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Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash. Ready to send us your jam?
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Hey, share this with all your friends. Submissions to Major 7th Magazine are open until January 1st. Have a flash piece or poem inspired by a song? Send it to us.
www.major7mag.com/submit
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Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash. Ready to send us your jam?
www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag
#callforsubmissions
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hi lovers, volume 25 is live xo
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Literary Mixtape Volume 25
On self-discipline.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/literary-mixtape-volume-25
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"we are green– thumbs in our ears // to the tune of the losing football game" now playing: “True Solace” • Linden Hollow (by James Croal Jackson)
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“True Solace” • Linden Hollow (by James Croal Jackson)
thumbs in our ears to the tune of the losing football game
https://www.major7mag.com/post/true-solace-linden-hollow-by-james-croal-jackson
about 2 months ago
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"It wasn’t about the bird, I told my husband. Now I have to tell the boys." now playing: "Moon Song" • Phoebe Bridgers (by
@lashleykirkland.bsky.social
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"Moon Song" • Phoebe Bridgers (by Ashley Kirkland)
No surprises here: The blue jay dies.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/moon-song-phoebe-bridgers-by-ashley-kirkland
about 2 months ago
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"Mom and dad will say they raised us, but we did our growing up at 201 Washington Street." now playing: "Days of the Phoenix" • AFI (by
@natalye.bsky.social
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"Days of the Phoenix" • AFI (by Natalye Childress)
Mom and dad will say they raised us, but we did our growing up at 201 washington street.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/days-of-the-phoenix-afi-by-natalye-childress
2 months ago
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"Everyone has a Dave. Some version of him is trying to lodge himself in your bones as we speak." now playing: "The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by
@mallorysmart.bsky.social
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"The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by Mallory Smart)
Just proof that we were there.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/the-joker-steve-miller-band-by-mallory-smart
2 months ago
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"What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat." now playing: "San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by
@amy-e-casey.bsky.social
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"San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by Amy E. Casey)
What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/san-dimas-high-school-football-rules-the-ataris-by-amy-e-casey
2 months ago
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Amy E. Casey | Writer
3 months ago
So STOKED to have a new flash fiction piece out in the excellent @major7mag ! 🎧❤️🔥💿
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Aarik Danielsen
3 months ago
Because "Head Over Heels" just came on a playlist, re-posting this little guy from last year
@major7mag.bsky.social
: "Their sentiment spills a sacred mystery, something only the gods and God-adjacent confess: Words make weather. Ask me how I know, how she knows."
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"Head Over Heels" • Tears for Fears (by Aarik Danielson)
This is my blueprint for being a whole person.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/head-over-heels-tears-for-fears-by-aarik-danielson
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hi lovers, happy summer volume 24 is now playing
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Literary Mixtape Volume 24
On ebbs and flows.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/literary-mixtape-volume-24
3 months ago
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Abigail Myers
5 months ago
I hadn't thought of this song in years -- it does indeed make for a great setting. Nice job,
@thaddevassie.bsky.social
in
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pierre minar aka Donmexlar
5 months ago
I’m faking it by contributing Jackson Browne’s The Pretender and a little story to
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Thad DeVassie
5 months ago
Love that
@major7mag.bsky.social
brings written perspectives to the soundtrack of our lives. Thank you
@keersteemack.bsky.social
ck for publishing Raining in Baltimore, and entertaining the nostalgic, sad sack I can become through music.
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"Raining in Baltimore" • Counting Crows (by Thad DeVassie)
I reach for her hand and she withholds it.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/raining-in-baltimore-counting-crows-by-thad-devassie
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now playing: volume 23 happy sunday, pals xo
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Literary Mixtape Volume 23
On AI.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/literary-mixtape-volume-23
5 months ago
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stephanie 💽
6 months ago
wrote a prose poem about a song that i’ve ugly sobbed to many times, so grateful it has a home here <3
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isobel bradshaw
6 months ago
thrilled to be part of this issue! this piece and the song/artist that inspired it mean a lot to me and i'm so glad it's finally out there 🖤
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now playing: volume 22 happy sunday, folks! xo
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Literary Mixtape Volume 22
On schedules.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/literary-mixtape-volume-22
6 months ago
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Andrew Monge
9 months ago
Thrilled to have a story placed at
@major7mag.bsky.social
this month! I used Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers” as inspiration for this tale of loss. Thanks so much to
@keersteemack.bsky.social
for giving the story a home.
