“The monster is at the river, collecting flowers and watching the way the wind crafts ripples along the water’s surface. He is watching the invisible wind conduct its work on the water, and he is plucking flowers.” —“The Tender Axis” by Lindsey Drager: kenyonreview.org/piece/the-tend…

Introducing Valentina Rivera-Lies as our new Fiction Editor! An incredibly talented writer and editor. We're excited to welcome her to The Milton Review team

NEW @ The Milton Review: "Mushrooms Make Fungal Love to Become Ink on Love Letters" by fanna "fingers of mycelium entwine, / drunk on borrowed sweetness, / spores whisper in woodland air / and rain down on forest litter." READ: buff.ly/3xjzz2b

Fresh poetry: "Voodoo" by A.R.Arthur-on hiatus featured in the Love & Sex Issue! "and we are made one under midnight eclipse / heaving into the night as your heart flutters / and you sink into damp leaves / overcome by your fervor" FULL POEM: buff.ly/4ceiCFq

"An occasional Facebook friend messaged me / to say you were dead. Time went back into itself" "Ete Perdu" by Robert Halleck Read it now in the Love & Sex Issue --> buff.ly/3xpFAdF

March 1933 The Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state

“Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.” - Maximilien Robespierre-

What do the mass shooting of Black people in Buffalo, NY, Jews in Pittsburg and Latinos in El Paso have in common? The killers adopted the lie of the "great replacement" theory. Here's Trump's VP pick, JD Vance, doing the same.

Immensely frustrating to see talking points like this that paint Jewish victims & survivors of the Holocaust as “willing victims” who simply allowed the genocide to occur in order to justify committing another genocide against a different group. Ahistorical bullshit.

Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.

The Milton Review editors starting the #SealeyChallenge off strong with Gala Mukomolova's Without Protection

From the Love & Sex Issue: "Apology to My Deceased Wife" READ IT HERE: buff.ly/4fBzAj0

"Tinder re-pencils his eyebrows /at the drag queen bar. He’s midway / to grubbing his arm around a sequined / shoulder" NEW @ The Milton Review: "Tinder Escapes on St. Patrick's Day" by John Davis READ: buff.ly/46CGqRk

"Even the moss between sidewalk cracks / longs for his body." Read "Tinder Takes a Walk" from the Love & Sex Issue: buff.ly/3A9TZeP

Got a new story up at the incredible Fractured Lit

Closing out #thesealeychallenge with "Don't Call Us Dead" by Danez!

“Haley’s comet, tectonic plates, the Sahara desert—her stories are always about places or phenomena, never about people.” From "Before Love, Before Loneliness," new original fiction by Shipra Agarwal. ▶️ therumpus.net/2024/09/09/rum…

"When the Children came back, they came back different" - talk about an opening line. Then the way this builds from Sara McKinney is all kinds of special. A must read if you've not caught it already.

This whole industry is built on a foundation of grift. It’s pay to play. I’ve seen $35 submission fees for contests, & some publications won’t even take the time to reject you. But you’re coming after a small mag whose editor pays contributors out of their pocket? Be so for real