poem "Tasty Pear" Poetry by Allan Lake (from Theme 03: "Vice", Issue #4) “She takes comfort / in ‘the meaning’ / whereas I delight / in meaninglessness.” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-03-vic...

Fiction "Courtship at the Pizza Giant" Fiction by Paul Lewellan (from Theme 04: "Gastronomy", Issue #5) “‘By the time you turned sixteen, you’d been arrested for breaking and entering, vandalism, simple assault, graffiti, truancy, drug possession...’” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas...

Poem "DOGTOWN VILLANELLE" Poetry by Suellen Wedmore (from Theme 05: "Ghosts", Issue #6) “Sometimes even a town falls in upon itself, / but in spring, when the dead wander at night, / you may find its abandoned heart, toughened / by tears…” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-05-gho...

he can’t love / like he’s supposed to

Woke up today to an acceptance from @theargylelitmag.bsky.social. They’ll be taking three poems. Cool stuff

Fiction "Plaza del Sol" by Julian Gallo (from Issue #4, Theme 03: "Vice") “He can’t imagine how such a young woman would find a man his age so attractive? She hardly knows him. What is she thinking?” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-03-vic...

CNF "An Unofficial Map of Papio Bay Aquatic Center" by Zachary Benak (from Issue #4) “While pretending to organize souvenir inventory and season pass paperwork, I watch the male lifeguards rotate chairs every fifteen minutes, memorizing their torsos." www.theargylelitmag.com/nonfiction-2...

Fiction "If On a Winter’s Night a Visitor" by Genevieve Methot (from Issue #5) “...Mary Cleft’s laughter tumbled softly down to earth, as she turned her face to the deep violet sky and waved.” www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-3/if...

"the Winter Speeches" by John Franklin Dandridge “We ate this city, / dined on high rises / gobbled every last / venue— / slurped down slums.” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-4/dan...

Digital Art by Matthew McCain www.theargylelitmag.com/digital-art-...

CNF "The Children of Mount Trashmore" by Kevin Bain “Mount Trashmore had, over the decades, been a number of things to a number of people…To us …an imaginary playground... Now, as adults, it’s possible that Mount Trashmore was a killer.” www.theargylelitmag.com/cnf-issue-6/...

Digital Art by Stephen Michael Whitter and Paul Warren (from Issue #3) www.theargylelitmag.com/digital-art-...

Poem "Suburbia" by Robert Beveridge (from Issue #4) “Yodeled ululations / of drunkhappy teenagers / ring off the pavement” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-2/bev...

CNF "Vegas" by Kirby Michael Wright (from Issue #5) “We were lucky the cowboys hadn’t pulled six-shooters and plugged us. We were double lucky their camper hadn’t caught up.” www.theargylelitmag.com/nonfiction-3...

Fiction "Cover Letters" by Daniele De Serto (translation by Wendell Ricketts) “I had thousands of novels floating around in my head, and I meticulously refrained from writing a single one of them.” www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-issu...

Fiction "Some Rural Nirvana" by Mike Fox (from Issue #4) “Andy’s face is close to mine, huge, like a moon in a child’s drawing. As my eyes begin to focus, I read his concern and realise that the primal sobbing I can hear is coming from me.” www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-2/so...

Poem "consider reducing the journey at large— regarding each step and calling out the self" by R L · powell (from Issue #5) “If the brain can budge a pen / without an ounce of lead—the smallest / shave is made too sharpen its means…” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-3/con...

CNF "The Weight of Snow" by Erica Noble “I look out at the snowflakes that softly fall in the backyard, cloaking the bare tree with its weight.” www.theargylelitmag.com/cnf-issue-6/...

CNF "Act Accordingly" by James Maskell (from Issue #4) “I have no idea what Timmy ended up doing with his life, or whether Purple Marker Girl ever switched to a ballpoint pen…” www.theargylelitmag.com/nonfiction-2...

Fiction "Cartoon People" by Mileva Anastasiadou (from Issue #5) “My shrink does her best but she’s tired. There’s some kind of subtle wisdom in cartoons, but it’s not what I think it is, she claims. She says I don’t miss him, I miss the game.” www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-3/ca...

