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A circle pit soon materialized. Endorphins inundated your nervous system like a flooded ravine.

CANDLES by @jlmoultrie.bsky.social

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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I’d thought it was a farm with our house on it. But they told me when the Lord rings our phone we answer.

PRIOR TO THE STATE INQUIRY, MY PARENTS RAN A CHILDREN'S PRISON by Christian Fuller

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November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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BRUISERS, LIT FREAKS and SMART MARKS:

Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.

To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills: bruisermag.bigcartel.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“I could see the cloud of cigarette smoke from down the block. A group of art-weirdos were mingling outside of 2640 Space.”

Jess Bither reports from the November edition of Baltimore’s underground film showcase, New Works
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“I could see the cloud of cigarette smoke from down the block. A group of art-weirdos were mingling outside of 2640 Space.”

Jess Bither reports from the November edition of Baltimore’s underground film showcase, New Works
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What say clattering of bones, fingers of smoke, numbers of a name?

Three poems by @kevingrauke.bsky.social

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November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
BRUISERS, LIT FREAKS and SMART MARKS:

Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.

To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills: bruisermag.bigcartel.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Seeing (and playing with) Stars of the Dogon and Revenge of Nigel Winston helped expand for me what music and performance could be. Thanks Ben and Corey and Brian!
Respect is due to all those who have blazed the underground trails that we are so fortunate to travel today.

@timkabara.bsky.social returns with lore and more. Enjoy this review of another CD-only release from the Baltimore underground in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Respect is due to all those who have blazed the underground trails that we are so fortunate to travel today.

@timkabara.bsky.social returns with lore and more. Enjoy this review of another CD-only release from the Baltimore underground in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Memories open the back door and leave,
not even my father will help me find them

FATHERS OF MEN by @archedroadway.bsky.social

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November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Another customer tried to open my stall and I vomited all over the door.

ALL DAY BREAKFAST by Laura Cafasso

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November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Everything felt grand—at least, until it wasn’t.

WALKING DOES NOT ASTONISH by J S Khan

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November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It had been floated as an idea before—as a practical measure by the impractical members of the committee—but no one had taken it seriously.

HISTOROCITY MOMENT # 7425 by daniel joseph

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November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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NEW J.F. GLEESON ALERT
From one country to another: I can feel anything anywhere.

It’s a BIG NIGHT OUT IN NASHVILLE TENNESSEE with J. F. Gleeson

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November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
From one country to another: I can feel anything anywhere.

It’s a BIG NIGHT OUT IN NASHVILLE TENNESSEE with J. F. Gleeson

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November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I think I need to get a new doctor. I swear my brain's bolted on backwards or something.

THE SISTER by @zacsmithtweeto.bsky.social

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November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Now that the veil had dropped, we see what is on the end of our (pitch)fork.

@timkabara.bsky.social is back with Some Thoughts On Music Criticism in 2025 in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE

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November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In the basement, Thom hits the bong, thumb plucks every note of an old flamenco tune.

“I am an amateur in insect song but your playing reminds me of the cicadas.”

Two Florida poems by Keegan Gore

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November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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big juicy halloween surprise for everyone who missed my reading @voidcon.bsky.social !!
The brass knuckled hand of the state punches clean through my pulse just as my stomach ruptures C4 septic and journeys end in lovers’ meeting.

PSYCHO STEROID POISON DART FROG BULLSEYE PARTY EXCLUSION ZONE by @caninebrainz.bsky.social

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October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The brass knuckled hand of the state punches clean through my pulse just as my stomach ruptures C4 septic and journeys end in lovers’ meeting.

PSYCHO STEROID POISON DART FROG BULLSEYE PARTY EXCLUSION ZONE by @caninebrainz.bsky.social

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October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“I had just won a Guggenheim fellowship and went down to the post office. I run into Sal, he says ‘Hey Buba, you think you’re ever gonna make it?’ It brings you back to reality.”

@honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Uncle Bo filled his swimming pool with Topo Chico and has not come out since.

Get carbonated with #TOPOCHICOMAN by Kellen Jansen

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October 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A goddess of brass. The god of dusk, who had insomnia. A god of feet. A god for wrinkles.

BRUISER is thrilled to present THE PANTHEON, a story from Baltimore writer/artist/musician Terence Hannum's collection NEW FAITH, available now from Anathema Editions

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October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A long tumor
Which tends to droop

HER BEAUTIFUL VOICE REDUCED HIM TO BREASTMILK by Christopher Barrett

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October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM