Tom Busillo
@tombusillo.bsky.social
A writer//musician/web strategist/nicotine gum addict/insomniac/cake-lover/crazy cat person/absurdist from Philadelphia who's authored a 2,646-page unpublishable conceptual poem of lists.
I'm super-excited to have a short story and an interview in Heavy Feather Review. Thanks Jason and the HFR team! @hfr.bsky.social
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Side A Short Story: “The Foster” by Tom Busillo
We were having dinner, and she said, “I signed us up for a foster.” I thought she was kidding, but everything had already been arranged. His name was Lollie. The next morning, he was in the kitchen…
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July 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I'm super-excited to have a short story and an interview in Heavy Feather Review. Thanks Jason and the HFR team! @hfr.bsky.social
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Really thrilled to have a piece in Dishsoap Quarterly about a man holding up a very odd family tradition having to do with marbles. Inspired by a true story...sort of. Thanks so much, Zoe and Aster! @dishsoapquart.bsky.social dishsoap-quarterly.com/7-15-25/lega...
Legacy | dishsoap quarterly
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July 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Really thrilled to have a piece in Dishsoap Quarterly about a man holding up a very odd family tradition having to do with marbles. Inspired by a true story...sort of. Thanks so much, Zoe and Aster! @dishsoapquart.bsky.social dishsoap-quarterly.com/7-15-25/lega...
I woke up to a nice surprise - an acceptance from the Baltimore Review for a piece inspired by my wife's tendency to buy too many bananas. Quite ironically, now that I want to eat one to celebrate, I can't find one Thanks Barbara and the BR team!🍌@baltimorereview.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I woke up to a nice surprise - an acceptance from the Baltimore Review for a piece inspired by my wife's tendency to buy too many bananas. Quite ironically, now that I want to eat one to celebrate, I can't find one Thanks Barbara and the BR team!🍌@baltimorereview.bsky.social
My son Nick and I at today's No Kings event in Philly. My wife took the shot. #NoKings #NoKingsPhilly #Philly
June 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
My son Nick and I at today's No Kings event in Philly. My wife took the shot. #NoKings #NoKingsPhilly #Philly
I woke up this morning to find an acceptance from Right Hand Pointing in my email. So psyched! Thanks Dale and the team! @ambidextrouslit.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I woke up this morning to find an acceptance from Right Hand Pointing in my email. So psyched! Thanks Dale and the team! @ambidextrouslit.bsky.social
If you are sickened by what's been happening under Trump 2.0, consider attending a No Kings event this Saturday. It is shaping up to be the largest day of nationwide mass protest against him since the women's march back in the early days of Trump 1.0. www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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June 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
If you are sickened by what's been happening under Trump 2.0, consider attending a No Kings event this Saturday. It is shaping up to be the largest day of nationwide mass protest against him since the women's march back in the early days of Trump 1.0. www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Really psyched to have a piece up at Eulogy Press! I love Eulogy, in part, because they ask for for bio that's an eulogy/obit. So cool! Thanks so much Eulogy team!
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Eulogy Press
A literary magazine that rejects what's safe to create something meaningful.
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June 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Really psyched to have a piece up at Eulogy Press! I love Eulogy, in part, because they ask for for bio that's an eulogy/obit. So cool! Thanks so much Eulogy team!
eulogy.press#years-in-the...
eulogy.press#years-in-the...
Really excited to have 2 pieces in the latest issue of surely. Thanks Colleen and Lauren! @surelymag.bsky.social surelymag.com/baking-cooki...
Baking Cookies of Myself by Tom Busillo — surely
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June 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Really excited to have 2 pieces in the latest issue of surely. Thanks Colleen and Lauren! @surelymag.bsky.social surelymag.com/baking-cooki...
So thrilled to have a piece up on trampset! I just got a ding letter from another place on another piece saying I lacked the ability "to communicate experience and transfer emotion across distances." Thanks Joe & team for not being that dusty place and for taking risks! trampset.org/the-displace...
The Displaced Story
by Tom Busillo
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May 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
So thrilled to have a piece up on trampset! I just got a ding letter from another place on another piece saying I lacked the ability "to communicate experience and transfer emotion across distances." Thanks Joe & team for not being that dusty place and for taking risks! trampset.org/the-displace...
@seanmcfadden2.bsky.social Hey man! Guess who has a spotless sink? This guy! So clean you could eat out of it...oh no...I feel a story coming on based on that...
May 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
@seanmcfadden2.bsky.social Hey man! Guess who has a spotless sink? This guy! So clean you could eat out of it...oh no...I feel a story coming on based on that...
I think that's going to be my goal for today...try to find as many lit mags as I can over here where it's blue.
May 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I think that's going to be my goal for today...try to find as many lit mags as I can over here where it's blue.
The Evil Empire's site is down - AGAIN! I wish more lit mags would migrate over here. I generally am still on there to keep up with lit mags news...I've also been known to troll a cabinet member or 2.
May 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The Evil Empire's site is down - AGAIN! I wish more lit mags would migrate over here. I generally am still on there to keep up with lit mags news...I've also been known to troll a cabinet member or 2.
So excited to have a poem up on The Disappointed Housewife! The headshot is me attempting to look hard-boiled - if you're wondering what that looks like. Kevin, thanks so much for carving out a place in the world where a poem like this can find a home!
