"Even after you remove the turtle, the tarot card, and the last word, your time capsule bulges." From "Regret" by Diane LeBlanc in Stirring stirringlit.com/vol-26-ed-3-p-…

The one time I tried to leave the south I flew back as soon as the moss started to fall off of me. "Leaving Louisiana: A Theory of Adaptation" by Hollie Dugas in WILDNESS. a literary journal readwildness.com/33/dugas-adapt…

"Body remembers better than Mind. Shakes its head if you take off the collar, pointing its muzzle back at the loop." A gorgeous poem from Kristin Camitta Zimet in the also-gorgeous Archetype archetypemag.com/body-remembers/

so getting pre-orders is just like securing childcare in the United States, in that you probably should have started years before the child/book was conceived, perhaps before you yourself were conceived? mcsweeneys.net/articles/preor…

you guys, this poem about humans shepherding little dinner-delivery robots, and turkeys, and each other sixthfinch.com/kirby5.html

If you got one chance to ask your dead husband a question, would it sound like this? "Why did you never do the dishes or clean the bathroom once after I cooked and cleaned for you for thirty years?” "After We're Dead," from Cheryl Pappas in swamp pink swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/after…

"“There are three of us and a child.” The woman is silent for a long moment. “My boat can take two, no more.” From Steven Patchett in The Molotov Cocktail, a "projectile for incendiary flash fiction," a marvelously succinct description of its mission/vibe themolotovcocktail.com/about/archive-…

On the profound disoriention of parenthood, from Emily Hockaday IMPEACH SCOTUS in ELJ Editions emergeliteraryjournal.com/orientation-po…

If you find a shell on the beach, put it to your ear to hear, "Thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, we have..."

A Man Remarks on the Gazelle’s Resilience gulfcoastmag.org/online/36.2-wi… via Gulf Coast Journal

"Yesterday the moisture on the bottom of my tent I realize today might be condensation from my own breath that beaded above my head & the-once- a-part-of-me rained." From Kevin McLellan in Barnstorm Journal barnstormjournal.org/barnstorm-15/a…

A killer opening to this flash by @marioaliberto3 in Barren Magazine barrenmagazine.com/the-swear-jar/

"'Did you name him after the planet?' my date, a man who is called Marco or maybe Mark, asks. 'After the god of death.'” A great flash about a dog named Pluto from @lapis_lazuli11 in Bending Genres LLC bendinggenres.com/astronomy/

Ah, office jobs: What if you could just spawn a black hole in your cubicle and hurl yourself into it? parenthesesjournal.com/issue-15/there…

The new issue of And Other Poems is bursting with strong voices and wonderful, bristly idiosyncrasies that make poems particular and memorable. andotherpoems.com/issue-four/

"Hellth" is a delightful quadruple dactyl about Dr. Google's grim prognoses. lightpoetrymagazine.com/alex-steelsmit…

I dont understand how there are so many indie lit scandals when only like 67 people on earth still read books

Matthew Olzmann ❤️