Taco Bell Quarterly
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Taco Bell Quarterly is a Literary Magazine more prestigious than the New Yorker and Paris Review. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
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January 24, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Hey internet strangers, a long time writer friend of mine and one of the earliest supporters of TBQ suffered a stroke this week and if using my platform can help his beautiful family in any way, I'm happy to do it! gofund.me/212e79a0f
Hero! We eat this slop! Nacho fries are now permanently on the menu!
January 23, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Hero! We eat this slop! Nacho fries are now permanently on the menu!
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Algorithm please find me people who would be interested in seven trash bags of ALF dolls open.substack.com/pub/mmcarrig...
LOVE ALF? - large stuffed alf collection - $80
the craigslist ad of your dreams lies within
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Algorithm please find me people who would be interested in seven trash bags of ALF dolls open.substack.com/pub/mmcarrig...
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Even though this is 100% correct, I did not need this level of emotional damage today.
Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!
January 19, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Even though this is 100% correct, I did not need this level of emotional damage today.
Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!
January 19, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!
The main thing I've learned this whole journey is nobody knows what they're doing so you're probably doing fine!
January 19, 2026 at 1:51 AM
The main thing I've learned this whole journey is nobody knows what they're doing so you're probably doing fine!
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Genius
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
January 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Genius
I'd rather slam my head into the wall than ask AI for help on this creative problem, Thanks
January 17, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I'd rather slam my head into the wall than ask AI for help on this creative problem, Thanks
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writing group in a Taco Bell parking lot at 9 PM on zoom in July
Hear me out: a writing residency where I get to write anywhere else but the hell immediately surrounding me
January 17, 2026 at 2:32 PM
writing group in a Taco Bell parking lot at 9 PM on zoom in July
Hear me out: a writing residency where I get to write anywhere else but the hell immediately surrounding me
January 17, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Hear me out: a writing residency where I get to write anywhere else but the hell immediately surrounding me
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sometimes i say in interviews - i'm pretty sure there will still be axes in a thousand years, but i can't say the same about smartphones. in this and many other ways literary magazines are like axes 🪓
I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
January 16, 2026 at 9:04 PM
sometimes i say in interviews - i'm pretty sure there will still be axes in a thousand years, but i can't say the same about smartphones. in this and many other ways literary magazines are like axes 🪓
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It is already impossible to run a literary magazine, so AI can't replace us
I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
January 16, 2026 at 8:17 PM
It is already impossible to run a literary magazine, so AI can't replace us
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If the AI Apocalypse (LLM Edition) happens, the only things of value will be the things that can not be emulated by AI.
Find your weird and make it sing, babydolls.
Find your weird and make it sing, babydolls.
I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
January 16, 2026 at 6:02 PM
If the AI Apocalypse (LLM Edition) happens, the only things of value will be the things that can not be emulated by AI.
Find your weird and make it sing, babydolls.
Find your weird and make it sing, babydolls.
Back in my day life didn't used to suck this much
January 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Back in my day life didn't used to suck this much
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We can make our own things, y'all.
Everything is made up. We don't have to live like this. We can make new rules. Live Más!
Everything is made up. We don't have to live like this. We can make new rules. Live Más!
I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
January 16, 2026 at 5:36 PM
We can make our own things, y'all.
Everything is made up. We don't have to live like this. We can make new rules. Live Más!
Everything is made up. We don't have to live like this. We can make new rules. Live Más!
I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell
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This is the foundation that a long lasting relationship is built upon.
What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time
January 16, 2026 at 3:16 PM
This is the foundation that a long lasting relationship is built upon.
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This is just foreplay
What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time
January 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This is just foreplay
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First date idea
What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time
January 16, 2026 at 3:08 PM
First date idea
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This is how I sext:
What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time
January 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
This is how I sext:
What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
What if we closed our eyes and held hands and tried screaming in the hole together at the same time
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It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.
January 14, 2026 at 8:14 PM
It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.
I'm certain you can write a book. Creating a whole ass human being who will become an entire universe unto themselves only takes 9 months!
January 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I'm certain you can write a book. Creating a whole ass human being who will become an entire universe unto themselves only takes 9 months!