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Kevin M. Kearney
6 months ago
IT'S TRUE
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Space Witches, Esq.
6 months ago
I missed my
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post yesterday to the
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on
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but I think your make up post, given the fascism, is this piece i published in
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
in 2020.
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There Must Be Blood (Elizabeth R. McClellan)
For Honest Lewis “There must be blood”—the unbreakable lawof revolutions and fairy tales.This I knew. We grow up knowing. The emperor was cleaning outthe granaries we had filled for winter,the burs…
https://rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/there-must-be-blood/
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M.M. Kaufman
6 months ago
I did it!
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tattoo in the bag.
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Robbie Maakestad
5 months ago
Also,
@kevinmkearney.bsky.social
read from his new book FREELANCE from
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
, which you can pre-order here:
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Robbie Maakestad
6 months ago
#AWP25
haul. Books by:
@gracelp.bsky.social
@samuelashworth.bsky.social
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
@dtrobbins.bsky.social
@wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social
(among others)
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babe, wake up!
@kevinmkearney.bsky.social
's novel, FREELANCE, is available for pre-order!!!
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Freelance: A Novel | Asterism Books
Simon McNamara might only be 19, but he knows he’s destined for greatness. Sure, he barely finished high school. And, okay, he’s hopelessly in love with Angelica, an OnlyFans girl who constantly remin...
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Space Witches, Esq.
7 months ago
a poem for days like these that
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
published years ago
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There Must Be Blood (Elizabeth R. McClellan)
For Honest Lewis “There must be blood”—the unbreakable lawof revolutions and fairy tales.This I knew. We grow up knowing. The emperor was cleaning outthe granaries we had filled for winter,the burs…
https://rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/there-must-be-blood/
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Kevin M. Kearney
7 months ago
My second book arrives May 31 from
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
. It's a speculative noir about a rideshare driver in Philly. It's called FREELANCE.
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Kevin Kearney is officially joining the RL catalog with his second novel, FREELANCE, and lemme tell y’all… this shit is beyond fucking good!! Dropping 5/31/25!
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D.T. Robbins
7 months ago
coming out of obscurity today to share my first straightforward attempt at horror and to say thank you to
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
and
@femmeintheory.bsky.social
for publishing this over at
@poolpartymag.com
. hope y'all enjoy it.
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Femme In Theory
7 months ago
If you love horror like me, this one is a thing of nightmares 🫨
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Kevin Maloney
7 months ago
Nobody brings the big, beautiful, unruly, grotesque prose like D.T. Robbins. So stoked to publish his newest, "Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore," up today over at
@poolpartymag.com
🔥
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Pool Party
7 months ago
"Mommy’s neck lengthens like a Jack jumping out of the box. She bounces in Will’s face, screaming and laughing and screaming and laughing." D.T. Robbins dropping some next level body horror in "Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore." 🌊🏋️♀️👶
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Like a Tsunami Barreling Toward the Shore by D.T. Robbins
The ultimatum that Will’s fiancé, Leslie, had given him wasn’t sincere, and he knew this. Really, it was more of a nudge, an encouragement to push past whatever the fuck it was which rendered him inca...
https://poolpartymag.com/like-a-tsunami-barreling-toward-the-shore/
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like a rash you can't get rid of, back by no demand whatsoever: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LEAVE ME ALONE by D.T. Robbins.
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S R Schulz
8 months ago
Finished
@emilylauracosta.bsky.social
book GIRL on GIRL from
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
This press is building serious cred in my book. The stories are linked in a through vein of nostalgia, sadness, cynicism and a young persons idea of love.
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Kevin Maloney
8 months ago
Pool Party Mag is coming in hot with this total banger from everybody’s favorite story writer
@emilylauracosta.bsky.social
!!! Give it a read, then order GIRL ON GIRL from
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥
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Femme In Theory
8 months ago
I am beyond proud to share our first publication!!! I fell in love with
@emilylauracosta.bsky.social
while reading GIRL ON GIRL (grab a copy via
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
!!) and am so thrilled to be able to break the Pool Party seal with such an epic piece 🔥
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Space Witches, Esq.
