Always Crashing
@alwayscrashing.bsky.social
A magazine of fiction, poetry, & nameless things around and in-between. // alwayscrashing.com // https://alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com/
Pinned
Hey Bsky, we're an online & occasionally a print lit mag that's been around for let's say seven or so years now? Maybe eight? Here're a couple of semirepresentative pieces from our archive:
fun fact, this is everything we publish
Found this one in the notes app from a year ago
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
fun fact, this is everything we publish
Today's email edition features new work from @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, updates on @seanennis.bsky.social / Nora Hikari / @klooky.bsky.social / @neonpajamas.bsky.social, && a VERY SPECIAL save the date for the next installation of the AC reading & performance series (Dec 13! Chicago!)
"(soft, ambient music)"
featuring giant cartoon masks, possum massage, the Old Rats motorcycle gang, shapely kingships, and the neocities revolution. Plus! Save the date: 13 December!
alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Today's email edition features new work from @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, updates on @seanennis.bsky.social / Nora Hikari / @klooky.bsky.social / @neonpajamas.bsky.social, && a VERY SPECIAL save the date for the next installation of the AC reading & performance series (Dec 13! Chicago!)
Reposted by Always Crashing
"Solar Temple. Adam House. Jonestown. So many dead people, most with no names."
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
SARP SOZDINLER / FISTLIKE MOUTH AND ROTATING THOUGHTS — always crashing
She goes over the list of men she’s hooked up with over the past nine months: The guy who worked the ice-cream truck in Elmhurst Park. The redheaded Subway cashier who had a constellation of pimples...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Solar Temple. Adam House. Jonestown. So many dead people, most with no names."
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
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'Some Column Poems', a set of three poems, was published in Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
SAMUEL M. MOSS / SOME COLUMN POEMS — always crashing
Due to their layout, these pieces are best viewed in landscape mode or on desktop.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
'Some Column Poems', a set of three poems, was published in Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
Nine years! Guess it's nine now
Hey Bsky, we're an online & occasionally a print lit mag that's been around for let's say seven or so years now? Maybe eight? Here're a couple of semirepresentative pieces from our archive:
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Nine years! Guess it's nine now
"Solar Temple. Adam House. Jonestown. So many dead people, most with no names."
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
SARP SOZDINLER / FISTLIKE MOUTH AND ROTATING THOUGHTS — always crashing
She goes over the list of men she’s hooked up with over the past nine months: The guy who worked the ice-cream truck in Elmhurst Park. The redheaded Subway cashier who had a constellation of pimples...
www.alwayscrashing.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Solar Temple. Adam House. Jonestown. So many dead people, most with no names."
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
New work at the site tomorrow = Tonight is an excellent time to GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS (by @tetmancallis.bsky.social, now at AC)
TETMAN CALLIS / GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS — always crashing
Do you know your neighbors? How well? Do you know their names? GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS. If you see someone in the building you don’t recognize, and who gives you that suspicious feeling, DON’...
www.alwayscrashing.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
New work at the site tomorrow = Tonight is an excellent time to GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS (by @tetmancallis.bsky.social, now at AC)
Just learned that a piece we accepted was the author's first publication, and that's a hell of a high, y'all
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Just learned that a piece we accepted was the author's first publication, and that's a hell of a high, y'all
Psst, coming soon
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Psst, coming soon
New email edition featuring work by @tetmancallis.bsky.social, something from the archive from David Schurman Wallace, plus donated words from @klooky.bsky.social and @neonpajamas.bsky.social + an update on AC contrib Zebulon Huset
"Especially now, around the holidays, and with the war"
Featuring doughnuts, tamales of various sorts, stolen uniforms, donated words, better angels
alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
New email edition featuring work by @tetmancallis.bsky.social, something from the archive from David Schurman Wallace, plus donated words from @klooky.bsky.social and @neonpajamas.bsky.social + an update on AC contrib Zebulon Huset
Reposted by Always Crashing
"Do you know your neighbors? How well? Do you know their names?
GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS."
New work by Tetman Callis (@tetmancallis.bsky.social) >>> a warning, an injunction, a piece of friendly advice: "GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS" >>> now at AC
GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS."
New work by Tetman Callis (@tetmancallis.bsky.social) >>> a warning, an injunction, a piece of friendly advice: "GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS" >>> now at AC
TETMAN CALLIS / GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS — always crashing
Do you know your neighbors? How well? Do you know their names? GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS. If you see someone in the building you don’t recognize, and who gives you that suspicious feeling, DON’...
www.alwayscrashing.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Do you know your neighbors? How well? Do you know their names?
GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS."
New work by Tetman Callis (@tetmancallis.bsky.social) >>> a warning, an injunction, a piece of friendly advice: "GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS" >>> now at AC
GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS."
New work by Tetman Callis (@tetmancallis.bsky.social) >>> a warning, an injunction, a piece of friendly advice: "GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS" >>> now at AC
"Do you know your neighbors? How well? Do you know their names?
GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS."
New work by Tetman Callis (@tetmancallis.bsky.social) >>> a warning, an injunction, a piece of friendly advice: "GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS" >>> now at AC
GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS."
New work by Tetman Callis (@tetmancallis.bsky.social) >>> a warning, an injunction, a piece of friendly advice: "GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS" >>> now at AC
TETMAN CALLIS / GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS — always crashing
Do you know your neighbors? How well? Do you know their names? GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS. If you see someone in the building you don’t recognize, and who gives you that suspicious feeling, DON’...
www.alwayscrashing.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Do you know your neighbors? How well? Do you know their names?
GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS."
New work by Tetman Callis (@tetmancallis.bsky.social) >>> a warning, an injunction, a piece of friendly advice: "GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS" >>> now at AC
GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS."
