A very peculiar scene's going down at the bowling alley in SONYA by Conor Barnes 🌎 shirleymag.com/issue-twentyth…

Something powerful and strange is happening to THE COMMUTER, by LaToya Jordan 🍼 shirleymag.com/issue-twentyth…

So, my latest story in Shirley Magazine is now surely magazine! comes from the Law & Order school of "ripped from the headlines" w/a little body horror & humor & memories of the return to work as a breastfeeding mom. Gonna link the real news stories that inspired me: shirleymag.com/issue-twentyth…

Some news about a Shirley Mag editor! ✨👭🏆🐄✨

We definitely do.

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🔔 All submissions for the next two weeks or so will be considered for our December issue 🔔 (but our reading window is open year round, so send us your work whenever you’re ready!) 🔔

Issue 24 is up today, with four stories fresh and alive for you to enjoy 🥚✨ Featuring work by Liz Rosen, James Pate, Benjamin Henry DeVries, and Nicole Chrenek. Enjoy! shirleymag.com

Issue 21 is now in the archive 🍄 shirleymag.com/archive

"The heart was alabaster white instead of the usual red. Maybe it was some kind of wax imitation used for teaching anatomy. Or maybe it was an animal’s heart, though it looked big for that." 💔🤍 Read the rest of Liz Rosen's GHOST HEART at shirleymag.com

"He had no hair and the ice cream that he had been made from had started to drip into his eyes and run off his nose like sweat. 'I’m here, children,' he said..." 🍦 Read the rest of James Pate's MISTER ICE CREAM at shirleymag.com

"Predators try to predate our cows. They will eat them before we people can eat them. This is the heart of ranching: remove those elements that stand in the way of making cow into beef." 🐺👼 Read the rest of Benjamin Henry DeVries' THE ANGEL OF TEETH at shirleymag.com

"When we found another thing we had in common, instead of laughing in amazement, we would now treat this aspect of ourselves as law, and internalise it so as to make it essential to ourselves." 👭 Read the rest of Nicole Chrenek's double, double at shirleymag.com

Feeling the holiday overwhelm? End of the year got you blue? Take a break from it all and ease into the stories of Issue 24 at shirleymag.com 🏝

Our site is down for construction this evening -- surely, we'll see you soon. 🔮