thedrevlow
@thedrevlow.bsky.social
editor-in-chief BULL, author of the book of rusty, a good ram is hard to find, ina-baby: a love story in reverse, & bend with the knees and other love advice from my father (thedrevlow-olsonshow.com)
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thedrevlow
@thedrevlow.bsky.social
· Apr 1
"welcome to trash me" by drevlow / AWP Offsite Reading 03.27 @ The Count's Den
YouTube video by Benjamin Drevlow
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AWP READING 1. "welcome to trash me" with @fracturedlit.bsky.social, ghost parachute, @stalkinghorse.bsky.social, @thewaxpaper.bsky.social, @mrbullbull.bsky.social, and Rinky Dink Press. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWfA...
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Coming this Monday, humans! 🐈⬛🔥🐈⬛
@sudhab.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social
@sudhab.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Coming this Monday, humans! 🐈⬛🔥🐈⬛
@sudhab.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social
@sudhab.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social
For the humpday crowd. For the people who call Thursday "humpday." Only. Nobody else. If you read it and you're not a humpday person shame on you.
For the 9-5 crowd -
Some stories are about love.
Some are about loss.
This one is about obsession, guilt, & the strange comfort of knowing the past can never actually come back.
"The Thing About a Dead Ex-Girlfriend" from @thedrevlow.bsky.social is live:
literarygarage.com/the-thing-ab...
Some stories are about love.
Some are about loss.
This one is about obsession, guilt, & the strange comfort of knowing the past can never actually come back.
"The Thing About a Dead Ex-Girlfriend" from @thedrevlow.bsky.social is live:
literarygarage.com/the-thing-ab...
THE THING ABOUT A DEAD EX-GIRLFRIEND | Literary Garage
literarygarage.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:58 AM
For the humpday crowd. For the people who call Thursday "humpday." Only. Nobody else. If you read it and you're not a humpday person shame on you.
Very grateful to the great folks @literarygarage.bsky.social for taking a chance on this dark little ditty from my series: "Dateline Love Advice." It'd make my day if you'd take a look or at least check out their other great stuff literarygarage.com/the-thing-ab...
literarygarage.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Very grateful to the great folks @literarygarage.bsky.social for taking a chance on this dark little ditty from my series: "Dateline Love Advice." It'd make my day if you'd take a look or at least check out their other great stuff literarygarage.com/the-thing-ab...
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This one is funny, disturbing, brutally honest, and impossible to turn away from.
An excellent story from @thedrevlow.bsky.social about desire, regret, and the lies we tell ourselves to keep going.
Now live at The Garage:
literarygarage.com/the-thing-ab...
🎸🎸🎸
An excellent story from @thedrevlow.bsky.social about desire, regret, and the lies we tell ourselves to keep going.
Now live at The Garage:
literarygarage.com/the-thing-ab...
🎸🎸🎸
THE THING ABOUT A DEAD EX-GIRLFRIEND | Literary Garage
literarygarage.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:39 PM
This one is funny, disturbing, brutally honest, and impossible to turn away from.
An excellent story from @thedrevlow.bsky.social about desire, regret, and the lies we tell ourselves to keep going.
Now live at The Garage:
literarygarage.com/the-thing-ab...
🎸🎸🎸
An excellent story from @thedrevlow.bsky.social about desire, regret, and the lies we tell ourselves to keep going.
Now live at The Garage:
literarygarage.com/the-thing-ab...
🎸🎸🎸
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"When the neighbor says Morning, and you nod and say, Not too bad."
I dig this little piece of writing by @thedrevlow.bsky.social 💙💙💙
I dig this little piece of writing by @thedrevlow.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Here's a thing to read in the 45 seconds between doomscrolling and getting back to you miserable job: Thanks so much to @delgeo14.bsky.social & Marie-Louise McGuinness from Raw Lit for publishing it. And to Amy Marques
for the great artwork. rawlit.weebly.com/8_4.html.
for the great artwork. rawlit.weebly.com/8_4.html.
8_4
“I often wonder at the unsaid words that hide behind the words that are spoken.”
rawlit.weebly.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
"When the neighbor says Morning, and you nod and say, Not too bad."
I dig this little piece of writing by @thedrevlow.bsky.social 💙💙💙
I dig this little piece of writing by @thedrevlow.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Here's a thing to read in the 45 seconds between doomscrolling and getting back to you miserable job: Thanks so much to @delgeo14.bsky.social & Marie-Louise McGuinness from Raw Lit for publishing it. And to Amy Marques
for the great artwork. rawlit.weebly.com/8_4.html.
for the great artwork. rawlit.weebly.com/8_4.html.
