My guy “Jeff” is up. Come meet him. Much thanks to @completesentence.bsky.social for being the best and pubbing this one!! www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff
Posts by Neil Blackman
CJ's FALL CALL
If you like Cowboy Jamboree & know Eagle Pennell's work the two should already jive for you. If not, you'll have to do a little homework, but it'll be fun homework. As always, when submitting, make sure you submit a note on how your piece fits the issue theme.
Haven't done this in ages:
Everyone go get a free PDF of anything I've ever published, magazine issue or book. Use code FREEPDF to zero out your bill @ checkout. Choose any PDF at StanchionZine.com/shop (scroll waaaay down to see all the PDFs.
I'm so curious what you'll pick.
Gpt speech is real. It's, of course, just someone cut-and-pasting what they've asked one of the bots, but you know immediately, and it's beginning to hurt my head seeing it pop up everywhere.
And then you ask them about what they've sent and they turn into a brawndo supporter.
Yes. That's why I'm here.
First printrun for the Spring ‘26 cohort is done. 2 poets below; 2 fiction authors below. 4 chapbooks is part chaotic, beautiful, & fulfilling.
Mailing this week & some copies remain. Goodreads listings & blurbs soon.
Celebrate these authors on 4/24!
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Just lie and say stuff like, "yeah!" when people talk about it.
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.
Cover for The Barre Incidents by me (Lauren Bolger). A statue’s face with a graveyard superimposed behind it. Cover art is by Matt Revert!
If you ever wished for small town Grief Horror, Romance, an embittered god with feral cryptid pets, and an alien with connections to Point Pleasant would collide... try reading The Barre Incidents! I'm putting links to Good Ordering Places in comments 🩵
Dan Conner knocked this guy out in a bar. I saw it.
Sometimes you just gotta make the damn thing.
Get yours: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/coyote-girl....
Walking a dangerous line, Sluggo. Good thing you didn't post that online.
Shirt collection must be fire.
"All rural towns share a certain something, don’t they?"
Check out contributor @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social's story in Vol. 1 Brooklyn! 💕 buff.ly/6Cn0Ii6
Nancy tells Sluggo that she’s been feeding crows lately, but she doesn’t think they remember her yet. Sluggo looks in the sky, to a flock of crows flying in the shape of Nancy’s head. He tells Nancy to turn around.
Nancy 4/7/26
Momma hen with 10 baby chicks, a rooster behind her, and a stubborn ass hen who abandoned her eggs behind him.
So much depends upon a red wheel barrow...
This probably is what id want to hear.
Other songs we would have accepted for the end of the world:
It's weird what you find yourself preoccupied with on the eve of such evil, dumb shit.
Mama hen w/ 11 baby chicks
Spring (Again)
Michael Ryan
The birds were louder this morning,
raucous, oblivious, tweeting their teensy bird-brains out.
It scared me, until I remembered it’s Spring.
How do they know it? A stupid question.
Thank you, birdies. I had forgotten how promise feels.