Gone Lawn Journal
@gonelawn.bsky.social
If you can describe us, you get magic coffee and jumping cookies.
Editors: @owenwyke.bsky.social & @amygcb.bsky.social
Current issue: https://gonelawn.net/
Editors: @owenwyke.bsky.social & @amygcb.bsky.social
Current issue: https://gonelawn.net/
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Never mind those pesky clouds, look there! You can see the corn moon all glowy behind them. The corn moon is here for you! Love the corn moon, it loves you. Late summer is beautiful, is it not?
Gone Lawn 61, here you go!
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Gone Lawn 61, here you go!
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Heads up!
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
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We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
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November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Heads up!
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
It's very late in a 2025 year, and everything is chaotic and so are nominations, but we're doing it!
We're not doing it live.
We hope to get a bunch of good people in here, have we said how proud we are of our contributors? Yes, we are.
They make us feel all happy inside.
We're not doing it live.
We hope to get a bunch of good people in here, have we said how proud we are of our contributors? Yes, we are.
They make us feel all happy inside.
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It's very late in a 2025 year, and everything is chaotic and so are nominations, but we're doing it!
We're not doing it live.
We hope to get a bunch of good people in here, have we said how proud we are of our contributors? Yes, we are.
They make us feel all happy inside.
We're not doing it live.
We hope to get a bunch of good people in here, have we said how proud we are of our contributors? Yes, we are.
They make us feel all happy inside.
We're starting to think it was a bit unfair to reduce your excerpts to a mere 200 words . . . but too late! You must suffer the restriction! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hah!
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Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
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November 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We're starting to think it was a bit unfair to reduce your excerpts to a mere 200 words . . . but too late! You must suffer the restriction! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hah!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
#62, our cold moon issue, is filled (thank you,all!), and closed to fiction and prose poetry submissions. We are, however, still taking submissions of novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art and other media.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_submit.php
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_submit.php
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
gonelawn.net
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#62, our cold moon issue, is filled (thank you,all!), and closed to fiction and prose poetry submissions. We are, however, still taking submissions of novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art and other media.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_submit.php
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_submit.php
Etymology of "uh oh" (interj.) . . .
![interjection expressing various emotions (fear, surprise, pain, invocation, gladness, admiration, etc.), 1530s, from Middle English o, from Old French ô, oh or directly from Latin o, oh; a common Indo-European interjection (compare Greek ō; Old Church Slavonic and Lithuanian o; Irish och, Old Irish a; Sanskrit a). But it is not found in Old English (which had ea and translated Latin oh with la or eala) or the older Germanic languages except those that probably borrowed it from Greek or Latin.
The present tendency is to restrict oh to places where it has a certain independence, & prefer o where it is proclitic or leans forward upon what follows .... [Fowler]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7etxyoybxiazlfue7x7r7we7/bafkreidbpjavlzpw2tohrt6jz2xsmmiqnznvvfk6c25r4x5vj6tce2phvy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Etymology of "uh oh" (interj.) . . .
Blessèd Samhain, everyone!
We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along!
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We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
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November 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Blessèd Samhain, everyone!
We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along!
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
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Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
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Gone Lawn : About
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October 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hate this sort of thing.
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
So! We're very happy with the response to the micro-excerpt call! Some really good stuff you people have been sending us. Keep them coming, please!
We've arranged a special issue (#63) to be released 18 January, a dark center of a dark winter month, & bright work emerging.
This all makes us happy.
We've arranged a special issue (#63) to be released 18 January, a dark center of a dark winter month, & bright work emerging.
This all makes us happy.
October 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
So! We're very happy with the response to the micro-excerpt call! Some really good stuff you people have been sending us. Keep them coming, please!
We've arranged a special issue (#63) to be released 18 January, a dark center of a dark winter month, & bright work emerging.
This all makes us happy.
We've arranged a special issue (#63) to be released 18 January, a dark center of a dark winter month, & bright work emerging.
This all makes us happy.
We're bringing back excerpt submissions from unpublished novels and novellas, but adding a criterion: 200 words max length.
All other prose, fiction and poetry submissions still have no length limit.
All other prose, fiction and poetry submissions still have no length limit.
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
gonelawn.net
October 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're bringing back excerpt submissions from unpublished novels and novellas, but adding a criterion: 200 words max length.
All other prose, fiction and poetry submissions still have no length limit.
All other prose, fiction and poetry submissions still have no length limit.
László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize! And he's trending on Bluesky! Hooray!
October 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize! And he's trending on Bluesky! Hooray!
Unlike Musk, we are LGBTQ+ friendly and we feature many authors who identify as such. Visit us! You won't be sorry if you like interesting and good works.
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Gone Lawn 61 : corn moon
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October 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Unlike Musk, we are LGBTQ+ friendly and we feature many authors who identify as such. Visit us! You won't be sorry if you like interesting and good works.
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
We've been at this for a little more than 15 years, now, as a niche within a niche, and slow going. Perseverence is the key, but we're still a niche within a niche. Please visit us! And we love every submission.
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gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 61 : corn moon
gonelawn.net
October 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
We've been at this for a little more than 15 years, now, as a niche within a niche, and slow going. Perseverence is the key, but we're still a niche within a niche. Please visit us! And we love every submission.
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
. . . when "gimme" became a word . . .
October 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
. . . when "gimme" became a word . . .
Call out for cover art! Send us something that makes us stare, stare, and ponder, and stare.
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gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
gonelawn.net
October 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Call out for cover art! Send us something that makes us stare, stare, and ponder, and stare.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
The sky is raining popcorn! The carpet’s crying, the parrot won’t speak. Someone must have forgotten to traduce Josef K.
