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“But I’m here now, and …” “I imagine my friend asking if I’m okay; she doesn’t, but I breathe in, steady, slow, and answer her anyway …” And “a layer cake of cloud and sky” @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social in @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

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Stop by The Burning Hearth today for my conversation with writer Kristin Tenor as we explore loss, wonder, and craft. "The liminal space that exists between loss and what remains is where empathy and compassion reside..." constancemalloy.com/2025/05/19/a...

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“Mr. Smyth tells them Many-Worlds Theory is only a theory, but no student has ever questioned it. Mr. Smythe thinks he understands why.” @kelliborges2.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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“Today I am a frenzy of misaligned energies. Today I am the foot traffic you wanted to trample all over your hidden sites.” @catherineobrien.bsky.social in @eunoiareview.bsky.social eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/t...

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“The last time we saw The Ur-Mother, she’d had it. She wore the steady hum of a dishwasher – we felt the frequency of it in our teeth.” “She had a sheen about her now, a frolic that ...” The Ur-Mother + 2 by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social‬ in Flash Boulevard flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/s...

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“… and by now I’ve been here ten fifteen minutes, all in the wrong place, so I’m starting to get a little short with her, not her fault and I’d like to think not mine either but I say …” @tomsnarsky.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/spring-formu...

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“The newsman blames the weatherman. The weatherman blames the sky. The sky, the weatherman says, is filled with everything the earth doesn’t want. Clouds and fog and useless dreams.” @francinewitte.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/one-night-th...

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“The Senator went into the factory to halt production on the new moon. It’s too soon, he shouted, it’s too soon.” a blank check, a death squad, a ‘hogging’, a strategic vote and @neonpajamas.bsky.social‬ in Post Road www.postroadmag.com/2025/05/12/5...

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“…this is an endless war with no hope of winning, like a torture you beg to end but then you regret it when you think that what follows is worse.” “I also make things up, I want to tell her..." & thank u dear Mileva! ❤️ @happilander.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social forgelitmag.com/2025/05/19/c...

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“… now that he’s grown up, everything reminds him of something he couldn’t keep, and nostalgia physically hurts, now that he feels like an unwilling vampire, old enough to miss too much …” @happilander.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/05/15/s...

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“It was Larry he was kissing, and he had the idea Nola knew that and that this was something she was giving him and, in a way, giving Larry.” “The sun glowed in and Nola let him see her rise …” @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @doricliterary.bsky.social doric-literary.com/2025/05/15/i...

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“Will I have to cross an entire ocean just for someone to try with me? Succeed with me? That shame of excitability at the spark of See, see, they (non-Black folks) like us, they really, really like us!” Ex ❤️ @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social in Craft Literary www.craftliterary.com/2025/05/14/b...

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“…but the next day at 5:04 a.m. it forgets, or remembers and still feels safe, or remembers and comes back and comes back and comes back. The notes aren’t even beautiful.” @melissabowers.bsky.social in Copper Nickel copper-nickel.org/from-the-ash...

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“I whisper-think my prayers to the sun, to the pork chop lines on Cas’ legs, to the soft hairs on Earl’s arms. To the baby goat, sproinging again so high it’s practically flying.” @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social fracturedlit.com/baby-goat-on...

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“We wait, quiet, holding onto the foolish illusion that perhaps our best days are not all behind us.” “It’s not the dying I’m afraid of. It’s living that scares the hell out of me. Living diminished. Living lonely.” @mynachang.bsky.social in TGLR thegoodlifereview.com/issue-ninete...

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“The moon was making that funny sliver it does when the sky lets it hole up near the sun in that odd way—like a late roommate who is neither coming nor going.” @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social in @offbeatlit.bsky.social thedisappointedhousewife.com/2025/04/29/w...

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Book mail on a Thursday night at the not-movies: My Heresies by @alinaetc.bsky.social, from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

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“… we might see those walls as proof society has always needed women to be lonely.” “Here, in this big house full of small suites, the loneliness of motherhood dissipates, mostly, and ...” @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/locked-in-ra...

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“… Yes to the clap of us in the courtyard, yes to the path of guitar-callused fingertips: neck, collarbone, back… Yes to your lips at my ear crooning Edelweiss.” @violetagm.bsky.social in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/05/05/f...

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“is legs apart is head turned sideways is relaxed, mouth parted” @hanvanderhart.bsky.social in Gulf Stream gulfstreamlitmag.com/2025/05/03/w...

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“Please, please, remember that my name is not the name to remember.” Emily as Oh, Yeah? + 3 by @darrencdemaree.bsky.social in @ultramarinelitrev.bsky.social www.ultramarinereview.com/post/4-poems...

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“… and we know the stories, have heard the warnings, have assured our parents with rolling eyes that we’re not that stupid, but our bodies are carbonated with summer and sex and laughter as we …” @emilyrinkema.bsky.social in Flash Boulevard flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/e...

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“Remember lost things: your childhood, your youth. Remember that in the depths, even a murmur is a shout.” @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/05/08/h...

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“… if you want to be happy, then you gotta play right, or …” The Gong Show, SpaghettiOs, “language like that” and @jhhwriter.bsky.social in @yourimpossiblevoice.com www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/the-longest-...

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“... the light flickering yellow and white and blue, light easily seen, and he hopes that if he switches from red to white quickly enough, he will be able to see them moving, black against black, before they … " @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in Cutleaf Journal cutleafjournal.com/content/tako...

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“On Hinge, he liked a photo of you that all your friends said not to include …” “It’s the reason you agree to the date: you like that he likes this photo.” Nora Esme Wagner in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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“Convinced she was encoding words for only me to read, in urine or lemon juice, I purchased a black flashlight. In the bathroom, lights switched off, her papers glowing violet. ‘Sincerely’ apparently intended sincerely.” Nora Esme Wagner in @ettereview.bsky.social ettereview.com/spring2025/w...

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“Until someone dies or calls us in for supper, we hold hands and point out the windows, calling each other darling and sugar …” @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social lost-balloon.com/2025/05/07/i...

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“… adding that the unexpected inflow of water in the international bucket may not be about humans’ irresponsible activities or consumption, but could instead simply be about becoming, which to me sounds …” @jekwriter.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/this-is-very...

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“She asks if I’ve turned white inside eating American pastries instead of learning how to steam homemade sweet lotus seed pao, and what the devil is that yellow-green jelly-thing if not filled with chemicals?” @csquareh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/secret-recipe/

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“Tiffany who is careful to protect your eyes, but tiny hairs still fall on your neck and between your bodies, so you can’t tell what’s making your skin prickle, the hair, or Tiffany and her body heat.” @aniking.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/love-buzz-cu...

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“Before the summer girl sang, they hadn’t known they had souls...” “When one day, a buckling nuzzled the fence where the girl had always leaned as she sang, he felt it there, her voice …” the rhythms in this @eileentomarchio.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/goat-song/

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“… her husband yawns and rolls over to discover what a mess she is / gently but firmly pries her phone from her fingers / asks ‘Why do you look if it hurts so much’….” @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/girl-you-ain...

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“6. Trust that pale shoots will push their way through earth, that small green stems will fork into two leaves, that leaves will grow, that beauty and love cannot be kept underground forever …” @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/how-to-plant...

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“… and Maisie understood suddenly that it had been there all along, hiding in corners, watching her cry, witnessing the pink blotches that appeared and disappeared on her skin like weather.” @proliffany.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/chitin/

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