New work by Tetman Callis (@tetmancallis.bsky.social) >>> a warning, an injunction, a piece of friendly advice: "GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS" >>> now at AC
Reposted by Always Crashing
Putting together the email edition for this week--if we've published you and you've got something you'd like us to shoutout, lmk!
October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Putting together the email edition for this week--if we've published you and you've got something you'd like us to shoutout, lmk!
Reposted by Always Crashing
Hey, everyone! A Bulb update for you!
L.M. and I are planning on OPENING SUBMISSIONS in NOVEMBER! No date yet, but as soon as we have one, we'll be shouting it here!
And since we're reading for 2026, we'll be considering previously published work, if still online/accessible, from 2024.
L.M. and I are planning on OPENING SUBMISSIONS in NOVEMBER! No date yet, but as soon as we have one, we'll be shouting it here!
And since we're reading for 2026, we'll be considering previously published work, if still online/accessible, from 2024.
October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Hey, everyone! A Bulb update for you!
L.M. and I are planning on OPENING SUBMISSIONS in NOVEMBER! No date yet, but as soon as we have one, we'll be shouting it here!
And since we're reading for 2026, we'll be considering previously published work, if still online/accessible, from 2024.
L.M. and I are planning on OPENING SUBMISSIONS in NOVEMBER! No date yet, but as soon as we have one, we'll be shouting it here!
And since we're reading for 2026, we'll be considering previously published work, if still online/accessible, from 2024.
Putting together the email edition for this week--if we've published you and you've got something you'd like us to shoutout, lmk!
October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Putting together the email edition for this week--if we've published you and you've got something you'd like us to shoutout, lmk!
Reposted by Always Crashing
Thanks to @alwayscrashing.bsky.social for running some new pieces by me!
"Fish are loveless things, really wretched and dirty. In my new capacity as junior sales associate, I often advise customers against actually putting fish in their tanks."
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
SEAN ENNIS / BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH — always crashing
BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH sells birds, amphibians, reptiles, and the insects they eat too. The store also functions as a front for The Old Rats motorcycle gang, who launder cash, mine cryptocurrencies, ...
www.alwayscrashing.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thanks to @alwayscrashing.bsky.social for running some new pieces by me!
Okay but for real fuck Chris Columbus (the director of Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) (that movie sucks))
look. we fucked up, okay?
crossposting from our facebook account where most people were upset, but it's good to own up to your mistakes everywhere. that's our motto.
crossposting from our facebook account where most people were upset, but it's good to own up to your mistakes everywhere. that's our motto.
October 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Okay but for real fuck Chris Columbus (the director of Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) (that movie sucks))
Reposted by Always Crashing
When a lit mag I admire follows me back
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
When a lit mag I admire follows me back
Reposted by Always Crashing
"Fish are loveless things, really wretched and dirty. In my new capacity as junior sales associate, I often advise customers against actually putting fish in their tanks."
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
SEAN ENNIS / BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH — always crashing
BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH sells birds, amphibians, reptiles, and the insects they eat too. The store also functions as a front for The Old Rats motorcycle gang, who launder cash, mine cryptocurrencies, ...
www.alwayscrashing.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Fish are loveless things, really wretched and dirty. In my new capacity as junior sales associate, I often advise customers against actually putting fish in their tanks."
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
Reposted by Always Crashing
Lovely prose poem / microfiction / whatever. Kind of Pynchonesque but maybe that's just because I'm reading the new Pynchon at the moment.
"Fish are loveless things, really wretched and dirty. In my new capacity as junior sales associate, I often advise customers against actually putting fish in their tanks."
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
SEAN ENNIS / BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH — always crashing
BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH sells birds, amphibians, reptiles, and the insects they eat too. The store also functions as a front for The Old Rats motorcycle gang, who launder cash, mine cryptocurrencies, ...
www.alwayscrashing.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Lovely prose poem / microfiction / whatever. Kind of Pynchonesque but maybe that's just because I'm reading the new Pynchon at the moment.
"Fish are loveless things, really wretched and dirty. In my new capacity as junior sales associate, I often advise customers against actually putting fish in their tanks."
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
SEAN ENNIS / BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH — always crashing
BRAMBLE TROPICAL FISH sells birds, amphibians, reptiles, and the insects they eat too. The store also functions as a front for The Old Rats motorcycle gang, who launder cash, mine cryptocurrencies, ...
www.alwayscrashing.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Fish are loveless things, really wretched and dirty. In my new capacity as junior sales associate, I often advise customers against actually putting fish in their tanks."
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
>>> "Bramble Tropical Fish" by Sean Ennis (@seanennis.bsky.social) >>> new today at AC
New work from AC editor @inauthenticity.bsky.social!
"She’d had a dream the night before, or perhaps just before awakening, in which she was attempting to extract, without puncturing herself, a long needle from her throat."
"Three Stories about Loss," new in @newworldwriting.bsky.social
"Three Stories about Loss," new in @newworldwriting.bsky.social
James Tadd Adcox ~ Three Stories About Loss - New World Writing Quarterly
Unable to Sleep For several nights now he had believed himself unable to sleep. Each morning he would rise remembering having spent the previous eight hours
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October 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
New work from AC editor @inauthenticity.bsky.social!
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See you there?
Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series
feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich
music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts
free, all ages
feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich
music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts
free, all ages
ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station
This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...
comfortstationlogansquare.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
See you there?
Reposted by Always Crashing
Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series
feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich
music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts
free, all ages
feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich
music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts
free, all ages
ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station
This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...
comfortstationlogansquare.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series
feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich
music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts
free, all ages
feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich
music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts
free, all ages
Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series
feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich
music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts
free, all ages
feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich
music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts
free, all ages
ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station
This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...
comfortstationlogansquare.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series
feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich
music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts
free, all ages
feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich
music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts
free, all ages