Poem "Spider Voss" by David Williams “Guy was in the parkin’ lot / down on all fours / blood runnin out of an ear an' / had a throbbin’ pulse in his neck / near where he was / kicked in the head…” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-4/wil...

Poem "Last Nursery Rhyme" by Jay S. Carson (from Issue #3) “Your mother left you / and is not coming back. / Stop waiting at the door / for the long-lost cat.” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-1/fou...

CNF "Baggage Claim: Other Girls Take It Just Fine" by Nikki Howard “I retreat from the window, covering the sun beams with a cat-tattered curtain. I take off the gray tank top with some hesitation, shove it back into my bag. I think, Will I ever outgrow it?” www.theargylelitmag.com/nonfiction-2...

Fiction "Gone-Gone?" by Clay Waters (from Issue #5) “The family companion had wriggled himself underneath the covers of the guest bed and it seemed clear he would spend his last hour there. “ www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-3/go...

Fiction "Animus" by Anna Kornfeld “The house was always haunted; it just took me a while to find all the ghosts.” www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-issu...

Fiction "[To} Savor [the] Soul" by Jenna Resheske (from Issue #4) “Was this dying? …No, when you died there was a light…Where was the light? …This was not dying. This was deletion: the unmaking.” www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-2/to...

Poem "Wilderness Weary" by Daniel Edward Moore (from Issue #5) “Earth is the biggest Queen / I know, all stubble & lipstick, / ripped nylons / and sorrow.” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-3/moo...

CNF "Gyula" by Zary Fekete “Gyula said his father used to read to him from the Bible at night. He said he had nostalgic memories about the book’s smell: dust and candle wax.” www.theargylelitmag.com/cnf-issue-6/...

"Three Poems" by Saima Afreen (from Issue 5, Theme 04: "Gastronomy") “There’s no midnight hour in a pink / drink. It opens its atoms in a slow / dance from the mouth of the carafe / to the edge of your lips…” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas...

CNF "The Scent of Oranges" by Laura Claridge “I think of her every time I cut into an orange, divide its segments, and inhale its scent, the bitter with the sweet.” www.theargylelitmag.com/nonfiction-1...

Poem "One Week Later" by John Pring “threshing tide sweeps / shakes across the field cherry / leaves yielding / like civilians / swooning / to gunfire” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-2/pri...

Fiction "Luna Is a Good Girl" by Keith Kopp “‘Luna has had multiple seizures this morning and though that in itself does not necessarily mean anything, she has also had a brain bleed.’ ‘Shit,’ Kim whispers.” www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-issu...

Fiction "All the Wars" by Jaime Gill “I had been a teacher, wife, mother, and activist. Now, I was an activist only, and my life became war.” www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-1/al...

CNF "Vanity and Vexation of Spirit (or This Family Kills Fascists)" by Israel Allen “...we laughed and congratulated ourselves and went back to hiking and shooting and insulting one another…I don’t believe we ever spoke of it again.” www.theargylelitmag.com/nonfiction-2...

Poem "Dead Cat Bounce" by Damon Hubbs (from Theme 03: "Vice", Issue #4) “…he looks like he’s wearing a Life-preserver / as if the great flood is imminent and he’s prepared / because when the unicorn crosses the stream, god damn it, he’ll be ready.” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-03-vic...

"Ode on Returning to a California Beach After Twelve Years" by Ephraim Scott Sommers “…you should stop here in your silver running shoes / for however long it takes / and stare in awe and hallelujah…” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-4/ode...

Wild! Acceptances in the last couple of days from both @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social and @theargylelitmag.bsky.social 🥰My great thanks to @davidestringel.bsky.social and his terrific staff!! #WritingCommunity

General subs for POETRY are now CLOSED for Issue #7. We have lots of great picks so far and many more to go through. Thanks to all you poets out there who have submitted for Issue #7! Subs for Fiction, CNF, Digital Art, and Theme 06: "Bucolia" still open! Send us you BEST!!!

once they leave / they are dead to us

CNF "Transitioning" by D Anderson “‘I'm finally becoming who I was meant to be.’” www.theargylelitmag.com/nonfiction-2...

Poem "LENNY WITH VIOLETS" by Kenneth Pobo “Earth / seeing up / through branches / using eyes / of violets.” www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-3/pob...