Major 7th Magazine
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Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash.
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
“Get back out there.
Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.”
Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25.
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Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.”
Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25.
www.major7mag.com/post/common-...
"Common Knowledge" • Connor Oberst (by Scott Laudati)
Get back out there. Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.
www.major7mag.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Get back out there.
Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.”
Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25.
www.major7mag.com/post/common-...
Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.”
Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25.
www.major7mag.com/post/common-...
Hey, share this with all your friends. Submissions to Major 7th Magazine are open until January 1st. Have a flash piece or poem inspired by a song? Send it to us. www.major7mag.com/submit
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hey, share this with all your friends. Submissions to Major 7th Magazine are open until January 1st. Have a flash piece or poem inspired by a song? Send it to us. www.major7mag.com/submit
Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash.
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash.
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit
#litmag #callforsubmissions
hi lovers, volume 25 is live xo
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Literary Mixtape Volume 25
On self-discipline.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
hi lovers, volume 25 is live xo
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"we are green– thumbs in our ears // to the tune of the losing football game"
now playing: “True Solace” • Linden Hollow (by James Croal Jackson)
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now playing: “True Solace” • Linden Hollow (by James Croal Jackson)
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“True Solace” • Linden Hollow (by James Croal Jackson)
thumbs in our ears to the tune of the losing football game
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October 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"we are green– thumbs in our ears // to the tune of the losing football game"
now playing: “True Solace” • Linden Hollow (by James Croal Jackson)
www.major7mag.com/post/true-so...
now playing: “True Solace” • Linden Hollow (by James Croal Jackson)
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"It wasn’t about the bird, I told my husband. Now I have to tell the boys."
now playing: "Moon Song" • Phoebe Bridgers (by @lashleykirkland.bsky.social)
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now playing: "Moon Song" • Phoebe Bridgers (by @lashleykirkland.bsky.social)
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"Moon Song" • Phoebe Bridgers (by Ashley Kirkland)
No surprises here: The blue jay dies.
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September 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"It wasn’t about the bird, I told my husband. Now I have to tell the boys."
now playing: "Moon Song" • Phoebe Bridgers (by @lashleykirkland.bsky.social)
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now playing: "Moon Song" • Phoebe Bridgers (by @lashleykirkland.bsky.social)
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"Mom and dad will say they raised us, but we did our growing up at 201 Washington Street."
now playing: "Days of the Phoenix" • AFI (by
@natalye.bsky.social)
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now playing: "Days of the Phoenix" • AFI (by
@natalye.bsky.social)
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"Days of the Phoenix" • AFI (by Natalye Childress)
Mom and dad will say they raised us, but we did our growing up at 201 washington street.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Mom and dad will say they raised us, but we did our growing up at 201 Washington Street."
now playing: "Days of the Phoenix" • AFI (by
@natalye.bsky.social)
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now playing: "Days of the Phoenix" • AFI (by
@natalye.bsky.social)
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"Everyone has a Dave. Some version of him is trying to lodge himself in your bones as we speak."
now playing: "The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by
@mallorysmart.bsky.social)
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now playing: "The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by
@mallorysmart.bsky.social)
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"The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by Mallory Smart)
Just proof that we were there.
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September 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"Everyone has a Dave. Some version of him is trying to lodge himself in your bones as we speak."
now playing: "The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by
@mallorysmart.bsky.social)
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now playing: "The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by
@mallorysmart.bsky.social)
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"What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat."
now playing: "San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by @amy-e-casey.bsky.social )
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now playing: "San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by @amy-e-casey.bsky.social )
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"San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by Amy E. Casey)
What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat.
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September 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat."
now playing: "San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by @amy-e-casey.bsky.social )
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now playing: "San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by @amy-e-casey.bsky.social )
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So STOKED to have a new flash fiction piece out in the excellent @major7mag ! 🎧❤️🔥💿
September 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So STOKED to have a new flash fiction piece out in the excellent @major7mag ! 🎧❤️🔥💿
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Because "Head Over Heels" just came on a playlist, re-posting this little guy from last year @major7mag.bsky.social:
"Their sentiment spills a sacred mystery, something only the gods and God-adjacent confess:
Words make weather. Ask me how I know, how she knows."