8_4
“I often wonder at the unsaid words that hide behind the words that are spoken.”
rawlit.weebly.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Here's a thing to read in the 45 seconds between doomscrolling and getting back to you miserable job: Thanks so much to @delgeo14.bsky.social & Marie-Louise McGuinness from Raw Lit for publishing it. And to Amy Marques
for the great artwork. rawlit.weebly.com/8_4.html.
for the great artwork. rawlit.weebly.com/8_4.html.
If you're looking for a thing to do for a minute or two between yawning and hating Monday (hating this trashfire of world), here's a thing I wrote mohawks & the Rapture. Major thanks to @citywidelunch for putting it out into the world: citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-devils-d...
“The Devil’s Do” by Benjamin Drevlow.
My hairdresser says the rapture is coming, that the president is the devil-incarnate, that the Israelites have prepared the fatted calf. She describes it like a train. You see it coming and c…
citywidelunch.wordpress.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:38 PM
If you're looking for a thing to do for a minute or two between yawning and hating Monday (hating this trashfire of world), here's a thing I wrote mohawks & the Rapture. Major thanks to @citywidelunch for putting it out into the world: citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-devils-d...
Reposted by thedrevlow
On Raw Lit - Issue 8
rawlit.weebly.com/8_4.html
Misspoke
by Amy Marques
@amymarques.bsky.social
&
Social Niceties
by Benjamin Drevlow
@thedrevlow.bsky.social
rawlit.weebly.com/8_4.html
Misspoke
by Amy Marques
@amymarques.bsky.social
&
Social Niceties
by Benjamin Drevlow
@thedrevlow.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 3:35 PM
On Raw Lit - Issue 8
rawlit.weebly.com/8_4.html
Misspoke
by Amy Marques
@amymarques.bsky.social
&
Social Niceties
by Benjamin Drevlow
@thedrevlow.bsky.social
rawlit.weebly.com/8_4.html
Misspoke
by Amy Marques
@amymarques.bsky.social
&
Social Niceties
by Benjamin Drevlow
@thedrevlow.bsky.social
For the weekend crew:
Love City Lunch so much & hugely grateful for publishing this story about hairdressing & the rapture. Would be forever in your debt if you'd bother to take a gander & maybe even spread the news of the rapture. Or just check out the other goods City Lunch citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-devils-d...
“The Devil’s Do” by Benjamin Drevlow.
My hairdresser says the rapture is coming, that the president is the devil-incarnate, that the Israelites have prepared the fatted calf. She describes it like a train. You see it coming and c…
citywidelunch.wordpress.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM
For the weekend crew:
Reposted by thedrevlow
We are delighted to publish Tracy Fuad’s (@tracyfuad.bsky.social) extraordinary little poem, “Living.” In just a few words, she manages to build this vast interconnected universe where objects and bodies seamlessly blur together:
bulbregion.com/Living-by-Tr...
bulbregion.com/Living-by-Tr...
Living, by Tracy Fuad — The Bulb Region
Living — Tracy Fuad At that time I was still convinced that everything had to be...
bulbregion.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM
We are delighted to publish Tracy Fuad’s (@tracyfuad.bsky.social) extraordinary little poem, “Living.” In just a few words, she manages to build this vast interconnected universe where objects and bodies seamlessly blur together:
bulbregion.com/Living-by-Tr...
bulbregion.com/Living-by-Tr...
Reposted by thedrevlow
If you missed it yesterday, I've got this new story, on the beautiful new journal, @bulbregion.bsky.social.
It's real short. But with big heart! Thanks.
bulbregion.com/Big-Things-S...
It's real short. But with big heart! Thanks.
bulbregion.com/Big-Things-S...
Big Things Small Town, by Aaron Burch — The Bulb Region
Big Things Small Town — Aaron Burch THERE’S A TOWN —Casey, Illinois—in the...
bulbregion.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:13 PM
If you missed it yesterday, I've got this new story, on the beautiful new journal, @bulbregion.bsky.social.
It's real short. But with big heart! Thanks.
bulbregion.com/Big-Things-S...
It's real short. But with big heart! Thanks.
bulbregion.com/Big-Things-S...
Reposted by thedrevlow
Our next iteration goes live tomorrow with two amazing pieces but before that, make sure to have a look at The Bulb Region writer Tracy Fuad’s (@tracyfuad.bsky.social) beautiful poem, “Birth,” in The Paris Review:
www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7971/...
www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7971/...
Birth by Tracy Fuad
Born of a sharpness, and set to music.
www.theparisreview.org
January 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Our next iteration goes live tomorrow with two amazing pieces but before that, make sure to have a look at The Bulb Region writer Tracy Fuad’s (@tracyfuad.bsky.social) beautiful poem, “Birth,” in The Paris Review:
www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7971/...
www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7971/...
