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Issue Six — BROKEN ANTLER
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BAM (!) Issue Six…it’s time⏳→⌛️
4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.
Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.
Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
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Genrepunk Editors' Choice Award 2025
"In the Halfway House on Pluto" by Sophie Hoss, Broken Antler (@brokenantlermag.bsky.social)
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"In the Halfway House on Pluto" by Sophie Hoss, Broken Antler (@brokenantlermag.bsky.social)
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November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Genrepunk Editors' Choice Award 2025
"In the Halfway House on Pluto" by Sophie Hoss, Broken Antler (@brokenantlermag.bsky.social)
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"In the Halfway House on Pluto" by Sophie Hoss, Broken Antler (@brokenantlermag.bsky.social)
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June 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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This video is linked in my new review of MILK SICKNESS by David Greenspan (@querenciapress.bsky.social), as an example of the coherent dissonance driving the book's experimental prose. Available on @brokenantlermag.bsky.social's The Marrow
This video is linked in my new review of MILK SICKNESS by David Greenspan (@querenciapress.bsky.social), as an example of the coherent dissonance driving the book's experimental prose. Available on @brokenantlermag.bsky.social's The Marrow
The Beauty of Atonal Music / Unique contrasting pieces Op.19
YouTube video by THE BIASED COMPOSER
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May 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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This video is linked in my new review of MILK SICKNESS by David Greenspan (@querenciapress.bsky.social), as an example of the coherent dissonance driving the book's experimental prose. Available on @brokenantlermag.bsky.social's The Marrow
This video is linked in my new review of MILK SICKNESS by David Greenspan (@querenciapress.bsky.social), as an example of the coherent dissonance driving the book's experimental prose. Available on @brokenantlermag.bsky.social's The Marrow
“In literature, if normative devices such as character, plot, and genre are like the shared language of tonal harmony, then Milk Sickness is the atonal exception.”
D.W. Baker reviews MILK SICKNESS (Querencia Press) by David Greenspan. Drink it on up🥤
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D.W. Baker reviews MILK SICKNESS (Querencia Press) by David Greenspan. Drink it on up🥤
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April 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“In literature, if normative devices such as character, plot, and genre are like the shared language of tonal harmony, then Milk Sickness is the atonal exception.”
D.W. Baker reviews MILK SICKNESS (Querencia Press) by David Greenspan. Drink it on up🥤
www.brokenantlermag.com/blog/a-revie...
D.W. Baker reviews MILK SICKNESS (Querencia Press) by David Greenspan. Drink it on up🥤
www.brokenantlermag.com/blog/a-revie...
“In the silences between, we snuggle a little harder, slip in and out of existence, and listen for some asteroid coming for us both.” ☄️☄️☄️
Read “A Prehistoric Heist Story” by Aaron Sandberg in our latest issue:
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Read “A Prehistoric Heist Story” by Aaron Sandberg in our latest issue:
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April 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“In the silences between, we snuggle a little harder, slip in and out of existence, and listen for some asteroid coming for us both.” ☄️☄️☄️
Read “A Prehistoric Heist Story” by Aaron Sandberg in our latest issue:
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Read “A Prehistoric Heist Story” by Aaron Sandberg in our latest issue:
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Wow I am so awed and excited to have my weird lil story from @brokenantlermag.bsky.social on this rad shortlist!!! 🥹🥰
Congratulations to all the brilliant authors on the BRAVE NEW WEIRD shortlist! And a hearty & exhausted thanks to the nearly 1000 submissions we had to agonize over.
Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...
Or in the screenshots🖤☠️
Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.
Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...
Or in the screenshots🖤☠️
Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.
![The BRAVE NEW WEIRD SHORTLIST:
Ainsley Hawthorn - Big Cats of Newfoundland
Aleksandra Ugelstad Elnæs - Spolia
Alex Fox - The City of Cities, Inverted; A Shadow Cast By Many Hands
Angela Liu - A Contract of Ink and Skin
Ann LeBlanc - Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth
Avra Margariti - Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn
Azure Arther - Reciprocity
Briar Ripley Page - Birth Of a Sucker
Calla Eris Orion - Kiss of a Toad
Casey Lawrence - Ten Things I Have Learned About Human Skin: A Presentation
[sarah] Cavar - Mad Studies
Dane Erbach - Something Else
David Corse - The Amassing Man
E.G. Condé - Sibilance
E.M. Linden - Mangrove Daughter
Elad Haber - End of Line
Elana Gomel - Mother Black Hole
Eleanna Castroianni - Zarghána](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzezf3upipcqfyabakveo4ub/bafkreif4g5ufdn52dkb3a5gm3lhgslinhv5yq6azkeuiiptdf3rbbcoiwq@jpeg)
![Emma Burnett - Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3]
Emma E. Murray - An Angel of God
Emmett Nahil - Vining
Erik McHatton - The Man Who Collected Ligotti
F. J. Bergmann - The Museum of Etymology
Faith Allington - Teacakes for Foxes
Guan Un - Painted Surfaces
Hannah Greer - To Be Human
Ira Rat - Soft
Jack Klausner - Cardboard Faces
Jack Lennon - The Scottish Welfare Fund Application Form
James Cato - Wonders of a Plastic Ocean
Jes Malitoris - The House of Coiled Earth
Jess Elizabeth Reed - The Belly
K. A. Roy - Welcome to Rebirth Grove
K.A. Wiggins - The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault)
Kay Vaindal - Pig House
Kelsea Yu - Creature
Lena Ng - The Halloween Horror Show
Leo Oliveira - They Remember Faces
Leslie What - Wayback](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzezf3upipcqfyabakveo4ub/bafkreiaqg4pvbmizoysrvsneyiafydojomf72sg7iq4qj7lahtrsakvrli@jpeg)
April 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Wow I am so awed and excited to have my weird lil story from @brokenantlermag.bsky.social on this rad shortlist!!! 🥹🥰
We’ve all been there.