8 months ago
i wrote a poem once upon a president and
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
gave it a home
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Chris
8 months ago
I feel absolutely honored to share some artistic space with Chris Terry in this latest piece on
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
. Check out some excellent fiction (and a cool photo by yours truly) here:
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French Girl Chic (Chris L. Terry)
The perfect shoes were finally on sale. He ordered them while standing over his bathroom sink. In the time it took the shoes to arrive, a windowpane popped from a decaying frame, one cabinet knob d…
https://rejection-letters.com/2025/02/03/french-girl-chic-chris-l-terry/
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Chris L. Terry
8 months ago
New fiction about the three S's (shopping, spiraling, shirking) up
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
Read FRENCH GIRL CHIC:
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French Girl Chic (Chris L. Terry)
The perfect shoes were finally on sale. He ordered them while standing over his bathroom sink. In the time it took the shoes to arrive, a windowpane popped from a decaying frame, one cabinet knob d…
https://rejection-letters.com/2025/02/03/french-girl-chic-chris-l-terry/
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S R Schulz
8 months ago
Really surprised and impressed with the structure of this story in Girl on Girl.Feels like it will be taught one day, the dichotomy and rising action of each character couple in opposition to each other and then finally at the end, synchronous
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A Collection of Losses (Laura Gill)
On Miami Beach, people look for lost items—they walk with metal detectors searching for rings, bracelets, and buckles. They move the device from one side to the next, down and back along the shore,…
https://rejection-letters.com/2022/10/07/a-collection-of-losses-laura-gill/
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Łukasz Drobnik
8 months ago
“Friendship is a lifelong effort between two people who love each other deeply. It’s a lifelong effort between two people who hate each other a little, too.” Finally got to read this beautiful, haunting story by
@anniejowrites.bsky.social
in
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
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Ewen Glass
8 months ago
I have a new poem up if you’d like to read it. It’s pretty short!!!! Thanks to all
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
🍑 💎
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I bit into a nectarine (Ewan Glass)
and the stone was a diamond. My front teeth shattered but now I was rich I could get new ones, better ones! This plunged me into a thought crisis. How could they be better? Sharper? More dura…
https://rejection-letters.com/2025/01/29/i-bit-into-a-nectarine-ewan-glass/
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Rob Yates, Author
9 months ago
Holiday break has set in well enough to start making the move over to bluesky after abandoning X. Here's a piece I had in
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
last year.
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Worked (Rob Yates)
I realize that Frostis fine and that oneshouldn’t be a Kant,but I prefer Carmelitato getting blood on the tracks. A cigarette and a love poem is cliche, but half an Ambien and a bottle o…
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Elena Zhang
9 months ago
“Under the Desk is a Good Place to Hide” –
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
(Feb 2024)
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“The early worm, after many years, finally gets the bird” –
@honeyliterary.bsky.social
(Feb 2024)
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Under the Desk Is a Good Place to Hide (Elena Zhang)
We start by lighting candles, two white, two red, all of them tall and spindly like fingers reaching toward a promise. Then comes the prayer. Closing our eyes, we recite the words we know by heart,…
https://rejection-letters.com/2024/02/21/under-the-desk-is-a-good-place-to-hide-elena-zhang/
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Space Witches, Esq.
9 months ago
setting up my WordPress site is exhausting. in case you missed it; this poem I wrote during the run-up to the Trump administration is relevant all over again. Read free at
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
today.
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There Must Be Blood (Elizabeth R. McClellan)
For Honest Lewis “There must be blood”—the unbreakable lawof revolutions and fairy tales.This I knew. We grow up knowing. The emperor was cleaning outthe granaries we had filled for winter,the burs…
https://rejection-letters.com/2020/10/08/there-must-be-blood/
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Anna Vangala Jones
9 months ago
I have a new story up at
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
today! it’s about friendship breakups and the living ghosts that haunt us. so grateful to amazing editor
@kevinmkearney.bsky.social
& any of you who read it ♡
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Now it’s nothing but flowers (Anna Vangala Jones)
I know I’m her ghost. The one that lingers in the corners of her memory, waiting to strike—when some song by Bruce Springsteen plays, or when she drives by our old favorite diner, or when it rains …
https://rejection-letters.com/2025/01/02/now-its-nothing-but-flowers-anna-vangala-jones/
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Hally Rae Winters
9 months ago
Excited to dive in! GIRL ON GIRL stories by
@emilylauracosta.bsky.social
💚💚💚
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Dan Crawley
9 months ago
"I want to take up smoking again, just one more time, and pretend we’re seventeen. Sitting in her car together, singing and straining to hit the high notes between drags and coughing fits,...." Wow, brilliant storytelling by
@anniejowrites.bsky.social
in
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
💙💙💙
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Jan Stinchcomb
9 months ago
"She would fight anyone else for saying a bad word about me but she loved saying some herself." Ghosts, a dead car & complicated friendship.