Reposted by thedrevlow
Our new iteration goes live today with Ryan-Ashley Anderson’s (@femmeintheory.bsky.social) incredible gut-punch of a story, “Booby Traps.”
It’s honest, it’s brutal — make sure you don’t miss this one:
bulbregion.com/Booby-Traps-...
It’s honest, it’s brutal — make sure you don’t miss this one:
bulbregion.com/Booby-Traps-...
Booby Traps, by Ryan-Ashley Anderson — The Bulb Region
Booby Traps — Ryan-Ashley Anderson THE FIRST TIME I KISS A GIRL, I’m nine years...
bulbregion.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Our new iteration goes live today with Ryan-Ashley Anderson’s (@femmeintheory.bsky.social) incredible gut-punch of a story, “Booby Traps.”
It’s honest, it’s brutal — make sure you don’t miss this one:
bulbregion.com/Booby-Traps-...
It’s honest, it’s brutal — make sure you don’t miss this one:
bulbregion.com/Booby-Traps-...
Reposted by thedrevlow
The second piece of the day comes from the one and only Zac Smith (@zacsmithtweeto.bsky.social). “Three Smallies” is funny, brilliant, and… delightfully weird:
bulbregion.com/Three-Smalli...
bulbregion.com/Three-Smalli...
Three Smallies, by Zac Smith — The Bulb Region
Three Smallies — Zac Smith Tom the Boy When I was young there were the Pottyboys....
bulbregion.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The second piece of the day comes from the one and only Zac Smith (@zacsmithtweeto.bsky.social). “Three Smallies” is funny, brilliant, and… delightfully weird:
bulbregion.com/Three-Smalli...
bulbregion.com/Three-Smalli...
Reposted by thedrevlow
finally having a quiet moment to dig into @bulbregion.bsky.social... and there's two new stories!
started with this @femmeintheory.bsky.social stunner. so good!
"If we don’t have a name for it, we can’t be punished, right?
Can you be punished for breaking a rule you didn’t know?"
started with this @femmeintheory.bsky.social stunner. so good!
"If we don’t have a name for it, we can’t be punished, right?
Can you be punished for breaking a rule you didn’t know?"
Booby Traps, by Ryan-Ashley Anderson — The Bulb Region
Booby Traps — Ryan-Ashley Anderson THE FIRST TIME I KISS A GIRL, I’m nine years...
bulbregion.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:32 PM
finally having a quiet moment to dig into @bulbregion.bsky.social... and there's two new stories!
started with this @femmeintheory.bsky.social stunner. so good!
"If we don’t have a name for it, we can’t be punished, right?
Can you be punished for breaking a rule you didn’t know?"
started with this @femmeintheory.bsky.social stunner. so good!
"If we don’t have a name for it, we can’t be punished, right?
Can you be punished for breaking a rule you didn’t know?"
Y'all need to check this one out. From the mad genius of my hero @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social. And it looks gorgeous.
January 17, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Y'all need to check this one out. From the mad genius of my hero @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social. And it looks gorgeous.
Reposted by thedrevlow
Love City Lunch so much & hugely grateful for publishing this story about hairdressing & the rapture. Would be forever in your debt if you'd bother to take a gander & maybe even spread the news of the rapture. Or just check out the other goods City Lunch citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-devils-d...
“The Devil’s Do” by Benjamin Drevlow.
My hairdresser says the rapture is coming, that the president is the devil-incarnate, that the Israelites have prepared the fatted calf. She describes it like a train. You see it coming and c…
citywidelunch.wordpress.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Love City Lunch so much & hugely grateful for publishing this story about hairdressing & the rapture. Would be forever in your debt if you'd bother to take a gander & maybe even spread the news of the rapture. Or just check out the other goods City Lunch citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-devils-d...
Love City Lunch so much & hugely grateful for publishing this story about hairdressing & the rapture. Would be forever in your debt if you'd bother to take a gander & maybe even spread the news of the rapture. Or just check out the other goods City Lunch citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-devils-d...
“The Devil’s Do” by Benjamin Drevlow.
My hairdresser says the rapture is coming, that the president is the devil-incarnate, that the Israelites have prepared the fatted calf. She describes it like a train. You see it coming and c…
citywidelunch.wordpress.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Love City Lunch so much & hugely grateful for publishing this story about hairdressing & the rapture. Would be forever in your debt if you'd bother to take a gander & maybe even spread the news of the rapture. Or just check out the other goods City Lunch citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-devils-d...
Reposted by thedrevlow
Reposted by thedrevlow
Coming Soon!