Read “Getting Over It” by Seth Wade in our latest issue:
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Read “Getting Over It” by Seth Wade in our latest issue:
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April 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We’ve all been there.
Read “Getting Over It” by Seth Wade in our latest issue:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-fi...
Read “Getting Over It” by Seth Wade in our latest issue:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-fi...
“Gap-toothed, the woman in a baseball cap sells The Big Issue.”
………..how meta of us
Read “Garema Place” by Megan Cartwright in our latest issue:
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………..how meta of us
Read “Garema Place” by Megan Cartwright in our latest issue:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
April 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“Gap-toothed, the woman in a baseball cap sells The Big Issue.”
………..how meta of us
Read “Garema Place” by Megan Cartwright in our latest issue:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
………..how meta of us
Read “Garema Place” by Megan Cartwright in our latest issue:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
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the graininess, the lack of windows or doors, the creep factor; it’s reminding us of the movie “skinamarink” which is unsettling to say the least 🫣🪱 what a fantastic piece
Hybrid forms = our love language 🫀
Check out “Prodigally Vacant” by Trevor Hormel in Issue Six:
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Check out “Prodigally Vacant” by Trevor Hormel in Issue Six:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-hy...
Prodigally Vacant | Trevor Hormel — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
the graininess, the lack of windows or doors, the creep factor; it’s reminding us of the movie “skinamarink” which is unsettling to say the least 🫣🪱 what a fantastic piece
“It must have been a tar spill. They must have all landed there. They had been unable to get back up. It wasn’t a scene I could easily look away from. As they laid there […]”
Read the rest of “Flightless Birds” by Rosalinda Valeri in our latest issue:
Read the rest of “Flightless Birds” by Rosalinda Valeri in our latest issue:
Flightless Birds | Rosalinda Valeri — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“It must have been a tar spill. They must have all landed there. They had been unable to get back up. It wasn’t a scene I could easily look away from. As they laid there […]”
Read the rest of “Flightless Birds” by Rosalinda Valeri in our latest issue:
Read the rest of “Flightless Birds” by Rosalinda Valeri in our latest issue:
“i picked up a pebble on my brother's / grave, & kissed it—a way of telling / him to smile for the camera”
Read “Marshmallow” by Tajudeen Muadh in our latest issue:
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Read “Marshmallow” by Tajudeen Muadh in our latest issue:
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Marshmallow | Tajudeen Muadh — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
“i picked up a pebble on my brother's / grave, & kissed it—a way of telling / him to smile for the camera”
Read “Marshmallow” by Tajudeen Muadh in our latest issue:
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Read “Marshmallow” by Tajudeen Muadh in our latest issue:
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Beyond honored to have the weirdest short fiction I’ve ever written published today by Broken Antler Magazine! Check out my story and other work by amazing writers and artists—Issue Six is killer 🔪⏰❤️
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www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-fi...
Getting Over It | Seth Wade — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Beyond honored to have the weirdest short fiction I’ve ever written published today by Broken Antler Magazine! Check out my story and other work by amazing writers and artists—Issue Six is killer 🔪⏰❤️
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-fi...
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-fi...
“instead of blood, a uniform-drab bird dripped out of the wound. Taking flight after its sudden, startled birth, Gladys waited, knife in hand, for the thing to bash itself in confusion against the windowpane over the sink. Instead, it alighted”
Read “Bird Dreams of Woman” by Galen Gower:
Read “Bird Dreams of Woman” by Galen Gower:
Bird Dreams of Woman | Galen Gower — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“instead of blood, a uniform-drab bird dripped out of the wound. Taking flight after its sudden, startled birth, Gladys waited, knife in hand, for the thing to bash itself in confusion against the windowpane over the sink. Instead, it alighted”
Read “Bird Dreams of Woman” by Galen Gower:
Read “Bird Dreams of Woman” by Galen Gower:
“stroking a slow finger over / one dusty cover and its blue // eye-shadowed model until X. / said That’s his skin, that dust / and his finger stopped and we / looked at the dust differently.”
Read “Hauntological” by Michael Bazzett in our latest issue:
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Read “Hauntological” by Michael Bazzett in our latest issue:
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Hauntological | Michael Bazzett — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
“stroking a slow finger over / one dusty cover and its blue // eye-shadowed model until X. / said That’s his skin, that dust / and his finger stopped and we / looked at the dust differently.”
Read “Hauntological” by Michael Bazzett in our latest issue:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
Read “Hauntological” by Michael Bazzett in our latest issue:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
Hybrid forms = our love language 🫀
Check out “Prodigally Vacant” by Trevor Hormel in Issue Six:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-hy...
Check out “Prodigally Vacant” by Trevor Hormel in Issue Six:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-hy...
Prodigally Vacant | Trevor Hormel — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Hybrid forms = our love language 🫀
Check out “Prodigally Vacant” by Trevor Hormel in Issue Six:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-hy...
Check out “Prodigally Vacant” by Trevor Hormel in Issue Six:
www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-hy...
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“Time lets herself in; I pour us tea without sugar. She understands, she says. She leaves. She leaves. Sand drips down her face. It slips from her mouth mostly, when she talks, and from between her eyelashes when she blinks.”
oh i’m OBSESSED
oh i’m OBSESSED
“Pluto has no ocean that I recognize. There is a great mass of something fluid and alive, and it might be the sky. Things don’t end here the way they do.”
Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six
Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six
In the Halfway House on Pluto | Sophie Hoss — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“Time lets herself in; I pour us tea without sugar. She understands, she says. She leaves. She leaves. Sand drips down her face. It slips from her mouth mostly, when she talks, and from between her eyelashes when she blinks.”
oh i’m OBSESSED
oh i’m OBSESSED
“Pluto has no ocean that I recognize. There is a great mass of something fluid and alive, and it might be the sky. Things don’t end here the way they do.”
Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six
Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six
In the Halfway House on Pluto | Sophie Hoss — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“Pluto has no ocean that I recognize. There is a great mass of something fluid and alive, and it might be the sky. Things don’t end here the way they do.”
Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six
Read “In the Halfway House on Pluto” by Sophie Hoss in Issue Six
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i'm delighted to be featured in this Issue, do read my poem and all the remaining pieces in there.
here's the link to my poem: www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
here's the link to my poem: www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
March 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
i'm delighted to be featured in this Issue, do read my poem and all the remaining pieces in there.
here's the link to my poem: www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
here's the link to my poem: www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-po...
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March 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Delighted & grateful to have a new poem, (kind of a weirdo, tbh), in Broken Antler, a great new magazine I highly recommend checking out... 💜 @brokenantlermag.bsky.social
Hauntological | Michael Bazzett — BROKEN ANTLER
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March 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Delighted & grateful to have a new poem, (kind of a weirdo, tbh), in Broken Antler, a great new magazine I highly recommend checking out... 💜 @brokenantlermag.bsky.social
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WoOOoooOOooooo! The Sloth & Envy Press TN branch and Toad Shade EIC has a story in Issue 6 of @brokenantlermag.bsky.social Broken Antler titled "Bird Dreams of Woman"
Read n share, friends! Thanks :)
Read n share, friends! Thanks :)
BAM (!) Issue Six…it’s time⏳→⌛️
4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.
Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.
Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
Issue Six — BROKEN ANTLER
www.brokenantlermag.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
WoOOoooOOooooo! The Sloth & Envy Press TN branch and Toad Shade EIC has a story in Issue 6 of @brokenantlermag.bsky.social Broken Antler titled "Bird Dreams of Woman"
Read n share, friends! Thanks :)
Read n share, friends! Thanks :)
BAM (!) Issue Six…it’s time⏳→⌛️
4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.
Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.
Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
Issue Six — BROKEN ANTLER
www.brokenantlermag.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
BAM (!) Issue Six…it’s time⏳→⌛️
4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.
Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
4 stories. 7 poems. 2 hybrid pieces. 1 photograph. & an Editor’s Cento made up of the fragments.
Eat it up like a salt lick >>> www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six
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"I can feel my own body fading away. My nails are brittle and cracked, my face sallow, my hair coming out in clumps. I do not recognize what grins at me from the mirror."
Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Ava DeVries in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social.
Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Ava DeVries in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social.
Slipskin | Ava DeVries — BROKEN ANTLER
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February 2, 2024 at 5:11 PM
"I can feel my own body fading away. My nails are brittle and cracked, my face sallow, my hair coming out in clumps. I do not recognize what grins at me from the mirror."
Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Ava DeVries in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social.
Today's #sfstoryoftheday by Ava DeVries in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social.