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Read "Jacob Wants to Go to The Zoo" written by @rinapalumbo.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "... it rolled away on its rim, releasing a swarm of glowing orbs, fireflies, or something else. They had needed the protection, the dark shade of his umbrella." tinyurl.com/4trcbf9k

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Read "Chynoweth" written by @karenschauber.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "She spots Armando across the room. His head flicking back as it does when he registers agreement, mouth opening and closing like a Pez dispenser." tinyurl.com/yjnf4487 .

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Read "Binary Stars" written by @saraschansarkar.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "My son’s words spiral in my head. Detached binary stars. Evolving separately. Detached. Separate. That’s my marriage explained in the parlance of space." tinyurl.com/mw9dk74h .

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Read "Oral Herstory" written by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "In her hospital bed grandmother clutches my hand and says, Before, when women were allowed to say something other than yes." tinyurl.com/4v69svj8 .

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Read "Bird in the Desert" written by @kiptain.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "I can’t see the river, but I know it’s out there. It’s no mirage. It’s a silver river full of silver fish gleaming beneath a silver sliver of a moon." tinyurl.com/577a5yy3

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Read "Sour" written by @amymarques.bsky.social and illustrated by @courtneyb77.bsky.social. "Instead, they fill trash bags with containers of home-cooked meals decorated with entire forests of mold and meat congealed into putrid jelly." . tinyurl.com/4s6mwank

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Read "The Scoutmaster’s Son" written by Gary Fincke and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "For a few months, he was a Tenderfoot. After that, he became Second Class. For a year, however, nothing about his uniform changed because he could not swim." tinyurl.com/ya5nzj37

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Read "Flirt" written by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Valeria’s online crush says he’s coming to her. His words skitter her pulse. “Fantasies turn real,” his DM reads. Is he going to send her a photo of his dick?" tinyurl.com/2xxc6j46

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Read "Popcorn for Hale-Bopp" written by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social and illustrated by Brittany Williams. "The comet’s name is Hale-Bopp. Neither Janna or I know what a comet is but we lie outside on the green-needle grass with Mama, our jaws rattling, watching the sky." tinyurl.com/y8jtdt73

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Read "We Only Have Eyes For You" written by @fionamckay.bsky.social and illustrated by Kaylan Stedman Friedman. "We are legion; we are many. When we move, we stretch the thin fingers of our wings that send flaps of our sticky skin wide, wide, wide and taut, taut, taut..." tinyurl.com/2mx67skw

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Read "Natty Light: Tastes Like Your Dad" written by @mallorysmart.bsky.social and illustrated by @courtneyb77.bsky.social. "It’s the first night of college and everyone’s already pretending to be the person they want to be when they drop out." tinyurl.com/yc7ff82u

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Read "Without Dibby Munsen" written by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social and illustrated by Kaylan Stedman Friedman. "Without Dibby Munsen, there is no one to break the line. No one to captain the opposing team, no one who volunteers to lead." tinyurl.com/4kyjybaz

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The May 2025 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! tinyurl.com/wj42h5bu

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Excited to have my story published by BULL today!

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We’re having another humor writing workshop! April 18th online at 7pm EST.

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Read "... and calvados" written by @courtneyb77.bsky.social and illustrated and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "The sun would soon rise to obscure the ethereal dot to dot, and they would go their separate ways." tinyurl.com/3uzesme2

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Read "Forest Fire" written by Lorette C. Luzajic and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "The dark is starless and the dark is hollow and the dark is heavy around them. Joby and the small boy move slowly between the wet pines." tinyurl.com/4kbnujvn

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Read Read "Babies For Sale" written by Katie Jordan and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "The factory’s spring-loaded door pops open and an infant clad in white crawls out. Cordelia picks up the boy she ordered and inspects him from head to toe." tinyurl.com/4666ab5u

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Read "Wooden Horse Redux" written by @ronburch.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "The horse was so large, over two stories and as large as a yacht; it towered over the white palace, blocking one wing from the view of the street." tinyurl.com/2938hr2m

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Read "Sunvalley Mall, 1985" written by @marythor.bsky.social and illustrated by @courtneyb77.bsky.social. "Let me tell you how I know that Christmas ornaments are more beautiful when they are breaking." tinyurl.com/rj69pxyx

