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Cotton Xenomorph
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A literary magazine devoted to new and marginalized voices. We also say NO CREEPS. Proud member of CLMP. EICs Teo Shannon, Chloe Clark, and Hannah Cohen.

Status: On hiatus for 2025

website: www.cottonxenomorph.com
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Dear Xeno Hive, friends, contributors, and readers: we have some important news to share with everyone.

We’re going on hiatus for 2025 to recharge, reorganize, and eventually return to uplifting writers in our community ❤️👽

Read more here ⬇️

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Cotton Xenomorph News — Cotton Xenomorph
Dear Hive Members and Readers of CX, We began this magazine years ago with one big goal: to publish amazing writing and celebrate the diversity of voices that we didn't think were getting enough reco...
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January 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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angelicacabral.bsky.social
My first ever piece of published FICTION is up on @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social !
Quiet Men — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Angelica Cabral TW: contains depictions of sexual assault It seems that every day a new man in San Francisco loses the ability to speak. There is no disease that we know of. Simply, one nig...
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December 20, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Branched out into some speculative fiction with “After the Flood Recedes” at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social

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After the Flood Recedes — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Justin Carter All through June the water rose. Neighborhood by neighborhood we fled, at first because the mayor asked nicely and then, later, because she asked more forcefully, because she tol...
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December 30, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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chelseastickle.bsky.social
And last but not least @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social published my story about a modern Cassandra. In case you're wondering, she's queer and autistic.

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In the Modern Retelling of Cassandra, You're Autistic — Cotton Xenomorph
BY chelsea stickle Your friend’s boyfriend says, “You know how she is.” When you say you don’t, he sketches an emotional mess who strikes like a snake. But you know your friend, and you know how t...
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December 31, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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mprask.bsky.social
Followed by "The Devil's Lake Social Club" a month or so ago in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone who gave them a read!

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The Devil's Lake Social Club — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Mike Prask Our barn doesn’t need an outside motion light, so my husband says, emphatic. But Daniel is also ever-indulgent, and the soonest Saturday, he’s out on the ladder, early before Fay o...
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December 31, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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tinazhu.bsky.social
Got a flash up at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social on all the weird ways a relationship could go wrong :)
Everything That Could Go Wrong — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Tina Zhu A car breaks down in the desert. There is no cell phone reception. Yenyen and Maggie discover they are down to the last bottle of water. They could try to walk to wait for someone to...
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November 30, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
I mention this all the time in conversations and no one I speak to seems to have heard about it. theconversation.com/ai-is-a-mult...
November 30, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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suzannehicks.bsky.social
“We fall asleep and dream together of another planet drenched in swirling oceans where thousands of people are sinking or swimming.” 💞

@sdobbie.bsky.social in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
Swimming Lessons From the Void — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Sara Dobbie At the bottom of the well I have all the time in the world. Damp, mossy stones circle their way to the sky, a tiny sphere of distant light. The atmosphere up there is warm and sun...
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November 23, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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marythor.bsky.social
Does anyone know of places to submit flash publications for award consideration this year? I would love to send out my @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social story for consideration, Lockerbie, 1988 www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
Lockerbie, 1988 — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Mary Thorson We learned that the sky was made of metal and people in the dark of the shortest day of the year. Just as fast as rain, the sky ripped open orange and our town’s population grew by ...
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November 21, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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sdobbie.bsky.social
Very excited to have a weird little story up at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social today!

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Swimming Lessons From the Void — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Sara Dobbie At the bottom of the well I have all the time in the world. Damp, mossy stones circle their way to the sky, a tiny sphere of distant light. The atmosphere up there is warm and sun...
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November 21, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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jenwithwords.bsky.social
“Sometimes, the stars send down spider silk threads with messages attached on thin slips of parchment. Fortune cookie predictions, like…”

A gorgeous dream-touched story by @sdobbie.bsky.social in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
If you want to read a piece of flash about the haunted library I used to work in, check out Sometimes the Library Looks Like the Amityville Horror House, published over in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social! www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
Sometimes the Library Looks Like the Amityville Horror House — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Corey Farrenkopf Most people don’t believe you when you tell them you work in a haunted library, which is fair. You don’t believe anything unless you experience it first hand. Patrons tell...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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i absolutely love @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social as a lit magazine. they are terrific and their editorial staff is top notch. i wrote this story as an exercise, and finished it for Cotton Xenomorph specifically. it’s my only lit fic published piece. love it.