Raw Lit - Issue 8
Contributors 1/2
Mario Aliberto III
Michael Anthony
Sumayya Arshed
Dorian Bayley
Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social
Victor Georgakopoulos
Oliver Kleyer @funnyfrogget.bsky.social
Mirjana M. @cyanidecherries.bsky.social
Raw Lit - Issue 8
Contributors 1/2
Mario Aliberto III
Michael Anthony
Sumayya Arshed
Dorian Bayley
Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social
Victor Georgakopoulos
Oliver Kleyer @funnyfrogget.bsky.social
Mirjana M. @cyanidecherries.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Coming Soon!
Raw Lit - Issue 8
Contributors 1/2
Mario Aliberto III
Michael Anthony
Sumayya Arshed
Dorian Bayley
Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social
Victor Georgakopoulos
Oliver Kleyer @funnyfrogget.bsky.social
Mirjana M. @cyanidecherries.bsky.social
Raw Lit - Issue 8
Contributors 1/2
Mario Aliberto III
Michael Anthony
Sumayya Arshed
Dorian Bayley
Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social
Victor Georgakopoulos
Oliver Kleyer @funnyfrogget.bsky.social
Mirjana M. @cyanidecherries.bsky.social
Thanks so much to trampset for nominating "The Ghost of Johnny Cash Sings of Fire" for Best Small Fictions. It meant a ton to have one of my favorites even take it and it means even more that they'd nominate from all the other great stuff they publish. Congrats to all.
Please help us congratulate our Best Small Fictions nominees @cuylermeade.bsky.social @bretdevereaux.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social @jjlofflin.bsky.social & Joseph Randolph. You can read their nominated stories ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Thanks so much to trampset for nominating "The Ghost of Johnny Cash Sings of Fire" for Best Small Fictions. It meant a ton to have one of my favorites even take it and it means even more that they'd nominate from all the other great stuff they publish. Congrats to all.
My high school basketball coach decided we needed a come-to-jesus meeting to clear the air & define our roles. He went down the whole roster: you're our leader, you're our go-to guy... you're our rebounder... Then got to me: well, ben, you're my sweat hog.... And here I am 30 years later.
January 15, 2026 at 8:38 AM
My high school basketball coach decided we needed a come-to-jesus meeting to clear the air & define our roles. He went down the whole roster: you're our leader, you're our go-to guy... you're our rebounder... Then got to me: well, ben, you're my sweat hog.... And here I am 30 years later.
This one by Katy Haas is pretty f&cking great too: "i had a dream last night that Stone Cold Steve Austin was helping me rearrange furniture & i kept calling him Stone instead of his actual name but he was fine with it" @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
jakethemag.com/i-had-a-drea...
jakethemag.com/i-had-a-drea...
i had a dream last night that Stone Cold Steve Austin was helping me rearrange furniture and i kept calling him Stone instead of his actual name but he was fine with it
and i’m so thankful he’s here with me
jakethemag.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM
This one by Katy Haas is pretty f&cking great too: "i had a dream last night that Stone Cold Steve Austin was helping me rearrange furniture & i kept calling him Stone instead of his actual name but he was fine with it" @publishedbyjake.bsky.social
jakethemag.com/i-had-a-drea...
jakethemag.com/i-had-a-drea...
This is pretty f*ckin brilliant: "Natalie is a dragon guarding a pile of Cheetos, wandering up and down mountains frozen in fairy tales." --Natalie Wolf @publishedbyjake.bsky.social jakethemag.com/quantum-theo...
Quantum Theory as Third Person Bio.
This bitch has wings.
jakethemag.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:58 PM
This is pretty f*ckin brilliant: "Natalie is a dragon guarding a pile of Cheetos, wandering up and down mountains frozen in fairy tales." --Natalie Wolf @publishedbyjake.bsky.social jakethemag.com/quantum-theo...
A true trouser snake is no laughing matter.
It can be deadly.
It can inject you with its venom.
It can reproduce if you don’t watch it.
Watching it is important.
Handling it too.
Lord knows there are never enough skilled trouser snake handlers around when you really need them.
It can be deadly.
It can inject you with its venom.
It can reproduce if you don’t watch it.
Watching it is important.
Handling it too.
Lord knows there are never enough skilled trouser snake handlers around when you really need them.
a man laying on the floor with the words he tries so hard to be a snake below him
ALT: a man laying on the floor with the words he tries so hard to be a snake below him
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
A true trouser snake is no laughing matter.
It can be deadly.
It can inject you with its venom.
It can reproduce if you don’t watch it.
Watching it is important.
Handling it too.
Lord knows there are never enough skilled trouser snake handlers around when you really need them.
It can be deadly.
It can inject you with its venom.
It can reproduce if you don’t watch it.
Watching it is important.
Handling it too.
Lord knows there are never enough skilled trouser snake handlers around when you really need them.