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"Their sentiment spills a sacred mystery, something only the gods and God-adjacent confess:
Words make weather. Ask me how I know, how she knows."
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"Head Over Heels" • Tears for Fears (by Aarik Danielson)
This is my blueprint for being a whole person.
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September 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Because "Head Over Heels" just came on a playlist, re-posting this little guy from last year @major7mag.bsky.social:
"Their sentiment spills a sacred mystery, something only the gods and God-adjacent confess:
Words make weather. Ask me how I know, how she knows."
www.major7mag.com/post/head-ov...
"Their sentiment spills a sacred mystery, something only the gods and God-adjacent confess:
Words make weather. Ask me how I know, how she knows."
www.major7mag.com/post/head-ov...
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I hadn't thought of this song in years -- it does indeed make for a great setting. Nice job, @thaddevassie.bsky.social in @major7mag.bsky.social
Love that @major7mag.bsky.social brings written perspectives to the soundtrack of our lives.
Thank you @keersteemack.bsky.social ck for publishing Raining in Baltimore, and entertaining the nostalgic, sad sack I can become through music.
www.major7mag.com/post/raining...
Thank you @keersteemack.bsky.social ck for publishing Raining in Baltimore, and entertaining the nostalgic, sad sack I can become through music.
www.major7mag.com/post/raining...
"Raining in Baltimore" • Counting Crows (by Thad DeVassie)
I reach for her hand and she withholds it.
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July 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I hadn't thought of this song in years -- it does indeed make for a great setting. Nice job, @thaddevassie.bsky.social in @major7mag.bsky.social
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I’m faking it by contributing Jackson Browne’s The Pretender and a little story to @major7mag.bsky.social
Thank you @travisflatt.bsky.social , Casey Jo Graham Welmers, @thaddevassie.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, @donmexlar.bsky.social for your work
Their tunes are up on the M7 playlist, give it a follow! open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...
Their tunes are up on the M7 playlist, give it a follow! open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...
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June 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I’m faking it by contributing Jackson Browne’s The Pretender and a little story to @major7mag.bsky.social
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Love that @major7mag.bsky.social brings written perspectives to the soundtrack of our lives.
Thank you @keersteemack.bsky.social ck for publishing Raining in Baltimore, and entertaining the nostalgic, sad sack I can become through music.
www.major7mag.com/post/raining...
Thank you @keersteemack.bsky.social ck for publishing Raining in Baltimore, and entertaining the nostalgic, sad sack I can become through music.
www.major7mag.com/post/raining...
"Raining in Baltimore" • Counting Crows (by Thad DeVassie)
I reach for her hand and she withholds it.
www.major7mag.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Love that @major7mag.bsky.social brings written perspectives to the soundtrack of our lives.
Thank you @keersteemack.bsky.social ck for publishing Raining in Baltimore, and entertaining the nostalgic, sad sack I can become through music.
www.major7mag.com/post/raining...
Thank you @keersteemack.bsky.social ck for publishing Raining in Baltimore, and entertaining the nostalgic, sad sack I can become through music.
www.major7mag.com/post/raining...
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wrote a prose poem about a song that i’ve ugly sobbed to many times, so grateful it has a home here <3
Thank you David P Miller, @girlprometheus.bsky.social, @whoastanderson.bsky.social, Arya Vishin, @adamshaw502.bsky.social, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for your knockout work
Their tunes are updated on the M7 master playlist, give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...
Their tunes are updated on the M7 master playlist, give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...
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May 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
wrote a prose poem about a song that i’ve ugly sobbed to many times, so grateful it has a home here <3
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thrilled to be part of this issue! this piece and the song/artist that inspired it mean a lot to me and i'm so glad it's finally out there 🖤
Thank you David P Miller, @girlprometheus.bsky.social, @whoastanderson.bsky.social, Arya Vishin, @adamshaw502.bsky.social, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for your knockout work
Their tunes are updated on the M7 master playlist, give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...