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Rose Garden Funeral of Sorts — Cotton Xenomorph
By Jordan Kurella (art by MARTHA WIRKIJOWSKI ) The last time Kevin and I argued about the dog’s ashes, I made him cry. So for six months, his dead Akita sat in a plastic bag on my kitchen co...
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November 19, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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marythor.bsky.social
This is the story I’m most proud of, this year. Still so thankful to @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social for giving this little lady a home. www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
Lockerbie, 1988 — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Mary Thorson We learned that the sky was made of metal and people in the dark of the shortest day of the year. Just as fast as rain, the sky ripped open orange and our town’s population grew by ...
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November 18, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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adamg.bsky.social
Nature Walk & Poem in Superposition (in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social)
Two Poems — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Adam Gianforcaro Nature Walk Ticks microwave their blood meal and eat dinner alone while other beasts run circles around heat-stroked starlings. You know, God flooded the earth for good reaso...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:05 AM
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I have the great honor of being @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social's first-ever publication! from back in 2017, check it out
Out from Behind a Rock — Cotton Xenomorph
by K.C. Mead-Brewer Mina knows she’s not allowed inside Momma’s room. She knows. And she obeys the rules. She’s a good girl. Honey, to a fault. But there’s that noise again behind the door. A skitt...
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November 19, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
And a flash piece about a haunted library where I used to work in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social called Sometimes The Library Looks Like The Amityville Horror House www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
Sometimes the Library Looks Like the Amityville Horror House — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Corey Farrenkopf Most people don’t believe you when you tell them you work in a haunted library, which is fair. You don’t believe anything unless you experience it first hand. Patrons tell...
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November 16, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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kajtanaka.bsky.social
I have a cute little story over at @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social about meeting a ghost at the grocery store and really feeling "living on a prayer" by bon jovi

👻😻

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Expiration Dates — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Kaj Tanaka We are at the grocery store looking for expensive cheeses and salad kits in the discount bin like we do. There’s an old man kind of hovering over our shoulder. He acts impressed with ...
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November 17, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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cottonxenomorph.bsky.social Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social · Nov 14
We’re creating a CX starter pack! If you’re a contributor, please let us know so we can add you here - we’ve got years of archives! go.bsky.app/BJY7Tn3
November 16, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Hello blueskyers

I've done an intro before but with everyone finally starting to come over here 🥺 I thought I'd do a little intro thread of some of my writing to get to know me

First up this story about the cost of memory, trauma, and friendship

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You Can’t Come Back If Your Memories Are Missing - Electric Literature
"Accidental Girls" from PATTERNS OF ORBIT by Chloe N Clark, recommended by Juan Martinez
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November 15, 2024 at 2:14 PM
cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
Major congratulations to our co-editor Teo for his debut poetry collection news 🤗🎉🥳👏🎊🙌🎁🎈
teoshannon.bsky.social Dr. Teo Shannon @teoshannon.bsky.social · Nov 14
HELLO FRIENDS! I HAVE A REALLY BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!! My debut poetry collection /a chronology of blood/ has been picked up for publication Fall 2025 by The University of New Mexico Press. I am so, SO excited for you to read these poems, which began once upon a time as my MFA thesis. ❤
a screenshot of a publishing agreement between Teo Shannon and The University of New Mexico Press for Teo's debut poetry collection titled "a chronology of blood"
November 15, 2024 at 1:40 AM
cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
Today’s poem “Glances / Men 1994” by Kami Enzie is definitely a poem that stays with you long after you finish reading it.

We love found/erasure poetry and this one especially hits hard www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...
GLANCES / MEN 1994 — Cotton Xenomorph
BY Kami Enzie Note: “GLANCES / MEN” is erased and modified text from "Sunday, 2/6" ads in the "Glances" section of the Feb. 11, 1994 issue of the Washington Blade, page 102. Only in the ...
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November 14, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
We’re creating a CX starter pack! If you’re a contributor, please let us know so we can add you here - we’ve got years of archives! go.bsky.app/BJY7Tn3
November 14, 2024 at 4:29 PM
cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
We’re creating a CX starter pack! If you’re a contributor, please let us know so we can add you here - we’ve got years of archives! go.bsky.app/BJY7Tn3
November 14, 2024 at 4:29 PM
cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
hey everybody 👋 we’re the OG “No Creeps Allowed” online lit journal aka Bleep Blorp Review aka the coolest magazine ever

let’s make it happen here 👽👾🛸
November 12, 2024 at 6:17 PM