What we talk about when we want to talk about Fight Club ~ by Lauren Kardos How you shouldn’t sneak out flashlight-less, since it’s easy to get lost near the mausoleum and that one girl twisted an ankle tripping down the riverbank. How the gravestones of town settlers bite…

Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, make sure to read this banger by our recent contributor Lauren Kardos (@lkardos.bsky.social), "What we talk about when we want to talk about Fight Club," published in Milk Candy Review.

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thank you, Emily! your feedback in workshop helped bring it to its best 💕

walking tacos are LIFE

What Does the Dance Macabre Symbolize? An Allegory of Death | TheCollector The Danse Macabre art tradition emerged in the Late Middle Ages when hard times led to a morbid fascination with the harsh realities of death.

for the word and history nerds like me: www.thecollector.com/danse-macabr...

when human-made art from the 15th century inspires human-made art in the 21st century. thank you @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving this little danse macabre story a home in @bulbregion.bsky.social

thank you for reading and sharing Chris!

What a fantastic piece by @lkardos.bsky.social. When you have a minute, read this one.

Danse Macabre, by Lauren Kardos — The Bulb Region Danse Macabre — Lauren Kardos IT ALL STARTED WITH MOM. Tapping out a beat in three...

“[Dad] brought home a boombox from his construction site, the equipment victim of an errant brick so every few words crackled. It became Big Band at midnight and Hip Hop at dawn and Country at lunch.”

🔥 Lauren Kardos (@lkardos.bsky.social) in The Bulb Region today.

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can’t wait to snag a copy! 🎉

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FlashFlood opens for submissions on 19 April till 25 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Stories will be published on NFFD. Pre 2023 previously published considered. Reserved slots for unpublished writers. For more details see our submission guidelines: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

this is why we keep fighting, because they did it once and they’ll do it again, and we’ll just keep dying if we don’t

Long-awaited remediation work begins at Parks Township nuclear dump More than 20 years after federal legislation added a Parks Township nuclear waste dump to a list of sites in need of remediation, excavation work is finally underway on what’s expected to be a y...

for all the writing buds who have read all/parts of my NiF manuscript, the feds are FINALLY cleaning up the real life nuclear waste dump in my childhood town that inspired my story and characters.

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i will take a two personal rejections kinda day!

The Dodge is really wonderful @thedodgemag.bsky.social

thank you Matt!! So looking forward to this.

Welkin me up!

Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

*slides a massive reading list of Palestinian fantasy, sci-fi, and horror across the table* soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

just seeing this and WOULD love something like this. more info on your website?

Bees, Bees, You’re Invited to My Funeral | matchbook

@sagetyrtle.bsky.social has done it again in this gorgeous story in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. get some tissues ready as you read 😭

"Bees, bees I say, and curious bees make cats cradles in the air in front of me as I talk."

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heck yes Pat!! can’t wait for this! congrats 🎉

extremely gross take!

“I learned his middle name from the obituary.” this is heartachingly gorgeous, Tracie.

Kathy! both of these are 🔥🔥🔥

this too has been sitting on my shelf for 10+ years 😂

Key Party, by Mario Aliberto III — The Bulb Region Key Party — Mario Aliberto III Okay lads, car keys go in the fishbowl, Theo says....

another banger from all the excellent work @bulbregion.bsky.social is putting out, loved this sizzling flash from @marioaliberto3.bsky.social

“Their guests look from Theo to Malorie. Smiling eyes asking if this is a joke.”

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Ultrasound Q & A by Claudia Monpere YOU ARRIVE AT the clinic on a cold night, lampposts flickering against the Vantablack sky. Moon and stars, gutted. You and the other pregnant women lie in ten rows of exam tables…

“When she is one you will pour dark wildflower honey into a bowl and fold in the gooseberries and she will grab the spoon from you and turn her lips and chin purple.” new gorgeous and harrowing @claudiamonpere.bsky.social story in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/04/03/u...

Anything Ruth Ozeki writes breaks my brain a little bit in the best way possible. Also: The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente.

this book is SO good

always love the work scaffold puts out!