ONE-SENTENCE STORY CONTEST Reply to this post with a single-sentence, single-post story. Our favorite story will receive one (1) free copy of ISSUE 9 of Outlook Springs! (There's like over a thousand sentences in this issue, so your return-on-investment is like WHOA.)

Get yourself an ISSUE 9 and get your spooky season started off right, like this haunted ditty from David Barber. www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

Get yourself an ISSUE 9 and get your spooky season started off right, like this haunted ditty from David Barber. www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

CHECK OUT THIS LINEUP Y'ALL www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

OS Issue 1 contributor @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social has a new book! Get it while literacy is still legal!

Periodic reminder to get your hands/eyes/prosthetics on the latest issue of Outlook Springs! The strangeness is stranging in the strangest way for you! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

Kill your darlings. Bring them back to life. Oh shit. Snarling zombie darlings. Darlings kill you. Circle complete. Enjoy the infinite void.

CHECK OUT THIS LINEUP Y'ALL www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

Doesn't this @outlooksprings.bsky.social cover look amazing? Big thanks to EIC @jeremyjohnparker.bsky.social for publishing my "Stupid Wolves" in this gorgeous coloring book slash litmag.

I think I found my new favourite book opening 😆 That Time I Got Drunk And Yeeted A Love Potion At A Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming

Analog media for the win! Touching paper is almost as good as touching grass (touch cellulose, motherfuckers!) interpret symbols on flattened wood pulp! Seriously though, there is a very good fiction, essays, and poems in here!

Analog media for the win! Touching paper is almost as good as touching grass (touch cellulose, motherfuckers!) interpret symbols on flattened wood pulp! Seriously though, there is a very good fiction, essays, and poems in here!

Periodic reminder to get your hands/eyes/prosthetics on the latest issue of Outlook Springs! The strangeness is stranging in the strangest way for you! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

I came across this lovely odd story by Samuel Zagula in @outlooksprings.bsky.social - really enjoyed it. Take a look! www.outlooksprings.com/stories/a-to...

In addition to the best wordwork around, this issue also has colorable illustrations of landmarks in Outlook Springs as well as local history and characters! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

David Barber's story "The Things We Lose" is haunting (literally?) as Mr. Peters sheds his possessions and self until only rumors remain. www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

Oh my oh my! Get your hands on one! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

Wayback Wednesday! All the way back from Issue 6! www.outlooksprings.com/stories/litt...

This issue is Sailor Grampa approved and has great writing like this essay by the inestimable Rolli! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

This issue is Sailor Grampa approved and has great writing like this essay by the inestimable Rolli! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Wayback Wednesday! All the way back from Issue 6! www.outlooksprings.com/stories/litt...

Oh my oh my! Get your hands on one! www.outlooksprings.com/issues/issue...

ICYMI (Ice Cream You Might Ingest), new issue is out! Don't disappoint this little peanut who really wants you to read the words in the issue.

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ICYMI (Ice Cream You Might Ingest), new issue is out! Don't disappoint this little peanut who really wants you to read the words in the issue.

Just ordered a copy!

BABE the new Outlook Springs just dropped!

Order this so you can read it (and color all over it.)

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Outlook Springs Issue 9: The Unauthorized Coloring Book has arrived! Fantastic fiction, heart-cartographic essays, poemy poems, and uncolored images await you inside! Support small presses and writers. Order yours today!

What! A subscription colouring book with fiction, essays and poetry?!

You should order this, read it, read my story ("Stupid Wolves"), then say hey man that was a fine story and a worthy use of my time.

If you like literary fiction with a tinge of the strange, this journal is for you. I love it, and not just because I’m married to the editor (I’m also his dungeon master, since we’re disclosing conflicts of interest). Buy, read, share, and submit your stuff!

Outlook Springs Issue 9: The Unauthorized Coloring Book has arrived! Fantastic fiction, heart-cartographic essays, poemy poems, and uncolored images await you inside! Support small presses and writers. Order yours today!

Outlook Springs Issue 1 contributor Chloe N. Clark has a new book coming out!

Our EIC has a short humor bit out at Little Old Lady Comedy!

Our EIC has a short humor bit out at Little Old Lady Comedy!

"That’s so funny, Kathleen Ryan said to Ryan Kathleen as their cups arrived where drinks are picked up." outlooksprings.com/stories/kath...

In the garden: a corroded Poseidon, so much smaller in bronze, lazily allowing his trident to drop from his hand. www.outlooksprings.com/poems/charlo...

"That’s so funny, Kathleen Ryan said to Ryan Kathleen as their cups arrived where drinks are picked up." outlooksprings.com/stories/kath...

"With the big race looming, my anxiety got so bad I went to see my old fourth grade teacher Ms. Jane, who’d quit teaching for the motivational therapy business." outlooksprings.com/stories/the-...

"With the big race looming, my anxiety got so bad I went to see my old fourth grade teacher Ms. Jane, who’d quit teaching for the motivational therapy business." outlooksprings.com/stories/the-...

I'm especially not supposed to see myself. like Dracula, you know? outlooksprings.com/poems/in-the...

My toaster is a liar. I entrust it with the items that I need for the continuation of my existence and it betrays me. It changes the time it takes to toast. outlooksprings.com/stories/a-to...

We have a couple slots left for creative nonfiction. How's it going for you, piloting this meatship through spacetime? Tell us about it! outlooksprings.submittable.com/submit/32359...

@outlooksprings.bsky.social is open for creative nonfiction through April 1st! Send us your life. Not the whole life, but a curated selection of moments arranged artfully to convince readers that life has a thematic arc and spiritual movement. outlooksprings.submittable.com/submit/32359...

Outlook Springs Issue 2 contributor @jrobertlennon.com has a new book out!

Call for Submissions! We have room in Issue 9 for more creative nonfiction! If you've got an essay burning a hole in your pocket, we have asbestos pockets! This extension is only open for two weeks (ending on April Fools is timing, not a cheap joke!) outlooksprings.submittable.com/submit/32359...

I would’ve been much happier as the pink fiberglass insulation rolled between the studs and pressed on two sides by sheetrock. Forgotten. Left to disintegrate at my own pace. Don’t analyze that.