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"Wildflowers" • Tom Petty (by Andrew Monge)
Being ragdolled after my spectacular wipeout, lucky to be washed ashore with lungs that still breathed air after being pumped free of water.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/wildflowers-tom-petty-by-andrew-monge
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Bryan Harvey
9 months ago
Wrote this for
@major7mag.bsky.social
about The War on Drugs, running, community, being a son, being a dad, stuff like that. Big thanks to
@keersteemack.bsky.social
for seeing a better version to be had from the initial sub.
www.major7mag.com/post/eyes-to-the-wind-the-war-on-drugs-by-bryan-harvey
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"Eyes to the Wind" • The War on Drugs (by Bryan Harvey)
Today’s sweat cannot retrieve lost blood.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/eyes-to-the-wind-the-war-on-drugs-by-bryan-harvey
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Frances Boyle
9 months ago
So happy to have my poem "Hejira", inspired by one of my fave Joni Mitchell songs, in this uber-cool magazine, edited by the equally cool
@keersteemack.bsky.social
!
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Frank Vatel
9 months ago
"Quickly moving from green kook to gnarly surfer, becoming proficient at riding the epic waves of lorazepam and fluoxetine and whiskey, hanging ten on the edge of oblivion..." The prose in this Andrew Monge story is terrific throughout. Published by
@major7mag.bsky.social
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Now playing: Volume 21
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Literary Mixtape Volume 21
On crossing borders.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/literary-mixtape-volume-21
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Nick Maassen
10 months ago
Tbh my skull is probably easier to pop than that rusty hood
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Adam Shaw
9 months ago
I don’t write a *ton* of lovey sorta stuff, but I’m still hella proud of this essay I had pubbed in
@major7mag.bsky.social
a year or so ago about how marriage can be scary and unpredictable but also lovely and awe-inspiring and wonderful. For your love day reading:
www.major7mag.com/post/there-t...
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"There, There" • The Wonder Years (by Adam Shaw)
A single cell kicking off, snowballing at random, starting this all over—so Ashley said fuck it, let’s stomp it out.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/there-there-the-wonder-years-by-adam-shaw
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Sean G. Meggeson
9 months ago
Bowie poem with
@major7mag.bsky.social
today. Based on the haunting Stipe & Elson version.
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"You popped the hood of my skull like your 1994 Geo Prizm." Now playing: "Forever"- charli xcx (by Nicholas Maassen)
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"Forever" • Charli XCX (by Nicholas Maassen)
You popped the hood of my skull like your 1994 Geo Prizm.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/forever-charlie-xcx-by-nicholas-maassen
10 months ago
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"The Devil first arrived dressed as the landscaper." Now playing: "Rugged Country" - Japanese Breakfast (by Joseph Linscott)
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"Rugged Country" • Japanese Breakfast (by Joseph Linscott)
The Devil first arrived dressed as the landscaper.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/rugged-country-japanese-breakfast-by-joseph-linscott
10 months ago
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"I thought about the severed thumb plunging inside your third eye." Now playing: "Wounded" by Third Eye Blind (by Guy Cramer)
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"Wounded" • Third Eye Blind (by Guy Cramer)
I thought about the severed thumb plunging inside your third eye.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/wounded-third-eye-blind-by-guy-cramer
10 months ago
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Abigail Myers
10 months ago
"I am large enough for three seminaries and The Sopranos. I am the stowaway sand that heckles your suitcase for ten years and the basilica you did not expect between bodegas."
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"When will the end come, they ask? Will she please make it stop?" Now playing: "Bolero" - Ravel (by Brendan Todt)
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"Bolero" • Ravel (by Brendan Todt)
When will the end come, they ask? Will she please make it stop?
https://www.major7mag.com/post/bolero-ravel-by-brendan-todt
10 months ago
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Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻
11 months ago
Came from the Bruce reference, stayed for the excellent descriptions of Jersey as a way of existing that state lines can’t take away
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"I’m New Jersey, man. I didn’t say I’m in New Jersey. I am negotiating the terms of exile." Now playing: "Jersey Girl" - Bruce Springsteen (by Angela Townsend)
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"Jersey Girl" • Bruce Springsteen (by Angela Townsend)
"I wear sweatpants proclaiming my seat “Sweet.” A new tattoo spontaneously appears every time I am underestimated."
https://www.major7mag.com/post/jersey-girl-bruce-springsteen-by-angela-townsend
11 months ago
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"The radio going. CDs scratched up: country, rock n roll, stuff with the same punch that lives in him." Now playing: "Gunpowder & Lead" - Miranda Lambert (by Charlie M. Case)
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"Gunpowder & Lead" • Miranda Lambert (by Charlie M. Case)
A raised voice can mean different things, but you get too used to it, right? The warnings? That little tick upward in volume?
https://www.major7mag.com/post/gunpowder-lead-miranda-lambert-by-charlie-m-case
11 months ago
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we love ending up in your year end publication threads, thank you for supporting this lil mag xo
11 months ago
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Joe Linscott
11 months ago
I spent a large part of 2024 listening to all of Michelle Zauner’s musical projects, so it’s only fitting I end the year having this piece published in the excellent
@major7mag.bsky.social
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"Rugged Country" • Japanese Breakfast (by Joseph Linscott)
The Devil first arrived dressed as the landscaper.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/rugged-country-japanese-breakfast-by-joseph-linscott
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Adam Shaw
11 months ago
Always love seeing new Major 7th drop!
