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New content published every Monday at noon PST ✨
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Hello! We're The Metaworker. We publish unconventional, diverse, intentionally crafted writing, art, and more! Every Monday at noon PT.
Send us work that surprises, makes us ponder, upends stereotypes. If it fits on a website and is unlike anything we've published, we want to see it!
Send us work that surprises, makes us ponder, upends stereotypes. If it fits on a website and is unlike anything we've published, we want to see it!
"On the neighborhood page they argue about outdoor cats and songbirds, carpenter bee traps and pollinators." - excerpt from does anybody know, prose poetry by Jennifer Lubke #TheMetaworker
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November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"On the neighborhood page they argue about outdoor cats and songbirds, carpenter bee traps and pollinators." - excerpt from does anybody know, prose poetry by Jennifer Lubke #TheMetaworker
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"It was dark, warm, and sticky in there." - excerpt from Falling in Love Inside a Stray Hot Sauce Packet, micro fiction by Sarp Sozdinler #TheMetaworker
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November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"It was dark, warm, and sticky in there." - excerpt from Falling in Love Inside a Stray Hot Sauce Packet, micro fiction by Sarp Sozdinler #TheMetaworker
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"moonish, midnight flesh / swollen with frost, / the plum blooms melodramatic..." - excerpt from Of Plum and Cherry, poetry by Shannon Cates #TheMetaworker
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November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"moonish, midnight flesh / swollen with frost, / the plum blooms melodramatic..." - excerpt from Of Plum and Cherry, poetry by Shannon Cates #TheMetaworker
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"'I am sure…' I started, exhaling in turn, watching the plumes dress their face. 'I am sure, gods are like…Let me put it this way..." - excerpt from The Side Wound of Christ is Intentionally Vaginal, fiction by Shivani Kshirsagar #TheMetaworker
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The Side Wound of Christ is Intentionally Vaginal by Shivani Kshirsagar - The Metaworker Literary Magazine
"'I am sure…' I started, exhaling in turn, watching the plumes dress their face. 'I am sure, gods are like…Let me put it this way. Gods,' I tried again, swallowing, the smoke catching me in my…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"'I am sure…' I started, exhaling in turn, watching the plumes dress their face. 'I am sure, gods are like…Let me put it this way..." - excerpt from The Side Wound of Christ is Intentionally Vaginal, fiction by Shivani Kshirsagar #TheMetaworker
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"Families and partners mill about in the sun and the warm air. No one is with me. Not anymore." - exerpt from I'm Okay, non-fiction by Ed Kratz #MetaworkerMonday
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November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"Families and partners mill about in the sun and the warm air. No one is with me. Not anymore." - exerpt from I'm Okay, non-fiction by Ed Kratz #MetaworkerMonday
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"we're watching that Beatles / documentary. Get Back. / it’s pretty good generally." - excerpt from Yoko, poetry by DS Maolalai #MetaworkerMonday
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October 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"we're watching that Beatles / documentary. Get Back. / it’s pretty good generally." - excerpt from Yoko, poetry by DS Maolalai #MetaworkerMonday
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"we carve what we call secret tongues / into the tender skin of trees, / fingernails packed with earth / and vows strung like webs." - excerpt from "Kicker Kids, poetry by Tejal Doshi #MetaworkerMonday
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October 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"we carve what we call secret tongues / into the tender skin of trees, / fingernails packed with earth / and vows strung like webs." - excerpt from "Kicker Kids, poetry by Tejal Doshi #MetaworkerMonday
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"...echoes of Sunday School pull me from my book to the unyielding curve of a church bench." - excerpt from "Abecedarian Lament", creative non-fiction by M.R. Lehman Wiens #MetaworkerMonday
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October 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"...echoes of Sunday School pull me from my book to the unyielding curve of a church bench." - excerpt from "Abecedarian Lament", creative non-fiction by M.R. Lehman Wiens #MetaworkerMonday
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"my shadow slips like fallen light into the gelato rain of second grade ants in raisin boxes" - excerpt from Gelato Rain, poetry by Azure Brandi #TheMetaworker
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October 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"my shadow slips like fallen light into the gelato rain of second grade ants in raisin boxes" - excerpt from Gelato Rain, poetry by Azure Brandi #TheMetaworker
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"I find the station where the long tracks meet. / It's burrowed beside an old steel mill..." excerpt from On the Train to Charlotte, poetry by M. C. Tuggle #TheMetaworker
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September 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"I find the station where the long tracks meet. / It's burrowed beside an old steel mill..." excerpt from On the Train to Charlotte, poetry by M. C. Tuggle #TheMetaworker
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"She thinks we can't see her press her palm against the blank spaces." - excerpt from micro fiction by Dana Wall #TheMetaworker
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Micro Fiction by Dana Wall - The Metaworker Literary Magazine
"She thinks we can't see her press her palm against the blank spaces." - micro fictions by Dana Wall #TheMetaworker
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September 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"She thinks we can't see her press her palm against the blank spaces." - excerpt from micro fiction by Dana Wall #TheMetaworker
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"you rise, / lay your arms like the seam / of the first dawn across / my shoulders and sigh with the robins," excerpt from Sharh on on Sahih al-Bukhari 5460, poetry by Reyzl Grace @reyzlgrace
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September 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"you rise, / lay your arms like the seam / of the first dawn across / my shoulders and sigh with the robins," excerpt from Sharh on on Sahih al-Bukhari 5460, poetry by Reyzl Grace @reyzlgrace
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"Emerald did not tell Harrison that she worked at BIT, the London underground information service." excerpt from Emerald in the Seventies, fiction by Joan Slatoff
