“I saw the moon
on the move
through remains
of debris,
far away from the bruise
of the slowly sinking suburbs.”
🛸 The brilliant Tim Frank (@timfrankquill.bsky.social) has three new poems in The Bulb Region today.
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“[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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Okay, so, two Saturdays from now, on May 2, we'll run four new comic pieces in line with Free Comic Book Day—and to complement this, we'll be open for comics submissions for just a single day. So save the date and send your goodies our way!
bulbregion.com/Submissions
Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, make sure to have a look at this brilliant micro piece by our recent contributor Patricia Q. Bidar (@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social), "Chaos," published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social.
fracturedlit.com/chaos/
They all are nothing less than beautiful and brilliant! ♡
Had 3 poems from my new MS Kielbasa appear in the Bulb Region this weekend! Here's one of them. Visit their site for the others!
Tomorrow we return with another splendid combo of prose and poetry, but until then, make sure to create some time and read these great poems by our contributor David Wojciechowski (@mrwojorising.bsky.social) in Heavy Feather Review:
heavyfeatherreview.org/2019/07/21/w...
This story is the S**T! Amazingness from the amazing @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social
"He ends the call, sees Lizzie. 'That kids’ birthday party inside? I bailed. I get… panicky.' His eyes, like the eyes of all clowns, contain misery." So weirdly wonderful! @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @bulbregion.bsky.social
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always dig on @thecorlew.bsky.social's newsletter & especially jazzed to see my tiny story from @bulbregion.bsky.social spotlighted here ⚡️⚡️⚡️
As a huge fan of David Ryan, I’m not even remotely surprised this one is a banger.
Welcome to the region, Patricia! ♡ Delighted to have you aboard.
“A woman removes her hands and places them in a glass of water by her bed every night. In her dreams, her hands are a forest that she runs through.”
Don’t miss David Wojciechowski’s (@mrwojorising.bsky.social) delightfully labyrinthine poems in The Bulb Region today.
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“In person, she can remind Rick they belong together. And what was a little poop between old friends? A very a small amount, he’d said.”
🪩 Find Patricia Q. Bidar’s (@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social) vaudevillian cliffhanger, “Earth Wind & Fire,” in The Bulb Region today.
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This is amazing!! ✨
We usually bump older pieces in our contributor highlights, but I’ll make an exception for today and strongly urge you to grab a copy of David Ryan’s amazing collection, “Alligator,” published by C4G Books. It’s one of the best out there!
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Tomorrow, we return with a killer combo of prose and poetry, but until then, make sure to create time to read our recent contributor Calvin Cummings’ breathtaking short story, “Sleepwalking,” published in Blue Arrangements.
bluearrangements.com/cummings
❤️
really great story from David Ryan on @bulbregion.bsky.social
"The cake is a big Batman face, nine candles stuck out from it. Years later, your brother will be diagnosed only after they find him wandering a northeastern college campus, painted in mud, bleeding out loud demons."
Another piece that yesterday’s Bluesky downtime failed. Calvin has a fun little story in The Bulb Region that you won’t regret reading!
Bluesky was down for a while right after I posted our new pieces yesterday, so they never received the love deserved. So here I am resharing them for the late crowd. Don’t miss David’s astonishing short story if you have fifteen minutes to burn today!
Thanks so much for sharing, Aaron!
really loved this new short from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social on @bulbregion.bsky.social
“Nothing has changed, if you think about it, not really.”
“What if other things change though?”
“Well, everything is always changing,” I reassured him, in that way only fathers can fail at.
“Kill me,” the crab said.
“You’re already dead,” the seagull said.
“Oh,” the crab said."
🦀 Find Calvin Cummings' must-read parable, "The Gull and the Crab," in The Bulb Region today.
bulbregion.com/The-Gull-and...
"But this is the Midwest, a Midwest of a certain texture, where many things discussed intimately and publicly alike on the Coasts do not exist because there’s no language for them here to make them real."
🎂 Don't miss David Ryan's stunner in The Bulb Region today.
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Before tomorrow’s new edition, stop what you are doing and have a look at this absolutely chilling micro by our recent contributor Ivy Grimes (@ivygrimes.bsky.social), “Shadow Land,” published in one of our favorite journals.
www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
We’ll return with two exciting publications tomorrow, but before then, we urge you to spend some time with this very unique matryoshka of a poem(?) by our beloved contributor Tom Snarsky (@tomsnarsky.bsky.social), recently published in the great @havehashad.com.
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/tim...
“If a mime mimes dying in the forest, does he make a sound?
If a mime mimes a mime miming his hanging of himself, will anybody laugh?”
@thedrevlow.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/An-elegy-for...
“… I’m
Loath to remember my most shameful
Moments but I don’t have to bc god
Takes care of that anyway, folds them in
Like a kind of overlay, guilt-chyron
That can run at any time …”
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Book-of-Hour...
Welcome back to the region, Tom ❤️ We are so lucky to get to publish your beautiful poetry!