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Read "Wind-up Birds in the Wild" written by Ryan Griffith and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Once the wind-up birds would winter in our city. They pecked among the wreckage, broken stones and brick and bits of bone." tinyurl.com/mukd5jy4

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Read "Dizzy on the Pitch" written by @kmschillaci.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "On his 12th birthday, he takes a hit to the head, leaving him dizzy on the pitch." tinyurl.com/3f4fcz8n

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Read "Pyromania" written by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "When I was little and my parents used to argue, I’d burn things in the bathroom sink. Balls of paper, bandaids, pages torn out of magazines." tinyurl.com/yn7nyzzh

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Read "The Sentence" written by @karenc.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social. "I recognize her sweaty fingers as she slips me inside the safety of her bookbag." tinyurl.com/bddym8ac.

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Read "With hindsight, we should have read the instructions at the back of the superglue jar a little more carefully" written by @sgscarso.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "... my sloth in-laws arrive with their baby sloth for the weekend." tinyurl.com/yvzyzyj2

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Read "Make-Believe" written by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "On our way to the water park the morning after his eighth birthday, my son Kyle gives us roles." tinyurl.com/mchbakuw

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Read "Empty Nester" written by @sarahsayswrite.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Four days after the miscarriage, a basket arrived on the back porch." tinyurl.com/y24wvufk

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Read "In the Candy Aisle at Walmart #1728, Jubilee Plaza, Arkansas" written by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and illustrated by Kaylan Stedman Friedman. "I’m pushed forward in a wave of people, squeezed in a sea of breath and bodies..." tinyurl.com/7m6mchw2

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Read "Real People" written by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and illustrated by @courtneyb77.bsky.social. "My husband and I are binge-watching a TV show with a big ensemble cast. The most sympathetic character is the newlywed wife of the most repellent character." tinyurl.com/bdf8fzjm

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Read "The Fish" written by @ninaschuyler.bsky.social and illustrated by Kaylan Stedman Friedman. "He wanted a fish with teeth. He wanted a fish with sharp pointy teeth and a big fish tank as big as his dresser." tinyurl.com/36zc998f

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The April 2025 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! tinyurl.com/3dsd5cwp

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Join Ghost Parachute for a reading at The Count’s Den in LA for AWP! Thursday, March 27th. 7:00–7:50 PM. 1039 S. Olive St, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Readers: @amymaxmen.bsky.social, @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman.

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Delighted to have a piece in the latest @gonelawn.bsky.social with gratitude to editors and to @francinewitte.bsky.social for the popup where it began: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

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Read "Lovesick" written by Rebecca Tiger and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Shane learns about a dormant longing, of a newly adult son for his mother. A longing that vodka mimics, a phantom of a scrap of a once real thing." tinyurl.com/6hs9kjvb .

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Read Read "A dog should never eat too much salt" written by @saipradhan.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "Her raincoat didn’t fit her as well as it used to because of the pointy things growing out of her shoulder blades." tinyurl.com/4sv3zrxm

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Read "A Confusion of Clarity" written by @david499.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "It’s not only animals that transform. Trees turn ghostly; grass glistens silvery; and flowers flaunt their inner workings, petals transparent as dew." tinyurl.com/293sfs6m

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Read "Country Living" written by @jhhwriter.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Scamp’s mom appeared near the backdoor, smoking a Chesterfield, wiping a charcoal mark from her forehead." tinyurl.com/vsz5da84 .

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Read "Strugglers" written by @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Through my magnifying glass, their tiny, raggedy-assed bodies swell and morph below me." tinyurl.com/5b32b4c2

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Read "Meat Sweats n Me" written by @shaylafrandsen.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Finally an ex of mine told me about a guy named Meat Sweats. I hate him, she shrugged, but you said you wanted somebody crazy." tinyurl.com/rju764c2

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Read "Shrimp" written by Donna Obeid and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "This is how after the first hours, you can no longer feel your fingers. This is how after the first days, the fungus begins to grow beneath your nail." tinyurl.com/3r2am4y2

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