This is a mission only a flood of submissions can cure. Go ahead and make us suffer. Extra credit if there are wiggles in there.
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This is a mission only a flood of submissions can cure. Go ahead and make us suffer. Extra credit if there are wiggles in there.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
gonelawn.net
September 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The sky is raining popcorn! The carpet’s crying, the parrot won’t speak. Someone must have forgotten to traduce Josef K.
This is a mission only a flood of submissions can cure. Go ahead and make us suffer. Extra credit if there are wiggles in there.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
This is a mission only a flood of submissions can cure. Go ahead and make us suffer. Extra credit if there are wiggles in there.
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
It wasn't easy, but here are our nominations for Best of the Net 2026!
September 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It wasn't easy, but here are our nominations for Best of the Net 2026!
Starting our shortlist, now, for nominations for Best of the Net 2026. As ws always say, it's so hard to choose 6 poems & 2 stories from so many great works out of 5 huge issues, but we're doing it.
(We won't "do it live.")
Stay tuned and we'll give our nominations soon!
(We won't "do it live.")
Stay tuned and we'll give our nominations soon!
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Starting our shortlist, now, for nominations for Best of the Net 2026. As ws always say, it's so hard to choose 6 poems & 2 stories from so many great works out of 5 huge issues, but we're doing it.
(We won't "do it live.")
Stay tuned and we'll give our nominations soon!
(We won't "do it live.")
Stay tuned and we'll give our nominations soon!
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Thanks so much for Gone Lawn for including my two micros in the new issue! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
September 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Thanks so much for Gone Lawn for including my two micros in the new issue! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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“The boy groans as layers of underworld break open like waves (mega mega white thing)”
Whew!! Read this wild crazy piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social! I promise you won’t know what’s going to happen next!
Whew!! Read this wild crazy piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social! I promise you won’t know what’s going to happen next!
Chuffed to have a collab with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social merging Persephone and Born Slippy! Hope you enjoy!
“And the boy tries the club, doing what he can to forget. Skin hot and lager-damp. His hips grind in the groin behind”
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“And the boy tries the club, doing what he can to forget. Skin hot and lager-damp. His hips grind in the groin behind”
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September 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
“The boy groans as layers of underworld break open like waves (mega mega white thing)”
Whew!! Read this wild crazy piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social! I promise you won’t know what’s going to happen next!
Whew!! Read this wild crazy piece by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social! I promise you won’t know what’s going to happen next!
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Such exquisite detail in these micros from @luannecastle.bsky.social 🥹 in the new issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social
‘…you sat in that front row seat where nobody else wanted to sit and didn’t look around so everybody could stare at you until lunch…’
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‘…you sat in that front row seat where nobody else wanted to sit and didn’t look around so everybody could stare at you until lunch…’
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Gone Lawn 61 : Luanne Castle
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September 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Such exquisite detail in these micros from @luannecastle.bsky.social 🥹 in the new issue of @gonelawn.bsky.social
‘…you sat in that front row seat where nobody else wanted to sit and didn’t look around so everybody could stare at you until lunch…’
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
‘…you sat in that front row seat where nobody else wanted to sit and didn’t look around so everybody could stare at you until lunch…’
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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@cake-girl.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social with this heartbreaking piece “When someone at the grocery store asks if the toddler clinging to you is your child, smile and say just borrowing them for the weekend…” gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 61 : Karen Baumgart
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September 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
@cake-girl.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social with this heartbreaking piece “When someone at the grocery store asks if the toddler clinging to you is your child, smile and say just borrowing them for the weekend…” gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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So happy my little flash has found a home in @gonelawn.bsky.social 💗 this one was drafted in the Go With The Flow workshop taught by @mattkendrick.bsky.social (such a skilled & generous teacher!)
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Gone Lawn 61 : Karen Baumgart
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September 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
So happy my little flash has found a home in @gonelawn.bsky.social 💗 this one was drafted in the Go With The Flow workshop taught by @mattkendrick.bsky.social (such a skilled & generous teacher!)
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
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"When the moon rose full, a Goblin Prince prowled through the evergreen shadows, summoned by the ailing moss. He’d make a trade with the weeping boy. A toe for a toe, a spell to reach the forest’s edge"
Wonderfully odd fairy-tale micro from @lkardos.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social
Wonderfully odd fairy-tale micro from @lkardos.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social
new lonely little micro out in the latest @gonelawn.bsky.social. give it a read here: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 61 : Lauren Kardos
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September 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"When the moon rose full, a Goblin Prince prowled through the evergreen shadows, summoned by the ailing moss. He’d make a trade with the weeping boy. A toe for a toe, a spell to reach the forest’s edge"
Wonderfully odd fairy-tale micro from @lkardos.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social
Wonderfully odd fairy-tale micro from @lkardos.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social
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For the timezones - my collab piece w @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social featuring both Underworlds (Hellenic and Techno) 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
Chuffed to have a collab with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social merging Persephone and Born Slippy! Hope you enjoy!
“And the boy tries the club, doing what he can to forget. Skin hot and lager-damp. His hips grind in the groin behind”
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
“And the boy tries the club, doing what he can to forget. Skin hot and lager-damp. His hips grind in the groin behind”
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
September 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
For the timezones - my collab piece w @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social featuring both Underworlds (Hellenic and Techno) 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
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Wow! Loved this Sumitra and Kathryn. ❤️ Brilliant collaboration!
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September 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Wow! Loved this Sumitra and Kathryn. ❤️ Brilliant collaboration!
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
@kathrynreese.bsky.social
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@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
@kathrynreese.bsky.social
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