@anniejowrites.bsky.social
in
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
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Now it’s nothing but flowers (Anna Vangala Jones)
I know I’m her ghost. The one that lingers in the corners of her memory, waiting to strike—when some song by Bruce Springsteen plays, or when she drives by our old favorite diner, or when it rains …
https://rejection-letters.com/2025/01/02/now-its-nothing-but-flowers-anna-vangala-jones/
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Jenny Wong
9 months ago
“I know because she haunts me, too. We aren’t dead. Just dead to each other.” Loved this fabulous introspective piece by
@anniejowrites.bsky.social
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Sudha Balagopal
9 months ago
We didn’t date each other. We were never in love. And yet our break up haunts me more than any of my past boyfriends. .... Love this story about an old, valued friendship that was...
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Homeless
9 months ago
Read the first chapter of my new novel “My Heart Belongs in an Empty Big Mac Container Buried Beneath the Ocean Floor” over at
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
! Book now available from
@clashbooks.bsky.social
. Xoxo
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My Heart Belongs in an Empty Big Mac Container Buried Beneath the Ocean Floor: An Excerpt (Homeless)
A small, bright-orange boat floats in the ocean, bobbing up and down like a Cheez-It in the deep end of God’s swimming pool. A young man, Daniel—thirty-one-years-old, buzzed head, eyes like boarded…
https://rejection-letters.com/2024/08/21/my-heart-belongs-in-an-empty-big-mac-container-buried-beneath-the-ocean-floor-an-excerpt-homeless/
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Avitus B. Carle
9 months ago
“…when she eats a cheesesteak from the lousy place at the mall that we loved, or when just about anything happens. I know because she haunts me, too. We aren’t dead. Just dead to each other.”
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Now it’s nothing but flowers (Anna Vangala Jones)
I know I’m her ghost. The one that lingers in the corners of her memory, waiting to strike—when some song by Bruce Springsteen plays, or when she drives by our old favorite diner, or when it rains …
https://rejection-letters.com/2025/01/02/now-its-nothing-but-flowers-anna-vangala-jones/
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S R Schulz
9 months ago
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
and
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Julián Martinez
10 months ago
This book is really special. Can’t recommend these stories enough. Get it as soon as you can!!!
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Dan Crawley
10 months ago
🎉🎉🎉
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Caleb Bethea (they/them)
10 months ago
This book’s packed with voice-driven feats of prose like just like this.
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is killing shit! Cop it:
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HAPPY MFING PUB DAY TO OUR VERY OWN SHORT STORY QUEEN,
@emilylauracosta.bsky.social
PRE-ORDERS OF GIRL ON GIRL WILL BE SHIPPING OUT SHORTLY!!!
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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO PREORDER GIRL ON GIRL BY
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!!
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Kevin Maloney
10 months ago
If you're like me, you're probably saying, "Wait, I'm already supposed to be motherfucking Xmas shopping?" Luckily
@clashbooks.bsky.social
&
@rejectionlit.bsky.social
have taken the guesswork out of Xmas. The "Story Collection 3x Pre-Order" is the perfect gift for mom, Nana & your weird nephew Timmy
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Aaron Burch
10 months ago
If you share my taste in short stories, you are in for such a treat in the coming year.
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D.T. Robbins
10 months ago
y’all have no idea just how much I’ve been looking forward to this! I’ve got my outfit picked out. I’m gonna look so pretty. My friends are gonna be there. My heart is so full. I’m ready to live, laugh, love!!
@kevinmkearney.bsky.social
@lexikentmonning.bsky.social
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emily laura costa
11 months ago
excited to share the book trailer for GIRL ON GIRL made by my genius sister
@mollcap.bsky.social
feat. pretty much everything that inspired the collection (including me in 7th grade) ✨ out 12/5/24 from rejection letters✨
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GIRL ON GIRL - Book Trailer - Emily Costa
YouTube video by Emily Costa
https://youtu.be/H72ZjnUCCyg?si=5zACCTitHKALnYwo
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Graham Irvin
11 months ago
My book I HAVE A GUN is available on asterism
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Asterism Books | Online Bookstore and Wholesale for Independent Publishers
Online bookstore and wholesale portal for small presses.
https://asterismbooks.com/product/i-have-a-gun
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