You won't have to be lonely much longer! Our fall issue comes out later this month, but we'll spend the week revisiting those lovely folks from issue 15.

Check out the new issue of @vastchasmmag.bsky.social 🖤

4th of July parade Norfolk, NE

Somehow, today I found myself agreeing with both Musk and Trump. I didn’t think it was possible.

We are REELING! Grateful to be a part of recognizing Thad’s fantastic work and excited to jump in with the other selected works.

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A photograph at the Norfolk Arts Center has been removed because a donor didn’t like that it portrayed LGBTQ+ content (kissing). I stand against discrimination and censorship and for freedom of artistic expression. Please join me in signing this petition. chng.it/QfRqRjzPZv

This issue is 🔥, among other things. Many thanks to our contributors 🖤 Check it out!

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Love this. Join the resistance.

One of my favorite people and favorite writers: @mike3stars.bsky.social I missed when this came out in Dec., but I think we need it now more than ever. It's a quick read and worth your time. "a flowering, multiplying thing" in Gastropoda. Digest this: gastropodalitmag.wixsite.com/main/post/a-...

Print your own red card, available in multiple languages. www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

I do hope you’ll check out the latest issue of @vastchasmmag.bsky.social 🖤

Join me in celebrating these contributors! Links in thread

We love our contributors and we love celebrating them 🖤

Happy 10th of December to all who observe. Revisiting some old favorites today. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

Revisiting Issue 12 🖤

ICYMI 🖤

Because tedious tasks are my therapy right now: are you a short fiction writer (flash or short stories only, please) publishing in litmags or aspiring to? I'd like to make a starter pack of short story and flash people! Comment here and please share for visibility #writingcommunity

You felt it too, right? Embrace the connection and link up with our newest issue! vastliterarypress.org/24q2/

Check out the latest issue of Vast Chasm Magazine 🖤

Get ready for @ezhang77.bsky.social to twist your heart into yearning in Issue 10, as in her "It's a Good Birthday" in BULL mrbullbull.com/newbull/writ...

We have something small but mighty by Marina DelVecchio coming your way soon. But for now, if you haven’t read it yet, get your hands on DEAR JANE dearjaneeyre.com

It's Leap Day! There's no better way to spend it than reading my story, Leap Year Mother, which was published by @vastchasmmag.bsky.social back on a non-leap day in a non-leap year in 2022. I'm sure you missed it then, but I think you'll like it now: vastliterarypress.org/2022/01/15/2...

Big thanks to Bright Flash Literary Review for providing a home for my flash “Quick Stop” brightflash1000.com/2024/02/05/q...

Watch out, AWP! Kansas City is getting a triple helping of Vast Chasm. We’d love to see some contributors, so let us know if you’ll be around!

Give it up for this year's Best Small Fictions nominations! Bold explorers of the Vast Chasm!

ICYMI I’ve got issues, you’ve got ‘em too. Explore your new crush, Issue 9 youtu.be/9Ke4480MicU?...

Feel the crush! Issue 9, in all its compact glory, is here and it’s a diamond.

We’re all doing hard things, and I think we should give ourselves credit for that.

It’s crunch time! Brace yourself for this crush, this packed thrill, this solid punch. Issue 9 is almost here.  Get hyped to meet the contributors this week!

Good morning to the students in the group study room next to my office, blasting 90s divas.

If a yoga instructor offers to cover you with a blanket, I suggest you allow it.

Figured I’d save us the next three months and gave my therapist a copy of a short essay I’ve been working on.

Overheard in the student union restroom: “Boys are so stupid.” and honestly, I had nothing to add.

Oh good. Half a bottle of liquid smoke spilled in a kitchen drawer and now all the sugars and such are coated in smoke. Just poured vinegar in and sprinkled liquid smoke covered baking soda over it. We’ll see.

So we’re still saying 1/2 cup butter when we mean a stick, huh. I need a sidebar translation for people like me who just throw stuff together

Cat was a good goldfish. #RIPFancyFish

I do love to read words written by @jimkourlas.bsky.social I hope you enjoy them too.

Disappointed not to have any elections to vote in today. Quite a lot I’d like to see change.

“I am asked to write about the birth of my demons” —Ebony Stewart My poetry students dove so deep into “Fear” today, which is to say Happy Halloween, and also: May we all find our way out of it.

It’s pretty simple: Read what you want and don’t be a dick.

If you haven’t seen Issue 8 yet, here’s an invitation: crawl into the chasm and see what’s lurking there. vastliterarypress.org/23q4/

Turns out he’s not a Dapper Dan man.

With so many edible options available these days, you suppose college students who live in the dorms just throw these away now?

This tiny gift, this assurance that life, though brief, is beautiful

I found this note on a table in the campus coffee shop, and I feel better about our chances for the future we’re dreaming of now.

I attended Kelly Madigan’s reading this afternoon and was reminded of the healing power of spending time in this way.