Have you read our story of the week yet? #weekendreads @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social

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Our Story of the Week is a strange unsolved mystery about a unique art form. Written by a debut author!

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Dean Crow - Gyotaku — Brown Hound Press My father papered the walls of his studio in crisp white washi, covered in schools of Gyotaku: ink prints of fish he’d caught throughout his career. I probe the paper like I’m noodling for a bite until I fumble on the light switch. The LEDs mimic natural light–my father would accept no less. He dema

New story of the week is up today. This is the author’s first publication, and the writing is excellent.

#debutauthor #shortstories #mystery #fiction

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Story Track: The Kill for Love album by Chromatics is one of my top records of the past twenty years. The track “These Streets Will Never Look the Same” is a fitting match for @lucidillusions.in’s story with its eerie synth and lyrics.

-Josh Boldt, Editor

Suvajeet Duttagupta - The Digital Familiar — Brown Hound Press Sylvie’s world existed in muted blues and greys, mirroring the screen she clutched like a lifeline. She was fourteen, lonely and keenly aware of the space around her that no one chose to fill. Her bed...

Story of the Week: Suvajeet Duttagupta (@lucidillusions.in) explores the concept of digital addiction in his story “The Digital Familiar” wherein a teenage girl becomes psychologically dependent on an AI(?)-powered phone app.

- Josh Boldt, Editor

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Story of the Week: I loved the subtle foreshadowing in Deb Blenkhorn's piece, hints that the story may not be as innocent as it seems. The final, devastating reveal demands a rereading of the girls’ experiences with newly-opened eyes.

Josh Boldt, Editor

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Merceline Ochieng - Running Against the Shadow — Brown Hound Press “Good evening,” she began, though nothing about her tone felt like evening warmth. “Tonight, Kenya has lost yet another woman, another daughter, another champion, to the hands of the man she once call...

Merceline Ochieng’s story is inspired by the murder of Agnes Tirop and of many other women in her country of Kenya. Merceline is a Fulbright Scholar currently living and teaching in Kentucky.

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One of the things I look forward to on Thursdays in my inbox... and now I'm very excited to read tomorrow's story!

(p.s. BHP has been an absolute treasure find for me and I've loved everyone of the stories Josh has shared)

You’ll want to be subscribed so you get the Thursday email this week. It is a haunting and important story written by a Fulbright Scholar from Kenya. Subscribe at brownhoundpress.com

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We pay authors. We never charge reading fees. We respond to every submission within two weeks. Our website gets thousands of readers each week. Submissions open now at brownhoundpress.com/submit.

A new story by Christopher McCurry is up at brownhoundpress.com. We publish a story every Thursday. Subscribe to get it emailed each week for free.

I really dug the mix of horror and humor here -- what hath these parents done?

We’ll get through it.

As the editor of @brownhoundpress.bsky.social I wouldn’t dream of asking an author to submit a story and then deliberately deciding they aren’t worthy of a response. I can’t understand how other publications think this is acceptable behavior. We don’t do that.

Story Track: The Sigur Rós song “Samskeyti” employs the band’s signature sound: sequences of gradually-layering, syncing patterns, similar to the thoughts of the story’s narrator. The Icelandic title roughly translates to “seam” like the mental connection between the two telepathic characters.

what a gorgeous little story! (this is going to stay with me for a long time, and inspire me to write something new, I know it)

take a 5 minute breather and read this, you'll appreciate something about yourself that's meant to be… just for you!

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We just saw The Bride! and it’s fucking great. Highly recommend seeing in theater. @joshaboldt.bsky.social and I agree it’s the best movie we’ve seen in awhile. Wildly inventive and steeped in movies at the same time.

Anybody need a yogurt cup cleaner? I know one who will work for, well, yogurt.

Soramimi Hanarejima - Minding Yourself — Brown Hound Press Three stops before yours, a telepathic flare-up comes on fast, like a stream-of-consciousness flash flood you can’t escape in this train car. Immediately you regret skipping your usual afternoon coffe...

Story of the Week: In Soramimi Hanarejima's “Minding Yourself” we are dropped into telepathic chaos along with the narrator. As we read, the urgency overtakes us until we become the tandem skydiver of the story’s beautiful last line.

-Josh Boldt, Editor

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Learn about the origins of Brown Hound. And meet Ruby, the dog who inspired the logo!

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LOOOOOVE this story about @joshaboldt.bsky.social's @brownhoundpress.bsky.social and what he's doing with it -- go read it (bonus: there's also a v. cute photo of us): undermainarts.org/brown-hound-...

The title says it all for this week’s song pairing: Queen’s “I’m in Love With My Car.” Neighbor Carl has an unhealthy relationship with his automobile. If you spot him lurking in your driveway, you better cover that tailpipe!

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It’s hard to get published at Brown Hound Press, but one thing we guarantee all authors is you will hear back from us quickly. Two weeks or less. Every submission.

New story this week from @judypenzsheluk.bsky.social!

#darkhumor #mystery #crime

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Thinking about submitting a story? Here's why you should. Each week, our website is visited by thousands of readers. We're new, but our readership already includes writers, editors, publishers, and literary agents.

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I went in blind for this story, and it had everything and more I expected as it progressed.

@judypenzsheluk.bsky.social whattay great story! loved it so much!

p.s. @joshaboldt.bsky.social perfect track combo (I was thinking of Greased Lightening at the fixer upper bit)

Judy Penz Sheluk - The Last Detail — Brown Hound Press It started with the grass clippings. I’d just finished mowing the front yard. True, the rows lacked the zigzag symmetry of the adjacent lawns, and the edges were a bit on the shaggy side—I hadn’t yet ...

Story of the Week: It’s just a coincidence we scheduled @judypenzsheluk.bsky.social's darkly humorous tale about feuding with a rude neighbor and exacting a delicious revenge this week. Not at all related to my own daydreams. I promise!

-Josh Boldt, Editor

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We are still looking for good short stories! Mystery, literary, offbeat, southern gothic, dark humor. 3K words or less. We pay $25 for each accepted story.

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