HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS by Aaron Burch It was exciting and sad and over too fast and underwhelming and amazing, all at the same. It was all of it. It was beautiful.

It's time to read @aaronburch.bsky.social's "Home for the Holidays."

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jamesloganauthor Suggested for you Follow Being a writer is cool because it's like always having homework and then you die.

whew

U.S. flag redacted

Ohhhh now I see it. Trump is a pedophile.

hacked into the @chillsubs.bsky.social database and auto-rejecting anyone who nominated for their best lit mag awards and didn't include us

The first half of this article is good, though I didn’t finish it! (So sorry I couldn’t resist)

Congratulations to @martheaus.bsky.social, nominated for the Pushcart Prize!

New 911 Automatic Caller Menu Options Thank you for dialing 911. Your call is very important to us. Please listen carefully, as our options have recently changed. To hear about our new ...

"To access our payment management portal, press 4. Paying for emergency response has never been easier."

AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR A COGNITIVE EMPATHY BROADCAST: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL RIEDL FROM BLOOD INCANTATION by Chris Kelso Music is the shorthand of emotion. There is something intrinsic to the structure of it – with its overtures, rising crescendos, and authentic cadences – which seem to mirror our temporal patterns so e...

this is one of the coolest things to happen here at X-R-A-Y...

Chris Kelso interviews Paul Riedl of Blood Incantation !!

they discuss Blood Incantation’s latest album, art’s threat to authoritarianism & much more

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Okay, McSweeney’s article title 🤣

why does every new poem i write feel like the best poem i've ever written, then (all too quickly) the worst poem i've ever written

We did the math, and over 1% of the Mamdani transition team has either done a book event at Red Emma's, or is scheduled to do one in the near future.

Send us: collages; watercolors; sculptures; yarn dyed with menstrual blood; portraits of people who don't and have never existed. When they invent Smell-o-Vision for magazines we will make a submission category for that, but for now the eyes will have to do. sotospeak.submittable.com/submit

Cover image for Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary by Maddie Ballard alongside a quote from the author reading "Sewing touches the environment, body positivity, identity, the Internet." Below is the title of the article: Stitching Memory and Heritage in Patchwork: An Interview with Maddie Ballard

Maddie Ballard's debut memoir, Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary, published by @tinhouse.bsky.social was released today!
So to Speak editor Matti Ben-Lev interviewed Maddie about the influence of feminism and culture on her work. Read the full interview on our blog: sotospeakjournal.org/blog

Send us your truth & your lies. Submit to our print issue, tell yr friends: sotospeak.submittable.com/submit

Fuck what if I’m every single bullet point

Graphic acknowledging Hispanic Heritage Month featuring four Lammys winners or finalists: "Call Me Cassandra: A Novel" by Marcial Gala, "The Prince of Los Cocuyos" by Richard Blanco, "Jawbone" by Mónica Ojeda, and "Her Body and Other Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado.

September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month. ✨ Celebrate with one of these Lammys winners or finalists by Hispanic authors.

Omg I didn’t participate but give me a guest call anyways??? I have banger ideas and Paris Review is ignoring me (the audacity)

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

Five Times I’ve Seen My Father Cry by Matti Ben-Lev When my sister was born. I was seven. That swollen creature, face plum and puffy. I’ve never seen my father’s eyes shiver quite like that, not even when Mom left, ten years later. After their divorce,…

one of my fave things about theme calls is when they inspire and turn into work that I'd maybe never expected but that totally knocks me out. today's story from Matti Ben-Lev is such a perfect example of that.

"When I got my second DUI..."

https://www.havehashad.com/ylr2s

Omg yes show me the way 🤣

Love this!!!

Quiz: Are You the Worst Fucking Parent? Give yourself one point for each that applies: You work full-time. You stay home to raise the kids. You didn’t give the kids enough freedom to ...

You spent $5600 on a newborn photography session depicting your baby dressed as a pot roast.

You don’t have enough newborn photos of your child around the house, and as soon as they’re of age they’ll seek validation from strangers on Instagram.

In Defense of Our College’s Mascot, Sir Racist Von Genocide Dear Fellow Alumni, I write to you to address the recent controversy over our college’s long-standing mascot, Sir Racist Von Genocide. Clad in his ...

"If we replace Sir Racist Von Genocide, where do we draw the line? Will we raze our hallowed halls? Will we change our street names? Will we forbid the a cappella group from singing 'Let’s All Point and Laugh at the Nearest Marginalized Ethnic Group'?"

LATE TO WORK by Benjamin Drevlow This morning I’m hauling ass across the intersection across from the Krispy Kreme opposite the Kum & Go so I don’t get steamrolled by one of the yokels in their jacked-up pickups when some old lady in...

we have a micro by Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social !

i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out

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BIG STEVE HID WATER BOTTLES OF PISS BENEATH HIS BED by Matti Ben-Lev He was used to being homeless. He was used to sleeping in his car in Philly parking lots. Once, he picked up a Tinder date, drove her 3 hours from Baltimore to Philly, rode around looking for his ex-g...

For fans of crinkly water bottles, urine, and flash essays—new piece out with @xraylitmag.bsky.social 😁

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There is no God, start a literary magazine

TrioHousePress (@triohousepress) ISO a Reprint: what to do if your book goes out of print and you’re looking for a new publisher, from our executive editor @Kris Bigalk’s Substack, Letters From the Editor.

ISO a Reprint: what to do if your book goes out of print and you’re looking for a new publisher, from our executive editor @krisbigalk.bsky.social’s Substack, Letters From the Editor!

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Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

Woke up to some frickin' awesome news 😀