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Aarik Danielsen
11 months ago
The ever-great
@keersteemack.bsky.social
let me go deep on my favorite opening line in pop music history for
@major7mag.bsky.social
(which is such a helluva mag):
www.major7mag.com/post/head-ov...
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"Head Over Heels" • Tears for Fears (by Aarik Danielson)
This is my blueprint for being a whole person.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/head-over-heels-tears-for-fears-by-aarik-danielson
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Justin Carter
11 months ago
Little short nonfiction piece about a show I threw in high school was in the Local Scenes issue of
@major7mag.bsky.social
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"The Failed Success" • The Massacre at Sundown (by Justin Carter)
This one time Josh got kicked in the throat.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/the-failed-success-the-massacre-at-sundown-by-justin-carter
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Volume 20 is up! Spend a bit of time with it over the last few days of your holiday love youse xo
www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
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Literary Mixtape Volume 20
On resolutions.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/literary-mixtape-volume-20
11 months ago
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Alan
11 months ago
I published a whopping two new pieces this year. The first was this essay in
@major7mag.bsky.social
that I originally wrote as a model for an assignment called “Musical Introduction”:
www.major7mag.com/post/sittin-...
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"Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" • Otis Redding (by Alan Good)
I’ve been singing it at least once a day for the past eleven and a half years.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/sittin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay-otis-redding-by-alan-good
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Mitchell Nobis
12 months ago
I'll spare you what reminded me just now that I wrote this, and maybe someday I'll be able to write directly about our farm, but for whatever reason, not yet. I can only write about it slant, but at least we have Kool Moe Dee &
@major7mag.bsky.social
as muses.
www.major7mag.com/post/i-go-to...
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"I Go to Work" • Kool Moe Dee (by Mitchell Nobis)
"The barns groan, hundreds of cows chewing and shitting and sleeping and bellowing and humping. Not a lot of people know the cows hump."
https://www.major7mag.com/post/i-go-to-work-kool-moe-dee-by-mitchell-nobis
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"Confession booth darkness. Just our dumbass voices." Now playing: "Untitled" by Morgan Freeman (Caleb Bethea)
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"Untitled" • Morgan Freeman (by Caleb Bethea)
Confession booth darkness. Just our dumbass voices.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/buzzer-beater-morgan-freeman-by-caleb-bethea
12 months ago
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Bethany Cutkomp
12 months ago
Fever dream? Nah. True story.
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"This one time Josh got kicked in the throat." Now playing: "The Failed Success" - The Massacre at Sundown (by
@juscarts.com
)
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"The Failed Success" • The Massacre at Sundown (by Justin Carter)
This one time Josh got kicked in the throat.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/the-failed-success-the-massacre-at-sundown-by-justin-carter
12 months ago
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"But I wasn't imagining it, right?" Now playing: "Hindsight is 20/20" - Talking Backwards (by
@bdcutkomp.bsky.social
)
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"Hindsight Is 20/20" • Talking Backwards (by Bethany Cutkomp)
But where did they spawn from?
https://www.major7mag.com/post/hindsight-is-20-20-talking-backwards-by-bethany-cutkomp
12 months ago
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Caleb Bethea (they/them)
about 1 year ago
Aiming for all my CNF to feel like it’s being told to you at a bar. Thanks
@major7mag.bsky.social
and Julián for the acceptance, and making me sound rad.
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Justin Carter
about 1 year ago
Got a little piece about a show I threw back in high school up today at
@major7mag.bsky.social
www.major7mag.com/post/the-fai...
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"The Failed Success" • The Massacre at Sundown (by Justin Carter)
This one time Josh got kicked in the throat.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/the-failed-success-the-massacre-at-sundown-by-justin-carter
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Julián Martinez
about 1 year ago
Check out the new issue of
@major7mag.bsky.social
I guest edited! Thank you to
@keersteemack.bsky.social
for the opportunity and to all who submitted their dope work Shoutout
@richjonesmusic.bsky.social
— I wrote a bit about him and his amazing new album, Sour Dub
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https://www.major7mag.com/post/special-edition-local-scenes
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Bethany Cutkomp
about 1 year ago
This true story is one of my favorites to tell. Here is “‘Hindsight Is 20/20’ • Talking Backwards,” a piece about my best friend’s band encountering peculiar strangers in the woods, published in
@major7mag.bsky.social
for their Local Scenes literary mixtape.
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"Hindsight Is 20/20" • Talking Backwards (by Bethany Cutkomp)
But where did they spawn from?
https://www.major7mag.com/post/hindsight-is-20-20-talking-backwards-by-bethany-cutkomp
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