Don't miss this micro by@karenc.bsky.social in Fall 2025 Citron Review!
@itsjrwalsh.bsky.social

Love it, Karen--Congratulations!

Congratulations, JR!

To this I would add the tyranny of polite dinner conversation, avoiding "difficult" subjects and bypassing the practice of inquiry and civil discourse.

Another. How did The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton land on a list of banned books? Machine-screened for a certain n-word in the jacket copy?
“ …. Then, suddenly, the mysterious, intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York...."
parents.simonandschuster.com/9781982145903

A serious writer is someone for whom ear buds enable public eavesdropping.

Hooray for teaching a Banned Books class! What's the reading list?

How did The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm land on a banned book list? Was it machine-screened for the d-word in the jacket copy?

“....Indeed, this is what makes the tales from the 1812 and 1815 editions unique--they reflect diverse voices…”

Right on, JR!

Congratulations!

Thank you @fiveminutelit.bsky.social !

Brief and mighty by @entangledrhyme.bsky.social
over at ‪Five Minutes‬ @fiveminutelit.bsky.social‬

Submissions — Five Minutes

I’m a guest reader this month over at Five Minutes. Eager to slurp up your deliciosity—by which I mean your 100-word piece about five minutes in your life. Guidelines: www.fiveminutelit.com/submissions

The Last Orgasm by Nin Andrews What you have long suspected is true. I know. It happened to me on April 11, 2013, a Sunday. My husband served me coffee and croissants in bed. Ada, the terrier, joined us and snuggled beneath the cov...

Some lovely sorrow.
“That’s when the orgasm stopped in, looked at me and then away, and then apologized.”
newflashfiction.com/nin-andrews/
@smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge

Love it--great pick, JR!

Love this gut-ripping story by @67mgriffin.bsky.social and am pleased to be an issuemate of hers at @rfpress.bsky.social

Evening owl. High energy hours for reasons unknown.

Favorite novella recently read: The Employees by Olga Ravn. Favorite novella recently re-read: Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressman Taylor. And you?

Put on your red shoes and dance the blues--and check out my funny at @rfpress.bsky.social.

So powerful, so necessary, so beautiful in its sorrow.
thewoolfx.com/bully-by-daw...

Oooooh, with Roi Fainéant @rfpress.bsky.social‬
(wittyword folk!) and Bowie (book lovin' rocker!) this Sunday. Can't wait!

Hope? Most of us could use some of that right now. I look forward to reading the issue.

How wonderfully forgiving. Congratulations!

Oh, I remember this piece. Great to see it again.

Can't wait to read the stories chosen by JR Walsh at Citron Review!

Lisa K. Buchanan: Thank You, Coco Chanel • Cleaver Magazine Creative nonfiction by Lisa K. Buchanan can be found in The Citron Review, The Ekphrastic Review, and SugarSugarSalt.

Nobody had to tell us it was healthy...Cleaver Magazine. 2024 Short Nonfiction Semi-Finalist
www.cleavermagazine.com/thank-you-co...

Beautiful, Cheryl! Congratulations!

Glad for all your joy findings. There is something particularly lovely about your plantings, nourishing other lives. (FYI, I'm amazed my one philodendron is still with me.) Appreciating your post and sending you good wishes.

Love it. I did something similar with an immigrant-owned indie coffeehouse. Yes!

Read.