Today is the last day to submit to our Fixations issue! theilanotreview.submittable.com/submit

weekly talk story about SFWP shortlist, Gooseberry Pie Literary Magazine pub, The Argyle pubs, The Ilanot Review reading, and my William Woolfitt interview - that's a lot but I hope you check it out...

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My new speculative flash roundup featuring stories from: khōréō magazine Small Wonders Magazine Flash Frog Nightmare Magazine hex
Lightspeed Mag (Bluesky: @lightspeedmagazine.com) PodCastle Flash Fiction Online
Radon Journal The Ilanot Review
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Here's a link to my latest story, a sad tale inspired by real events. Mostly it's about love, though, and the things we do as parents.

It only took 300 takes and even more swear words, but I finally got through the reading of my story 'Brightly, Brightly.' Thank you to the editors The Ilanot Review for publishing this sad story which was inspired by real events.

On a day when I'm *very* tired, decided to update website🙃
Grateful for publications so far this yr in Columbia Journal #HawaiiPacificReview South Dakota Review The Rumpus LindenwoodMFA The Ilanot Review #EasternIowaReview trampset & #RainbowPunch (@PlymUni )

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A recording of my piece “Adam’s Apple” for the parents edition of The Ilanot Review

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I have a recording of me reading my pieces in The Ilanot Review!! Check them out here: ilanotreview.com/parents-prose-…

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...she’s cold and full of inhibitions as an oversized striped half-sleeved shirt hangs from her frail shoulders no better than if she was a hanger, legs bare...

Read Mandira Pattnaik in The Ilanot Review!

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Ah Ma came out with hammers, but we children stood in front of the helpless Mary. Sacrilege, my older brother said. You and your gwei-lo education! Ah Ma wagged her hammers at us, this is nonsense, you hear me?

CHT-CHEN in The Ilanot Review

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'...her mother’s voice in her head no take forever, or else,....'

And:

'The devil enters your body as she watches, the triumph ablaze in her eyes.'

These brilliant pieces by Melissa Llanes Brownlee in The Ilanot Review 💙🔥💙
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'The devil will enter your body if you sleep with your feet to the door'
More dynamite work by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. In The Ilanot Review
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