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September 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Emerald did not tell Harrison that she worked at BIT, the London underground information service." excerpt from Emerald in the Seventies, fiction by Joan Slatoff
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"and the beer / tastes of bathwater / but water is not safe / to drink, and so / here we are" excerpt from Outsourcing, poetry by DS Maolalai #TheMetaworker
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September 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"and the beer / tastes of bathwater / but water is not safe / to drink, and so / here we are" excerpt from Outsourcing, poetry by DS Maolalai #TheMetaworker
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First Date, Blank Zoo and Last Year, micro fiction by Erin Matheson Ritchie #TheMetaworker
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September 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
First Date, Blank Zoo and Last Year, micro fiction by Erin Matheson Ritchie #TheMetaworker
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"Dragging the laundry basket to the washer, she saw an ant meander on the kitchen top." - excerpt from micro fiction by Rashmi Bhopi #TheMetaworker
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Purpose and Apex Beat by Rashmi Bhopi - The Metaworker Literary Magazine
"Dragging the laundry basket to the washer, she saw an ant meander on the kitchen top." - excerpt from micro fiction by Rashmi Bhopi #TheMetaworker
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September 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"Dragging the laundry basket to the washer, she saw an ant meander on the kitchen top." - excerpt from micro fiction by Rashmi Bhopi #TheMetaworker
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"For a moment, / the tip of your finger / lights / on the edge of my hand..." - excerpt from Sharh on Sunan Ibn Majah 3914, poetry by Reyzl Grace @reyzlgrace #TheMetaworker
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Sharh on Sunan Ibn Majah 3914 by Reyzl Grace - The Metaworker Literary Magazine
"For a moment, / the tip of your finger / lights / on the edge of my hand..." - excerpt from Sharh on Sunan Ibn Majah 3914, poetry by Reyzl Grace #TheMetaworker
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September 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"For a moment, / the tip of your finger / lights / on the edge of my hand..." - excerpt from Sharh on Sunan Ibn Majah 3914, poetry by Reyzl Grace @reyzlgrace #TheMetaworker
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"she asked eggs / for an answer / they could not give." - excerpt from Monday Morning, poetry by Mark J. Mitchell @MJMitchellwriter #TheMetaworker
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September 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"she asked eggs / for an answer / they could not give." - excerpt from Monday Morning, poetry by Mark J. Mitchell @MJMitchellwriter #TheMetaworker
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"walk the highway until you see the billboard ad of the same two politicians, year-marked with bad graffiti and dust..." - excerpt from To find your grandmother’s house, poetry by Yev Gelman #TheMetaworker
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August 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"walk the highway until you see the billboard ad of the same two politicians, year-marked with bad graffiti and dust..." - excerpt from To find your grandmother’s house, poetry by Yev Gelman #TheMetaworker
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Congratulations to Metaworker author Ken Poyner, who has a new collection of speculative poetry out in the world! Buy a copy of "Science is Not Enough" on his website or on Amazon.
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August 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Congratulations to Metaworker author Ken Poyner, who has a new collection of speculative poetry out in the world! Buy a copy of "Science is Not Enough" on his website or on Amazon.
www.barkingmoosepress.com
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and i agree, a micro poem by Breton Lalama #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday
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August 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
and i agree, a micro poem by Breton Lalama #TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday
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"My mother's ninety-fifth birthday was in late June. I couldn't let the occasion pass unnoticed, regardless of her condition." - excerpt from The Finding Momo Birthday, creative nonfiction by Madlynn Haber #TheMetaworker
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August 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"My mother's ninety-fifth birthday was in late June. I couldn't let the occasion pass unnoticed, regardless of her condition." - excerpt from The Finding Momo Birthday, creative nonfiction by Madlynn Haber #TheMetaworker
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"When I was dying, I dreamed of ice cold matcha, a single shot of espresso, a prayer to god that I would lose another five pounds." - excerpt from Little Mercies, fiction by Arushi (Aera) Rege #TheMetaworker
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little mercies by Arushi (Aera) Rege - The Metaworker Literary Magazine
"When I was dying, I dreamed of ice cold matcha, a single shot of espresso, a prayer to god that I would lose another five pounds." - excerpt from Little Mercies, fiction by Arushi (Aera) Rege…
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August 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"When I was dying, I dreamed of ice cold matcha, a single shot of espresso, a prayer to god that I would lose another five pounds." - excerpt from Little Mercies, fiction by Arushi (Aera) Rege #TheMetaworker
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"For a dog or a squirrel you might hit the brakes, but for something so small, you lift your foot and hope for the best." - excerpt from Swerve (you're hit), fiction by Charles Sutphin #TheMetaworker
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August 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"For a dog or a squirrel you might hit the brakes, but for something so small, you lift your foot and hope for the best." - excerpt from Swerve (you're hit), fiction by Charles Sutphin #TheMetaworker
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"The panther paces her cage / Heavy velvet paws pad the cell / back and. forth / left. and right." - excerpt from Through the Motions, poetry by Diane Funston #TheMetaworker
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August 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"The panther paces her cage / Heavy velvet paws pad the cell / back and. forth / left. and right." - excerpt from Through the Motions, poetry by Diane Funston #TheMetaworker
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