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On the bright side, it's one extra hour to send in your submission. Journal 16, "Sabotage," is open until December 15. Time is complicit. Do your worst!

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October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Muleskinner Journal is excited to open submissions for Journal 16. Our theme is Sabotage! Do your worst.

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October 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Submissions for Journal 16 open on October 15. Our theme? Sabotage! Do your worst.
October 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Muleskinner Journal Presents TENSION, our fifteenth journal

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September 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Muleskinner closes out our meditations on Tension with a remarkable story from Maryah Converse. Please afford it the space and honor it deserves. We’ll see you soon.

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September 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Nick Di Carlo takes us on another wild ride. Our patience is wearing thin. Our tension is running out.

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September 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Scott Ruescher’s new poem, gracing Muleskinner today, swims upstream with piranha and crocodile, and all sorts of tense and wonderful things.

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September 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Writer Atma Frans brings us a tension-filled short story about gardening. And a few other matters, as well.

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September 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Today, a short poem from the acclaimed Paul Hostovsky. Back Door 1973. Includes a tetherball.

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September 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Poet David Kirby returns to Muleskinner with forgotten history, a story for the ages to make your day

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September 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Muleskinner presents a poem with pain and wonder. Father in the Next Room is a room with and without a view.

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September 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Margot Wizansky’s remarkable poem To Love in that Insane Tortured Way will make you think twice – a good thing.

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September 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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A.Z. Foreman brings us a sonnet cut short, for our time. This poem brings it all home.

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September 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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From poet Callie Crouch, a poem you can’t quite quit.

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September 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Annie Weeks brings us an excerpt from her upcoming novel. It’s set in the Netherlands, a long time ago, today.

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September 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Today in MSJ: Poet Joel Bush offers insight on roads taken, not taken, and lived on. Not a beginner’s course. A collision course.

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September 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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From MSJ today, flash fiction that moves: “The Bus Driver’s Routine” and the road to redemption.

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September 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Poet Shannon Cates sings a song for what’s been lost, but not forgotten

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August 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Today, on the eve of Labor Day, an amazing poem. Briana Naseer takes us on a journey of acceptance

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August 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Diane Gottlieb lines things up in just the right way. Did you hear it too?

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August 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Today in MSJ: Ken Foxe takes us on a wild ride – without ever leaving the house.

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August 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Today in MSJ, a short piece of family history. Heather Pegas reminds us that there’s no tension like generational tension.

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August 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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A Muleskinner request: Please read this poem from David J.S. Pickering.

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August 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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MSJ today presents a new poem from Sarah Dickenson Snyder. The Beekeeper will stay with you.

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August 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Buenos Aires-based writer Calla Smith presents a tense, powerful, thought-provoking flash fiction story that comes to stay.

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August 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM