"Brian took my mug. So I drank from the one with his name. It felt like pressing my lips against the warmth of his skin." Shirley Chan is writing a memoir up at Waxwing Magazine ❤️ waxwingmag.org/items/issue31/…

"The unspoken rule of accepting a cut in line, of course, is that you don’t then waste time filling out forms or running to get cream. You are courteous." Michelle Ross & kim magowan up at New Flash Fiction Review ❤️

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"The whole place has that cleaned-up butter smell. Dust in the projector. The film is silent, and the non-existent audience is nonetheless alive, and there must be bacteria in there waiting. Witnessing." Brett Biebel up at Lost Balloon ❤️

"He wants someone to grab him on the street, in a store, at work, pull him into an alley or an office and sloppily kiss his face," Timothy Boudreau up at Revolution John ❤️

"One tells a story about school, something about a spider caught in the sticky sheen of a teacher’s hair gel. They whistle at a group of girls, girls from the same party they just left" Donna Vorreyer up at Milk Candy Review ❤️

STILL 1 of my fave stories ever written. I've read it prob 100x over the decades & I howl every single time. The incredible Blanche McCrary Boyd's "The Black Hand Girl" blanche.substack.com/p/the-black-ha…

📣Announcing the theme for our tenth annual issue: “Spring.” Submissions will be open Sept. 15–Dec. 15, 2024. We accept work in all genres, pay contributors $50 for publication & provide feedback for all work submitted by Oct. 31! Get ready to submit: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpring!🌱

"Edie recently decided the G of their last names is the only thing she and Marie have in common." Melissa Ostrom up at SoFloPoJo ❤️

"His dad came in the room and argued with him. I couldn’t hear but he pushed Bobby against the wall and then punched him" jeffharvey up at BULL

“Maybe it was never about the dog,” my husband says. There’s a spin cycle in his eyes, as if the old water has finally been drained away." megpokrass up at Flash Frog

"I realized the futility of chasing and running around we are accustomed to in our modern daily lives." Exactly why I disappear. Often. It's good for you. Mandira Pattnaik's latest column up at trampset ❤️ trampset.org/how-a-health-s…

Congrats to our hometown girl Chappell Roan. Keep sticking to your boundaries. Love seeing you do this from the start. You don't have to explain yourself to anyone.

Huge congrats & love to the inaugural issue of Literary Namjooning | Subs Closed!. Can't wait to read everyone. Looking over these names, I'm in absolute awe. ❤️

"The students wore high hair. There were punks and jocks. It was like a John Hughes film, only less kinetic and amusing." Jamey Gallagher up at Milk Candy Review ❤️

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Reading subs, reminding you we drop the Sept issue next Friday, and just waiting waiting waiting for the #Huskers night game tonight........

"Rita’s mom refuses to go to baby class with her because they won’t let her smoke" Huge congrats to Sarah Freligh for winning Exposition Review's Flash405 contest. Love this! ❤️

Weekend reading ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The leaves are already starting to change.