"I ask my sister if she’s been drinking & she says of course not. I hear her click her tongue, so I know she’s lying. I open the fridge. Something’s rotting in the vegetable drawer, but I don’t want to dig around right now." - Macy Craig mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Forgetting is a blessing, your dad slurs at you over the mac and cheese. You sit quietly until he leaves the table. You wish you could hear your mom’s voice. You hope she’s trying to remember yours, too." - John Wegner mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Anyway, we’re doling out a hundred thousand skull-shattering kicks per second. We're running up walls & punching support beams in half & smashing office equipment to bits. A crowd gathers because of all the righteous moves. They’re pretty impressed." Nick Gregorio mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I’m gonna be late to pick up our fur baby, Ammo Man tells me. My wife’ll kill me. His black cap says, DUE TO THE COST OF AMMO WE NO LONGER FIRE A WARNING SHOT. You’d better run, I say. And then: Sorry." @brooksegerton mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Some good stuff here

In case you missed it. It's made people who know me in real life cry, but I promise ends on a wonderful inspiring note. It's the only thing I've written that my family cares about. It's a great read to start a weekend. Find how I am "the luckiest person in the world."

Next in @frank212.bsky.social series with @mrbullbull.bsky.social - Frank always gets in depth with his subjects 💗💗

The shortlist continued. (3/3) Links to short fiction from: Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social Daniel Abiva Hunt & Albert Rodriguez in @mrbullbull.bsky.social All the links and more here:

"I wanted to create a character who was broken, deeply broken, a character who wanted to disappear from the world and be very quiet so as not to hurt others but who nevertheless brought pain where ever he went." - Jonathan Ames (interviewed by @frank212.bsky.social) mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

You will want to read this for sure. RIP Dad. All of this is true. The events took place last January. And thank you to Bull for publishing this.

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

"Our corporate crusader would not allow his lactose intolerance to ruin his lunch. This was the only time he had to himself, the only part of his life that he didn’t necessarily enjoy so much as not suffer through. This was his only freedom." - m.e. gamlem mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"Socrates, Nietzsche, Freud... Noah knew about the phallic stage while the rest of us were still in the phallic stage." - Daniel Abiva Hunt mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"This was 1999 and travel agencies were getting killed off by the internet and I was selling my vintage 1972 Pontiac LeMans because my wife, Corrine, fucked an FBI agent in it." - John Jodzio mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"The doctor told me to be more juvenile with my sexuality. To rub myself up against furniture. Doorknobs. To mimic the actors on the pornos he had me watch, pushing my ass up and spreading myself wide. He was an amputee." - Joshua Vigil mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

I wrote a raw piece about my experience commuting to work… it’s foul, but it’s 100% true. Thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for giving my gritty CNF a home!

"The rain doesn’t want you to dawdle at the end of the workday. The rain is your bully. It will piss in your Cheerios. It has one mission—purge the streets." @johannah.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

I've got a new #flashfiction up in one of my favorite journals. Hope you'll check it out!

"He worries about his jeans—sweatpants may have been wiser. He worries about a rush of over-eager blood after the young nurse asks him to remove them. He worries the doctor judges him when he answers, No children." - Keith Powell mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"It began, as these things often do, with a name—Steve—which struck me, even then, as appallingly flat. A name like an unbuttered toast, slightly burnt." - Albert Rodriguez mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"Kill me softly with your lipstick mouth, glistening like bloodhoney—haunted by spirits— under the slow burn of this bar light sun." @davidestringel.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Thank you, @mrbullbull.bsky.social for publishing my flash, “Vladimir Nabokov Would Be Proud”!

Thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for publishing my weird little story in BULL!

"He’s naked and she’s dead and he has more to say to her in that shower than he ever does to me." - Kathryn Kulpa mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"John felt unoriginal—an insurance company office worker offing himself in his cheap apartment. But this weapon had balls. His friends and family could take pride in knowing he’d killed himself in this way." @cshrumly.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"It was the way Conan moved through the world—never giving up, the way his sword cut through everything without hesitation. Alone but not lonely. He never looked back. He didn’t wait for anyone to come home." Mathieu Parsy mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Thanks so much for giving this one a home!

