MB Valente
@mbvalente.bsky.social
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writer of weirdness, translator of comics and graphic novels
Mmmmm the cheerful fatalism and funweird of this! "Anti-Capitalism vs the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia
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www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/anti...
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Delighted to have a short piece in Flash Fiction Magazine, online today: a woman's cat loses patience with her depressive behavior and tells her all the reasons she's pathetic... but in a, you know, violent way.
flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...
29 days ago
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Electric Literature
about 2 months ago
Asking only the toughest questions here
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"Lyrics of love lost drift into the sac-like chambers of its long, muscular heart." A dark, watery ode to Dolly's magic 💙
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...
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Brett Pribble — Does It Have Pockets
The Anglerfish Hears Dolly Parton
https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/brett-pribble
about 2 months ago
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Love this recent piece in Flash Fiction Mag: "You are almost five years old, and you have never been smaller—a mouse, a fly, a flea."
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about 2 months ago
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Julia Bernhard
2 months ago
Choose your fighter.
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Moby Dick
3 months ago
do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?
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The print edition of Quentin Zuttion's All Princesses Die Before Dawn, a graphic novel about a day in the life of a family struggling to care for each other, is also up for an Eisner 💙 (and in incredible company)
4 months ago
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Thrilled to see these incredible authors getting international recognition and proud to be a part of it! Both these books are stunners btw and available from various ebook platforms 🐠💣
4 months ago
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Paperback Paradise
5 months ago
eat a book to gain its vocabulary
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My favorite illustrator-photographer-human being is now here in the 'Sky 💙
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7 months ago
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This gorgeous book is already out in French, coming soon in English 🩵
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8 months ago
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My dear friend Marianne Villière is now sharing her brilliant, fierce and compassionate work on this platform. Check it out, I dare you.
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9 months ago
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Michael E. Diaz
9 months ago
This story emanates atmosphere, like the pink neon lights that flit across the MCs hand in the tattoo parlour. Read it now
#writingcommunity
#litfic
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Julie Price Carpenter
9 months ago
pitheadchapel.com/four-words/
A beautiful sad story by MB Valente. And hopefully not as prescient as it feels.
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Four Words
MB Valente Her tattoo parlor is the only thing like it still open, at least on this side of the lake. A pink neon sign in the window shares its glow with the sidewalk; a sawed-out square in the d…
https://pitheadchapel.com/four-words/
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It's been a long, weird road for my speculative story "Four Words" about a society sliding into silence. I'm delighted that it has found a home, with excellent company, in
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Read it here -->
pitheadchapel.com/four-words/
9 months ago
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Pithead Chapel
9 months ago
Happy New Year from Pithead Chapel! Kick off the year by reading incredible writing selected by Danielle Lazarin for the Larry Brown Short Story Award contest issue. Read here:
pitheadchapel.com/2025/01/01/v...
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Volume 14, Issue 1
PHOTO PROVIDED BY TOM RANKIN THE 2024 LARRY BROWN SHORT STORY AWARD ISSUE AWARD WINNER: UNIDENTIFIABLE CELLS BY REEMA RAO SECOND PRIZE: AND ONLY I REMAIN BY MICHAEL PEARSON THIRD PRIZE: A TIME TO C…
https://pitheadchapel.com/2025/01/01/volume-14-issue-1/
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Pithead Chapel
10 months ago
We are excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the 2024 Larry Brown Short Story Award! Please join us in congratulating these incredible writers:
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You can read their stories in the forthcoming January issue!
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New flash story about alien mind games out from AntipodeanSF -->
www.antisf.com/the-stories/...
10 months ago
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Breaking into this hitherto unknown social medium with a story about a sad anarchist in the "punkest little shit" mag, JAKE
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jakethemag.com/the-violet-l...
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The Violet Ladder to Heaven
I read the whole Bible after she dumped me: Old and New Testament. Why the Bible? It’s probably not most people’s first choice of break-up read. But she’d been going on a lot about God and angels late...
https://jakethemag.com/the-violet-ladder-to-heaven/
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