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My Daddy’s Accordion ~ poetry by Tom Busillo
My Daddy’s Accordion My daddy’s accordion was his second set of lungs. The first was for breathing, He played it every night between Jeopardy and his bedtime medicine. He named it “Darla.” Said it …
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May 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
So excited to have a poem up on The Disappointed Housewife! The headshot is me attempting to look hard-boiled - if you're wondering what that looks like. Kevin, thanks so much for carving out a place in the world where a poem like this can find a home!
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Really happy to have 2 poems published in the April issue of Neologism Poetry Journal. Thanks so much Christopher! @neologismpoetry.bsky.social
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April 2025
Issue #95 Garrett Speller A memory of someone long gone and a haiku we wrote together (a haibun) My mind winks back a few years into the past, minutes and hours ticking backwards, letting grandfath…
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May 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Really happy to have 2 poems published in the April issue of Neologism Poetry Journal. Thanks so much Christopher! @neologismpoetry.bsky.social
www.neologismpoetry.com/april-2025/
www.neologismpoetry.com/april-2025/
So excited to have stories coming out soon in trampset and Heavy Feather Review. Thanks so much Joe and the team at @trampset.bsky.social and Jason, Bill, Lucy, & Jeff at @hfr.bsky.social!
May 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
So excited to have stories coming out soon in trampset and Heavy Feather Review. Thanks so much Joe and the team at @trampset.bsky.social and Jason, Bill, Lucy, & Jeff at @hfr.bsky.social!
I'm happy to say I have an absurdist homage to Daniil Kharms in Issue #10 of The Coalitionist. Thanks Jaime! coalitionfordigitalnarratives.org/2025/03/31/t...
Tom Busillo | The Solutions
Dimitri’s nose kept falling off. He’d tried tape and glue, but nothing would hold it. On his way to buy stronger glue, he met Reza, a friend from university, and told him of his immediate problem.“…
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April 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I'm happy to say I have an absurdist homage to Daniil Kharms in Issue #10 of The Coalitionist. Thanks Jaime! coalitionfordigitalnarratives.org/2025/03/31/t...
OK. This is just not how you should be spending your Sunday...I'm trolling the DOGE AI to give factual information that contradicts the lies it has been programmed to spew out.
I also told Howard Lutnick that he has a very winning smile.
I also told Howard Lutnick that he has a very winning smile.
March 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
OK. This is just not how you should be spending your Sunday...I'm trolling the DOGE AI to give factual information that contradicts the lies it has been programmed to spew out.
I also told Howard Lutnick that he has a very winning smile.
I also told Howard Lutnick that he has a very winning smile.
Stop me from tweeting to Howard Lutnick on that other site! Every king needs a court jester; Lutnick is Trump's. His statements re: a sunny future for the economy are so preposterous, it's like watching a hostage video where they're doing something unusual to indicate they're making it under duress.
March 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Stop me from tweeting to Howard Lutnick on that other site! Every king needs a court jester; Lutnick is Trump's. His statements re: a sunny future for the economy are so preposterous, it's like watching a hostage video where they're doing something unusual to indicate they're making it under duress.
"I wish I were in a gang that sang karaoke of The Smiths." I had written that line earlier this week, thinking it would make a decent title, and I finally have the rest of the poem to go with it. Now I need to find a place that can interpret the pop culture references in it.
March 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"I wish I were in a gang that sang karaoke of The Smiths." I had written that line earlier this week, thinking it would make a decent title, and I finally have the rest of the poem to go with it. Now I need to find a place that can interpret the pop culture references in it.
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I accidentally called Howard Lutnick a nudnik on his Elon feed when replying to someone else. He has to know he appears like a complete buffon lying about fentanyl coming from Canada, when the live U.S. border patrol data shows only 0.2% of border seizures occurring on the Canadian border.
March 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I accidentally called Howard Lutnick a nudnik on his Elon feed when replying to someone else. He has to know he appears like a complete buffon lying about fentanyl coming from Canada, when the live U.S. border patrol data shows only 0.2% of border seizures occurring on the Canadian border.
Question: Are there any lit mags or poetry journals you know of that would be willing to accept poetry that is not left-justified? I have a couple of poems that rely on spacing and words being visually separated from each other to work right & can't seem to find places and/or the few I saw doing it.
March 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Question: Are there any lit mags or poetry journals you know of that would be willing to accept poetry that is not left-justified? I have a couple of poems that rely on spacing and words being visually separated from each other to work right & can't seem to find places and/or the few I saw doing it.
I have a 100-word horror micro titled "Sleeping Under the Eyelids of the Dead" appearing in the March issue of Flash Phantoms. Thanks Laura! #FlashPhantoms
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March Micro Fiction Horror | Flash Phantoms
For the month of March 2025, these are the horror stories of 100 words that entertain us most.
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March 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I have a 100-word horror micro titled "Sleeping Under the Eyelids of the Dead" appearing in the March issue of Flash Phantoms. Thanks Laura! #FlashPhantoms
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I'm trying to transition away from our unelected Prime Minister's site and this is my first Bluesy post.
February 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I'm trying to transition away from our unelected Prime Minister's site and this is my first Bluesy post.