"Right from the start, sum things you know you’re gunna fuck right up. Still, it would a been easier if China Joe hadn’t stuck that dart in Bobby Chopp’s arm and shooting him full a Hero cut with Ajax." - u.v.ray mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

Read the latest interview from @frank212.bsky.social - he always has such good insight

“K2, you’d need a team. Ice shelves, 50 below. Do you know how many people died trying. I’m not suicidal,” he says. “But you’ve climbed Everest, Denali,” she says. Those were years ago. He regrets the brag. What a guy will say to win a smart beauty." - Lavina Blossom mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"I had been trying to write a novel called Gaslit for about 7 years, on and off, and it went nowhere. There's no other way to explain it but a man's voice came to me, and off I went. Gaslit turned into The Stalker." - Paula Bomer interviewed by @frank212.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/the-...

"A chance to go to a house party where the Butthole Surfers might be living with Timothy Leary is too good to pass up but does lead one to making new life choices." -Al Kratz @alkratz.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

‘…it should simply serve as a token of buoyancy post-analysis, but today the allotted time is not enough…’ So good to have new @kiklodge.bsky.social writing in the world at @mrbullbull.bsky.social 🚘

"Graham Moiselle waits in line like everybody else. He’s not an eejit. He doesn’t usually ask anything from anyone. He’s not looking for trouble. He just wants to be heard. That’s all he wants." @kiklodge.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"Famously, Heidegger didn’t get knock-knock jokes. And his erections weren’t a mouthful like his metaphysics, so I’ve read. His Poiesis, in other words, was puny." - Chris Vaughan mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"...and Janine Dankworth, your allotted therapist for today, because it says so on her badge, says she’s not the one who decides, it’s the powers that be,...." I love the way @kiklodge.bsky.social writes! This stellar flash in @mrbullbull.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"Graham Moiselle waits in line like everybody else. He’s not an eejit. He doesn’t usually ask anything from anyone. He’s not looking for trouble. He just wants to be heard. That’s all he wants." @kiklodge.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"The primordial push doesn’t care who I choose, but it’s going to continue beeping until I get laid. If my doctor had a pill to put an end to desire, would I swallow it?" - David Lefkowitz mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

In all likelihood he was on drugs, but so were many of us, escaping from our own lives into chemically enhanced worlds. It was the last time we would see him. Casey Jo Graham Weimers @mrbullbull.bsky.social

"This was a new kind of loss. A historical loss. A full sleeve of human shit, soaked up into vintage Champion cotton like a sponge made by Satan’s Etsy store." - Justin Taroli mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"You almost had me? You never had me! You never had your kart!" - James Vachowski mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

Don't read the news. Read short stories instead. We got links to eight incredible pieces of writing. Featuring nonfiction from: Meg Doyle in @electricliterature.com ‬ Casey Jo Graham Welmers in @mrbullbull.bsky.social Jeannie Vanasco in @literaryhub.bsky.social (...cont'd) #cnf #nonfiction

"If Max were gay and Cliff the boyish Mormon had a different god, the 25-year-old loser in stained sleepwear would’ve asked for a kiss. But that would be too much, even in a fantasy world." - Grey Traynor mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"We didn’t know if his name was Jerry or Jeremy, and we never bothered to find out. To do so would have granted him personhood, and an upsetting place in our tenuous, paper-doll world." - Casey Jo Graham Welmers mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

I have a new story in BULL! It’s called The Moose.

Morning fiction! The best part about this one is how it goes from so physically aware (even paranoid) to so metaphysically surreal and back and around again. I don't know where I am at the end, but I like being there, even though it's a trap.

"I’m slightly embarrassed that the moose is seeing me in my Jockeys. At least these are from a fresh pack. When they’re new they hug better and my junk bulge must seem more masculine to the animal." @supernaturalfeat.com mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

"I wonder about the type of man who believes he has a direct line to God. Direct power to heal individual people. What if I put my hands on him and slid them down his well-defined pecs? What if he didn’t view me as broken?" @karakahnke.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

I’ve been dying to put this description somewhere for years. Now it’s the first line of my words flash over at BULL today!

"Naked men look like frogs, pinched in at the waist with wide shoulders. Rupin undresses and I think of dissecting frogs in science, pickling formaldehyde and sharp-singed nostrils." - Danielle Barr mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...