Their tunes are updated on the M7 master playlist, give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...
M7 Master Playlist
Playlist · keerstee.mack · 136 items · 45 saves
open.spotify.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
thrilled to be part of this issue! this piece and the song/artist that inspired it mean a lot to me and i'm so glad it's finally out there 🖤
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Thrilled to have a story placed at @major7mag.bsky.social this month! I used Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers” as inspiration for this tale of loss. Thanks so much to @keersteemack.bsky.social for giving the story a home.
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"Wildflowers" • Tom Petty (by Andrew Monge)
Being ragdolled after my spectacular wipeout, lucky to be washed ashore with lungs that still breathed air after being pumped free of water.
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March 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Thrilled to have a story placed at @major7mag.bsky.social this month! I used Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers” as inspiration for this tale of loss. Thanks so much to @keersteemack.bsky.social for giving the story a home.
www.major7mag.com/post/wildflo...
www.major7mag.com/post/wildflo...
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Wrote this for @major7mag.bsky.social about The War on Drugs, running, community, being a son, being a dad, stuff like that. Big thanks to @keersteemack.bsky.social for seeing a better version to be had from the initial sub. www.major7mag.com/post/eyes-to-the-wind-the-war-on-drugs-by-bryan-harvey
"Eyes to the Wind" • The War on Drugs (by Bryan Harvey)
Today’s sweat cannot retrieve lost blood.
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March 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Wrote this for @major7mag.bsky.social about The War on Drugs, running, community, being a son, being a dad, stuff like that. Big thanks to @keersteemack.bsky.social for seeing a better version to be had from the initial sub. www.major7mag.com/post/eyes-to-the-wind-the-war-on-drugs-by-bryan-harvey
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So happy to have my poem "Hejira", inspired by one of my fave Joni Mitchell songs, in this uber-cool magazine, edited by the equally cool @keersteemack.bsky.social !
March 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So happy to have my poem "Hejira", inspired by one of my fave Joni Mitchell songs, in this uber-cool magazine, edited by the equally cool @keersteemack.bsky.social !
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"Quickly moving from green kook to gnarly surfer, becoming proficient at riding the epic waves of lorazepam and fluoxetine and whiskey, hanging ten on the edge of oblivion..."
The prose in this Andrew Monge story is terrific throughout. Published by @major7mag.bsky.social.
The prose in this Andrew Monge story is terrific throughout. Published by @major7mag.bsky.social.
Thrilled to have a story placed at @major7mag.bsky.social this month! I used Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers” as inspiration for this tale of loss. Thanks so much to @keersteemack.bsky.social for giving the story a home.
www.major7mag.com/post/wildflo...
www.major7mag.com/post/wildflo...
"Wildflowers" • Tom Petty (by Andrew Monge)
Being ragdolled after my spectacular wipeout, lucky to be washed ashore with lungs that still breathed air after being pumped free of water.
www.major7mag.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"Quickly moving from green kook to gnarly surfer, becoming proficient at riding the epic waves of lorazepam and fluoxetine and whiskey, hanging ten on the edge of oblivion..."
The prose in this Andrew Monge story is terrific throughout. Published by @major7mag.bsky.social.
The prose in this Andrew Monge story is terrific throughout. Published by @major7mag.bsky.social.
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Tbh my skull is probably easier to pop than that rusty hood
"You popped the hood of my skull like your 1994 Geo Prizm."
Now playing: "Forever"- charli xcx (by Nicholas Maassen) www.major7mag.com/post/forever...
Now playing: "Forever"- charli xcx (by Nicholas Maassen) www.major7mag.com/post/forever...
"Forever" • Charli XCX (by Nicholas Maassen)
You popped the hood of my skull like your 1994 Geo Prizm.
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February 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Tbh my skull is probably easier to pop than that rusty hood